The reckless and callous Sask Party prepares on Monday to start the calculated risk AKA killing process. Because golf is literally more important than some guy’s grandma, amirite? More than 400 sick health care workers in the biggest city west of our capital city. No biggie, I guess?#SlowMoe has killed
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plauge Update: POStmedia Shows Its Soul
That's sick. Heaven forbid that poor people not be poor on the other end of a crisis where they lose family members and friends. Wouldn't want to accidentally make the country better as a result of problem solving. — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) April 28, 2020 Is the risk greater in
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Trump Keeps It Clean
We all know what a stable genius the President is, you really have to admire him coming up with quality solutions on the fly during a press conference. Medical doctors are going to try his ideas as soon as they find a volunteer and an unethical doctor to administer them.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Saskatchewan Prepares To Increase Infections
It’s no surprise to most reading this that I have a low opinion of Saskatchewan’s Premier. He’s an unlovable oaf. He’s never been elected by the general electorate to be Premier, and his party takes corrupt corporate donations. Yet he gets lots of media support from Rawlco and other big
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Is Oil Profitable? Negative.
This has been obvious to me for most of the last decade, after it became clear that good information was never going to win over enough people, because disinformation had already corrupted too many. https://t.co/jbwxnjMkB2 — Saskboy from #SocialDistancing (@saskboy) April 20, 2020 Oil prices turn negative for first time
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Facebook Corrections Leave Questions
The problem with this Facebook censorship/correction of disinformation is that they’re really bad at censoring. My blog has been blocked for years, and they’ve never responded to my appeal to find out why. I can share links to my blog only if they’re in a tweet, not a direct abandonedstuff.com
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Masks and Memes
Protests continued: Over 2,000 people attended an event formed by San Franciscans called themselves 'THE ANTI-MASK LEAGUE,' denouncing the mandatory masking ordinance The gathering was of "public spirited citizens, skeptical physicians and fanatics," writes historian Crosby — Tim Mak (@timkmak) April 19, 2020 I once agreed that masks were probably
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Canada, Ontario, etc.
Ended up stumbling onto The Agenda, and this episode was great for anyone interested in the plague, or in city planning to respond to it. If you want to be able to speak constructively about when we’ll start going back to work, restart the economy, or get back to normal,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: BoJo Recovers, Thanks NHS Profusely
My great hope is that he’s now less of a jerk. https://t.co/Xt0aX4E6KJ — Paul Doroshenko, Q.C. (@PaulDoroshenko) April 12, 2020 The UK’s PM has apparently recovered from a serious COVID-19 infection that sent him to the ICU. https://saskboy.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/bojo-unwell-like-the-economy-and-environment/
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: It Costs A Little To Have Foresight
…It costs everything to have no foresight. Humans who are good at foresight get undermined by those who aren’t.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: BoJo Unwell, Like The Economy And Environment
Boris Johnson is at death’s doorstep. This would otherwise be an unremarkable point, except he’s inexplicably the Prime Minister of the UK. Sorry you started taking the advice of doctors seriously, too late for everyone including yourself. But then again, ignoring experts is what you've made a career out of.https://t.co/pJK3uLvEIj
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Post From the Past: Tesla vs. Ford GM
https://twitter.com/mims/status/848971911975636992 https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-overtakes-gm-to-become-most-valuable-u-s-auto-maker-1491832043 These tweets brought to you by April 3rd, 2017, the past when I wrote this blog post, and probably have since forgotten about it. UPDATE Nov. 20, 2018, Mims deleted his tweet, sadly, so I don’t see the prediction he made any longer. ADDED: I think it must
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Imagine Alberta Without Kenney
Imagine an Alberta government not under investigation for election fraud? One that doesn’t fire tens of thousands during a pandemic so Ottawa can pay them instead? A provincial government which doesn’t bail out sub-$4/barrel oil to the tune of billions, while cutting doctors’ pay. UBI Universal Basic Income would allow
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #LockDownNow To Spare Lives
This is interesting, and packed with references to explain the assumptions. Canada is being too soft on the new coronavirus, and we’re paying the price in the long run. For example, it’s not “essential” for post secondary education to continue this semester(, but we probably can with all but a
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague 2020: Life On The Inside
The WHO’s warnings to close schools at the end of February were accurate. Unsurprising to me, the climate crisis Deniers are out in full force trying to deny scientific pandemic response since their beloved oil markets have tanked completely. It’s not enough for them to kill us with air pollution
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #CloseTheSchools, Save Lives
If you're a city leader with influence in a business or government, read this, and in the morning do what you can to limit places people can spread respiratory illnesses. Saskatchewan is out of time in a matter of days, not weeks.https://t.co/YAiqrOfncl@astevensward3 — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) March 12, 2020 There’s
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: I Was Worried For a Moment
When I saw Google/Pocket recommending this article on batteries for the grid, I was a bit concerned. It was contrary to what I understood to be the truth, so I read a bit to get a sense if it was new information. It turned out to be 4-2 year old
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: COVID-19 COVIDerup In USA
This is a WTF kind of story. How did corruption get this bad in the USA? Emails and interviews show that after the weeks of C.D.C. rejections, researchers in Seattle decided to defy regulators and test anyway. They ended up finding and reporting the first case of community-transmission in the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Climate Crisis Expanding
We need urgent action from governments on the climate crisis. The delay we know will cost lives. "We need to see emissions declining fast, by almost half by 2030, in order to avoid reaching that feared point where critical carbon sinks become carbon sources and climate change begins to run
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: COVID-19 Spreading Unchecked
The latest viral plague sweeping the world has a mortality rate in the range of 1 to 3%, from the numbers I’ve seen. This would put it in the realm of seriousness of minor Smallpox which we wiped out in 1977 thanks to a campaign of vaccination that ended the
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