Electric Rail Freight Cars
Culver City, Calif.-based Parallel Systems is testing autonomous battery-electric railcars for short-haul freight operations, and has raised $49.55 million in Series A funds to help build a fleet, continue testing…
Trevor Jacob and his plane crash
Trevor Jacob competed in the 2014 Winter Olympics on snowboard. Since then he appears to have made his living producing high risk “stunt” videos on Youtube, and possibly leading “adventure”…
Kharma: What goes around comes around
About 20 years ago, today’s BigTech companies argued that Microsoft was favoring their own products (Internet Explorer) and the entire company should be broken apart. 20 years later, these very…
IRS to start collecting photos of taxpayers
UPDATE FEB 7 – 2022: IRS abandons plan to use facial recognition to access one’s tax records. The collection will be outsourced to a third party “identify verification” service. Starting…
Government IT fails again: Apartment dwellers can’t order “free Covid tests”
The new web site for ordering free Covid rapid tests limits tests kits to 4 kits per residential address. People living in multi-unit dwellings quickly found they cannot order any…
Some foreign airlines cancel service to US over “5G” interference to aircraft systems
ANA, Japan Airlines and Emirates were among the carriers that canceled flights over concerns that new 5G service could interfere with some onboard systems. Source: Foreign airlines cancel some U.S.…
Some states have minimum required speeds though: “For Maximum EV Efficiency, Stick to 25 Miles an Hour”
For Maximum EV Efficiency, Stick to 25 Miles an Hour, Ignore Angry Drivers Source: For Maximum EV Efficiency, Stick to 25 Miles an Hour, Ignore Angry Drivers – WSJ When…
Electric cars appears to create sales tax boom for states
Many are priced in the $70,000 to $100,000 (or even higher) price range. If EVs sell in quantities – government mandates will likely force that in the years ahead –…
Covid Hypocrites Part 2: The Elite who ignore their own public health orders
Part 1 reached 120 single spaced pages in length and is no longer editable in WordPress. Back in early 2020, I suspected the pandemic would become an historic event. I…
Investigation: How TikTok’s Algorithm Figures Out Your Deepest Desires
Watch the video at the link. A Wall Street Journal investigation found that TikTok only needs one important piece of information to figure out what you want: the amount of…