Former Vice President and 2000 presidential election loser Al Gore has spent his post-political career warning anyone who will listen that the earth is in its death throes due to global warming (now called climate change because somehow that’s better).

His 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” amassed $49 million at the world box office and catapulted Al into the top ranks of climate hysterics, and he’s never looked back, constantly jetting to meetings around the world to preach his truth.

This week he’s at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, because of course he is.

Is he doing this because he truly believes what he’s saying, or because he cares so very much about you? While we can’t read his mind, one thing we do know for sure: climate change has been very, very good to Al Gore. Though he was worth approximately $1.7 million at the end of his vice presidency, he has now amassed an estimated $330 million fortune, owns houses in Virginia, California, and Tennessee, and receives a cool $2 million a month for a figurehead position at the Generation Investment Management green energy fund he founded with former Goldman Sachs Managing Director David W. Blood. //

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Al Gores $9,000,000 beach house, steps away from the ocean. Listen up liberal sheep, would anyone who really thinks the oceans are rising own this? Just like how they live in mansions, fly private planes and have huge “carbon footprints.” If they were truly concerned they’d stop!
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A highly successful modern snake-oil salesman, relieving fools of their money. 'A fool and his money are soon parted' is an age-old saying for a reason.

The original Mac was written in Pascal and assembly, though not natively. They had to use a cross-platform development system called the Macintosh Development System, compiling on one machine and transmitting the binary to the target (via a serial connection) for execution and testing. Very similar in concept to hardware-testing software on iOS. //

The Lisa/Lisa 2 supported this kind of cross-platform development, but it was too expensive for most developers. The environment sold to developers comprised two Mac 128s. When the 512 came out, it became possible to code natively. Two or three applications were available by late 1984 that allowed users to write and run simple interpretive code: Microsoft Basic, Turbo Pascal, and a Mac version of Apple Pascal that didn't seem to materialize past the demo stage.

The lack of a good, cheap development system probably contributed to the exodus of developers--especially game developers--from the Mac to the PC. It wasn't until the Mac Plus came out in 1986 that it was a truly comfortable environment to code in. Two years wasted. Oh, well.

Clarkson Lawson, a TikToker who often comments on current affairs from the perspective of a gay man, saw what was happening to Provorov and not only came to his defense, but he chastised the LGBT activists and their allies for attempting to force themselves, not just on Provorov, but society as a whole.

“Somebody explain to me as a gay man or a gay woman, what you personally get from requiring somebody who doesn’t agree with being gay to validate your sexuality,” said Lawson.

Lawson briefly explained the situation and noted that “naturally” the “alphabet mafia” is losing it over someone not agreeing with the LGBT lifestyle. He continued, saying that this is a problem that needs to be addressed in the LGBT community.

“The fact that we have this incessant need for validation shows that we’re not actually secure in who we are,” said Lawson. “We don’t need a pride night or a pride month. Just live your life, be happy with who you are, and stop trying to so hard to garner validation from people who are not going to give it to you.”

“Our acceptance of ourselves should not be contingent on other people agreeing with us,” he continued. “If you truly want to be happy with who you are, find validation from within. Your life will be way better off because of it.” //

The bottom line is that these activist groups need that societal acceptance, not because they truly believe people need to see them as right, but because they need to convince themselves they are. If they didn’t care about what others thought and truly lived a life of self-confidence and acceptance, then these pride months, pride events, and every other form of validation our society heaps on them wouldn’t be necessary.

Although scientists are still studying the size and severity of storms that killed 19 people and caused up to $1 billion in damage, initial assessments suggest the destruction had more to do with California’s historic drought-to-deluge cycles, mountainous topography and aging flood infrastructure than it did with climate-altering greenhouse gasses. //

Although the media and some officials were quick to link a series of powerful storms to climate change, researchers interviewed by The [Los Angeles] Times said they had yet to see evidence of that connection. Instead, the unexpected onslaught of rain and snow after three years of punishing drought appears akin to other major storms that have struck California every decade or more since experts began keeping records in the 1800s. //

None of this is meant to diminish the impact of the storms or belittle those who were killed or harmed. The point is, storms like these are “historic” only in the fact they’ve occurred often in history before. Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist Alexander Gershunov says the quiet part out loud:

“We know from climate models that global warming will boost California storms of the future, but we haven’t made that connection with the latest storm systems,” said Alexander Gershunov, a climate scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “Assuming that these storms were driven by global warming would be like assuming an athlete who breaks a record was on steroids.”

How does it compare to past storms? Turns out 1956 was much worse:

Indeed, this mid-winter’s precipitation was far behind the 1956 season, when California had received a whopping 85.3% of its average annual precipitation by Jan. 17, according to the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes. As of Wednesday, California had accumulated about 70% of its average annual total, the center said.

Recycling paper (or cardboard) does save trees. Recycling aluminum does save energy. But that’s about it.

The ugly truth is that many “recyclables” sent to recycling plants are never recycled. The worst is plastic. Even Greenpeace now says, “Plastic recycling is a dead-end street.”

Hoffman often trucks it to a landfill.

Years ago, science writer John Tierney wrote a New York Times Magazine story, “Recycling Is Garbage.” It set a Times record for hate mail. But what he wrote was true.

“It’s even more true today,” Tierney tells me. “Recycling is an industry that uses increasingly expensive labor to produce materials that are worth less and less.” //

Putting garbage in landfills is often much cheaper than recycling. My town would save $340 million a year if it just stopped recycling. //

Since most plastic can’t be recycled, what’s the environmentalists’ solution now? “Stop producing it,” says Greenpeace’s John Hocevar. Lots of environmental groups now want to ban plastic.

That’s just silly. Plastic is useful. Using it often creates fewer emissions than its alternatives. Plastic bags create fewer than paper bags. A metal straw has to be used 150 times before it creates less pollution than a plastic straw.

"A positive test is almost always true," Colgrove says. "So in a person with an exposure or a person with suggestive symptoms, if they do a test and it's positive, you're done. You have your diagnosis."

It's a slightly different story if you are getting over COVID-19 and are testing to see whether you're still positive.

But a negative "does not rule out" a COVID-19 infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If someone tests negative, they're supposed to take another antigen test 48 hours later to see if it turns positive. And if that person has a known COVID exposure or symptoms, the FDA recommends a third test 48 hours after that.

Marine and Department of Defense contractor with eight deployments to Afghanistan as part of a Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) Task Force, says the administration lied to the American public when they said that Americans were able to evacuate after the Afghanistan debacle, reports Just the News.

During an appearance on the Wednesday edition of the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show, Robichaux said there are still American who want to escape the Taliban-ruled country:

The technique is called DNS-0x20 encoding, in reference to the hexadecimal number 0x20 (32 in decimal) and its relationship to ASCII characters. Its binary representation (0b100000) has all of its bits set to zero except for the fifth, counting from zero – which for ASCII characters determines whether a letter is upper or lower case. For example, 01000001 (65 in decimal) is the ASCII code for an upper-case A, while 01100001 (decimal 97) is the ASCII code for a lower-case a.

Described in more detail in an an academic paper [PDF], DNS-0x20 encoding expands the range of possibilities an attacker must guess without confusing the resolution of DNS names and IP addresses.

Essentially, you randomly toggle the 0x20 bit in a query to jumble up the case, send that out to be resolved, and expect the response to have the same matching case. If the cases don't match, you may be caught up in a cache poisoning attack, as the attacker won't know which case bits will be set or cleared by you when doing their poisoning.