Bits & Bytes

AUSTIN: It’s been two years since Austin police stopped responding to non-emergency calls because of low officer numbers. Now they include in “non-emergencies” getting mugged. They recently boosted the department’s budget, so they’ve got money to update their logo, but not to put officers on the street to respond to thefts. That’s Democrat “leadership” for you, especially when your ultra-left-wing, soft-on-criminals, hard-on-law-abiding-citizens DA was put in office thanks to mega bucks provided by George Soros.

• https://notthebee.com/article/overwhelmed-austin-police-tell-citizens-to-stop-calling-911-if-theyre-getting-robbed

EVs: A recent study found that 20% of electric vehicle owners are going back to gas fueled vehicles. Reasons cited for defecting include: moving to an area without enough of the right kind of charging stations; needing a gas car for long trips; astronomical repair costs; huge environmental costs in manufacture and disposal of batteries.

• https://notthebee.com/article/a-huge-percentage-of-electric-vehicle-owners-are-defecting-and-going-back-to-internal-combustion-cars

FAUXTUS: Right after clipping the Medal of Honor on this Vietnam vet Larry Taylor, Dementia Joe walked out of the ceremony. CLICK https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1699150370088366537 [:47].

• https://notthebee.com/article/joe-biden-awkwardly-walked-off-during-a-medal-of-honor-ceremony-yesterday-and-if-you-still-think-this-guy-is-fit-to-serve-you-live-under-a-rock

MASKS: A study entitled “An Experimental Study of the Efficacy of Gauze Face Masks” was published in the American Journal of Public Health (NY) in January of 1920. The researchers concluded that masks were not “efficient enough to warrant compulsory application for the checking of epidemics. … This investigation is scientific in character, omitting no one of the necessary factors. It ought to settle the much argued question of masks for the public.”

• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18010229/
• https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/masks-spanish-flu-1918/

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hwuRkJMo_4 [2:32] to view Volume 7 – 2012: Texas tries to increase road safety. 2013: The University of Vermont eliminates single-use bottled water from campus vending machines. 1900: Argentina institutes a bachelor tax.

GRAMMY NOTES: if you haven’t tried non-Crayolas at least once, are you really a parent?

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L5PPKfWwIUY for a fun Judi Dench clip.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NLNBps8pJFQ to see Marley meet the foster cat.