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The criminalization of reality

Thanks to their Promethean rulers, neither the USA nor the UK are very far away from literally outlawing the idea that 2+2=4.

A mother-of-two law student investigated by university chiefs after saying ‘women have vaginas’ has won her disciplinary hearing, it has today been revealed.
Lisa Keogh, 29, was hauled before a disciplinary panel at the University of Abertay in Dundee after she made the comments during a seminar on transgender issues.
But after a two month probe, which took place as the mature student underwent her final year exams, the university has now dropped its case against her.
University chiefs cited a ‘lack of evidence’ behind the decision to drop the internal investigation.  
Today Ms Keogh hit out at the university for subjecting her to what she described as  a ‘cruel witch hunt’ due to her ‘gender critical views’.
The university deny Ms Keogh was put through the disciplinary procedure because of her ‘personal opinions’.

Notice that the internal investigation wasn’t dropped because it is evil and stupid to punish people for making incontrovertibly true statements of fact, but for lack of evidence that she had made one. 

What they are doing is attempting to enforce the lie by enshrining it into law. But once you start forcing people to accept your lies as truth, whether they are “some women have penises” or “there was never a land called Palestine” or “all men are equal”, you’re already on the path to losing your indoor plumbing.

Internet outage

From Russia Today:

OUTAGE: USERS REPORT MAJOR SITES DOWN, INCLUDING AMAZON, GUARDIAN, NYT & REDDIT
I’ve noticed that Outkick and Sports Illustrated are also down. But Arktoons, SocialGalactic, Infogalactic, and Unauthorized are all running fine.
From The Daily Mail:

The problem, affecting customers worldwide, appears to be related to Amazon’s Web Service (AWS) crashing, leaving people unable to connect to other websites. 

And that’s one of the reasons why we run on our own metal, which is made possible by you subscribers.

Seeing intelligence

I have always said that one can literally see that a person is more intelligent than the norm by looking at their eyes. I wonder if that observation was based on subconsciously picking up on large pupil size:

A person’s intelligence and brain function correlates to the size of their pupils, a new eye-popping study by US researchers suggests. The study claims that the larger the pupil, the smarter its owner. Cognitive abilities like attention control, fluid intelligence and working memory capacity have been linked to baseline pupil size by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, who conducted several large-scale studies involving over 500 participants.
First, they calculated the average pupil size of each of the participants — aged between 18 and 35 years old — using a special tracking device with a camera linked to a computer. Normally, a constricted pupil — the black circular aperture in the center of the eye — is two to four millimeters in size, and fully dilates to up to eight millimeters. 
The participants were then offered a series of cognitive tests measuring their abilities to stay focused and control attention while being intentionally distracted, to reason through new problems and remember new information. The laboratory was kept dim in order for the pupils not to constrict in response to light. 
“We found that a larger baseline pupil size was correlated with greater fluid intelligence, attention control and, to a lesser degree, working memory capacity,” researchers concluded, with their findings published in the June issue of the Cognition international journal.

I tend to perceive intelligence in the eyes as an active awareness, or in some cases a liveliness, that doesn’t necessarily translate to the person’s expression, tone, or behavior. Not every intelligent person shows this, but I’ve never met anyone who did who didn’t later prove to be intelligent. It might also explain why people instinctively avoid eye contact when they don’t want to indicate that they are anyone out of the ordinary.

More evidence of the obvious

The white line of silence has apparently been broken:

Two U.S. experts have penned a damning essay saying that science strongly suggests the novel coronavirus was manufactured inside a Chinese laboratory.  The claim was made by Drs Stephen Quay, CEO of biopharmaceutical company Atossa Therapeutics Inc, and Richard Muller, a physics professor at the University of California Berkeley, in The Wall Street Journal on Sunday.

In the op-ed, the men say their proof lies in genome sequencing, or analyzing the DNA, of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

There are 36 DNA segments – made up of three-letter ‘words’ – that viruses use to make an amino acid known as L-arginine.

L-arginine helps make proteins but is also often used in so-called ‘gain of function’ research, which alters viruses to make them more transmissible and more deadly.

The new virus contains a segment called CGG-CGG, which is considered rare even in experiments in which researchers are trying to manipulate virus.

But even more telling is that this combination has never been found naturally in any other type of coronavirus, including in SARS and MERS, both of which are cousins of the new virus.

There will be more to come. A lot more to come.

Monday PM Arktoons

COSMIC WARRIOR Episode 6: You Are the Cosmic Warrior

CHUCK DIXON PRESENTS: WAR Episode 6: The Rivers Run Red

And Bounding Into Comics rounds up last week’s Arktoons:
Drama has a history of getting the short shift in comic books. Understandable of course, the bread and butter of comics publishers in the U.S. have always been superheroes. And neither superheroes nor supervillains freely lend themselves to prolonged deep self-examination leading to an existential crisis that finally resolves itself in a cathartic release.
However, it was superheroes that the drama was revolving around, and the drama was usually political. The first rule of drama is that politics makes for bad drama. A political drama’s first function, and indeed primary obligation, is to sermonize.  And sermons are not engaging stories, they are lectures.
Things were always different in Europe. Not better, just different. American comics were banned in Italy in 1939 by Mussolini and in France by the Communists in 1949. This protectionism allowed native comics to expand and fill the void left in the marketplace.
European comics writers either embraced the political restrictions or learned to get around them in order to tell their stories. Catholic comic books did much better in Europe than they did in America. The upshot of all this is that drama titles had a more fertile field to grow in across the Atlantic.

A generational test

 A Boomer doesn’t understand why his g-g-generation is held in such open contempt by the younger generations:

I’m not sure I understand. As a 69-year old boomer, I don’t know any boomer of my acquaintance who wouldn’t, and hasn’t, tried to help his children and grandchildren in any way he can, whether with time or money, or any other way.

Very well. I think we can solve this conundrum. Ask yourself these four questions, Boomer:

  1. On average, how many days per year did you see your grandparents as a child?
  2. How many days per year do you see your grandchildren?
  3. What did you inherit from your father and grandfather?
  4. In real terms, do you expect to leave more to each and every child and grandchild than you received, or less.
Of course there will be outliers, so keep in mind that general attitudes are usually derived from relative averages. I wonder what the over/under on “but… but.. times were different and I don’t even live in the same state as my grandkids” will be?
In light of the usual responses from Boomers about this subject being inspired by personal issues and projecting their own historic hostility for their parents and everyone else over thirty onto me, I should like to take this opportunity to point out that my parents are not Boomers and neither am I.

UPDATE: Boomers are so wicked and stupid that some of them are even trying to claim that Generation X was the “Me Generation”. From Wikipedia:
The “Me” generation is a term referring to Baby Boomers in the United States and the self-involved qualities that some people associate with it. The 1970s were dubbed the “Me decade” by writer Tom Wolfe; Christopher Lasch was another writer who commented on the rise of a culture of narcissism among the younger generation of that era. The phrase caught on with the general public, at a time when “self-realization” and “self-fulfillment” were becoming cultural aspirations to which young people supposedly ascribed higher importance than social responsibility.

They want you weak, small, and stupid

Now, only a complete madman – or more likely, madwoman – would voluntarily forgo eating meat in the first place, but it is downright evil to deny growing children the sustenance necessary for their full development. If a plant-based diet is inhibiting their height to this extent, imagine how much it is inhibiting their intellectual capacity.

Vegans cut out all animal products, including dairy, eggs and even honey. But there is little evidence on the potential damage this does to children’s health.

Lead author Professor Jonathan Wells, from UCL, said: ‘We know that people are increasingly being drawn to plant-based diets for several reasons, including promoting animal welfare and reducing our impact on the climate. 

‘Indeed, a global shift towards plant-based diets is now recognised to be crucial for preventing climate breakdown, and we strongly support this effort.

‘We also know that until now research into the health impact of these diets on children has been largely limited to assessments of height and weight and conducted only in vegetarian children. 

‘Our study provides a substantial insight into the health outcomes in children following vegetarian and vegan diets.’

The new study looked at 187 healthy five to ten-year-olds in Poland. Of these, 63 children were vegetarians, 52 vegans and 72 omnivores.

Children on vegan diets were on average three centimetres shorter. They also had four to six per cent lower bone mineral content and were more than three times more likely to be deficient in vitamin B-12 than omnivores.

For lunch today, I’ll be having pepper sausage and bufalo mozzerella, washed down by a good Spanish tempranillo. Just in case….

They KNOW they’re hypocrites

In which Twitter demonstrates the complete futility of the conservative “owning the libs” strategy:

Twitter declared access to its platform a ‘human right’ on Saturday, prompting conservatives to accuse the firm of hypocrisy after it banned former President Donald Trump and others for violating its terms of service.
The social media giant’s statement came as a response to Nigeria’s decision to ban Twitter over the deletion of a tweet from Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari that was seen as threatening separatist movements.
‘We are deeply concerned by the blocking of Twitter in Nigeria. Access to the free and #OpenInternet is an essential human right in modern society,’ the company said in a statement.

What, pray tell, is the point of trying to prove, for the Nth time, that the Left is hypocritical when they have been openly and shamelessly trumpeting their right to impose double standards since before they were known as “the Left”? If they didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all.