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Sardonic

 

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Mansplaining

It's a term which is somewhat vague but perhaps can be boiled down to; a man explaining something to a woman, something she already knows.

Anytime anyone explains something and they weren't directly asked to explain that thing, there is a possibility of explaining something they already know.  The ability to take cues and explain where it seems to be needed and wanted, is a skill and people have this skill to wildly different levels.  There's two kinds of errors which are possible:  Not explaining something that you should have explained and explaining something unnecessarily. 

Something I've noticed, is that women who complain a lot about mansplaining, also have a pet peeve of having a man say, "I know" when they are trying to explain something to him.  They are good at noticing when men fail to read their mind, but refuse to believe that they could fail at mindreading themselves: They'd rather believe that the man is lying about knowing something he doesn't really know.

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Baltimore Bridge Collapse

We've all seen a lot of bridges and it seems as if the ones I've noticed have a wide concrete pier around where the towers go into the water.  I had assumed this was to prevent exactly this sort of thing.  Maybe container ships have grown to the point that the above water part can hit the tower before the underwater part runs aground. 

Going forward, maybe the replacement should be a tunnel, or a bridge such that the towers are located on land or in shallow water, such that a ship will not be able to reach this vulnerable structure under any circumstance. 

Added:  The span had some bit of pier around it, but the supports are very close to the edge.  This was a disaster waiting to happen.

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7 Billion Tons

EPA Rule

I assume the 7 billion tons is just looking at the direct emissions from automobiles.  The thing is that most of the electricity generation in the US comes from burning natural gas or coal.  Once you burn these things to make electricity, transmit it to homes or charging stations and eventually run the cars, have you saved any CO2 emissions?  I doubt it.

The obvious low-hanging fruit is power generation.  If climate alarmists were serious, they'd be proposing a crash program of nuclearizing our electricity production. Once that's done, cheap electricity will induce people to move to electric heat and more electric appliances, it also will create demand for electric cars, mostly for commuting, since they can be charged at home almost for free.

The alarmists are of course not serious, or maybe they really are serious but really stupid. Whichever it is, we shouldn't let unserious or stupid people make laws.

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Classic Lileks

The workout was a bit annoying, as one of the irregulars gathered all the lower-weight barbells around him like a class of elementary school students to whom he wanted to tell a story. He had some routine that required this weight then that weight, and since he looked very pleased with himself I wondered whether he was thinking "these other guys, they don't know the strength advantage you get from multi-varied weight differential hoisting. Me, I know, which is why I give myself a look of self-regard and stab my hair with my hand before making sounds of conspicuous exhalation."

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Dear Washington Post

Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel are not the same rank.

Article

The race for Virginia’s 7th Congressional District features a pair of county supervisors, two state lawmakers, a self-funded tech entrepreneur and veterans of most branches of the military — including a Navy SEAL, two Green Berets and a retired Army colonel who played a key role in Trump-era Washington.

 Maybe they don't know that there's such a thing as a Lieutenant Colonel?

The others seeking the GOP nomination are Marine Corps veteran Jon Myers; John Prabhudoss, former chair of the Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations; retired Army Lt. Col. Jeffrey Sacks; and Terris Todd, a former Heritage Foundation adviser and Trump appointee in the Department of Education.

Funny how mistakes like this only happen in one direction.

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