Thanks. Will watch it. I knew of the pump before the In Our Time episode - since it is justifiably famous in the annals of medicine and Figuring Things Out - but can never remember his name.

This was mentioned tangentially in an episode of In Our Time covering the Great Stink of 1858.

Agree! My dad did not leave much wisdom behind but he did pound in the importance of praising workers to their bosses, preferably in writing. It happens so rarely that, when it does, it has a huge impact.

Gotta wonder about that person's life journey that led to that and zero embarrassment.

Will movie makers come up with original concepts instead of remaking anything they can get their hands on?

That's the only thing Russia did right and they did that by accident.

No one can answer what is more likely to happen. Take a science course, take a logic course, take a course in existentialism. You're thinking app is flawed.

The entire context is that it is really cold. Usage is high.

This is a question no one can answer. It starts with a big if - whether there is a bounce - which is speculation at this point and then proceeds to ask a specific question about the nature of the unproven, speculative event.

Think what you want. Your speculation holds as much weight as any other or face up to the Fact there are unknowables at the heart of our existence.

I worked in one of the first industries to be devastated by computers and I embraced it at the time as more efficient which it was. However, those well paid union jobs were gone, gone, gone and nothing came along to replace them. This time around, the change will be more wide spread and deeper and we need to think about what that portends.

Fascinating - what an extraordinary woman.

Best bit player!

Thing did a fine job. Agree with you about the patents.

I got my pupper via Home at Last (North Wales/Lansdale) and its an excellent rescue.

He lives in nyc, last seen 2018. His son would probably know if his father had died.

If people haven't learned this in this election, they never will. We blame politicians for so much but we elected them and people who did not vote elected them as well by sitting on the sidelines.

Oh for godsake, you've gone above and beyond already! Way above and beyond. You can't manage other people's lives. The planet overflows with danger and unpleasantness and its denizens need to get a grip and learn how to handle the negative or they can never hope to grow up and fully Become.

The individual taking you to task was a bit of a Karen.

Thanks.

I don't math. I used $1 becasue I figured that is what the average person would pay. I'm average and I pay $3 a month to Amazon to keep videos of all the critters visiting my yard at night.

The other thing that could happen is all the ex-Twitter employees found - with some billionaire backing them - a new Twitter. Peeper is probably a no go as far as names go as is Twatter (Except maybe in Australia). Maybe Cheeper since we are all poor these days. Or Quacker for the MAGA anti-vax folks.

As part of a rebranding, Musk could rename Twitter to Blather or Blither or BlitherBlather.

$8 a month is chicken feed to blue check people. However, Twitter ad revenue is generated by eyes on Twitter content so blue checks may bristle at being charged for supplying the content that brings attention to the ads. Stephen King has already said as much.

"Last year, Twitter’s interest expense was about $50 million. With the new debt taken on in the deal, that will now balloon to about $1 billion a year. Yet the company’s operations last year generated about $630 million in cash flow to meet its financial obligations."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/30/technology/elon-musk-twitter-debt.html

The most quoted number of users is around 350M. If each of those users paid $1 a month, that would generate $42B in revenue. But! 10% of the users generate mostly all the content so it would be more likely that 35M users would pay $1 a month and that would only generate $420M. So far, Twitter has lost money except for, I think, two quarters so even with the added user revenue Twitter could not make enough to pay the interest on his loans.

Thanks.

Oh, radio. It was the same name, though? I love radio since i have lived for decades on and off without a TV.

I loved Bellwether! It was such a remarkably fresh and optimistic notion.

I read Doomsday when it came out and have been a fan since then.

From Barron's - "Because of deals signed in just the past year, companies like BP, Shell, Exxon, and Chevron are building enough offshore wind farms to supply millions of homes on the East Coast with electricity and are preparing to produce hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel made from plants, garbage, and kitchen grease. They’re increasingly confident that they can get greener without sacrificing profits.

A gusher of cash this year makes that an easier task. Oil companies are taking advantage of sky-high commodity prices to pay down debt, fund capex and shareholder returns, and invest in low-carbon businesses of the future. Worldwide, total investments in renewable energy is on track to exceed oil and gas investments for the first year ever this year."

So, some of the oil companies see the writing on the wall. OTOH, Shell is doing a buy back rather than lowering prices.