I’m old enough to remember the excitement, 50+ years ago, of the new Sears catalog arriving. Moms in my neighborhood would talk to each other, sharing what they hoped to talk their husbands into buying. Seems like another world now. I always wondered about the huge variety of electric motors, pages and pages of them. Was it maybe a holdover from a generation earlier when, early in the century, many households had multiple appliances/gadgets that didn’t come with their own motors and folks would carry their only motor from one gadget to the next?

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Typical Millennial bank statement

$4 coffee
$8 lunch
$4 coffee
$2,000 for rent
$15 Lyft ride
$12 for Netflix
$9 lunch
$4 coffee
$8,000 bill from doctor
$20 at brunch
$400 student loan payment

The problem is obvious. By making lunch at home this person could have saved $3.

— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) October 7, 2021

‘Only the Little People Pay Taxes.’ The Pandora Papers and the Case for Crypto

Offshore revelations sap faith in centralized power and show why trustless systems are needed.

It’s almost as if they’ve never heard of Hive: Building ‘OnlyFans on blockchain’ is a huge, untapped opportunity — Dfinity founder

Whatever it is you want, you can’t have it.

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

COVID in Europe: Romania's situation a 'catastrophe' as Russian death toll increases

Why lawsuits against COVID-19 vaccine mandates will likely fail

How Joe Biden Is Winning the Culture War Over Vaccines

Politics:

Trump’s coup plot was worse than anyone knew

I don't think we know the full scope of what was going on with Barr and Trump during this period despite Barr's self-serving recitations to several authors of books on the final days. But it's clear that he knew that Trump was out of control and he decided to jump off the sinking ship before it went under…
Trump himself inappropriately called Rosen and his deputy nine times, and met with him personally several more, the final denouement coming just days before the January 6th insurrection in which he literally said, “one thing we know is you, Rosen, aren’t going to do anything to overturn the election.” As usual, he said the quiet part out loud.

Biden Declines Trump Request to Withhold Records

The White House on Friday formally blocked an attempt by former President Donald Trump to withhold documents from Congress related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, setting up a legal showdown between the current and former president over executive privilege.

Treat Trump Like the Common Perp He Is

Trump Voters Worried About Discrimination Against Whites

North Carolina Lt. Governor Calls Gays ‘Filth’

NC GOPer Threatens To Break Into Elections Office, Looks Ridiculous

Senate Republicans sow disinformation after $480bn US debt ceiling deal

Donald Trump illegally pressured the Justice Department, red state governors, Republicans in Congress, and finally his own fanatical supporters to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

If Trump doesn't spend the rest of his life in prison, what's the point of having prisons?

— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) October 7, 2021

Virginia Redistricting Commission implodes as Republicans reject compromise and Democrats walk out

China Warns U.S. Over Troops In Taiwan

Call it a guess, but the troops will be staying. And I wouldn’t be surprised if their numbers increased.

What if, instead of confronting China’s rise, we must manage its decline?

Serendipity:

EPA Finally Regulating ‘Chemical Recycling’

Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, formally announced it was considering tighter regulations for pyrolysis and gasification — controversial processes that are associated with ‘chemical recycling.’
Industry advocates have named these processes as key steps toward building a circular economy — one that minimizes waste — but environmental groups have called them an ‘industry shell game’ meant to keep single-use plastics in production.

Crews are Abandoned on Ships in Record Numbers Without Food, Pay or a Way Home

Apple is appealing the Epic Games ruling it originally called a ‘resounding victory’

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