HEINLEIN GOT IT RIGHT, YET AGAIN: Ford has filed a patent application for a system which will facilitate repossession. And you can be damn sure that government will ask companies to “cooperate” by using this system on vehicles and persons of interest to law enforcement.
MOST BIZARRE NEWS STORY YOU’LL READ TODAY: Police and/or prosecutorial incompetence on a grand scale. A suspect who used the TV show The Wire as a textbook. A sweet potato used as a silencer.
WATERMELONS LET THE MASK SLIP: Greta Thunberg is in the news again. This time the chipper nordic maiden, and international happiness ambassador, reminds us that windmill farms are totally not okay in areas with low population density and high generative potential. Because indigenous people live there and the windmills might disturb the reindeer, or something.
ANOTHER SECESSION PIECE: Via the Mises Institute. Money quote: The emotional nature of this opposition to secession can be seen in the fact that the opposition grants no middle ground in the debate. The only allowable options are the status quo or war. Classic false choice. (This article was also republished by Zero Hedge).
THE DAY HELL FROZE OVER: NYC Democrat mayor bemoans lack of prayer in public schools.
“(This article was also republished by Zero Hedge).”
So you are saying it was the Jews?
LOL
*golf claps*
In the zerohedge comments, that’s the only possible reason.
I guess Greta just wants us all to die from exposure, starvation, or wild animals.
All of us, yes. Her, not so much.
She would happily get her hygge on while the lessers froze to death.
Right?!
Word for the day! Thanks, KS.
I bought some hygge cross stitch patterns. They’re cute as a bug’s ear.
That always struck me as an odd expression. Is there some American bug with cute ears I don’t know about?
Fluffy moths have rather cute ears.
https://leafyplace.com/fluffy-fuzzy-moths/
Crabs?
Cheers guys. The Dutch have a very similar concept they call gezellig. It really describes a part of their national character and I’d say they are certainly Scandinavian adjacent in many ways.
Are ye saying that her grip will make her say arrrrrrrr soon, matey?
I see she’s got piercings, she paid a buck an ear.
I’d still plunder her booty.
Just saying.
Finger on the trigger no less.
And leg, weight, and forehand placement….Besides the loss of an eye, I am guessing a concussion as the firearm swings upwards and around to her head as she falls backwards.
It is an H&K .22mag, I don’t think she will die of anything other than embarrassment.
+ 1 scope bite
How long before that Ford thing is required for all new vehicles? You know, for “safety”.
Oh, the government wants that so badly.
I’ve been saying for a while that self-driving cars are going to go from being suspect to human driving being outlawed in the next 20 years once politicians realize the potential of being able to control your every movement. For safety of course.
I’m not giving up control over my mobility. Period. End of discussion.
Imagine a situation where a hurricane is coming in and the governor decides that the interstate can only handle so much traffic so they start disabling vehicles for temporary periods to scale the traffic.
The temptations for the utilitarians are endless.
You’re imagining the exact same scenarios they are. You’re just too much of a deplorable to understand why it’s a good thing. Highest social credit scores get to flee first! People who dead-name trannies have to stay put. Better board up those windows. I hope you haven’t exceeded your digital dollar’s lumber allotment for the quarter!
Today the nomadic people live mostly modern lifestyles but still tend reindeer.
And thus, also hate windmills.
I hate the windmills too.
Put in a hydro plant or a nuke plant. They’ll last longer, be more reliable, and won’t look ugly and shred birds.
.
We apparently have to worry about them shredding reindeer.
I have heard shredded reindeer in lingenberry sauce is quite good.
I think they are beautiful machines,
in the right spot they can be useful.
/farmland in the midwest
They are a disaster even here in the midwest.
There are document adverse effects on people living near them. The constant sub-frequencies and flicker from the shadows hurts people.
Nope. They are insanely expensive, damaging and a disposal nightmare. MikeS has shared pics of a huge pile of blades near his place that have been there for years waiting to be “recycled.” Other than burning dung, they are probably the worst way to generate energy on the planet.
Apparently she softened on nuclear energy a while back, but hasn’t gone out of her way to promote that as an alternative.
It does seem absent in her protest that she meant to say we should give the reindeer nuclear energy.
And Sweden has how many miles of coastline and rivers and lakes upon which to situate nuke plants? Like, a brazillion.
Anybody who is a climate change true believer should be pushing nuclear 24/7. But she won’t do that, because it wouldn’t go over well with many of her supporters.
Which begs the question — does she control them, or do they control her?
Yes.
Well, if Rudolph isn’t taking the lead and the fog comes in, those blades can really mess up your landing!
Re: Ford — every single time I contemplate a new car, two things stop me… My ’03 is fully paid for and still works (and is not a maintenance problem contrary to all the Chevy hate on the ‘Net), and it is modern enough to have fuel injection and all… but without all the tracking and this sort of crap. Approaching “cold dead hands or its cold dead engine” territory, and I’m a techie.
Re: Greta — “They hate you and they want you to die” seems the pretty consistent message from all the globalists, which she either is or is happily a puppet of.
Re: Hell freezing over… I think there are a lot of leftists that are all for prayer in schools. Problem is it is for Moloch.
Thunberg is an autistic woman-child who received massive amounts of adoration for being a useful idiot. Her personality is probably well into psychopathic territory by now.
I know autism is a thing and it’s a soectrum, but there are super intelligent autists out there who can and should be taught how to read a room.
Flattery will get you everywhere…
I still don’t get an autist vibe from her.
Both Greta and David Hogg have that same dead-eyed, flat lack of affect, that makes me think Narcissistic Personality Disorder…
So you’re saying you see why they’re being groomed as future politicians?
Same.
I think her parents claimed she was on the spectrum, for what that’s worth.
I’m convinced there are some congenital issues with her, but have no clue what they could be.
Reddit has taught me that everyone’s on the spectrum.
The very parents that wanted her in the spot light. Don’t want to dimish if she is, but don’t put past parents to make it up for social points
I can so read a room!
Sure you can. For the last time, will you please put your pants on?
She isn’t psychopathic, she is just monumentally uneducated, while given unlimited adulation and a massive microphone.
Late 90s/early aughts GMC/Chevies are darn near indestructible. I really miss the old S-10 compact trucks. CAFE standards killed them.
The repossession of the auto on its own is bad enough but you just know hackers and the occasional fed will be using the system to drive people into trees and off of cliffs.
Car thieves with tech skills can just stay where they are and the cars come to them. Lyfted.
Can we get a narrow gaze over here?
Wouldn’t that put some of Hilary’s best people out of work? I’ll bet she gives them a hackable car as a “parting gift.”
I didn’t think of the hacker problem but you’re right. That should make for some interesting lawsuits. So will the ones from the billing system errors.
Up until this week I thought her name was Greta Thurnberg. Now I’m freaked out because I don’t know what else I have wrong.
Greta Thumbdrive
Let me tell you about the Bernstein Bears…
I would say fuck her but Old Man has it covered
He is only interested in one aspect of that, so other areas are free to claim.
Hmmm….
purty mouth…
“The first thing to know is that if your vehicle is connected to the internet in any way, this system could theoretically work on it.”
Do not connect your vehicle to the internet in any way. Although I see this shit getting all 1984 very soon. You’re smart refrigerator won’t open if you misgender someone on Facebook.
You have exceeded your beer ration…….
Is my smart fridge gonna be smarter than my dumb crowbar?
That’s what I was thinking, will my car refuse to drive me to work if I ignore someone’s preferred pronouns in public? The idiot corporations have become so stupidly woke I could see that happening one day.
I remain convinced the wokism at corporations will burn off when the economy crashes.
So we’ve got that going for us.
The emotional nature of this opposition to secession can be seen in the fact that the opposition grants no middle ground in the debate. The only allowable options are the status quo or war. Classic false choice.
Adorable.
Kids in college aren’t learning anything it appears.
Not seeing what exactly is wrong with this…
I don’t think the Republican party wants to abolosh the federal government, but it is still a nice idea.
It would be an accomplishment if Republicans could stop the government from increasing in size.
Malice asked what is more likely, the government going back to spending only $4 trillion a year (2019 levels) or Texas seceding.
Put like that the answer is obvious.
Increase federal spending ~50% in one year. Reduce it to only ~30% of the original. Claim fiscal responsibility!
lol. If only.
*puts finger to nose and points other finger in Hogg’s direction*
Not abolish it, so much as evict it from part of its current jurisdiction.
Of all the shitty ways to generate energy (aside from some boutique applications) wind has got to be the worst. It kills a fuckton of birds on land and seems like it may be doing the same on the sea. Aside from the fact that it isn’t particularly effective and is fugly as hell. In Maui they put a massive amount on a mountain that is a complete eyesore and generates fuck all electricity.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/12-nj-mayors-raise-alarm-offshore-wind-unprecedented-number-whale-deaths
I think wind is going to have a shorter shelf life than it’s proponents think for the reasons you stated. Of course, the rising price of electricity and coming shortages will also play a role.
Economic reality is rapidly approaching. It has a tendency to solve a lot of problems while creating a bunch more.
Excellent article on some of the current fighting in Ukraine and the Transnitria shenanigans.
Includes this money quote: Moldova is one of those little states that was predestined to be a piece of geopolitical shrapnel.
Link: https://bigserge.substack.com/p/russo-ukrainian-war-schrodingers
Long long way to say Russia has no reason to hurry.
I’ve heard Balkmut compared to Điện Biên Phủ and Stalingrad. The “no retreat” orders are remarkably similar to Hitler’s. Unlike Hitler, Zelensky doesn’t occasionally lose interest and retire to the Alps – then a Prussian Field Marshal is free to make a strategic retreat, then turn it into a vicious counter attack that annihilates a Russian Army corps.
I think the interesting part was his explanation of why the Russians are fortunate they have no reason to hurry right now.
The Ukrainians are just piling bodies up in a desperate attempt to get a win they can use to garner more support.
I said a year ago that neither Ukraine nor Russia could win, but that Russia would lose slower.
Is that someone who identifies as a water rat?
[golf clap]
Eventually, you realize that the construction of units and other organizational factors are, within reason, far more important than the minutia of the equipment and armaments, and you should have been contemplating the bureaucratic aspects the whole time, and that (tragically) the size of the cannon on the Sherman Firefly tank was not actually a particularly decisive factor in world history.
THIS IS A BLATANT LIE
HAS THIS GUY NOT SEEN HOW LONG THE BARREL WAS AND HOW COOL IT LOOKED???
It still looks cool, for the record.
Apparently he has.
I’ve been hearing for over a month now that the Russians will encircle Bakhmut any day now, and that they are firing a hundred thousand artillery rounds a day. I’ve also been hearing that tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have been killed at Bakhmut. I think both sides have their propaganda ops in full swing.
I think the Ukrainians are making a strategic error. The Russians’ weakness is their crap mobility and logistics. If the Ukrainians were willing to trade land for time, I think they could carve up a lot of overextended Russian units. But they have elected a static defense. Perfect for Russian artillery.
I’ve always thought the Russians could win, eventually, if they were willing to pay the price. Which has been much higher than they anticipated.
The Ukrainians don’t have the ability to fight the maneuver war needed to trade land for time and not just be giving up the land. They can’t move fast enough to strike overextended Russian formations because their army is worse in terms of skill and training even compared to the Russians.
The article goes into a bit more depth. Functionally, the Russian army wasn’t organized for a full invasion. It had resized its base units over a decade ago and oriented everything towards support of its mercenary outfits like Wagner. That left it thin on the front lines and unable to overwhelm. But they’re apparently reorganizing and mobilizing everything now. The Ukrainians made it possible by wasting time and blood by throwing men at fortified artillery lines in the hopes of whipping more Western support and getting NATO involved.
My opinion was and is that Russia cannot afford to lose this war, and as such they will do anything and everything to secure their objectives. Instigating, or if I’m being charitable, failing to prevent the conflict, is probably the worst foreign policy mistake the US has made in decades.
Thanks, Tonio!
Good lynx today. Ford can fuck off. If I can, I plan to replace my F150 with an old, updated Land Cruiser or the like.
The secession article is good, but watching how the Empire has reacted around the world, combined with the IC turning inward, doesn’t fill me with hope.
The old Lexus GX and LX models are the hot things for turning into overlanders around these parts. I sorta want one.
Yeah, there is an overland builder down the street and I see them quite often. It is amusing to me that the Lexus versions are so much cheaper than the Toyotas.
I would really like an updated (disc brakes, etc.) J40 series. They always give me tingles.
Now you’re talking real money.
I’ve been watching them. Expensive, yes, but nowhere near Scouts or Broncos.
Dodge ramcharger for me. 4×4 with light engine modifications. And possibly a new tremec manual.
Oh, yeah…
I’m keeping my 2006 Sonata and Azera till I die.
OK, speaking of religion, the Bee nails a pair…
Museum of Protestant Art, and
Well, how can you not expect this?
Now, wait a minute. I went to a Methodist church when I was young and I swear there was a Picasso of Jesus on the wall. Oh, not a Pablo Picasso painting. A Petey Picasso. Apparently putting the eyes on the same side of the head and making skin blue runs in the fam.
The home page photo is fantastic.
Motherfucking UPS
/eom
beep, beep, beep, …
Unfortunately, I have seen the Handmaid’s Tale and I see how progressives continue to misinterpret it (including the author of the books).
OMG, they are forcing women to marry and have kids!
Haha. I love it.
Unpossible. I was assured that a reactionary wave was impossible and that we would progress into a glorious future of God knows what comes next…
Not really “Handmaid’s tale shit”, but definitely a stupid idea that would never get through the courts.
Hey if I am going to have to pay reparations I need an offset.
There are some nasty restrictions in the bill according to a downthread screenshot. “Qualifying married couple” is explicitly defined as a man+woman couple. And there are some exclusions for couples where at least one spouse has been divorced.
Hmmm… Something to look at. School taxes in Texas are a major ass reaming. They do need reigning in. Don’t know if that helps me with my one kid and the wife and I previous divorcees. Our governor did promise to address the high school taxes. Hopefully he does better than just that.
Oh for sure it’s a dumb bill. Hysterical comparison to the Handmaid’s Tale though is dumber.
“Democratic strategist”
Classy.
Using the tax code for societal engineering should be a sin.
To be fair… this sort of thing is going to crop up more and more and not because social engineering but because population collapse.
It’ll be reactionary to woke bullshit before anything else.
I would say if I’m cutting social engineering in the tax code, supporting the kind of family unit that is the core of any functional society, and an incentive to have children, are low on my list.
WATERMELONS LET THE MASK SLIP: Greta Thunberg is in the news again. This time the chipper nordic maiden, and international happiness ambassador, reminds us that windmill farms are totally not okay in areas with low population density and high generative potential. Because indigenous people live there and the windmills might disturb the reindeer, or something.
Kkkapitalism must DIE!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-11807897/Ex-Secret-Service-agents-reveal-Jimmy-Carter-actually-rude-time.html
*sigh*
From my gas company:
Good thing I live where there are plenty of trees and not in a 15-minute city.
Good thing I have more that 25 trees on my lot.
Are therms virgins?
*tap tap tap*
There are an estimated 228 billion trees in the US, or about 680 per person. I think we’re good.
Unless you live in a tree desert
rhywun is a dirty, rotten treeblist
“You’re just trying to make me burn more gas, aren’t you?”
the opposition grants no middle ground in the debate
You’re with us or you’re a NAZI WHO MUST DIE!
I want to cut pirate girl some slack and say maybe she’s just using that rifle as a spotting scope.
But she has her finger on the trigger.
And binos around her neck…
“Bundesbank warns losses from bond purchases will wipe out buffers”
https://www.ft.com/content/8b30003d-e1ce-4283-a0a8-e6d8d8c5d7d8
Europe is in deep shit.
Paywall. Please summarize.
Sorry, try this:
https://archive.fo/KHLck
that worked. thanks
You need to diversify your bonds, nigga.
Absolutely. Long overdue.
And guess what, assholes? Jerome Powell is going to force you higher. Suck it.
It’s almost like funding a government with a credit card is an obviously stupid idea that never should have been done in the first place.
I read that as “…will wipe out buffets,” and was thinking, “OMG no, not all my favorite cheap Chinese restaurants!”
Didn’t the COVID response already do that?
The ones I occasionally visit are all still open.
“Ticketmaster, PayPal and eBay are now asking customers to enter their Social Security numbers and report sales over $600 – even though the IRS says they don’t have to”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11813627/TicketMaster-PayPal-eBay-hassling-customers-provide-Social-Security-numbers.html
So all these people are making over $400K, Joe?
“Read my lips, fat.”
PayPal was already out for their free speech penalty.
They halted it for the 2022 tax year, which is a good thing.
I buy and sell a lot of music gear on Reverb. I don’t make a dime off if any of it. But I still wound have had to account for all ~160 items I sold. Dates bought and sold, cost basis, etc. I mean, some of this shit I bought years ago in a Walmart parking lot. I don’t have any of that info, and I shouldn’t have to account for everything I’ve sold at a goddamn loss. It would have taken me days to do that, all to not have to pay a tax on it.
It’s a fucking shit show.
“I’ve dyed my five-year-old son’s hair rainbow colours to encourage self-expression – he might feel embarrassed when he’s older but it’s all part of life”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11811307/Ive-dyed-five-year-old-sons-hair-rainbow-colours.html
She looks like trash.
What if his expression is that he doesn’t want rainbow-colored hair?
I’m not going to get the attention I desire with a normal child.
Face tattoo, how unexpected.
You did it because you think your child is a Barbie doll. Stop lying.
This.
You will express yourself exactly how I tell you to! /modern parent
The comments about wind mills above remind me of a little thing from way back when:
Q- Who killed the electric car?
A- Physics.
“you know, physics?
“Yeah.”
Well I don’t, nor do I wish to learn.
“Assume a spherical physics instructor….”
It explicitly says the system, which could be installed on any future vehicle in the automaker’s lineup with a data connection would be capable of “[disabling] a functionality of one or more components of the vehicle.” Everything from the engine to the air conditioning. For vehicles with autonomous or semi-autonomous driving capability, the system could “move the vehicle from a first spot to a second spot that is more convenient for a tow truck to tow the vehicle… move the vehicle from the premises of the owner to a location such as, for example, the premises of the repossession agency,” or, if the lending institution considers the “financial viability of executing a repossession procedure” to be unjustifiable, the vehicle could drive itself to the junkyard.
It should just set itself on fire in the customer’s garage. That’ll learn ’em.
Who knew when we finally got KITT, he’d be a complete asshole.
KARR knew. He always viewed KITT as just naive.
Kitt was kind of an asshole. He didn’t want to speed or let Michael play his music.
To start your car, please tap your credit card on the screen.
You did it because you think your child is a Barbie doll. Stop lying.
The my-child-is-a-lifestyle-accessory parent. I have been around a few of those.
German finance minister Christian Lindner warned this week that the annual interest the country pays on its debt had risen tenfold in two years — from €4bn to €40bn — following the ECB’s decision to stop buying extra bonds and to raise interest rates by 3 percentage points.
Who could possibly have foreseen this? Nobody, that’s who.
Speaking of driving, my daughter has decided that driving a forklift is not enough. She wants to “run lanes,” which, she informs me, is like playing giant Tetris with semis and freight. Apparently, she’s really good at it and the 2nd in charge at her dock is down with her bid for upward mobility. He calls her the “Queen of Tnemec” (handling their freight, that is).
I must tell you. Watching my daughter blossom this way is lovely.
Awesome!
I love that!
😃👍
Great. Driving a fork lift was my favorite job.
Go girl!
🤘🏻🤘🏻
Excellent. It’s definitely gratifying as a parent to see your kids succeeding at something and earning their self-esteem the right way.
It’s almost like funding a government with a credit card is an obviously stupid idea that never should have been done in the first place.
More like funding the government with IOUs written on toilet paper with a crayon.
I just spent $90 on a box with no lid, because I am paranoid.
Boy that is government pricing! Can I sell you some cigar boxes with “Pistol Check Here” written on them for ten bucks?
empty box scam!
Why does it say “Check depth with box lid” if there’s no lid?
There used to be a lid, but people were mashing down on it trying to make the gun fit.
Windmills
Renewable?
https://youtu.be/0vE6QkvcV-s
Check
Sustainable?
https://youtu.be/dkQ0B1AuQpU
Check
This fills me with rage.
Thanks, mikey!
Have you visited you AH lately? Any winter projects?
Not this winter. Waiting for the thaw. Chasing oil leaks (whoda thunk?) and an uncooperative O’drive.
Those aren’t leaks, they are body integrity protection!
Which OD is it? I replaced the switch and rewired and voila!
“Three charts from the Council on Foreign Relations illustrate just how absurd U.S. aid to Ukraine has been since its conflict with Russia began.
This is unsustainable.”
https://twitter.com/AdrianNormanDC/status/1631319813812527104
We could have conquered Greenland for less.
“I Was Attacked By Trans Diaper Fetish Cartoonist”
https://valiantnews.com/2023/03/i-was-attacked-by-trans-diaper-fetish-cartoonist-sophie-labelle-heres-what-happened/
https://twitter.com/JackHadders/status/1631368191191441432
I hate when that happens.
Grade AAA pervert that should probably be locked up.
“The little community”
Celebrate my kink!
“When a bear attacks, don’t ‘push a slower friend down,’ National Park Service says”
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1631084836461969408
You’re not my supervisor!
Of course not. You push your faster friend down.
People just don’t think strategically.
One for the bear and one as a spare?
Greta looks like she is into anal and water sports.
Who isn’t?
Well nuts…wasn’t feeling great last night – having trouble sleeping and definitely seemed like minor food poisoning. Felt decent this morning and went to get mandatory covid test for flying to Japan (since I’m not boosted). Tested positive….
Since then I’ve picked up more body aches and abdominal issues (phrasing) – pretty much the same as my New Years covid case – but still no cough or temp.
So much for 3 weeks on orders in Japan – and the first “successful” iteration of our reserve unit sending someone overseas. Really frustrating. On the other hand, I’ve been feeling a little burnt out from all the travel the last few weeks – and I need to get back to my solid daily gym workout, etc. Also, plenty of blu-rays to catch up on – and clean the house, start yard prep for this year, etc. Missing that travel pay, per diem and active duty pay though….
Ces’t la vie.
Get well soon.
I always wanted the Army Reserve Component Overseas Training Ribbon
Innovation leader?
During its recently-held Investor Day event, Tesla VP for Powertrain Engineering Colin Campbell announced that the electric vehicle maker’s next-generation powertrain would use a permanent magnet motor that uses zero rare earths. The comments appear to have resulted in a plunge in the stock of rare earth miners from China.
In his presentation, Campbell noted that Tesla is known for speed, not just in its vehicles’ performance but also in the company’s innovations. With this in mind, the company’s next drive unit, which will be used in its next-generation vehicle, will have 75% less silicon carbide. It will also be compatible with any battery chemistry, and its production will feature a 50% reduction in factory footprint.
Campbell further explained that Tesla is steadily reducing its use of rare earths, partly due to the materials’ health and environmental risks. In the Model Y, for example, three types of rare earths are used — the first being about 500 grams, and the other two being 10 grams each. But in the company’s next-generation permanent magnet motor, Campbell noted that Tesla would use zero grams of rare earths.
No details, but interesting if true. Depending on the process, it sounds like it would bring costs down.
We have some fairly substantial tornadoes heading right at me. I may lose internet tonight, heads’ up.
Also tonight’s movie is Dead Ant.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DiEhWDt_bWU
Heads you lose, tails you lose
Starbucks committed “egregious and widespread” violations of federal law in its campaign to halt unions, a federal administrative judge ruled Wednesday, ordering the company to give back pay and damages to workers who launched national organizing efforts.
The decision from Judge Michael A. Rosas, an administrative law judge at the National Labor Relations Board, comes as the coffee giant faces growing unionization efforts at its stores nationwide. The company’s efforts to squash them has put it in the crosshairs of progressive lawmakers.
The more than 200-page ruling from Rosas concluded that Starbucks showed “a general disregard for the employees’ fundamental rights,” resolving a case that included 33 labor complaints from 21 New York Starbucks locations. Rosas also ordered the company to post a “Notice to Employees” at all of its facilities in the U.S. notifying workers that “the National Labor Relations Board has found that we violated Federal labor law.”
Rosas further ordered that the company reopen a Buffalo, N.Y., area store and reinstate a number of workers who the board concluded were fired for their union activities.
Additionally, he ordered Starbucks to cease and desist from a number of unlawful actions, including promising employees increased benefits if they did not join a union, engaging in surveillance by photographing employees wearing union pins and prohibiting employees from talking about their wages.
Stop acting like you own the place.
lolwut
Private-sector unions are dying do so why not put the government’s thumb on that scale.
Is it on tubi?
Yes.
Huh, that is interesting. I wonder if they conquered the cobalt-iron-germanium chemistry.
If true, they’re going to be way ahead of the competition. Good for them.
Ah, yes. The, uh, cobalt geranium chemistry problem…
*Attempts to appear to be in deep thought as he slowly wonders out of the room*
All that article said was they are talking about non-rare-earth permanent magnet motors.
Yes, not batteries
All the non-rare earth options I know of involve cobalt, but none have been mass-produced. And I don’t have a clue as to their physical characteristics like brittleness.
This is interesting:
https://archive.fo/g5MN2
“Blackstone Defaults on €531 Million Nordic Property-Backed CMBS”
It’s just the beginning.
I was surprised they defaulted, simply for the optics. How do you read it? Prepping for more and worse?
They figured they would get a better (lower) revaluation of the debt in the courts. Obviously the negotiations with the lendor weren’t going well.
But interest rates aren’t stopping for a while as the Fed pushes to kill the offshore dollar market. The incoming defaults on bonds are going to be massive, huge, tremendous, the best defaults ever.
Austin is a shithole – went to get lunch and they were chasing a homeless dude out for jacking it under the table when I got to the Taco Cabana. Finished lunch, gassed up my truck and headed to next customer only to see a different homeless guy, pants around ankles, jerking it facing the street. It’s almost like if you don’t enforce the law, people act like there are no laws.
It is a big shithole. An embarrassment.
https://twitter.com/LilithLovett/status/1629275173370355712
The age of consent in Japan was 13?
https://twitter.com/OliverJia1014/status/1629536278684516352?t=XJfOsYTdk0PdZxKc0_zpbg&s=19
Not as such
Getting caught up on glibs reading – did anyone post this after the Joemala Fetterlump episode?
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1631187636189790209?cxt=HHwWgoDQkeigkqMtAAAA
Fetterman didn’t even have to wait fifty years to be a vegetable that votes on legislation like Strom Thurmond did,
These damn kids, they want everything now now now…
I didn’t post about it, but I did read it. Whole thing is sus af.
“The Poison Train: East Palestine and the Derailment of Norfolk Southern 32N”
https://contra.substack.com/p/the-poison-train-east-palestine-and?r=lj90&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Good essay.
It sounds about like what I expected. NS decided the course of action because the pols and the regulators either didn’t have a clue or they didn’t want to stick their necks out on a decision.
Once they acquiesced to NS’s leadership on the issue, they circled the wagons to protect each others’ asses and leave EP to die.
Yup. I linked that article yesterday that showed rail freight is way safer than it was, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t government and corporate fuckery afoot.
You want to see a uber-cynical piece of shit that deserves to burn in Hell?
Here you go: https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1631390869487067136