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Unsafe at pants speed
Speaking of EVs being unsafe at any speed, check out this local incident. He had a little flashlight with a lithium battery on his key fob, and it blew up in his pants pocket. Serious burns over much of his body, helicoptered to Seattle for special care. Old-fashioned dry batteries get corroded and crusty after…
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Big Science vs Big History
An observation about two disciplines. The big science magazines have been lost in politics for a LONG time, not just the Trump era. SciAm was already lost in the 70s. NewScientist dropped into politics around 2000. Nature has also been there for a while, though I don’t read it regularly enough to spot the change.…
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Fuck.
I got a reprieve from jury shit last week but didn’t escape entirely. Will have to be there on Monday. FUCK. At least the one day or one trial system is better than the county setup where you always spend a few days waiting and marching back and forth. In the fed system you appear…
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Read it.
I mostly stopped reading Compact Mag. They have an occasional interesting article but too much ordinary conservative think-tank material. Their latest article rises to the top. It’s the BEST piece of writing I’ve seen in a LONG time. The author lives in Wales, where the British Gaian globalists have been sending coal and steel abroad…
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You have to learn
Comment seen on substack: so now people are pretending like you need an editor to be on substack?! lmaoooo the point is to get rid of gatekeepers and hurdles and barriers shut uupp i write in lowercase and sometimes not and i definitely make typos and none of it serious. we’re all exploring our writing…
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Manweller wins every fucking time
Manweller’s Rule: “Elections” only count when they agree with the ruler. No “election” can be allowed to do the right thing. If any candidate or proposition attempts to do good, the parties will first remove all support and funding from the good thing. If that fails, the “election” or “proposition” will be summarily rejected. Spokane’s…
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Teamites will be teamites
Wolf’s readers often contribute stories from their own experience. This is far more valuable than any sort of generalized observation no matter how well informed. In yesterday’s column on the sudden “unexpected” failure of Elon’s unusable undrivable unsafe illegal Cybrtrk, a marketer tells us why modern businesses choose to appeal ONLY to one religion. This…
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Repooflican wet dream
Repooflicans serve billionaires openly. Democrats serve billionaires more quietly. Rich fuckheads HATE taxes and HATE paying for ANYTHING, so Repooflicans obediently HATE taxes and persuade the fools that we’re all billionaires. Trump is finally doing what the Repooflicans wanted. He’s wiping out the IRS along with all other useful parts of the government, leaving only…
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Zenith Flash-matic
An odd tech dead end from 1956. I got a hint of this while browsing old radio-TV trade journals, then looked it up. Zenith was the king of gadgets and gimmicks. Everything they made had at least one fascinating mechanical or electronic feature. The shutter dial on late 30s radios was the best of all.…
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Literally to the choir
Ross Douthatt, a conservative Catholic who has been writing for NYTimes for many years, has a new book titled “Everyone should go to church.” I got tired of Catholic intellectuals a long time ago. Ockham got tired of them 700 years ago. They have an endless appetite for detailed argument about insignificant matters. In this…
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Full moon
Spokane News reports: Officer in pursuit of male fleeing on bicycle. Update: Speeds exceeding 7 MPH! Nuff said.
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Law of selective camouflage
The law of selective gravity is well known. A food particle that falls on the floor MUST bounce and roll into an inaccessible location, even if it has to bounce up over a threshold. A separate camouflage law applies to the unfortunate particle that can’t bounce out of reach. 1. Brown food like bread and…
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What do we pay for?
Thinking about courts and juries led to a comparison of doctors vs lawyers. In most products and services we pay for improvement. Food that gives us more taste and nutrition, entertainment that gives us more pleasure, cars that give us more enjoyable travel. In earlier decades, both lawyers and doctors matched this pattern. We paid…
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Truth in advertising
Auto writers uniformly say that Ford made a big mistake by emphasizing safety in ’56. Nobody wants safety! First, Ford wasn’t alone in the “mistake”. Everyone started offering seat belts and padded dashes in ’56. Imperial and Chrysler had standard padding since ’49. Second, it’s simply not true that everyone hates safety. Real men are…
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Krauts are always Krauts
This article from UK Telegraph is written by an experienced British army man who knows a thing or two about tanks. He says the Kraut tanks being used in Ukraine are failing for the same reasons that Krauts lost WW2. First, Kraut machinery is brittle and precise, while Russian machinery is flexible and easy to…
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