Judge orders Southwest lawyers to attend 'religious liberty training' - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66463189

Meanwhile, economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman said that an alien invasion would lead to inflation.

Skittles, the borderline poisonous kids candy, is the latest product to throw all in with wokeness after it released special edition packaging celebrating transgenderism and the Black Lives Matter organisation.

https://summit.news/2023/08/14/skittles-are-the-latest-bud-light-after-releasing-trans-blm-packaging/

OMG he's literally me!

"Scientists at the National University of Defense Technology in Changsha, China, published the results of their research earlier this month in Acta Optica Sinica, a peer-reviewed Chinese journal. They claim to have developed a new cooling system that makes it possible to operate high-energy lasers “indefinitely,” without any effects from overheating."

https://www.rt.com/news/581201-china-makes-weapons-breakthrough/

‘TrUsT tHe ScIeNcE!’ – Study Retractions Up 13,650% in 22 Years.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/08/10/trust-the-science-study-retractions-up-13650-in-22-years/

Excellent take here from Sargon of Akkad (Twitter) he is spot on that this is ideological and moral policing.


The thing that @WestYorksPolice don't yet accept is that they are *wrong*. They will not acknowledge the corruption of their own force's culture because they do not see it as corruption. They do not recognize the abstract moral rot that is divorcing them from the people they are meant to *serve* as being the source of the problem.

They have adopted a faith that tells them that it is possible for them to be the authority and also be the victims of the people whose neck they are standing upon. They have decided that power is invisible so long as they hold to this new faith: the lesbian policewoman was righteous in extirpating the oppression of homophobia wherever it is found, which is why they think she was justified in terrorising a teenage girl.

The lesbian officer was the victim even while she was wearing the badge.

They are not insensible; they can see that the despicable public are in unity against their hallowed lesbian officer. For now, they will see that they have hit some kind of barrier. But they do not think the problem lies with themselves, they think the problem lies with *you*.

You haven't changed their minds, you have only shown yourselves to be outside of the faith. West Yorks Police will show no contrition for what they have done, because they think they were in the *right*. It doesn't matter that they wear the badge and they exercised unjust force on a girl. She was ontologically evil in that moment and deserved her punishment because their moral authority is derived from a higher source, unlike yours, which is derived from good deeds.

Moreover, they will do it again. Only next time, they will work harder on their PR. They will try to ensure they aren't recorded and put onto Twitter. They will have a better excuse. They will learn from this, but not the lesson they ought to take.

They view themselves as the moral superiors of the public and are here to enforce a new transcendent order. There is no room in the world for -ists and -phobias, and that is truly what they want to stamp out. They are on a crusade, and you had better realise this fact sooner rather than later.

And if they have to act as an occupying force over the racist, sexist, homophobic public...then so be it.

🇷🇺💥🇺🇸🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed the moment of the destruction of the Starlink communication kit by the operator of the FPV drone.

The military department clarified that the communications kit was destroyed.

Vintage truth.

So let's look at the data points we have showing Ukrainian KIA in the 200-400,000 range.

- Population surveys
- Obituary counts on social media
- Cemetery construction
- Amputation disclosures
- Older, inadvertent official disclosures
- Endless connoscription but no army growth

It's all completely internally consistent, pointing to the same approximate number of casualties in the 2-400k range. This is exactly what you would expect if that was in fact the case - all these secondary indicators are consistent with each other and there is no countervailing data besides the obvious lies of Ukrainian officials.

Given that Mediazona's count of Russian KIA in the 30,000 range has recently been validated by another inadvertent disclosure on their side (of some 8,500 WIA returned to duty, total, in the entire VDV for the entire SMO) this also points to an absolutely brutal fact: for every Russian soldier killed in this war, somewhere between seven and thirteen Ukrainian soldiers die. That's apocalyptic for the Ukrainian Army and a disgrace for their Western advisors.

This also, by the way, aligns perfectly with the Ukrainian MoD's claims for -Russian- casualties. This suggests strongly that the Ukrainian MoD's infamously implausibly running count of Russian losses is, astonishingly, actually an accurate report of their own losses.

"AI is ultimately just logic, and logic without logic is nothing. A converged technology, like a converged institution, is incapable of performing its core functions."

http://voxday.net/2023/08/14/converged-from-birth/

UPDATE: 4 people were killed and a fifth person still is unaccounted for following a house explosion and fire in Plum, Pennsylvania on Saturday.

1 exploded and 2 caught fire, burning to the ground.

@police_frequency

Update on a story shared Sunday...

"The elderly woman, who co-owned the newspaper with her son Eric, was subjected to the raid by five officers and two sheriff's deputies on Friday - which caused her to be 'stressed beyond her limits and overwhelmed by hours of shock and grief.'"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12402357/Newspapers-owner-dies-police-raid-seize.html