Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Reality Doesn't Care About Your Feelings
Perhaps CNN can also address the proliferation of “gender reveal” parties these days, which while terribly annoying, at least have the virtue of being scientifically accurate. Gender/sex is not assigned — it is revealed, by observation and other means. Sex is an innate and immutable part of each individual’s biological and physical reality, which reassignment therapies only impact by altering its more superficial aspects. This scientific reality and its biological and physical implications are the reasons we have separate competition in most sports for women, and why we protected that in Title IX in the first place.
Labels: biology is hard
Sue 'Em All
Shawnee State could petition for rehearing en banc by the Sixth Circuit or it could continue fighting the case on remand. Or it could just stop trying to appease aggressive “woke” students by threatening professors who want to teach in their own way. The former would run up more legal expenses Shawnee State can ill afford, while the latter would tarnish the administrators’ “progressive” credentials.
#Resist
Never apologize, don’t act afraid, and, to borrow a phrase from Obama, “punch back twice as hard.” Call the mob out for what it is: a bunch of bad people trying to pretend they stand for something moral. Going after people for their political views this way isn’t an act of morality. It’s an attempt at political terrorism, and it’s un-American.
Equity Demands It
The media was on fire last week with talk about the connection between anti-Asian violence and white supremacy. I read at least two pieces making that case and many more that referenced it in passing. I’m sure there are people on the left eager to square this circle but obviously reality is a bit more complicated than Critical Race Theory would lead you to believe.
The real lesson here is that if we start looking at the race of attackers and victims to draw broad conclusions, then we have to be willing to do that all the time, not just when the race fits a preferred narrative. I don’t think anyone should be doing that frankly, but I think we’re seeing the impact of many years of BLM agitating on the media. Certain crimes help make a larger point and others are quickly forgotten or treated as local news stories.
Electricity is Hard!
Toyota warns that the grid and infrastructure simply aren’t there to support the electrification of the private car fleet. A 2017 U.S. government study found that we would need about 8,500 strategically-placed charge stations to support a fleet of just 7 million electric cars. That’s about six times the current number of electric cars but no one is talking about supporting just 7 million cars. We should be talking about powering about 300 million within the next 20 years, if all manufacturers follow GM and stop making ICE cars.
Simply put, we’re gonna need a bigger energy boat to deal with connecting all those cars to the power grids. A LOT bigger.
But instead of building a bigger boat, we may be shrinking the boat we have now. The power outages in California and Texas — the largest U.S. states by population and by car ownership — exposed issues with powering needs even at current usage levels. Increasing usage of wind and solar, neither of which can be throttled to meet demand, and both of which prove unreliable in crisis, has driven some coal and natural gas generators offline. Wind simply runs counter to needs — it generates too much power when we tend not to need it, and generates too little when we need more. The storage capacity to account for this doesn’t exist yet.
Don't worry! Once morons like Cortez give us the Green New Deal, the technology will magically pop into existence.
Via Stephen Green.
Labels: party of science
That Pretty Much Sums It Up
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Sunday, March 07, 2021
Governor Noem at CPAC
