I think your Governor needs to mandate masks and respirators, doesn’t he? Can California citizens be trusted to make such decisions for themselves?
He should put together a committee as well.
I was unfamiliar with Gavin de Becker, but I watched this Mike Rowe conversation with him and was fascinated. The whole thing is worth watching, but at the 1 hour mark they get into covid and excess deaths if you want to take a look.
Great video, thank you. I downloaded it and saved it. The part about encouraging people to act in their own defense, in reference to post 911, caught my attention. I got roasted at Patterico’s for criticizing the passengers that sat and let a few guys with boxcutters torture flight attendants to gain access to the cockpits. I was accused of blaming the victims but I was blaming the teaching by government that we should sit passively and wait for the government to save us, in a robbery, a rape, a home invasion, or a hijacking. The flight 93 passengers stopped the hijackers, but only because they knew the fate of the other planes. The passengers were doing as they had been taught and conditioned, but I don’t think those who put that policy in place had the people’s best interest in mind. A passive and submissive population is so much easier to control and rule, and that is well worth losing a few sheep to the wolves.
No I had not. I have lost touch with much. I had drifted away from Patterico and when I tried to look back in it seemed he had gone anti-Trump to a degree that surprised me. I stopped looking in.
I will try to find more from Gavin. I am seeing some great interviews on Mike Rowe. I need to start following him more. I am grateful for your posts.
This was a very unpopular opinion I often voiced in 2001. At the time I thought 1 out of 4 was a dismal number. I didn’t know that even then there were mitagating factors. Bayes theorem predicts this. Sometimes. Will new information change a decision tree? Sometimes not, but sometimes yes.
I ask myself: When have I been cowardly? When have I been bold? And even in the second case, when I acted boldly and correctly, did I really know the stakes? If I knew the effects on my own life would I have been less bold. Or, would I have been more bold in the former case if I understood the stakes better?
He should put together a committee as well.
I was unfamiliar with Gavin de Becker, but I watched this Mike Rowe conversation with him and was fascinated. The whole thing is worth watching, but at the 1 hour mark they get into covid and excess deaths if you want to take a look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57KTu7041w8
Great video, thank you. I downloaded it and saved it. The part about encouraging people to act in their own defense, in reference to post 911, caught my attention. I got roasted at Patterico’s for criticizing the passengers that sat and let a few guys with boxcutters torture flight attendants to gain access to the cockpits. I was accused of blaming the victims but I was blaming the teaching by government that we should sit passively and wait for the government to save us, in a robbery, a rape, a home invasion, or a hijacking. The flight 93 passengers stopped the hijackers, but only because they knew the fate of the other planes. The passengers were doing as they had been taught and conditioned, but I don’t think those who put that policy in place had the people’s best interest in mind. A passive and submissive population is so much easier to control and rule, and that is well worth losing a few sheep to the wolves.
Glad you enjoyed, Mac. Patterico has really gone down the tubes -- I look at it a couple of ties year and ask myself each time why I bothered.
Question: Had you heard of Gavin De Becker before watching it?
No I had not. I have lost touch with much. I had drifted away from Patterico and when I tried to look back in it seemed he had gone anti-Trump to a degree that surprised me. I stopped looking in.
I will try to find more from Gavin. I am seeing some great interviews on Mike Rowe. I need to start following him more. I am grateful for your posts.
This was a very unpopular opinion I often voiced in 2001. At the time I thought 1 out of 4 was a dismal number. I didn’t know that even then there were mitagating factors. Bayes theorem predicts this. Sometimes. Will new information change a decision tree? Sometimes not, but sometimes yes.
I ask myself: When have I been cowardly? When have I been bold? And even in the second case, when I acted boldly and correctly, did I really know the stakes? If I knew the effects on my own life would I have been less bold. Or, would I have been more bold in the former case if I understood the stakes better?
Happy Monday, GN.
Happy “Life comes at you fast” Monday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Sven!
I hope you were able to get some sleep with all the smoke in the air.
Hi, Paddy -- slept normally, but it is smokey out.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lTG3pTy9OuA
Heh!
Dummy snapped, but Daddy cracked it.
Good on the old guy -- taught his kid a lesson.
Well I’m done for this Monday -- good night, friends.
PS. I don’t know why, but I’m really missing talking to Fatwa today.
Good night, my friend. I wish you a peaceful night.