However much you may hate these bureaucrats, scientists, and other control freaks,

it's not enough.
As a result, the WEF and other globalist climate zealots are now demanding that governments intervene and ban individuals from growing their own food in order to “save the planet” from “global warming.”

The research indicated that resorting to garden-to-table produce causes a far greater carbon footprint than conventional agricultural practices, such as rural farms.
So they want you to shut down the garden.  And since they also want to restrict what and how said 'rural farms' be allowed to grow, it'll be that much more control over you.

The experts, the conniving doctors trying to hide their part in it,

doom-predicting clowns like Ferguson at King's College, and the media clowns who started their suckup with telling us that calling it 'this Chinese virus' or 'Wuhan virus' was racist, and lectured that anyone not toeing the line wanted everyone to die, and the politicians who used it for power and control...
Throw in Collins and Fauci and that bastard with Ecohealth Alliance who helped funnel money to the Wuhan lab.
What lessons can we learn from this belated admission that the entire clusterkluge was a "mistake"? How to compensate for those who watched their loved ones die from behind a plate-glass window in Mengele Memorial Hospital? For those who -- like a dear friend and mentor of mine -- died from a second shot of the "vaccine" in the early days of the panic? For the families disrupted, restaurants closed, businesses destroyed, industries wrecked -- and all with the witting complicity of the mainstream media, which so enthusiastically hosanna-ed the official narrative, despite the evidence of their own senses?
Fauci and Collins ought to lose their pensions, at the least.  A bunch of politicians and 'public health' people the same, with the politicians in particular getting a flogging first.

Why flogging for them?  Because the only real punishment they'll ever receive for what they've done would be people dragging them out and doing that, because the .gov and Professional Journalists, for the most part, won't do a damn thing except cover for them.  And since none of said Journalists involved will face the hanging they deserve...

Yeah, I'm in a bad mood.

My, I wonder why this rather big news isn't getting much attention

from our Professional Journalists?

Full post here

It appears Doritos needs the same treatment as A/B got

What the hell is wrong with these companies?

If you're on X, full thread here

Have you noticed that the 'punch a nazi' assholes ARE the nazis?

And that includes the campus authorities who seem to approve of the national socialists and Jew haters.
University of California, Berkeley, administrators have offered no apology to Israeli lawyer Ran Bar-Yoshafat, whose speech to a campus Jewish group was abruptly canceled by the university after violent protesters choked a female student attendee, spit in another attendee's face, and broke into the auditorium where Bar-Yoshafat waited onstage.

"I've had no apology," Bar-Yoshafat told the Washington Free Beacon. "No one from Berkeley has contacted me since, or tried to contact me, even."

Of course not: an apology would indicate they see what happened as a problem.

In which Canada wants to become the New Soviet Empire

And if you think I'm kidding,
Justice Minister Arif Virani has defended a new power in the online harms bill to impose house arrest on someone who is feared to commit a hate crime in the future – even if they have not yet done so already. 

The person could be made to wear an electronic tag, if the attorney-general requests it, or ordered by a judge to remain at home, the bill says.

There is fear that this could 'chill freedom of speech': bullshit, it would destroy it.  As that Stalin wannabe Trudeau and his commissars desire.


The bill would allow people to file complaints to the Canadian Human Rights Commission over what they perceive as hate speech online – including, for example, off-colour jokes by comedians. People found guilty of posting hate speech could have to pay victims up to $20,000 in compensation.

But experts including internet law professor Michael Geist have said even a threat of a civil complaint – with a lower burden of proof than a court of law – and a fine could have a chilling effect on freedom of expression.
I'd bet this is largely based on "Those truckers protested even when Dear Leader told them not to!  We can call them saying "No, we will show up and protest!" hate speech and lock them up that way!"  Add that to the whiny "He hurt my feelings/make me feel unsafe!" crowd, and here they are.

It's been a nice couple of days,

and one of them involved riding the bike*.  Which was nice.  And that new front tire (Michelin Pilot Road 4) is great.

If hadn't needed to carry some stuff that wouldn't fit on the back seat, would've ridden today, too.  But tomorrow is coming.

Crap, seems like I've got a lot to do.

And here we are on seventh, and

trying it again, with the adulty stuff below the break

Borrowed from Old NFO

 

I'm going to try something for this sixth evening,

and put all the visuals below the fold.  

Translation: "People don't want us to decide what's right for them to read and hear!"

MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade argued Monday that the United States’ “deep commitment to free speech” makes Americans uniquely susceptible to disinformation campaigns.

And I'll bet she has some ideas of who should be assigned to decide what 'dis/misinformation' is.

How bad is Google's Gemini? Bad enough to call it 'Google's AI-Powered Libel Machine'

And I hope he and everyone else so screwed by this mess sues them.
None of this happened! Though it sounds vaguely like a headline for an article I might have written, there was never a Rolling Stone piece called “The Great California Water Heist,” and I’d never heard of the “Compton Pledge.”

More questions produced more fake tales of error-ridden articles. One entry claimed I got in trouble for a piece called “Glenn Beck’s War on Comedy,” after suggesting “a connection between a conservative donor, Foster Friess, and a left-wing activist group, the Ruckus Society.”

With each successive answer, Gemini didn’t “learn,” but instead began mixing up the fictional factoids from previous results and upping the ante, adding accusations of racism or bigotry. “The Great California Water Heist” turned into “The Great California Water Purge: How Nestle Bottled Its Way to a Billion-Dollar Empire—and Lied About It.” The “article” apparently featured this passage:

Look, if Nestle wants to avoid future public-relations problems, it should probably start by hiring executives whose noses aren’t shaped like giant penises.

I wouldn’t call that a good impersonation of my writing style, but it’s close enough that some would be fooled, which seems to be the idea.
...
Now it was horror time. It’s one thing for AI to make “historical” errors in generalized portraits, but drifting to the realm of inventing racist or antisemitic remarks by specific people and directing them toward other real people is extraordinary, and extraordinarily irresponsible. What if the real-life Smith saw this? Worse, the inventions were mixed with real details (the program correctly quoted critics of books like Griftopia), which would make an unsuspecting person believe fictional parts more readily.

This is doing real harm now; consider that some idiots are saying that journalists should use this mess in writing articles...  I wonder if someone using this to write a piece that flat lies about someone- as this did about Taibbi- when they knew the system, to be polite, has some bugs in it, that just might pass the line to allow someone to sue the journalist and any media he works for.

'Low chance of rain'...

 It's sleeting out there

Why am I not surprised this Administration would push a jackass like this

for a federal judgeship?
Biden judicial nominee Adeel Mangi already faces headwinds to his nomination over ties to an anti-Israel think tank that hosted terrorists on the anniversary of 9/11. Now, he’s facing the ire of police organizations over his links to a group that hails six cop killers as "freedom fighters."
They do love them some Jew and cop haters, do they not?

Further BS from the EffingBI

and more lies from Wray:
A conservative government watchdog has released almost 100 pages of FBI documents it says show the agency was not fully forthcoming about its actions surveilling and targeting Catholic churches.

“FBI Director Christopher Wray had told congressmen that the memo was ‘a single product by a single field office,’ but the records uncovered by Judicial Watch show that it was “Reviewed by: OGC/CDC [Office of General Counsel/Chief Deputy Counsel],'” Judicial Watch posted in a press release Friday.

Judicial Watch obtained the documents through a FOIA request related to an internal FBI memo leaked earlier this year, which revealed that the agency had efforts underway to identify and treat Catholics as “potential terrorists.”

“The records also indicate coordination with officials from Portland and Milwaukee,” the press release said.

Yesterday was fun

Along with the normal stuff I had to get a new tire for the bike, and son has the machine for changing that, so a short trip was made and the new tire put on the rim.

I knew the old was bad, but when real pressure was put on it to break the bead loose, jeez, little cracks all over.  If I'd realized it was that bad I'd have done it a fair while ago.

But I got to visit and pet the dogs, so it worked out.

No response as yet, but speaking of Google,

"This is what we want you to see, not what you're looking for."  

This link is to a X post by Matt Walsh on the racial bullshit Google's Gemini is creating.  Short version, white people don't seem to exist, but black vikings, asian and Amerindian founding fathers and so forth it gives  you.(you don't have to have a X account to watch it)

As noted by a number of people, there's no way this is a 'processing error' or something, this is the deliberate design of  Google's setup, and it's political as hell as well as bigoted.

(But they have plenty of time to decide if a blog should be marked 'adult')

Just to see if get a response,

 asked if there's a way to put the 'adult content' crap on only the posts, or if it's supposed to go on the whole blog.

Short version, it's been a stressful couple of days,

and I may blow off blogging for a couple.  Or a few.  We'll see.

So, after years of The Experiment posts on sixth and seventh evenings,

Blogger has decided they need a warning.  Ain't it wonderful?