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What's popping up on your playlist?
Creepy cookies that track all your online activity are (slowly) being eradicated. In recent years major web browsers, including Safari and Firefox, have restricted the practice. Even Chrome has realized that cookies present a privacy nightmare. But stopping them ends only one kind of online tracking"others are arguably worse.
OK, a song you likely will not hear on the radio nowadays, unfortunately ...
Whiskeytown - A song for you (1999)
www.youtube.com
Could this be Pres Trump's theme song?
Skinny - Failure (1998)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
...
(They you remember last week I promised to tell you today how to become a space cadet and get your official class ring and your shoulder patch? Well, we're not quite ready. Okay?)
Why have I always been a failure?
Why have I always been a failure?
Why have I always been a failure?
What can the reason be?
Talking to myself at stations
Slipping in the pouring rain
Ripped my new shirt
Pocket with a hole and
Chasing all the coins
Rolling down the drain
Everything you said was hazy
You called me sad, lost and lazy
Scratched my records and slapped my face
You left no clue
I'm blue
(I'm blue)
Why have I always been a failure?
Why have I always been a failure?
Why have I always been a failure?
What can the reason be?
Why? Why? Why? Why?
Why? Why? Why? Why?
...
How many bankruptcies has Pres Trump presided over?
Will the United States Treasury be his next bankruptcy?
Depeche Mode - People Are People (1984)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
genius.com
...
People are people, so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully?
People are people, so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully?
[Verse 1: Dave Gahan]
So we're different colours and we're different creeds
And different people have different needs
It's obvious you hate me, though I've done nothing wrong
I've never even met you, so what could I have done?
[Pre-Chorus: Martin L. Gore]
I can't understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
...
@#93 ... A lot of conflation taking place. ...
ya think. That is why I asked for a link, which you supplied. Thanks for that.
From that proffered link ...
Guantnamo Bay: Beyond the Prison (2021)
www.nytimes.com
... Mention this place, and people tend to think of caged men wearing orange uniforms and on their knees, the image of opening day at the wartime prison four months after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
But this military base is more than one big prison. About 6,000 people live at the U.S. Navy outpost, which has the trappings of small-town America and the amenities of a college campus, and functions like a cross between a gated community and a police state.
It has a Defense Department school system for the children of sailors and contractors, a seaport for Navy and Coast Guard supply missions, bars, ball fields, neighborhoods with swing sets, beaches with barbecue grills and pleasure boats to rent for excursions on the bay.
It also has a McDonald's with a drive-through wide enough for tactical vehicles, just below a hilltop church with a white steeple. A 10-minute drive in one direction takes you to Nob Hill, a neighborhood of three-bedroom homes for junior officers on the base of 700 families.
Drive 10 minutes in another direction, past the base's scrubby nine-hole golf course, and you arrive at a gate to what is essentially a base within the base, the detention zone. It is under the command of an Army brigadier general who is responsible for the Pentagon's last 39 wartime prisoners and a staff of 1,500 people, mostly soldiers from the National Guard on nine-month tours of duty. ...
So, 30,000 capacity?
Yeah, the lithium batteries of EV's (and other things) are not to be trifled with.
Queens townhouse fire that injured 4 people sparked by lithium-ion battery: officials
abc7ny.com
Power tools with lithium-ion batteries sparked fire in Queens, commissioner says
abc7ny.com
Battery inside children's book sparks car fire in North Carolina: officials
abc7ny.com
etc., etc, etc.
The problem with a lithium battery fire in, say, a car is that it burns so intensely that it is difficult to put out.
Collateral Damages of Hard-to-extinguish Electric Cars
fireisolator.com
... With the rise of electric vehicles all over the world, comes a great risk as well. Driving a car that is better for the environment is obviously great, but what happens when an electric vehicle catches fire? And why are EV car fires so dangerous to their surroundings? In this article, we tell you all about the collateral damages of EV fires.
Why are Electric Vehicle fires so hard to extinguish?
Even though EVs are less likely to catch fire than regular cars, when they do, the fire will be much more intense and very hard to extinguish. The key difference between extinguishing a traditional car fire and an EV fire lies in the lithium-ion battery. Most electric vehicle fires emerge when this battery is getting charged.
When a cell of the battery overheats, it can enter a process that is called Thermal Runaway'. The cells in the battery will keep overheating themselves very quickly, causing a fire and in some cases, an explosion.
Because the battery cells keep accelerating, the EV car fire cannot simply be put out with water.
It will take hours, maybe even days, to put out a fire like this with just water. And how longer it takes to put out the EV car fire, the more chance of collateral damage. ...
Is it the likelihood of a fire or the extent of the possible cost resulting from that fire that needs to be considered?
Another view ...
Mark Robinson drops CNN lawsuit, vows not to run for office again
thehill.com
... North Carolina's former Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) said he would terminate his lawsuit against CNN on Friday following its report released during his gubernatorial run last year about inflammatory comments he made on a pornographic website.
"The fact of the matter is this: the price we have paid in entering the political arena will never be recognized. There is no dollar amount high enough. While it has been the honor of a lifetime to serve the people of North Carolina, the continued political persecution of my family and loved ones is a cost I am unwilling to continue to bear," Robinson wrote in a statement on social platform X.
"I give great thanks to Jesse Binnall and his team of investigators for their countless hours of work, dedication, and compassion. The investigation of CNN and their sources' yielded tremendous results and brought closure to our family during what has been an unimaginably dark situation."
Robinson faced pressure to drop out of the governor's race after the CNN report. He filed a case against CNN in October seeking $50 million in damages but decided to drop the lawsuit after losing the governorship to Democrat Josh Stein.
Robinson said his political ambitions are now botched.
"I will continue to utilize my platform to promote and support many of the issues we are all so passionate about; however, at this time, I will do so from the sidelines. I will not run next year, nor do I have plans to seek elected office in the future," he wrote on X. ...
Wow,.
... Robinson said his political ambitions are now botched. ...
Because of what it was reported he may have done?
His dropping out seems to me to be an open admission that the CNN report may be correct.
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