Cool and damp. Really damp. Not supposed to be any rain today but it should remain cloudy. The rain yesterday was spotty and light. Not much of an impediment to my pickups, but the ground is saturated again.
I spent the morning on auction stuff, and the afternoon doing pickups, with a visit to the Goodwill bins, and a swing past my storage unit. One of the lots I won is a ridiculously tall extension ladder. It overhangs the back of the truck by about 4-6 ft, and is flush with the front bumper. I need it at the BOL to reach one limb, and maybe to do some antenna work. It was stupidly cheap, so worth it. Until I can take it up to the BOL I’ll have to either keep driving around town with it on the truck or find somewhere to stash it for a while. I don’t fancy leaving it on the truck, but it’s long and heavy and VERY unwieldy.
Today I’ve got to move some stuff around and make room in my storage unit for the stuff in my truck, until I can get it to auction or the BOL. Then I’ve got to do two pickups on opposite sides of town, and somewhere in there I need to fix, or at least diagnose, the leak under my tub. I think I have what I need to fix it, if the brass drain is what failed. I picked up a tub drain and overflow in brass at the bins a week or two ago. It’s at storage but I forgot to bring it home yesterday. I thought I was just getting it for the brass… universe had other plans.
That is often how my life works.
Wife and girls have their first cookie booth of the season today. Hope they sell a bunch, despite the price increase. We’re at $6/box here and supposedly other places like NYFC are at $7. People were moaning when it went to $5… Let’s go Brandon!
We’ll see how the day goes. I’m stacking stuff and skills, and hopefully goodwill today. Stack some yourself.
nick
Are you really certain it was a “dude”? Could have been a dude-ette.
My main credit card got compromised. I have no idea how. As soon as I saw the transaction I went online and disputed the transaction. The card was immediately cancelled and a new card is on order. I have to go to multiple websites and change the card used for automatic payments.
Optimist. “50/50”. -snerk-
“Half a Life”, the TNG episode with David Ogden Stiers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_a_Life_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
She was probably in the doctor’s office for testosterone.
Not for trans purposes but just enough to increase her sex drive. That’s a quiet fad.
Of course it has unpleasant mental side effects, but the users brush it off as people not being able to handle “strong women”.
During D4’s lab tech degree, during the Summer, she worked at a lab where she had to perform 100 “sticks” in three weeks. That is 100 successful blood draws witnessed by a certified tech. She said nobody wants to be the phlebotomist. It is the lowest paying job and most States don’t require you to be certified. She wasn’t sure she could meet the requirement until they were having her do 20 or more a day. All lab techs have to do it as backup to the phlebotomist.
Nobody mentioned Futurama’s robot suicide booths. Walk in, deposit a quarter, and whoosh.
Old Sparky worked just fine juicing Ted Bundy.
Florida maintains the option for anyone who chooses that route.
Ironically, the Governor who got Old Sparky rocking again was Bob Graham, a Dem.
strong woman
noun
1. (prior to 2015) A woman who was able to keep the family together and keep the farm or business running at a profit after her husband died, was severely injured, or was conscripted.
2. (2015-present) An angry harridan with anger issues and poor self control.
Usage note: Often used sarcastically, as in “She’s such a strong, independent woman that she buys her own groceries and pays her own rent.” or “Her boyfriend dumped her because she’s a strong woman. Yah, Strong woman. I’m sure that was it.”
The leader of the undergraduate CS cheating society at the program where I got my Masters was a 30s-ish “strong woman” who I suspected was on testosterone.
On the last day of classes before graduation, she held court with the society members in the back of my open lab, bragging about her cheating exploits and how she could snap necks if she wanted, one in particular if she had a mind to – implication mine.
Austin has a lot of the “bodybuilder” type. The subject of this video, “Doctor” Racso, is typical of the Locust Class subset. The “gym” he mentions is something which looks more like a buyers club for weed and other “healthy” highs based on a quick look at the web site.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgJAzmc-p6A
Houston probably has a similar facility.
Executions – if you’ve got to do it, nitrogen is the way to go. The guy who was just executed put on a show trying to hold his breath. That’s because they set it up stupidly. He shouldn’t have known when the nitrogen started. They should have just put him into a room with fast ventilation, and at some point undetectable to him, the ventilation switches to N2. Quiet fade out, wait 20 minutes to be certain, done.
That said, I do have a problem with capital punishment. Not because some crimes don’t deserve it, but because there have been numerous mistakes, prisoners railroaded through the system, only to be exonerated later.
The option should always be there to deal with a Ted Bundy.
Bundy never thought that fate would catch up with him and that, at worst, he’d die in prison.
If I had to guess, the law firm – most likely Perkins Coie — hired a consultant to coach the condemned about how to act when the moment came in order to cast doubt on using nitrogen and raise the possibility that it is “cruel and unusual” punishment.
That would translate into more $$$ down the road for lawyers, possibly via a class action lawsuit.
What were the stats on the shootings in Kansas City?
One dead, 22 injured, 9 of them wounded children? There could have been 22 more deaths.
Guilty, short trial, expedited appeals, apply the death penalty to the shooter(s), and accomplices. Repeat for the next lot until random firing with deaths and injuries to bystanders becomes recognized as a short trip to Snuff City. Potential accomplices will soon get the idea that it’s much better to be a live snitch than a dead accomplice.
I’ve mentioned before that I recall Johnny Carson having a guest in the late sixties–the last state hangman in the United States. (There were later hangings, but I believe he was the last with an official title). He explained that he bought good 1-inch hemp rope, soaked it in water, and stretched it to 7/8-inch to get the ideal fit.
There is no reason that hanging or firing squad should not be considered humane if done properly–see the Bruen decision for “history and tradition”. Either is a lot more humane that the circumstances where most of the victims were killed.
As far as errors, if the system is set up to provide good defense to the accused, and the authorities are required to share all exculpatory evidence, and there is a good independent review, the results are acceptable.
Not testosterone at the chiropractor, and otherwise attractive, just a ‘softness’ like an asian who never starved. Vaguely asian features. Round soft shoulders and upper arm…
The call was all about her, never once did she ask what “juan” did, does, or wanted to do. I was there drifting in and out for 20-40 minutes and she was jabbering the whole time. Was discussing the intricacies of taking ‘molly’ when I was called to the table…
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Blustery day. Chilly and gusty and grey.
But the coffee should be ready, then I’ll leap into action.
n
New Hampshire still offers hanging as an option for their remaining death row inmates.
And I believe that only the sight of Trump swinging from gallows built on the steps of the Capitol will satisfy a significant portion of the population suffering from TDS. Depending on how this year goes, that may yet happen.
https://fandompulse.com/2024/02/15/leaked-e-mails-reveal-hugo-awards-committee-spied-on-writers-on-behalf-of-the-chinese-government-for-chengdu-worldcon/
Running yellow dog lackeys of Communist imperialism.
“Only Nixon could go to China” He should have stayed home.
“But the coffee should be ready, then I’ll leap into action”
I’m going to start by shuffling, then work up.
They need to stop the griping about pain and suffering. Most of the victims of capital crime suffer far worse. If we can put our pets down fast and simple with a couple of shots what else do we need
“If we can put our pets down fast and simple with a couple of shots what else do we need”
I’ll work on a list.
I’m going to start by shuffling, then work up.
– yeah, by “leap into action” I mean shuffle, grump, ease, groan, and slowly stretch my way into action…
WRT the Hugos, we’ve known they were corrupted political garbage since the Sad Puppies. The dominance of Tor and certain authors, including authors who hadn’t published anything in years, and an ideological stance that was clear as day, were called out and proved by Larry, Sarah, and the others. Note in the current emails that they “identified potential slate voting” and discarded those votes. SO if I like all the same things as someone who puts together a recommended list or “slate” in the organizers view, my vote doesn’t count. Wonder if they do the same for “slates” put forward by their peers… probably not, and then have the nerve to call it a false flag…
n
A Manson Family killer was sentenced to death decades ago, but the state gooberment bureaucraps canceled the execution and she was recently paroled after 50 years of prison funded by tax $$$$ stolen from me and other californicaton honest citizens.
So, in other words, in fantasy land.
You can’t even get Congress to release video showing how innocent the J6 protesters were, let alone politicallly active prosecutors.
50% chance of losing 50% of your stuff (or more) in the divorce.
I have always wondered about that phrase. A direct reading would indicate that there us nothing wrong with cruel punishment, as long as it is not unusual.
So you could, for example, institute branding for simple traffic offenses. Traffic tickets are frequent, so the punishment would not be unusual.
Obviously, that’s not how the phrase is used. But that is what it says.
Our Gathering Storm by Vance Byers
https://floppingaces.net/most-wanted/our-gathering-storm/
Byers essay is replete with links and I’m not nearly done with it.
The first link in the above excerpt is a Guardian article reviewing Walter’s book, which was published in Jan 2022. I’m going to put it on my reading list, which may be redundant as I also found this 57-minute video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dynl-71hN1M
Walter’s book is effectively at least three years old with publishing lead times, which means that it would not cover, or more likely, provide any excuses for the rampant anti-democratic lawbreaking of the Biden administration. She may have more recent work or speeches, but it’s a place to start.
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/15/1230701661/caitlin-clark-a-tsunami-of-impact-and-influence-breaks-the-ncaa-scoring-record
Kudos to Jackie Clark for some real class and sportsmanship.
The sad note is that until we get a policy in place that bans males from female sports, the women’s game from middle school to high school to college to pros is on a path to extinction.
And frankly, I can’t wait until the day a second-string male coach puts on a dress and shoves a genetic female coach out the door.
Sponsor of Mills’ migrant resettlement office says “New Americans” deserve priority over US veterans.
https://twitter.com/TheMaineWire/status/1755208019363631580
There are documented instances of military vets being evicted from housing which is then turned into housing for illegal alien invaders.
>> “But the coffee should be ready, then I’ll leap into action”
I’m going to start by shuffling, then work up.
If you ask nicely, I’m sure @nick has a spare red cap in his stacks.
>> Iowa’s Caitlin Clark has captured the NCAA’s women’s all-time points record, surpassing 3,527 points on Thursday against the Michigan Wolverines.
Clark is also in prime position to surpass the overall NCAA scoring record of 3,667 points, which Pete Maravich set from 1967-70 at LSU. Clark entered Thursday only 147 points behind Maravich. If she maintains her current scoring rate of 32.1 points per game, Clark would pass Pistol Pete in five games. (Now just 98 points behind Maravich.)
>> The sad note is that until we get a policy in place that bans males from female sports, the women’s game from middle school to high school to college to pros is on a path to extinction.
If that policy ever is enacted, do we also have to bar females from male sports?
>> “If we can put our pets down fast and simple with a couple of shots what else do we need”
Umm, a pharmaceutical company willing (able?) to sell those same drugs directly to a prison warden.
Nobody mentioned Futurama’s robot suicide booths. Walk in, deposit a quarter, and whoosh.
I can’t stand Futurama, I have never made it more than five minutes. Shoot, maybe two minutes.
I read somewhere that most men’s sports are actually “open” categories. The women’s categories are the restricted ones.
Dunno if that’s true, or perhaps, for which competitions it is true. Anyone have actual knowledge or sources?
I hear fentanyl is affordable. Go ax a bro on MLK street for a hit.
Or use morphine like a nursing home or hospice making folks “comfortable”.
“If you ask nicely, I’m sure @nick has a spare red cap in his stacks.”
I’m thinking about pitching an entirely new concept of Walker, Texas Ranger.
WRT the Hugos, we’ve known they were corrupted political garbage since the Sad Puppies. The dominance of Tor and certain authors, including authors who hadn’t published anything in years, and an ideological stance that was clear as day, were called out and proved by Larry, Sarah, and the others. Note in the current emails that they “identified potential slate voting” and discarded those votes. SO if I like all the same things as someone who puts together a recommended list or “slate” in the organizers view, my vote doesn’t count. Wonder if they do the same for “slates” put forward by their peers… probably not, and then have the nerve to call it a false flag…
I ignore all Hugos after 2012. “Among Others” by Jo Walton was the last decent Hugo in my book.
>> The sad note is that until we get a policy in place that bans males from female sports, the women’s game from middle school to high school to college to pros is on a path to extinction.
“If that policy ever is enacted, do we also have to bar females from male sports?”
Men should be excluded from women’s sports because they have an inherent physical advantage in sports that rely on strength, speed, height and stamina. Decades of competition and record keeping show that this is true, and biology and biomechanics explain why. The use of performance enhancing substances is banned in sports, and that includes hormones.
I’ve never heard of a case of men receiving female hormones to enhance their performance in sports. It may be possible. But if only for the sake of symmetry and to head off any weird shitte, I’d write the rules to prevent crossing either way.
I’d just to be thorough and recognizing that there are a lot of sick perverted people out there that would consider it, I would also ban gene therapy that results in performance advantage. Nothing like a few gorilla genes to give the kid a power-lifting advantage, even if they become violent and a little slow.
For completeness, we should ban species crossover as well. It’s only a matter of time before they enhance a dog to an IQ of 70 and it decides that it wants–with some nudging, no doubt–to run the 400m high hurdles.
I think it was Steve Perry’s Ramal Extraction had a character that was an alien hybrid and successfully hid the fact when they were playing some sort of future football analogue.
>> If you ask nicely, I’m sure @nick has a spare red cap in his stacks.
Argh, “red cape”… dang auto-fill…
No shortage of confiscated street drugs.
Nitrogen needs more testing, though. Prefereably on the partners at Perkins Cloaca.
Larry Nivens’ “Achilles Choice” features a future in which Olympians are chemically and genetically engineered to win both the Olympic Games and Nobel Prizes.
https://www.amazon.com/Achilles-Choice-Larry-Niven/dp/0812510836/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3SMLOJ8WAJETT&keywords=larry+niven+achilles&qid=1708208873&sprefix=larry+niven+achilles%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-1&tag=ttgnet-20
The website thing? FTP in and download everything. Then when you find a new host, I use Dreamhost, maybe you can upload it all and after the DNS stuff goes through….
Dreamhost has gone up to $155 a year including domain registration. But after 20 years or so… hey.
“Acheivement Unlocked: Thieves”
https://areaocho.com/acheivement-unlocked-thieves/
“The FBI isn’t just serving as Biden’s secret police, now they are stealing, too. This J6 arrestee had thousands of dollars of his property stolen when the Feds raided his home.
Each day, we get closer to third world sXXXhole status.”
Divemedic is not wrong.
Larry Nivens’ “Achilles Choice” features a future in which Olympians are chemically and genetically engineered to win both the Olympic Games and Nobel Prizes.
https://www.amazon.com/Achilles-Choice-Larry-Niven/dp/0812510836?tag=ttgnet-20/
Read Nancy Kress’s “Beggars In Spain” series. That will knock your socks off.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060733489?tag=ttgnet-20/
“But if only for the sake of symmetry and to head off any weird shitte, I’d write the rules to prevent crossing either way.”
The exception would be sports that have only one team.
Title IX was used to require more opportunities for women in sports at the college level. The first result was more scrutiny of less popular men’s sports that were subsidized by the money-making football and basketball programs, and dropping some of those in favor of women’s sports.
The implementation of Tittle IX by a federal bureaucracy has essentially resulted in a quest for numerical parity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX
There are two things worth noting:
First is the gradual increase of women enrolled in colleges and universities, which continues to put pressure on men’s sports.
Second is that the current denial of genetic male advantage in some sports has opened the door for a counter-argument: If there is no advantage, then the solution is simply to declare that all sports are open to females, who have equally opportunity to compete.
Yeah, right. Let me predict first that such a claim would be denied out of hand–logical or not–if only on the sole basis that fedgov will fight to keep their job count intact.
Be interesting to seem how many of the “feel like wymyn today” crowd would be competitive taking their hormone therapy to the competition for Big Ten offensive lineman.
Hosting costs comparison – use your favorite AI to get an answer to this prompt:
Very similar in costs and benefits.
COVID Vaccine Mandate At Rutgers Survives Landmark Court Ruling
Did students at Rutgers have the “fundamental right” to refuse a vaccine? Nope, a federal appellate court ruled.
https://patch.com/new-jersey/newarknj/covid-vaccine-mandate-rutgers-survives-landmark-court-ruling
Only one way for this one to go.
That “Right to Privacy” Amendment may get some traction.
And there seems to be a disconnect, here. Fedgov sent lawtroops to Tennessee this week to claim that HIV-infected hookers in that state have a civil right to try to intentionally spread it to their clients. Could someone with dengue fever claim that they had a similar right, which is much more expansive than refusing the jab?
Arlo and Janis: Transfer Portal
https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2024/02/17
Oh my, are things that bad for Garfield ?
Wizard Of Id: Old Folk’s Home
https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2024/02/17
I laughed at first and then I went oh. Bad taste ?
The National MS Society entered the competition for the Bud Light Suicide Award this week:
Report: National MS Society Dumps Elderly, Lifelong Volunteer Because She Asked What Pronouns Were
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/02/report-national-ms-society-dumps-elderly-lifelong-volunteer-because-she-asked-what-pronouns-were/
90-year-old women has been a volunteer for 60 years, took over a self-help group that her husband started, after he died of MS twenty years ago.
Her thought crime? Not understanding why she had to include her pronouns in her email.
She reportedly mad some people feel “unsafe”. I can’t imagine a 90-year-old woman asking a question that would make anyone feel unsafe, unless she had a gun or an axe in her hands and murder in her eyes.
Why do I smell the stench of hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations being spent on boar-milking “consultants” with five and six-figure fees to run “how to shove it to whitey” “summits”?
I hope someone is doing a deep dive in their financials and helps assist in the self-immolation.
“Astronomers Convince UN to Examine Impact of Large Satellite Networks”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/astronomers-convince-un-to-examine-impact-of-large-satellite-networks
“Astronomers lobbied the UN’s Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to examine how much networks like SpaceX’s Starlink may interfere with their scientific observations.”
I don’t trust the UN to do anything. Except to make a money grab.
It is time for the USA to exit the UN. And NATO.
“Nvidia becomes world’s 4th most valuable company, surpasses Alphabet and Amazon”
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nvidia-becomes-worlds-4th-most-valuable-company-surpasses-alphabet-and-amazon
“AI frenzy lifts market cap of Nvidia, Microsoft, TSMC, others.”
Why do I feel that AI is being overblown ?
I have serious concerns about the decisions that AI machine make. In other words, are they going to follow Asimov’s Three Laws Of Robotics at a minimum ? Why do I doubt this ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
We already know that AI lies like a rug. I would NEVER trust anything composed or influenced by an “AI” system.
Remember Biden Talking About That 1974 Classified Doc? It Was So Much Worse Than That.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/02/17/remember-biden-talking-about-that-1974-classified-doc-it-was-so-much-worse-than-that-n2170266
Trump is accused of mishandling classified documents that he had a right to be in possession of as president, had the absolute right to declassify without any kind of oversight, and had securely stored in a facility that had been vetted by the Secret Service. The National Archives was weaponized to fabricate complaints used to front the phony accusations that led to a search warrant, and phony staged photos of documents thrown on the floor of Mir-A-Lago by the Biden DOJ searchers were blared across the media.
Biden had documents from his Senate and VP days that he had to see under supervision, had no right to possess, could not declassify, and were scattered willy-nilly around his offices, garage, and among his boxes of papers at the University of Delaware. He also disclosed classified documents to his ghostwriter.
Let’s parse that out again: FJB had documents from his Senate days that he could only see under supervision in a secure facility. Did he stuff them down his pants to steal them like Sandy Berger stealing incriminating docs directly from the National Archives to coverup for the Clinton Crime Family?
But Slow Joe, who was a dimwit at the height of his intellectual powers, goes uncharged. So far. January 2025 approaches and the Democrats are ordering brown trousers.
As long as the possibility exists that Corporate America will be able to fire most of the white collar workforce using AI, they will continue to pour money into the monkey trick.
Management bypassed me over the last few weeks to fulfill crazy request du jour from a potential customer. Officially, I’m too booked with work, but I can’t help but feel that something else is going on.
The patch applied by the overseas developers is a lot of cut-n-paste of my code.
Maybe the hack will work. Who knows.
Is Batman a transvestite?
We’ll find out Monday morning.
Armed autonomous drones violate all three.
They’re pretty good at rape, too, especially of preteen girls.
“Is Batman a transvestite?”
This week?
The website thing? FTP in and download everything. Then when you find a new host, I use Dreamhost, maybe you can upload it all and after the DNS stuff goes through….
– and that’s the problem with proprietary “site builder” tools. No HTML files at all. Images and files in their proprietary format. I haven’t looked into the proprietary files, but if it was something simple, someone would have done it by now, given the amount of angst online about it. Seems that as the host, they do some sort of translation or rendering when the page is requested.
I’ve used their tool to archive the site as a zip, so I have all the images. I can scrape the site to get all the text.
The HTML when I “view source” on a page is just a bunch of tables, scripts, and variables, with all the elements and files obfuscated with index numbers.
Don’t use proprietary tools kids, no matter what promises they make.
n
– yep, remember Mike Nifong? Or the loudmouth race baiter and extortionist that rose to prominence on this case? And all of it racially motivated hate.
IIRC, none of the three different dna samples from her underwear matched the accused.
Don’t put your d!ck in crazy.
n
Nifong used the case to win a primary and general election he never would have won on his own.
The case smelled bad from day one, but 2006 was when the tide really started to turn against Shrub and the midterms were brutal for Republicans.
Nothing good happens in a frat house after midnight.
Nothing good happens
in a frat houseafter midnight.– fixed it to what my dad used to say.
‘course the bad things that happened were usually things we wanted to do at the time.
n
Sh!te startin’ to get real.
Trump-supporting truckers REFUSE to take loads to New York and say they are ‘tired of leftists f***ing with’ the ex-president after he was fined $355M in NYC fraud case
could be a nothing burger or could take off like FJB and Let’s go brandon.
n
“In 2013, Crystal, then 34, was sentenced to a minimum of 14 years in prison for second-degree murder”
And don’t let felons walk because they tic boxes on the diversity form.
Put her away for the false accusations and a man lives, her children are taken away and have a chance at a better life.
Didn’t look up Nifong. be too much to hope that he was disbarred and became a drug addict and died of a hot shot.
Trump-supporting truckers REFUSE to take loads to New York and say they are ‘tired of leftists f***ing with’ the ex-president after he was fined $355M in NYC fraud case
Maybe they could block the bridges and call it a climate protest.
playing some tunes today:
The Rolling Stones: Hot Rocks 1964–1971
A very good album if you want a serving of the Stones and don’t want to play one of their albums. The double LP was short (roughly 39 minutes total per disc), but not quite short enough that the tech of 2002 could fit it on one CD.
Tommy James and the Shondells: 40 Years: The Complete Singles Collection (1966-2006)
A double CD set with 79 minutes on the first disc and 78 on the second, for a total of 2 hours 37 minutes. The first disc is TJ&S, the second is TJ.
As singles only, the 28 song first disc covers the same time period as the earlier Rhino anthology (27 songs and 72 minutes), but does not include the album cuts of the latter, so the mix is different. In playing this I’ve been struck every time at how well the music flows–James was the producer and did a fine job. I need to play the Rhino compilation on the same day to get a comparison. Either disc is recommended for anyone tired of the oldies endless repetition of Hanky Panky, Mony Mony, I Think We’re Alone Now, and Crystal Blue Persuasion.
The second disc is solo TJ, and if your music then was provided by AM and the infant FM radio as mine was, you never heard it. Recommended.
>> Sh!te startin’ to get real.
Trump-supporting truckers REFUSE to take loads to New York and say they are ‘tired of leftists f***ing with’ the ex-president after he was fined $355M in NYC fraud case
could be a nothing burger or could take off like FJB and Let’s go brandon.
FJB and LGB didn’t cost you much more that a few bucks for a bumper sticker. Truckers refusing to take loads potentially costs them their income and/or their jobs. Gotta be a real hard-core DJT supporter to go all in.
The Great Reset Didn’t Work: The Case of EVs
Tesla did nothing with respect to spare parts, replacement batteries, and repair bills, except conceal the reality that none of these would function with the economy or speed that traditional auto owners were used to.
Subsidies and tax breaks that are all effectively concentrated in our massive $30 billion + national debt.
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/02/17/the-great-reset-didnt-work-the-case-of-evs/
The article views it through the lens of the lockdowns.
What is omitted is that elementary economic and engineering analysis predicted the problems, but were ignored.
Also omitted but beyond the simplistic scope of the article, is that previous meddling in the automotive market by Obama to rescue union jobs put the automakers on notice that that Uncle Sugar was going to get his way and have any market distortion that the dumb ass party wanted. If Chrysler had been allowed to go bankrupt and Delphi shareholders hadn’t been screwed, the runup to electric would have had more resistance.
And yeah, Tesla is going to get revalued and the fall is going to look like a SpaceX capsule returning to earth.