Fuck Obama’s legacy.

2020 is a long time away. But the Democrats are determined to lose that, too. I think they actually want to lose, because failure and loss is where their strength lies — it’s more productive for them in a lot of ways to be the ever-defeated underdog, protesting party — as in the George W. Bush years — rather than dominant. (No, I don’t mean that in a metaphorical sense. I think they deeply and truly do want to lose. It makes them more powerful than winning in many ways.)

No lessons to learn, according to Drum and other Dem ass-ignorant idiots. None at all.

Democrats are still telling themselves the “demographics are on our side and soon winning will be inevitable!!!!!” fairy tale that I’ve been hearing since I started reading Newsweek when I was 10 years old.

That was 30 years ago.

The human need for protecting identity seems to be stronger than any other drive in most people. It rules over all other urges, even survival. These days you have Dems believing in Russian mind control conspiracies and other things that in the past only the wackiest of Area 51, gray alien types would’ve bought into. Yeah, it’s a post-truth world, but it’s one with the Dems firmly at the head of the long, long queue.

This election has been more instructive as to human frailty and unsuitability for rational thought than all the Arendt and Adorno and Baudrillard I’ve ever read.

Apple, thank you for the 5K but now you’ve totally lost the plot.

Apple’s battery time remaining estimate was fairly accurate, I agree.

Whoever decided to do this should be fired so hard their body is found on the surface of Ganymede. I simply won’t buy a laptop that doesn’t have a “time remaining” estimate available. (Or that requires thirty different dongles to operate.)

Is Apple attempting to destroy itself, what with Dongle Doom and now this? I can’t understand.

If this ever comes to pass, means I will not buy any electric car with this “feature.”

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration demands that the cars make a noise when travelling either forwards or backwards at speeds of less than 30km/h (19mph). The regulation covers vehicles with four wheels that weigh less than 10,000 pounds (4.5 tonnes).

The safety specification requires car makers to use a two-tone signal similar to that currently emitted by heavy vehicles when they are reversing.

Wonder if there is not more to the story here. Auto makers in general do not really want electric cars to succeed. Huge R&D costs, more reliable so far less to service. The same antipathy is present with fossil fuel producers. Both of these groups have enormous lobbying power and regulatory capture of relevant agencies.

This will probably cut the market in half or perhaps more for electric vehicles. No one wants their car to make an obscene and cabin-audible beeping noise while at low speed. I will never buy one that does this.

This reminds me of the Red Flag Laws that restricted the uptake of early automobiles.