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Category: Current Affairs (Page 6 of 76)
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Over 160,000 tech jobs in the US lost in 2023 as at the 20th of April.
I am twenty-five years older than Cleopatra was when she died. I’m not black either. I don’t care really, if it’s fiction, do what you want, but if you call it history, it should be history, so Netflix can keep their black Anne Boleyn and their black Cleopatra. And yes, I’d object just as much if biographies of Martin Luther King Jnr or Louis Armstrong portrayed them as white men.
I always cringe when I see people write “Doctors can’t explain…”
This just means the writer cannot imagine an explanation and assumes no one can, and hasn’t actually asked any doctors.
Ditto for young earth creationists when they say “Evolutionists can’t explain…”
No, they just haven’t asked any. That is not to say there are no questions or issues with the neo-Darwinian synthesis. But just as with vaccines and health, these are questions that will be answered by real scientists, not people passing on memes on social media.
It is right to want to be as well-informed as possible on key health and science matters. At the same time, we must always acknowledge that we who do not have advanced degrees in a specialist area of science know less than those who do, and refrain from jumping to the conclusion that medical researchers, palaeontologists, geologists, etc, are stupid or being paid off if they say something that does not accord with our previous opinion.
If you completed high school science, and have an interest in the origins and development of life, I recommend Jonathan Wells’s book Zombie Science. It is a sensible, science-based discussion of some of the problems for macro-evolution, in an easy to read lay person friendly style. Click the cover pic for link to buy.
Following four hit singles and a sell-out concert at one of Brisbane’s premier nightclub venues, fans and critics alike are saying Queensland band Two Times Shy could be Australia’s next big thing.
You can stream their singles in high definition on their website 2xshy.com and from there, visit Spotify or Apple Music to download or stream anywhere.
Who is on the side of reality here?
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says 100 per cent of women do not have penises. The prime minister has put himself at odds with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer by declaring that 100 per cent of women do not have male genitals.
He added: “We should always have compassion and understanding and tolerance for those who are thinking about changing their gender. Of course we should. But when it comes to these issues of protecting women’s rights, women’s spaces, I think the issue of biological sex is fundamentally important when we think about those questions.” Click pic for link to story at the Independent
The tide is turning on this. People are sympathetic to anyone who suffers gender confusion, and happy to help them find solutions. They are less happy to be forced to say men can be women, and women can be men, and that there are no significant physical or psychological differences. The end of the road for that position is the obliteration of the identity and value of women.
Atherosclerosis is the most common cause of heart disease, which is the most common cause of death in Australia.
A common diuretic, Spironolactone, commonly marketed as Aldactone, has been found to stop the progress of Atherosclerosis.
This was a very small study; seventy-nine randomised participants, all of whom had Chronic Kidney Disease and type-II Diabetes, and only thirty-seven of whom received the active medication;
However, if further studies show a similar effect in the wider population, this is very good news indeed. Click on pic for link to study.
Are you looking for a good book?
People want to save the west and help win the culture wars, but don’t know how. This survey of the West’s great ideas, drawing from greats like Aquinas and Plato, is also a survival handbook for the 21st century.
The West is in crisis, and ordinary folks feel powerless—but with a little training, regular people can be the most important defenders of all that is good and true in our cultural heritage.
It has been proclaimed many times, but perhaps never more convincingly than now, when every news cycle seems to deliver further confirmation of a world gone mad.
Is this the endgame? Have we come to closing time in the West?
These are the issues:
• The Crisis of Reality: Is there such a thing as objective truth—and even if there is, can “virtual reality” replace it?
• The Crisis of the Body: Not just the “transgender” insanity, but the push for a “transhumanist” future
• The Crisis of Meaning: Evolution—both biological and cultural—is a process of endless replication, of copying. But is there an original model that gives us an aspiration to aim for? Do our lives and actions have meaning?
• The Crisis of Religion: Science has not eliminated man’s religious impulse, but rather misdirected it—and wrongly dismissed the profound philosophical plausibility of Judeo-Christian revelation.
• The Crisis of the Regime: Has America reached a point of inevitable collapse? Republican government was meant to end the destructive cycle of regimes rising and falling—but can it?
Author Spencer Klavan is a classicist, with a Ph.D. from Oxford, and a deep understanding of the West. His analysis: The situation is dire. But every crisis we face today, we have faced before. And we can surmount each one.
In Australia, the cost to the student of university education is about 50% of the actual cost of the course. The rest is paid for by tax payers. Students have the option to pay fees up front at a discount, or to pay over time once their income reaches a set level – in the current financial year this is $48,361 . No interest is charged, but loans are indexed to the annual rate of inflation.
Now leftist media and politicians are saying some students are having difficulty paying those debts, and they should be waived, or at least, no longer indexed.
Here’s a thought:
- Don’t take on more debt than you are confident you can manage.
- If you are taking on debt to undertake study or training, make sure it is for a course that will help you to earn additional income which will be sufficient to cover the debt.
- If it is just for interest or fun, don’t go into debt for it.
- If you take on obligations, don’t whine and expect others who have not had your advantages to to cover them for you.
I am not fond of her music, but I really dislike the hate directed at Lizzo. Obviously it is not right to normalise obesity – there is nothing healthy or attractive about it. But that is different from simply being happy with who you are. She is bright, pretty, can sing, and she has some good things to say about self respect and encouragement in the face of put-downs and adversity. You go girl!
As I have said before, if a guy wants to call himself a woman, that’s up to him. If he insists we have to call him a woman, that’s up to us.
No one wishes ill against Dylan Mulvaney. He will have enough mental and physical pain to deal with when he realises what a terrible mistake he has made. What people object to is being forced to comply with other people’s delusions.
We are not expected to agree if a man says he identifies as a poached egg. We are expected to agree if a man says he identifies as a woman, a claim that is just as contrary to reality. When advertising for commercial products is used to strengthen this expectation, is is unsurprising that people who know that men are not women will choose to take their business elsewhere.
Vice is a trendy left “news” site for trendy left inner city dwellers. They used to love Elon Musk and Tesla. Now, not so much.
Nonetheless, environmental action and climate change, along with sex toys on Amazon and Melbourne’s gay night-life, remain key points of interest for Vice’s writers. So it is interesting that they should feature this long article on the damage to the environment and indigenous peoples caused by mining of materials for electric vehicle batteries.
I have sometimes seen the question: “What would you do if you knew you had only one day to live?
Jesus knew. He prayed, and He washed feet.
If non-disclosure agreements were criminal, then half of all Democrat politicians would be in jail. Being sleazy and pompous and disagreeable are not crimes. See the previous sentence. The question in relation to president Trump is, um, well, what exactly? See here for a thoroughly Trump-despising analysis, which nonetheless finds no substance in Bragg’s indictment.
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