And other interesting conspiracy theories from the land of cultural evolutionary theory of Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying can be found at https://youtu.be/ipiT5noHWk4

As we are beginning to see divisions appear that are destructive to the Constitutional Representative Republic known as the United States of America, with Democrats finding new ways to cheat at democracy and the promotion of mob rule; combined with the massive increase in information technology we've seen over the past 40 years, I propose the following changes to governmental budget processes:

1. Break up the budget into line items

2. Forward those line items to taxing authorities at every level- city, county, state, and federal

3. Allow individual tax payers to fill out an extra-long-form return, with the caveat that by doing so you agree to allocate every penny of your taxes to something that makes a difference in your life or the lives of people you care about.

Doing so would reduce the incentive of the rich to cheat on their taxes (because by paying more taxes, they can regain some small amount of power to fund government programs directly) while enhancing even the common person's ability to influence government (truly voting with dollars for programs that help your family and your friends).

People who choose not to fill out the extra long form, have their taxes applied to the general fund which provides matching grants to those programs that either nobody else will fund (one FTE if your program attracted $0 this year, whose job it will be to promote the program next year; otherwise grants will be some percentage of dollars raised).

This spring, the Supreme Court of the United States, will once again be considering a case on USC 42 Title 42 Chapter 6A Subchapter XIX

Despite many changes to the law over the past century, the Biden Vaccine Mandate will be the first challenge to this law since Jacobson vs Massachusetts (1905), in which a State's Right to force vaccination upon a private individual or a group of individuals was established.

As the major Web 2.0 sites are now censoring discussion on this issue, I'm opening up for discussion- Did Congress intend this to become a power of the federal government?

We send our children to school to learn from people who have expertise in that
 
No we don't. We send our children to school *because we are required by law to do so and for the free babysitting*.

Experts, as a rule, are awful.

Take Ibram X Kendi, for instance. The Doctor of Anti-racism, or is he? I would argue that everything he has ever proposed as anti-racism, would produce *unequal results* along racial lines, and thus is racist *by his own definition*.

Just as the 1619 project, by the very nature of its generalized racial genetic stereotyping, produces *unequal results* along racial lines, and thus is racist by the very definition of the anti-racists.

Perhaps Thomas Sowell is right instead, and no two cultures were ever meant to be equal to begin with.

If you have disagreed with me on Critical Race Theory being a step backwards, if you don't believe we can do better than the segregation of anti-racism, then may I present to you Virginia's new post-racist Republican Government

Makes you wish for a twit who could write covefe on twitter again.

https://youtu.be/YmUAZQOAA6c

But Truth over Facts, and you ain't black if you didn't vote for Biden.

I've been watching the Arizona vote audit with interest of late. I have *not* researched the process, on purpose, and have just been looking at the audit itself and some of the high-level news titles that say what's going on. I have some observations about security and the process in general.

I'm impressed with the process. I describe what I saw are below, but note that *everything* is recorded in a transparent way. The audit was livestreamed, so that anyone on the internet could view the process, ballots were read and verified by at least 3 human readers (under camera), the votes were photographed (both sides) and scanned, and lots of paperwork was recorded and kept.

The process gives us a scientific tool for sorting out election claims.

For example, one claim is that votes were (illegally) printed in China, shipped in, and added to the count. This is an hypothesis, it might be true and it might be false, but it's not completely crazy and we can test for it: paper from China contains bamboo, this should show up on a UV scan, and all votes were UV scanned. Done and done.

Another claim is that the tallies of the audit are not accurate due to partisan involvement. This is Russel's Teapot, and it's not even wrong: it makes no claims of *what* happened, or *where* in the process this could have happened, or *how*. It's not testable in any way. To make Russel's teapot claim, you also need to explain how the teapot got there in the first place.

We have video evidence for moving boxes of votes from secure storage, for the people reading votes, for scans of the votes read, and we have the physical votes themselves: where in this process did the adjustments happen? There is abundant traceability in the process: if you claim particular defect, you have to explain how it got through the redundancy checks, why it's not visible on the video feed, and how several people didn't notice it (but you did).

And note that if there *is* any discrepancy between vote tallies and people believe it's partisan, we still have the original votes and can turn the entire kit over to the other side and let *them* go through the physical votes looking for problems. Hopefully with the same level of transparency and recording.

It's really quite satisfying to know that there is this level of election integrity, and I hope other states use this process - or even improve on it.

There's a crisis of confidence in our elections right now, and a strongly secure and open audit will go a long way towards calming any unrest.

Notes on the actual process:

The audit focuses on Ballots, registration, and counting machines.

Machines:

Counting machines are being forensically audited, and I don't know much about this. There's been some leaks, but I can't tell if they come from official auditors or anyone else, so I'm going to wait until the results are published. Other forensic analyses (of vote counting machines) resulted in a report containing an abstract, a multi-page list of conclusions, and a many pages of "this is what we did, this is what we found". I expect something like that to come from the Audit.

If they're doing things right, they took an image of a counting machine disk and analyzed that; which means: they left the original machine unmodified, they have numerous *other* machines completely untouched, and any claims can be verified by examining an untouched machine.

Regardless of the conclusions, I'm confident the machine audit will be verifiable by skeptics from both sides.

Registration:

Registration is being checked in a computer/db kind of way, and I didn't get much info on this. Arizona claims to be going through the database looking for "obvious" problems (their word) such as 80 people registered from the same address, people registered at blank lots, voters who also have a death certificate, and so on.

Of note, there is no attempt to determine whether the mail-in ballots were signed (on the back, required by law), and there is no attempt to match the signatures with known signatures on file such as driver's license. (NB: I may have this wrong, or this could change later, or something similar.)

I like that and I think it's a good move: the purpose of the audit *isn't* to disenfranchise voters, and if people forget to sign the back of the form it's a system error and not a user error. Also, my own signature changes day-to-day, so signature matching isn't a valid check.

Ballots:

Ballots are read by a 5-person team sitting at a round table with a lazy-suzan in the middle (think Chinese restaurant table with lazy-susan). One person places a ballot on the carousel and slowly spins it to face 3 people to read and make marks on a count sheet, then the last person takes the ballot off and places it in a pile. This takes a couple of seconds per ballot, but sometimes you can see the carousel pause before a reader, she leans forward and adjusts her glasses, then nods to the dealer and the ballot proceeds (probably from verbal commands). One dealer, 3 readers, one taker.

The dealers I saw wore gloves, and I think this is a good idea. No blotches or ink-stains from dirty fingers, and if false ballots are detected we might be able to get fingerprints. The readers never touch the ballots: I saw some of the duplicate ballots slide off (longer ballots with a fold at one end) and the readers pushed back from the table and and allowed the dealer to make adjustments. (Duplicate ballots come from special votes: braille, large-text, E-mailed votes from overseas are transferred to a "duplicate ballot" for machine entry. Also, damaged ballots are sometimes duplicated.)

Ballots were read in groups (I counted 50 ballots for one run), then tallies were made, the tally sheets handed in, everything was dated and signed, and the tallies are kept in envelopes glued to the sides of the ballot boxes. If there's any question, we can match specific ballots with the individual dealers/readers and the time-stamped video stream to check what happened.

In a separate section, ballots are also photographed front-and-back, and the images are saved. Anyone could see the photographing stations and watch ballots placed and processed on the live stream.

Ballots are also scanned somehow, but I couldn't quite tell what this was from the video. I read that they are high-res scanned, and by UV looking for broken fibers from the fold and from the marks. If the marks were made by a pen-like instrument there should be broken fibers, but a photocopied mark won't have these. If there is no fold, then the mail-in ballot wasn't actually mailed.

Also, apparently the checkbox marks are checked for randomness: marks with exactly the same shape indicate a machine process.

The ballot scans will not be released except by court permission. I think this is because the mail-in ballots contain the voter information (name, address) and there were a lot of these this election. The database with the signatures obscured (or removed) would make a good database for AI research, so I hope this eventually happens.

I've long said that Climate Change requires Adaptation, not destruction of our economy and our way of life.

I've said that since 2004, when we crossed the Tundra Methane Threshold and the most influential greenhouse gas today became a positive feedback loop, accounting for 95% of all greenhouse gases released now and likely in the near future.

Now Senator Dan Crenshaw shows just how dishonest the Green New Deal is in relation to an adaptation vs cancelation strategy.

Just Remember, if an Sicilian Immigrant encouraged rioting every time a criminal was killed by the police, and then sold signs to small businesses to put in their windows to prevent damage, RICO laws would be brought to bear on the protection racket.

Maybe it's time we judged people on the content of their character, rather than the color of their skin.

If you watch no other part of this video, skip to 18 minutes in for a discussion with a Google tech about Android privacy violation phone location tracking.

https://youtu.be/VQ8JHSOggaw

An explanation of why the world of finance is now controlled by liberal authoritarians:

https://youtu.be/84oLmJqj-0I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9oyt2xIIwg&t=10s

Just leave us alone.

What motivates liberals and progressives:
1. Addiction to change for fiscal profit
2. Addiction to change for sexual abuse
3. Addiction to change for new drugs

But the natural divide on the other side is CONSERVATIVES- the need to conserve. Change addicts have many things they want to change. But Change Skeptics have nowhere to go in the storm.

https://youtu.be/QdpSgEQKVNE

IF you are in LA, please watch this video.

If you are in LA and have a large vehicle and time, call your local funeral director and volunteer for corpse safety training and picking up corpses.

If you are in LA and have either a refrigerated truck or large freezer space- EVEN BETTER.

anybody else have a successful troll, and then find a limit on hitting "reply to this"?

The message I'm getting from slashdot is "You have used this resource too often, try again later"

It is extremely true, and I still hold it to be true, that for social justice to occur the excessive wealth of the rich needs to belong to the poor.

  But how do they belong to the poor?

I say the principle way they belong to the poor is as wages. That the wealthy man with excess, has a duty to invest that excess in businesses that create jobs. Not create return on investment, though doing so enables more excess and thus more job creation, but rather create living wage jobs, which the poor can profit from.
The church does not seem to have much experience in this, sadly. Employment with the church is invariably lower than a living wage and unprofitable.
I still have to wonder if Eisenhower was smarter than Kennedy on this, however.