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Talk of Ukraine’s draft dredged up this from the Oligocene and my days as a tadpole. Certainly the earback-dry crowd will remember this, even though I’ve changed the lyrics enough to protect the innocent…and perhaps me from buck-nekkid plagiarism*. Besides, the words and meter are so beautifully...

Ah - all on the same page now, I’d say.

Preprosterous!

Not the best on your CV is “Preprototype Driver”

I didn’t think there was much debate that Vikings or pre-Viking traders founded Kyiv and Rus itself? That by no means determines the dominant genotypes emanate from there, of course.

Let's see whether it does better, worse or the same as a human with what one encounters on the Denali Highway:

I find myself in the amusing position of defending an avowed short-seller. Anyone who has spent any time reading my non-Mod, non-wordplay, non-family posts knows I consider short selling antithetical to the capital markets; that the SEC has acted unforgivably in formally declaring short sellers...

Ten minutes before the bell, and volume is at 6.99MM. The last number I recall from yesterday’s aftermarket was a whopping 62MM shares, but did anyone catch the final number? It all adds up to a reasonably significant repositioning; of course short-covering is going to have been the dominant...

Moderator note: Less than half a day after the single most serious action I will undertake: locking down the thread for a spell so all can cool down AND ensure Moderator posts are followed, @raffiniert decided snarkiness and personal attacks were more important than getting banned. I said...

Me, @ggr AND @Right_Said_Fred all in the same car? It, and this thread, would crash for sure. Besides, I don’t understand your suggestion of using a seat with me but I’m not sure I like its sound.

Thank you. I just witnessed for the first time ever our entire extended family, at dinner, simultaneously choke and guffaw. You’re not wholly to blame: I’ll take 50% of that by being the one to recite to them your comment.

The thread is now open.

NOTE TO ALL: I am this close to shutting the thread for an undetermined amount of time, so that ALL have the opportunity to calm down. In a need to catch up after two days, I just had to wade through the most unproductive, vituperative, repetitive, boring and just plain shameful set of posts I...

Get off your high semantic horse. This is supremely tiresome, not the least for its picayunity.

I must have been looking in all the wrong places. Perhaps someone here knows the answer and can tell me if I'm wrong or correct. I do have the advantage here: not just decades of experience first somewhat as an insider, then as a very fascinated outsider, of American foreign policy...AND with a...

One poster just got slammed for posting no comments, just one meme. New - but really not - policy. Not unexpected from someone whose earbacks dried many moons ago, and whose principal reason for having created this thread was to have a Roundtable Discussion. NO MORE POSTS that consist...

Well, one COULD assert the proximity between "Perpetual" and "Investors" settles any such debate. Of course, to know the answer unequivocally, it would be necessary to ask the thread's owner/originator. Anybody seen him?

NIMBY I mean, Not In My Thread

I am amused by the following; I have no idea if others are: My reaction to the news today that Tesla appears ready to re-submit to shareholders Mr Musk’s 2018 incentive plan was: THIS time I very well might vote for it. I opposed it the first time because (1) my bullishness regarding the...

Housekeeping: Too many of you (even one is too many but it’s quite a bit more than that) have gotten sloppy with your overabundant use of abbreviations. YOUR microseconds of saved time absolutely do not balance out against the time-wasting collective hours of others’ musings as to what it is...

There is too much occurring today to focus on everything but, irrespective of the absolute merits of these numbers, I wish all would bear the following in mind. Just file it away to keep a perspective: Some number of years decades ago, either the CEO or CFO at Pfizer, then with Merck far and...

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A fun day down south today….back in Alaska in a bit😁

1. Yes. I think I’d have been better to have written something like “…then why on earth would they shut the line…” in order to emphasize that I was rebutting those who are saying it was shut. Thank you. 2. Yes. That is why I wrote “screws (etc.)”. I will say it is mysterious that issues with...

Hmmm. Great points. If only I could start a thread where everyone had to enter only via longhand. Or verbally. That would be wonderful! Oops: this refers to @unk45’s (who else?) rejoinder-rejoinder. You who are interested: go find it yourself. I’m busy. 😁

Why would merely “screwing on” (etc) accelerator pedals precipitate the entire shutdown of a production line? Has the latter not occurred, or are there other forces at play?

Leaving my rejoinder high and dry and meaningless? Ha! Gotcha back: go see.🤣

I’ll bet it was more like a half-century…😁 On edit: (Normally, it is I who edits @unk’s posts, usually amending the most egregious typos without even telling him. This time, I left up his initial “half-decade” for the fun of being able to, well, skewer him😀. And then he goes and spoils it...

A fine travelogue this has been. We know you will want to share your new adventures; if you wish, instead of creating a new one why don’t you consider changing the thread’s title when “Airstream “ no longer is appropriate? I think you have Mod powers to do so.

I believe I wrote - yes, I am certain of it - The is NOT a geopolitical thread. Any discussion of Mideast conflict will occur somewhere else. Next violators go on to vacation.

I saw it, and will stop it.

No more Mideast, UKR-RU &c conflict postings here please.

On the topic of Gruntledness! As of one minute ago, I am downloading 2024.3.15 / 12.3.4 on ChittyChittyShushShush - our early 2017 P100DL Model X. Am at the End of the Line no longer. Whale Oil Beef…..Needled....or some such😄

I just looked into my cruet, and yep: my olive oil needs topping up. Might be a leaky seal?

Boo hiss.

ECRH power: Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating. I can google with the best of them.

(Her new digs - not mine!)😁

And here’s the firm: OpenStar Technologies my new digs

Ha! It IS for fusion!

My niece just sent me this, very excitedly, from her jobsite. Now, I have absolutely no knowledge of what she’s up to, but I certainly do of what she’s down to: 24.1K and 4.50e-7 mBar. Good golly Miss Molly. What on earth (or outer space) might anyone need that for? Fusion tech, by any chance?

Of course, a 4680 that’s ~40% taller is then a ~46110, unless you commensurately alter the diameter so it’s a (WAG) 52110….. ….after all the delay in bringing the 4680 form to scaled production, do we potentially have that to look forward to?

How on earth does that jibe with Tesla offering to sell extended range packs sitting in the bed?

You’re not cherry picking; you’re picking the dust on the eyelash of the mite on the tip of the stem of the most inaccessible cherry on the tree. My post? It was excoriating use of the word “lying”.

Mmmmmm…..waaaal, ifn yer definition of “better” includes the resultant chipping all yer remaining teeth from their concomitant grinding against each other, then I suppose so 🤪. And on a much more serious note: I don’t like to use and I don’t like to read a lot of references to “He/She/They/ is/...

MOD NOTE: Re "free speech." This is as good a place as any to remind all that I set this site up with extremely specific rules as to what may and what may not be written here. Think of it as a benevolent tyrrany. You are even permitted to X out that "benevolent" if you wish: that's how...

Yes, but whom did he run over? Was he on Autopilot?

It requests a voice recording. I used it for about half the disengagements I have encountered; once I figured out what was going on I believe I never responded when it was for something I wished to do, like changing route or going faster.

Am I the only one thinking that Russia would, if it truly had even the slightest understanding of what the long term means, realize that it is neither NATO nor Ukraine generally, nor the USA specifically, that is Russia's utterly natural enemy; rather, it is China. The two greatest...

Way O/T on a sensitive place, but @UncaNed now has me envisioning Slim Pickens at one of those Semi’s wheel, waving his cowboy hat and going Yee Ha!