This is the only photo that is related to this gruesome tale that you’d want to see.
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White House: Proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility
On Transgender Day of Visibility, we honor the extraordinary courage and contributions of transgender Americans and reaffirm our Nation’s commitment to forming a more perfect Union — where all people are created equal and treated equally throughout their lives.
This doesn’t make sense. It seems like transgender folks would have a Transgender Day of Invisibility. If a person’s objective is to be accepted as a member of the opposite sex, the intent should be to commit to the role and convincingly deceive the casual observer.
WaPo: Record number of honey bees
WaPo: Record number of honey bees
After almost two decades of relentless colony collapse coverage and years of grieving suspiciously clean windshields, we were stunned to run the numbers on the new Census of Agriculture (otherwise known as that wonderful time every five years where the government counts all the llamas): America’s honeybee population has rocketed to an all-time high.
When I started keeping bees 15 years ago, the corporate media was covering the impending environmental catastrophe of honey bee extinction. To populate a bee colony, a beekeeper can purchase a 3 lb package of bees. That’s around 30,000 live bees with a queen. When I started, a package cost about $120. The price has gone up about $5 per year, but never drastically from year to year. That convinced me that honey bee extinction wasn’t likely.
To summarize, this census only counts beekeepers with more than five hives. It would also only count beekeepers who register their hives. I never registered mine.
The challenges to bee colonies still exist, but various treatments mitigate the problem.
Changes in Texas tax law made it advantages to keep bees and register hives, so many more people did.
Honey bees are not indigenous to the US. Many other insects pollinate plants.
My beekeeper instructor told the class that wild honeybees no longer exist. The article suggests that the increase in domesticated bees will threaten wild honeybees.
Like most impending environmental catastrophes, people involved are managing the issues and the rest of us don’t have to worry about it.
Dogs understand what certain words stand for, according to researchers who monitored the brain activity of willing pooches while they were shown balls, slippers, leashes and other highlights of the domestic canine world.
The finding suggests that the dog brain can reach beyond commands such as “sit” and “fetch”, and the frenzy-inducing “walkies”, to grasp the essence of nouns, or at least those that refer to items the animals care about.
It’s good to see that researchers have finally caught up with what I figured out after a year with Sparky. After a year of practice, Sparky does not differentiate between Bunny and Mr. Moose. To him, “Moose” means a stuffed animal. “Crate” means run to his crate. “Bed” means run somewhere, but not necessarily to his cushion in my bedroom. We’ve practiced this almost every day, and that’s as far as he will ever get because it seems good enough to him.
One time, I said, “car ride”, and Sparky knew to run down to the garage and rush to the passenger side of my truck. He might have learned “car ride” prior to coming to me, but to know exactly where to go was impressive. Sparky really likes car rides.
During the tests, researchers monitored the dogs’ brain activity through non-invasive electroencephalography, or EEG. The traces revealed different patterns of activity when the objects matched or clashed with the words their owner said. The difference in the traces was more pronounced for words that owners believed their dogs knew best.
I can’t help thinking that dog researchers finally got time on an EEG machine.
While playing with Sparky, I found a related research topic.
When I tease Sparky with Mr. Moose, his eyes are locked on it. If I hold Mr. Moose behind my back, his eyes remain locked on where Mr. Moose should be based on the position of my arm. If I pull my arm out without Mr. Moose, Sparky is completely baffled and starts to look for Mr. Moose.
I don’t know what that means, but it seems like if he saw my arm holding Mr. Moose, my arm is an extension of Mr. Moose. When my arm comes out without Moose, then that connection is broken.
LA Times: Three things might help Biden
The answers fall into three broad categories: Over the next seven months, voters could begin feeling better about the country; a larger share of them could begin to warm to Biden; or the president could win votes from people who disapprove of him.
Compared to the last Trump v. Biden election, Biden doesn’t have much help. Last time, the broad categories of game-changers was more impressive.
Prestigious news organizations like NPR and NYT intentionally suppressed news coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop. They surrendered all of their integrity, but the people on top will land on their feet.
The Obama administration recruited foreign and domestic spy agencies to assist in investigating and impugning a candidate for president of the United States.
Social media companies complied with directives from the federal government to censor and manipulate free speech on their platforms.
With Biden’s frailty and unpopularity, we expect the DNC to pull a rabbit out of it’s hat. It won’t have to be a much of a rabbit, and nobody will ever see the hat, but corporate media will paper over any issues.
When did Bruce Springsteen turn into an albino?
NYT: What’s the matter with Ohio?
These East coast elitist dickheads can’t be very bright because they keep trying to win us over with these articles about why we are so dim.
If you aren’t familiar with him, Paul Krugman is the George Costanza of Nobel prize winning economists. Krugman could take the opinion that was the exact opposite of everything he thinks, and he would be more correct and respected.
For many years, Ohio has been thought of as a bellwether state: With rare exceptions, whoever won Ohio in a presidential election won the nation as a whole. But in 2020, Donald Trump won Ohio by about eight points even as Joe Biden led the national popular vote by more than four points and, of course, won the Electoral College vote.
Planet Fitness doesn’t judge perverts.
Working out with my brother has been going well. We have worked out three times per week for over six months. We’ve only missed three or four days in that entire time. I’m working out with 150 lbs on the bench press. That’s 30 lbs more than I did in high school. I am up at least a couple of plates on every station. It’ a shame that has to end. We have to resign from Planet Fitness and find somewhere else.
The guy in the photo was shaving in the women’s locker room at Planet Fitness. The woman who took the photo was in the women’s locker room along with other women and a 12 year old girl.
It’s clear that this man does not sincerely believe that he is a woman. He looks to be in his 40’s, so isn’t some mixed up kid. He is sporting a man’s haircut. Shaving in the Planet Fitness locker room emphasizes that he is a man, and is an attempt to mock the women who are present.
The man is a degenerate who finds it gratifying to make women feel powerless and humiliated. If he wanted to be sensitive to their reasonable concerns, he could have changed in a stall or before he came to the gym. Alternatively, he should have made every effort to appear to be a woman.
The woman who took the photo, because she wanted photographic proof, had her membership cancelled by Planet Fitness.
Boycotting Bud Light was easy because it sucks. There is a Planet Fitness gym near my house, my brother’s house and almost anywhere I’m likely to go. For $30 per month, it’s a great value. Finding a suitable alternative won’t be easy.
We will have to ask about the transgender locker room policy at any gym we consider.
NYT: Damage from Covid closures.
NYT: Damage from Covid closures.
What was done to children in public schools during the Covid lock-down was inexcusable. There will never be a full accounting, but this article in the NYT gets much of it right.
WaPo: Your clothes no longer serve you.
WaPo: Your clothes no longer serve you.
I wouldn’t have thought that an article about a 70 year-old fashion influencer would resonate with me, but here we are.