We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

Alternative Subsidy 17 Comments

Bloomberg;

The billionaire chairman of China’s LeEco has admitted his technology empire is running out of cash to sustain a headlong rush into businesses from electric cars to smartphones. […]
LeEco’s envisioned car plant in Nevada needs government support for power lines, water mains and roads. That in turn requires investment by the state, but Nevada treasurer Dan Schwartz balked at issuing the necessary bonds. Jia’s reliance on loans backed by Leshi equity could leave taxpayers vulnerable to the whims of China’s volatile stock market, and he expressed doubts Jia could raise the billions of dollars needed to bankroll the project.

“A World Without White People”

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“We all know that white people, especially the males, are to blame for everything bad that has ever happened to anyone and are to be blamed for all bad things that will happen in the future. This is a fact because it’s taught in the public schools, both K-12 and college, and our politicians say so.
But just for a little fun I decided to “economics” a little bit and see precisely what the US would look like if we were to remove white people from the picture. More specifically, what would the economy, our standards of living, government, and taxation look like if we just got rid of those nasty, nasty white people.
And the results are…heh…”interesting” to say the least.”

Today’s Word Is ‘Sucker’

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Robert Stacy McCain pokes through the feminist memoir of Jessica Valenti:

The question raised by Sex Object, if read with a critical eye, is whether Jessica Valenti has ever been a victim of anything except her own bad judgment… What kind of fool would major in Women’s Studies? The kind of fool who loses her virginity at 14, goes off to Tulane, sleeps with her ex-boyfriend’s roommate, flunks out and then transfers to SUNY-Albany, that’s who. The only career possible for a Women’s Studies major is as a professional feminist, and there are only so many full-time gigs at non-profit “pro-choice” organisations to go around. However, the Feminist-Industrial Complex  —  the departments of Women’s Studies on some 700 college and university campuses across the United States  –  has a rent-seeking interest in promoting the metastatic growth of feminism, so the fact that many of their alumnae are quite nearly unemployable isn’t mentioned in the course catalogue.

One of these.

“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”

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So you don’t like GMO? Let’s look at a mutation breeding!

Mutation breeding is the process of inducing genetic variation in a crop through use of chemical treatment or radioactivity. Chemicals like ethyl methane sulfonate (EMS), sodium azide (SA), N-nitroso-N-methylurea (NMU) are used to soak seeds or treat tissue or pollen in culture. They induce random changes in DNA, usually single bases or small deletions. These changes alter the encoded protein, forming new proteins that may be more or less functional, or perhaps truncated or even not made at all.
For radiation, fast neutrons, x-rays or gamma rays bombard seeds causing double-strand breaks in chromosomes. These lead to larger deletions of genetic material and sometimes rearrangements. These changes are essentially random. They are induced by short-term exposure (seconds to hours) to a powerful radioactive source, usually Cobalt-60. Sometimes whole plants are grown in high radioactive fields to generate these genetic errors. The Institute for Mutation Breeding in Japan has generated a number of cultivars using these techniques.

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