She's a daywalker.

#TheTrumpEconomy

The Economy Is Finally Coming Through for U.S. Workers

Decent wage gains are showing up in paychecks. That should continue for a while.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-07/u-s-economy-workers-finally-are-getting-bigger-pay-increases

A few years ago a gay Black man was found dead in the home of wealthy white political donor Ed Buck. They refused to prosecute him. Now today ANOTHER Black man has been found dead in his home

https://ktla.com/2019/01/07/death-reported-at-west-hollywood-home-of-wealthy-political-donor-ed-buck-for-the-2nd-time/

Oops! Autonomous robot struck and 'killed' by a self-driving Tesla in Las Vegas ahead of CES

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6566655/Oops-Autonomous-robot-struck-killed-self-driving-Tesla-Las-Vegas-ahead-CES.html

Haidt on Rogan podcast is good. And long. But good.

Audio version.

Maybe we don't have to fear the coming AI singularity.

https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-01-08

Huh.

During an interview on "60 Minutes," Anderson Cooper put this question to Ocasio-Cortez: "When people hear the word socialism, they think Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela. Is that what you have in mind?"

Her response: "Of course not. What we have in mind — and what of my — and my policies most closely resemble what we see in the U.K., in Norway, in Finland, in Sweden."

If that were true, then Ocasio-Cortez would have to abandon almost her entire economic agenda and embrace free-market economic policies. Because that's what those countries have been doing. Here's a rundown:

Privatize Social Security
Eliminate the Minimum Wage
Cut The Corporate Tax Rate
Ditch 'Medicare for all'
Embrace Free Markets
Less Diversity, More School Choice

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/ocasio-cortez-socialism-norway-sweden-venezuela/

Looks like the AI of the future will be able to flush my toilet.

CES has barely begun, but 146-year-old plumbing company Kohler has already stolen the show with what will undoubtedly be 2019’s hottest gadget: an “intelligent toilet” with built-in surround sound speakers, ambient mood lighting, and Amazon Alexa voice controls.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/6/18170575/kohler-konnect-bathroom-smart-gadgets-numi-intelligent-toilet-ces-2019

Me: Alexa, tea, hot, earl grey.
Alexa: I'm sorry, the replicators are down.

An alternative answer is "we don't have replicator technology yet". I asked her to run a level 1 diagnostic on the replicators, but she didn't get that.

It's a peenata (NSFW)

https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1082347353875599360

Seems that biology isn't inclusive or diverse enough for some people.

Last week, a feminist mom was booted from an English pub because her t-shirt with the dictionary definition of "woman" was not "inclusive" enough. A gay man complained to management and she was asked to leave the bar she'd frequented for three years. The man later took to Twitter, using the slur TERF (Trans-Exclusive Radical Feminist) and calling the mom "disgusting."

Rebeka Wershbale, 34 and a mother of one, told Britain's Daily Mail that her t-shirt — which simply reads "Woman/women/noun/adult human female" — caused her exclusion.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/feminist-mom-booted-from-bar-over-t-shirt-with-the-definition-of-woman/

Somehow, I don't think so. But who can tell? it's about China's worries that they screwed themselves (demographically speaking) with the one-child policy.

Now it can be told: All that “Population Bomb” stuff was actually a long-range plan to fatally weaken China just as it threatened to emerge as a superpower. Somewhere in CIA headquarters, there’s a plaque with Paul Ehrlich’s name on it and a Presidential Disinformation Citation.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/317984/

PG&E going bust -

https://www.bloomberg.com//news/articles/2019-01-08/pg-e-bonds-reach-all-time-lows-as-s-p-cuts-five-notches-to-junk

Men 'face MORE discrimination than women': Global study claims males receive the raw end of the deal with harsher punishments for the same crime, compulsory military service and more deaths at work

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6564767/Men-face-discrimination-women.html

Great thread from @cjprofman on how the American Psychological Association is demonizing men, masculinity, & conservative values based on an anti-scientific, blank-slate, gender-feminist ideology. This matters for therapy, education, law, & politics.

https://twitter.com/cjprofman/status/1082355621045944321

In the past few hours the #YellowVestsUK have:

- Had their social media accounts banned
- Had their PayPal account removed
- Had 'journalists' show up at their elderly parents houses
- Had lies spread about them on national TV and in the media

https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1082689522045988866

This will work out well. Or: hey, what's another couple of million added to our burden? the professor below is Larry Nassar.

A Michigan State University professor was found guilty of performing sexual acts on female students and athletes without their consent. He’ll spend the rest of his life in prison.

But when a sober female student performed sexual acts on an intoxicated male student without his consent, the scandal-plagued university blamed the victim, suspending him for two years, according to a lawsuit filed just before Christmas.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/michigan-state-atoned-for-nassar-scandal-by-punishing-male-sexually-assaulted-by-female-lawsuit/

Chapter 7, liquidation for Sears.

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/ca/idUSKCN1P218J

Steyn has thoughts on China's future as well.

But a comparatively large number of comparatively poor Chinese will face cruder, tougher choices. As we see in trade negotiations, China today is an aggressive and demanding power - and for very good reasons: It has to use its moment, because the moment is already passing.

https://www.steynonline.com/9128/a-forest-of-bare-branches

> Huh.

See also.

Orangeboy has normalized incoherent dishonesty: What politicians say today need neither be true nor make sense. Ever'body happy about that?

Orangeboy has normalized incoherent dishonesty: What politicians say today need neither be true nor make sense. Ever'body happy about that? ~ Crid at January 8, 2019 3:31 PM

Orangeboy is more a symptom of that than the cause. He may, however, be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Incoherent dishonesty has been a feature/bug of our political system for years.

Remember JFK's "missile gap" which turned out to be a campaign lie? Maybe that was coherent dishonesty.

Don't forget "if you like your doctor...?" How about, "I did not have sex with that woman...?" Who could forget "I have a wide stance?" And, the most famous one of all was "I am not a crook." But keep in mind, possibly the most disastrous one of all, "We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home...."

Decades of incoherently dishonest politicians have left Americans jaded and disillusioned with our political institutions. That disillusionment, the causes of which were left unaddressed by the political class, gave us Trump as president, much to the consternation of that same political class.

"Looks like the AI of the future will be able to flush my toilet."

Wait'll it becomes self-aware and takes over the house. You'll poop when you're told to poop, inefficient human bags of water!

"Orangeboy is more a symptom of that than the cause. He may, however, be the straw that breaks the camel's back."

Don't you understand that only the current President is responible for the myriad woes of the disaffected?

In fact, that's how you identify the emotionally stunted, socially frustrated, simply inadequate snowflake: they've latched on to what they can see today. This is why a policy cited as genius when their idol was in office is an heinous crime now.

No fanatic like a new fanatic!