Interesting. Years ago, the job site default seemed to be Dewalt and I had basically never heard of Milwaukee. Bit by bit I saw them replaced with Milwaukee and to a lesser extent Bosch.

And now I know why.

The bummer is that a lot of "safe" index funds are going to be forced to buy the stock.

They also changed the rules not just to let the company into the NASDAQ early, but with way less than the normal requisite 10% liquidity (corculating shares).

Some good stories there. Bloomberg is effectively paywalled though.

Still, I did learn that China suppressed 12,000 degree programs because they are obsolete.

Though I do wonder how anyone really knows yet what is obsolete.

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TownSquare got posted on Hacker News and the town is completely overflowing. You might run into some lag, crowded rooms, and a few bots wandering around.

A climate change denier friend used to always say, "What about Africa with all their population growth?"  I laid out the numbers on historic total emissions, actual current total emissions, per capita emissions, and new projections on population and made it clear that Africa is not the cause of the problem. It actually changed his mind.  He literally said, "I can't believe I'm saying this, but you changed my mind."

So it was with that in my head that I read the Ethiopia news (not actually news since they passed the law in 2024 but rcjordan FAILED to post about it, so I didn't know)

That discussion was about 5 years ago. Now I see Africa rolling out clean energy projects and adopting EVs and think that it's not just that the US is falling behind China in more and more areas, we are starting to fall behind Ethiopia in critical tech.

Who other than Hans Rosling would have predicted THAT 20 years ago.

And the interesting tidbit - Ethiopia now bans the import of ICE vehicles

Now that you've turned me on to DW

https://www.dw.com/en/charging-ahead-evs-outpace-growth-predictions/a-77486417

That's a good one. Never seen it before that I recall

DW?

OTOH

https://th3core.com/chat/index.php?topic=14434.msg90089#msg90089

And this French guys has a pretty funny riff on Buc-ees

https://x.com/Romi_Bean/status/2066575909797367946

Ah, yes. Adds years. For sure.

BTW, as much as the ideas, in fact more so, I like the poetry of Dylan's answer. It shows why as much as 50 artists have been labeled the next Dylan, nobody has turned out to actually be the next Dylan.

>> Nobody spends $22 billion because they love restraint


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I'll bookmark this for winter