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July 10, 2019

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Impacting Russia without military action

February 25, 2022

1. Stop all imports from Russia - especially oil 2. Immediately increase oil drilling/fracking in the US 3. Halt any closures of nuclear power plants and expedite more 4. Cut Russia off from all international banking. 5. Stop all exports to Russia

Education and Achievement

February 22, 2022

Lots of recent discussion about "elite" schools that require rigorous tests for admittance. The complaints center around the "under-representation" of certain racial/cultural groups - typically Black and Hispanic - and the "over-representation" of others - mostly Asians. The most common "fix" seems to be to lower that standards to assure a "representative" mix. I have so many problems with this that it's hard to know where to start. First, Over and Under representation based on race is a distorted measure. It assumes that there are differences in racial scholarship that are based upon race itself. So the very beginning assumption is racist. Second, the culture of the individuals towards learning and academics is disregarded completely. Anyone of any race that is raised to value learning and academics has an advantage over anyone of any race who is not raised to value learning and academics. The tales you can hear about Bla...

Settled Science

February 22, 2023

Read this article ( https://www.science20.com/hontas_farmer/transgender_science_is_settled_science_it_does_not_support_your_ideology_or_bans_on_care-256467 ) on "Real Clear Science" and strongly disagree with it. First, any article that claims that an area of science is "settled" is almost surely wrong. Science isn't "settled" - it's evolving as more information becomes available. Second, the area of "transgender science" is hardly settled, when the research is fragmentary and contradictory in many instances. This article does not make any effort to present contradictory data, when such data does exist ( https://areomagazine.com/2022/01/05/race-is-a-spectrum-sex-is-pretty-damn-binary/#f+876674+2+2 , https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56601386 , https://www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-was-saving-trans-kids ). Finally, Nations have been pulling back from treatment of minors with any drugs and (especially) surgery ( https://www.tabletmag.com/sec...