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Technology

Go slow on Waymo

The life-or-death case for self-driving cars

The studies are in, and self-driving cars are a good idea.  We should remain skeptical.

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Culture Technology

The Iberian Blackout was an interesting event.

The Iberian Blackout

This article explains why a high percentage of power generated by wind and solar could have caused the power outage.  In a separate post, I explained that Spaniards don’t worry about what could happen.  That would explain the lack of backup power and the total disruption from the outage.

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Culture Travel

Spaniards don’t worry about what could happen.

Spaniards are lovely people, but they think differently.  It didn’t take much persuasion to get me to jump in the ring.  I’m a “when in Rome” kind of guy.

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Government

Trump as pope.

This is a little too much.

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Projects

Too much water.

That was quite a rain storm. 

The service department was out this morning working on this big, six foot storm drain, but the water brought more debris.  They showed back up a couple of minutes after I took this photo.