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On SCOTUS striking down stuff

Plenty of people in the media and on Twitter are bemoating that the SCOTUS is busy striking down current Administration acts, apparently ignorant that they are doing so for good reason.

There are ways where you get stuff done in a society, without passing legislation:

It’s called either “dictatorship” or “lawlessness”, and unless you like pain, suffering and things falling apart in various ways, neither thing is something you want for yourself or others.

The administration’s activities are struck down because they are unlawful, they know it full well, but they are trying to sell them to you still, because they want your vote. (Nancy Pelosi has said as much on her own accord. Biden also said so himself while on the campaign trail in 2019).

Sankte Hans, the 23rd of June

Today, Denmark celebrates the marking of Midsummer under the local name and tradition of Skt. Hans. Unfortunately, the countryside is too dry to celebrate with the usual bonfires due to the fire hazard, so the celebrations are more “relaxed” for many. Few or no bonfires in any case.

I am happy to say that I’ve managed to reclaim my old domain Liberterran.org which I gave up on some years back – the ones that snatched it up have released it, so back into my fold it goes, albeit with /some/ changes to its original Paleo-liberal/Individualist-anarchist ideology. :o)

Happy Midsummer, all!

Reminder in re Freedom of Speech

I’ll have you commit to mind, that the people who are dismissive or unsupportive of the freedom of speech and freedom of expression of others, rarely have anything of import or insight to say.

Was everything regarding statecraft and jurisprudence up to these people, liberal democracy would collapse into belligerent recriminations and violence in a year.

Happy 2022 to all

As we are entering the third year of the COVID-19 debacle, I hope this year will be the high watermark of the pandemic, though I sense we will have to arm ourselves with patience irt. when we will return to a semblance of normality.

We shall see. Best of luck to you all. Be sensible.

That wage gap

If women earn 79 cents in wages for every one male dollar, then why aren’t employers hiring women in droves? Recall that capitalist profit-maximising phenomenon, yes? Minimizing AVC! Hiring labour where it is cheapest!

The labour market as illustrated in the classic D/S graph, would merge the two purportedly separate labour-pools to home in on the clearing price of labour as one single supply factor.

So, to believe in the wage gap, you have to entertain the concept of the nasty patriarchy at work, suppressing female wages at the same time as that the (same, patriarchal?) capitalists employers happen to be too inept to properly make use of the labour-market system of economic operation that benefit them anywhere else.

Differences between the U.S. of A. and Denmark

… as seen from the ground. Reporting live, and in rough order of apparence, from the World’s #1:

  • (to start somewhere). Customs officers (i.e. CBP) aren’t necessary unpleasant, just fast-talking and very forward. Of course, they have to process a thousand entrants a days: no time for chatter. I didn’t get probed in the airport.
  • Many cars in town.
  • Litter everywhere on the roads, though mostly on carriageways and onramps. Anywhere from the degree of a few bits and pieces lying around, to something giving you the impression that someone emptied a dumpster over the street. (DK: Litter many places as well, but mostly little and on onramps.)
  • So many cars! Everything here in the US in clearly made for easy and direct automotive access. There are drive-ins everywhere at the eatery places.
  • Food is clearly cheaper, both in absolute terms for the total price of a full dish plus beverage, but especially in the amount:price ratio.
  • America asphalt-centric culture also means that the equipment of the road is very extensive: There are traffic lights everywhere, and many of the intersections has one for each lane. You can turn right on a red if it does not inconvenience drivers from the left. Not so in Denmark.
  • Heavy precense of soda on the store shelves/fridges, but also larger containers.
  • Gasoline is cheap: One Gallon is anywhere from two Dollar twenty to Three Dollar, depending on state. 1 U.S. Gallon is 3,79 litres. (1 USD = 6.5 USD, 1 USG = 3.79 L, this 1 $/G = 6.5/3.79 = 1.72 DKK/L, which is for 1 USD/Gal; current gas prices then mean 1.72 * 2.2 = 3.77 DKK/L, which is pretty fucking cheap. That’s around 40% that of Danish gas prices.)
  • Flouridated water: The slight smell of something like swimming pool in the tap water, yet not quite.
  • So many damn cars! Carriageways are both big: 3 lanes are the bare minimum, 4 ubiquituous in metro areas, 5 if the carpooling-driving lane is counted*.
  • (*) Yes, America actually has something Denmark has not – the specific roadside incentive to share cars and not drive alone: HOV-lanes, that is High Occupancy Vehicle lanes. Would you believe it? You get properly fucked if you do drive solo in an HOV lane: 124$ in Washington state. 481$ in California. (Each child counts as an occupant, but pets, infants still in the womb, inflatable dolls or ghosts do not (we’ve heard ’em all.)
  • Many homeless people living and begging on the streets i the US. I’m not surprised that the US has many homeless poor (as its reputation goes and well-deservedly so, although this is no “laurels” for the rest of the western world to congratulate itself from), but what is certain in any case is that they are very visible in the street. In San Francisco, you meet them on every block you walk. Many are seemingly mentally ill, as they constantly mutter to themselves, break out in verbal fits, and lunge for unseen opponents.
  • Very attentive and approachable staff in stores, gas stations and restaurants. Oh, and some places, the storm “sevice station” has a meaning – that is, you get SERVICED at the pump. It’s not all self-service (which is why it was renamed ‘gas-station’)
  • US: Barely any recycling standards society-wide. Some states has a return system / redemption value on soda bottles (mostly New England and The Left Coast tho, no great surprise that the Midwest and South aren’t partaking), but these are so small that there is barely any economic incentive in sorting the recyclable bottles and taking them back. 10 cents for bottles in CA and MI, 5 cents elsewere. It’s a joke, and it is why the streets are strewn with crushed bottles.
  • Seen on Route 101 on the coast of Oregon and California: “Unmuffled engine breaking fine ”  … 400$. 520$. 750$. (!) 2000$ (!!!). Someone really has to dislike automobile engine noise.
  • House numbers in up to 5 figures. 32000 Pacific Coast Highway.
  • California: “Littering fine 1000$”. Fine by me….a eeeerrrrrr…

 

Ghey Buht Seks, the Moral Edition!

Watching this video about one of our favorite libertarian moral preachers, coming up on (*cough*) the part where the author swaps murder with teh bhutsekks for illustration, and the overall philosophically argumentative setting combined with reading the comments, I couldn’t help to think that…

…anal sex is an end unto itself.