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Rock Lockwrench

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I drink and I know things-
KC born- Mizzou raised- CLT adulting to the best of my limited abilities
Anti-car car guy

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Rock Lockwrench

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For those of you cheering the decline in TSLA (and Elon’s wealth by proxy) - focus on the P/E ratio. It indicates the stock’s current price remains highly speculative and could reasonably be expected to be cut in half again. Other tech P/Es: AMZN 34.87 AAPL 33.76 NVDA 39.26 MSFT 30.85- just saying

TLSA stock chart with p/e ratio of 109.91 circled

March 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM

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American Fietser

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Share the media.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.

March 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM

Rock Lockwrench

@rocklockwrench.bsky.social

I was just now struck by some nostalgia. When I was in High School, we used to have so much fun dunking on an 8.5 inch basketball rim. Had I only known how much fun everyone could have had if DEI wasn’t reserved for vertically challenged white boys.

February 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM

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Common Sense

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More true every day

Passage from Carl Sagan’s 1995 book, the demon haunted world. The passage states “ not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting, my lifelong love affair with science. but there’s another reason: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a four boating of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time - when the United States is a service or information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those and authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good, and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media. The 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

February 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM

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Brian Tyler Cohen

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The United States just voted against a United Nations resolution condemning Russia for invading Ukraine.

The US sided with Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and the Grand Ayatollah of Iran.

February 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM

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Brent Toderian

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This is important — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis

City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

www.forbes.com

February 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM

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The Onion

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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...

theonion.com

February 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM

Rock Lockwrench

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So- it’s winter storming here in Charlotte, and when I can put my anxiety aside that my shareholder owned power company will leave me cold soon, I do really enjoy how quiet the city is w/o car noise

January 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM