2024-05-13
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Horseshit
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Woman Made Her Home Inside a Grocery Store's Rooftop Sign, Police Say
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The world’s economic order is breaking down
politicians appear wedded to deglobalisation, which they see as a means to secure a slice of “the industries of the future”. Narendra Modi, who is about to be re-elected as India’s prime minister, is spending vast sums on a “production-linked incentives” scheme to boost its share of global manufacturing. China’s leaders, meanwhile, are spending a fortune to strengthen their country’s position as the global leader in clean energy and electric vehicles. Donald Trump, who may win a second term as America’s president in November, is mulling a 60% tariff on all Chinese goods. He may well revive an old threat to quit the WTO altogether. Joe Biden, the incumbent, is only slightly better. He is convinced that subsidies can turn a services-dominated economy back into a manufacturing powerhouse. The EU, for its part, wants the WTO to allow space for industrial policy in future trade deals. At the same time tensions between the West and China make economic warfare ever more likely, even as they reduce the chance of meaningful reform to global institutions. As deglobalisation gathers pace, its true costs are likely to become clear.
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Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers' Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season
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The City of San Francisco is handing out bottles of beer, glasses of wine and shots of vodka to homeless alcoholics - and spending $5m a year on the program. The alcoholic drinks are served by nurses as part of the city's 'managed alcohol program', which has been running for four years, as a way of taking care of vulnerable homeless people. The program is designed to curb the amount of alcohol homeless people drink. It still allows them some, but in a more managed way, in the hope of curbing their addiction in a controlled manner.
Electric / Self Driving cars
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As Elon Musk Abandons the $25K Tesla, This EV Costs Just $4,400
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Tarifs on China arent the way to win the EV arms race, getting serious on EVs is
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If Western Automakers Aren't Terrified of Chinese EVs, They Probably Should Be
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(Mar 2024) $7.5B investment in EV charging has only produced 7 stations in two years (Archive)
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which Biden signed in November 2021, included $7.5 billion for EV charging. Of that, $5 billion was allocated to individual states in so-called “formula funding” to build a network of fast chargers along major highways in the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, or NEVI, program. But after two years, that program has only delivered seven open charging stations with a total of 38 spots where drivers can charge their vehicles, according to a spokesperson for the Federal Highway Administration. (The funding should be enough to build up to 20,000 charging spots or around 5,000 stations, according to analysis from the EV policy analyst group Atlas Public Policy.) Stations are open in Hawaii, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania and under construction in four other states. Twelve additional states have awarded contracts for constructing the charging stations; 17 states have not yet issued proposals.
Obit
Musk
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Big Three carriers pay $10M to settle claims of false "unlimited" advertising
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I gave my time and expertise to StackOverflow because it was licensed CC-BY-SA
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Vision Pro uses a sneaky trick to hide visual artifacts: Bad lenses
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Link Taxes Backfire: Canadian News Outlets Lose Out, Meta Unscathed
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FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole
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Hacker has to pay Nintendo 25-30% of his salary for the rest of his life
The 53-year-old Canadian was sentenced to 40 months in prison in the US and instructed to cough up $14.5 million for his involvement in the group. During his interview with Moses in April 2023, the hacker said he'd only managed to pay off $175 so far. No, that's not a typo. There aren't meant to be any extra zeroes. Bowser claimed he wouldn't have to 'worry' about the $4.5 million fine when he returned to Canada, but said he'd struck an agreement with Nintendo that the company could take chunks of his salary to pay off the $10 million he owed them.
TechSuck / Geek Bait
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Wall Street regulator moves to ban election betting, escalating fight over new market - POLITICO
For more than a decade, the CFTC has rejected applications to offer day traders, political junkies and sophisticated investors the chance to bet on elections including for the White House, Congress and even some local contests. But the regulator is now moving to send its strongest message yet that election betting has no place in its markets. “Contracts involving political events ultimately commoditize and degrade the integrity of the uniquely American experience of participating in the democratic electoral process,” CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam said. “Allowing these contracts would push the CFTC, a financial market regulator, into a position far beyond its Congressional mandate and expertise. To be blunt, such contracts would put the CFTC in the role of an election cop.”
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GOP Rep Goes on Bonkers KKK Rant in Closed-Door Meeting: Report
Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) told lawmakers in a private briefing Tuesday that the Ku Klux Klan is “the military wing of the Democratic Party,” CNN reported, citing an audio recording of his comments. “The KKK in modern times, a lot of young people think somehow it’s a right-wing organization when it is the military wing of the Democratic Party: decidedly, unabashedly, racist and antisemitic,” Perry said. A subject of the Department of Justice’s Jan. 6 investigation, Perry also said that the “great replacement theory,” the conspiracy theory that white Americans are intentionally being replaced by minorities, was “real.” “What is happening now is we’re importing people into the country that want to be in America … but have no interest in being Americans, and that’s very different and to disparage the comments is to chill the conversation so that we can continue to bring in more people that we never met that are un-American.” In a statement to CNN after learning his comments had leaked, Perry accused “the radical Left” of “twist[ing] facts” about what he said.
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Bernie Sanders calls for income over $1B to be taxed at 100%
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I Spent a Year Living Under the Original Interpretation of the Constitution
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
Israel
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
Health / Medicine
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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A car-free town in the Amazon serves lessons for pedaling to net zero emissions
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Asparagus once flourished on California farms. Why is it disappearing?
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Venezuela has become the first country to lose all its glaciers
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Tree rings unravels the largest solar superstorm in modern times
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Fossil fuels generated less than a quarter of the EU's electricity in April