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Irrelevant LGBT Anti-Conversion Laws are a Trojan Horse for Totalitarianism
August 25, 2020 — Leave a comment
"Conversion therapy" hasn't been practiced for decades, yet it's a front-line concern for LGBT groups.
With how irrelevant anti-conversion therapy laws are, the implication is that the LGBTQAAI+ religion is seeking to outlaw anyone from leaving the LGBT lifestyle.
It's highly probable then, that these laws are a Trojan horse for even more laws.
Laws that would consider it a criminal offence for anyone to help a person move beyond a lifestyle that encourages people to centre their entire identity on PRIDE, sameness, segregation, sexual preference, and sometimes a clearly discernible misogyny or misandry.
As Caldron Pool's editor, Ben Davis pointed out earlier this week, 'the ultimate push is to prohibit parents, pastors and religious leaders from calling people to repentance from "sexual immorality" as defined by the Bible. In their view, moral judgments, particularly as they relate to sexuality, should now be determined and imposed by the State, not God.'
These new cultural laws appear to lock individuals into a way of life, by locking other people out.
If so, it's misleading to defend these laws as truly inclusive, liberating or even empowering.
With its negative implications for freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and freedom of religion, anti-"conversion laws" are potentially as oppressive for the LGBT community as they are for the 97% heterosexual majority.
According to The Australian Christian Lobby's legal analysis of the latest bill proposed for ACT:
1. 'A parent counselling their male 5-year-old child that he is a boy, when he wants to be a girl, could be subject to criminal proceedings.
2. A faith-based school that teaches there are two genders could end up before the Human Rights Commission.
3. A pastor who teaches a Biblical view of sexuality could face the same fate.' [i]
This isn't an exaggeration of the LGBTQAII+ lobbyists' position.
In February, Switzerland 'voted in favour of new laws that would make "homophobia" a criminal offense punishable by fines and up to three years imprisonment.'
It's the same all across the West.
Under the "Pride" movement's corrosive hegemonic power, laws are being pushed through parliaments which will legally force society to lie to children about their own biology, as well as who their biological parents and siblings are.
The surreptitious nature of these laws is also established by how they exclude transgender conversion "therapy".
Since "conversion therapy" has been established as harmful. Shouldn't anti-conversion therapy laws include a ban on LGBTQAAI+ lobby groups encouraging children to irreversibly mutilate their bodies with surgery and chemicals, without parental guidance, and accountability?
Commenting on Queensland's "solution looking for a problem" anti-'conversion laws' in February, C.P's Evelyn Rae noted:
It would be rightly considered child abuse if society, groups or individuals affirmed a teenager's self-harm, negative self-image and/or eating disorder.
Yet, here groups are actively pushing arbitrary laws which lock individuals into a belief, identity, pattern of behaviour and lifestyle.
Outlawing outdated, non-existent practices in a contemporary context is a pretext for laws that will cancel anyone not in agreement with the ideology behind them.
Ten years ago Melanie Phillips documented this well, 'in Britain, left-wing totalitarianism wears the pained smile of "good conscience" as it sends in the police to enforce "hate crime" laws, drags children from their grandparents to place them for adoption with gay couples, or sacks a Christian nurse for offering to pray for her patient.' (2010, p.253)
Utopianism demands total allegiance. State terror cannot solve the problems of a society that has detached itself from objective morality. The consequential soul crushing void cannot be answered by inherently flawed ideological movements, that parade themselves as political messiahs.
As Phillips wrote, 'from the Committee of Public Safety to Iran's morals police, from Stalin's purges of dissidents to British and American "hate crime" laws, utopians instigate coercive or tyrannical regimes to save the world by ridding it of its perceived corruption.' (2010, p.257)
Unnecessary, arbitrary anti-"conversion laws" open the door for anti-discrimination laws to transition from being a shield into being a weapon.
Ambiguous, subjective, whim of the moment laws, are the lifeblood of tyranny.
Governments should be cautious, if not entirely free from legislating arbitrary laws that will ultimately punish free citizens from refusing to align with Leftist, LGBT ideology, or punish people for apostatising from the LGBT religion.
References (not otherwise linked):
[i] ACL, 'We Can No Longer be Silent & Comfortable', News of the week, 19th August, 2020
[ii] Phillips, M. 2010. The World Turned Upside Down, Encounter Books
First published on Caldron Pool, 19th August, 2020.
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© Rod Lampard, 2020.
In Church, Classical Liberalism, Political Theology, Politics	ACL, lgbt activism, LGBT ideology, love is love, Love is love is a lie, Melanie Phillips, Trans laws
Where was 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant's "White Privilege"?
The murder of Cannon Hinnant exposed systemic bias in the mainstream media. The majority of news outlets not reporting the execution style murder of a five-year-old white boy at the hands of a black neighbor, wasn't a glitch.
WaPo dismissed concerns about media bias, claiming conservatives were politicizing Hinnant's death, because Hinnant's family don't believe "race was a motivating factor in the killing."
An assertion which went against WaPo's acknowledgement that investigating authorities have not yet established, or released a motive for why Hinnant was executed.
Though, the "Democracy dies in darkness" news organization begrudgingly took a moment to shine a light on the tragedy. Half of it was a criticism of conservative media, employed as part of a justification for the silence of, or half-hearted reporting from, most leftist news organizations.
The article then rationalized the lack of reporting (read: justification for a lack of concern) strongly suggesting that reporting the execution of five-year-old Cannon in front of his sisters, would contradict the "white privilege" and "systemic racism" narrative being pushed by these organizations.
The apparent apathy, and moral rationalizing, for what amounts to a relative media 'black-out' when compared to George Floyd's horrific death, further suggests that these mainstream media organizations are complicit in protecting the us vs. them, black vs. white, and Left vs. Right propaganda that's been circulating since Hilary Clinton's election loss in 2016.
The WaPo article overlooked – rather omitted – that the chief concern over the lack of reporting about Hinnant's death, was the double standard within Leftist media organizations, not "race."
Had Cannon been a black five-year-old child, executed by a white male, the largely leftist mainstream media would be lined up for days fueling division, supporting riots, and filling panels with "expert" upon "expert", fresh off-the-conveyor-belt conformity of Leftist dominated academic ivory towers.
The double standard is as clear as day. The value of Hinnant's life was weighed, and measured according to the colour of his skin by so-called "anti-racists." The mainstream media's concern for how this might impact their image, and that of the Black Lives Matter movement, over against the death of an innocent child proves my point.
The apologetic self-justifications prove it. Media organizations are lying if they say otherwise.
The blunt, simple truth behind the lack of widespread reporting, and public concern, is that young Hinnant was the wrong colour melanin to be of any use to Leftist power-brokers, their groupies, and propaganda machines.
Left-wing media do not consider Hinnant's execution at the hands of a black man to be newsworthy, because his murder is a strong counter-point to the Marxist Black Lives Matter, us vs. them, fear-based false narrative, which they use ad nauseum, to stigmatize "all white people as racists chasing down black people in order to execute them."
This is the general rule of thumb for Marxists.
Martin McCauley gave the practice sharp relief when he explained in 'Stalin & Stalinism' that 'Stalin deliberately exaggerated the danger from the right [within the Soviet bureaucracy] by accusing them of betraying the working class and the revolution. If anyone refused to fight the right then he too, declared Stalin, was a traitor.' (1983)
Such thinking might explain why a few "fringe" Black Lives Matter supporters celebrated the execution, here and here.
In addition, if BLM were solely about police brutality, as some claim, then why did they not fight for Justine Damond? Why did they turn her murder at the hands of a black police officer into a defense of that police officer?
It's reasonable to assume that the Marxist BLM movement and its sycophants could have stopped the police behind George Floyd's death. If BLM Inc. hadn't thrown the Justine Damond incident upside down by disregarding the victim, in trying to exonerate the villain because of their obsession with melanin.
Damond's murder was a warning sign, but BLM never pushed for police reform, never rioted in the streets.
Why? a) Damond wasn't the right melanin. b) because BLM Inc. are busy selling Marxism like crack on every street corner they can find, to an easily manipulated, gullible public who think they're buying a cure for the sinful condition of the human heart.
What's established by the behavior of BLM in the Damond case, is that it's well within the parameters of Marxist privilege to once again disregard the victim, in an attempt to exonerate the villain.
The privilege on display isn't white, nor is it black. Our fight isn't about black vs. white, neither is it left vs. right, it's about truth vs. falsehood.
There is solidarity in suffering.
But there were no black squares for Cannon, or his sisters. Just convenient silence.
Here's the straight-up, fact-based bottom line.
If you sent a shout out about George Floyd's horrific death, but have no clue who Cannon is, or what happened to him, you're not only a hypocrite, you're a social media show-pony of the highest order.
Media bias is revealed by its blanket silence.
Cannon Hinnant's life mattered.
#sayhisname
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In Political Theology, Politics	Black Live, Black Nationalism, BLM, Cannon Hinnant, Mainstream Media, Media bias, Omission
Teacher's Contempt for Conservative Parents Unmasks Public Schools as an Apparatus for Leftist Indoctrination
The disturbing ease and security from which some anti-conservatives operate on social media often helps reveal cracks in the Left's masquerade of sinless benevolence.
Overconfident statements, built on the self-righteous belief that they the majority shares their views, often leads to unintended consequences.
Such forthright statements can take the form of confessions showing just how far to the Left, many anti-conservatives have gone.
It's a form of "Dutch courage." Where instead of dealing with actions and confessions drawn out by alcoholic inebriation. Actions and confessions are spawned from an intoxicating sense of entitlement to power over others.
This was demonstrated by Philadelphia teacher, author, and columnist, Matthew R. Kay, who tweeted concerns about virtual learning, on the grounds that "conservative" parents might overhear, and therefore interfere with what he was teaching their children.
The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh explained that Kay was 'worried conservative parents would be able to interfere with the "messy work" of indoctrinating children into critical race theory, gender theory, and other left-wing dogmas.'
The apt Dennis Prager asserted, "They know it's propaganda. A teacher, who teaches, NOT INDOCRTINATES, wants their class recorded. Why wouldn't they? […] It's a betrayal of parental trust to indoctrinate rather than teach."
WBCK, Michigan talk show host, David Renkiewicz posted a series of questions on air about the assumptions behind Kay's tweets.
'Why would a teacher who teaches English be teaching "equity and inclusion work"?'
'Why is he so ashamed at what he said or why keep it hidden from the world?'
'What exactly are you doing with or to those children that you must hide your thoughts?'
'Why would a teacher, any teacher be concerned about parents watching their class lesson on-line?'
'Why would a teacher, any teacher be worried about "what happens here stays here"? '
'We all know that phrase is commonly used as "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas". When someone says what happens here stays here it is usually someone who is up to no good.'
Renkiewicz shared Walsh's conclusion.
In essence, Kay telling the world that he wanted to keep parents away from discovering what their kids are being taught in the class room, in particular about sexuality, sounded like a predator, grooming children for sex.
Kay's "Dutch courage" is a good example of how far to the Left anti-conservatives have gone. His words weren't a mindless midnight post, later regretted, then deleted. They were a graphic exhibition of the fear, cognitive distortions, hatred and totalitarianism that defines so much of what exists as anti-conservativism today.
With a shared knowledge of 20th Century history, both sides of the political isle should be concerned about this revelation. They're not. After going viral, conservative media were the only organizations to carry and discuss the implications of Kay's comments.
Townhall wrote, 'conservatives have been sounding the alarm about public school indoctrination for years. Kay's unwitting admission not only shows that these concerns are warranted but demonstrates just how entitled many teachers have become to indoctrinating other people's children.'
The Nazis epitomized the criminal distortion of a child's mind through State control, and parentless education.
During the final weeks of the siege of Berlin, war-weary veterans were kept away from the Hitler Youth for fear of "interfering and destabilizing" their fanaticism.
The Nazis wanted to maintain the fanaticism it had created in children raised on SS propaganda, by keeping those children from the truth about how the war was going. [i]
Likewise, Communist Chinese indoctrination of children coincides with learning to read.
The aim, as Jacques Ellul explained,
'is fixed and precise. The people must become Marxist. Appropriate education for a Marxist is to teach children a Marxist catechism, to give them a Marxist conception of the world in history and science…Child education is completely integrated into propaganda…Little children are conditioned so as to make their subconscious receptive to the verities of Socialism.' [ii]
Kay's tweets admit that there are propagandists parading as educators. Such comments echo the dangers of statist control and parentless education.
Homeschool where you can, when you can, if you can.
Education begins in the home.
[i] Best, N. 2012. Five Days That Shocked the World, Osprey Publishing, & Guido Knopp, 2017. Documentary: The Hitler Youth, Amazon
[ii] Ellul, J. 1965 Propaganda
First published on Caldron Pool, 15th August 2020.
Photo by Morning Brew on Unsplash
©Rod Lampard, 2020.
In Jacques Ellul	Anti-Christian bigotry, Anti-Conservative, Bigotry, Consequences of leftism, Indocrintation, Leftism
'The Chosen': Powerful & Unique Define Dallas Jenkin's Award Worthy TV adaption of Jesus' Life
Powerful and unique are two of the best ways to quickly describe season one of 'The Chosen', a 'pay-it-forward' episodic, visual chronicle of the life of Jesus.
The series is free to watch via an app, with the options of paying for the entire season or paying as you go. Meaning that each episode watched has been paid for by someone else, and it's now up to you to pass that kindness on.
The pay-it-forward option also invites viewer ownership in the continued success, and advancement of the series.
There's a list of things to like about 'The Chosen'.
It isn't Christian kitsch. It's not bumper sticker theology, nor is it a grind to push through. It's not cringe-worthy to watch, and it's careful in handling the events revealed in the New Testament. The pay-it-forward method is ground-breaking, and the expositional bridge brings together a thought-provoking, historically accurate, multi-ethnic retelling of Jesus, as would have been witnessed by the New Testament's original audience.
The music also deserves a mention. Like a lot of art, music takes words further than words and images can go. This is reflected in the 'stomp and clap' theme song 'Walk on the Water,' elevated by Ruby Amanfu's vocals. Even with the theme song's much brighter tone, it's overpowering nuance has an engaging impact reminiscent of Fever Ray's 'If I had a Heart' used in the History channel's Vikings series.
The score for 'The Chosen' was penned by composer Matt Nelson and Jars of Clay lead singer, Dan Haseltine. Haseltine said he signed on because he was intrigued by the way in which director, Dallas Jenkins was drawing out the human relevance of the New Testament's record of the life of Christ.
Haseltine described the creative inspiration behind the music as a fusion of slave spirituals, blues, and middle-eastern music; calling it 'a combination of three textures, which aims to create a very human sounding musical bed for the show.'
Nelson (rightly) gave a thumbs up to 'the raw, slightly out-of-tune sound' saying that it 'gives the series an authenticity' that 'brings out those [raw human] elements in the presentation of the story.'
Dallas Jenkins describes the series as being about a 'mix of pain and hope. [That in midst of] immense suffering, [there is] also this dignified beauty that came from the hope in this belief that God was actually present and that there was going to be rescue. That's something that I think was also taking place two thousand years ago.'
Experienced actor, and Christian, Jonathan Roumie plays the role of Jesus, telling Catholic Weekly that his focus for the role was God's 'infinite compassion and mercy. Otherwise it's just a very pale representation of who I understand Him to be.'
'The Chosen' builds on the quality production standards set by the Visual Bible's 1993 Word-for-Word 'The Gospel of Matthew', Dreamwork's' 'Prince of Egypt', Mel Gibson's 'The Passion of the Christ', 'Risen', 'The Nativity Story', 'AD: The Bible Continues', and 'The Young Messiah.'
Roumie's on-screen portrayal of Jesus combines the infectious joy of Bruce Marchiano's portrayal of Christ in the Visual Bible, with the gravitas of the Passion's Jim Caviezel.
The team capture Jesus' soberness, sass and sense of humour, minus the cartoonish caricatures. They bring the Gospels to life, and invite us to participate in that journey with them.
According to the official website, 'The Chosen' is 'the first ever multi-season show' of its kind. It's also the 'number one highest crowd-funded media project of all time at $10 million from over 19,000 people, translated into 50 languages and counting.'
Season one of 'The Chosen,' with the option of paying-it-forward, is free to watch via the app in app stores.
Image: VIDANGEL Studios
© Rod Lampard, 2020
In Art and Theology, Movie Reviews, Music	Dallas Jenkins, Dan Haseltine, Jonathan Roumie, Matt Nelson, Ruby Amanfu, The Chosen, TV Series
George Bernanos, Christian Apathy & John MacArthur's Nein to COVID-1984 Government Overreach
'This apparent indifference would once have exasperated me. I think now that it is the mark of a great [flawed] faith [in people, society & Government]; a great, unconscious pride. None of these men could possibly think the Church was in danger, for whatever reason. And of course my confidence is no less than theirs, but probably of another kind. Their sense of security horrifies me.'
'The Church is not an ideal to be realised, she exists, and [we] are part of her.'
(George Bernanos, 1936. Diary of a Country Priest, p.27)
In Theological Reflection
Australia Gives More Funding to Controversial Anti-COVID-19 Drug
It might surprise the self-righteous, Covid-1984 surveillance and speech police, that Australia's Healthy Minister, Greg Hunt, has been funding research into the "controversial" drug hydroxychloroquine.
According to an article published by the Sydney Morning Herald in early June, 'the federal government was increasing funding for research into hydroxychloroquine, announcing that it was giving $170,020 [sic] as part of a $66 million dollar investment into a range of research projects to fight COVID-19.'
Contra to many a Soc-Med armchair expert, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute director Professor Doug Hilton 'defended the research, stating 'what we've learnt is that if you provide hydroxychloroquine to very sick patients, you have to do so carefully. I think there is still a huge amount of scientific debate on the usefulness of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment, and I think there is absolutely required to be more clinical trials.' (SMH)
Professor Hilton doesn't consider the drug a cure, or a treatment, but said that 'if you look at the scientific evidence, and if you read the papers rather than simply reading the tweets about hydroxychloroquine, I think the consensus is it could well be an extraordinarily-useful preventative.' (ibid)
Hunt backed the research despite the WHO halting its own study, as a result of safety concerns, which were raised in a Harvard affiliated study published by The Lancet medical journal, claiming to have 'conclusively proven' that hydroxychloroquine was risky and ineffective against COVID-19.
Since publication that 'study has had its validity' challenged 'after [two] corrections were published with the journal taking the unusual step of putting an 'expression of concern' on it.'
According to the SMH, 'Australian scientists poked holes in it, pointing out that the study seemed to include more Australian deaths than have actually occurred. Along with a range of other issues that have now been identified, with almost 200 scientists signing an open letter raising concerns about the study.'
This was supported by the New York Times in mid-June, which added that 'the experts who wrote The Lancet also criticized the study's methodology and the authors' refusal to identify any of the hospitals that contributed patient data, or to name the countries where they were located.'
In a rejection of the scientists concerns of the study's claims against hydroxychloroquine, as of today, there is, and has been no independent review of its data, methodology and source material.
To add insult to the potentially massive injury the study has done across the globe, it remains live on The Lancet's website.
The Australian Health Minister has been interested in hydroxychloroquine as a probable treatment or preventative for COVID-19 since March.
9news' A Current Affair stated in April that Hunt had imported a 'large supply' of 'hydroxychloroquine for doctors to use them with patients who are in hospital.' Noting that 'the advice Mr Hunt and the government have received is that experts are "cautiously hopeful" hydroxychloroquine can have an impact.'
Quoting from the same interview, Medical Republic dropped Donald Trump's endorsement of the drug next to side-affects reported by French political magazine Le Point, and blamed Trump's endorsement for 'disastrous off-label use', while stating in the same article that medical professionals were 'prescribing hydroxychloroquine for themselves, other doctors, and their families.'
The implication that thousands of highly educated medical professionals are prescribing hydroxychloroquine, based squarely on Donald Trump 'endorsing the drug' is ludicrous.
Taking all this into account, it's not a stretch to say that the politicisation of hydroxychloroquine isn't the handiwork of Donald Trump, it's the result of Leftist bureaucrats, and spin-doctors looking to deny Donald Trump a fair go at seeking re-election.
Look at how increasing anecdotal evidence is being suppressed by Silicon Valley as part of Big Tech's ongoing support of The World Health Organisation.
Note well how Big Tech are supporting the same organisation that cheered on people calling Donald Trump and Scott Morrison's travel bans on China, "racist".
This is the same organisation that was more concerned about giving the Chinese virus a politically correct name instead of backing quarantine procedures that would have saved lives and livelihoods.
The same organisation that issued an authoritarian fiat back in February/March, with the justification that naming the virus from its point of origin – as has been tradition across the globe – was now apparently "racist".
The same organisation that 'kow-tows' to the Communist Chinese Party, as Executive Director of UN Watch Hillel Neuer told Sky News in May, by running interference for the CCP in 'a fight against any attempt to hold the CCP accountable.'
The Australian Government's early move to supply hydroxychloroquine, and their funding of research into the drug as a weapon against COVID-19 is a condemnation of those suppressing anyone mentioning the word.
Hunt's backing is justifiable. The sacrifice of medical professionals, patients, and freedom of speech isn't.
Lives are riding on the research into hydroxychloroquine. The suppression of any data that could help speed up this research betrays a catastrophic contempt for human life.
The BBC: Hydroxychloroquine being 'discarded prematurely', say scientists
This is the third in a series of articles I've written on this subject. Social Media Companies have shadow banned each one.
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In Political Theology, Politics	Censorship, COVID-19, Shadow Banning
Dennis Prager Backs Anti-COVID-19 Drug HCQ Saying That "The Left is Weaponizing Medicine"
In his latest fireside chat, Dennis Prager addressed the politicisation of hydroxychloroquine.
The founder of PragerU said he was "disturbed by the mockery of Doctors who believe hydroxychloroquine and zinc can help people in the very earliest stages of covid." He also stressed the importance of zinc, in its use alongside HCQ, noting a series of interviews with at least one Doctor talking about his experience working with COVID-19 patients.
The opposition to HCQ, "which is overwhelmingly on the Left, is political," he said. Powered almost entirely by an hysterical hatred of Donald Trump, who recommended it early on.
According to Prager, "we're going from hysteria to hysteria all based on a lie." He pointed to Russian Collusion, which turned out to be a hoax, and the contradiction between the message and practice of apocalyptic climate change advocates, who claim the sky is going to fall if we don't revert back to stone age existence within twelve years.
Calling the hysteria over HCQ "phony", he said "I believe this, because I've been taking hydroxychloroquine and zinc as a preventative." He added, that HCQ has been around for fifty years, and there's people who've been taking it for decades. For instance, "when anybody who goes to a place where there's Malaria. It's side-affects, such as heart arrhythmia, are rare occurrences."
Highlighting the irony of the "Left, who hate Big pharmaceutical companies" being in agreement with big pharmaceutical companies over HCQ, Prager illustrated that Left's position was hypocritical. The hatred for Trump, seems to have trumped the hatred for Big Pharma. Since it's "big pharma who's really against HCQ, because it's unbelievably inexpensive."
This unholy alliance appears to based on a mutual hatred of the president. Trump has said that Big Pharma ads against him are retribution for lowering the price of drugs, and being the first president to do so. Trump tweeted, "Big Pharma is taking ads against me because I am MASSIVELY lowering your drug prices, which is obviously not good for them; Medicare premiums will also be going down."
Fox news reported that the PhRMA trade association said it was willing to talk to the Trump administration about lowering the cost of drugs, but refused to sign on to policies that "allowed foreign governments to set drug prices."
'This refers to a component of one of the president's executive orders, known as the "favored nations" policy, which would require Medicare to purchase drugs at the same prices paid by foreign countries, which the president said would prevent the U.S. from continuing to subsidize the cost of research and development for the entire world.' Fox added.
This supports Prager's point, not just about the weaponisation of medicine, but also the "corruption of science." In a bold follow up he stated that the Left's "hatred of Trump has perverted their ability to see reality. I believe that there is blood on the hands of all the doctors, all the media people, who are keeping people, who are in the early stages of COVID-19 from taking HCQ"
The fireside chat recalled how doctors have been removed from their posts, and had posts removed from social media for advocating a second medical opinion on HCQ. It recounted how those doctors are being ridiculed unprofessionally, by professional colleagues.
Echoing the sentiments of anyone up to date on the HCQ saga, Prager said, "I'm angry. I'm angry because people are dying because of the Left; people are dying because of the New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN. People are dying because of doctors who've decided to politicise science. I'm not for HCQ becuase Donald Trump recommended it. I'm for it, because it works."
As for evidence, Prager cited the Times of India, saying "the second largest country in the world in terms of population, more than 5,000 Indian police officers in Mumbai were given a prophylaxis drug meant to prevent COVID-19. They're giving it to health workers. All the people on the front line in India are being given hydroxychloroquine. India doesn't care about Donald Trump. India doesn't care about Left and Right, it cares about saving lives."
Prager then outlines magazines who've been pressured into publishing negative studies of HCQ, and questions the long term affects of precedents involved in using science as a veil to censor anything that challenges Leftist ideology.
His 30 minute fireside chat can be viewed here.
He's right and he inadvertently backs everything I've written on this subject in the past two weeks.
In case you missed those – (and it's likely you have, because Social Media platforms are shadow banning Caldron Pool's HCQ content) – here are the links:
1. Big Tech Spin Doctors Ban Viral Video of Real Doctors Offering a Second Opinion on COVID-19
2. Using the COVID-19 Crisis For Political Gain Has Precedent
3. Australia Increases Funding of Research Into 'Controversial' Anti-COVID-19 Drug
If November produces a Democrat president, don't be surprised if COVID-19, the Marxist Black Lives Matter political party rallies, and Antifa thugs showboating for the media – as they tear up Democrat run cites – completely disappear from view.
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p. 64, section 3.1.1. In calculations of the sum of squares, the second number should be 354, not 351.
p. 130, section 5.1. Chi-square is generally classified as a test of relationships (cf. the table from Hatch and Lazaraton's The Research Manual, reprinted in Porte, 2002, p. 284-285. However, in 5.1 I classify it as a test of group differences (it is correctly labeled as a test of relationships on p. 135).
p.209, in the equation, the fourth item (German) should have the expected score as 19.5. Also, only the data from Hometown U are included, not the data from Big City University (the second line of the equation looks to be just a repetition of the first line). However, the final result of the equation, 8.374, is correct.
p.270, the last line of the first paragraph should read "the different levels in the independent variable", as is seen in figure 10.3 on the next page.
p. 285, section 10.5.4, second paragraph: The output for calculating the PV comes from Table 10.5, not Figure 10.10, and the PV should be calculated as 240.9/759.9 (this results correctly in .32).
p. 334, section 12.2.1, Table 12.1. Line 10 of the syntax for this plot should have the word "Cond" underlined after the word "DATA:" as this will need to be replaced with the user's own label for the group-splitting variable.


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{
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    /// <summary>
    /// Creates a deep copy of the specified node and places it into the target container before the
    /// given anchor.
    /// </summary>
    public sealed class CopyToCommandSettings : ICommand
    {
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        public string CommandName
        {
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        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Id of the node to copy.
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("nodeId")]
        public long NodeId
        {
            get;
            set;
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        /// <summary>
        /// Id of the element to drop the copy into.
        /// </summary>
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        /// `targetNodeId`).
        /// </summary>
        [JsonProperty("insertBeforeNodeId", DefaultValueHandling = DefaultValueHandling.Ignore)]
        public long? InsertBeforeNodeId
        {
            get;
            set;
        }
    }

    public sealed class CopyToCommandResponse : ICommandResponse<CopyToCommandSettings>
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Id of the node clone.
        ///</summary>
        [JsonProperty("nodeId")]
        public long NodeId
        {
            get;
            set;
        }
    }
}

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Q: Unoin clause in querydsl 4.1.3? How can I use union clause in querydsl 4.1.3?
I want just to use union clause. Need an example.
#sql
select * from (
   select a,b from tableA union
   select a,b from tableB
)

QueryDSL - how to join to a union of subqueries
I can't find SQLSubQuery class in querydsl lib(version 4.1.3)
I'm using
* spring boot
* spring-data
* querydsl(4.1.3)

A: Its perfectly possible for QueryDSL SQL queries:
QSurvey survey1 = new QSurvey("survey1");
QSurvey survey2 = new QSurvey("survey2");
QSurvey survey3 = new QSurvey("survey3");

SQLQuery<Void> query = new SQLQuery<Void>();
query.with(survey1, select(survey1.all()).from(survey1));
query.union(
        select(survey2.all()).from(survey2),
        select(survey3.all()).from(survey3));

The last statement returns a subquery that yields the union of the two queries.

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Julianna's is a family owned business. Señora Cecilia and Frank (the owners) named it after their youngest daughter. They also have 2 sons (I taught first communion classes to both, but that's another story. ) It's definitely the place all Bolivians flock to because it reminds them of home. My nieces, who have only been in the US for a couple of months, love to go there. It's as close to Bolivia as they can get right now.
If you want to have a nice hearty meal, there are many choices, but the top pick is Silpancho. Silpancho is made of rice, fried eggs, fried potatoes slices, fried breaded meat, and salsa (made with tomatoes, onions, and green peppers). It's pretty delicious. Julianna's also offers the best lunch combinations for a super friendly price. They consist of soup and segundo (meal). In Bolivia, segundo is what you eat after your soup. Segundo literally means second. And Julianna's always has a lunch special of the day that you can choose from.
Julianna's also offers Salteñas, which are meat pies….simplest translation. In Bolivia, we eat them around 10-11am. Here in the US, you eat them anytime. They are very filling. Typically, you order 2 with a coke, and you are all set! Some people like to order one as an appetizer, until the main meal comes. It definitely is up to you.
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Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation (IKRF), an Iranian charitable organization, is providing support for thousands of Christians living in the country.
Head of Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation, Seyyed Parviz Fattah, says in addition to offering services to the poor Shiite and Sunni people, the foundation also provides support for thousands of poor Christians living in the country
According to a Farsi report by the Tasnim News Agency, he said the organization provides supports for all poor people from all walks of life in Iran regardless of their religion.
The IKRF is not affiliated with a certain political party or ethnicity or even religion, he went on to say.
"In the holy book of Muslims, no adjective has been used before the words orphans, the poor or the deprived men. The Holy Quran recommends Muslims to meet the needs of the poor without any condition. Even in our prayers, we are recommended to support all poor people regardless of their religions and nationalities. This is the direct recommendation of Islam to all Muslims and we have tried to move in this direction," he said.
Fattah also added that the services offered to the Sunnis in Iran are similar to those offered to the Shiites and said even despite the fact that the Sunnis' interpretations of religious support is different from those of the Shiites, the foundation provides support for them within their interpretations.
He referred to the public support for the poor regardless of their religions and said today the Shiites of Iran provide support for the Sunni orphans.
"Given the growing public support, we don't have any orphan who is not supported by a patron or even if there is any, the number is very low," he added.
Fattah said the Sunni population of Iran have trust in the foundation and said the amount of Zakat (a form of religious obligation or tax) paid by the Sunnis are more than those paid by the Shiites.
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Q: Grails + Tomcat + Ubuntu problem: CLOSE_WAIT connections I have encountered a really bizarre stability problem in production when running a trivial Grails application using standard components.
After some time of normal operation the number of Tomcat (jsvc) TCP connections in state CLOSE_WAIT increases until Tomcat hits its thread ceiling (Maximum number of threads (N) created for connector), after which Tomcat grinds to a halt.
Normally this would indicate that the application contains code that does not properly close its TCP connections. However, my Grails code in this application is really really trival and does not initiate any TCP connections on its own, so I can't think of any scenario where my code could cause the CLOSE_WAIT problem.
Furthermore, all the components in the stack are all standard stuff that I'd assume to be bug free; I'm running Grails 1.2.1 under the standard Tomcat 6 that comes bundled in Ubuntu 9.1 (apt-get install tomcat6).

*

*Is this a known problem?

*How would you go about trouble-shooting it?

A: Filip Hanik's "Tomcat Expert Series: Performance Tuning" (2009) is an excellent guide to performance tuning and stability improving settings in Tomcat.
I found the following tips in the guide to be relevant:

*

*Overview of tuning options: Threads, Keep-Alives, TCP Backlog (acceptCount), connectionTimeout, socket buffers, connectors: BIO vs. APR vs. NIO (page 24)

*How to choose between connectors BIO/APR/NIO (page 26-32)

*Tuning maxThreads (page 33-34)

*Tuning maxKeepAliveRequests (page 35-36)

*Tuning acceptCount (page 37-38)

*Tuning connectionTimeout (page 39-40)

*Tuning JVM settings (page 44-50)

In the case described here switching to a NIO connector, increasing maxThreads and lowering connectionTimeout might do the trick.

A: Is there a firewall included in the scenario?  These tend to drop idle TCP/IP connection after a while giving the behaviour you see.


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Xeester offers an intuitive and ergonomic layout for your data.
When you play online, a graphical assistant (HUD or "Heads Up Display") indicates each player's key statistics in real time. You can customise the HUD with statistics and colours of your choice.
HUD customisation: Customise any statistic to your preference.
Categorisation: Assign colors automatically or manually to directly identify weak players at the tables.
Badges: Create your own rules in order to automatically tag your opponents.
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You can access all the stats available on this player and any notes that you made.
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President Nana Akufo-Addo has said that the nine-member committee implemented by the Ministry of Energy to investigate off-spec oil sale by the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) will ensure that contamination of fuel is curtailed.
"Amongst others, the committee is tasked with making recommendations to ensure that we put the era of contamination and off-spec products behind us by tackling issues such as integrity of pipeline infrastructure, improving pipeline operations and maintenance, continuous training and skills upgrade of pipeline operators, and implementing improved standards of operation procedures through evacuation and disposal of products under the direct supervision of the NPA," he said.
He made this comment while addressing journalists at the Flagstaff House on Tuesday 18 July vis-à-vis his first six months in office.
It will be recalled that BOST was accused of releasing onto the Ghanaian market contaminated fuel, a development which many fear will damage engines of vehicles and other equipment that operate on fuel.
Accordingly, the Minority in Parliament demanded the "immediate interdiction" of the Managing Director of BOST, Alfred Obeng Boateng, over a "bizarre" and "dubious" contract awarded to Movenpiina Company Limited to distribute the five million litres of contaminated oil onto the market.
The Minority had demanded the "immediate withdrawal of the contaminated product from the market to protect consumers and assurances that this will not recur".
The Minority also said the financial loss as a result of the sale is estimated at GHS14.25million and must be retrieved by "surcharging the offending officials at BOST in line with the recent Supreme Court decision".


A new kind of boxing.
Boxing. The word is typically associated with macho athletes who have an affinity for punching each other in the face. Unboxing, though only two letters more than boxing, is completely unrelated. It's taken on an entirely new life online, where people unpack newly purchased toys or electronics and share the experience with their audiences.
Television host Jimmy Kimmel thought it'd be a great idea to meld these two concepts, boxing and unboxing, together by having a boxer "unbox" something. Still following?
He brought Mike Tyson, former heavyweight champion, on the show to do just that.
Who better than to make an unboxing video than a boxer himself?
"Hi, this is Mike Tyson and we're on 'Unboxing.'"
"This is very difficult to unbox because as you know, they have strong strong adhesive tape around here."
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Obviously, unboxing is way cooler than anything in the ring. Watch the rest of the clip below.
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import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.sappadev.simplewebangular.controllers.vo.ErrorCode;
import com.sappadev.simplewebangular.controllers.vo.ErrorResponseJson;
import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
import org.springframework.security.core.AuthenticationException;
import org.springframework.security.web.AuthenticationEntryPoint;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import java.io.IOException;

@Component
/**
 * Authentication entry point sends JSON unauthenticated error instead of servlet container's default
 * HTML content
 */
public class BasicJsonEntryPoint implements AuthenticationEntryPoint {

    private final ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();

    @Override
    public void commence(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, AuthenticationException authException) throws IOException, ServletException {
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    }
}


The earliest memory I have of watching a war in Indian history would probably have to be Mahabharata. Invariably, there would be what seemed like a sea of people for as far as I could look – on horses with a sword and shield. It looked too scary to be real. I would convince myself that it must be made up.
I have grown up. I have a better knowledge of history now. Still I cannot imagine what it would be like to get on a horse, with a sword and shield, out there for an attack, and get cut! Then there was a lady who fought with a child tied to her back!
'Sar kata sakte hain lekin sar jhuka sakte nahi'?
Rani Lakshmibai was a peace-loving woman. She had principles. She did not believe in harming the innocent. But she had the responsibility of protecting her land, her home, and people.
She fought bravely. She was fearless. She was a woman who stood by her principles, and fought for it, literally.
Khoob ladi mardaani, wot to Jhaansi wali Rani thi..
I was mesmerized by the movie. I love watching period films in theatre. It takes us to a different era altogether. The sets, the screenplay was very impactful. I certainly liked it better than Sanjay Leela Bhansali's movies which get so silly, tampering with history and making unnecessary love angles, two women in love with the same man, dancing together! Manikarnika has stayed quite honest to the plot. The costumes worn by Kangana were also very beautiful. She looked absolutely majestic. In the first half though, the songs could have been reduced.
In more than one scene, the mother-in-law of Manikarnika warns her that she is too free-spirited. She must remember her 'maryada'. She recommends her to confine herself to cooking and household. Thankfully, Manikarnika did what she liked anyway. It made me smile.
Women who remember the maryada – Well, they are not liked anyway no matter how much they try!
Women who violate the maryaada – have the potential of becoming great!!
Veteran actor Manoj Kumar has said after watching the movie that 'Kangana was born to play Rani Lakshmibai'. I could not agree more. It is evident, she has lived and breathed every ounce of the character, since the making of the film.
Kangana has been involved in the direction of the movie, in addition to playing the lead role.
Kangana is immensely talented. She can put most actresses of her generation to shame. She is also very beautiful. Her skin, her features, her figure everything is perfect. Now, add to that she does not follow the rules of the industry. She does not care about being in the good books of the biggies. She speaks up against nepotism. She acts in videos mocking the industry. She says industry parties are as boring as her Dilli wali bua's talks. She is her own person. Unapologetic. She also is vocal about her political views.
Most countries take pride in patriotism. But our country doesn't. Anything patriotic, is considered too 'nationalist' for people to support. A brilliant movie, about a brilliant person, played by a brilliant actor should have been appreciated to say the least.
But as I read the reviews, I realized that people's personal dislike for Kangana, and their political views have made them reach unprecedented levels of ignorance.
Seriously? The movie made up the name Manu because Tanu weds Manu was successful? I have read that Manikarnika was called Manu, and no she lived long before Tanu weds Manu was released!! At least come up with better criticism!!
The liberals love animals. All animals except cows!! Of all the things in the movie, this is what they choose to comment on!
Well, sitting in AC offices, people cannot imagine what life was like then. What did they expect in a movie about war? Yes. There was dramatization. It is cinema. Cinema that offers entertainment, as opposed to a documentary.
I would say for people who do not like Kangana Ranaut, please skip this one. Please watch Simmba. Appreciate Sara Ali Khan – who had a 10 minute role in which she played a Masterchef Bimbo. Then go on a rant on how 'talented' she is, and how there is no such thing as nepotism.
Fellow Kangana fans – This is a treat to watch!
For the people who are proud of Indian history, go for it. Not for Kangana, but to watch the story of this great warrior. The woman who was fierce and fearless. We have read about her in school. But her story deserves to be seen on the big screen.


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Q: How should I work around WinRT JS saying null is "null"? So I recently had a face-palm moment with Javascript and WinRT. Basically, I'm developing a WinRT API, so it should work well with Javascript, C++, and C#. I have a property in the API that does special stuff if the passed in value is null. So, for instance:
public string Foo
{
  get
  {
    return foobar.ToString();
  }
  set
  {
    if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(value))
    {
      foobar=SomeSpecialValue;
      return;
    }
    ParseIntoFoobar(value);
  }
}

This seems like a perfectly fine property to me. However, when you use something like this from Javascript:
myFoobar.foo=null;

The result is a parsing exception thrown from ParseIntoFoobar Why? Because apparently the value of null in Javascript is "null" as in a string containing the word null`
From the documentation I've seen, this should result in either a conversion to null for C#, or it should result in an empty string, not this goofy result. In fact, you can make some really unintuitive behavior that makes no sense to me. Projection:
public string Biz{get;set;}

Javascript:
myObject.biz=null;
log(myObject.biz==null); //results in false

What is the best way to work around this "feature"? What should I do about things where I want to detect null, but where "null" as a string isn't exactly invalid? (think username or some such)

A: You could just use empty string "" (string.Empty) which will be universally accepted.
My "guess" about why null isn't acceptable is probably because of some type mapping trickery that is happening to make everything compatible. C++ might be doing something weird like translating a null reference into a '\0' (null character), which would then be an empty string.


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Niki: I'm Niki Christoff and welcome to Tech'ed Up. Today we're talking about non-fungible tokens or NFTs. If you're already confused, don't despair! We have blockchain expert Macey Smith in the studio to cover the basics of this new marketplace and why it matters -- even if you're not a billionaire art collector, a gamer, or Mark Cuban.
A note to our listeners: In this episode, we mistakenly refer to the iconic Bored Ape NFTs as "bored monkeys" before correcting ourselves. I want to personally apologize to any primates we may have offended.
Niki: Good morning.
Macey: Good morning.
Niki: Macey Smith, welcome to Tech'ed Up. Thank you for coming on.
Macey: Yeah. Thrilled to be here.
Niki: It is bright and early on a Washington DC morning. You're drinking black coffee. [Macey: Yes!] And we're here to talk NFTs: WTF? No one knows what they are. [laughs] Can you help us?
Macey: Yeah. So, you know, I love the purpose of your podcast because I love to kind of just get down to the basics. So, NFT stands for non-fungible token. What the heck is that? Um, ultimately, it means that it's one of a kind, it can't be changed. It can't be divisible. Like, a fungible token would be crypto. You can split up Ethereum into, y'know, pieces of Ethereum. Non-fungible means it cannot be split up. So, these are things that are entirely unique.
The first Monet painting. The first Playboy centerfold photo. Um, maybe the first piece of art that a child drew. The reason why this is important is because when things are unique, there can only be one owner of the original. And that's what makes these things so interesting to people, especially collectors, but can be really valuable to other people in other circumstances down the line, which we'll talk a little bit about later.
Niki: Okay. So we're going to back up a beat [chuckle] because even in your intro, you've said stuff [Macey: Okay] that I think some people may not get. So, a non-fungible token [Macey: mm-hmm] can't be broken up. What does this have to do with crypto as an ecosystem? People pay for these things with cryptocurrency? [Macey: Yeah] The blockchain technology, which we talked about in our last episode, makes it so that you can't scam people about the ownership [Macey: Yeah]--can you, am I getting it right?
Macey: Yeah, yeah, so- Okay, so an NFT is a digital asset. And the asset is held on a blockchain. And when people think about blockchain, they think about crypto because crypto tokens are created on the blockchain. Ethereum is the most commonly used blockchain for NFTs right now. And the way it plays into the crypto ecosystem, you must be a part of the Ethereum blockchain in order to put your digital asset on the blockchain or your NFT.
Niki: So you have just explained something to me that I didn't know. So I know that there is a blockchain for Bitcoin, and you use that to trade or buy Bitcoin or mine it. [Macey: mm-hmm] It's all on that blockchain. So, what you're telling me is that Ethereum is a different blockchain. The unit of currency is ether and that is the blockchain you've got to be a part of to trade non-fungible tokens, NFTs-
Macey: It's the most common one right now-
Niki: Got it. [Macey: Yes, Yep] So I'm just going to read some headlines, [Macey: Okay] real headlines.
"Time Magazine's NFT launch sends gas fees spiraling." [chuckle] "An NFT game strives to unite utility with assets in a post-apocalyptic world." Okay. No one knows what any of that means.
[both laugh]
I don't even know what that means or what it's trying to say! [more laughter] But It's like we're being punked by the mainstream media, like no one knows, but, what my, the gist of what I think it is, and what you've just explained is, it's a marketplace for these digital items that could be artwork, that could be anything with like a watermark on it. And you're, you're trading ownership of it.
So, for example, Jack Dorsey's first tweet, he recently sold as an NFT. [Macey: mm-hmm] I think it was getting, like, two and a half million dollars. The tweet still lives on Twitter. [Macey:Right] But whomever owns it, has Jack Dorsey's permission to own it. They have the metadata, [Macey: Yeah] it's like a signed photograph, but it doesn't mean it disappears from the internet. So, this is really about people having ownership of something unique. [Macey: Right] Is that what the value is?
Macey: I think, so, that's the value to collectors. People will go on eBay and they'll buy a really old photo that's signed. It may be, y'know, the only photo of some famous baseball player. For some reason, people love having the first and only of things and pay a ton of money for it. I think, from a business perspective, what's interesting is these are going to be traded the same way as physical goods. There's always supply and demand, and what the price is just depends on what people are willing to pay. Who cares if it's not tangible. Right? People love having a one-of-a-kind thing. Now there's kind of the market where you have the folks who are willing to pay a lot of money for something really silly, but still, it's a market, right? If there is demand for this, people are going to supply it.
Niki: So, some of the hottest NFTs right now are CryptoPunks, which are these little pixelated heads that people use as their avatar. And I can't even imagine spending money on one, but people are spending money on them because they want a CryptoPunk to define their digital identity instead of, say, a headshot. [Macey: mm-hmm] They want this thing that looks like it's from a 1980s video game, [Macey: Yeah] pixilated, whatever. But the point isn't that I don't think it's valuable or that people should be spending money. People are spending money on it. So there's a market. [Macey: Yeah] So, I think the marketplace is called Open Sea? Is that the-
Macey: [interrupts] That's the most popular one.
Niki: That's the most popular. So, people go onto that. It's on the Ethereum blockchain. They've got their ethers [Macey: Yeah] ready to buy stuff, and they're buying these unique items. [Macey: Yeah] Ok.
Macey: Yeah, yeah. For a lot of money. Just to take a step back. [pause] The world is going digital, right? I was actually talking to my fiance last night, talking to him about how I'm coming to do this podcast. And I was so excited, and he's like, "I would never hang digital art on my wall." Well, don't you think people also used to say, "No, I would never go stay in a strange person's house." Yet now Airbnb is like a multi-billion dollar company, y'know, and as you may think at the time, that's a crazy idea. I bet you five to ten years down the line, no one's going to think it's crazy anymore. Y'know, you may want a tangible Monet hanging on your wall. I bet you walk into billionaire's houses five to ten years from now, and they have those frames, y'know, now you buy a Samsung TV [Niki: mm-hmm] in a frame and when it's off, it's like a piece of art.
Niki: [surprised] I had- I was not aware that that was an option!
Macey: It's a thing. It's a thing! [both laugh] And people are paying a ton of money for it. [Niki: Yeah] So it seems so silly, but I think it's going to happen. Everything changes; It just seems crazy at the time until it actually happens.
Niki: This is why I'm so glad you came on as a guest because you have this enthusiasm for this space that I think others are dubious about, but you're right! And I think with, what I'm struggling with is the idea that we are really moving from an analog to a digital society, right? That everything is going to be online. If you're a billionaire with a Monet, only a few people see it, but if you're a billionaire who owns a really expensive digital item, a lot of people know you own it. [Macey: Yeah] So, there's some value in that maybe, and also maybe more people can enjoy it or absorb it. Is that the idea?
Macey: Yeah! At the end of the day, people just like to own things that they think are cool and that they can brag about and whether it's something physical or not- and digital is sexy now, y'know? Blockchain is sexy. So people love to say, "Oh, I own an NFT." [Niki: Yeah] Mark Cuban says it--it's cool. Elon Musk says it--it's cool. Y'know, and Mark Cuban's all about NFTs now. So, I think he's really stirring up the market. But it's, I don't think it's just for the super-wealthy. I think that there are other opportunities for people who may be looking for a way to create income for themselves to utilize this. So, right now, I think it costs about a hundred dollars to, um, mint your digital asset to, to the Ethereum blockchain, your NFT. [Niki: Ok] So, assuming you have, you know, a hundred dollars to buy a fraction of an ETH, which then you use to mint, y'know your digital asset to the blockchain, let's say someone finds that and loves it and pays a thousand dollars for it. That's a whole new market for the unemployed and for the unbanked. Right? Who don't have enough money to start a bank account or take out a loan. So, I don't think that's occurring quite yet, commonly, but I think it's a really neat business opportunity that I don't see why there would be any problem, y'know people creating a miniature business like that, like, a micro-business doing that.
Niki: I think that's such an interesting idea of where this could go. Because I think of it, again, as middle-schoolers and they're all bored out of their gourds. So, there was this article that actually inspired this episode about this 12-year-old in England who created, like, a whale [Macey: mm-hmm] NFT. It was like a pixelated-I keep saying, pixelated, I may not even be using that term correctly, but-
Macey: [interrupts] It's, like, cartoonish.
Niki: A cartoonish whale. He sold it. He made tens of thousands of dollars off of it, which frankly, I don't think is a bad thing for middle schoolers to be doing. [Macey: yeah!] But more interesting is what you said about emerging markets. [Macey: mm-hmm] So, if you have people who might have a digital asset that they can then sell globally to someone else. It does create a business model for them, even if in their small town or their country, they can't go to the market and sell it for the same amount of money. That's sort of the vision you're talking about.
Macey: Yeah, yeah and there's also, not to get into it too much, but when you mint your, um, asset, you can set up a smart contract where every time the ownership is sold, you receive some of that payment– [Niki: I see, so]
Both: It's like a royalty.
Niki: Got it! Okay, so it's royalties on your digital asset [Macey: yeah!] that you've sold. So it could be artwork. It could be music [Macey: mm-hmm], it could be anything that's digital [Macey: yeah]. And what you're encouraging me to do, is to think through a world in which we care more about those digital luxury items, the rare things that we can buy that are non-fungible [Macey: yeah], but also that have a watermark that are unique in the future.
Macey: [quickly] I don't think everyone will move in that direction, but a lot of people will. A lot of people do a lot of things on the internet that I didn't even know until I started reading about it, like gamers. NFTs are now being traded through video games. I think you had mentioned that earlier because they want unique, like, clothing items or tools in their video game. Like, people live online. And I think it's hard for us to imagine the market because that's not a, y'know, a part of the world that we're used to seeing, but that's why I think that this is- it's inevitable.
Niki: It's inevitable 'cause it makes me think of Wall-E where they're in their little, y'know, chairs, pushing a button with one finger, [Macey: [chuckles] yeah] and I think it freaks me out. We're in these abstract early days where the use cases seem sort of bizarre to people who aren't gamers or Mark Cuban or Elon Musk [Macey: yeah], but the potential is that it could, it could be pervasive and widely accessible the way that eBay is. [Macey: yeah] Anybody spelunking around looking for a unique thing, can find it, pay for it. And then that creates income for the person who has it [Macey: mmhmm], created it, or happens to own it–
Macey: Yeah. Yeah.
Niki:So, I, this is very interesting, so you mentioned a Playboy centerfold. [Macey: laughs] Would it be that the person who owns it digitizes it and then sells the rights to the, the, unique Playboy centerfold?
Macey: Yeah. Like, y'know, nowadays you take a photo and it's saved as a digital image. Whether you take it on your phone or- y'know, all cameras are digital. So then, they could sell- Playboy who is actually entering the NFT market-
Niki: Oh, I did not know that. [Macey: Yeah] Okay. So, this is a real example. They want to get into NFTs–
Macey: They could say this was the photo taken of this centerfold. It's the one that's going to be published in the magazine, but here is the original digital copy. And somebody could buy it. Like, can you imagine? [hushed voice] Pamela Anderson, if they had done that back in the day, how much people would pay for the first and only digital copy of, y'know, the Pamela Anderson centerfold?
Niki:Yeah, or Farrah Fawcett in her swimsuit. [Macey: [laughs] Yeah, or Farrah Fawcett!] Yeah! And I'm sure there are people that will find this sort of appalling, but I feel like if it's an income stream…[Macey: Yeah!] Because of the difficulty of copyright enforcement [Macey: mm-hmm], in some ways, this is a way with the smart contracts that you can continue to earn royalties in an open ledger, I think?! It's not going to be as behind the scenes as maybe some trading of artwork is now, which is sort of remote and opaque and nobody knows.
Macey: Yeah, I mean people can [pause] hide their identity, y'know, because you, you, ultimately just have a unique, y'know, random generated key that is your identity, but there are ways that if you wanted to, you could say that you bought the first centerfold, but the other great thing is everything is anonymous.
So, here's another way that NFTs I think can be used. So, a lot of people I think, eventually, will use, and are using, Bitcoin to back loans, right? Because it's pretty stable. Um, and they're able to use it to, to back maybe major loans that they're taking out. NFTs can be used actually the same way on the Ethereum blockchain. So, if I was the guy who bought the $26 million bored monkey NFT from Sotheby's, which actually happened, it's this funny picture of this monkey with like glasses on and $26 million crazy-
Niki: [interrupts] Bored like the emotion. He's bored?-
Macey: Yeah. Bored monkey is what it's called. Um, I could use that to back a loan that I take from someone else in the ecosystem. So, whereas banks now provide you with a loan and then you have to give some sort of collateral, let's say, y'know, your house or your car, you can use NFTs as collateral. Now, a potential risk is, let's say bored monkey two weeks ago, it was worth 26 million. But all of a sudden, the market decided we don't really give a crap about NFTs anymore. And now bored monkey's worth $0, right?
[Niki:Right] At which point, y'know, your loaner is not very happy because the collateral isn't really worth anything. And they just have to hope that you pay them back because now your NFT is worthless.
Niki: So, is it, I think it might be Bored Apes?
Macey:Bored Apes! Bored Apes! [laughs]
Niki: I'm only saying this because I want to make sure people know. [Macey: Yeah [laughs], Bored Apes!] But to be honest, when I first read about it [Macey:Yeah], I was just like, what? [Macey:Yeah] And then, I just moved right along. Just kept it moving. [Macey: Yes, Bored Apes!] 'Cause I was like, what's a Bored Ape? So, yes, [laughs] so, Bored Ape, a picture of a bored ape. A digital version of it can be used as collateral.
Niki: Yup! it's worth, wait, how much? Millions of dollars–
Macey: They paid 26 million–yeah.
Niki: Yeah, it could be, could be collateral for a loan unless the Bored Apes market collapses. And then- but that's true for anything you might be using as collateral.
Macey: Sure, Sure. But I think because the market is so uncertain- like, the housing market's been around forever, right? Car market's been around, but because this market is so uncertain, people are probably less likely to hold it as collateral, but you can. And, imagine you bought an NFT for a hundred dollars, and I, then, used your NFT as collateral on a loan that I gave you. And all of a sudden, that NFT becomes worth a million dollars. You default on your loan; the smart contract, all of a sudden, gives me your NFT.
Niki: And your point is it doesn't matter if I think a Bored Ape should be worth a penny, [Macey: Yeah], what matters [Macey: [softly] the market], is what the market thinks. We were talking once about gold [Macey: mm-hmm]. So, a lot of people talk about Bitcoin as digital gold, because it's limited it's, you know, for all of these reasons, it's mined, there's a set quantity of it, and you made a good point–
Macey: Why do people count on gold as being valuable? Like, it's just a thing. It's [pause] y'know, like, people say that gold is the backing for the dollar, but I also find it funny that we walk around with little pieces of paper in our hands and it buys us things. It's all based on what people think is valuable and that's how cryptocurrency is valued. Do people think Bitcoin is valuable? Yes. So they're paying more for it. Do they think Ethereum is valuable? Y'know? Yes. They're paying more for it. Do they think that crap coins like Dogecoin–
Niki: Shit coins [both laugh], not crap coins.
Both: Shit coins!
Niki: We can say it cause that's what people call it.
Macey: So hilarious! [Niki: Laughs] I mean, y'know, let's be honest! Maybe one day, Dogecoin can be used as the common currency for something. I highly doubt it, but people think it's a joke, so it's not worth anything. But at the time, the craze made it valuable. So people made a lot of money on it. It just–
Niki: It's the Beanie Babies of our age. Do you know what a Beanie Baby is?
Macey: Yeah. Yes, I do. [Niki: Laughs] little plush thingy, right? Yeah, yeah.
Niki: They were super valuable. I got a Cabbage Patch kid. I can't even imagine what my parents paid for that thing–
Macey: Or like Pokemon cards. Why do people pay so much money for Pokemon? I don't even, I don't get it at all. But I don't have to, [Niki: So, it's not] it's valuable. If I found a hundred dollars of Pokemon card on the ground, I'd probably be happy. 'Cause I'd think, "Shit, I can sell it for a hundred bucks."
Niki: And think that that's the point, right? Everything we value, we just value because it is. [Macey: Yeah] It's worth something to people. [Macey: Yeah!] And that's what this is.
Macey: Yeah! I had one funny thought I wanted to share. So, when I saw that a pair of digital designer sneakers were sold as an NFT, digital! [Niki: Ok, so] Ok, so people can, like, take a picture of themselves, so they have the digital version and somehow there's some app where they can put the sneakers on themselves and take a photo. [Niki: Ok] But they're unique sneakers. No one else has them. I think that is hilarious, by the way. [laughs] But can you imagine, y'know, how Instagram has these influencers these days and they wear these clothes and then you're like, "Oh, I love that top. It's from Saks. I'm going to go to Saks and buy it." Can you imagine that's a way that these artists, who are developing these NFTs, can market their products? Which is why I think that there could be a market out there for this because people already do this. And, people love it. Clearly, somebody paid $10,000 for sneakers that they will never be able to wear. [Niki: Right?] But they're in photos wearing them. And how do we market ourselves and how do we socialize these days? Over the internet!
Niki: People are wearing them online. And that is where a lot of people's presence is. [Macey:Yeah] It's how they're connecting with other people. [Macey: Yeah] So, the image you project, including if you have very cool, hard-to-get [Macey:Yeah], arty sneakers...by the way, I try to buy washable cashmere, like, at least once a quarter, off of Instagram [Macey: laughs], which leads me to, I do think we should have a warning for people. You want to be thoughtful about scams. And I read about people [Macey: Yeah] getting kind of scammed where they, if they give their little code, [Macey: mm-hmm] key, if someone else gets ahold of it, they can lose all of their value.
Macey: Yeah. That is always a risk. They are making physical wallets, these days almost like USBs [Niki: Ok] so that you can't lose that. To be honest with you, I just keep my key in, oh, I probably shouldn't tell people this, but in a certain place with a password protecting it, but I mean, that's the whole security of it; if you lose your key, yeah, you could lose millions of dollars.
Niki: I have a friend who works in, kind of, the password space [Macey:mm-hmm] and he said almost every password in Washington, D.C., is on a piece of paper taped under people's keyboards.
Macey:Yeah, yeah!! I know. It's crazy.
Niki: Don't lose your key!! [Macey: I know!] If you buy this stuff, you've got to keep track of your key.
Macey: I know, yeah! Yeah, I do hope that if you do have millions of dollars, you would have, like, maybe a safe in your house with it written down, you know? Somewhere that you can't lose it.
Niki: In your panic room?
Macey: Yeah, in your panic room! But, I'm thinking, if you're a big crypto trader and you have a lot of money on the blockchain, you're probably keeping your keys somewhere pretty safe. [Niki: [laughs] Yes] I would hope!
Niki: So, I now think we've evolved beyond what regular people are doing [Macey: yeah], but I love your enthusiasm for this space. And I also love that you're thinking about it, not just as gambling on what it could be worth [Macey: mm-hmm], right? But the idea that a person who owned something that they've designed, living anywhere in the world, can sell it to people who think it's valuable. [Macey: mm-hmm] Things are only as valuable as we decide they are. And right now, things that are valuable are online.
Macey: Yeah! We've got to get with the program.
Niki: You have explained, in this episode, something, truly, which is the reason I started this podcast. Thank you for breaking it down for everyone.
Macey: Yeah, this was fun.
Niki: This was fun. Thank you, Macey.
Macey:Thank you!
Niki: Next week, we continue our Crypto 101 series, and I talk to SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce about the Feds. Stay tuned by following Tech'ed Up wherever you get your podcasts. Video content is available on YouTube, the link is in the show notes.