First, the Nazis in AfD love saying they are definitely not the thing that they are. There is a long list of cases with a neo-Nazi connections in the AfD – and it runs right up to the national executive committee. AfD literally oppose law and order — want to undermine the Constitution — so … Continue reading If AfD are Nazis, and Elon Musk Campaigns for AfD, What Does That Make Him?
An impressively astute book review has been published on Defector. He welcomes the return of a space race, not between rival superpowers, but between capitalists indulging in healthy competition “like that of the railway barons a century earlier.” This is fatuous in a familiar way, but also wrong: The American railway boom was 150 years … Continue reading Fatuous Howler: Elon Musk Biography by Isaacson “misleading and even flat wrong”
From the outset, it was evident to anyone with basic knowledge of urban dynamics that Uber would have negative effects on cities. It’s not a matter of complex calculations; it’s a fundamental principle of urban transportation. Increasing the number of cars on the road leads to more problems. The same common sense reasoning suggests that … Continue reading MIT Study: RoboTaxis Ruin Cities
Two identical private jets took off, one returned and landed while the other lay in smoldering ruins. Yevgeny Prigozhin was said to be on board… one of them. This detail popped into my head as I read the MI6 quote to the Independent. [Putin is] making clear to everyone inside and outside of Russia that … Continue reading The Mystery Second Plane of Yevgeny Prigozhin That Didn’t Crash