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by olivermarks 4y ago
Add the new SF Muni line to the list of insanely expensive projects https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/muni-central-subway-1...
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by olivermarks 4y ago
California infrastructure was originally scaled for around 20m people. There are currently currently around 40m people and rising living in the state. There are huge cyclical environmental events - periods of drought, wildfires, torrential
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by olivermarks 4y ago
Scott McNealy, co-founder and former CEO of Sun Microsystems, famously told a group of reporters, “You have zero privacy anyway… Get over it!” The year was 1999. The Internet as we know it was barely five years old. Here we are in 2023 with
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The Tunguska Mystery 100 Years Later (2008)(scientificamerican.com)
94 points by olivermarks 4y ago|76 comments
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by olivermarks 4y ago
'a contract has also been awarded for the agency to acquire 9,250 commercial-off-the-shelf internal combustion engine vehicles "to fill the urgent need for vehicles." In December, the agency said that 21,000 COTS vehicles wil
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by olivermarks 4y ago
There is no intention to allow people to work on their EVs. Between DRM and impossible complexity the vast majority of cars after around 2008 are almost impossible to fix yourself by design. The next generation of vehicles are likely to dri
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by olivermarks 4y ago
https://carolinapicknpull.com/price-list/ EV aftermarket is expensive, DRM makes parts picking v difficult, plus few people understand EVs and are scared of being electrocuted.
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by olivermarks 4y ago
In California we are already in that system
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by olivermarks 4y ago
We are going to greatly miss pick'n'pull and other salvage yards when they are gone. Countless families keep their older vehicles running by salvaging parts at weekends so they can get to work on Monday and keep a roof over their
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by olivermarks 4y ago
This video suggests a great many US used car dealers are going to go under soon. https://youtu.be/rGWZSEPGt1E Higher interest rates for dealers and buyers, decreasing price market adjustments coupled with increasing interes
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China Lithium Probe Shuts Down a Tenth of Global Supply(bloomberg.com)
4 points by olivermarks 4y ago|0 comments
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by olivermarks 4y ago
'wrong' doesn't exist in the cosmos. Perfection does. I recommend 'the little book of coincidence in the solar system' https://woodenbooks.com/index.php?id_cms=8&controller=cms#!L...
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by olivermarks 4y ago
Adams is a very successful book author as a well as being a syndicated cartoonist that has enticed a lot of people to buy newspaper subscriptions. The idea publishers would cancel him due to his blog and podcast opinions flies in the face o
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by olivermarks 4y ago
@Raed667 ' alt-right dog whistle' ,'rant' ,'spewing unhinged racism'. Not hearing it, could you explain how and why you feel this? Cancelling a cartoonist because he was shocked nearly half of 'black'
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by olivermarks 4y ago
@goldenchrome - Facebook: “Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power”. Italian philosopher & Minister of Public Education under Mussolini Giovanni Gentile, who was arguab
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by olivermarks 4y ago
Biofuels are already being manufactured, are being used in motor racing with sophisticated octane blends and in road cars. Short explainer video https://coryton.com/lab/videos/how-can-we-decrease-carbon-em... Long
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by olivermarks 4y ago
70 million people died over six years in WWII, the vast majority Russians. 1930's USA has little bearing on European geopolitics and the creation of golden era superman comics. An animated data-driven documentary about war and peace,
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by olivermarks 4y ago
'Jews, along with Blacks, were seen as outsiders to be marginalized by large sections of the dominant US culture at the time'. I know this is the popular broad stroke concept of between wars American culture but in reality it was
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by olivermarks 4y ago
Basically better kerning and font weight changes, nothing too scary for the huge committees of empty suits to be presented to, meet over and approve
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by olivermarks 4y ago
@rafram I don't think there is any doubt people who are jewish have had an important cultural influence on US media - Robert Crumb, MAD magazine etc - and some of their cultural background plays a part in that...but the whole idea of t
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by olivermarks 4y ago
Why are the kid's religious beliefs worth mentioning in this article?
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by olivermarks 4y ago
Couldn't agree more @seandoe. It's also incredibly insulting and disrespectful to Dahl to meddle with his work. The endless critiquing & editing types should instead write new books and see if anyone's interested in their
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Railroaded – detailed analysis of E Palestine derail(doomberg.substack.com)
22 points by olivermarks 4y ago|12 comments
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by olivermarks 4y ago
That's a glass half full perspective! How come so many fish and animals are still dying or are dead in the area?
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by olivermarks 4y ago
It sounds as though Israel might have though...
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by olivermarks 4y ago
Also the phytoplankton in the oceans that process the air we breath. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/activity/save-the-plankto...
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by olivermarks 4y ago
Apologies for offending your religious beliefs but there are an awful lot of now very rich snake oil salesmen out there who are doing a lot more for their cronies wallets than for the planet. Be more mindful of where trillions of tax payer
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by olivermarks 4y ago
'Climate change' is a hysteria because there is so much money involved in green tech. anyone with an ounce of common sense is an environmentalist, but there have been so many predictions of impending doom (which is your fault, rep
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by olivermarks 4y ago
I think the grandparent was really referring to extremities at the tips of the two wings - the cargo culting 'democratic socialist' movement the DNC pays lip service to, and the extremes of nationalist'USA first' 'p
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by olivermarks 4y ago
Exactly.

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