The Reading Room by Edward Gordon (American, b. 1940)

The Reading Room by Edward Gordon (American, b. 1940)

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0.6% of the American vehicle fleet are electric.

The numbers don't always tell you everything you need to know but they are sure useful in providing context and perspective.  From A handful of states are driving nearly all U.S. electric car adoption by 

Joann Muller.  

The latest data: 4.6% of the new vehicles registered in the U.S. this past May were electric, according to the research firm's most recent data.

That's more than double EVs' share of monthly registrations in May 2021 (1.9%).

Yes, but: EVs still account for only about 0.6% of all registered vehicles in the U.S. Take California's EVs away, and it’s just 0.4%.

The gulf between the chattering class and the American Public

Well, that's about the clearest indication of the chasm between the Mainstream Media (and government and academia) and the American Public.

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That's from Rotten Tomatoes movie review site.  The 42 corporate media shills give the documentary an 86%.  More than five hundred citizens give it an average score of 2%.

Of course there is a lot going on behind those numbers, but it is a striking gulf. 

Groaning Oldies

From Friar's Club Encyclopedia of Jokes by Barry Dougherty.

A sloth was walking through the jungle one day when he was set upon by a gang of vicious snails.  The snails left him bleeding and confused at the bottom of a tree. Several hours later he summoned the strength to go to the police station and report the assault. He was asked by the desk sergeant to describe his attackers.

He replied, “I don’t know what they looked like, it all happened so fast.”

History

American colonies - 83% British in 1700, 62% British in 1775 pic.twitter.com/9QczspeGaT

— Sir John Robert Seeley (@NxlAnglo) July 3, 2022

 

An Insight

I’ve covered Washington for more than 50 years, including 11 years covering Congress specifically. I’ve never seen a committee all of whose members were chosen by one party, and where there is no cross-examination or any attempt to present both sides. https://t.co/7bjCm3O9Ez

— Brit Hume (@brithume) July 1, 2022

 

I see wonderful things

Sometimes you can look back at perfect footprints in the past, of our technology journey

Like this fully working fan from the 1800s, functioning on kerosine, sterling engine technology converting thermal energy into kinetic energy
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— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) July 3, 2022

 

Greenland whaling from Mississippi?

From The U-Boat War 1914-1918 by Edwyn A Gray.  Page 234.  The cruise of U-151 into American waters in 1918.  

The U-boat continued her cruise south claiming more victims as she went. On one occasion they picked up a decrepit old sailing-vessel crewed by poor whites and negroes. Their captain explained they were off to Greenland on a whaling expedition and that the boat was owned by a number of poverty-stricken families in Mississippi whose livelihood depended on them. Once again von Nostitz showed genuine compassion and, after a brief hesitation, he agreed to let them continue their voyage unharmed.

This occurred in June 1918.  A mixed race crew was hardly ever uncommon in American naval and maritime history.  But a sailing vessel sponsored by poor Mississippi farmers to go on a whaling expedition to Greenland from Mississippi?  This sounds extraordinarily improbable.  

Possibly the incident never happened.  Possibly the crew lied to the Germans.  Possibly the Germans misunderstood.  Possibly Gray or other historians misinterpreted the records.

All possibilities but there is also the remote chance that it is all true.  

We are left with an astonishing claim and no resolution.

Offbeat Humor

I haven’t come across this before but made me laugh pic.twitter.com/pBBY2XGmhk

— Tony Theaker (@tonytheaker) June 30, 2022

 

Data Talks

Do IAT scores=0 constitute egalitarianism, such that IAT>0 is racism? All studies that have assessed the relationship of IAT with non-IAT measures of racism find that scores well>0 correspond to egalitarianism. Intercept here is point of egalitarianism. pic.twitter.com/SBIBoguEAd

— The Dark Pirate Jussim (@PsychRabble) July 3, 2022