❝ New Ice Age by 1995? ...We may be less than seven years away (from major ice age caused by Greenhouse gasses)... ❞
~ New York Times July 15, 1988
Joke of the Day
❝ Sarah was in the fertilized egg business. She had several hundred young pullets and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs. She kept records and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced. This took a lot of time, so she bought some tiny bells and attached them to her roosters... ❞
There's a lot of hype about EV fires. New tech deserves scrutiny. But so far (2021), they are safer than ICE (61x) or Hybrids (139x). I have more concerns with pouch/prism than cylindrical batteries (because of cascading). But overall fires are rarer... but much harder to stop once started
It's a fictionalized story of Matt Lauer / Mitch Kessler (played by Steve Carell) getting caught in a MeToo scandal. It was a fairly mature take on a complex subject, and they didn't play Matt, er Steve Carell, as the caricature character they might have, and it brought up some reasonable discussions and was somewhat entertaining. Season 1 was worth watching, then Season 2 jumped the shark.
The left and right both have some conspiracy theories. Interestingly, the ones the left projects on the right, often came from the left and have a bigger belief or following amongst the left than the right. And conspiracy theories often get a bad rap; many are just conspiracy facts.
2022 You can't make it up. It's not satire. According to Scientific American an athletes heart attack was the product of the NFL’s routine violence towards black men. Part of a coordinated smear campaign on Football (running simultaneously in many leftist rags at the same time) about how we should ban the sport as too violent.
McCarthy Speaker Fight The speaker fight over Kevin McCarthy is an unforced error by everyone involved.
Kevin McCarthy A list of articles on Trump, his accomplishments, scandals (real and imagined).
Twitter Files Twitter Files is a series of releases on what Twitter did to unfairly suppress conservatives on their platform.
Apple's Greatest Misses I'm not an Apple basher, or Apple fanboy. While Apple did a lot of good innovation, these are the other side of the story.
ITunes iTunes started out as a mediocre Music app, and got worse year after year until the shit show of Music. 💩🎶
Apple Some things I've experienced or observed while working at/for/with Apple.
Defensive Gun Use (DGU) is many times guns are used for good (to stop a crime, or for "defense") as opposed to doing harm.
Kagan consensus builder? Unhappy pouter and betrayer of the court, sad that bullying didn't work and she has no powers of influence.
Andrew Tate Ex Kickboxer and Social Influencer gets cancelled by many social media platforms for the high crime of wrong-think.
Education Articles about a the state of "Education" or statist indoctrination (usually in America).
Tyrants What makes a Tyrant? (1) Belief in righteousness (2) Populism/Selling the rubes that they're the cure.
Shadow Banning Shadow Banning in Social Media is the cowardly act of undermining people behind their backs.
Banned tweets After Elon bought Twitter, Sara Gonzales decided to run a stream of previously bannable tweets.
Twitter-ban for mocking Maxine (2018) Maxine lied and insulted someone, when they insulted her back (with bad wig), they blocked the rebutter for 7 days.