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  • The CDC’s Latest Myocarditis Study is a Con Job

    05/10/2024 8:14:40 AM PDT · 17 of 26
    Owen to All

    All Causes Excess Deaths of ages 0-45 show no evidence of increases since 2019 til the data ended Sept 2023.

    This is utterly conclusive. Go look at the numbers. Not some wacko who tells you what the numbers are.

    NO EXCESS DEATHS AMONG THE YOUNG.

    This means vax has not generated any death surge. Period. Full stop.

    The data includes the virus years and thus it means the virus did not kill ages 0-45, which we largely already knew.

    Vax was to reduce elderly deaths by vaxing not just them but everyone who might ever be around them.

    The only real question about Covid that the vax wackos want maybe willfully to ignore is that there were essentially no deaths in Asia until variants arrived. The original virus did not kill Japanese or Thais or Koreans. Chinese numbers were not obfuscated, but they did have their own definition of attribuion. Regardless, that virus killed Americans and spared Asia. The mutations stopped sparing Asia.

    Nobody wants to examine this. They would rather read wacko claims that literally 100s of thousands of people, worldwide, developed a vax conspiracy.

  • Vulnerable Democrat Senator Co-Sponsors Laken Riley Act Weeks After Opposing Provision

    05/10/2024 8:05:08 AM PDT · 3 of 9
    Owen to wjcsux

    He is Swamp. Positions on issues are irrelevant.

    Get rid of him and then get rid of his successor after 1 term.

  • VICTORY!: “ON TO RICHMOND”; Lee’s Defeat and Retreat fully Confirmed (5/10/1864)

    05/10/2024 6:50:56 AM PDT · 4 of 10
    Owen to Homer_J_Simpson

    Could you not have just linked this rather than fill several scrolls of screen. Links make it easy for busy people to ignore things they don’t want to see, rather than have it imposed on them.

  • Javier Milei Is Absolutely Killing It in Argentina

    05/10/2024 6:47:58 AM PDT · 27 of 29
    Owen to Freest Republican

    Greece was FORCED to take on more debt, with the newest tranches used to service pre-existing IMF debt.

    Argentina will be equally pressured, but his ability to ship oil and gas through pipelines eliminates the IMF’s power to get oil and gas tankers seized at sea.

    It’s when a precedent is set to default on the IMF that things get interesting.

  • Javier Milei Is Absolutely Killing It in Argentina

    05/09/2024 9:50:51 PM PDT · 14 of 29
    Owen to All

    These articles are largely Swamp articles.

    Measuring things in printed pieces of paper created from nothingness by a central bank.

    What this guy has is 3 things:

    1) A desire to drain the Swamp.

    2) Shale oil and gas in the Vaca Muerto, and he’s going to pipeline it to the rest of South America and erase a US LNG market.

    3) He is very likely going to default on the IMF. Just default. It’s meaningless pieces of paper if you just default on them, rather than be butchered as they did to Greece.

    Nihilism? So what. When the alternative is an altar worshiping pieces of paper created from nothingness, how is nihilism bad?

  • It Is Being Projected That New Cases Of Cancer In The U.S. Will Explode To A Brand New Record High This Year (2 Million In 2024)

    05/09/2024 5:28:57 PM PDT · 10 of 40
    Owen to All

    The trend began in 1990.

    “We found that this risk is increasing with each generation. For instance, people born in 1960 experienced higher cancer risk before they turn 50 than people born in 1950, and we predict that this risk level will continue to climb in successive generations.”

    https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/09/researchers-report-dramatic-rise-in-early-onset-cancers/

    The FR theory is that everyone who was covid vaxed can time travel to 1990 and infect people there before returning, in their sleep. There will soon be someone who will run with that story, and then that posting will get picked up by others.

    It’s inevitable.

  • Trump leads 5-way presidential poll for Washington state

    05/09/2024 11:28:40 AM PDT · 17 of 23
    Owen to All

    Biden won Washington by 12% in 2020. A legitimate poll’s measure would be meaningful if the Biden lead is lower.

    We aren’t measuring absolute values with polls. What we want is repeated measurements using the same methodology. Then you can see trends.

  • Russian Attacks Knock Out 2 Ukrainian Hydropower Plants

    05/09/2024 11:20:12 AM PDT · 12 of 25
    Owen to All

    There is talk that the primary damage being done is to frequency management. The plants cannot maintain 50 or 60 Hz. As for importing, those towers won’t require 1000 lbs of explosives. Small drones can probably destroy the cabling

  • Republican Challenger [Sheehy] Pulls Ahead of Montana Senator Tester: Poll

    05/08/2024 10:50:19 AM PDT · 9 of 14
    Owen to All

    >>
    For Trump to be an effective President for the next 4 years, the GOP needs to control both the House and the Senate.
    >>

    People have got to get it through their minds that effective means DOING NOTHING. The debt is $36T. That precludes doing ANYTHING.

    This Sheehy guy appears to have zero political experience. That makes him qualified because the only measure of qualification is no political experience. The contrary is defined as Swamp.

  • Questions to Claude AI to see what he says about the ways AI platforms can improve education at the college level

    05/08/2024 7:21:11 AM PDT · 6 of 24
    Owen to All

    1) A tremendous amount of this crap is NOT AI.

    2) AI has a specific definition and has for about 40 years. The code must learn something from external inputs and THEN REWRITE ITSELF. The code must change. So say goodbye to configuration management, but that’s the definition. The code changes itself.

    3) Most of what is presented as AI is just fast software. You could do this stuff, a bit slower, 30 years ago and no one would have called it AI.

    4) The ChatGPT stuff is largely not AI. It is a hyper fast searcher of the internet, and this is a valuable thing to have, but it is not rewriting its own code. The only learning induced behavior I have seen is something like this:
    How many people suicide on the London subway tracks?
    It then answers, if it can.

    Then . . . How many in Boston?

    It will then understand that this is from the same IP address and refers to the previous question. So even though suicide is not mentioned in the 2nd question, it learns from the first and understands suicide is the question. That’s not AI. That is hyper fast searching.

    5) Understand the value. Hyper fast searching. This claptrap about asking it about the existence of God or are Democrats moral or all that kind of thing is stupid.

    Understand what is valuable. If you would like to know the average ferryboat travel time between Juneau, Alaska and wherever, you can spend an hour searching, or you can ask ChatGPT. If you want to know if deer population in northwest Wisconsin is greater than last decade, it can find that information quickly.

    It can make errors, but if you ask the proper questions, they will be few.

  • Putin’s crushing new offensive could be the end of Ukraine

    05/07/2024 9:49:42 PM PDT · 18 of 35
    Owen to All

    The Wiki for this North Korean missile provides some technical details that I declare doubtful.

    No comment on the report that such debris was there . . . in January . . . and that it meant anything.

    What I will comment on is the details. 1100 pound warhead. Odd declaration of 100meters of Circular Error Probability for accuracy at impact . . . with satellite aiding. 200 Meters INS only. The declared wiki speed is Mach 4.

    This doesn’t make much sense. The vehicle will have a hyper accurate input from the launcher at moment of launch. From then on, error that might accumulate will be from steering and sensor drift. But this doesn’t make sense.

    Range is about 250 miles. At Mach 4, with some time to accelerate to Mach 4 (2900 mph), time enroute is well under 10 minutes. This is nowhere near enough time for an INS to drift.

    If satellite aiding (Glonass) CEP is 100 meters, INS only is not going to be 200 meters. That’s just absurd. It probably won’t be much different at all from the Glonass/INS vehicle if time enroute is that short.

    So this is a 100 meter missile according to Wiki. Also absurd. That’s a lot of error and Glonass is just as accurate as GPS.

    It’s very hard to get good information. This wiki doesn’t qualify as such.

  • AARP poll: Trump leads in Pennsylvania

    05/07/2024 2:20:02 PM PDT · 6 of 25
    Owen to All

    Former President Trump narrowly leads President Biden in both the 4-way and head-to-head ballots in Pennsylvania.

    • Among voters 50+, Trump leads by wider margins on both ballots, while voters 18-49 are closely divided. Within voters 50+, Trump has a sizable lead with 50-64 year olds, but the race is very close among seniors.

    • On the 4-way ballot, 19% of voters 18-49 either choose a third-party candidate or are undecided compared to just 10% of voters 50+. Biden improves among younger voters when the third-party options are removed.

    • Trump is ahead in large part due to more consolidated support from Republicans than Biden is getting from Democrats, while Trump also has a slight edge with Independents.

  • Xi Bristles at Criticism of China Over the War in Ukraine

    05/06/2024 9:04:26 PM PDT · 3 of 7
    Owen to All

    Satellite imagery? Why?

    Russian recon assets in orbit over Ukraine are line of sight to the downlink centers near Moscow. Instantaneous.

    Why would they wait for an asset to be in range of a Beijing facility for downlink and then transfer to Moscow.

    This is easy stuff, but you will never have a journalist talk to anyone who would know. They talk instead to people trying to generate viewcounts for their youtube vids.

  • Biden to Trade Nukes to Terrorists for Election Day Bribes-An impeachable quid-pro-quo that could kill millions of Americans

    05/06/2024 2:44:34 PM PDT · 40 of 47
    Owen to Wuli

    Well, Saudi Arabia is the center of Sunni Islam and of course Iran is the center of Shiite Islam.

    The two factions have hated each other forever. It has nothing to do with current ideologies nor Israel.

    The Saudis can buy any tech they don’t create themselves, from whoever will sell it, which is pretty much anyone if the price is high enough. They have zero incentive to align with the US, who after all sought to pin the Khassoggi murder on MBS. Doesn’t matter if it was true. It’s a betrayal of the relationship as it existed at that moment.

    And because that pointed at MBS, that betrayal was a personal one.

    Now, the Saudis certainly want Assad gone from Syria and the Russians say no. The most crushing reality in the view of the Saudis is the US did not get rid of Assad. They claimed that was a huge goal and they failed. The Saudis see this. There is no value in aligning with the US.

    Hamas is Sunni, btw. It ain’t Iranian money propping them up.

  • Poll: Trump Ties Biden with Suburban Women, Massive Setback for Democrat President

    05/06/2024 12:59:20 PM PDT · 26 of 48
    Owen to All

    There are no abortion voters whose minds are not made up. There are nearly no abortion voters who were not going to show up.

    This abortion focus is imaginary. They aren’t adding any numbers with that. They already had those numbers.

    The big change this year is the ascendancy of Independents. They care about immigration. They care about the Swamp. They are not fiscal conservatives because it is clear NO ONE is. $36T debt did not come from only one party, and it is too big to deal with. THERE IS NO FIX.

    So it is not an issue. Only the Border and the Swamp are new focus points, and that’s where there are numbers to be added.

    Oh, and a few numbers to erase in Dearborn. We should be helping Biden lose those Muslim voters. They will decide the election because they will decide Michigan.

  • Biden to Trade Nukes to Terrorists for Election Day Bribes-An impeachable quid-pro-quo that could kill millions of Americans

    05/06/2024 12:53:45 PM PDT · 38 of 47
    Owen to Wuli

    There is even more to it than that. Literally no one needs US help to develop nuclear bombs.

    There is a good analysis online. The question was this:

    If the Soviets had not gotten spies to provide them information on the Manhattan Project or the design of bombs used on Japan, how long would it have taken them to develop their own.

    Answer: They would have had one sooner. They had fine physicists and plenty of material — and they had their own design that they were sure was superior. But their supervision wanted them to use the US design as lower risk to the expense. Already tested. So they built to that design and did their explosion in 1949.

    About a year or so later they exploded their own design, with far higher yield and better efficiency compared to the US design.

    There is WAY too much presumption the US has superior tech in more or less everything. It’s just not so.

  • Dem Sen. Kelly: I Support Eliminating the Filibuster to Codify Abortion Rights

    05/06/2024 7:03:20 AM PDT · 39 of 39
    Owen to All

    This is not news.

    Manchin and Sinema are both on record as opposing any move to undo the filibuster rule. This obstructs the maneuver.

    However, both will be gone in January.

    Additionally, they have provided cover for other Dem Senators who might be opposed. It has always been understood that such a thing eases policy in either direction. A GOP majority with no filibuster obstruction could do many things the left would violently oppose. That reality has held the filibuster rule in place for a long time.

  • Biden to Trade Nukes to Terrorists for Election Day Bribes-An impeachable quid-pro-quo that could kill millions of Americans

    05/06/2024 6:57:58 AM PDT · 20 of 47
    Owen to Wuli

    Exactly.

    Journalism today is making shit up and finding two imaginary sources to confirm it.

    The Saudis are aligned with Russia. Period. Oil policy is not going to be defined to be anything other than support of BRICS and as elevated a price as is possible. Mohammed Bin Salman runs the place and has rejected the US as not being a partner that will advance Saudi Arabia policies.

  • Biden Regime Cuts Off Ammunition Supplies to Israel as Advisors Panic Over Electoral Threat from Anti-Israel Democrats

    05/05/2024 10:17:59 PM PDT · 17 of 52
    Owen to july4thfreedomfoundation

    That is not a focal change. There were plenty of rank and file autoworkers pro Trump 2020. The big change is the Muslims.

    You don’t have to win them. You just need them voting Kennedy or staying home.

  • Biden Regime Cuts Off Ammunition Supplies to Israel as Advisors Panic Over Electoral Threat from Anti-Israel Democrats

    05/05/2024 9:40:41 PM PDT · 10 of 52
    Owen to All

    This is about Dearborn Michigan and nothing else.

    Trump would be wise to talk only about immigration and draining the Swamp. I do not think the WH can save Michigan. There are many more Muslim votes there than was the margin in 2020, and Trump is stronger this year because of the ascendancy of Independents.