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When you think about it, this makes perfect sense. Surnames are heritable, and so are likely factors that contribute to longevity. If those who live longer have more children, on average, over time their male offspring, bearing the same surname, will form a larger fraction of the population, resulting in their surnames becoming more frequent.
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The crosswalk discriminates and insults the feelings of the color-blind
That’s how it looks to protanopics:
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Looking more closely at the chart in comment #1972, I think the uniformity of the curves between 1930 and 1960 is an artefact of sparse data availability, probably due to World War II and postwar disruption. If you mouse-over the chart on Our World in Data, you’ll see that there are no data for years between 1930 and 1960, which has the result of the plot for every country being a straight line between those two years. This doesn’t mean that public social spending took off simultaneously in 1930, but rather that it grew dramatically between 1930 and 1960, with no idea of when the actual growth occurred. If most of the growth came from relief measures during the Great Depression or instead in the boom years of the 1950s, the chart would look identical.
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Since you mention comment #1972, I have to share this page as well:
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This phenomenon was discussed here in a comment to a post on 2022-09-15 on “Le Chatelier’s Principle”, citing the “WTF Happened In 1971?” site mentioned in this article, where many more charts are presented which appear to have dramatic inflection points around 1971, and not just in the U.S. but globally.
It’s almost like somebody started messing with the money in which global commerce is conducted and is used for long-term investment in the human future. As that page concludes,
I don’t believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can’t take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can’t stop.
— F.A. Hayek 1984
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White lines matter.
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Oh the horror, to make someone move around a bit, to earn their keep!
Of course the real horror is when government/culture rewards the inactive life – and gifts from God are not used but buried.
And this goes for individuals, as well as FOR BIG BANKS CORPORATIONS LIKE JP MORGAN – BURIED GIFTS/RESOURCES DESTROY SOCIETIES.
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That’s how it looks to protanopics:
That flag doesn’t look too bad. The color scheme of navy blue, gold, and silver could work for Navy’s football team.
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Isn’t 1971 when the world went from a gold backed currency to the petrodollar? At least the globalists’ agenda made that shift in 71 and then carried it out in 72?
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They called it “Nixon shock”, 1971-08-15. President not-a-crook said, in a television address from the White House:
We must protect the position of the American dollar as a pillar of monetary stability around the world. In the past 7 years, there has been an average of one international monetary crisis every year… I have directed Secretary Connally to suspend temporarily the convertibility of the dollar into gold or other reserve assets, except in amounts and conditions determined to be in the interest of monetary stability and in the best interests of the United States. Now, what is this action—which is very technical—what does it mean for you? Let me lay to rest the bugaboo of what is called devaluation. If you want to buy a foreign car or take a trip abroad, market conditions may cause your dollar to buy slightly less. But if you are among the overwhelming majority of Americans who buy American-made products in America, your dollar will be worth just as much tomorrow as it is today. The effect of this action, in other words, will be to stabilize the dollar.
How did that stabilisation work out? Well, between July 1971 and July 1981, ten years later, the dollar lost 55.6% of its purchasing power and by April 2023, the dollar lost 86.6% of its value according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI Inflation Calculator.
Well, the man did say, “market conditions may cause your dollar to buy slightly less”. “[P]illar of monetary stability around the world“…heh.
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The bugaboo is now waking up. It’s well rested too…
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I believe, yes, that Chevron deference will go away, whether via the EPA lawsuit or via an ATF lawsuit.
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Filed in Delaware state court:
Recently, we’ve seen a number of left wing plaintiffs file in Delaware state courts.
Interesting considerations of politics vs. the state industry of being a corporate haven.
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In what parallel universe is the executive director of a board whose “purpose was to ensure that DHS followed best practices in combatting disinformation while protecting Americans’ freedom of speech, privacy and civil liberties” not a public figure?
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Not a chance in my opinion. The deep state will not allow things to happen that would threaten the deep state’s control over society. They have Epstein level compromat on enough justices to ensure a 5-4 ruling in favor of Chevron. Should it go away? Yes. Will it? Not a chance.
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Case will likely be in Wilmington—I didn’t read the story—so the jury pool is going to favor Snowball’s claims.
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In the universe where you shut the hell up and let the Despots do what the hell they want.
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Jankowicz complaint:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23809460-2023-05-10-jankowicz-complaint-as-filed
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2.Several of these falsehoods stand out as especially destructive—and directly contrary to available, verifiable evidence. To bolster its fabricated, bullying narrative of Jankowicz, Fox falsely claimed that: 1) Jankowicz intended to censor Americans’ speech; 2) Jankowicz was fired from her position with the federal government; and 3) Jankowicz wanted to give verified Twitter users, including herself, the power to edit others’ tweets.
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