2023-12-04

Worthy

Calling a bureaucrat by its name

Bureaucrats are so common in Western Civilization they’ve achieved a sort of class consciousness. It’s recognized that HR bureaucrats are a sort of Komissar of an ideology. People mistake this ideology for leftist political views: in reality it is the class politics of the bureaucrat. Actual leftism has different concerns and goals. That’s why so many contemporary “leftists” have weird views which don’t help less fortunate people: it isn’t meant to help poors. It’s meant to serve the interests of upper middle class bureaucrats. Once you see this pattern you can’t unsee it. Bureaucracies create some huge problem, then grow with the excuse they need more people to deal with the problem. Problem never gets solved, but the pyramid grows. People identify various outcroppings of the bureaucrat plague: WEF, various other NGOs, the metastasis of college ‘administrators,’ green ninnies who want us all to eat insects, big pharma, big junk food, the government bureaucracies not obeying lawful commands. I’d posit you can remove any of these problems and nothing will change until you break the class consciousness of the bureaucrat.

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Will 48 volts end up the standard for cars?

Thus, 48 volts is probably going to be the standard for cars, Ethernet, and USB for the next hundred years. Tesla's Cybertruck is making the jump early. As the tweet below suggests, it's likely going to result in a lot of recalls as Tesla makes fixes. But that's okay for a low-volume, new product. What Tesla doesn't want is to change to 48 volts in a Model Y and suddenly have to do a recall of a million vehicles. Cybertruck is a good test platforms to get it working. Presumably, we'll next see it in the higher end Models S/X, and then eventually in the Models 3/Y.

Tesla's willingness to up-end the auto-industry is really noteworthy. The other car companies are far more conservative, unwilling to try new things, even in their electric cars where they are struggling to keep up with Tesla.

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Chicago man files wrongful death lawsuit after fatal stabbing of Palestinian American son

The wrongful death lawsuit filed Nov. 21 in Will County names Czuba, his wife, Mary Czuba, both of Plainfield, and their property management company, Discerning Property Management. oseph Czuba allegedly told his wife to inform Shahin he wanted the family gone from the apartment where they'd lived for two years. He also allegedly said he was afraid Shahin's "Palestinian friends were going to harm them," according to the lawsuit.