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FormalyT-Bear:
You don’t suppose that lower amounts of CO2 in the air, had anything to do with our smaller brain size?
Ops! I spoke too soon about my tablet not crashing.
It crashed and I had to clear chrome browsing and cookies for 3rd time.
Guess I will have to clear chrome everyday now to go on TAE.Oroboros:
Maybe we needed bigger brains to live on our own!
Maybe our brains got smaller, since we didn’t need to think as much, when we started living together more?Bosco:
Thanks for sending your winter snow storm all the way to Toronto ast night and for noticing my pain of having my maple syrup operation shutdown for the next 2 weeks due to this unexpected global cooling climate change!
Obviously, I must have pissed off the CO2 gods. Maybe AFKTT would be kind enough to send me a bottle of CO2, so I can appease the gods. (Note: AFKTT and I agree on just about everything else, except for the ittle wee issue of CO2, even though both of us agree that CO2 raises temperatures, only disagreeing that something seems to limit the upper limits of CO2 at some point.)
Disclaimer: Since I live in a cold country, I naturally have a vested interest in making my area of the world a little warmer!
Formerly T-Bear:
Your comment about body armor is so true! In my European travels, in my twenties, I tried to visit as many museums as I could, figuring I might never get a second opportunity.
I was quite surprised at how small men’s body armor was. I am not that big, only 5′ 6″ tall with a light frame, and I realized that I couldn’t fit into any of the body armor on display.
The only exception was for young King Henry 8th’s body armor but then he was a very big man for his time, probably about 6′ 4″ tall. I am sure after 30 years of age he couldn’t have fitted into his early twenties armor if his life depended on it! Being grossly over weight and heavy drinking killed his sport but of course his wives paid the price for this.
Michael Reid:
Funny you should mention chrome constantly shutting down the TAE tab. Up until today, TAE was crashing just about everytime I opened the tab. I was constantly getting the “aw snap” and having to refresh only to have it crash again and again. Like every 15 to 30 seconds.
I updated my tablet Samsung software, then chrome software but that did nothing. I then went incognito that seemed to work but the crashes resumed shortly. I then cleared my browsing history and cookies. That seemed to work but quickly resumed crashing again. I then cleared my browsing and cookies a second time yesterday and I have been OK for the last 24 hours now.
So whatever it was it was stubborn to get rid of.
AFKTT:
If I remember correctly during the age of the Vikings, the climate was warmer, which likely spurred a population boom, forcing the excess bodies to go elsewhere for a new place to live. I suspect most of us with ancestors from airstrip one have some Viking bloodlines in us.
Dr. John Day:
Reading that letter must have been hard for you considering all the effort you put into meeting all of their demands.
My feeling is that the writer of the letter is using their position to try and elevate themselves up by pushing better people down. I don’t believe for one moment that they ever intended to renew your license, no matter what you did.
That bicycle ride must have been one of the hardest you have ever taken.
AFkTT:
So when are you expecting to harvest your sunflowers?
Have you ever calculated how many calories a sunflower produces?Does anybody else view Biden’s recent visit to Kiev, as Biden telling Zelensky that he isn’t killing Ukrainians fast enough and needs to launch a big spring offensive to speed up the killing of more Ukrainians?
According to Doc Robinson, if I put an atomic bomb on one railway car and put a conventional bomb on another railway car, per Buttgigg’s rules, then the railway train is considered to be non-hazzardest!
So if I am a company damaging the environment, all I need to do is add an environmentalist, like Bill Gates to the company’s board of directors, then suddenly I am in total compliance with the environment!
O.K. I think I have got it now!
Latest Maple Syrup Company Update:
My micro trillion Maple Syrup Company is pleased to announce that it is on schedule to exceed it’s forcasted production guidelines during the first 2 weeks of 2023 maple sap collecting operations.
Todate 20,500,000 micro litres of maple sap have been collected. Maple sap boiling operations have produced 500,000 micro litres of high quality golden Maple syrup.
Due to an unexpected global cooling incursion, suddenly appearing from the far north, maple sap collecting and boiling operations are expected to be suspended for the next 2 weeks. After this ause, the company expects to resume normal sap collection and boiling operations again.
Footnote: The company is in complete compliance with all environmental regulations.
Government Maple Tree Environment officials have approved the company increasing the number of taps per tree by 33%, from 2 taps to 3 taps. The government agreed the individual limit of 2 taps per tree didn’t apply to company owned maples trees, as maintaining the company’s profits and stock values were much more important than the environment.
It is interesting to note that the Ukrainian government is not paying any of it’s pensioners nor war widows when it receives money from the US. As soon as the US money is received, it is immediately moved offshore for “safety” reasons of course.
This just proves that the Ukraine is still Congress’s favorite laundry mat for cleaning the sweat off of taxpayer’s money. Never let a war interfer with a good corruption scheme.
Yup, my tablet crashed! So part 2.
In this war, Russians can see Ukrainians hiding in trenches and foxholes to shoot at. However the Ukrainians do not have any Russians hiding in foxholes to shoot back at! The Russians are in fact safely hidden well out of sight. When Russian soldier does arrive at the Ukrainian’s frontline, usually unseen, they ride in armored vehicles well protected from Ukrainian artillery, if there is any left. The sad reality is most Ukrainians soldiers die without ever seeing a single Russia soldier.
As you can see this war, as is currently being fought, is very one sided.
Now imagine if Russia was to move away from the current small tightly controlled local battles and begin big arrow movements with large numbers of armor and troops. The Ukrainians would now be able to inflict very heavy losses using missiles due to openings/gaps in Russian air defenses. So this is not likely to happen. The Russians do care about the number of soldiers they lose, while the US doesn’t care how many Ukrainians die, only how many Russians die.
Going back to territories Russia has given back. In every case the advancing Ukrainians paid a very heavy price, while rarely ever seeing a Russian soldier. In each case the Russians retreated in good order to a more defendable position, often a river, while their artillery did the fighting. The Russians could see the Ukrainians but the Ukrainians couldn’t see the Russians. One hell of a way to fight a war!
Did the Russian ever do big arrow movements in the Ukrainian war? Yes, in the very first 2 to 3 weeks of the war! Do you remember what happened? Yes, the Russians suffered heavy casualties of between 1 and 2 thousand a week! Did they gain a lot of territory? Yes about 20% of the Ukraine, recovering mostly Russian speaking areas. After this the Russians quickly reverted into the current more defensive/offensive posture, while continuing to grind down both NATO and the Ukrainian army.
Obviously for Russia the early big arrow moves were a calculated risk, deemed necessary to take, in order to set up and dictate the current grinding operations.
In today’s battlefield, it is very dangerous to do big arrow operations as you leave yourself wide open to disaster from even a remote enemy.
Remember, the key to military success is: Do not march on Moscow! Repeat this three times!
Lack of Big Arrow Movements in Ukraine:
McGregor and Ritter always seem to be pushing that the Russians are about to launch big arrow movements in the Ukraine, any day now. What they are forgetting is the new reality of both sides having 24/7 visual survalence of the entire battlefield. That means it is nearly impossible to hide any movements. That is why there will be no big arrow movements until the time is ripe, which isn’t likely to ever happen.
The top Russian general knows this and is fighting accordingly. However he has been constantly condemned for his lack of battlefield success and for giving up gained territories too easily. His critics are still fighting the previous war, just like all the WW1 generals did with the introduction of the machine gun. They only learned after they had run out of fresh “over the wall” cannon fodder.
So how do you fight when you can not hide what your are doing from the enemy? You look at areas where you have an advantage. Where does Russia have an advantage? Ground base air defense systems, such as S-300, S-400, and S-500 missiles. These have proven to be able to shoot down all airplanes, big drones, and better than 50% of all enemy missile warheads, like the US Himars.
So Russia dominates the air above the battlefield, able to deny the enemy the use of the air space directly over the battlefield area and the contact lines. (I am using “contact line” rather than “frontlines” for a reason.) Often there is no dual frontlines like in WW1. The Ukrainians often have a frontline but the Russians rarely do.
The Russians, with an air defensive dome over the battlefield, keep their mobile troops well back from Ukrainian frontlines and out of the enemy’s artillery range. The Russians use their air domination to use tethered drones, attack drones, helicopters, and airplanes to watch the battlefield 24/7.
The Russians have fast real time data on any battlefield movements, not subjected to electronic jamming or the enemy eavesdropping. A single moving Ukrainian soldier can be cancelled in just seconds to minutes. The Ukrainians have to rely mostly on US satellites, which adds complexity and time delays, before they can react. Whenever, the Ukrainians launch a big drone, it usually only makes one brief flight.
In terms of war economics, Russia can use mostly artillery shells, but the Ukrainians have to use expensive missiles, hoping the missile isn’t shot down, to try and stop Russian mobile armor on the battlefield. Ukrainians have artillery but are limited in what they can shoot at without being able to see their target directly.
Another big difference in artillery is the Ukrainians have little mobile artillery while all Russian artillery is mobile. Russian artillery moves quickly after firing making it very hard for the Ukrainians to hit them. Ever wonder why Russia is using more old T-62 tanks? They are just using them as mobile artillery!
I think my tablet is about to crash so I will post before I lose what I have written so far.
Farming with solar panels:
Yes, you could buy a whole bunch of short life Chinese solar panels to farm.
But if I had any choice in how to farm, I would rather farm using solar powered farmers, cows, horses, donkeys, goats, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, etc. All of these are powered by sun’s stored solar energy. All of these use stored solar energy to continue to work on cloudy days, cold wintery days, rainy days, during night time, when there is little or no solar energy available.
Not only that, these solar powered things can reproduce themselves, giving them nearly unlimited self life that never wears out, unlike solar panels which don’t produce enough energy to replace themselves when they wear out. Besides it would piss off big brother, to no end, as we would become more independent, not more dependent!
If this solar powered farming sounds like what our ancestors used, it just proves we are not as smart as we think we are. Our ancestors were using much more efficient living solar panels, than the artifical solar panels we are using today. In our woke world, this is considered to be progress!
On Moon of Alabama I saw a comment saying notices had been put up on houses in Bakhmut saying if there was anything of value for the home owner to remove these items, as the house was going to be burned to provide a smoke screen for withdrawing Ukrainian troops.
What surer sign does one need?
Dr. John Day:
You are a man of amazing talents!
Maybe the reason I noticed your unusual kitchen set up is because my kitchen is my office! When I retired over 20 years ago, my Wife retired from the kitchen and in self defense I had to take over not only the cooking but also the food buying.
My wife is terrible at shopping and has no idea of value. This is what forced me to take over the food buying. Also I am much bigger on keeping fruits on everybody’s daily menu to ward off survey! My kids never asked their mother for something to eat. That question is always directed my way! Even my Wife asks what there is to eat!
I write this while busy boiling a big pot of maple sap!
Churchill the Hippocrit
Guess who cut inter war military spending? Yes, Churchill.
Guess who corrected Churchill’s military cuts? Yes, the man who Churchill replaced!
See a pattern?
Only 2 Economic Senarios?
1. Print money and lower interest rates, or
2. Raise interest rates and tighten money supply.Hate break it to you but there is a third option.
3. Only raise interest rates to half the inflation rate and only half tighten money supply.
This is the Fed’s current path.
Today I drilled and installed 3 taps in the sugar maple tree in my backyard. I am thinking of maybe adding a 4th tap. I probably should have done this back in early February, as I may have already missed a week of sap. We will see.
Last year I had 3 taps and after boiling down about 30 litres of maple sap, end up with about 2/3rds of a litre for my efforts!
For me, it gives me something to do and pleasantly pass the time while I wait in my cave for spring and cottage season to arrive. In Canada, maple syrup is the first crop of the year.
AFKTT:
Thanks for reviewing the comments by zzz111.
When I read zzz111’s comments, I thought they made sense but since biology isn’t my strength, I needed second opinions to be sure. These comments were sure out of place at a ZH article on central bank digital currencies. But I will take a germ of knowledge where ever I can find it!
I wonder what Dr. John Day, Dr. Rich, Doc Robinson, and others, think about it?
Oroboros:
Your on a roll tonight! A day or so ago I mentioned that locating Skylink routers shouldn’t be too hard since they are constantly sending/receiving data. Well I spoke none too soon! The Russians are targeting the routers!
Now the Russians are teaching their drones to swim! Must have had another drone take a selfie!
Whew! I think I have just succeeded in my first copy and paste operation times 2 inspire of my tablet repeatedly crashing! Nothing good is ever easy!
I don’t know if zzz111 knows his stuff or not but his comments seem to be a decidedly cut above the average ZH zealot! And this ZH article was supposedly about CBDCs!
Maybe others can review it for accuracy or punch holes in it.
Copied from zzz111 commenting on ZH. This comment was made before above comment.
The mRNA is released into the cell cytoplasm where it goes into a ribosome and through translation of the mRNA codons produces the spike protein. The cell does not need the spike protein so it will lyse it in lysosomes, except the problem might be in many cells that there is too much spike protein, a foreign protein, that is not only not needed and is actually detrimental. The cell is infected with spike proteins, so MHC Class I molecules take pieces of partly lysed spike protein up to the external cell surface and present then to CTL cells which detect the foreign spike protein pices and determine that the cell is infected and must be lysed so CTLs punch holes into the infected cells with perforin proteins and release granzymes which go through the perforin holes and cause apoptosis, and the infected cell is lysed and disintegrates. All the cellular debris now needs to be cleared up from the tissue so other immune cells release cytokines, inflammation is created in the damaged tissue and macrophages move in and eat up the cellular debris. The macrophages may get infected my unlysed spike proteins also. Immune system cells may get infected by the mRNA spike protein also. For many sell types it’s not that crucial because the infected cells get lysed and stem cells produce more cells, but for heart muscle and neurons it’s devastating because no new cells are produced or it may take many years to produce a small fraction of the cells needed. So people get myocarditis and nervous system symptoms.
Another problem with these injections is that the mRNA production is uncontrolled with respect to time and cellular type. To solve the time problem, the injection could have additionally a protein it with the half life of maybe a few days or a few weeks at most. Let’s say this protein is biotin, and the mRNA is bound to avidin. Since the mRNA is bound to avidin, it can’t go in the ribosome and no spike protein translation takes place but once biotin binds to the avidin-mRNA complex, a conformational change happens and the mRNA is released from the avidin and its codon get translated by the ribosome and spike protein is produced.
The problem with cellular types where spike protein is produced may also be solved. Normal cells are not endocrine cells so they should not be used for spike protein production. If it is a trans-membrane protein, the spike protein could signal the immune system of its presence but the cell will need to be lysed because it is infected, so myocarditis and CNS ANS..nervous system symptoms. A better way to have the immune system produce an immune response to the spike protein us to have it produced by only endocrine cells. Non-endocrine cells don’t know what to do with the spike protein but endocrine cell can get rid of it by releasing it into the interstitial fluid, extracellular fluid, lymphatic system, circulatory system. You could have a mechanism where the mRNA is bound to a protein and it unbinds only in an endocrine system cell where a particular endogenous endocrine cell protein binds to the mRNA protein an subsequently the free mRNA is released into the cytoplasm and the ribosomes translate it into spike protein. I wouldn’t pick the beta endocrine cells in the isles of Langerhan in the pancreas, but the adrenal glands exocrine cells may not be as bad.
An easier solution is to have no mRNA injections. Conventional injection with small pieces of the spike protein would stimulate the immune system without all of the problems of the mRNA injections. An even better solution is to have no injections at all. The antibodies produced from injections are probably worse than no good because pathogens mutate and then you are stuck with ineffective antibodies production and no effective or little ab production from immune system detection of actual pathogens. The reliance on antibodies may be misguided. ABs may be effective only in clearing debris after cell lysing such as in myocarditis. AB production takes two weeks to start. The adaptive immune system is kind of late and that is what it may be there for, clearing the infection that the innate immune system has already beaten. The complement system and NK cells function right away and if they are successful there may not be even be a need for ab production.
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Copied from zzz111 commenting in ZH. Thought it might be of some interest? I will try to copy an earlier comment by zzz111 but my tablet keeps crashing!
I”m writing this because I realize that no one else seems to understand it. Someone asked JM why athletes have more problems and she answered that it’s because they use more oxygen. (The graphene oxide researcher said that the graphene moves faster through the bloodstream and t slices the endothelial cells.) Athletes use more oxygen but that doesn’t quite explain it. To me it has been obvious it’s because of more ribosomes. Bodybuilders have a lot of ribosomes because they produce a lot of proteins, so the injected mRNA will more easily find a ribosome and get translated into spike protein. Aerobic athletes also use their muscles a lot and have more muscle breakdown, muscle regeneration, and more ribosomes on the endoplasmic reticulum. So mRNA injected people, it’s probably healthier for them to exercise less or not at all.
On ZH the Ukrainians are supposedly upset about Musk’s Skylink not allowing them to use Skylink for controlling their attack drones. Sometimes such headlines can be a little misleading to say the least.
First, there would be good reasons for Skylink to limit Skylink coverage to inside the Ukraine, while excluding coverage in Russian controlled areas. That means an Ukrainian drone operating over Russian controlled territory would likely lose some access to Skylink. Likely the drones can send but not receive data.
Second, I suspect Russia is able to accurately locate any Skylink routers in the Ukraine, as these routers routinely send and receive internet signals. So a given Skylink router could potentially be targeted by jamming or with a loud bang.
As far as I know Russia hasn’t targeted Skylink at all. I wouldn’t be surprised if Skylink is ironically a big help to Russia.
I often read how the war in the Ukraine is just a repeat of WW1’s trench warfare. It is and it isn’t.
For the Ukrainians, it is WW1 style static trench/bunker warfare, now that they have lost most of their mobile armor and are no longer a mobile army and mostly fight on Shank’s Mare.
For Russia, however, they are still a 100% mobile army, even if they build some defensive trenches and bunkers. Most of the Russian soldiers are not sitting in frontline trenches and bunkers, waiting to be shelled like the Ukrainians are. Instead Russian soldiers stay out of the reach of Ukrainian artillery and ride up to the front in armor protected vehicles, largely protected from Ukrainian artillery (mostly destroyed beforehand).
Russian soldiers are also being rotated out every 3 or 4 months, while the Ukrainian soldiers are not being rotated out until most of a unit’s soldiers are dead or wounded, and the unit needs to be refreshed. I am convinced most Ukrainian soldiers never actually see any Russian soldiers, before they die or get wounded. What a way to fight a war. A one-sided turkey shoot.
One thing I keep looking for is evidence of the long term impacts the covid vaccines are having on the vaccinated.
Are the negative health trends for the vaccinated;
1. improving over time?
2. staying about the same?
3. getting worse over time?So far, would I be correct in saying that in the short term things appear to be getting worse for the vaccinated.
But in the longer term, we still don’t know yet if things will get better or worse?What do other TAEs think is happening?
Certainly the US can’t be too concerned about increased fossil fuel usage.
Obviously there must be plenty of oil around to be able to afford the luxury of making needed fuel production even more costly and energy inefficient.
Clearly there is no limit to the amount of energy used, if it is used to stay in power.Greco:
I have a sneaky suspicion that the real reason Vermeer was forced to do all of his painting in just one room of his house, was because his good wife!
The reasons for this suspicions lies in the nature of a good wife. You know like the never ending demands to take your outdoor shoes/boots off before walking into the house!
No, you can’t paint in the kitchen! No, you can’t paint in the living room either! You are always spilling your paint on the floor! Keep your mess in one place! No, the entire house isn’t your painting studio! Look, you just spilled paint on the kitchen table! How many times have I told you, no painting in the house! The paint stinks up the house! Now look what you have just done! Got paint all over the living room furniture! How could you be so careless! How many times have I told you!
Naturally she never got credit!
Dr. D:
Just more sofiscated deep state propaganda!
Just do the mirror effect.
Replace Russia with the US.
Replace Putin with the deep state.
Replace war in Ukraine with the war on covid vaccine misinformation.Re-read!
We are accusing the enemy of what we are doing!
Last night my Wife informed me that an elderly 84 or 85 year old aunt, suffering from Parkinson, living in Vancouver B.C. will have a medically assisted death (called MAIDS in Canada – a so innocently nice sounding name isn’t it?) on February 28th. (I suspect if she was vaxxed, that this could have speeded up her illness’ down hill progression.)
I have rather mixed feelings about all of this.
I watched both my Mother and Father slowly and painfully die of cancer long before MAIDS was an option.
So I can see that at a certain point, life is no longer worth living, due to the extreme level of suffering.
So, MAIDs could be appropriate.My observation is too often MAIDS is being performed rather too quickly, with little checks and balances.
This seems to be a feature not a bug.
A person goes into the hospital, with a none life threatening illness, then a day or two later the family finds out, too late, that the person was MAIDed.
Sadly, Canadian veterans are routinely offered MAIDS as a solution to their on going illnesses.
I believe the doctor’s fee for performing MAIDS is about $1,400 to $1,500.
Some Canadian doctors have performed over 300 and 400 such MAIDS, so it is very lucrative.Trudeau is now planning on offering this service to the mentally ill.
Only the patient’s signature is required and no public notice is required to be made to next of kin.
Basically there seems to be few external checks, or second opinions, before performing MAIDs.
Legalized murder.
To meet the needs of both dying people but mainly the state’s Death Panel’s need to kill off undesirables.I see in Bukhmut, the Russians are following Sun Tsu’s strategy by allowing the Ukrainians a retreat exit by Shank’s Mare.
After buying a US Himar rocket from the Ukrainians, the Russians have updated their S-300, S-400, and S-500 air defense missile software so these US missiles are now routinely shot down just like all the other Ukrainian missiles. Before the software upgrade, the Russians dispursed and camouflaged all of their ammunition depots.
Looks like total US government and private liabilities now exceed total assets. Could defaults be far behind? The Great Reset?
DR. John Day – A new Medical business opportunity in the Ukraine!
Desparate Ukrainian summoned draft age male, visiting his Doctor. “I have just been summoned!”
Doctor: “I can fix your draft summons, for a fee!”
Desparate Ukrainian. “How can a fee fix it?
Doctor. “Simple, I break your arm, then fix you up!”
Relieved Ukrainian. “Yes, that will work! But only for a few months.”
Doctor. “I can fix that too, for another fee!”
Desparate Ukrainian. “How?”
Doctor. “I will simply break your other arm!”
Relieved Ukrainian. “Yes, that will work!”
