Mokurai
Stories by Mokurai
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Renewable Tuesday: The [redacted] Thing’s Stupidest War
You don’t need me to tell you, again, do you, that The It™ is soooo stupid? How stupid is he? I hear from the back. Well, this about sums it up. Good News Roundup: Why the Iran War Will Still Cost Trump in November Trump is already paying the price for starting and losing the…
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Diabetes News: Tegoprubart + Beta Cell Transplantation
Yay, science! We have known for a long time that being able to transplant beta/islet cells into type I diabetics without triggering an immune reaction could be an effective treatment for TiD, and we have found a number of ways of doing that. Some barricade the β cells away from the blood stream, while others…
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This Suffering World: Is Ukraine Really Winning?
War is always stupid to begin with. Offensive war, anyway. Warmongers never ask their victims’ permission, of course. So can we agree that Vladimir Putin, though canny on how to seize power, is terminally stupid about war crimes and imperial expansionism? I have raised this question, following Sun-Tzu’s Art of War, in previous DK stories.…
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Renewable Friday: Green Economy Hits $10 Trillion
Now you’re talking! That’s language even the Denialists can understand. $10 terabucks in $$Real Money$$™ invested at superior returns vs. $10 trillion in stranded assets of the Fossil Fools, winding down toward valuelessness. 🎩 T Maysle The group of companies that derive significant revenue from environmental solutions, known as the green economy, has topped $10…
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The Best of the Best: The Dumbthter Fire
I highly recommend Steve Allen’s book Dumbth: the lost art of thinking : with 101 ways to reason better & improve your mind. He predicted our political culture war era exactly, and provided a multitude of ways to counteract it, by working on yourself, and by teaching our children. The dummies on the other side…
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The Pushback Chronicles: Bari Weiss vs. CBS
We all know that Bari Weiss was assigned to destroy CBS, in part by firing Steven Colbert, in part by crippling 60 Minutes. These were the network’s two flagship programs, their biggest moneymakers. But that isn’t all of the carnage. The result is that millions of CBS viewers are pushing back by becoming FORMER CBS…
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Renewable Tuesday: The Strait of Schrödinger
It’s open and closed at the same time, as reflected in dozens of Internet memes. Also, the US blockading the Strait while threatening tolls on ships passing through; Iran will and will not charge tolls on shipping; and the MOU is in force while being violated because it both does and does not constrain Israeli…
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Diabetes News: One Year CGM
Where has this news been? I look every week, but until today I never saw that the Eversense 365 one-year Continuous Glucose Monitor/CGM got FDA approval in 2024. Nor had I seen the previous six-month version, approved in 2017. Well, it turns out that this one has only just come on the market for general…
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This Suffering World: Tell Me What I’d Say, Iran MOU
On the 40th try, The Orange Loonburger’s Iran MOU has declared the Iran war that is not a war is not only over, but signed, sealed, and delivered. Not so fast, say all but his darkest-dyed minions. The Best of the Best: 👉🤣at the IT™’s Iran MOU👈🏽🤣 That was last week, before the MOU was…
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Renewable Friday: Another Judge Supports Renewables
Judge tosses trump’s effort to stop renewable credits A U.S. judge vacated a Trump administration policy implemented last year that made it harder for wind and solar energy projects to claim federal tax subsidies, according to court documents. The decision is the latest legal blow to U.S. President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging efforts to slow development of clean energy technologies,…
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The Best of the Best: 👉🤣at the IT™’s Iran MOU👈🏽🤣
On the 40th try, The Orange Loonburger’s Iran MOU has declared the Iran war that is not a war is not only over, but signed, sealed, and delivered. Not so fast, say all but his darkest-dyed minions. Firstly, Lucy has given Charlie Brown a printed promise not to yank the football away this time. After…
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The Pushback Chronicles: Post Office Election Shenanigans
As Lucy yanks the football away again, after giving Charlie Brown a written promise not to do so, she remarks, “Peculiar thing about this document. It was never notarized.” That sums up everything to do with Trump, the greatest Lucy in the world. Never mind anything he says about “protecting elections”. It’s all lies, and…
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Renewable Tuesday: EVs at 28% of New Cars Worldwide
That’s new car purchases, not installed market share, but I’ll take it. Won’t you? Not in the US, of course, where we are stymied until after the 2028 elections. Then we can let in Chinese cars, with amazing battery and recharging technology that the [redacted] and his minions have tried their worst to keep away…
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Diabetes News: Higher Dementia Risk with Diabetes
Diabetes, all forms of dementia, and many other conditions turn out to be deeply intertwined, as we have seen with Alzheimer’s in particular. Likewise, medications for those and a wide variety of other conditions turn out to be helpful for a variety of other issues. There is, however, no known treatment for the various kinds…
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This Suffering World: 10 Worst Crises
There are many kinds of physical suffering in the world, such as dire poverty; climate catastrophes including fire, flood, and drought; slavery; or tyranny. We will consider them each some time. Today we are looking mainly at wars, with over 100 million victims in total, and immediate humanitarian needs estimated at about $30 billion. Each…
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Renewable Friday: Renewables Beating Coal and Gas
!!!Moar Tipping Points Moar!!! Solar ⟰ Wind ⟰ Coal ⟱ Gas ⟱ Nuclear Fuggedaboudit, and Just Wait Until Geothermal Kicks In The next ultra-big tipping point will come when new renewables cover 100% of growth in electricity demand. U.S. Worldwide The Good News As always, there will be lots of smaller tipping points to watch…
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The Best of the Best: The Demented [Redacted] Loves Inflation
There are people who deal in reality, including empathy for the vast suffering here and around the world, and people who deal only in the nastiest, most vicious fantasies of their own privilege. We know them in this political season as Democrats and Republicans, respectively. Well, the Bible that the ChristoFascists pretend to revere says,…
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The Pushback Chronicles: Grand Jury Malfeasance
I hope you watched Rachel Maddow on Monday, when she laid out an incredible string of botched Federal cases including Grand Jury tampering by US Attorneys. I am going to give you the cases as she went through them, but with additional information on the consequences of those actions. I like to describe this as…
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Renewable Tuesday: 50,000 Amazon EVs to Begin With
Amazon isn’t all bad, with 50,000 EVs on the road, out of 100,000 planned, and its own charging network. Eventually all of the big delivery companies, including the postal service, will do likewise–UPS, FedEx, DHL, Walmart, and the rest. Then we can get on with electric 18-wheelers. Meanwhile… Meetings The Good News Heatmap Daily e-mail:…
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Diabetes News: ADA Conference Bends Knee to [redacted]
The American Diabetes Association is properly appalled at the Maladministrations attacks on diabetes and other medical research and treatments, but its conference in New Orleans says that nobody may say so at the meeting, and called the cops on top researchers distributing ADA literature. The researchers were removed as conference presenters and barred from the…
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This Suffering World: It’s All in the Mind, You Know
As I like to explain, the worst karma in all of the worlds is the notion that karma doesn’t apply to you. So it is with all of the [redacted]ists in the Maladministration, and all of their MAGAtroid followers. This is how it is stated in the Dhammapada, a compendium of Buddhist wisdom from centuries…
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Renewable Friday: Against Stupidity
We don’t actually need an academic report to tell us to stop burning carbon and releasing other greenhouse gases, nor to accelerate buying EVs, induction cookers, heat pumps, batteries, and so on, nor to require data centers to have enough renewable energy and enough cooling capacity of their own before the first blade computer is…
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The Best of the Best: Paxton for Sacrificial Lamb
Sen. John Cornyn lost his Senate primary in Texas to the [redacted]’s chosen candidate Ken Paxton last week. Democrats are gleeful about the prospect of James Talarico beating Paxton in November, possibly sealing a D takeover of the US Senate, 51-49. Here is how unhappy Rs are about that. Feel free to click through and…
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The Pushback Chronicles: They’re Melting!
So many of us, voters, lawyers, judges, D AND R politicians, are pouring so much cold water on the Felon and his minions throughout the Maladministration that it is all dissolving away now. He has thrown away Pence, Noem, Gabbard, Bondi, Bovino, numerous generals and admirals, and so many others in the past, and shows…
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Renewable Tuesday: An Action Plan on AI
I repeat: We need a national law requiring builders of data centers to build out enough renewable energy to cover all of their needs before the first computer blade is turned on, and mandating massive industrial heat pumps for cooling. Among other things. And as always, #NoNewNukes. Also #NoArtificialStupidity. We have enough trouble with the…
