Elon wants to manufacture fuel from the earth’s atmosphere. He takes climate much too seriously.
Category Archives: Economics
Google And Facebook
They’re entering their toxic endgame.
I try to minimize my engagement with both of them, but with an Android phone, it’s hard to avoid Google. But I’ll never download or use an app for Facebook.
[Saturday-morning update]
The useful idiots of Silicon Valley.
They’re wrecked California, and now there’s a danger that they’ll do the same thing to the rest of the country.
[Bumped]
The Gateway Foundation
They gave a presentation on their rotating space hotel at the Space Settlement event in Seattle. They say they’re going to start construction (on the ground) on October 1st.
Trump’s KulturKamph
I continue to believe that he could be even more effective if he were able to turn down the volume of the Trump. He’s his own worst enemy.
All the Doomsdays
Zero out of the last thirty predicted have actually come to pass. Someone should show this to Greta Doom.
Biological Age Reversal
Can it be done with a drug cocktail?
I’ve known Greg Fahy for decades, going back to Alcor days, when he was doing research on organ preservation for the Red Cross, but which would be applicable to cryonic suspension. He was in Rockville, MD back then, but he’s now in southern California. Unfortunately, it’s out in Riverside, so not particularly convenient to visit him.
Iran
One of the things that gave us Trump was the fecklessness of multiple administrations on the Mullahs, who have been waging war on us for four decades. The Bush administration did nothing as they were killing our troops in Iraq, In the case of Obama (and John Kerry), it went beyond fecklessness, arguably, to treason (though there is no formal declaration of war).
Roger Simon says that the attack on the Saudi oil fields was this era’s Pearl Harbor, and it’s time to drop the hammer on them.
[Update a few minutes later]
“Smart” Appliances
Bob Zimmerman says try to stick with the dumb ones.
[Monday-morning update]
Seeing a lot of war stories in comments about the benefits of agitators, or their lack. I guess the lesson is to look at user reviews of washers before buying one.
Austin
Don’t move there; it’s rotting from within.
The Insanity At The Dem Debate
Blame academia.
[Update a few minutes later]
Bobby Frank O’Rourke: “Hell yes I’m going to violate my oath to defend and protect the Constitution.“
And yes, vicious scapegoating is the point of Beto’s attempted gun grab.
[Late-morning update]
The Democrats let their fascist gun-grabbing freak flag fly.