Just recently, a new guy I follow on X did a very enlightening post on Windows 11, and how Microsoft succumbed to the trend toward the bean-counters running the show. Reproduced entirely below, with link to original X post at the bottom. He connects all the dots leading to the short-circuiting of the process of …
This article appears on the Web Site HotAir.com. Its subject is the fact that car-shipping companies are increasingly avoiding ocean shipping of electric vehicles. I have written about this multiple times in the past, emphasizing that electric vehicles, with immense Lithium-ion batteries, are extreme fire hazards. Electrical fires are notoriously difficult to extinguish, and a …
Continue reading Well, well, what do we have here? Another story of the drawbacks of electric cars.
His post from X is copied in its entirety, for those of my readers who are not members of X. But they should be, because X is now the best and most-accurate source of news on the planet. This is not an exaggeration either. As some legacy media used to say, "You heard it here …
Continue reading Guest Author: Dr. Ahmad Malik on what’s in store for the world
The author of this opinion piece is a friend of mine, and my opinions are nearly identical. He says it better than I can. My readers know I am against electric cars, especially when the all-powerful hand of Government mandates that we buy them (this is a total failure so far). Here's what my friend …
Continue reading On Electrified Aviation…From an Aerospace Insider
My friend Bryan G. Stephens is a mental health and management professional in Georgia. The following excellent essay was originally posted on Ricochet.com. Welcome, Bryan! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Morality in society is driven by what is possible. I can use many examples, but I am going to focus on three: Slavery Child Labor Women’s Equality The best …
Continue reading Guest Blogger: Bryan G. Stephens on Technology Driving Moral Development
I celebrated my 70th birthday in April. Just before that, I made it into the Twenty-First Century. Yes, I bought my very first smartphone. Thank you, thank you for all the applause, much appreciated. After a few hiccups in the setup process (don't EVER forget your initial passcode-it's awful trying to reset it), I got …
In about 1975, my first husband and I had returned to Seattle from Minneapolis, and were living on a shoestring. He had found a job as a transformer winder at a company that made industrial transformers, and I, with my MA in psychology, was working as a pricing clerk in a hospital pharmacy. Now, Larry …
This past weekend, my hubby and I were watching TV (pretty rare for us), and he tuned in to the NHK World program, an English feature of the Japanese network NHK. They had a very interesting program dealing with how technology helps Japan deal with the many natural disasters they face, living on the Ring …
Continue reading A Pretty Good Argument Against Only Owning an Electric Car
It's a miracle of modern technology and medicine. See the picture below. This is me. I now look like this all day while I'm awake. Please notice that I am not wearing glasses. For the first time in 63 years, I can see the world without Coke-bottle glasses, and that's a miracle in my book. …
In India, Toilet Paper Becomes More Valuable Than the RupeeTake a gander at this headline from 24/7 Wall Street. www.247wallst.comHe gets it partly right, but doesn't go far enough. Since its independence, India has been a socialist, or socialist-leaning country. Even when they tried to ditch some of the socialist features of their economy, …
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