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DaveS,

With any luck her cellmate will be one of those new women with appendages.

That would be an opportunity for her to rethink her life choices.

So one of the hopefully soon-to-be-behind-bars loons said this:

"The cost-of-living crisis is part of the cost-of-oil crisis."

She'll soon have time on her hands to do a lot of thinking. Perhaps she'll figure out that the cost-of-net-zero nonsense is also a big part of the cost-of-energy crisis that's been contributing to the cost-of-living crisis.

But she's probably too dim.

I see the JSO Sunflowers splatterers have been warned to prepare themselves for prison. They may be behind bars neatly two years after their escapade. No surprise that it takes so long, but it has me musing on which part of the state has the most ponderous bureaucracy.

I suppose it's pointless playing health, military, education, social services, justice, etc., all against each other to find a winner: the blob is a blob after all.

In other news, here's a medication that should probably be prescribed to even more people than get statins. A lot more beneficial too.

Mailman,

It's a matter of spinning it. How about Big Surprise: Neanderthal Good with Club for the headline?

That article on NASA being too reliant on SpaceX didn't make its argument very well. That SpaceX far outperforms its rivals and thereby gets all the contracts seems a good thing. Yes, if it continues that way, maybe SpaceX will become flabby and complacent, but for the moment they seem to be doing good work.

The article seemed to favour something like the US DoD, where the contracts are round-robined between a handful of equally inefficient contractors. No benefits of competition there.

Comment at JoNova's linked to this item on aluminium-graphene batteries. Sounded wonderful, but I didn't come away convinced. Felt like ChatGPT might have had some hand in the writing. The business of aluminium having three outer electrons compared to lithium's measly one seemed specious. Why not go with fluorine then, it's got seven!

Meanwhile back in the real world, Space X doing Space X things!

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/spacex-just-stomped-the-competition-for-a-new-contract-thats-not-great/

This one came out of right field and caught me totally by surprise!!

https://youtu.be/6Rb9b8rYhII?si=jLBGMIDiqfboDZkB

This is a side of OMB that the extreme left wing media NEVER shows (to busy conditioning the left that he is an existential threat to democracy).

Mailman,
Pretty sure the enquiry's conclusion hasn't previously been mentioned here, and I don't think I'd seen anything about it elsewhere around the traps. Taking a squiz at a Guardian letters page on the subject, they give three views, first two idiotic, third one common sense.

One out of three is pretty good for the Guardian.

Thought Nigel Farage's maiden speech to Parliament was worth listening to. Hope it stirs them up, but expectations low.

Don’t think this has been covered but I remember hearing last week that the first reports out of the Covid enquiry were being released and that the enquiry found themselves not guilty of any wrong doing.

There were a couple interviews with the appropriately tearful family members of people who died WITH the Chinese death pox but haven’t seen anything else since???

Short Telegraph article on a UK Greens MP opposing powerlines needed to connect offshore wind turbines to the grid. Has to be a good sign if even a lunatic fringe party member can point out the idiocy.

Article's not very well written, but near the end it had a phrase which appeals to my (possibly overdeveloped) sense of useful ambiguity: net zero fanaticism. Left-associative or right-associative? Net-zero fanaticism: bad; net zero-fanaticism: good.

Article was linked in comments @ JoNova's. Another article from there was about a study questioning the cholesterol consensus. Good to doubt the simplistic view, but then the article has:

The HDL-to-LDL ratio also emerges as a better predictor of heart disease risk than LDL levels alone