Time for a new bank.

The news here is not FB but the exposed position that so many corporations are taking. They must be peer to confident where their customer stands.

Potentially a technicality, we’ll see.

But sad that the unconstitutionality of DACA itself was not noticed.

Bring back the LFL.

I’m not convinced that armed protesting is a good idea but what is the racism in it?

In an otherwise excellent essay I think you make too much of the flawed modeling. These models were based on a given rate of transmission. If they spooked people into changing their behavior and “bending the curve” then they would be self-invalidating projections beyond just the ordinary challenges of extrapolating into the future.

I don’t know how to ‘draw’ with keyboard characters and symbols, of instead of these words, all you’d see would be a Star of David with the word ‘Juden’ inside.

It’s time to bring back mail order (online sales) gun (and ammo) purchasing.

From the article: “To put a floor on the current market rout, some of the world’s biggest investors say they need three things: better information on the scale of the coronavirus pandemic, powerful support from governments and more forceful intervention in markets.”

If that is their criteria, then they, too, will underestimate the decline. The bottom will be in when investors realize that government intervention can’t fix the markets this time.

So a conservative British politician (let’s remember that a “conservative” Brit tends to be equivalent to a 1990s U.S. Democrat) tweeted a photo of himself with a bag of looseleaf Taylor’s Yorkshire Tea. Which gave the Twitter Outrage Brigade something to complain about:

For the crime of their product featuring in a picture with the Conservative Chancellor, there were demands for a boycott, a ban and worse, much worse… This is the truth of the thing. When all the noise and furor falls away and you find yourself alone, staring down a snarling mob, ripping at your clothes, your stuff, and the things you love. These Puritans won’t stop until you are swinging from a tree. Even then, they promise to throw a party to celebrate your death.

One response would be to have explicitly conservative brands of tea and coffee. That would be funny in that it would trigger the Twitter Outrage Brigade even more. But it doesn’t solve the problem of Twitter Outrage Brigade not stopping until you’re swinging from a tree.

A better response might be to reduce the incentives for the Twitter Outrage Brigade (and their #MediaJackal enablers) to exist in the first place.

Maybe the 2A rally had an impact after all.

I few years ago I thought the NRA had won the 2A battle nationally and just needed to clean up in the bluest states like CA and NY. But maybe not. This is a shot across the bow for the NRA.

Obviously media sources can misquote the pope, by accident or otherwise. The first questio to ask here is this: does Pope Francis truly believe that poverty is on the increase? Is he unaware that poverty has been cut by half in the last 30 years? If the article is accurate on that point then it’s unsurprising what follows.

Virginia protesters blame gun control on deep anxiety in limousine liberal enclaves.

This is an interesting paragraph from the linked article:

The Democratic Party is not just more diverse in who it represents; it’s also more diverse in whom it listens to. A new Pew survey tested Democratic and Republican trust in 30 different media sources, ranging from left to right. Democrats trusted 22 of the 30 sources, including center-right outlets like The Wall Street Journal. Republicans trusted only seven of the 30 sources, with PBS, the BBC and The Wall Street Journal the only mainstream outlets with significant trust.

Left unstated by the #MediaJackal author Ezra Klein is an argument that 30 media sources are equally trustworthy, fair, and accurate. But there is no reason to assume that is the case. There is good reason to assume the opposite.

Another way to interpret these data is that Republicans are more discerning, or pay attention to news sources that more closely match reality, or both.

The board is set, the pieces are moving.

I may just start traveling domstically with my passport. “Papers, please!”

Physician, heal thyself?

The linked article says:

According to its 2018 Stress in America survey, 62 percent of Americans say the current political climate is “a significant stressor” for them; more than two-thirds say the nation’s future is stressing them out—a “significant increase” from 2017…

My guess is that a lot of those 62 percent could be Trump voters who also find the current political climate to be “a significant stressor,” given the state of the culture wars, the constant investigations into the White House’s alleged perfidy, etc. Of course we could work together as a society to find ways to de-escalate political tensions, to learn to live and let live, to tolerate views that are different from ours, to devolve power from the federal government, to not turn so many things into federal cases…

Nah, that’s crazy talk. Guess things will just keep getting worse!

Excerpt from the article:

Shunning, shaming, doxxing, attacking. As the 2020 campaign reaches full speed, would it surprise anyone to see all of it increase? And all from people who congratulate themselves for standing against hate. Perhaps our politics will cool down at some point in the future. But not now.

If he’s right, we’re in for some interesting times come November 2020, especially if there’s a narrow victory that could be reversed if one or two states could be “flipped” post-facto.

Here’s the text of ACR-99, which looks like a non-binding resolution (at least for now): http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200ACR99