I’m not sure if you watch Discovery, but they are introducing Mirror Universe survivors in the form of ICC Enterprise. I’m betting their descendants come into play at some point in another show.

Recency Bais? Dollhouse, Animal Kingdom, Agents of Shield, Altered Carbon would all come before Severence!! (But then I find that show boring, so maybe I have some biases of my own?)

2nd Gear - These are going to be continuations of Trump Era tariffs and a continued growth in the with-holding of technology transfers from US companies.

Came to say the same...

It sounds like they burn enough of the stomach to reduce the percentage of hormone generation related to hunger. I would surmise that this is similar to drug therapy by reducing the percentage of hormone released, but just doing it by “killing” a portion of the stomach. The slope by which they are losing weight over…

I’m still hanging in there only under the hopes that someone learns from this garbage, plot-armored excuse for a Star Trek show. Recognizing Paramount/CBS needs programming otherwise no one would subscribe leaving little choice but to suffer or the Overlords will shelve any new Star Trek forever.

Feels like a niche product to fill the gaping hole where my iPod Touch used to live. Small enough to fit in my Everyday Carry and enough storage to swap out cards when the old one bores me.

Since the Pandemic hiring in most tech companies (and Tesla is valued like a tech company), the higher interest rates are creating a slow-roll of lay-offs. Zero-interest Rate money let companies hire and shelf/warehouse talent and now those cheap loans are coming due. People are ALWAYS the first cost-structure…

The NFTs are being returned to their original owners. There are no plans to auction or liquidate those silly JPGs.

Amusingly FTX had made a collection of investments that have paid off in recent months. Bitcoin has quadrupled in value. Anthropic continues to climb in base value. Other assets held were able to be clawed-back or liquidated.

Schneck vs. United States - Not all speech is protected, especially when considered a “Clear and Present Danger”. This has been refined a few times like in Virginia v. Black about the inherent threat the burning of a cross implies/conveys to various people.

Somehow Dept. of Treasury is getting lost with The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).

3rd Gear - Last week Marketplace did a week’s long series with The Washington Post about training and hiring of people as a result of the CHIPS ACT. Arizona had setup training programs and had identified hundreds of people to form a pipeline and continued bench strength.

The Wilson came in about $90M below budget, but I would have to guess that 2008 gave them some slack in the financials. Construction was bottoming out and people were glad to just have jobs in that sector and raw materials were lower at that point as well.

The largest issue is going to be the daily traffic they are going to want crossing. So far it hasn’t been a huge pain for the people to go 695 around the West side of Baltimore, but we also aren’t in winter weather mode either.

This will be tied up in courts for years and having a fixed point of reference to re-coop expenditures is a better outcome than having money deposited only to have the costs double. (Since this will very easily increase by 15% from overruns and inflation on materials/labor.)

With the regular turnover at Tesla, I can’t imagine what kind of Bench Strength they are developing. Even odder when you cut the staff that was un-paid interns rather than identify potential hires.

You warned, I ignored... But I could use a version by Phish.

Grew up listening to Red Sox games on the radio with my Great-Grandfather even though the picture was on TV. Just better announcers.

Tesla is going full “Burn the talent” pipeline. They recently reneged on 3200 internships, some of them un-paid(?)!