Dee Feat is in Dee Flation - part the forty eighth

Regular reader may remember that there's three general sources of inflation (modulo random catastrophes): cost push, demand pull, wage push. The cabal of Evangelical Radical Right Wingnuts accept only the last as a cause. Many wee little LCD electrons have been spent on righting that wrong. And now, lo and behold, a lamestream pundit takes up the spear. I feel so much better.

The inflation that has plagued both the United States and Europe since 2021 has come substantially from so-called supply-side factors, or shocks hampering the economy's ability to churn out goods: a pandemic that closed plants, wars that raised prices of grain, climate change-induced crop failures that did the same, Houthi rebels launching drone attacks on one of the world's busiest maritime choke points and so on. For many of those supply-side woes, higher rates are making matters worse. "The Fed's main tool for lowering inflation," as economist Mark Zandi told The Atlantic, "is actually doing the opposite."

I've always seen Milton as a paranoid blowhard. So, in essence, does the author

But by the 1970s, the economist Milton Friedman began to recruit a following for his view of inflation as "always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon,"meaning inflation occurred whenever the money supply outstripped the goods or services being produced.

Well, NO.

Buck's Wisdom

In one version of these missives, is the observation passed from Buck Showalter's father to Buck to Mike Lupica:

Buck {Showalter] has always reminded me of something his father once told him: "The jobs that are easy don't pay very well."

Now, what brings that to mind? The Evangelical Radical Right Wingnuts cabal is now finding a new reason to demonize migrants: they're STEALING lousy paying jobs from sub-GED, no-skills Red Blooded Rednecks!!! That's UnAmerican!!!

What the Evangelical Radical Right Wingnuts clan is too stupid to note is that such Social Darwinist rigor is the heart of Right Wingnut-ism. You only earn what your skills are worth in "the free market". Unions and guilds and such are anti-competitive (never mind that capitalists combine and collude all the time) and Very UnAmerican. But now the Evangelical Radical Right Wingnuts is making kissy-face with the sub-GED crowd who demand sufficient wages to buy BMWs and such. And vacation in the Bahamas for a month or two each year. And so on. Unskilled, Uneducated, White People have the God given right to comfortable incomes and to rule the whole damn country!!! If you don't know that, you're some damn Communist.

Kabuki

Does the term "October Surprise" sound a familiar note? How about Christmas in July? Or, just Kabuki theater?

It's taken a few days, but I've concluded that the party of Sleepy Joe is capable of being Sneaky Dirty Tricks. Consider the assumed alternative, as propounded by Sleepy Joe during the 2020 campaign:

"Look, I view myself as a bridge, not as anything else," Biden said. "There's an entire generation of leaders you saw stand behind me. They are the future of this country."

So, if Sleepy Joe had followed through in a usual manner of passing the campaign to Kammi a year ago, wannaBePresident Huey Long 2024 and his cabal would have plenty of time to smear little Kammi to mush.

But, by staying the Sleepy Joe course until just days ago, the wannaBePresident Huey Long 2024 cabal has to scurry. Not to mention shooting themselves in the foot with JD "useful idiot" Vance.

Are the Donkey Party that clever? Well, Sleepy Joe had decades in the Senate getting around all manner of legislative obstacles. He learned a lot of lessons. And he was around for the most infamous October Surprise. So, yeah, kinda.

By The Numbers - part the sixtieth

Sure as the sun rises in the West, a particular bone of contention during the White Boy vs. Black Girl presidential race (he!) will be the White Boy's assertion that his Operation Warp Speed (note: Warp and White start with the same letter, ya'll) was the one and only reason that Covid-19 deaths weren't so much worse than he warned us about.

The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.
-- wannaBePresident Huey Long 2024//Feb. 2020

Of course, he later moved that to 30,000 and so on up until he stopped. Never came close to admitting that he'd blown it.

What seems to have been forgotten along the way is that the OWS money didn't provide us with an effective vaccine, from scratch. The mANA vaccines that do work had been under development for decades; since at least (depending on how and what you count) 1960. The companies that hopped on the OWS train didn't do much. Yes, a couple did get vaccines made, more or less in the OWS timeline, but not very effective>, but even they can't be grounded in OWS funding.

Number of effective OWS vaccines: 0.

Manufacturing and distributing Covid-19 vaccines is/would be a basic function of a public health system, unrelated to OWS.

Prophet

For those interested. The first appearance of wannaBePresident Huey Long 2024 was 23 November, 2020. So, I'm not surprised at what happened.

A Happy Ending

Just happened to be surfing the cab/sat guide, and caught the last few minutes of "Good-bye, My Lady". In sum - boy meets stray dog, boy bonds with dog, dog goes back to owner. I suspect that, for those who see the movie in its entirety, the ending is at least a 2-hanky tear drop. Which led me, as is so often the case, to read up the film on the wiki.

When not filming with then 13-year-old deWilde, the dog spent all her time with him, and an attachment developed between them. Unknown to theater-goers that saw boy and dog parted in the film was the fact that the written agreement supplying the animal stated that My Lady would become the personal property of Brandon deWilde upon completion of filming.

deWilde was the same age as the character, 13/14, and died in a car accident at 30. May be he and the dog stayed together? One suspects that the contract was written for deWilde's benefit, not so much the dog's.

Middle America

Time and again, the Evangelical Radical Right Wingnuts pratal that climate change is a hoax. Time and again a nano-second later, some bidnezz complains that bidnezz is failing because of some climate catastrophe. Some times, not often enough, the bidnezzmen call a spade a spade and name climate change as the source of their misery.

And so it is in today's reporting from the NYT. This time it's the Mississippi river. Turns out that river cruises aren't just on Europe's cornucopia of waterways. Turns out that the Big Muddy has been used not just for commodity barges, but also languid tourism cruising. Not that I would, of course. But times are tough. Turns out, times are tough at both ends: flooding and drought. Both make it impossible, at times, to use the river. So sad.

Just late last month, in St. Paul — the final port for the Trovatos' original itinerary — rising Mississippi River levels forced the closure of shoreline roads, bridges and parks. The river rose 20.17 feet above its banks before cresting, the seventh major flood in St. Paul since 2010, according to the National Water Prediction Service, and the eighth highest crest recorded.

And, for the record, the National Water Prediction Service is part of NOAA, that commie left wing cabal of liars. Just so ya know who to blame.

What's a cruise boat bidnezzman to do? Well, find some coattails paid for by the damn gummint, of course.

The boats themselves are changing, too, to designs that can slip beneath low bridges, motor upstream against strong currents and get to shore in shallower waters. "Our basic design parameter is that if the tow boats can go, we can go," said Mr. Robertson, the chief executive. "Because the Army Corps will move heaven and earth to allow the towing industry to keep moving."

I guess the centuries ago paddlewheelers are doomed. On the other hand, the European boats, showcased in those Viking teeVee adverts, would work. May haps not carry as many cruisers, and possibly too long for parts of the Big Muddy's navigation channel. But, hey, at least the boats can go.

What's the issue?

Even in its historic state, it could be powerfully unpredictable, with flows that oscillated by as much as 60 feet in the space of a season. T.S. Eliot called the river "a strong brown god — sullen, untamed and intractable."

Low

Mississippi River water levels are plummeting to an all-time low this week at Memphis in the wake of a sweltering summer and ongoing drought — setting a record for the second consecutive year, new data shows.

High

The Bonnet Carré Spillway upstream of New Orleans, used during high water, was operated eight times between 1931 and 2007; it was operated seven times between 2008 and 2020.

Not an exact number, as Low, but instructive.

By The Numbers - part the fifty ninth

So, now that it appears the Kamala is the new Sleepy Joe, how has that worked out in the past? History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes (attr. to Twain).

Number who ran - 19 (from primary)
Number who ran as candidate - 11
Number who won - 6
-- the wiki

But, we can dig a bit deeper.

How many made the White House directly after their President? - it appears to be the 6, but I haven't found an explicit source. Close enough for gummint work.

So it appears to be better than 50/50 chance. I'll take it.

Thought For The Day - 22 July 2024

You pull any of that shit you did on Hillary with me, I'll shove a barge pole up your ass!! Are we clear wannaBePresident Huey Long 2024? -- Kamala Harris/every day

Thought For The Day - 21 July 2024

Hell No!!! We won't Joe!!!

Bleach

There's been some backlash, to over-use an over-used word, asserting that Sleepy Joe is lying about the Trump/bleach fiasco. Politico has a long, quoting piece on the fiasco.

Now, it is true that Trump didn't say "bleach" in his word salads... But... it is a true logical conclusion. If we go to the transcript, it is shown that one William Bryan (not a doctor or scientist near as I can find) does explicitly equate 'bleach' as 'disinfectant'.

We're also testing disinfectants readily available. We've tested bleach, we've tested isopropyl alcohol on the virus specifically in saliva or in respiratory fluids and I can tell you that bleach will kill the virus in five minutes.

Case closed: wannaBePresident Huey Long 2024 is a pure bred moron.

Oxymoron - part the first

Amidst all the cuming about AI from the illiterate and innumerate, we finally get some sense from a labour economist out of MIT. Of course, in the world of econ, where the mantra is "it's all micro, and nothing but micro", the very term 'labour economist' is heresy. Nevertheless, here's some analytical sense.

His major point is the elephant that's been sitting in the room from the beginning: if labour productivity rises, how much of that productivity increase accrues to workers? Or is it the case, as it has been since at least Eli Whitney, that more productivity leads to labour shedding? After all, that's the express point, now isn't it?

Sam Altman of the ChatGPT maker OpenAI sees A.I. wiping out poverty.

That is just about the stupidest, ahistorical statement that anyone can make. How, exactly, are the poor, uneducated, rednecks living in Appalachian shacks (or worse, your average urban ghetto) going to be transformed to 90210 (RIP, Shannen)? The answer, of course, is not.

Years ago I worked for a regional store-front computer training outfit, which had been a straightforward COBOL school in real brick and mortar facilities with real IBM Big Iron. But then the Damn Gummint dangled moolah to 're-train' welfare folks, mostly mothers, for word processing and Lotus 1-2-3 office jobs. Turned out that almost all of my mothers were there under court order; skip school and ya don't get your kid(s) back. Needless to say, they evinced little enthusiasm for improving their skills. Ultimately, the outfit was found out and shuttered. Little of the moolah went into the classroom, and most went into the owner's pocket. And, also, an MIT grad. He wore his class ring with distinction.

An earlier essay in these musing referenced The Musk Ox's assertion that AI and the like mustneeds develop in concert with a massive re-distribution of income and wealth in order for the machine to keep running. Naturally, The Musk Ox was gleefully dis-employing his own workers rather than moving forward with such re-distribution. But, as Eccles observed 70 years ago: the machine stops working when income and wealth get so lopsided that aggregate demand collapses.

One of Acemoglu's critics puts it this way

"A lot of the benefits of A.I. will come from getting rid of the least productive firms," argues Tyler Cowen, an economist who says the model behind Acemoglu's study is wrong.

Of course, Cowen (a raving Evangelical Radical Right Wingnut of the first water) may be correct, so far as it goes. But if significant numbers of American business is shuttered, how do the dis-employed continue to buy the cornucopia of burgeoning productivity? They don't, stupid. Which is a feature, not a bug. The Evangelical Radical Right Wingnuts seek to return to the thrilling days of yesteryear, when there were a few elite with all of the creature comforts and the serfs making do with subsistence. They just dress it up in fancy verbiage.

But, it remains the case (as of today) as others and I have asserted, AI as currently implemented is just a massive correlation matrix of internet shit. Some call it search on steroids. That, too. `

Scary Shit

So, when the news first broke, it wasn't clear what had happened, but it was eventually noted that the kid was ~200 yards away and that seven shots were fired. That made AR-15 the likely weapon. And so it has been determined.

The M-16/AR-15, in stock form, is not a sniper rifle. But, it turns out, any civilian in most states can morph a stock AR-15 into a workable 200 yard shooter. Here's how. It appears that the kid didn't do his homework. It's simple to turn a 20 year old knucklehead into a Seal Team wannabe for a few bucks. And it's all legal.

You need a long barrel to both extend range and improve ballistics. A 24 inch barrel does the trick.

You need heavy load ammo. Note the ammo with "0" drop at 200 yards.

You need a suppressor, aka silencer although term is discouraged. They are legal for civilians in most states, including PA. Don't want to give away your nest with the first round.

You need a ranger. Any golfer's will do.

You need a 6x scope.

You need a bi-pod or a sandbag.

Now you too can go out and eliminate your political enemies. Odds are, if it's a high enough pol, you won't live to brag. But, hey, ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

And, no, I didn't know most of this materiel was available to civilians (except the rangers). But all it took was a few minutes letting my fingers do the walking through the Yellow Googles. Have a nice day.

Payback's a Bitch

Don't take my word for it: here's an analysis

Did the U.S. Supreme Court really just give presidents the right to murder their political opponents?

Liberal justices argue it did.

As ye sow, so shall ye reap. Just missed by a quarter of an inch.

"Strictly read, on its face, is this what [the opinion] would permit? The answer is yes," said Harold Hongju Koh, a Yale Law School professor who teaches national-security law and was legal adviser to the State Department during the Obama years.

"The way this opinion is worded, it's broad enough to cover the most outrageous set of facts. So Justice Sotomayor was not being hyperbolic."

Didn't take long, now did it?

Feets, Don't Fail Me Now - part the first

The age old phrase, "vote with your feet". In its usual manner, the NYT displays its sense of humour with two overlapping reports on various folks voting with their feet in response to afront.

First, we see that the tony coasts are rewarded by the 'free market' in homeowner's insurance. Of course, the nasty states that allow the insurance companies free rein deny what's going on. But, that's just gaslighting. The econ types call this activity 'market segmentation' and 'capturing consumer surplus'. By not leveling the playing field nationally, the Big Five hold 47.5% of nationwide market. That's a whole lotta control. If CA is a loss, than OK (and such 'business friendly' states) will make up the difference. Of course state regulators as in OK deny the plot. So do the companies. Do they all think we don't have eyes? I guess so.

To put it bluntly - given that 'regulation' (if the exercise barely rises to that name) is controlled at the state level, jurisdictions like OK can just ignore the issue:

Mr. Mulready defended his approach, saying it's not his role to stop private insurance companies from raising rates in Oklahoma.

"We allow the competitive free market to work," he said in an interview.

Except, of course, dey ain't no such a ting as a free market. OK is one state without a risk-pool, state run alternative, and the data show that states with such pools have lower commercial rates.

"I personally think we're in a lot of trouble," Dr. Keys said. "This should be ringing alarm bells for housing markets all over the country."

The result of all this is that people are moving to smaller, cheaper housing. Or out of a state all-together.

Megann Johnson is an insurance agent in Enid whose own home insurance premiums almost doubled, to $4,860 this year from $2,570 in 2021. She says her aunts, who sell insurance in nearby Kansas, tease her about what they call Oklahoma's "stupid"€high rates. "Our risk is the same, right?" Ms. Johnson said. "We're 50 miles from the state line."

Next, we find that the LGBTQ community has taken to moving due to blatant discrimination. Unlike the insurance distortion, which is more or less universally discriminatory, this community is targeted. While I've no specific data, my guess is that the community is made of higher than average humans. Just my feeling. Alan Turing being the archetype. For so many reasons, the smart people have always, and will always, migrate to the Blue States. Fuck the red states.

There is a dark side to this voting with your feet: because the Constitution built in a minority centric governance, the likelihood of a minority autocracy increases, since the flyover shitkicker states will continue to have unfair advantage in the Senate and Electoral College. In due time, if we all live that long, the USofA under such wonderful ministrations will collapse into anarchy, from which we may hope the cream of smart people will rise to the top and crush the MAGAmorons (or whatever label they've moved to).

Externalities - part the third

Another case study in not paying for the harm you do. Sort of. This report in the NYT deals with a free electric school bus for a teeny shitkicker town in Nebraska (on the southeast border with Kansas). The point was to replace a decrepit smoky diesel 1999 item.

It's free, thanks to a grant from one Sleepy Joe initiative. But, being in the cradle of MAGA world, the gift horse's mouth was rigorously inspected. And largely found wanting.

First, of course, is that this is an electric bus. Only faggots and Europeans use electric transport. Oh, wait

The railroads made Wymore. There were hotels and restaurants and residents who traveled about by electric tram.

And, as many know, the first 'automobiles' ran on batteries. The lead acid kind, of course, so mostly in urban areas. Wymore once embraced electric transport. But today's sub-GED hidebound Wymore residents make paeans to horse transport. I kid you not.

So, what was that about externalities? Turns out that the author grew up in Wymore, but escaped. Most did not. One such just wanted to have a junkyard. And he got one. Now, he sees the electric revolution as an assault.

Mr. Zimmerman was thinking about our classmate, Mr. Watts, the salvage-yard owner, who buys old vehicles and strips them for parts. Bus shells make great storage sheds, and engines are of particular value, Mr. Watts said. "I can completely dismantle it and recycle everything."

But he doesn't have the means or expertise to do that with electric vehicles. Besides, the electric-bus grant required the destruction of the old bus engine, so Mr. Watts couldn't even make money on that.

So, does Watts have a legitimate beef? And should he be compensated for the loss of inventory; that engine in particular? Only The Shadow knows. But, among other things, the county administration passed a law outlawing, to all intensive porpoises, wind farming. In a place ripe for wind harvesting. Note though, that Wymore/Gage Cnty isn't labelled as high potential in the map. But, Nebraska has more wee wind electrons per capita than Texas, wind capitol of the USofA.

Another externality: now that the Gang of Six has eliminated Sleepy Joe's "Good Neighbor Plan" program, Nebraska can keep asphyxiating all those Left Wing commies in east coast cities. By far most of Nebraska's wee little wired electrons come from coal fired power plants. Fuck 'em downwind.

TauTology

For some years, I've followed various One Drug Ponies in the Alzheimer's race. Most continue to play the Aβ line (and continue to fail, even the Big Guys), but even these, every now and again, would make passing reference to their One Drug's effect on tau proteins. Without much data or specifics.

Today comes another Derek Lowe piece on recent publications around tau in general CNS problems. Here's the punch line:

The capillaries back there are a different and more permissive population than the usual ones in the central nervous system (and thus the rapid onset of snorted drugs of abuse as well). The paper shows a single dose of this antibody in the mouse model reducing the amount of pathological tau and increasing cognitive function in the mice. Which is quite startling - you might have expected to have to go through a longer course of treatment to see something significant.

That's one hell of a punch line. I said that, yes I did. Could be a lot of moolah wasted on the Aβ sink.

Looking at the authors of the various papers, didn't see any known AD companies. Yet.

Gay Girls on Parade

This is what Trump has to offer. Don't worry, be happy! If you're a MAGAmoron, of course.

Reading the piece, to no surprise, tickled my lower brainstem with "Intolerance", Griffith's avowed non-apology for "Birth". An apology was required. Should Trump win, "Birth" will be named best picture Of All Time by AFI and Library of Congress. Dictators get what they want.

It was an attack that sent shockwaves through a country long considered a pioneer in LGBTQ rights. In the early hours of May 6, four lesbian women were set on fire in Argentina. Only one of them survived.

Be careful who you vote for. Mad Dictator Don has a vile habit of tossing friends under the bus when he finds them insufficiently loyal. You needn't be just queer to get killed.

Da Bottom is in Dee Basement - part the first

Yet another series, this one devoted to the debasing of America by The Orange Trickster. A few years too late, to be sure.

Anyway, today's NYT relates how middle schoolers have taken The Orange Trickster's verbal assault (not counting the 6 Jan incident) to TikTok.

In the days that followed, some 20 educators —€about one quarter of the school's faculty —€discovered they were victims of fake teacher accounts rife with pedophilia innuendo, racist memes, homophobia and made-up sexual hookups among teachers.

And, of course, it gets worse. Way worse.

But the school district said it had limited options to respond. Courts generally protect students' rights to off-campus free speech, including parodying or disparaging educators online — unless the students' posts threaten others or disrupt school.

"While we wish we could do more to hold students accountable, we are legally limited in what action we can take when students communicate off campus during nonschool hours on personal devices," Daniel Goffredo, the district's superintendent, said in a statement.

Students can assault teachers, but they can't protect themselves. What a country! Now, Malvern is one of the hoity-toity mainline rich suburbs of Philly. Not exactly inner city gangstas.

I guess the kids didn't get it

Malvern precinct chose Biden over Trump. Biden took 66.73 percent of Malvern votes, with 35.67 percent of the vote going to Trump.

If I paid close enough attention (and subscribed to a few dozen newspapers), I could write an installment for the series every day. That would be enervating.

Food

It took me rather a while to watch Bourdain re-runs after his passing; way too close to the nerves. It was, to say the least, jarring to watch the last few episodes in real time, which had only in camera audio: not his post narration. The interview laden episodes with the crew were hard to watch. The Food Network universe still runs "No Reservation" episodes with some frequency. CNN, on the other hand, isn't as generous with "Parts Unknown". It appears to be a question of ownership among the various arms of the corporate octopus. Some have complained that the latter is a pale imitation of the former. Given how many episodes he made across the three main outlets, it could be that he was just running low in the tank.

"Cooks Tour" - 35 (half-hour)
"No Reservations" - 134
"Parts Unknown" - 104

But, playing against type, CNN.com (my homepage) just put up a piece on Osaka as Japan's food destination. Which tickled my lower brainstem: hadn't Tony been there?

I let my fingers do the walking through the Yellow Googles, and found a Bourdain fansite. Turns out that he was there, but for only one show, a "No Reservations" episode. I can't say that I recall it. But the fansite is something I will keep track of.

By The Numbers - part the fifty eighth

There's been something of a rise in concern about where FDA is going, and would go if Mad Dictator Don takes over and reaches down into the labs and tells the scientists what the answers will be. Irregardless of sanity or science. Not quite sending SEAL Team 6 to kill Hillary and Sleepy Joe, but concerning.

So, how well regarded are the musings of Dr. Bleach? Enquiring minds need to know. Here's one report of the aftermath of his pronouncement: 121% increase in disinfectant poisonings. Enough morons to get him elected? One hopes not.

In April, which includes an eight day period from the 23rd of the month to the 30th, following Trump's comments, the increase was 121% compared to April of 2019. In the first ten days of May, things settled down some, with poisonings up 69% over the same 10-day period in 2019.
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For bleach, the numbers are less dramatic, but still telling. In January, February and March 2020 poisonings were up 7%, 1% and 59% respectively over each of the same months last year. In April they leapt 77%.

This is the Politico remembrance one year later. Note that Dr. Bleach didn't say bleach, but "disinfectant", which correlates to the 121% increase in poisonings.

And what about Dr. Bleach's other bugbear, hydroxychloroquine? Not much better. Here's The Guardian's report

People who took an anti-malaria treatment that Donald Trump touted as a cure for Covid-19 in the early days of the pandemic and waning days of his presidency were 11% more likely to die from the virus, according to a new scientific study.

Ah, the benefits of Dictator, aka Unitary Executive, as touted by the Evangelical Radical Right Wingnuts. He couldn't have, and now will thanks to the Gang of Six, reach down to the bench scientists at CDC and FDA and the rest of the Deep State, and make use of hydroxychloroquine and disinfectant and rat poison under pain of firing and prosecution if they resisted when the next pandemic virus pays the world a visit.

You have been warned. An idiot, narcissist, and all-around-madman rolled into one flabby package.

Thought For The Day - 6 July 2024

There's been more reporting on the effects of AI, particularly if generative AI becomes widespread, that we'll all pay gobs more for those wee little electrons that run our aircon in the sweltering heat. First it was crypto that sucked up electrisicals beyond reason to no other purpose but to add rocket fuel to the latest chain letter scam. Now a mass disinformation machine will double down on spreading evil Evangelical Radical Right Wingnut bullshit. The Oligarches are winning. Suicide is painless.

As England

... goes so goes the Nation. OK, the canonical version calls Maine, but who cares? The Evangelical Radical Right Wingnuts got trounced across The Pond. England has been in the maelstrom of stupidity of the Evangelical Radical Right Wingnuts for even longer; there's a reason they had a worse Covid-19 and Covid-19 aftermath than we did under Sleepy Joe. Brexit has made a hash of their economy and so on; all for the 1%, shit for the 99%. As Uncle Jimmy Carville so clearly told us, "it's the economy, stupid!"

Between A Rock

It's long been the view of folks who read the data and scan the folks, that the underlying issue of the USofA going back to before The Founding (in fact, 1619) isn't Left vs. Right, but Shit Kickers versus Educated City Folk. Now, even MARF^™(party like it's 1115) is hoisted on its own petard.

"The state can try and take it," Swenson declared at the hearing. "You're going to end up taking it from my cold, dead hands."

In an interview, Swenson said he had voted for Burgum twice and had once considered him a strong conservative — but after the governor's support for the pipeline project, he didn't want to see him elevated to national office.

What's that turn of phrase about serving two Masters? Isn't it The Bible? Shouldn't the Evangelical Radical Right Wingnut Shit Kickers know about that?

5Geee - part the third

You have been wondering about real 5G's progress? Haven't you? I, among many, found the physics of mmWave to be insurmountable, at least at a cost that the market would bear. Here's a recent report on the state of mmWave. It ain't pleasant.

Millimeter-wave has also seen barely any uptake outside of a handful of countries, including the United States, and even there it's been limited. Companies like Verizon — initially bullish on millimeter-wave — have instead pivoted to other newly available bands, most notably the C-band (4 to 8 GHz).

The other carriers, not being stupid, went all in on the lower bands, including C-band. So they've been able to claim widespread 5G coverage. Well... what the Regulators allow carriers to say is "5G". And service not obviously better than LTE.

Now for the understatement of all time:

It's too early to say whether or how 6G development will be affected by 5G's early stumbles, but there are a handful of possible impacts. It's conceivable, for example, given the lackluster debut of millimeter-wave, that the industry devotes less time in terahertz-wave research and instead considers how cellular and Wi-Fi technologies could be merged in areas requiring dense coverage.

"Early stumbles"? Yeah right. 6G? Somebody's not just been smoking something, they've been mainlining rocket fuel. Yeah cain't fool physics.

mmWave bandwidth - 10 Gbs+, or 600 Mbps, depending on source
C-Band bandwidth - 100 - 500 Mbps
sub-6 bandwidth - 150 - 200 Mbps

So who's got what?

most mmWave - Verizon
most C-Band - T-Mobile (aka, plus Sprint)
most sub-6 - AT&T poor baby

Of course, all of this misdirection is courtesy of the regulators, who've allowed carriers to label most anything they want as "5G". Even allowing AT&T to label their LTE service as "5GE" or "5G Evolution". Liars will lie and cheaters will cheat.

Here's a puff piece on the future of "6G".

This new network can bring communication to rural areas and shape how various industries conduct their day-to-day operations.
[my snicker]

Riiiiiiiiight!! Flyoverland barely has 4G, and may be a bit of sub-6 5G. A corn farm doesn't have many buildings or trees to stop mmWave signal, that's true. But even over a flat, wide open space real 5G can only make it 1,000 feet. Won't be much good getting to the south 40. And 6G?

Engineers at LG and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft have now successfully beamed 6G signals between two buildings over 100 m (328 ft), marking a distance record. That's a fair jump over the previous record of 15 m (49 ft), set by Samsung just a few months ago.

Cool!! Put a 6G radio on every 10th corn stalk.

Official Act, No. 1

Well, now that the Gang of Six have made their pronouncement, let's see Sleepy Joe implement it. Send Seal Team Six down to Mar-a-Lago to rid us that cancer. Since Sleepy Joe is President, and Commander in Chief, he can order the military to end insurrection, by whatever means necessary. It's been done before. A friend sent this along. Too much to resist