10 January 2024

Europe may be heading for something unthinkable? Yeah, it's the NYT. Can't believe that the positions of the Left might not be popular. Heck, Germany is thinking about just banning a political party they don't like. Sorta like the U.S. When you can't win, cheat.

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A win for the Navajo. Looks like the Peregrine mission won't be landing on the moon after all.

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Petition 47 lives on. Soon, Measure 110 will be defeated.

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Forever Lonely. Getting paid to impregnate women? Yeah, it was a fraud, but to think that some young men believed it.

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ZIP bombs. Interesting concept. A 4.5 petabyte file can be zipped into a 45k file. Then when a hacker downloads this onto his computer and tries to unzip the file – BAM!

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The teen mental illness epidemic. Especially in females. Not enough is written about this, but it is so real. And I suspect this begets the rise in transgenderism. And it's not just teenagers – young adults are affected, too, so even younger teachers could be mentally ill, as we've seen. And since those afflicted don't see themselves as ill, this will be a tough problem to solve, especially since they want power and control, in the name of diversity and equity.

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The Rabbit r1. This is an innovative device. The current user interface we have on phones, with icons representing individual apps, came from the Windows interface. But is that the most productive interface. This is probably what Steve Jobs envisioned with Siri, but the tech was not advanced far enough to really make it happen. I get the sense that Apple should be doing this, and would, if Steve were still alive. Instead we were getting thinner phones with increase pixel density that after a certain point, no one could appreciate. And more emoji. And a VR diving mask that only a few will use. Nothing innovative, and this is why Apple stock price has fallen. No one is compelled to buy Apple phones anymore.
I don't really like the toy design of the r1. I would not have approached Teenage Engineering. Some think that the demo reel is staged, like Google's Gemini demo video. I suspect that's true, and will wait for version 2 at least. Still give it a "sugoi", though.

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Blue States can't stop taxing. So true. Tina Kotek is floating a $3 billion tax, and California wants a wealth tax, but one that is created not to tax Hollywood wealth, of course. Just everyone else. This idea came from an Asian guy, who should know better, since his parents immigrated from China. Why any billionaire would want to live in New York or California just baffles me.
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And people wonder why Japan wants to keep out certain cultures. This is why. If you can't respect others, you have no business being in places like Japan. That's why they can have nice things and we can't.  GTFO "Johnny Somali".

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And now criddlers have something else to spend their "stimulus money" – gas-station heroin. Get it while you can, folks. It's tianeptine, and it'll mess you up, but it's street legal at your local convenience store – for now.

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