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I used to love Popular Mechanics.  I’ve always been a science junkie and technology junkie and I grew up reading Popular Mechanics the way so many other aspiring engineers did.

I gave up on Popular Mechanics a few years ago, now the only time I really pick it up is when I’m waiting at the barbershop or doctor’s office and my other option is Reader’s Digest.

It was that every other article was about climate change.  I liked the stuff they used to publish like the engineering behind the F-104 or some obscure cool facts about the lunar lander.  That’s no more.

Two days ago Popular Mechanics went full-tilt into the culture wars in the most disgusting way possible.

How to Topple a Statue Using Science
Bring that sucker down without anyone getting hurt.

It hasn’t been a great past few weeks for statues.

From Bristol, England to Birmingham, Alabama, people all over the world have been grappling with the legacy of racism by tossing their grappling hooks around the heads of problematic monuments.

Should you happen to find yourself near a statue that you decide you no longer like, we asked scientists for the best, safest ways to bring it to the ground without anyone getting hurt—except, of course, for the inanimate racist who’s been dead for a century anyway.

Yup, that’s a real article.  Popular Mechanics is now embracing the Two Minute Hate and Memory Hole.

The activist group March For Science promoted that article in a Tweet.

March for Science is a group that states its goals are “To mobilize advocates around the world in support of evidence-based, science-informed public policies.”

I guess those policies now include iconoclasm.

The pinned Tweet for March for Science is the beginning of a thread about how science is racist.

What’s police brutality and racism got to do with science?

Everything.

A #BlackAndSTEM/#ShutDownSTEM/#ShutDownAcademia/#BlackLivesMatter multidisciplinary science megathread. pic.twitter.com/ZcJakmI3xS

— March For Science (@MarchForScience) June 11, 2020

#ShutDownSTEM is one of their hashtags.

#ShutDownSTEM and #ShutDownAcademia was apparently last Wednesday.

There is an entire website dedicated to this.

In the wake of the most recent murders of Black people in the US, it is clear that white and other non-Black people have to step up and do the work to eradicate anti-Black racism. As members of the global academic and STEM communities, we have an enormous ethical obligation to stop doing “business as usual.” No matter where we physically live, we impact and are impacted by this moment in history.

Our responsibility starts with our role in society. In academia, our thoughts and words turn into new ways of knowing. Our research papers turn into media releases, books and legislation that reinforce anti-Black narratives. In STEM, we create technologies that affect every part of our society and are routinely weaponized against Black people.

Black academic and Black STEM professionals are hurting because they exist in and are attacked by institutional and systemic racism. Black people have been tirelessly working for change, alongside their Indigenous and People of Color allies. For Black academics and STEM professionals, #ShutDownAcademia and #ShutDownSTEM is a time to prioritize their needs— whether that is to rest, reflect, or to act— without incurring additional cumulative disadvantage.

Hu?

I spent last Wednesday writing a proposal to do research for NASA for lunar exploration.  I don’t understand how that is part of systemic racism?

It’s not enough for science just to be science anymore, it has to be social science and Progressive social science at that.

Black Lives Matter: Oxford will ‘decolonise’ degrees

Oxford University has revealed plans to “decolonise” its maths and science degrees and will allow students of any subject who have been affected by the Black Lives Matter furore to seek lenient marking.

In a letter to the student union, Louise Richardson, vice-chancellor, said that the mathematical, physical and life sciences division had been awarded a grant to develop teaching resources that supported the diversification of its curriculums, describing it as “an area that is frequently overlooked”.

She added: “Many departments in social sciences have begun work on making their curriculum more inclusive and adding diverse voices to it. This includes steps such as integrating race and gender questions into topics, embedding teaching on colonialism and empire into courses, changing reading lists to ensure substantial diversity.

I want to know how “integrating race and gender questions into topics, embedding teaching on colonialism and empire into courses” will improve things like Design of Experiments and Statistical Analysis?  I suspect it won’t.

The other idea in this is that black students and academics need special consideration because they need time to be activists as well as scientists and events that have nothing to do with them directly affect them uniquely.

This is something March for Science pushed as well.

This trauma is passed down through the generations–culturally and behaviorally, but a new area of research is suggesting that it may be getting passed on epigenetically as well. There is much that’s still unknown about the biological legacy of slavery.https://t.co/NlM25qBf0g

— March For Science (@MarchForScience) June 11, 2020

This feels less like science than the soft bigotry of low expectations, but it is the new front in academia.

A professor at UCLA was put on leave after he decided not to give black students extra time on their exams so they could be part of the George Floyd protests.

Popular Mechanics is not the only once-respected science publication that has fallen to Progressivism.  Nature News had to engage in suicidal naval gazing as well.

We recognize that Nature is one of the white institutions that is responsible for bias in research and scholarship. We commit to working to end anti-Black practices in research. #ShutdownStem https://t.co/hLJnXenlRS

— nature (@Nature) June 10, 2020

They wrote about things like stellar formation.

Everything is political.  Nothing can exist for the Left without politics.

In my world as a metallurgist “transition” is what happens between phases in atomic packing factors. For me, the only thing “anti-black” about my work is trying to control “black body radiation,” but I suspect that people who have no idea what that is and why it is important in the vacuum of space now want me canceled.

Science is dying and the Progressives are killing it.

This makes me sad because my son loves science and us currently enjoying his science summer camp.

Unfortunately, by the time he gets to college – unless something substantial changes – he’s not going to be taught the rocket equation because Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Robert H. Goddard are white men and attempting the lunar landing was imperialist colonialism.

I don’t know what to do but I weep for the future of the West when the Progressives are done killing science.

Those Mexican fireworks are a mite unforgiven if the proper precautions are not taken.

Dwight is a reader that left this comment among several others relating to the Albuquerque defensive shooting.

Actually, there’s video out there of him assaulting another women in addition to the one that lit the crowd on fire. Not that it would matter to you all. He’s just a “jerk” who deserves to protect himself from the folks armed with skateboards who want to apprehend him and make sure he gets the justice he deserves. Wow.

He has already been properly explained why “apprehension” is not the way and it does not matter that he pushed a woman (simple assault) and then left without re-engaging with anybody else. But I think he still believe skateboards are not weapons, probably because they don’t make noises or stab. So, I wanted to show him one single video to show him how wrong he was and how dangerous is being hit by a skateboard.

We have two impacts to the head: the one provided by the skateboard and the one by the concrete when the head lands on it unprotected. That is deadly force in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

And when it is done in groups? Well, even worse.

As for me, I no longer will classify skateboarders as happy-go-lucky kids having fun abusing their bodies with repeated impacts but as potential deadly force attackers till proven otherwise.

Another update from the saga of the Brooklyn parks.

Jews use a park.

De Blasio has the park welded shut.

Jews cut the chain and use the park.

De Blasio responds:

Bill de Blasio on people cutting locks and breaking into playgrounds: "We’re not going to allow people to take the law into their own hands. It just doesn’t work. So people are not allowed to open up a playground that is not yet available to the public." https://t.co/io6FWgm4HY

— Michael Gold (@migold) June 16, 2020

This is the same mayor that gave rioters and looters free range to destroy and steal by pulling back cops during the early stages of the riot.

The same mayor who punished a cop for pulling a gun when a thug hit his captain in the face with a brick.

Looters and rioters are just protesters.

Jews who just want their children to play outside in a park they pay for with their tax dollars are outlaws.

Maybe it’s time to bring this shit up at the next meeting and let the Mossad know they missed a Nazi and he’s currently taking residence in Gracie Mansion.

A tad fuzzy, but compliments the first video posted earlier.

Here is the first one so you don’t have to go chasing after it.

It is clear to me (IANAL) that this is s defensive shooting and truthfully I want to see if the D.A. dares to bring charges. Maybe he will be bold enough to take it to Grand Jury and hope they dump this case so he does not have to suffer in the press.

Hat Tip for the first video to Larry Correia.

BETHEL, KY – while getting yelled at by an angry mob of Trump supporters, protestor gets PUNCHED IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD right in front of multiple police officers… who do nothing.

MORE: https://t.co/09AhA7UlZq pic.twitter.com/qj6gLLwY2R

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) June 15, 2020

Life is a bitch when the opposition plays using your tactics.

And this is the part when I am supposed to tell you we are to be the nice people and not to resort to the same violence our enemies use, but lately I have not been feeling quite my usual self. I may have to go get one of then Wuhan V. tests to make sure I am OK.

Update: Found a longer version in Youtube. I am shocked how these mob was behaving: Not storefronts getting bricks through the plate glass, vehicles driving by unmolested, no looting, no arson. What kind of sick violent mob is this and why didn’t the cops deployed tear gas and rubber bullets?
/sarcasm off> 

Yesterday I started reading this book.

First I knew about tat unholy alliance was through the defunct Amazon series “The Last Tycoon.” Last week I read bout this book and I decided to fill the gap I had on the subject and bough it. Last night I am going ove page 27 and I com across this passage:

The fascist tactics are still present with the impolite crowd.

And, of course, our all time favorite.

Censorship is mandatory for the triumph of the revolution and it is much sweeter when the useful idiots do it for you at retail level.

But I don’t want to leave you with such ugly images, so I close this post with something nice.