HERE’S HOW THAT SPACE PROGRAM IS COMING ALONG: This spacecraft is being readied for a one-way mission to deflect an asteroid. “Can slamming into a space rock at 15,000 miles per hour prevent it from hitting Earth? The DART mission aims to find out.”
Faster, please.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Dems Are Fear-Mongering Because They Think They’re Going to Lose and Want Riots to Continue. “They’re keeping the fear-mongering at an all-time high because it’s an integral part of their election plans. They want more riots if Trump wins. They want riots to continue throughout the interminable mail-in ballot counting.”
LESSONS LEARNED: An auto-manufacturing expert says Tesla’s days of production hell have put it ’10 years ahead’ of the competition.
“So what Tesla’s done is it’s cranked out a product that’s probably 90%, 95% there,” he said. “But they’ve got so many ways of investigating what’s going on in each car all the time that the feedback can say ‘Hey, what I think what we should do is X. Let’s make that engineering change and implement it on the vehicles from here going forward, and if or when a customer has a problem, bingo, we don’t know how to solve it or we’ll replace the parts.'”
“If I had to make a choice between the two — getting to 95% and then basically waiting until customers complained and then changing things rapidly,” Munro continued. “I’d rather take that approach.”
That approach seems to be working. Tesla’s on track to produce nearly 500,000 cars this year, analysts estimate, in-line with the company’s guidance.
I wrote at the time of Tesla’s “production hell” that the race was between Tesla trying to upscale itself into a mass-producer of automobiles, and the incumbent automakers squashing Tesla by figuring out how to make and market better EVs — and that I had no idea who would win.
Tesla looks like they’ve won.
SAY ANYTHING: Biden Talked of Attending Black Church As a Teen, But Members Don’t Recall It. “The Biden campaign did not respond to a request for comment.”
CHANGE? Justice ready to charge Google with monopoly search practices. “Proving today’s tech giants are monopolists who cause consumer harm is challenging since companies like Google give most of their ad-supported services away for free.”
“Harm” can consist of a lot more than just monopoly pricing, but our antitrust laws predate computer networks.
SPOILER: THERE WILL BE NO APOLOGY. BLM Supporter Tied to Michigan Gov. Whitmer Kidnapping Plot. Demands Grow for Her to Apologize to Trump.
HEH: The better Sweden does on the coronavirus, the angrier they get.
The critics, not the Swedes.
GIVE IN TO THE MOB, GET MORE MOBS: War on Columbus: Cities Cave to Senseless BLM Rage.
WHO? BidenWatch for October 12, 2020. “Biden refuses to reveal his position on court-packing, but he still wants to take your guns and hike your taxes until your eyeballs bleed, plus more on the enthusiasm gap, fracking flip-flops, and we’re all going to be millionaires (the Weimer Republic kind).”
JEFF DUNTEZ: Adam Schiff Favors Ending Small State Voting Rights – and That’s Just the Beginning. “Removing the Electoral College (in favor of a popular vote) is serious, like a magnitude 10 earthquake serious. I won’t here go into how the Electoral College functions, suffice it to say that the majority of the votes cast throughout the physical United States would NOT count. Elections would be mostly determined by the votes of five big states New York, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Illinois. For example, in 2016, Hillary won those five states by a total of 8.4 million. Trump one the rest of the country by 5.5 million. If the electoral college is eliminated, the 45 smaller states will no longer matter to national candidates.”
HARD TARGET: China Invades Taiwan: Two Scenarios.
FROM THE WHITE HOUSE: Proclamation on Columbus Day, 2020.
On this Columbus Day, we embrace the same optimism that led Christopher Columbus to discover the New World. We inherit that optimism, along with the legacy of American heroes who blazed the trails, settled a continent, tamed the wilderness, and built the single-greatest nation the world has ever seen.
In commemoration of Christopher Columbus’s historic voyage, the Congress, by joint resolution of April 30, 1934, modified in 1968 (36 U.S.C. 107), has requested the President proclaim the second Monday of October of each year as “Columbus Day.”
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 12, 2020, as Columbus Day. I call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. I also direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all public buildings on the appointed day in honor of our diverse history and all who have contributed to shaping this Nation.
Lovely.
COURT-PACKING IS WHAT WE SAY IT IS: Team Biden Just Pushed Out Insane New Talking Points on Packing the Supreme Court.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Amy Coney Barrett Will Violently Overthrow… Precedent?
Insanity Wrap needs to know: Suppose they threw a Biden-Harris rally and nobody came?
Answer: You don’t have to suppose anything because it happened.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Black Lives Matter so Abe Lincoln has got to go.
- Bloomberg’s hit piece on Amy Coney Barrett, revealed.
- Murder hornets, meet feral super-pigs.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP: Students say successful women should be celebrated…except when it comes to Amy Coney Barrett.
PETER BEINART: America May Need International Intervention. “Even Democrats may find it hard to imagine, but the ‘leader of the free world’ would benefit from United Nations oversight.”
The Democrats can’t cheat enough to win, so we have to import legions of corruptocrats from the UN?
Whatever the case, Beinart sure doesn’t sound very confident in his side.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump Needs to Pressure Biden to Come Clean About Court Packing. “This obfuscation is tedious. Team Biden-Harris is dancing around it because they’re desperate to pick off undecided and independent voters and they know that threatening retribution after the election may not go over so well. That’s precisely why President Trump needs to turn up the heat on this issue. Biden likes to present himself as a moderate and the man who’s going to unite the country. The president should expose the radical, partisan retribution plans Biden has if he wins.”
IT ALL COMES DOWN TO TURNOUT: How Trump’s ‘enthusiasm factor’ could lead to another surprise win on Election Day.
PUBLIC WIFI IS CONVENIENT — AND RISKY: FBI Warns Against Using Hotel Wi-Fi for Work. “The FBI says hotels in cities across the US have lax security allowing for easy exploitation by malicious actors.”
I HAD BEEN ASSURED THIS KIND OF THING NEVER HAPPENED: Mayoral Candidate in Texas Charged With Over 100 Counts of Voter Fraud. “When police arrested Zul Mirza Mohamed on suspicion of voter fraud Wednesday night, prosecutors say, the candidate for mayor in Carrollton, Texas, was stuffing envelopes with mail-in ballot applications to send to Dallas County.”
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