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Monday, June 21, 2021

Links - 21st June 2021 (1)

How to Fix Folder Error Item Not Found Or Could Not Find This Item - "In this article, we are going to learn ‘How to Fix Folder Error Item Not Found Or Could Not Find This Item. If you are using Windows for as long as you have, you’ve probably gone to your share of strange error messages. The one I was recently trying to delete a file was: This was a strange problem because I do not know if the file really exists. Did they already have been deleted? And if a folder is not really, where does Windows look like in that folder? I’m surprised if my hard drive is turned on or not"
For when the directory or file names have errors and so cannot be deleted or even manipulated, and Windows can't fix the problem after checking the disk for errors

History of Youtiao & Why I Only Call it You Cha Kway or Yau Cha Kwai - "In Taiwan, they still have the annual ritual of frying 秦檜 to commemorate his betrayal of Yue Fei.The name you char kway is a form of intangible cultural heritage and when we replace them completely with another name like youtiao which simply means "oil stick", we are losing something of intangible value."

Fat Gay Men Aren't Welcomed At Pride - "Fat shaming people is nothing new. In fact, it’s become somewhat of a pastime in our culture.But in the gay community, it feels like it has elevated to a sport... Several of my friends are skipping Pride too for the very same reasons I have discussed here. Some are a little overweight and some are a lot."

Samuel Sey on Twitter - *White Fragility by Robin Diangelo*
"When I was a boy in Ghana, I once had a massive nail pierce through my foot, and I suffered through a make-shift surgery by my mom without anaesthesia. And that was significantly more enjoyable than reading this book. It’s astonishingly bad. I’ll consider writing a review."

Ilhan Omar has paid new husband's consulting firm $878,000, filings show - "Rep. Ilhan Omar has continued quietly funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to her new husband’s consulting film, including a $189,000 windfall in March — just weeks after they announced they had tied the knot, campaign data shows.The payments between the Minneapolis Democratic congresswoman and Tim Mynett prompted at least one ethics complaint in 2019 after The Post first revealed allegations — made by Mynett’s then-wife in her divorce filing — that Omar was having an affair with the member of her political consulting team, who was at the time married to another woman. Omar was married to her second husband at the time. But that doesn’t appear to have stopped the now-married couple, with Mynett’s E Street Group collecting $292,814.99 from his wife’s campaign this year for digital advertising, fundraising consulting and research services, according to the Federal Election Commission filings. In total, Mynett has received a whopping $878,930.65 from Omar’s campaign since he began working for her in 2018, raising eyebrows among watchdogs and political law experts who say the practice is rife with cronyism... Omar is by far the E Street Group’s biggest client, according to Open Secrets data, with nearly one in every three of Omar’s campaign dollars going to her alleged lover’s firm as of last August"

Bubba Wallace responds to FBI findings: 'Whether tied in 2019, or whatever, it was a noose' - "NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace says he's "pissed" members of the public are now questioning his integrity after the FBI said a noose found in his garage stall this week was there before his team moved in... The FBI said Tuesday the noose had been in the garage since last year and Wallace was therefore not a victim of a hate crime. NASCAR, mentioning the FBI report, described the item as a "garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose.""
When you can't let go of the narrative

Bubba Wallace Lands Beats By Dre Deal, Announced Early After Trump ‘Hoax’ Tweet
So he benefited after all, even though it was a false alarm

Oakland ‘Nooses’ Turn Out To Be Exercise Swings; Mayor Wants To Investigate Them As a Hate Crime Anyway - "the city's (white) mayor, Libby Schaaf, has opened a hate-crime investigation after five ropes hanging from trees in a city park were discovered. Schaaf and other officials say that the ropes seem to symbolize nooses, and she told the press that the police must "start with the assumption that these are hate crimes."But she knows that the ropes, sometimes described as straps or swings, were not intended to be nooses, because the (black) man who hung them has made that clear... "Out of the dozen and hundreds and thousands of people that walked by, no one has thought that it looked anywhere close to a noose. Folks have used it for exercise. It was really a fun addition to the park that we tried to create"... Linger for a moment on this: A white mayor dismissing the black resident's explanation charging ahead with an emotionally fraught investigation against him that could result in enhanced penalties."
And liberals mock Christians for thinking Harry Potter is satanic

Opinion | Disdain for the Less Educated Is the Last Acceptable Prejudice - The New York Times - "Joe Biden has a secret weapon in his bid for the presidency: He is the first Democratic nominee in 36 years without a degree from an Ivy League university... Building a politics around the idea that a college degree is a precondition for dignified work and social esteem has a corrosive effect on democratic life. It devalues the contributions of those without a diploma, fuels prejudice against less-educated members of society, effectively excludes most working people from elective government and provokes political backlash... If you did not go to college, and if you are not flourishing in the new economy, your failure must be your own fault. It is important to remember that most Americans — nearly two-thirds — do not have a four-year college degree. By telling workers that their inadequate education is the reason for their troubles, meritocrats moralize success and failure and unwittingly promote credentialism — an insidious prejudice against those who do not have college degrees... In the United States and Europe, disdain for the less educated is more pronounced, or at least more readily acknowledged, than prejudice against other disfavored groups. In a series of surveys conducted in the United States, Britain, the Netherlands and Belgium, a team of social psychologists led by Toon Kuppens found that college-educated respondents had more bias against less-educated people than they did against other disfavored groups. The researchers surveyed attitudes toward a range of people who are typically victims of discrimination. In Europe, this list included Muslims and people who are poor, obese, blind and less educated; in the United States, the list also included African-Americans and the working class. Of all these groups, the poorly educated were disliked most of all. Beyond revealing the disparaging views that college-educated elites have of less-educated people, the study also found that elites are unembarrassed by this prejudice. They may denounce racism and sexism, but they are unapologetic about their negative attitudes toward the less educated... Over the past half-decade, Congress has become more diverse with regard to race, ethnicity and gender, but less diverse with regard to educational credentials and class... Some might argue that government by well-educated university graduates is something to welcome, not regret. Surely we want well-trained doctors to perform our appendectomies. Aren’t highly credentialed leaders best equipped to give us sound public policies and reasoned political discourse?Not necessarily. Even a glance at the parlous state of political discourse in Congress should give us pause. Governing well requires not only technocratic expertise but also civic virtue — an ability to deliberate about the common good and to identify with citizens from all walks of life. But history suggests little correlation between the capacity for political judgment and the ability to win admission to elite universities. The notion that “the best and the brightest” are better at governing than their less-credentialed fellow citizens is a myth born of meritocratic hubris."
He forgets hatred of white people

Federalist Perspectives - Posts | Facebook - "Seems poignant that the major threat of the far left is higher taxes, while the major threat of the far right is, well, Dachau or Verdun"
"I’ll mention that to my college dormmate who hid in a pile of his neighbor’s bodies in Cambodia to survive when he was 8."
Unsurprisingly, the leftist misrepresents WWI too
Of course, we are repeatedly told that all the far left wants is universal healthcare - pretending that they don't want open borders, abolishing the police and degrading white people

Man arrested after calling 911 over 1k times, asks if dispatcher wanted to buy egg rolls

Fact check: Democratic Party did not found the KKK, start Civil War - "Historians agree that although factions of the Democratic Party did majorly contribute to the Civil War's start and the KKK's founding, it is inaccurate to say the party is responsible for either."
Freedom is slavery

California Democratic Politician Resorted to Racism After Asians Defeated Her Proposal - "Back in 2014, the Asian-American community throughout California successfully defeated a Democratic proposal to overturn California’s ban on affirmative action in college admissions. The Asian-American community argued overturning affirmative action would hurt Asian student admission rates at the top universities in California.Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D) was irate during a meeting with the entire Assembly Democratic caucus when she found out Asian-Americans successfully blocked the passage of the party’s bill.“This makes me feel like I want to punch the next Asian person I see in the face”... Assembly Speaker John Perez was asked by Politico at the time if any formal action was ever taken after the incident or if Garcia even apologized to the Asian-American community or to her fellow legislators for the comments. Perez responded, “If she did, I am unaware of it.”"
Asians have "whiteness" after all, so punching an Asian is fighting "white supremacy"

Doubting Thomas on Twitter - "Technology in itself is inherently racist they way systems are constructed to help maintain oppression."
""Technology in itself is inherently racist," he tweeted from his iPhone."

Randomizing Religion: The Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes - "We study the causal impact of religiosity through a randomized evaluation of an evangelical Protestant Christian values and theology education program delivered to thousands of ultra-poor Filipino households. Six months after the program ended, treated households have higher religiosity and income; no statistically significant differences in total labor supply, consumption, food security, or life satisfaction; and lower perceived relative economic status. Exploratory analysis suggests that the income treatment effect may operate through increasing grit. Thirty months after the program ended, significant differences in the intensity of religiosity disappear, but those in the treatment group are less likely to be Catholic and more likely to be Protestant, and there is some mixed evidence that their consumption and perceived relative economic status are higher."

Berlin authorities placed children with pedophiles for 30 years - "Starting in the 1970s psychology professor Helmut Kentler conducted his "experiment." Homeless children in West Berlin were intentionally placed with pedophile men. These men would make especially loving foster parents, Kentler argued.A study conducted by the University of Hildesheim has found that authorities in Berlin condoned this practice for almost 30 years. The pedophile foster fathers even received a regular care allowance.Helmut Kentler (1928-2008) was in a leading position at Berlin's center for educational research. He was convinced that sexual contact between adults and children was harmless.Berlin's child welfare offices and the governing Senate turned a blind eye or even approved of the placements. Several years ago two of the victims came forward and told their story, since then the researchers at Hildesheim University have plowed through files and conducted interviews.What they found was a "network across educational institutions," the state youth welfare office and the Berlin Senate, in which pedophilia was "accepted, supported, defended."... The researchers found that several of the foster fathers were high-profile academics. They speak of a network that included high-ranking members of the Max Planck Institute, Berlin's Free University, and the notorious Odenwald School in Hesse, West Germany, which was at the center of a major pedophilia scandal several years ago. It has since been closed down."
I guess at the time, any whistleblowers were accused of being paranoid right wing conspiracy theorists obsessed with phantom pedophiles

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