We should be clarifying the term "stupid" for use in the cultural arguments clouding our society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc

An ethical position cannot be rationalized by a religious belief.

It is, fundamentally, a BELIEF.

A belief might make a person think something is wrong, and therefore unethical or immoral. But, it is still grounded in a belief.

If someone cannot successfully argue, without referring to spirit or soul or God's Creation, that a fully defined human being is created at conception, then we cannot get to the argument about the ethics of abortion.

A belief is insufficient for a morality.

A Robot is serving drinks for journalists at the Beijing Olympics.

"Racism" is now too loaded a term.
"Groupism" is closer to the core of the faulty human judgment.
It captures the same stupidity that assigns inappropriate attributes to a race, gender, political party or job.

This, from the CDC:

I sincerely hope Mr P is wrong about this:

“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”

― Plato

Maybe this is old news, but the ISS has been extended through 2030!

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1488248258363281413

How can you teach integrity to:
A) A child?
B) A mature adult?
C) An immature adult?

What is great and eternal
Does not want to be bent by us

-- Rilke

America seems to have a distorted concept of Hero and Leader.

Or, it has become damaged over recent years.

Wow!
10B doses administered thus far.
No other coordinated project has impacted so many humans.
https://twitter.com/redouad/status/1486966455828553728

Former NC Gov. Pat McCrory is bitching about being "cancelled" by Duke because he wasn't offered a job.

The key issue is teaching.
McCrory has positions and opinions based on faulty information.

He lacks an ability to discern the quality of data that generated that information. He begins with his opinion and backs out the logic and supporting data.

This is the opposite of how to educate.

This is why he should not be allowed to teach.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/27/politics/pat-mccrory-duke-segregration-kfile/index.html

Just finished watching
Altered Carbon season 1
for the second time.

Damn, that was a good story.

The James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its destination: L2 relative to Earth!

Time to start months of calibration before really, really cool photos are taken.

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

Enjoyed wine tasting in Anderson Valley today with the wife and old friends.

My wife told me that she's going to "womansplain" something to me.

Am I in trouble?

This is a fake story that fooled my friends and me:

"WARNING! People are going door-to-door handing out masks, saying it's a new initiative from local government. They ask you to put it on to see if it fits, but it has been doused with chemicals that knock you out. Then they rob you. Don't accept masks from strangers! "

Deleted tweet from my local source:
https://twitter.com/SFSAFE/status/1483887252384239622

This is the same infection map of San Francisco that I've posted before. But, this one has the circumferences of each circle colored based on whether it is increasing or decreasing. Green is decreasing (95%). Red is increasing (5%). Is this easy to read/understand? Any formatting suggestions?