- WAYMO self-driving Robotaxis are now serving customers in 80 square miles of Los Angeles, excluding airport trips to LAX and traveling on highways. The rides are more expensive and with longer wait times than Uber or Lyft, but do allow rider customizing for personal music, call privacy and temperature set. Access is via the WAYMO app.
- IMMEDIATE EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND PRIORITIES OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION have now been set as relating to: (1) Border security including resumption of building the Wall; (2) Deportation of illegal alien immigrants; (3) Resumption of oil drilling & fracking; (4) Removal of ‘burdensome’ regulations; (5) Cutting federal funding for any school pushing critical race or transgender theory, racial or sexual or political content; (6) Halting chemical, physical or emotional mutilation of youth; (7) Supporting private rights for victims to sue doctors who’ve such procedures on youth, and severe consequences for any teacher or school official who suggest to a child they could be ‘trapped in a wrong body or discriminates against sex; (8) Revoking policies on gender-affirming care including puberty blockers, ceasing all programs promoting sex & gender transition at any age; (9) Terminating mandates on electric vehicles; (10) Banning any federal department or agency or bureaucrat from colluding with any business or organization to label domestic speech as mis- or dis-information; (11) Dismantling the Deep State, including National Security & Intelligence apparatus, by removing ‘rogue bureaucrats’; (12) Streamlining government operations by forming a Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk.
- THIS NEW DEPARTMENT OF EFFICIENCY WILL BE ATTACKING A LONG -OVERDUE CLEANOUT of hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of bureaucrats who do little, if anything, useful for society and now consume a third of the federal budget plus rights for retirement benefits and pensions. Trump’s ‘Drain the Swamp’ plan will likely begin with imposing an Executive Order giving him power to “fire bureaucrats in policy-determining or policy-advocating positions. Mass firings won’t happen day one since the Deep State will deploy lawfare (using taxpayer funded lawyers) on a mass scale to shield the bureaucrats. But the Constitution is very clear vesting executive power in the sitting President, and two main relevant Supreme Court cases say he can fire any political opponent. So millions of deep-state minions are now feeling a deep sense of dread as they dust off resumes and consider turning their life around and doing something useful for society.” [PETER ST ONGE – 11/15/24]
- FYI: ‘TOILET TIME’ SHOULD BE LIMITED TO 10 MINUTES MAX doctors now warn, to minimize risk of hemorrhoids, weakened pelvic muscles and rectal prolapse which can lead to cancer. CNN reports that recommendations from Nat’l Academy of Medicine and U.S. Dep’t of Agriculture suggest: (1) keeping phones, magazines & books out of the bathroom which can easily turn into excessive time reading, scrolling & posting; (2) staying hydrated by daily drinking 11 to 16 ounces of water plus 14 grams (5 ounces) of fiber for every thousand calories of food eaten. The damage is evidently done from sitting on an oval-shaped seat which compresses buttocks, increasing both blood flow and gravitational pressure.
- THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK:
- — “Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity – and I’m not sure about the former… The majority of the stupid is assured and forever guaranteed.” -Albert Einstein The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. There is always one more imbecile than you counted on. Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.
- — Marble sculptures are now being produced by robots — https://youtube.com/watch?v=_VlkMuo2Zcs&si=_9HZPlq6c0s7OGT
- — A.I. GRANNY DAISY is now operational in U.K. “Indistinguishable from a real person, a telecon company says it automatically connects likely scam callers to Daisy, who deploys confusing digressions about her family and love of knitting, provides scammers with random numbers, and has kept them on the phone line for up to 40 minutes – while preventing them from targeting real victims.” [FUTURISM]
