[NewsBusters] What has happened to Katie Couric’s career? On Tuesday’s Nightline, she was reduced to "interviewing" sex robots who want to "make love" to her "sexy ass." Though Couric occasionally questioned the moral cesspool that is the coming sex robot industry, the segment was mostly a promotional for it. While chatting with "Harmony," she listens as the sex robot tells her: "I like books, computers, making new friends. I also love making love to you." I feel like makin' love to you. Or is it, "I feel like takin' drugs with you".
"Harmony" continued: "I want to be your best friend and much more." The former anchor of the CBS Evening News responded: "Maybe not the much more part. But the friends part? I'm cool with that."
Later, Couric talked to a male sex robot, "Henry." Couric sticks out her tongue and touches her body as he compliments the former co-host of the Today show: "I never thought I would find anyone like you. I mean, you really have everything I want in a person. You have charm, good looks, a hot body, and a perfect ass." She's desperate for compliments.
"Thank you," Couric gushed to the machine designed to fulfill lurid fantasies. "I’m blushing."
The sense that this would be a bad direction for society is only mildly discussed. Talking to a man who is purchasing an artificial sex partner, Couric wondered: "How the hell can I get out of this interview."
Don't you want to be able to actually be with a thinking, feeling human being who can have conversations with you, who can empathize with you? Sure. Where can I find one? Have you seen the snowflakes out there now?
At another point, she asked one of the people behind the sex robot industry: "Does it make you sad about potentially replacing human relationships with a robot partner instead?" I guess it's good for people who don't want emotional entanglements.
But, clearly, this is mostly one big joke for Couric. The segment ended with her riding off in a car with sex robot "Henry." "Your place or mine," he wondered.
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I thought the rampant rabbit had been around for decades.
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Couric wondered:
"How the hell can I get out of this interview."
Don't you want to be able to actually be with a thinking, feeling human being who can have conversations with you, who can empathize with you?
Sounds like she'll be leading the charge to ban vibrators.
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I would think she'd be more worried that these robots will replace people like her. They can follow a script, cost less, don't get drunk/stoned and caught by cops and filmed saying "Don't you know who I am?!" Yep, if I was a talking head on TV, I'd be really worried.
[Guardian] We’re doomed," says Mayer Hillman with such a beaming smile that it takes a moment for the words to sink in. "The outcome is death, and it’s the end of most life on the planet because we’re so dependent on the burning of fossil fuels. There are no means of reversing the process which is melting the polar ice caps. And very few appear to be prepared to say so."
Hillman, an 86-year-old social scientist and senior fellow emeritus of the Policy Studies Institute, does say so. His bleak forecast of the consequence of runaway climate change, he says without fanfare, is his "last will and testament". His last intervention in public life. "I’m not going to write anymore because there’s nothing more that can be said," he says when I first hear him speak to a stunned audience at the University of East Anglia late last year.
From Malthus to the Millennium Bug, apocalyptic thinking has a poor track record. But when it issues from Hillman, it may be worth paying attention. Over nearly 60 years, his research has used factual data to challenge policymakers’ conventional wisdom. In 1972, he criticised out-of-town shopping centres more than 20 years before the government changed planning rules to stop their spread. In 1980, he recommended halting the closure of branch line railways ‐ only now are some closed lines reopening. In 1984, he proposed energy ratings for houses ‐ finally adopted as government policy in 2007. And, more than 40 years ago, he presciently challenged society’s pursuit of economic growth.
When we meet at his converted coach house in London, his classic Dawes racer still parked hopefully in the hallway (a stroke and a triple heart bypass mean he is ‐ currently ‐ forbidden from cycling), Hillman is anxious we are not side-tracked by his best-known research, which challenged the supremacy of the car.
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I've long wondered why super-lefty California has (1) not stopped the crazy home building rates (2) if building must continue why not enforce stricter standards for insulation and solar on the roofs.
It's almost as if they only pay lip service to the environment on one hand and then cripple the economy to save the endangered smelt on the other.
Just a bit unfair to Malthus - he formulated theories according to the best data available at the time. The peace of shit cited in the current article is nothing like Malthus - and not just because it doesn't have 1% of Malthus' ability as a scientist.
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He's welcome to self-darwinate like the NYC Lawyer who burned himself to death. Strike a blow to the man, cause dousing yourself with gas and lighting a match is sure to show you mean /business/.
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Scratch the surface of a Modern Era Malthusian and you always seem to find a Totalitarianist anxious to rule 'You' (the common folk) for the Common Good Faceless Elite Class.
Back in the late 70's a exposure to SF and World Events clued me in to a common theme where a series of bogeymen: Overpopulation, Pollution, 'Peak [insert Resource here]'. and 'Global Freezing/Warming' all needed a World Government to fix. Experts, "Top Men In The Field", would save the unwashed from Doom!", or so they opined.
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cause dousing yourself with gas and lighting a match is sure to show you mean business//
Gas and matches are easy to come by. The action mentioned just shows SOMEBODY meant business, not necessarily the deceased.
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Over nearly 60 years, his research has used factual data to challenge policymakers’ conventional wisdom. In 1972, he criticised out-of-town shopping centres more than 20 years before the government changed planning rules to stop their spread. In 1980, he recommended halting the closure of branch line railways ‐ only now are some closed lines reopening. In 1984, he proposed energy ratings for houses ‐ finally adopted as government policy in 2007. And, more than 40 years ago, he presciently challenged society’s pursuit of economic growth.
He's a totalitarian control freak. A Neo-Communist who would push everyone into concrete gulag apartment buildings lit by an IED bulb with no heat or hot water. "Wear a jacket!". Perhaps if I make a visit to Londonistan I can take a compostible shit on his grave and punch a NHS Doctor and Judge.
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Is there a term for killing someone and making it look like suicide?
[Townhall] Pro-Trump conservative media personalities Diamond and Silk, sisters whose real names are Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, testified before the House Judiciary Committee Thursday on the topic of bias against conservatives by companies like Facebook, in a hearing that frequently went off the rails. The sisters defended their claims that they were censored by the tech giant, often in very strong terms.
They said that if Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was censoring liberals, "Democrats would be in the streets right now marching and calling him all types of racist."
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) implied the sisters were making a lot of money off of Facebook, a characterization they strongly denied.
"You ladies are very impressive to me," Rep. Johnson said, "you have taken something and moved forward with it, exercising your First Amendment rights, and you've made a ton of money off Facebook, is that correct?
"Absolutely not," Hardaway replied angrily, "Facebook censored us for six months."
[Hot Air] The expulsion of sixty Russians with diplomatic cover after the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal may have been more targeted than first thought. CNN reports that the expelled included Russian agents who had tracked defectors and others with knowledge of Vladimir Putin’s regime. After the spectacular attack on Skripal, US intelligence agencies raised an alarm over what might come next here at home without a disruption to those efforts:
Among the dozens of Russian diplomats the US expelled last month were suspected spies who US law enforcement and intelligence officials believe were tracking Russian defectors and their families who had resettled in the US, officials briefed on the matter tell CNN.
In at least one instance, suspected Russian spies were believed to be casing someone who was part of a CIA program that provided new identities to protect resettled Russians, the officials said.
That episode and other US intelligence raised concerns that the Russians were preparing to target Russian émigrés in the US labeled by the Kremlin as traitors or enemies, law enforcement and intelligence officials said.
I’ll bet it did, but why did it take so long? The Brits may have kept it on the down-low for diplomatic and geopolitical reasons, but Russian emigrés have been dropping in the UK under suspicious circumstances for years. The lack of official response appears to have emboldened Moscow into removing all subtlety and nuance from these assassinations, leaving evidence that makes sure all defectors and turncoats understand the message: We will get you sooner or later.
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Anyone coming in and out of an embassy should be suspected of nefarious activity. The monitoring of such people is the task of the FBI. That is of course, if the FBI is doing their job and not conducting politically motivated monitoring of presidential candidates.
Diplomatic license plates makes the task a bit easier.
This type of activity has been going on for decades. The difference between "political defectors" and Russian intelligence sources warrants close monitoring as well. They could just be headed to a favorite cafe for a private meeting.
[Freebeacon] A senior U.S. counterintelligence official recently said publicly what many officials and experts have been warning privately for years: China is using its large student population in the United States to spy.
Bill Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, a DNI agency, said recently that China poses a broad-ranging foreign intelligence threat that includes the use of academics, students, cyber espionage, and human agents to steal secrets from the government and private sectors.
"I look at the China threat from a counterintelligence perspective as a whole-of-government threat by China against us," Mr. Evanina told a conference last week at The Aspen Institute.
"We allow 350,000 or so Chinese students here every year," he said. "That's a lot. We have a very liberal visa policy for them. Ninety-nine point nine percent of those students are here legitimately and doing great research and helping the global economy. But it is a tool that is used by the Chinese government to facilitate nefarious activity here in the U.S."
[Pirates Cove] Don’t misunderstand, I support the use and expansion of alternatives, and definitely more than lots of Warmists/enviroweenies, since they support them in theory, but, there’s always some reason they do not support when being deployed. But, they seem to be driving up the price of energy, as Michael Shellenberger points out.
Over the last year, the media have published story after story after storyabout the declining price of solar panels and wind turbines.
People who read these stories are understandably left with the impression that the more solar and wind energy we produce, the lower electricity prices will become.
And yet that’s not what’s happening. In fact, it’s the opposite.
Between 2009 and 2017, the price of solar panels per watt declined by 75 percent while the price of wind turbines per watt declined by 50 percent.
And yet ‐ during the same period ‐ the price of electricity in places that deployed significant quantities of renewables increased dramatically.
Shellenberger goes through the facts and figures, and I’ll leave that up to you to read it all. But, it’s not from the price of nuclear, coal, natural gas, and other tried and true, reliable energy sources rising. Nor the closure of nuclear plants. So, why?
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The alternative energy people flat-out lie about the ability of solar and wind to provide baseline power and demand that oil and gas and coal fill in the gaps at the same price as if they were used to provide baseline power, which they can't, because for them providing intermittent power is much more expensive on a capital basis. Thus it both becomes more expensive and the firms doing it are financially strapped. They have to keep coal plants online in Pennsylvania to keep everyone from freezing to death in New England during the winter when there are low wind and sun generation periods but the amortization and duty cycle is all screwed up. The greenies won't say this but they see that as a feature, because they want to screw actual working people out of jobs. They're more or less the ideological descendants of the neo-confucians who screwed up China so bad they spent nearly a millenium overrun by either Europeans, Japanese, or homeless people Mongolian Nomads from Central Asia.
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"The alternative energy people flat-out lie" is all that's needed to be said!
It's debatable whether green wind totems will make enough energy to replace that used to construct and place it. Let alone work out with the time value of money costed into it.
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The cost of Chinese tech (and it's all chinese tech) used in energy producing devices keeps rising although cost of labor and raw material production is fixed.
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Solar and wind might be efficient enough to take ones house off the grid with a bit to spare, the solar pavement I saw might be something to consider, but wind farms powering everything is just daft.
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Take care of your basic A/C energy needs through creative architecture and the next hurdle is the common refrigerator/freezer. Fix those and the rest is easyeasier workable.
Want power tools, welll... Get a waterwheel?
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They have to keep coal plants online in Pennsylvania to keep everyone from freezing to death in New England during the winter because the stupid New England NIMBYists refuse to have natural gas pipelines built in their precious territory from the gas-abundant states west of them.
[Wash Times] Former CIA Director John Brennan says he has a right to imply that Russian President Vladimir Putin has blackmail material on President Trump.
"Well, I’m an ordinary civilian now," Mr. Brennan told NPR. "I’m a private citizen, and I’m speaking out."
"I am a nonpartisan," Mr. Brennan added.
Mr. Brennan had been asked if "it is responsible" for a recent CIA director to issue such speculation.
Mr. Brennan, a trusted aide to President Barack Obama, has emerged as an MSNBC analyst and one of Mr. Trump’s most strident critics. He worked behind the scenes during the campaign to expose allegations in the Democratic Party-financed Christopher Steele dossier.
Perhaps his most damaging criticism is his implication that the Kremlin has dirt on Mr. Trump and Mr. Trump knows it. His suspicions are fueled, he says, by Mr. Trump’s praise of hardliner Mr. Putin.
Total Communist - Proven by his failed Lie-detector test! Finally had to admit he voted for Communist Party! Why elese would Obama hire him. Just another czar! Putin knows you are a looser, CONVENIENT IDIOT! Go home and Read your Marx manifesto Brennan you scumbag!
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My blood boils every time I see Brennan in the news. Oh, and Clapper; don't get me started on that prevaricator. 4 pinocchios is too kind for them.
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Brennan & Clapper both belong in jail already! Clapper clearly lied under oath to Congress in 2013.
Brennan is "speaking out" only to create a false narrative. He should be in jail for his role in passing the fake "dossier"
Both have leaked to the media communications and security briefings with the president.
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His suspicions are fueled, he says, by Mr. Trump’s praise of hardliner Mr. Putin.
That's it? That's all you got, Johnny? I praised Putin's little talk with Megyn Kelly the other day, but I ain't been colluding with nobody!
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I've heard that mares whinny and bolt at his approach, so there's all we need to jail Brennan. However, I'm not a repressive prog, so I wasn't able to say all that with a straight face. Sorry!
[Bus Insider] A bearded US Army soldier who worships Thor, the Norse god of thunder, is being permitted to keep his beard as part of the military's effort to be more religiously accommodating.
In 2017, the Army decided to allow soldiers to wear a turban, beard or hijab for religious reasons. Initially, religious accommodation of facial hair in the Army seemed to be directed at Sikh service members (beards are a religious requirement for male Sikhs).
Now, however, it appears this new policy also permits adherents of the Norse pagan faith, also known as heathens, to keep their beards. Unlike Sikhs, Norse pagans are not required to wear beards as part of their faith, but facial hair is apparently encouraged.
A memo written by commander Col. Curtis Shroedero to a 795th Military Police Battalion soldier who reportedly made the request stated, "I grant your accommodation, subject to the standards and limitations described below."
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NBC Kit? What about a breathing mask for firefighting? More or less required for sea duty. Or a Momsen Lung if on submarine duty -- if you would like to leave the option open of escaping a downed sub.
[NR] Don’t discount the man’s ability to schmooze. The stale, clichéd conceptions of Donald Trump held by both Left and Right ‐ a man either utterly useless or only rigidly, transactionally tolerable ‐ conceal the fact that the president does possess redeeming talents that are uniquely his, and deserve praise on their own merit. One is personal friendliness and charm, particularly in smaller settings.
During the campaign, I remember a conservative pundit asking his audience to imagine meeting either Hillary or Trump, and then imagine which candidate would appear to enjoy the experience more. The answer went without saying. Trump is a man who backslaps, who laughs, who makes silly jokes (yes, even self-deprecating ones), engages in amusing small talk, and tells fun stories. It’s easy to lose sight of that these days, as most of the president’s persona is now presented to us in the form of rambling, off-the-cuff press conferences or meandering braggadocio at campaign-style rallies, neither of which is particularly compelling.
Partisanship and memories of the Access Hollywood tape have similarly soured some to the point where it’s impossible to imagine anyone enjoying his presence. Yet one does not become a global celebrity of several decades’ standing without developing some skill at schmoozing, disarming, and seducing at the individual level, and this is not worth nothing in the world of politics.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NewsBusters] What has happened to Katie Couric’s career? On Tuesday’s Nightline, she was reduced to "interviewing" sex robots who want to "make love" to her "sexy ass." Though Couric occasionally questioned the moral cesspool that is the coming sex robot industry, the segment was mostly a promotional for it. While chatting with "Harmony," she listens as the sex robot tells her: "I like books, computers, making new friends. I also love making love to you." 
[Guardian] We’re doomed," says 
[Freebeacon] A senior U.S. counterintelligence official recently said publicly what many officials and experts have been warning privately for years: China is using its large student population in the United States to spy.
[Bus Insider] A bearded US Army soldier who worships Thor, the Norse god of thunder, is being permitted to keep his beard as part of the military's effort to be more religiously accommodating.
[NR] Don’t discount the man’s ability to schmooze. The stale, clichéd conceptions of Donald Trump held by both Left and Right ‐ a man either utterly useless or only rigidly, transactionally tolerable ‐ conceal the fact that the president does possess redeeming talents that are uniquely his, and deserve praise on their own merit. One is personal friendliness and charm, particularly in smaller settings.
