Tag: Happy Ending
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Bravo TVA!!!
TVA was the New Deal’s prime mover in rural electrification. The related REA was starting to work toward small nuclear reactors in 1954! Now TVA is finally making good on the old promise. = = = = = START QUOTE: The nation’s largest public power company, the Tennessee Valley Authority, announced Tuesday it submitted a…
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Math pope
Prevost is a Villanova grad with a major in math. This could make him a somewhat more significant figure for nerd types. A math pope would prescribe csc as the cure for sin. When sin goes to zero, csc ascends to heaven. He would give absolution as the cure for negative feelings. An inner product…
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GOOD!
I finally located a report of the trial that I escaped from. Now I can write about it. The jury did the RIGHT THING and found these assholes GUILTY. The Hilderbrands, operating a set of dubious businesses in Spokane Valley, were found guilty on multiple fraud charges. They will be sentenced in July, up to…
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Free at last!
Did the jury thing this morning. Without breaking confidentiality**, the case was on a subject that I have EXTREMELY strong emotions about. I made it clear that I wouldn’t be able to be objective, and got freed, honestly. The ‘one day or one trial’ system means that I’m ALL FREE NOW, after one morning in…
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Seems extreme, reality is worse.
Somebody quoted a statistic that seemed too far out to be believed, so I checked it with other sources. The extreme stat: EU produces 15 million cars a year, US produces only 2 million. Really? I knew we were fucked, but we CAN’T be that fucked. No, it’s worse. From EU auto mfrs association: Car…
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Localize, localize, localize
An old song has been popping in my mental jukebox lately. I’m convinced it’s a railroad song. You can hear the locomotive chugging and a dopplered whistle, similar to Chattanooga Choochoo. The last two lines seem to be: Riding on the __ __, Riding on the __ __ line. There’s a two-syllable railroad in the…
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Looks familiar!
Skimming through some 1966 trade journals recently added at American Radio Library, this GE clock caught my eye: Hey, that looks like the clock in my living room, my main source of time when I’m not facing the computer. Sure enough, on the back it says Model 7223, just like the one in the ad.…
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Mother-in law and cliff
Speaking of beautiful old infrastructure… An old system is SUSTAINABLE by definition. Whether it’s a house or a car or a coal power plant, maintaining it and using it are CLEANER than building a new one. (As long as it’s still working properly.) Good news: An upstate New York coal plant has been restarted! Yay!…
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Judge doing his job for once!
JUDGE Alsup of the District Court in Calif has summarily ordered the Elon administration to retract its firing of all federal workers. Alsup is the only JUDGE. He knows the law and applies the law, no matter which side wins. JUDGE Alsup blocked Green loonies when they broke the law, and he blocks Elon when…
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Don’t spoil a good thing
A grammarian type on Substack is complaining that da yoots are calling LP records “vinyls”. I used to worry about such things because I’m a natural proofreader, and I used to “correct” people. I finally learned to stop. “Correction” is ALWAYS counterproductive. It doesn’t work and it only irritates the pig. You can’t apply logic…
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What would it be like?
This 1959 union film focused on plumbers and pipefitters who were training to build the pipes for nuclear reactors. Atomic power was the clean future, the reliable source of non-polluting electricity. The National Assn of Manufacturers films from that era shared the atomic dream, with more emphasis on profits and less on wages. The shared…
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ASTONISHING!
The supremes did the right thing for goddamn once! The city of San Francisco, heartland of Gaian loonies, has been carefully following the original rules for controlling sewer outflows into the ocean. The original 1972 environmental rules are mostly good, mostly restriction of truly nasty stuff like lead and sulfur dioxide. The crazy shit came…
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Self-check for cash codgers
For many years I made grocery trips as early as possible given bus schedule and daylight. Two years ago Safeway limited the hours of real checkout, so I switched to a later storetrip to stay in the real checkout. The later schedule was inconvenient in several ways: more traffic, more crowding on bus, more delays…
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Solid victory
A court has laid down an important decision against the AI thieves. An AI gang was stealing info from Reuters’s Westlaw database and using it to build its own competing product. The judge found that Reuters’s copyrights were infringed by the thieves. In this specific case there won’t be an actual payment because the thief…
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Good nuke news
A pro-nuke substacker caught an instructive switch in bureaucratic direction. A law passed by the mixed-party congress in July 2024 (before the election) and signed by Democrat Biden REQUIRED the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to stop blocking new construction and start encouraging it. The agency predictably did nothing until Trump’s new head of nuclear policy changed…
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