Twitter Account Mocks Liberal Academia
In my travels around the interwebs, I came across an article about something called @real_peerreview, a twitter account that mocks those Pillars of Academia, abstract liberal research papers and PhD dissertations: mentioned are feminist glaciology, the racism of Pilates, and a paper, “‘Wow, that bitch is crazy!’ Exploring Gendered Performances in Leisure Spaces Surrounding Reality Television.”
No, really. Here’s the link:
So, I went to https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview to see for myself.
Oh. My. God. There on my screen was a Nicole Land’s “Fatty Muscles and Muscular Fats: Relating With and Interrogating Fat(s) in Early Childhood Education.” And a copy of the abstract, which you will thank me for not posting.
The point of all this is, is the mocking of these paragons of higher learning ‘s tax funded drivel by anonymous peers, who review and make pointed and hilarious commentary. Of course, the lefties take all this good-natured ribbing like adults and, who am I kidding? They’re screaming to hack the account and shut it down, and because of the very real backlash the “peers” who are themselves students and professors, must remain unnamed.
Guess Will Buckley’s “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” holds true still.
I mean, “Glaciers, gender, and science” by University of Oregon’s professor Mark Carey, found that “ice is not just ice” and called on scientists to take a “feminist political ecology and feminist postcolonial approach” whatever that is, but it brought in nearly $500,000. Our tax dollars at work.
I also read the fine folks at Kyoto University are in the process of cloning a Woolley Mammoth. I hope they keep it in Japan.
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You can’t make this stuff up.
I think I will try and get a million dollar grant from the government to study the sex life on a one legged Etheopian Aardvark and it’s interrelationship with the three legged Kenyan anteater during the monsoon season compared to the drought of the Indian high country? What do you guys think? Is that good enough for Lars to approve my PHD?
Maybe it’s time for me to apply for a grant to study say, mating habits and habitat of the Three-Toed Farting Cockroach OR to search for mutant fish which would have me being paid to go fishing every day, I think about $200,000 would be good seed money for that study!
Go big, API. $2,000,000. They’ll take you serious if you go big.
I waded through a run-on sentence in one of those proposals.
It is enlightening to know that pretentious gobbledygook, including inappropriately-placed and/or used vocabulary, coupled with bad grammar, a poor sense of punctuation, and a need to be obscure can persuade academia to throw cash at a pseudo-intellectual twit whose only goals in life are 1)-to sponge off the system and 2)-to not pay taxes – EVER.
It also explains the purposeless existence of slackers like Lars the Piuperdink a/k/a the Commissar.
How’s that for a grant proposal???
I am not where near the level of someone that would approve or disapprove of a PhD.
Well! Thank God for small favors!
Judging by your atrocious misuse of the English language, we’re eternally grateful for this small mercy.
“(N)ot where near”? Are you fucking serious?
Zampolit,
Sometimes, when I read something like the above, I have to wonder if you had your sense of humor surgically removed.
How about “I was going to ask you to defend your dissertation, but the crayon was too badly smudged to read.”
Or, “Before we get to defense of dissertation, you have to write it in such a way that my grad student slave minions do not die of apoplexy reading it. It should induce sleep, not seizures.”
Even “Yup, you Piled that shit High and Deep” would be a decent effort.
See?
GREAT idea! However, be sure to ask for $1.4M so the government grant committee can feel good about negotiating you down to only $1M.
My wife and I are toying with the arts endowment approach. I will tune a piano in quarter tones, and then perform in a tux sans pants, banging on the piano and screaming “I am music!” She will wrap herself in cellophane, drape herself over the piano and simultaneously scream “I am art!”. Afterwards we can lecture on the pointless patriarchy that actively sabotages post-colonial and post-war feminism.
Waddaya think?
Don’t forget you charge admission.
Sounds like a great way to make money, see the country touring and dupe the masses all in one fell swoop.
(only mildly joking, this could actually work)
I think somebody was in town with that same approach already. Use colored cellophane with those little lights inside for variation and that idea may fly again.
Let’s see it, first.
Anti-intellectualism is funny.
If it is any consolation the US reputation is trashed at this point. “American” is now highly correlated with “moron” in the perceptions of the rest of the world.
And out racist anti-immigrant sentiment is causing many top foreign graduate students, talented researchers and top scientists to leave the US, stop applying to our programs, or turn down offers at out institutions. A top university recently just put out a call for assistance to peer schools internationally because they have as many as 300 graduate students that want to transfer to Canada, the UK, and Australia to complete their degrees.
These are top minds that would have graduated, become US residents and eventually citizens, and would have worked for out research institutions, and corporations.
We were already seeing that reversal in positive advantage we had in the international brain/top minds market due to the massive increases in tuition as universities were given less in public funding in the US causing more American students to travel overseas for their studies. These empty seats at US universities were filled by foreign students who paid more in tuition and fees. Which was good for the university and roughly even for our economic competitive advantage as long as foreign students kept coming here.
Already is some key fields we have a brain drain in that we are losing more top minds than we are gaining. Robotics for instance. Biochemistry. Molecular biology.
We are also already seeing it in foreign relations, economics, and diplomacy.
The fact that the US was historically able to attract the best minds in the world to our universities has given the US a massive competitive advantage in both the economy and international security over the last 50 years.
Now, due to the idiocy of right wing politics we are losing that advantage.
You are way too easy, Lars.
It was clear “Lars” bait.
Just doing my part.
Oh, and thanks for only using my first name.
It is a decent thing to do.
TL;DR.
Amazing how so-called “intellectuals” are in graves so soon after the revolution they call for.
If you are talking about “leftist” revolutions you are absolutely right.
As soon as they get their revolution the new system becomes the new institutional reality and attracts conservatives and authoritarian personalities that want to “preserve” the new status quo and establish social stability and public safety/security. This empowers any authoritarians in the movement and gives them a huge advantage in the post-revolution power struggles.
They immediately turn on the disruptive and idealistic leftists and kill them or imprison them to solidify the power of the new authoritarian structures.
There just might be a connection in there somewhere that you have missed Lars. Give it a good hard think and get back to us.
That’s interesting, Lars. My Father-In-Law is both conservative and “intellectual.” He was a teacher by profession. He wasn’t “attracted” to the leftist revolution in his homeland; being an educated man, he knew enough of history to have a pretty good idea of what the commies (whom you say shouldn’t be feared) would do if they took over, based on what happened in every other communist takeover worldwide. He chose to fight the bastards. He had been trained by US advisers a few years prior, when he’d fought against NVA and VC activity in Cambodia. It didn’t end well, as the Khmer Rouge had the support of the North Vietnamese, Red China, and the Soviets. His side had nobody, as South Vietnam was a memory, Thailand was busy dealing with its own communist insurgency, and the United States had withdrawn its support for anyone in southeast Asia. Once the Khmer Rouge declared victory, they rounded people up, my in-laws among them. My Father-In-Law was declared an “enemy of the people,” not because he had fought against them, but because his father was ethnically Chinese, he was fluent and literate in both Khmer and French, and–worst of all–he was engaged in the unspeakable treason of teaching others to read and write as well. He was starved, beaten, and brutalized. His parents were shot. My Mother-in-Law was beaten and gang-raped by Khmer Rouge “freedom fighters,” and sometimes they made him watch while they did it. He was forced to watch when they shot his young son. This wasn’t the work of “conservative authoritarians” who came late to the party after the commies won. It was the very same shitbirds who’d been with Pol Pot (may he be assraped in Hell) from the start. OG commies, if you will. Eventually, my Father-in-Law was blessed with an opportunity: an AK, spare mags, canteen, and food were available, courtesy of a Khmer Rouge asshole who suddenly found himself too dead to need them anymore. He liberated those items, got his wife out, and they made their way to the Thai border, where my wife and her… Read more »
You might want to check back here tomorrow AM, TOW. (smile)
Once again, I am not a communist. And I am not sure why you think what you said addresses what I said
Lars T., comments like that make me think you’re at least fifteen times denser than Uranium!
That’s because you’re an idiot, Lars. You claimed that communist revolutionaries are not the ones behind the repressive atrocities that inevitably follow their revolutions. This claim is false. I related the testimony of people who have experienced such a revolution firsthand (which you haven’t) that repudiates your claim. How many more dots must I connect for you, dickhead?
By the way, communist subversives have a long tradition of denying being communists. Of course, you only think you’re smart enough to be such a domestic threat.
I am so damn tired of you constantly trying to frame the argument as me defending communism. I am not a communist. I do not support communism. I do not think communism works in theory or in practice. However, you constantly equivocate and often conflate “liberal” with communist. And “leftist” with “liberal” and thus sweeping me into the tiny mental box you have labeled as communist and make me argue from that box. It is annoying and fucking tedious, As for the comment about what happens too often after revolutions I was talking about internal power dynamics that occur in violent power vacuums. And I was talking about the immediate socio-political preferences that tend to win out. “Communist” movements are not actually full of liberals (despite the fact that you cannot tell the difference between a liberal and a “leftist”. Liberals tend to believe in freedom for individuals and political empowerment of the individual. SO when a regime is too traditionally conservative, has too much power in too few hands, has too much wealth in too few hands, and has rigid caste or class structures the “liberals” tend to support challenges to that regime. In the early 20th century those challenges often came in the form of “communist” movements. So liberals tended to ally with the communists because in its purist ideological form “communism” is all about egalitarian notions of empowering the public to throw of their shackles and free themselves of the exploitive power structure. And replace the with egalitarian cooperation and no government whatsoever. Communism in theory has NO GOVERNMENT. In practice it is quite the opposite. So this mix of communist egalitarian ideology, and classical liberal notions of freeing and empowering the individual would blend together as a “leftist” challenge to the current regimes. However, the violence of the process and the power vacuum it leaves behind is socially devastating. . And conservative leaning people are still essentially half the population. And they want peace, they want law and order, and they want a return to stability. So while they band behind whatever leaders in the movement… Read more »
What’s wrong, Taylor? Did I strike a nerve? Hit a little too close to home? Or is it that you just can’t stand the thought that you could possibly be wrong, or that someone else might possibly know more about something than you?
I didn’t twist or conflate a damned thing, Lars. You made a bullshit claim. I refuted it. You bitch and moan. You repeat this same pattern with damn near everyone else on the blog.
I’m fine with people disagreeing with me. You may note that I haven’t once told LC to fuck himself, and I agree with him on practically nothing, except possibly the color of the sky. I am also perfectly okay with the reality that some people (not you) are much, much smarter than me, and some of them are even liberals. I have a problem with arrogant dipshits who think they’re better and smarter than everyone else, hence my utter disdain for you, Commissar.
Remember that there was a time when I was willing to give you credit for your rare good point. You repaid that courtesy on multiple occasions with asshole rants. I therefore treat you accordingly. You can look up those past threads, but it would threaten your ongoing self-deception.
Lars regularly makes accusations that those who oppose him are arguing in bad faith. He occasionally makes valid points, but since he regularly shrieks the usual lefty “debating” points at us (Racist! Sexist! Xenophobe!), he is treated with the same contempt that we reserve for the usual run of the mill lefty blatherer. He learns nothing from any of this because he lacks any semblance of humility, which is revealing.
And Lars, if you don’t like it here, nobody’s holding you hostage. I’m sure you can find a nice, safe echo chamber over at DU.
Nobody’s conflating or dissembling or misrepresenting your words. On the contrary, we are addressing them directly. It’s your own fault that you post dumbass shit.
I still do not know what the hell DU is.
Here’s a clue. It ain’t Ducks Unlimited. Next clue. Check back here on nearly any Tuesday. Claymore will help you find your way home.
“I am so damn tired of you constantly trying to frame the argument as me defending communism”
Then stop defending communism.
I don’t. Though I do try to make distinctions between communist theory and what we have seen be labeled as “communist” in both historical context and in conversation.
I agree that the word “communism” has lost its original meaning in modern conversation however, like any other bacterium it adapts to the times. The basic tenet being that individual freedom and liberty are a threat to the party. Just look at how the Democrats have evolved over the last few decades.
Bacterium indeed.
Continue to make those distinctions. Keep the subject front and center.
More speech is good.
So, by your logic Stalin was not a Communist. After all, he’s the one who took over from Lenin/Trotsky/Bukharin after the Bolshevik Revolution.
Yeah, right. And I’m the freaking King of Siam, too.
You really do have a problem with perceiving reality, Poodle. They brainwashed you thoroughly and well at UC-B.
No, my post said he was an authoritarian personality. I said nothing about whether he is a communist.
And he actually was not a communist if you are talking about whether he advocated for what communist theory proposed.. That is why the Stalin system is called “Stalinism”. It is so divergent from communism that it needed its own name.
And it was highly influenced by the fact that he was a ruthless, power hungry, authoritarian personality, a sociopath, and malignant narcissist.
“ruthless, power hungry, authoritarian personality, a sociopath, and malignant narcissist”
And none of those traits are seen in a communist. /s
TL;DR, Lars.
Methinks you doth protest too much.
You don’t understand; Lars lives in a parallel universe (in his mind, anyway) where all the shit he pontificates on really happened or is “truthy.” Like one on my perfessors once said, “don’t waste your energy trying to reason with a zealot, they believe what they believe, irrespective of all contrary evidence.
And my thanks to your Father in Law for telling his story so that the rest of the world understands exactly who those people really are…
And to think that poodledick thinks that they can do no wrong…
Remember, Lars is not (according to him, anyway) a commie. He’s just a commie groupie.
Technically the fact that you accept I am not a communist is progress.
Yeah, and all the commies back in the ’50s and ’60s swore they weren’t commies either.
Amazingly enough Real Peer Review never seems to mention molecular biology or biochemistry. But then admitting that academia’s clown quarter is almost entirely the preserve of the deranged left is just a bridge too far for Lars , might lead to introspection-can’t have that.
That depends what journal you’re reading. A journal such as Nature or the NEJM are chock full of molecular biology, biochem, genetics, immunology, etc.
Yes-but the twitter feed “Real Peer Review”-mentioned above-never mentions the hard sciences (which was what I was driving at). There are probably plenty of academic journals that might be described as “leftish” which deal with the hard sciences, but the science is almost always solid-which can’t be said of those featured by Real Peer Review.
P. S. I had previously known about RPR from David Thompson’s great blog, which focuses on hilarious leftist stupidity davidthompson.typepad.com
Yeah, well, what you’re missing, LARS, is that those top minds have been coming here to study at OUR schools because OUR STEM programs were far better than theirs.
Unfortunately, those ‘top minds’ are smart enough to know that they can take all that STEM education BACK HOME WITH THEM and have jobs waiting for them instead of trying to get jobs here.
They ONLY come here for the education programs and NOTHING ELSE. They take up seats that could have gone to American students. They DO NOT STAY HERE.
That’s the point you missed in your response, mostly because you pay little to no attention to most of the material that you read. Details are hard to understand, aren’t they?
Americans are not “anti-intellecutal”, Poodle. They are anti pseudo-intellectual – e.g., they are disgusted by those trying to pass off BS as legitimate scientific research.
You purportedly attended UC-B. Assuming that is true, that means you are at a disadvantage in discerning the difference between the two – because many departments at UC-B produce a plethora of pseudo-intellectual crap purporting to be legitimate research, but produce little in the way of actual, useful research.
Further, your own prior statements in support of some of the pseudo-intellectual BS quoted above make it clear you cannot discern the difference between sh!t and Shinola, intellectually- and academically-speaking. So long as it “toes the Progressive party line” and “supports the cause”, you’ll support it – no matter how absurd.
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=64757#comment-2816259
There are tens of thousands of grad students in the country each required to produce some sort of dissertation or thesis paper to graduate. And many are required to produce and publish additional research papers in order to have a chance at securing a job in academia after they graduate.
So with literally 10s of thousands of research papers submitted for peer review there are going to be alot of ones that can be ridiculed.
My response to your post was a response to the MOTIVATION you have of posting it. You choose to target academia with all the things happening in the world, many more directly related to veterans, or national defense. Including a lot of absurdity and squandered public funds.
That motivation to target and ridicule academia and criticize the money spent on it is what I am meaning when I say “anti-intellectualism”.
So the moment we dissent wth far-left dogma we’re suddenly listed as “anti-intellectual” just as fast as we get labeled “racist” for doing the same and backing it up with facts and simple logic, I see it all the time.
Oh! If grad students are required to produce and publish, where are your production and publications, Piuperdink? Nowhere, right? You haven’t done ANYTHING except yap-yap-yap in months.
Nice try. All you do is mock yourself.
First, I am not a grad student. Though I have completed some graduate work and my goal is a graduate degree.
Second, I am not in school.
I was extremely sick since 2012. I was gaslighted and misdiagnosed for years.
I left school in 2015 because I was too sick to continue and I needed to focus on my health.
They finally diagnosed me with a few diseases in 2016 and I am on a treatment and diet regime that I am optimistic about. That regime started in December.
However, they are still running tests and adjusting my meds and treatment.
You can’t even make use of second grade grammar, you sap.
“My” post, Poodle? You might want to check the byline on the article above.
With that kind of reading comprehension “mad skilz”, perhaps I see the real reason why you’re no longer in grad school.
Yeah, I was responding to you, had both blog posts open, and became mixed up about which post I was responding too and where and because the posts were similar in their ridicule of academic research and mistakenly assigned them both to you.
There are several hundred ducks behind D’s Cantina that produce something similar to the dissertations and “research” documented on the site in question. The big difference is that the duck’s product at least keeps the grass green.
Academia does not equal intellectual.
Quite a few so-callled academics are illogical, unthinking idiots.
Mocking idiots is not “anti intellectualism”.
That other study you linked is a good study conducted for good reason.
And the fact that climate change disproportionally effects women is not something I learned at Berkeley.
I learned that in my career in the military. It is DOD information that acknowledged that fact and it is one of the considerations someone who works in international humanitarian/disaster assistance would be expected to know.
That is the most absurd Larsfact to date. What the fuck are you talking about?
It is not absurd. Climate change disproportionally affects people that live in poverty or live at a subsistence living.
Women are the majority of the world’s poor.
The livelihoods of women in the majority of the developing world are more dependent on natural and agricultural resources than men in the same country.
Additionally, when climate change creates scarcity in food, water, and security – women are less likely to be able to acquire them and are much more vulnerable in the destabilized environment caused by the effects of weather disasters due to climate change.
Women also have less mobility than men due to the inherent security vulnerability with being a woman in a destabilized location and because they are far more likely than men to have direct responsibility for children who are themselves vulnerable.
Finally (actually there are a lot more reasons but I will end it with mentioning this one), women are generally shut out of the mechanisms of power and political influence and thus during times of destabilization and scarcity they are less likely to be able to use the structures of power to meet their needs.
Man made climate change is a proven fallacy. Just how many coal fired power plants and SUVs were around to cause the end of the last Ice Age? Astronomers confirmed shrinkage of the Ice Caps on Mars a few years ago and there’s no man made phenomena there to cause it!
Does not fucking matter to the issue being discussed right now.
Man made or not, climate change is happening.
And the whole “man made climate change is a hoax” is nonsensical bullshit. But I do not give a fuck if you believe stupid shit. Have fun with it.
“Man made or not, climate change is happening”
I will go with the “not” but I concur that change is occurring. The universe is ever changing and we are going along with it whether you like it or not. There is nothing man can do about it so stop wasting time on it.
Drill baby drill.
“Drill baby drill.”
Damn right, FREE THE TRAPPED HYDROCARBONS!!!
“Women are the majority of the world’s poor.”
Larsfact.
“Women also have less mobility than men due to the inherent security vulnerability with being a woman in a destabilized location”
Ship them over here, send them through Infantry Training and send them back, problem solved.
I hope one day, we stop making excuses for third world nations who choose to be third world nations.
It reminds me of the commercials about digging wells in Africa that we have all seen for 50 years.
Keep sending charity to third world dumps and what do you get?
More demands for charity. I’m all for giving people a hand up, NOT a perpetual hand out.
Before you bitch about me linking Wikilinks, the sources for the Wiki page are all listed at the bottom with in text citations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminization_of_poverty
The study I discussed in my previous article is an example pure bullsh!t masquerading as scientific research. It purports to concern glaciology, but is in fact a is a Progressive (e.g., Leftist) propaganda piece designed to support “the cause”.
Had it been sold as either a sociology or women’s studies paper, it would have been at least somewhat more honest. It still would have been bullsh!t, but it would have been somewhat more honest bullsh!t.
I am not defending the glacier paper. I am defending the paper on climate change you posted about and linked above.
Though in trying to explain my position I had both windows open and accidentally posted messages in the wrong threads.
And a simple thought experiment will illustrate this issue:
Imagine you live in a developing “third world” society somewhere in the world currently vulnerable to weather disasters…
Flooding has affected the region. Submerging and destroying hundreds of thousands of acres of crops as well as the family food garden. Livestock have either drowned have escaped or are unable to be rescued due to being trapped by rising waters…
The waters threaten you home forcing you to grab what you can put it on your back and flee… just to increase your chances lets imagine you are a healthy young adult…
The nation’s nascent security and public safety infrastructure is overwhelmed and unable to deal with the disaster…
Resources are almost immediately depleted with no immediate hope of being replenished soon. There is literally hundreds of thousands of more displace people than the system can manage and food has become desperately scarce, not merely because of the loss of agricultural production but because the transportation infrastructure has been flooded making it impossible to replenish food supplies…
There are looters and gangs of criminal taking advantage of the situation to steal what they can to provide their needs or in order to profit. They are targeting people who are attempting to travel to safety…
You now have to walk a hundred miles over flooding landscapes to reach a camp set up by the international disaster response efforts…
In this scenario would you rather be a man or a woman?
Now imagine you are a woman… would you honestly say that your chances of survival unharmed are EXACTLY the same as if you were a man?
WTF does that have to do with the current price of Tea in China? HERE YOU GO AGAIN digressing on a thread thinking you’re intellectually impressing somebody but hey *NEWS FLASH* , you’re NOT. Right now you’re really boring the piss out of me with your babble while you set yourself up to once again be a chew toy.
Imagine what, Lars? You can’t even write a cogent sentence, never mind create an organized flow of narrative.
You scribble psychobabble and expect it to be accepted at face value, without question. You want answers to questions that are drivel. You plop in phrases that you scammed from someone else’s work, uncredited, and expect people to just take YOUR word for something.
Try doing your own work instead of scamming ideas from someone else. If your notion of a graduate exercise is to annoy people, you still fail the test. You’re incompetent. You can’t even forma cogent sentence.
You lose. Give it up.
JUST LOOK at the empirical evidence that Lars T. is an over-educated fool with zero common sense or logic. He still seems to think he can dazzle us with brilliance but his bullshit is too transparent to even begin to baffle.
“Imagine you live in a developing “third world” society somewhere in the world currently vulnerable to weather disasters”
I would fucking move.
Zika-Commie, sounds like you are talking about an incident that happened in New Orleans a while back.
So you agree people should have the right to move out of shitty places.
Found some common ground.
Within their own nation, yes. Across national boundaries . . . only with the permission of the receiving nation.
Nations have every right to control their borders. That falls under the heading of “being a nation”.
Hey now, Lars has already admitted that you have confused him on more than one occasion-don’t go confusing him more with such complicated concepts.
“So you agree people should have the right to move out of shitty places.”
Sure. For example, murder rate is too high in Chicago, Illinois., move to Lake in The Hills, Illinois.
‘Brilliance?’ Where? There is none coming from him. He is functionally illiterate, which he proves to us on a recurring basis.
All of that may (or may not) be true. And none of it has any relevance to the topic of glaciology. It may or may not have relevance to the field of sociology, but that’s a different topic altogether.
I dunno CP, Extremes in climate may affect women (and children) more than men…but those extremes tend to be regional and cyclic from what I’ve seen rather than any man-made event.
When a sea dries up over millennia and people live there, is it surprising it will continue to dry up more and get hotter before possibly returning to a previous more temperate or even glacial state?
The extremes in climate cycles have been shown to come at the end or beginning of each cycle, as an indicator of oncoming change. This cycle started in 2006 and is going to last until at least 2056, possibly a little longer, but it is the flip side of the coin in weather and we’re seeing some of it now.
Hogwash. You have not cited a valid source, Piuperdink, you dumb lap dog. You throw larsfacts out and expect everyone within hearing distance of your yapping to just suck it up.
Are you even VAGUELY aware of the global increases in precipitations levels in the past 30 months? No, you never come out of your room to see the open sky. Did you know that California’s drought ended about 18 months ago? Or are you just going to hammer that nonsensical nail until it bends?
Just Google “Are women disproportionately affected by climate change?”
And pick a source.
There are literally ZERO counter sources. It is not disputed that woman are disproportionately affected.
Excite by you weirdos.
Here, I googled it for you:
https://www.google.com/?client=safari&channel=mac_bm#channel=mac_bm&q=Are+women+disproportionately+affected+by+climate+change%3F
Ooooh look, Lars T. THINKS he posted something relevant!
NOT disputed? I’m a woman and I do not find myself affected by climate change, other than laughing myself into near spasms over this idiotic need you have to prove that you’re one step ahead of the rest of us, when you are not.
If you learn how to write coherently and posit a valid idea, let us know, willya?
Meantime, I’ve got cookies to make.
How about the idiocy of the education system – they’ve dumbed down things for at least the last 50 years to the point that parents are pissed off that Johnny can’t read and Susie can’t do simple arithmetic.
When the system puts the SJW agenda ahead of readin’, writin’ and ‘rithmatic, you get what’s is happening in the schools of America now.
But, Commissar doesn’t see that from the ivory halls of Bezerkley… I’m guessing he hasn’t stepped into a primary, middle or high school in ages.
I know we need to fix public education. But you would not like what I think we need to do to do it.
It involves treating teachers as genuine professionals by nurturing the same social prestige currently afforded to lawyers, engineers, and MBAs.
So we would have to pay them much better and we should require that all middle school teachers have a bachelor’s in the subject they teach, and high school teachers have at least a masters.
That is in addition to teaching credentials.
We could provide interest-free loans to pursue those degrees tied to contracts to teach.
Newsflash–most English, History, or other liberal arts teachers in HS DO in fact have Masters Degrees, such as my cousin and her husband.
And most STEM teachers don’t. Why? Because most of them are getting paid a shitload more to use their degrees in the private sector, where there’s also a lot less touchy-feely PC bullshit that causes so much turnover in the public school system.
Or we could try breaking the public school monopsony on their labor and allowing the market to reward merit, but I suspect that’s too close to what those icky conservatives favor for Lars’ tastes.
“It involves treating teachers as genuine professionals by nurturing the same social prestige”.
FYI – I volunteer at a local primary school and I see first hand how dysfunctional some of the administrators, teachers and support staff can be – and the unions don’t make matters any better. Throwing money at the problem as it is now won’t fix crap.
How about getting the teacher’s unions out of the schools to start with. Reward the good teachers and get the bad ones out of the schools. And give parents vouchers to get their kids out of the bad schools and into charter schools (which the Donks and teacher’s unions don’t want).
Finally – get the teachers teaching the basics to start with and then expanding as the kids progress in school. And bring back trade schools for kids that DON’T want to go to college.
Ahhhhh…..Dildocrat Backwards Definitions. Apply reverse definitions and NOW it makes sense.
And yes being “anti-immigrant” is RACIST. It has nothing to do with genuine concerns for our economy or our national security. Because being anti-immigrant is NOT supported by the empirical evidence regarding the massively positive impact immigration has on our economy and GDP and it is not immigrants that are presenting a disproportionate danger to US citizens. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-mythical-connection-between-immigrants-and-crime-1436916798
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/01/trump-immigration-ban-terrorism/514361/
Curiously, the only people I have ever known to rant and rave about immigration and immigrants have been lefties. Apparently you and they are threatened by their very existence, hence your insistence upon falsely accusing others of being exactly what you are – bigots. Apparently you have no regard whatever for the good immigrants who continue to come here to contribute positively to this country but demand instead that those who wish us harm be welcomed here in their place.
So what is it that drives you all to do this? Do you need to bloat this country with folks who refuse to obey our laws so that you can continue to feel superior to entire populations? And feel needed by them?
No thank you. Your delusions and mental frailties are neither wanted nor needed by the rest of us – to include the many immigrants who I call my friends.
LARS wants open borders so he can be like the rest if his ilk. He wants to have a few “undocumented aliens” do his laundry, clean his home, mow the lawn, etc…
I remember reading in a book a long time ago about people doing that in the South… I think it was called “slavery”.
False again. I was pointing out the hypocrisy of so many of you claiming to be pro-capitalist and simultaneously arguing that labor should not be allowed to cross borders.
That is decidedly anti-capitalist.
What I actually advocate for is an auction system (with vetting).
For extremely high skilled people (like top scientists) we recruit them and offer them citizenship and a bonus to move to the US.
Wealthy people who are not in highly critical fields simply compete with each other in an auction market for immigration visas.
A separate market for corporate/work visas. Corporations bid on visas for the ability to hire foreign workers. Each auction market in this category is tied to a specific industry. So if an American corporation want to hire a foreign immigrant rather than an American citizen they are free to do so but must buy a visa in the auction market.
The final auction market it a “humanitarian/diversity visa auction. The bidder CANNOT BE THE IMMIGRANT THEMSELVES. Humanitarian groups and non-profits bid on visas that they can award based on need to immigrants. SO rather than the government merely using a lottery system that does not take into consideration the need of the visa applicant the non-profit community becomes a surrogate to determine need and award visas according to those that are most in need.
Other visa applications; student, family members etc are through a normal process and have a flat fee.
There is a lot to be worked out in the system. But is will be more efficient, generate revenue, and likely be utility maximizing while still controlling the number of immigrants.
And what you are advocating is mostly quite like what we used to do in this country when we all still considered ourselves to be a sovereign nation – except for the auctioning people part.
To simplify: no one who could not offer something of value to us was not admitted. If you didn’t have something we needed to improve our country, you did not get in. Buying your way in just because? Nope.
Infinitely better than what we have now Lars, at the very least you acknowledge that we have to exercise some control over our borders. I suspect that among most of your Berkeley ilk that makes you every bit the racist you accuse the rest of us of being.
Lars T., how about the Disney Wmployees who were TOLD to train their immigrant replacements who hired on for less than them via H1B Visas? How about the rampant crime among the illegal immigrant population? Look at France and Germany who now have rampant crime thanks to the masses of hadjis they allowed in? Admission into the United States IS NOT A RIGHT and we ought to be much pickier as to who we admit. Look at the immigration laws of Canada, Mexico and Australia as examples, if you don’t have a sponsor or means of income once you’re there, it’s SAY-O-NA-RA, they don’t want welfare liabilities and neither should we.
Who exactly are you calling “anti-immigrant,” Lars? My wife is an immigrant and a naturalized citizen.
I’m fine with immigrants. I have a problem with *illegal* immigrants, and with people who would use their immigrant status to enable crimes against the people (native-born and otherwise) of this nation.
BINGO!
The problem is the left & their constant use of the term “immigrant.” They think anyone who claims to be conservative is: a raysis; a misogynist; a nazi; anti-immigrant.
My wife is second generation American. Her great grandparents and grand parents (who were children at the time) came thru Ellis Island.
I’m all for legal immigration when said ‘legal’ immigrants come here to work, restart their lives in a better way, and assimilate.
Illegals, so called refugees and any other name that one can apply to those human leeches that come for a free ride – nope, keep on moving.
“Refugee” is a misused word. My in-laws came here as refugees. They were refugees from a genocidal communist regime that was hell bent on murdering 95% of their own population via starvation, slave labor, and good-old-fashioned Stalinist massacres. They were a married couple with twin baby girls, and my Father-in-Law had a documented history as a soldier in a pro-US local force and could be vetted by both US and reliable allied personnel.
The Syrians are military-age males with zero documentation, numerous cases of daesh bragging about sending sleepers in among them, and even more numerous cases of violent crime by the alleged “refugees” in host countries that have allowed them in. Oh, and there’s no way to vet them, either.
Zampolit,
If your goal is to lampoon your side, you are succeeding beyond words.
For somebody who “rarely sticks around”, you sure do have a lot of posts on this thread.
The world wonders, why can’t you be a man of your word, Commissar?
The day Commissar keeps his word will be the day I buy a shit-ton of lottery tickets.
Rarely =/= Never
Not a man of your word. That figures.
I’m like a few here LARS that want immigrants to get in line, like the rest of them that WANT to come here and do it LEGALLY. If they have a problem with that, like you do, then FUCK THEM!
It is pretty late. However, only rich people can get a visa by applying and “standing in line”. And even for some of them the wait can be as long as 20 years.
If you are poor you have to be selected through the diversity visa lottery system.
Given the low probability in being selected through the diversity lottery the average wait time is approximately 140 years. Meaning it would take 140 years for you to have an approximately 50% chance to have been selected.
So what you are advocating is that we allow all the poor of the planet to migrate here. You are one stupid Mofo who is apparently determined to advocate for the destruction of this country. You might as well join ISIS.
No. Just pointing out that the “get in line” approach does not work as long as the line is not a legitimate option.
And your whole; might as well join ISIS statement is idiotic.
If anything the whole anti-Muslim immigrant narrative in this country is helping ISIS do what it wants most; convince the Muslim world that the US is their enemy.
So we open the doors all the way, like Germany and other countries in Europe have, and deal with the shitstorm of problems they have over there? Wrong answer….
You have been a fucking moron ex-REMF since day one; an I question the competence of anyone who signed off on promoting you to major. Here’s one question you can’t answer: How many millions of the unwashed semi or illiterate people of the third world’s shitholes do we need to let into this country to make you proglodytes happy? And how are we going to pay for them? Because you and your ilk won’t–because you don’t pay taxes since you don’t have JOBS.
Speaking of pseudo-intellectual dishonesty, funny how the word “ILLEGAL” is conveniently omitted there.
But you already knew that, didn’t you?
Lars, this is a different kind of immigrant. These are ones from childhood are traught that theirs is the only true religon. That they are traught to conquer the world to have only the true faith in allah. Their teachings tell they can make contracts , lie to the indels(5that us,the USA) and break them when it is in the best interest of Allah.I speaking for myself want them heavily vetted and no military aged Males allowed in,Terps are allowed in. ( I should not post while on pain meds, my spelling goes away) Joe
The vast majority of “anti-immigrant” sentiment I see concerns itself with those “immigrants” who are here illegally. I don’t see very much at all against the immigrants who followed the rules, waited their turn, obeyed the law, etc. It’s the ones who jump over the border and try to hide out that are the focus of the “anti-immigrant” sentiment.
See, it all has to do with obeying the law. Or do you agree, Commissar, that it’s just peachy-keen and dandy that they BROKE THE FUCKING LAW to come into the country?
Again, the vast bulk of the “anti-immigrant” stuff out there that comes from conservatives is centered and focused on those who are ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Not “undocumented,” ILLEGAL. As in they broke the law to get here.
Why, oh why, does the left not deal with that part of the topic?
What a service – a bunch of swamps needing to be drained all listed at one place.
Do want to read a bit about that feminist glacier business, though. Do they have pics? Does it matter if the glacier identifies tomorrow as bisexual? Transsexual?? Could be limit the study to only gender confused glaciers? (Or should that be glaciae?)
I knew a feminist glacier once.
Big fat cold hearted bitch.
Feminist Glacier? Sounds like my ex-wife.
That glacier has a phallic ice formation! This cannot be allowed! GET THE NAPALM!
I had a female dentist once who was cold enough to qualify as a glacier. When I was sitting in her chair awaiting a tooth extraction she handed me two blue pills with a small paper cup of water and told me to take them.
I looked at them and asked what they were to which she replied Viagra. I responded that I had no idea that Viagra had any anesthetic properties. She said,
“It doesn’t but it will give you something to hold on to when I jerk that bad tooth outta there.”
Viagra 100mg is a blue oval pill.
If you cut them into quarters the resulting 25mg quarter looks exactly like a 50mg Losartan cut in half.
Never make the mistake of putting the “quartered” Viagra into the Losartan container.
Just sayin.
what is Losartan supposed to do for you? genuinely curious
It drops your blood pressure. It’s used to treat high blood pressure by preventing blood vessels from narrowing.
Ex-PH2 is correct.
Losartan is also known as Cozaar
While the additional drop in BP due to the Viagra is not of a concern to otherwise healthy men (about 3-4 pts), consider the venue you will be in about an hour after taking what you thought was Losartan.
I’m trying to understand the feminism of glaciers. Ice is frozen water. Glaciers are layer upon layer of compacted snow, piled up over many, many hundreds and thousands of weather cycles. Since the Teutonic frost giants were male, not female, where is the feminist stuff in this?
I’m mystified – not fascinated – by this silly idea. Maybe it has something to do with snake goddesses and Egyptian dung beetles?
He is a historian that studies the history of environmental and climate science.
He was drawing attention to the historic lack of women in sciences by focusing on the science disciplines he studies in their historical context.
He appears to have chosen glaciers because they are symbolically representative of climate science research, everyone understands what a glacier is, but few people ever think about glaciers from a cultural perspective.
So the glaciers were really a vehicle to discuss the impact of having few women studying sciences. He had to pick something.
So, in other words: you’re saying he engaged in “bait-and-switch” tactics and misrepresented his thesis.
I wonder if he did that on the grant applications too?
Here’s an idea for thesis study: Women are underrepresented in the sciences because they refuse to blindly accept the stupidity of the approved political agenda currently being pushed in “science.” Maybe more women will again become scientists when they see some value in becoming scientists.
So a degree in “Expressive Lesbian Dance As It Applies to African Social Constructs” isn’t worth a bucket of warm spit, Lars?
Go figure. Paper or plastic?
Maybe a PhD in Chinese Politics could get someone a job, or could it?
Yes; CIA, DIA, Dept of State, Dept of State INR…
Plus academic postings and positions around the world. Because China is one of the most influential nations in the world and understanding Chinese politics is vital for dealing with China in the international arena.
Think tanks.
I wonder how much market demand there is for someone that never bothered to get an education but can identify all the different types of trains in the world.
I suppose dismissing the value of someone’s interests is only something you do when those interests are academic. If your interest is watching trains that is a perfectly legitimate thing to spend your time mastering right?
You forget that I have Blue Collar Job Skills that allow me to make more money than you do right now, and ditto with a LOT of other degrees to include if I had gotten a Masters in the field I was studying in. A Plumbing or Electrical School Graduate has more income potential than even you do, Lars T.!
I thought I was making good money at my first engineering gig out of college until my tech from the trade school showed me his paycheck.
“Expressive Lesbian Dance”
Do I have to enroll for credit or can I just audit the class as ongoing Adult Education professor?
I found the ‘fat sex’ research peculiar. Anyone who spends a little time online in search of silly things will find that there a plenty of men who genuinely like large-sized women – the Big Girls. They consider the smaller-sized counterparts to be sexually, very unattractive, and in some cases downright unhealthy. Their basis for these opinions is the Venus fertility totems found by archaeologists in many locations, particularly in Europe, which portray morbidly obese women as being more attractive than skinny women.
The reasoning behind this becomes more fully apparent in the Middle Ages: fat women were more attractive and sought after than thing women. Skinny chicks were frequently found to be infertile.
Lack of food has historically meant lack of fertility, and any modern doctor can tell you that anorexic girls and women whose desire to be skeletal do not menstruate, and therefore do not ovulate.
Any questions? Can I have my grant money now? I need about $50,000 tax-exempt dollars for this study.
Only fifty Gs, Ex? Come on, you should get at least the high six figures for that insight! Hell, throw in a dead baby or two and Lena Dunham will start throwing money at you.
Actually something genuinely interesting about the Venus of Wellendorf and its equivalents – some scholars now believe (begrudgingly in some cases) that they are female-created and self-portraits made in pregnancy. It’s a top-down view.
The greatest resistance to this theory seems to be coming from the fluffy left, oddly, who don’t want to give up their ‘goddess’ ideas about it and claim it’s a plot to alter scholastic thinking to make fat-shaming more acceptable again.
Some of the Venuses have been found in groups with other objects, which makes it possible to speculate that they were mass-produced and sold/traded as fertility objects. None of them are very big, some were produced with a hole in the top, allowing a way to thread something through the hole to hang around the neck.
If you looke at women’s clothing starting from the period of the Henrys (UK/France), the emphasis was on a fleshly appearance. The corset worn by women had a wooden wedge called a busk inserted into the front to push the breasts upward, and the bum roll worn just above the hips made them look wider, therefore appearing more likely to have ease in childbirth. It became exaggerated during the Elizabethan period, with the wagon wheel bumroll and got worse during the late 17th century, on into the 18th century, when women wore panniers and padding on the hips, under wider and wider hoops, to exaggerate the appearance of the pelvis.
I need about $960,000,000 in grant dough to study “Larsfacts, Climate Change in Berkeley Dorm Rooms and Smashed ATM’s PTSD.
I think I’ll need at least a cool 2 1/2 mil to study the use of navigable rivers for family transport, that ought to make for a sustainable year of study while doing so on a Houseboat along with an additional $300K for searching for mutant fish which means I’ll have to spend plenty of time fishing while we’re not underway, make way for the M/V Proud Infidel®™, I’ll be accepting applications for Interns, bring your own see-gars and adult beverages!
I have a hypothesis regarding the possibility that the smell of propellant residue triggers the female sex drive. I’ve tested it on multiple occasions, and I think it’s ready for theory status, but I think it’s possible there could be a purely psychological component as well. Can I score some grant money to continue my studies? Gonna need lots of ammo, range time, and clean sheets!
I was interested in the idea of pursuing a higher degree than my bachelor’s. But the idea of having to deal with ‘gendered thinking’ and all the PC crap has me slow to pursue that idea.
By all their so-called deconstruction of ‘gender’, they spend a lot more time shoving people into labeled boxes than if they left it the hell alone. So sayeth the woman who currently spends a LOT of time wiping bottoms, so recognizes poo when she sees it.
“pursuing a higher degree than my bachelor’s”
I always wanted to go back and get my MSEE but as time went on the courses changed from electrical engineering to “social engineering in the modern transgendered office environment”. That BSEE just ain’t worth shit anymore.
See, that’s the nice part about STEM degrees. Once you get the general education requirements out of the way, there’s a lot less BS in the core courses.
“less BS in the core courses”
My core was mostly power engineering.
Giant motors, generators and other neat stuff geared towards the paper mills and their hydroelectric facilities. No room for gender studies there except maybe the cable connectors. The wackos killed the mills and the electrical, mechanical, chemical and civil engineering jobs died as well.
I have no idea what to tell recent graduates other than good luck with that and don’t rule out the military.
Transmission and distribution systems.
In the last year alone, I’ve been involved with building 2 345/115 kv substations, a shitload of 34.5 kv breaker changeouts, and God knows how many upgrades for relays, RTUs, distribution reclosers, etc.
It’s slow now, in that there’s not much OT, but that’s going to change here quickly, as the last 5 years I’ve averaged about 400-500 hours of OT per year.
Lots of “front end” money to be had on wind farm distribution
systems. A recent one here put big bucks into local pockets but now the only money to be had is on the “back end”.
The money dried up. The owner, Sun Edison is bankrupt and the maintenance has suffered to the point where nine of the fifty four machines are out of service. The ten year contracts for power sales are subsidized so that is now the extent of the “back end” money that will get paid by the federal government as the rotting windmills become monuments to liberal idiocy.
Kudos on the good pay though.
And interesting work at that.
So, no new nukes, huh? Bummer!
Remember when those wind turbines got hit by tornadoes a year or two ago, and burned out their bearings or something? Fell apart while the TV cameras were rolling. I fell down laughing over that.
As much as I’d like to be off the power company’s customer list, I think all these bright ideas are just not thought through completely.
That’s putting it nicely.
I dug into Elon Musk’s slowly growing network of charging stations for the various Tesla models. The 240kwh superchargers can recharge a Model 3 battery in about an hour, maybe less, depending on the charge needed and the cost is a modest +/-$.15/kwh, based on where you are located. Most people don’t have superchargers at home, but the need for these stations will increase if Tesla’s marketing platform works, which means power engineering to accommodate the demand, unless I miss my guess.
Excellent example of the dumbing down of the people.
Burn fossil fuel to produce steam to spin a generator that can deliver power over lossy wires to a distribution network of battery charging stations for vehicles that will use the battery power to drive an electric motor.
Add up the losses from inefficiency and compare it to using freaking gasoline or diesel in the vehicle in the first place. And I’ll bet that 15cents/kwh is subsidized.
Yeah, I know. “climate change”
It’s actually not quite that simple – the larger generators at the distribution sites have a much greater peak efficiency than a small engine.
If your distribution center isn’t using ‘green’ sources of energy, you’re burning hydrocarbons either way, but that inefficiency of spinning the turbine to generate electricity sent over lossy wires can be more efficient than the distribution (by truck) of the fuel and the (less efficient) generation of power via your engine.
I haven’t touched any power engineering stuff in ages, and obviously the opposite is true as well – depending on range, engine type, distribution center efficiency, etc., sometimes the simple way is ultimately more efficient. But the point is, there’s parts of the parameter space where a centralized distribution and electrical charging (even if ultimately from hydrocarbons) is the most efficient option.
When you start to add in the decreasing cost of some ‘green’ types to hit a baseline and use hydrocarbons for on-demand needs, you get more efficient and cost-effective than hydrocarbons alone.
That’s my two cents. No ‘climate change’ politics necessary, just cost and efficiency.
“It’s actually not quite that simple – the larger generators at the distribution sites have a much greater peak efficiency than a small engine”
Yes it is quite that simple. Maximum efficiency occurs at maximum output for any machine, be it electrical, mechanical, or chemical. That is why power plants are designed to run at maximum output 24/7.
Peaking plants are short term and very expensive to run.
The rest of your comment turned into green babble that I cannot address.
I’ll make it simpler:
Combined-cycle power plants can have efficiencies up to ~60%.
Your car’s engine is typically around the 20-30% range.
Distribution (transmission) losses are typically around 6% on average, so a centralized electrical power plant is still more efficient in most cases.
All that and none of the confusing ‘green’ stuff either.
“a centralized electrical power plant is still more efficient in most cases”
Agree, more efficient than a non centralized plant for the sole reason that there are no external losses such as transmission lines and associated HV equipment. It would also have to be sized for the local load and run at max output 24/7.
Anything else won’t withstand simple arithmetic.
Combined cycle is cool for small loads but not practical for large scale operation, yet.
Distribution losses are local. Transmission losses are long distance and primarily a function of voltage.
The more power I can get by cramming more fuel through my truck engine is a function of how much money I want to spend, efficiency be damned.
Well, see, if you don’t stop to think about the power source itself, which IS a generating station, then you’re guilt-free in the whole thing, aren’t you? It wasn’t so long ago that Mother Earth News was promoting the use of methane for vehicles, as well as promoting the use of privately-distilled alcohol for the same purpose. In some states you could, at that time, get a license to distill alcohol for personal use. What the editor of MENews didn’t go into was HOW alcohol and methane are produced. A private still producing alcohol for personal use requires a heat source to cook the mash. MENews recommended burning wood for that. And methane sufficient to fuel a vehicle for constant use requires collecting cattle/hog/poultry droppings and processing them to get the methane extracted. That means that you’d need a hog farm, a cattle ranch and/or a poultry ranch to get enough animal crap to do the job of giving you a sufficient volume to drive your vehicle. And what happens when you leave your own area, and go on a road trip? Ooops!!
Don’t even get me started on the long-term implications of disposing of the stored energy (i.e., battery) systems when they’re no longer viable.
And you thought CFL’s were an environmental nightmare.
You don’t reload do you?
The worst part about all this ‘green’ energy stuff, and those wonderful electronic toys that everyone wants is that mining and refining the rare earth minerals that make them function properly creates an extremely massive, toxic buildup of chemicals That is a future problem being created now.
I’d be interested in doing a long-range study investigating the reasons behind the attempts to deny and destroy the difference between men and women.
There has to be a massive cesspool of fear involved in this denial trip. Freud and Jung could spend hours arguing about it, too.
What’s your field? The ‘gendered thinking’ crap is, regrettably, nearly unavoidable in some fields, but in others its nearly non-existent.
I have a friend who went back to school for a Master’s degree after their deployment, and the disconnect between their experiences and ‘kids’ whose hardest moment in life was getting up for class after partying all night was pretty pronounced. But they still absolutely loved their course, the professors (who were not the parody we often hear here of liberal idiots) and the whole experience.
If it’s just the ‘gendered thinking’ that’s bugging you, put it aside. If you want to talk with some veterans who went back about their experiences in pretty liberal universities, drop me a line and I’ll try to put you in touch with some.
Well this has sure stirred up the “stuff”. Folks in re: mizz Taylor: Ya can’t tell a liberal anything they’ll understand or agree to, so it’s a waste of time. The only benefit is catharsis.
My sentiments exactly.
The first time I was a college student several decades ago, I learned about the ridiculousness of grant-funded theses. A brilliant linguistics professor, the man responsible for my love of the subject, received a grant to study the etymology of the word “fuck”. At that time, it was genuinely shocking to walk into a university classroom and see that word writ large on the board.
Nowadays, so many theses are little more than mental masturbation. It may feel good to the one doing it but makes the rest of us uncomfortable if not repulsed when done in public.