Yet another way we get fucked.
Who needs to research and provide cures for things that can - and will - happen in the future? Who cares if everyone gets sick and dies?
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
The EPA has bad news for all of us.
Now that the EPA has been ceded to people who don't care about the environment, and think protection is for suckers, we're about to see some significant changes coming.
Among them are changes to any standards as it relates to car emissions. Who needs to regulate the gas mileage, having things like catalytic converters, or care about the toxicity of what's coming out of the tailpipe?
What matters is that car companies can choose what they want to sell and gas companies should be able to profit from lower gas mileage! Screw everyone.
And there's a secondary problem that goes along with this. The EPA funds some efforts to reduce emissions, and as a result subsidizes the oil industry.
When that funding source goes away, that means the subsidy goes away. And therefore, we as consumers will pay more at the pump. How much more? I saw an estimate that it likely would be about $.79 per gallon. Meaning that today we're paying $3.17 a gallon. But shortly we'll be paying 25% more - or about $3.96 a gallon.
And gas mileage likely will go down on new cars, ensuring that you will have to fill up more often.
But hey. You voted for "lower gas prices" and now you get to FAFO.
Saturday, August 2, 2025
Dillon vs. Goliath: Portland Pickles file lawsuit over logo similarities with Disney+ show
These are the kinds of stories that truly amuse me.
There's a Disney+ show called "Win or Lose" that focuses on a fictitious baseball team called the pickles.
But there's a real team in Portland called the pickles, and because Disney is selling merch with a pickles logo, the real baseball team sued for copyright infringement.
They reached a settlement this week, and while we don't know the details, the outcome is dill-icious.
Friday, August 1, 2025
Disney Products Generated $63 Billion in Sales in 2024, as Mouse House Again Tops Global Licensing Leaderboard
$63,000,000,000 in sales of licensed merchandise - a little over 20% of all licensed products - is astounding.
And it shows the power the mouse has over everything.
Brilliant teenage students develop mind-blowing inventions to solve global crisis: 'I got goosebumps'
It's always great to see our youth tackling problems that face us all. Fun, human interest stories that offer hope and tackle challenges are always worthwhile.
Over three weeks, students formed teams and tackled pressing issues like carbon emissions, microplastics, e-waste, and heatwaves. The teams then turned their ideas into working prototypes under the mentorship of scientists, professors, and entrepreneurs at the institute.
Hubble Space Telescope spots rogue planet with a little help from Einstein: 'It was a lucky break'
The Hubble Space Telescope detected an anomaly. But it was a scientist who figure it out; Einstein had correctly posited that a planet would create a sort of ripple in its wake. And that's what they saw that encouraged them to study the space further.
A rogue planet! How very unusual.
Man awarded $12,500 after Google Street View camera captured him naked in his yard in Argentina
I know people who would have taken less. Still an amusing story. His nekkid butt was there for all to see...
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