Net Zero, Insulation, Boilers, and English Dampness, or Symbol Manipulators Versus Existing Conditions
The English gas boiler as a microcosm of Anglosphere elites’ inability to come up with realistic carbon reduction schemes.
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In Maine, Vaccine Mandate for EMTs Stresses Small-Town Ambulance Crews
How Maine’s vaccine-only mandate is thinning staffing of already stressed emergency services.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Provides New Evidence of Facebook Politically-Driven Intervention in Content
Some Facebook internal chats reveal its censorship, um, moderation to be a hot mess.
Read more...Lee Camp: The Four Layers of Reality — And Why We’re Only Allowed to Talk About One
On how the media does (and doesn’t) construct reality.
Read more...Links 10/23/2021
The Horse Bit and Bridle Kicked Off Ancient Empires – A New Giant Dataset Tracks the Societal Factors That Drove Military Technology
A new major effort to catalogue the history of military innovations and how they spread.
Read more...On the Primacy of the Physician-Patient Relationship, From an Unlikely Source – The Attorney General of Nebraska
On the slippery slope of curtailing a doctor’s ability to treat his patient.
Read more...Expectations Data Indicate the US Is Entering Recession About Now
Consumers are getting so rattled that they have set off recession warning lights.
Read more...Supply Chain Shortages and Inflation: How Bad Will the Disruption Become?
How the Biden Adminstration is if anything making the current supply chain mess worse.
Read more...Joe Biden Is in No Position to Lecture the World on Climate Change
The US president’s administration has lots of rousing climate change rhetoric but has taken little action.
Read more...Jared Holst: RBG – Political Incorrectness v. the Merch Machine (From the Archives)
Thanks to Katie Couric, we’ve learned RBG had more to say about all that kneeling during the anthem stuff.
Read more...Links 10/21/2021
India Breaks the Diaper Monopolists. Why Won’t Americans Step Up?
An innovation popular in rural India offers a solution to the diaper duopoly stinking up the budgets of western households.
Read more...More on the Use and Misuse of Anger
More discussion of anger in the social and political contexts.
Read more...New York City Retirees Refusing to Eat the Medicare Advantage Dogfood
Savvy New York City retirees have worked out that Medicare Advantage sucks.
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