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my sister works with someone who died three times on operating table from anaphylaxis from shot. 3 weeks ICU. Afterwards doctor said 'so when you get your booster we'll just give it to you in Emergency so we are prepared'. Then told her 'at least you didn't get covid'.
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Elon Musk tweets that deal for Twitter is on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts represented fewer than 5% of its monetizable daily active users during the first quarter
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1525049369552048129
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TIL of Samuel Upham, a Philadelphia merchant who printed over $15 million Confederate dollars from 1862-63. The fake notes widely circulated in the South. When investigated by the US Government, his case was dismissed as it's not illegal to counterfeit currency of a country not recognized by the US.
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Guess who is the #1 "misinformation spreader" on Substack?
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TIL of the 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment, who were Sherman's personal escort on his March to the Sea. They were a unit comprised entirely of Southerners who remained loyal to the Union.
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"My modest proposal to conservative and right-leaning donors, therefore, is: let’s work together to identify young talent on the Right and give them some money. Then let’s turn them loose on the world to find what is to be found, see what is to be seen, mock what must be mocked, extol what deserves our praise, and write it down, as stories."
"...one thing the Right doesn’t lack is publishing firms. But those firms mostly churn out the same fare year after year: conservosphere celebrity dustjacket photo noscripts and yet more policy tomes. In other words, Boomer-bait."
Michael Anton
https://im1776.com/2022/05/13/the-tom-wolfe-model/
"...one thing the Right doesn’t lack is publishing firms. But those firms mostly churn out the same fare year after year: conservosphere celebrity dustjacket photo noscripts and yet more policy tomes. In other words, Boomer-bait."
Michael Anton
https://im1776.com/2022/05/13/the-tom-wolfe-model/
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The Tom Wolfe Model
Why the career of Tom Wolfe should serve as a lesson for conservative donors and young dissident writers
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Feds and media ignoring doubling of mortality among young and middle-aged adults in latest data
Something is killing off large numbers of 25- to 54-year-olds in the United States, and the powers that be in government and the media are pretending it is not happening. There is no visible effort to study the alarming statistics gat...
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🇺🇦Protests are increasingly breaking out among the participants of the defense in Ukraine.
People are outraged that they are being sent to the trenches without the necessary training, writes the newspaper "Strana".
Most of them are purely civilian and were sure that they would serve at their place of residence. Highly paid engineers who could be more useful at the place of work are put under the gun.
In addition, theroboronovtsy are outraged that they have to buy uniforms themselves. They do not see the widely advertised assistance that the West allegedly sends to Ukraine. People don't understand what European and American billions are spent on.
At the same time, it is widely discussed in society how military commissars profit from mobilization. Many have moved to new expensive cars. "Cut off" from the service costs $ 3.5 – 5 thousand.
People are outraged that they are being sent to the trenches without the necessary training, writes the newspaper "Strana".
Most of them are purely civilian and were sure that they would serve at their place of residence. Highly paid engineers who could be more useful at the place of work are put under the gun.
In addition, theroboronovtsy are outraged that they have to buy uniforms themselves. They do not see the widely advertised assistance that the West allegedly sends to Ukraine. People don't understand what European and American billions are spent on.
At the same time, it is widely discussed in society how military commissars profit from mobilization. Many have moved to new expensive cars. "Cut off" from the service costs $ 3.5 – 5 thousand.
"A group of soldiers planning an exercise wandered across a bear den on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage when a sow attacked, state wildlife troopers said."
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Nice analysis of the historical origins of pro-abortion ideology.
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The Central Pro-Choice Argument Comes Straight From Psychopathic Torturer of Poor Women the Marquis de Sade - The Stream
The main pro-choice argument comes from de Sade: Women must have the right to be as heartless and callous as any male rapist.
In response to the lawsuit, Gullacher and his companies agreed that they hadn't done a geotechnical investigation, but insisted that was at the client's request.
"The RM provided the instruction that no geotechnical investigation should be obtained as the RM was concerned about the additional cost and delay," says Gullacher and Inertia's statement of defence.
"Inertia admits that a portion of the bridge collapsed," the statement says, "but denies that its design or specifications caused the collapse and puts the plaintiff to strict proof thereof."
Inertia says the RM may bear some blame because it decided to forgo the geotechnical work. It also says that after the bridge was built, the RM "installed gravel on the bridge to a depth of 13 to 16 inches with an average depth of 14 inches, which far exceeded the specified load."
In its lawsuit, the RM of Clayton is seeking damages for the cost of repairing and replacing the bridge, and for the loss of use of the bridge.
Earlier that year, the RM had turned down $750,000 in provincial funding for the bridge because it was tied to the province's stringent technical specification for the bridge. RM officials believed those requirements were overkill, and would have made the bridge unnecessarily expensive.
"This bridge is above our needs," said Kelly Rea, then RM administrator, in a public forum. "We do not need this bridge."
The province's more expensive bridge would have cost a total of $1.075 million. As the province said it would cover $750,000 of that, the RM would have been on the hook for $325,000.
In other words, the province's "more expensive bridge" would have cost the RM precisely the same amount as the bridge it ended up approving — which fell down shortly after it was officially opened.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/engineer-designed-bridge-collapsed-facing-discipline-1.6450110
"The RM provided the instruction that no geotechnical investigation should be obtained as the RM was concerned about the additional cost and delay," says Gullacher and Inertia's statement of defence.
"Inertia admits that a portion of the bridge collapsed," the statement says, "but denies that its design or specifications caused the collapse and puts the plaintiff to strict proof thereof."
Inertia says the RM may bear some blame because it decided to forgo the geotechnical work. It also says that after the bridge was built, the RM "installed gravel on the bridge to a depth of 13 to 16 inches with an average depth of 14 inches, which far exceeded the specified load."
In its lawsuit, the RM of Clayton is seeking damages for the cost of repairing and replacing the bridge, and for the loss of use of the bridge.
Earlier that year, the RM had turned down $750,000 in provincial funding for the bridge because it was tied to the province's stringent technical specification for the bridge. RM officials believed those requirements were overkill, and would have made the bridge unnecessarily expensive.
"This bridge is above our needs," said Kelly Rea, then RM administrator, in a public forum. "We do not need this bridge."
The province's more expensive bridge would have cost a total of $1.075 million. As the province said it would cover $750,000 of that, the RM would have been on the hook for $325,000.
In other words, the province's "more expensive bridge" would have cost the RM precisely the same amount as the bridge it ended up approving — which fell down shortly after it was officially opened.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/engineer-designed-bridge-collapsed-facing-discipline-1.6450110
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Engineer who designed Sask. bridge that collapsed hours after opening facing disciplinary hearing | CBC News
Regina engineer Scott Gullacher will face a disciplinary hearing next month over allegations that he broke the rules when he designed a bridge in rural Saskatchewan that collapsed just hours after it was opened to the public.
To someone wanting to convince themselves that things weren't actually that different, it was probably easier than you might think. Indeed, one narrative of Julius Caesar's downfall is that he attempted to shift power to himself too quickly, and got stabbed to death by the Senate for his troubles, even after all his triumphs. This seems to suggest that the prudent strategy is probably to maintain the old forms, and pretend like they're still in operation, even as they're gradually undermined.
Which perhaps should make you wonder - has this... happened in America? Almost certainly. As Moldbug describes, America has gone through at least four versions of the Republic since its founding. The main reason people don't notice this is that they all swear fealty to the same piece of paper. But look around! Does the paper actually describe the government? If it does, why is the government so radically different, even as the paper is the same? Try explaining the CIA to George Washington, or the modern interpretation of the Commerce Clause to Thomas Jefferson.
https://shylockholmes.blogspot.com/2022/05/living-history-forwards.html
Which perhaps should make you wonder - has this... happened in America? Almost certainly. As Moldbug describes, America has gone through at least four versions of the Republic since its founding. The main reason people don't notice this is that they all swear fealty to the same piece of paper. But look around! Does the paper actually describe the government? If it does, why is the government so radically different, even as the paper is the same? Try explaining the CIA to George Washington, or the modern interpretation of the Commerce Clause to Thomas Jefferson.
https://shylockholmes.blogspot.com/2022/05/living-history-forwards.html
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Living History Forwards
I have recently been working my way through the excellent History of Rome podcast series. I had been meaning to do this for some time as my...