It’s been a LONG weekend! Foolzcon 4 is done, stick a fork in it… 63 (give or take as people floated in and out) folks showed up to the not a con this weekend hosted by the North Texas Troublemakers. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Random stuff
Is how much the Bud Lite fiasco has cost Anheuser Busch. So far… Bud Light has had a heck of a month of April. First, we learned that the beer giant created and sent specialty cans to trans dude Dylan Mulvaney to … Continue reading
Nine minutes on the water crisis surrounding the Colorado River… What he says makes a lot of sense… And this one isn’t going to be easy to solve, or quickly solved. I think he’s right and they will end up … Continue reading
Sometimes I wonder about our education system… Even in Texas… Cars are a ‘signifier of status’ and ‘power,’ professor says A transportation professor at Texas A&M University said that “car culture” and “toxic masculinity” are intertwined. Professor Tara Goddard teaches … Continue reading
NYC spent almost $1M on robots to patrol the subway… This week, the New York Police Department rolled out several robots to patrol Times Square and the city’s subway system to fight crime. According to the New York Post, this includes … Continue reading
Sometimes you just gotta have fun… Navy style… Early 2000s during an airpower demonstration at sea! The F-18 driver was a former Blue Angel, so he knew what he was doing (and probably laughing his ass off as people realized … Continue reading
This is one Victor Davis Hanson column you really need to read. We are in a Jacobin Revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary. The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020. It … Continue reading
T-Rex had lips??? Theropod dinosaurs such as the iconic Tyrannosaurus rex have long been portrayed with their teeth fully visible, similar to extant crocodilians. This pattern of portrayal largely had to do with relatedness between dinosaurs and crocodilians and the relationship between … Continue reading
Found this at Axios! It takes a variety of overlapping sensors working together for self-driving cars to accurately perceive the world around them. Why it matters: Cars that drive themselves — whether in limited highway settings or in geofenced urban areas, like robotaxis — require … Continue reading
Or real??? I don’t know, but I’d be planning for a real event… FWIW… If you’re out and about, make sure you keep your heads on a swivel, and carry if you can. Better to be safe than sorry. … Continue reading