BP sees profitability in EV charging business
Says EV charging can have a business model on par with gas service stations.
World bows to global elite: Rotterdam to temporarily dismantle historic bridge so Jeff Bezo’s yacht can fit through
The global elite get everything and ignore all rules: A massive steel bridge in Rotterdam is to be partly demolished so that the pleasure yacht being built for Amazon founder…
Speaker of British House of Commons suggests Covid lockdowns were a dry run for climate lockdowns
Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the (British) House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle told a gathering of counterparts from some of the world’s most powerful countries that the pandemic shows…
Covid predictions? These experts are done with them
Covid predictions? These experts are done with them As this blog has documented, disease models provided little useful information. Their primary purpose has been really scary headlines, without effective, actionable…
My goodness: I had the worst pre-k to K-12 education
In the past few days, I discovered some things about my past. I had not realized until now, just how bad my pre-K-12 education had been. My first schooling was…
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…