TO BE FAIR, INFLATION MAY MAKE ALL OF US TRILLIONAIRES BEFORE THIS IS OVER: SpaceX could make Elon Musk world’s first trillionaire, says Morgan Stanley.
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Archive for 2021
October 21, 2021
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: The Car Shortage is About to Get a Whole Lot Worse.
Meat, gas, and cars becoming scarce and expensive — we’re living the lefty dream here.
HEADLINES FROM 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001, 2011: The Marathon Race Toward Fusion Power Could Be Reaching a Sprint.
NOT SELFISH AT ALL. SPREADING THE JOY: Virginia Tech Very Angry About ‘Selfish’ Students Chanting ‘F Joe Biden’ at Football Games.
WELL, THEY’RE RIGHT: Growing majority say Biden not ‘up to the job.’
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Tyranny of the Minority—Mob Pushing Netflix Around Isn’t Really Even a Mob. “This is yet another tedious case of a very small but vocal group of people with empty lives getting WAY too much attention for standing in the corner and blowing snot bubbles. They need to be left there to cry it out. Instead, they are coddled by most in the mainstream media and allowed to cry even louder.”
WORLD’S OLDEST CRAB FOUND IN AMBER: Meet Cretapsara, a 100 million-year old crab remarkably preserved in Amber, according to phys.org. It appears to have been unearthed somewhere in the vicinity of Myitkyina, Burma, and was obtained by researchers in China.
Being a long-time resident of Maryland, which is all about crabs, this discovery instantly caught my eye. Fossils found in amber typically are land creatures, so finding a crab preserved in this manner is extraordinarily rare.
“RULE OF LAW” WAS JUST A SLOGAN, NEVER A GOAL: White House Turns to Legally Dubious Tactics To Boost McAuliffe for Virginia Gov: VP Harris, press sec Psaki face criticism over questionable electioneering actions.
BEST SELLER IN BUMPER STICKERS: 200 Pcs I Did That Stickers Funny Sticker – Pointed to Your Left and Right – Funny Sticker for Car Motorcycle Helmet Laptop Window. #CommissionEarned (Bumped)
BING WEST DOESN’T LIKE STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL’S NEW BOOK: A General Who Failed in War Assesses Risk. “General McChrystal was the prime leader in the Afghanistan nation-building effort that resulted in America’s catastrophic and total withdrawal. As the commander of more than 100,000 American and NATO troops, he insisted upon a fantastical strategy. . . . In denying the reality encountered by his own troops, McChrystal grotesquely overreached.”
EUGENE VOLOKH: Lawyers, Law Students, Law School Administrators, and Language: Yale Law School’s diversity miseducation.
But as importantly, we see Yale teaching the wrong lesson to students on the other side of the controversy: The lesson that, when you see a statement that has a bad connotation to you, the right thing to do is to ignore the reality of diversity—the reality that different people honestly perceive words to have different connotations—and instead immediately label the statement as “racist” and in need of addressing as “Discrimination and Harassment.”
Read the whole thing.
#RESIST: Tesla bulls—and Elon Musk, too—are in open revolt against Biden’s new NHTSA adviser.
A Duke University professor of engineering, Mary Louise “Missy” Cummings, has been reportedly picked as the agency’s new senior safety adviser, putting her at the front line of any regulatory battles around autonomous driving technology. The choice could hurt the company’s fortunes, as she’s been highly skeptical of what she considers Tesla’s reckless approach to full self-driving (FSD) in the past.
Musk believes his $10,000 FSD feature will eventually mint tens of billions of dollars in software profits, as people pay extra for an autonomous vehicle. Several times, however, Cummings has gone on the record with critical remarks regarding Tesla’s—and Musk’s—autonomous driving ambitions. A few landed like—well, this being Twitter—a gut punch.
Making matters worse in the eyes of Tesla investors, Cummings is an independent board member of Veoneer. The Swiss auto parts supplier specializes in active safety systems and advanced driver assistance technology including lidar, a laser sensor that can create detailed three-dimensional maps of the environment by scanning their surroundings.
I’m not a huge fan of Tesla (unlike SpaceX) or autonomous driving, but this looks like yet another potential case of Biden Administration grift.
A ZUCK BY ANY OTHER NAME WOULD STILL STINK: Facebook Might Change Its Name, But Not Its Stripes. “Imagine Apple changing its name to ‘Garage Consumer Electronics’ to highlight the company’s humble origins. Or Coors switching its name to ‘Colorado Pisswater.’ Or McDonalds going with ‘Tiny Little Burger Patties You’ll Hardly Notice.'”
SCARCITY PROVIDES AN EXCUSE FOR RATIONING, WHICH EMPOWERS THE ESTABLISHMENT: Jon Gabriel: Democrats and the Politics of Scarcity.
SOMEBODY HAD FUN REVISING OLD COVERS: Introducing America’s latest hero: Woke Superman.
WATER REMAINS WET, FIRE CONTINUES TO BURN: US college students pledge money to the Taliban in shocking video.
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire
GOREBULL WARMERING: Antarctica Chills with Coldest Winter on Record.
They have stolen my future and my old age. But they can’t have my furry slippers till they take them from my cold (Ah!) dead hands.
BE LIKE WATER: Game Over, Man, Game Over.
BUT BUT BUT, THEY’RE BEING GREEN: China Economy Slows Amid Power Cuts and Real Estate Crisis.
The Middle Kingdom is about to find out their installing of Zhou Bai Den to destroy America was just a slow path to suicide. And we’ll survive this.