GET OUT OF SOUR MILK SEA, YOU DON’T BELONG THERE. GET BACK TO WHERE YOU SHOULD BE: Marianne Williamson returns to presidential race, saying Biden is vulnerable against Trump.
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February 28, 2024
THERE NEEDS TO BE AN ABUSE OF PROCESS TYPE REMEDY FOR THIS SORT OF THING: GMU economist reported to DEI office for criticizing plan to mandate DEI courses.
DEI education is totalitarian training. DEI offices should be abolished.
MORE MEDIA MALPRACTICE: The media has been repeating the pro-Hamas caucus’s claim that it achieved a great victor by getting 13.2% of Michigan Democrats to vote “Uncommitted.” Media coverage has been suggesting that all of these voters voted Uncommitted based on Biden’s refusal to force Israel to stop fighting Hamas. Almost no one bothered to look up what happened in Michigan the last time a Democratic president was running for re-election, Barack Obama in 2012. That year, Uncommitted received 10.7% of the vote, even though Obama was generally much more popular and inspirational to Democrats (and he also wasn’t pushing 80). So, likely only a small fraction of the 13.2% Uncommitted this year were specifically voting about Israel/Gaza. But the pro-Hamas folks ran a nice pr campaign and the media, wittingly or otherwise, went along with it.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China Announces Name of Spacecraft Landing Crew on Moon.
The capsule is called Mengzhou, or “dream vessel,” while the lander is called Lanyue, or “embracing the Moon,” a reference to a poem written by Mao Zedong in 1965, as CNN reports.
The almost 30-foot-long Mengzhou spacecraft will weigh in at a whopping 22 metric tons, per the announcement. The lander is big enough to house two astronauts and a 440-pound rover. According to the statement, their development is “progressing well.”
It’s a highly ambitious plan, but given the country’s progress — including becoming the first to land a spacecraft on the far side of the Moon in 2019 — it may just have a shot at pulling off its goal of returning astronauts to the lunar surface by 2030.
When is that next Starship test flight?
DEAL OF THE DAY: Columbia Clothing. #CommissionEarned
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: I’m Glad Richard Pryor Isn’t Here to See What Woke Is Doing to Stand-Up. “Stand-up used to be rewarded for its boldness. The woke mob wants it neutered, censored, and easy to control. The feds who used to lurk in Lenny Bruce’s audiences have been replaced by woke idiots with too much Twitter/X time on their hands. They’re all trying to force state-approved entertainment on the public.”
IT’S COME TO THIS: Biden’s Worrisome Michigan Opponent: ‘Uncommitted.’
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX discloses cause of Starship anomalies as it clears an FAA hurdle.
SpaceX noted that the Super Heavy first stage of the rocket performed nominally, with all 33 Raptor engines on this massive rocket igniting successfully. The booster then performed a full-duration burn to reach stage separation. At this point, the upper stage executed a successful “hot staging” maneuver in which the Starship stage separated from the booster while some of the booster’s engines were still firing.
For the Super Heavy booster, the next step was to perform a series of burns to make a soft landing in the Gulf of Mexico. As part of the initial burn, 13 of the rocket’s engines were intended to fire.
“During this burn, several engines began shutting down before one engine failed energetically, quickly cascading to a rapid unscheduled disassembly of the booster,” SpaceX said. “The vehicle breakup occurred more than three and a half minutes into the flight at an altitude of ~90 km over the Gulf of Mexico.”
The problem was subsequently linked to a problem with supplying liquid oxygen to the Raptor engines.
“The most likely root cause for the booster RUD was determined to be filter blockage where liquid oxygen is supplied to the engines, leading to a loss of inlet pressure in engine oxidizer turbopumps that eventually resulted in one engine failing in a way that resulted in loss of the vehicle,” the company stated. “SpaceX has since implemented hardware changes inside future booster oxidizer tanks to improve propellant filtration capabilities and refined operations to increase reliability.”
OK, let’s get to that third test flight.
MAKING YOUR LIFE WORSE ISN’T A SIDE EFFECT, IT’S THE GOAL: Pentagon is panicking over Biden’s proposal that would increase water costs by $10,000 per household.
IT ISN’T JUST GEMINI: Meta’s AI Achieves the Left’s Dream, Makes Donald Trump Disappear.
ADHERING TO OUR ENEMIES: Biden Admin Exempted Itself From Anti-Terrorism Laws To Send Aid to Gaza. But: “Senate Republicans Want To Strip That Authority.”
THIS ALWAYS SEEMED LIKE A BAD FIT FOR APPLE AND ITS 40% MARGINS: Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car, Ending Decadelong Effort.
Apple made the disclosure internally Tuesday, surprising the nearly 2,000 employees working on the project, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the announcement wasn’t public. The decision was shared by Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams and Kevin Lynch, a vice president in charge of the effort, according to the people.
The two executives told staffers that the project will begin winding down and that many employees on the car team — known as the Special Projects Group, or SPG — will be shifted to the artificial intelligence division under executive John Giannandrea. Those employees will focus on generative AI projects, an increasingly key priority for the company.
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The Apple car team also has several hundred hardware engineers and vehicle designers. It’s possible they will be able to apply for jobs on other Apple teams. There will be layoffs, but it’s unclear how many.
Apple, based in Cupertino, California, declined to comment.
The move came as a relief to investors, who sent Apple shares climbing Tuesday after an earlier decline. The stock was up about 1.2% to $183.37 at 2:33 p.m. in New York after Bloomberg reported the news.
Not even Tesla makes anything like the kind of margins Apple earns from computers and consumer electronics, and I’m not sure there’s anybody but Tesla turning a profit on EVs.
DIRTY TRICKS ARE THE NORM IN THIS ELECTION: BOMBSHELL: The Biden Admin Planted an Operative in Fani Willis’ Office to Target Trump, Say Sources.
EVERYTHING’S GOING SWIMMINGLY: Harvard Plans $1.65 Billion Debt Financing Amid Donor Turmoil.
TO ASK THE QUESTION IS TO ANSWER IT: Biden Says a Deal Is Near to Halt Gaza Fighting for Ramadan. Is It True, or Is He Delusional?
AS SOMEONE IN A SIMILAR POSITION? YEAH. WE HAVE TO BITE THE BULLET: Just one more problem with ‘body positivity’.
YEAH, IT’S A MYSTERY: Why are the Legacy Media Still Shielding Laken Riley’s Killer?
Compare and contrast: They Just Can’t Get Over Kyle Rittenhouse.
IF IT’S NOT COMPLETELY SEWN UP, YES: Trump won on the border in 2016; he can do so again in 2024.
I THINK THEY ARE ANTI-HUMAN: The anti-Israel CIA.
ELON’S ALMOST RIGHT: Elon Musk slams Dems for ‘insane behavior’ around migrants, says they ‘won’t deport’ because ‘every illegal is a highly likely vote’.
They’ll always have the dead vote, and the phantoms created by vote by mail and lousy machines, but they need warm bodies for apportionment and receipt of welfare benefits (create jobs for government union members.)
HE SHOULDN’T BE. HE KNOWS BIDEN IS AN EVIL CLOWN: Report: Netanyahu ‘Surprised’ by Biden’s Remarks on Gaza Ceasefire by Next Monday.
I SUSPECT EVERYWHERE IS: The UK is much closer to blackouts than anyone dares to admit.
BEEN THERE, SEEN THAT, IT WASN’T PRETTY: US heading to 1970s-style stagflation, JPMorgan Chase strategists warn.