J. Kb

Woke cartography is stupid

 

Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice what can adequately explained with stupidity.

J.Kb’s Razor: Never attribute to bigotry what can adequately explained by other means.

Woke exists to violate J.Kb’s Razor.

The problem isn’t racism, bigotry, or unfairness.

The problem is topology.

The earth is a sphere and you can’t lay a sphere flat.

That is a Mercator projection map.

Every map has advantages and disadvantages, chosen for a reason.

Mercato projections have the advantage of consistent orientation.  Everywhere on the map, north is up, south us down, west is left, and east is right.  Longitude and latitude are at right angles so distances between two points are a straight line.  That is done by sacrificing scale.  Scale changes as latitude changes and it increases further north you go.

The right angle orientation makes it an easy map for novices to use.

It has nothing to do with diminishing Africa or privileging Europe.  It’s a useful projection for maritime navigation.

The Mollweide projection attempts to keep scale but as you can see, longitude cants towards the polls so north is only up at the equator.

 

 

A Goode’s projection attempts to keep scale and orientation, but ends of creating dead spaces.  You can’t draw a line between two points across oceans.

 

It’s a shitty map for navigation.

This dufus’s map attempts to keep orientation like a Mercator but proper scale, so ends up creating huge dead spaces between countries that eliminates relative positions.

There are real reasons of topology and cartography that maps look a certain way, and in none of them was “Africa is full of black people so I’m going to make it smaller to it seems less important” the motivating factor.

If you really want to teach kids about how the earth looks, don’t get a Woke teacher, get a fucking globe.

I, for one, welcome the new Illinois Assault Weapon Ban

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed into law the most restrictive assault weapons bill in existence in the United States.

It is a fucking doozy.

You can read the text here.

It outright bans the manufacture, sale, and transger of a long list of guns by name.  It also eliminates a number of guns by features.  There is no way to build an “Illinois compliant” model the way you can in California.

They did the same for 50 caliber rifles and high capacity magazines: 12 rounds in rifles, 15 rounds in pistols.

If you have one, it’s grandfathered in, but can only be transferred, through an FFL, to a direct heir, or sold out of state, or given to police.

And of course, they exempted law enforcement from

Here is some of the relevant text.

 

This is my favorite little tidbit.

 

You can’t buy, sell, rent, or transfer these types of guns and magazines, but the Hollywood pedophile elite can so they can make action movies in Chicago while lecturing you on gun violence.

This is going to drive Springfield Armory, DS Arms, Rock River Arms, Les Baer, and every other gun maker out of Illinois.

Now I know some if you might wonder why welcome this law.

My answer:

Heller, McDonald, and Bruen.

We’re seeing a number of recent wins in lower courts after New York and New Jersey passed laws specifically to get around Bruen.

This new law spits in the face of Heller, McDonald, and Bruen with its myriad of restrictions.

The lowet courts are going to have a field day with it.

This law is so restrictive that it might be the one that goes to SCOTUS as a challenge against assault weapons bans, finally forcing the Court to make a decision on their constitutionality.

Given Heller, McDonald, and Bruen, I suspect that the court will probably strike down AWBs.

I would love to see nothing more than Illinois’ desire to crush legal gun owners ability to own semiautomatic rifles be the ticket that destroys assault weapon bans.

The courts are seeing through the post-Bruen reaction laws

Last month I covered how New Jersey’s governor made is clear that the purpose of the post-Bruen concealed carry law was to effectively make concealed carry impossible in New Jersey by law abiding citizens.

“What kind of state do we want to be? Do we want to be like Mississippi or Alabama, whose firearm death rates are nearly five times ours, or do we want to remain a state where people can actually be and feel safe?” Murphy said at a bill signing event flanked by gun control advocates in red “Moms Demand Action” shirts. “This law ensures that no matter what Washington might throw at us, we will keep doing everything we can to ensure the safety of our citizens.”

A judge recognized the unconstitutionality of the law and upheld a temporary injunction against it.

Some of the excerpts are great.

I highly recommend that you read the whole thing here.

The state of New Jersey was smacked down hard.

I hope this trend continues where these anti-CCW states are forced to comply with Bruen.

 

And consequently nothing will be done about it

Majority of victims of antisemitic crime in NYC are ultra-Orthodox, Hasidic – report

An estimated 97% of the 194 antisemitic hate crimes documented were carried out by people belonging to other minority groups.

Most antisemitic hate crimes against Jewish people in New York City were targeted at Orthodox or Hasidic Jews and were perpetuated by people from other minority groups, a new report has found.

Overall, 194 cases were recorded in those four years, with 154 being physical assaults and the other 40 verbal. 22% of crimes were committed by teenagers and 23% were committed by a group of two or more people.

An estimated 97% of the 194 hate crimes documented were carried out by people belonging to other minority groups. Furthermore, 94% of victims in antisemitic incidences in those four years were Orthodox or Hasidic Jews, the report stated.

Nothing will be done to stop this.

The identity politics of the Left means that we can’t even acknowledge this as a problem.

The only time the Left will  stand up against antisemitism is when they can use criticism of antisemitism to bash the Right.

This is why I am, and will always be, an advocate for self defense and concealed carry.

You are your own last line of defense, especially if you are Jewish.

He won’t make it 100 days

Louisiana sheriff’s deputy and SWAT commander is sentenced to 100 YEARS in prison after allowing his wife to use his sperm in cake batter for cupcakes that she fed to her students

A former Louisiana sheriff’s deputy and SWAT commander will spend the rest of his life in prison as he was sentenced to 100 years after pleading guilty to slew of sex crimes Tuesday.

One of the 150 horrific crimes saw former Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office Deputy Dennis Perkins, 46, ejaculate sperm into a cake that his teacher wife had made for her students at Westside Junior High School.

His wife, Cynthia, 37, was sentenced to 41 years in prison in February for pleading guilty her role in her husband’s crimes, which also included producing child pornography. As part of her sentencing, Cynthia agreed to testify against her husband.

Perkins entered the plea to one count of second-degree rape, two counts of sexual battery of a child, one count of video voyeurism, two counts of production of child porn involving children under age 13 and one count of mingling of harmful substances.

A former Sheriff convicted for sex crimes against children.  How long do you think he will last in gen pop?

He should take the easy way out because that will be less painful than what other inmates will do you him.