Oleg Zabluda's blog: July 11, 2018

Oleg Zabluda's blog

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

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There are reports that President Donald Trump will “hammer Russia” on raising oil production, said Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at Price Futures Group. The U.S. and Russia are scheduled to hold a summit on July 16 in Helsinki.
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-7-reasons-behind-us-oils-sharpest-daily-point-drop-in-almost-3-years-2018-07-11

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Feminists Clash with Transgenders at London Pride Parade
Feminists Clash with Transgenders at London Pride Parade
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"Get the L Out," a lesbian organization dedicated to separating lesbian identity from transgender identity. They started demanding that activists take the "T" out of "LGBT," but settled for opting out themselves, demanding the "L" be removed.
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Pride in London, the group behind the parade, gave various explanations for allowing "Get the L Out" to lead the way. An earlier statement suggested the organizations allowed the lesbian group, supporting their intent to protest. In a second statement, the organizations pointed to the "hot weather" and a concern for the crowd's safety in allowing "Get the L Out" to lead the parade. The organizers insisted they "do not condone" the group, although they did not condemn the lesbians.
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Many activists have called for the organizers to resign. "I am appalled that transphobic protesters were allowed to lead the march and the crowd asked to cheer them on," LGBT+ Lib Dems Chair Jennie Rigg said. "This is a betrayal of the thousands marching. The Pride organizers should resign and offer a full apology."
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They're not just the run-of-the-mill feminists complaining about biological males usurping the title of feminism. No, they accuse transgender activists of promoting conversion therapy and rape culture.

According to their website, "Get the L Out is a group of lesbian and feminist individuals and organizations, opposing the increasingly anti-lesbian and misogynistic LGBT movement and the erasure of lesbians." [...] "Get the L Out" opposes "trans politics" because they promote "the social transition of lesbians, encouraging them to present as straight men thus favouring the pretence of heterosexuality over lesbianism — this is nothing more than a form of conversion therapy."
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Transgenderism encourages some lesbians to "identify" as male, and as soon as they "transition" — assuming these "ex"-women still like women — they're suddenly straight!
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According to the lesbians, the "T" involves promoting "the medical transition of lesbians and pushes harmful drugs (untested hormone blockers, Lupron etc.) as well as unnecessary medical practices on perfectly healthy bodies – these are a form of misogynist medical abuse against lesbians."
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Finally, "Get the L Out" charged that transgender activism "promotes the right of heterosexual males who 'identify' as women and lesbians (despite most of them still retaining their male genitals) over the rights of lesbians to choose their sexual partners. This new ‘queer’ LGBT politics thus coerces lesbians to accept the penis as a female organ and promotes heterosexual intercourse between male and female as a form of lesbian sex."

"This is simply a new facet to rape culture and compulsory heterosexuality," the lesbians declared. [...] Because transgender activism pushes the idea that biological males with penises can identify as women, it follows that these "trans women" with penises can want to have sex with real women and consider themselves lesbian.

Transgender activism has also involved stigmatizing people who want to have sex with "cisgender" people. A preference for biological women over "transgender women" or a preference for biological men over "transgender men" is considered "transphobic."

Thus, when a biological man — who still has a penis! — "identifies" as a transgender woman and wants to have sex with a lesbian, it is be considered transphobic for that lesbian to refuse ... on the grounds that he is a man.

This creates the hilariously ironic situation that the L in LGBT is fundamentally at odds with the T in LGBT, and cannot be reconciled. A lesbian who has sex with a "trans woman" — i.e. a biological male with a penis who identifies as a woman — has arguably become straight. But if she refuses sex for that reason, she is "transphobic."

Or in the words of "Get the L Out," "The trans movement with the complicity of 'queer' LGBT politics is coercing lesbians to have sex with men. We firmly condemn this vicious form of lesbophobia disguised as progress."
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"Take the L Out" had one strong demand: "We demand stronger sex-based protections for women and girls and that women maintain the right to sex-segregated spaces at the exclusion of male regardless of their 'identity.'"
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https://pjmedia.com/trending/lesbians-blame-transgenderism-for-conversion-therapy-and-rape-culture-at-london-pride-parade/
https://pjmedia.com/trending/lesbians-blame-transgenderism-for-conversion-therapy-and-rape-culture-at-london-pride-parade/

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USA Peak Horse was in 1922 (i.e. not due to steam engine, but internal combustion engine)
USA Peak Horse was in 1922 (i.e. not due to steam engine, but internal combustion engine)
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the horse population closely matches horse employment. From 1900 to 1960, the American horse population, and horse employment, decreased about 86% [...] the economy failed to produce new employment opportunities for those whose traditional jobs were made obsolete by advancing technology. New jobs were available, but equine workers lacked the skills required to fill them, and training to overcome the skill deficit was not feasible.
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http://yousa.net/employment-theory-needs-work/
http://yousa.net/employment-theory-needs-work/

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Democrats Don’t Know Anything About Judge Kavanaugh, They Just Know They Don’t Like Him
Democrats Don’t Know Anything About Judge Kavanaugh, They Just Know They Don’t Like Him
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/07/democrats-dont-know-anything-about-judge-kavanaugh-they-just-know-they-dont-like-him/
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/07/democrats-dont-know-anything-about-judge-kavanaugh-they-just-know-they-dont-like-him/

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A distributed brain network predicts general intelligence from resting-state human neuroimaging data
A distributed brain network predicts general intelligence from resting-state human neuroimaging data
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The most replicated neural correlate of human intelligence to date is total brain volume. [...] Here we ask whether measurements of the activity of the resting brain (resting-state fMRI) might also carry information about intelligence. We used the final release of the Young Adult Human Connectome Project dataset (N=884 subjects after exclusions), providing a full hour of resting-state fMRI per subject; controlled for gender, age, and brain volume; and derived a reliable estimate of general intelligence from scores on multiple cognitive tasks. Using a cross-validated predictive framework, we predicted 20% of the variance in general intelligence in the sampled population from their resting-state fMRI data. Interestingly, no single anatomical structure or network was responsible or necessary for this prediction, which instead relied on redundant information distributed across the brain.
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Structural studies

The best replicated brain correlate of intelligence is [...] brain volume derived from structural MRI scans; the correlation coefficient is about r=0.24 [...] or maybe as much as r=0.40). [...] The volume of gray-matter seems slightly more strongly related to intelligence than the volume of white matter.
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Brain size, gender, and motion are correlated with g

There are known effects of gender [107,108], age [109,110], in-scanner motion [111–113] and brain size [114] on the functional connectivity patterns measured in the resting-state with fMRI. It is thus necessary to control for these variables [115]

Resting-state FC predicts 20% of the variance in g across subjects
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https://authors.library.caltech.edu/87270/
https://authors.library.caltech.edu/87270/

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Former Apple employee charged with stealing company trade secrets
Former Apple employee charged with stealing company trade secrets
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Federal agents arrested Zhang on Saturday, as he tried to go through security at Mineta San Jose International Airport, authorities said. He had purchased a last-second round-trip ticket to Beijing, China, with a final destination of Hangzhou, China aboard Hainan Airlines, authorities said.
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Zhang, who now claims to be working for XMotors in Mountain View, came to Apple in December 2015 to work as a hardware engineer on a team trying to develop autonomous cars, authorities said. Apple has kept that research and development a closely guarded secret, and authorities said Zhang was granted broad access to confidential internal databases.
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Zhang went on paternity leave in April this year after the birth of his child and informed Apple upon his return that he’d be leaving the company to return to China because his mother was ill. He also told his supervisor that he’d be going to work for XMotors [1], a Chinese startup company focused on electric automobiles and driverless vehicle technology.

When Zhang turned in his two company-issued iPhones and his laptop, Apple’s tech security team reviewed the history on his devices and found that his download activity increased dramatically and included information from confidential files, authorities said. Zhang generated 581 rows of user activity on April 28 alone; in the previous month, authorities said, he generated 610 rows.

Authorities said Zhang also admitted that he “air-dropped” information from his devices onto his wife’s personal laptop.

Security cameras at the Apple campus also caught Zhang in the software and hardware labs during his paternity leave, contrary to the company’s corporate policy, authorities said. According to the complaint, Zhang initially denied to Apple security being on the campus during his leave but when confronted with the evidence, admitted he was there and that he removed items from the labs.

Authorities say Zhang also allowed his wife’s laptop to be examined and that an examination showed about 60 percent of the data was “highly problematic,” according to the complaint. FBI agents interviewed Zhang on June 27, and authorities say Zhang admitted to taking files from Apple.
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/10/former-apple-employee-charged-with-stealing-company-trade-secrets/
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/10/former-apple-employee-charged-with-stealing-company-trade-secrets/

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"Сидя на траве" Растаманская | День выборов (спектакль) | Несчастный Случай)
"Сидя на траве" Растаманская | День выборов (спектакль) | Несчастный Случай)
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Поплыли туманы-растуманы.
Стали громче девки голосить.
Выходили в поле растаманы
Травы спелые косить.

Джа дал волю, курево и кеды.
Джа ответил, быть или не быть.
Кудри вьются, отрастают дреды,
Если голову не мыть.

На Джамайке стук - и дом готовый
Под любым кустом бьёт счастия струя
А тут понтовой травы беспонтово
Но зато их до.. Кремля.

Ты коси, касатик, как отцы и деды.
К Джа за пазуху поспеешь не спеша.
Наши дреды - славные победы,
Наша каша -анаша.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXdSvsf43x4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXdSvsf43x4

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