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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Tesla owners find that batteries don’t work in cold weather. = = = = = START QUOTE: This week’s frigid winter conditions exposed the shortcomings of certain electric vehicles, particularly Teslas. In the Oak Brook suburb of Chicago, Illinois, where temperatures have routinely dipped way below freezing, local media reported public charging stations turning into…
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Another argument for Foy
Compact Mag has a powerful article on an obscure British scandal. What happens when you trust the machine more than humans? Lots of innocent people end up in jail. In 2000 the British post office hired Fujitsu to build a software system linking all the post office branches in stores and other locations to the…
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Overthinking
Protos tracks the predictable “sides” responding to the SEC’s approval of the Blackrock takeover of bitcoin. (After a premature front-running “fake” message gave the shorts a chance to move the price.) Both “sides” are overthinking. Ockham. Get rid of the pinhead angels. It’s quite simple. Larry Fink wants to own the bitcoin market, therefore Larry…
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Shorters are the worst.
Bastard. In 2020 he was fiercely advocating more lockdowns and more quarantines. Now he’s helping to spread silly “anti” rumors about the same things he helped to create in 2020. Short. Short. Short. He was shorting normal business in 2020, now he’s shorting Pharma. Shorters are the worst criminals. They sometimes tell the truth, which…
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Finally a bit of sanity!
Elle Griffin writes some SANITY about college. Even better, she’s writing about a FEW colleges that have reverted to the Anderson model. They’re not tiny startups; they’re big universities with lots of money available. = = = = = START QUOTE: BYU is followed by a dozen colleges and universities hoping to do the same—among…
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Vivek drops
Drops out and endorses Trump. Not a shock but still disappointing. I’d be happier if he quit without betraying his followers. He’s too realistic to believe he ever had a chance. From the start he was obviously auditioning or rehearsing for something else, probably not a conventional political office. I still like Vivek. He brought…
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Wrong variable
Headline: Facebook and Instagram Allegedly Hook Youngsters with Dopamine Triggering Tactics That’s a constant, not a variable. Every successful business tries to hook customers by manipulating pleasure vs pain. The variable is what the product does after you’re hooked. If the product is food or clothing or furniture or harmless sensory experiences like chewing gum…
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Defeated the purpose
Pneumatic control systems have long been used in places like mines and grain elevators where a spark could cause an explosion. Around 1930 there was a burst of patents for pneumatic computers and typewriters, which didn’t seem to be aimed toward safety because most had electric motors and some were ‘adapters’ for electric typewriters. Most…
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Thinks it’s ironic
Post in Buttcoin, Reddit’s home for bitcoin skeptics: = = = = = START QUOTE: At last we have centralized trading of BitCoin for privileged first world citizens on a government-regulated exchange, with merchant bankers clipping the ticket on every transaction! This is the turning point that Satoshi dreamed of. Combine this with the whales…
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Are they learning?
Along with most of the country we’re getting a few days of supercold GLOBAL WARMING. Avista has been sending out the usual WARMING WARNINGS, asking customers to conserve as much as possible. Today, though the supercold GLOBAL WARMING isn’t entirely finished, Avista sent this email: = = = = = START QUOTE: Dear Customer, We…
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If humans…
Congress has made the extremely difficult and courageous decision to postpone its ONLY JOB for another three months, so it can later make the extremely difficult and courageous decision to postpone its ONLY JOB for another three months, and so ad infinitum. Writing the budget is the ONLY JOB of Congress. It is ALLOWED to…
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Dodge got there first!
This is amazing. Our standard myth, which I believed until right now, told us that VW and other rear-engine cars had rollover-prone single joint swing axles until the ’60s when VW “invented” the parallel two joint swing axle. Nope. DODGE ROUTE VANS had independent rear suspension with parallel two-joint swing axles, and a differential mounted…
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Stoller grasps Gosbank
Matt Stoller is getting close to the Gosbank solution. He’s discussing Boeing, with a complete and accurate history. He concludes that the government needs to BUY Boeing and redistribute its production to benefit American workers instead of American shareholders. On the dot. In the Soviet system the government provided the FINANCE and also made the…
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Writes, not reads
A very old and perfectly accurate proverb: The Supreme Court reads election returns. A modern version, especially since 2000: The Supreme Court WRITES election returns. Homelessness was not caused by cities allowing camping and squatting; it was caused by Wall Street. 40 years of Holy Share Value and offshoring has devastated and destroyed the country.…
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Karma bites!
This is DEEEE-LICIOUS. The UN, after 50 years of forcing countries to destroy their own energy sources and overprice the rare remaining energy, has closed its Geneva headquarters building because it can’t pay the energy bills that it caused.
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