Saturday, September 3, 2022

LOL, it's not "affordable": It costs $41k minimum, goes 270 miles, and takes 18 minutes to charge

 

A 2022 Honda Civic LX will cost you about $24k, go 446 miles, and take you just a few minutes to fill its 12.4 gallon tank.


Hanoi Jane's hubris is the hubris of us all, left, right, and in between


 Old age is supposed to teach you a little humility, if life before that hasn't taught you any:

What we do or don’t do right now will determine what kind of future there will be.

Says the 85 year old who has been diagnosed with cancer.

Thursday, September 1, 2022

The legacy of unionized, government teachers who refused to show up because of COVID-19: Students in 2022 are performing at a level last seen two decades ago

 In math, the average score for 9-year-old students fell 7 percentage points between 2020 and 2022, according to the study. The average reading score fell 5 points. . . . Although it marks a sharp drop since 2020, the average reading score was 7 points higher than it was in 1971, and the average math score was 15 points higher than in 1978, the study found.

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Now just in time for the election lying Democrats, but I repeat myself, want you to think that they and their allies opposed school closings when they were attacking Republicans for wanting them open. 




US COVID-19 deaths per day in August 2022 are up 37% compared with the May-Jul average of 373

Deaths per day monthly in 2022:

Aug 2022: 511

Jul 2022: 383

Jun 2022: 363

May 2022: 373

Apr 2022: 426

Mar 2022: 980

Feb 2022: 2,247

Jan 2022: 1,987

 

Deaths per day annually still fell through August, but not by much, from 953 through July:

2020: 1,131

2021: 1,310

2022 through 8/31: 896 

 



LOL, reactionary California Senate votes 69-3-8 to keep Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant open another five years as green energy not up to the task

 


As with electric cars, rooftop solar energy is great until it blows up and starts on fire: Now they tell us

 Between April 2020 and June 2021, solar panels atop Amazon fulfillment centers caught fire or experienced electrical explosions at least six different times. ...

The documents, which have never been made public, indicate that between April 2020 and June 2021, Amazon experienced “critical fire or arc flash events” in at least six of its 47 North American sites with solar installations, effecting 12.7% of such facilities. Arc flashes are a kind of electrical explosion. ... 

By June of last year, all of Amazon’s U.S. operations with solar had to be taken offline . . ..

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A series of Russian businessmen meets with sudden unexplained deaths

 Ravil Maganov, the chairman of Russia’s second-largest oil producer Lukoil, died on Thursday after falling from a hospital window in Moscow

Gazprom executive, Alexander Tyulakov, was found dead in his garage near St Petersburg

Sergei Protosenya, a former top manager of Russia’s largest liquefied natural gas producer Novatek, was found dead with his wife and daughter at a villa in Spain

Former Lukoil manager, Alexander Subbotin, was found dead in the basement of a house outside Moscow 

Vladislav Avayev, an ex-vice president of Gazprombank, was found dead in a Moscow apartment, also with the bodies of his wife and daughter

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Here, Ravil, let me help you out that window

 Lukoil Chairman Ravil Maganov dies after fall from hospital window, sources say