> It is highly contestable that every single Western supermarket out there has a diesel generator down in the back / storage room that will kick in in an instant if a power outage begins.
Literally true. However:
- If it takes them 10 minutes to fire up the generator, then 5 minutes to restart the network and registers, that is no big issue (in a many-hour outage)
- At least in my part of the USA, many supermarkets do have generators - because storm damage causes local outages relatively often, and they'd lose a lot of money if they couldn't keep their freezers and refrigerators powered. Since the power requirements of the lighting and registers are just (compared to the cooling equipment) a rounding error, those are also on generators.
My big problem with lab-leak theories is that their "useful for the common good" utility seems close to zero. (Vs. just forcing the damned labs follow their own long-standing safety rules - which the labs were regularly screwing up at, decades ago.)
Vs. less-benevolent uses of those theories seem rife - whether that's neutral "clicks pay the bills" journalism, or angry hotheads stirring up easily-turned-violent xenophobia.
Not the son of a CIA Director, as the title seems to imply.
Reading the article's account of his behavior - I'd say he was a seriously troubled young man, desperately searching for some sort of meaning or purpose to his life.
> He told “Mert”, a Rainbow Family friend, that he joined not to fight but to gain a passport.
> In one message, he said: “My goal in life is to build an infrastructure for the oxidation of water in a supercritical state. To put an end to environmental pollution and the diseases and deaths associated with pollution, that is: cancer, lymphoma and all the hormonal problems associated with microplastics and estrogens in water.”
> Important Stories spoke to a member of the 137th regiment who said that, after training, Gloss was sent “to the assault units”. He last logged into Telegram in March.
Sound like the Russians found a cheap meat shield. And Michael at least found an end to his troubled life.
> [...] there was a time when people in Washington were positively giddy about Jeff Bezos’ new mansion on S Street. [...]
> “What he’s going to do is revive the legacy of Kay Graham and her great socializing — bringing smart, interesting people together in a social context,” Jean Case, who with her husband Steve was an old friend of Bezos and his then wife, said at the time.
> It was a prediction that a certain stratum of D.C. very much wanted to believe. The idea of a world-transforming industrialist running the political city’s salon flattered establishment Washington’s perennial hunger for social validation: See, we’re not just a bunch of ill-dressed policy wonks!
> The validation never arrived.
The real story isn't about Trump. The real story isn't about Bezos.
The real story is about thousands of supposedly educated & sophisticated people, who deluded themselves with baseless beliefs, because those beliefs felt SO good to them.
Noteworthy: That power line is only 10 miles long. Madison to Dubuque would be about 10X longer.
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