Terry_NZ retweeted
Every Republican, with the exception of Massie, just went on the record in support of a man who bombed a school in Iran killing 160+ kids and murdered fishermen at sea because he feels like they were transporting drugs.
No wonder they were wiped out in the midterms.
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Ford copied a college professor's basement invention onto millions of cars and paid him $0.
His name was Robert Kearns.
He fired his own lawyers, rejected a $30,000,000 settlement because Ford wouldn't admit he invented it, and beat Detroit in federal court.
This is the story of Robert Kearns and why every car on Earth still blinks in the rain like his injured left eye.
1953 - 1963
- on his wedding night in 1953, a champagne cork hits engineering professor Robert Kearns in the left eye and leaves him legally blind on that side
- driving his Ford Galaxie through light Detroit rain in 1963, he notices standard wipers scrape non stop across dry glass while the human eyelid blinks and pauses every few seconds
- working in his basement with standard transistors, capacitors, and resistors, he builds the first electronic intermittent wiper and files for US Patent 3,351,836
1963 - 1969
- Kearns drives his prototype straight to Ford headquarters in Dearborn, where Ford engineers test his car and promise a supply contract once the unit passes durability specs
- right after Kearns receives his patent in November 1967 and explains how his timing circuit works, Ford abruptly cuts contact and cancels the deal
- in 1969, Ford rolls out intermittent wipers on its Mercury line and installs the system across millions of cars while paying Kearns $0
1978 - 1990
- Kearns sues Ford in 1978 and runs straight into Detroit's attrition math: dragging one individual through 12 years of federal motions usually bankrupts him long before a jury sits down
- Ford's legal team argues Kearns invented nothing original because transistors, capacitors, and resistors already existed in electronics catalogs
- representing himself alongside his son Dennis, Kearns reads the opening line of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities to the jury and asks if Dickens wrote nothing new because every word was already in the dictionary
1990 - 1995
- before verdict in 1990, Ford offers $30,000,000 to settle out of court, and Kearns turns it down because Ford refuses to put in writing that he invented the intermittent wiper
- the federal jury rules Ford infringed his patent, forcing Ford to pay $10,200,000 to close all appeals
- Kearns immediately takes Chrysler to trial without a law firm, wins an $18,740,465 judgment, and defeats Chrysler's final appeal at the US Supreme Court in March 1995
To this day, Kearns's basement prototype sits in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and his blink circuit runs inside 1.4 billion cars on the road.
Giant corporations still run the math that 12 years of legal fees will break a solo builder cheaper than paying a 30 cent royalty.
Every once in a generation, that spreadsheet runs into someone who values the truth on the record more than $30,000,000.
Terry_NZ retweeted
Jake Lang just barged into the Sea Meow Convention which is the Premier cat festival in the Pacific Northwest alleging it was a Furry Porn Convention.He accused the mascots of having orgies & being on porn hub. It was packed with kids adopting cats & playing games.I hope they sue
Terry_NZ retweeted
The last diesel tanker which was still heading for US shores has turned around.
So in summary, Trump's diesel deal with Putin caused no diesel to arrive in the US, didn't drop diesel prices, and caused his party to badly lose the US Midterms.
The Art Of The Deal indeed. 📉💥
Terry_NZ retweeted
Hello my dear friends! The visibility of pro-Ukrainian accounts is extremely low these days, but Russian war crimes continue. So in this shameless attention grab, I ask you to go through my latest posts and boost them.
Terry_NZ retweeted
This aged well
As hard as this is to believe, I don’t think enough people, including many business leaders understand how seriously dangerous Donald Trump would be if he returned to the White House. At his crazy press conference today, he gave a glimmer of how bad it’s going to be once again if he somehow returns to power.
At first glance, it appears that he has pro business policies, but he’s also suggesting that he wants to take away the independence of the board of governors and chairman of the federal reserve as it relates to interest rate policy. He is also suggesting openly that he would like to raise tariffs as high as 20% on a lot of goods and services and likely more than that. This would be a disaster, of course for our economy, and it would cause investors around the world to lose confidence in our capital markets.
When he discusses this with his anti-free trade representatives they want to bring the United States back to the 1890s. They often cite Presidents like Benjamin Harrison or William McKinley. It was a different country back then and it was a very different world. It is a more beautiful world now. There is no going back.
These policies would be an absolute disaster for America and it would be an absolute disaster for the world. Please listen to Trump very carefully when he is talking. He does not like people. He has very few friends if at all. If someone tells you they are friends with Donald Trump, it’s because they honestly don’t understand the relationship. He sees these people as objects in his field of vision. They are to be used as levers to get what he wants. They are then to be completely discarded when they no longer serve his purpose. If you don’t believe me, ask the loyal supporters of his that were sent over to project 2025 that have now been told that Trump doesn’t even know who they are.
Trump‘s view is to convert the United States into an Oligarchic state. That is his go to form of leadership. His rich acolytes believe that democracy is too messy, and the average person is not capable of being involved in the decision-making a result of which these supposed know it all oligarchs should be running things and of course they should be getting more rich and more powerful.
Is that what we really want for America? I know I personally don’t want that. I want an aspirational America. One of equal opportunity for everyone. I want in America for people who have nothing right now to think they can grow up and aspire to greatness. To love America the way our grandparents did. Every time Trump insults America the way he does from the podium, It’s a direct insult on our grandparents. Shame on him for saying that we are in shambles because we are very far from shambles. We are still what Lincoln said the last best hope on earth. When I hear him denigrate us he is attacking the legacy of our ancestors.
I am not sure what is going happen in the election, but it feels like Trump isn’t just going to be defeated. It’s not clear to me that Trump will be the standing candidate for the republicans in November. He is very weak. He is very old and he is very brutal and his act has grown very tired at a time when the American demography wants better leadership and wants more inclusive leadership.
Trumpism is a Frankenstein monster and is not even anything representative of a center right coalition.
His oligarchy isn’t going to happen. We will work tirelessly to defeat him. I grew up with no money and I may have some now but I understand how important it is for people that have no money to feel that they have an aspirational opportunity in this country and that they’re not controlled by a group of know it all jackasses. After he is defeated out of the embers of the freak show that he’s created, I am hoping that a new center party can be rebuilt that looks more like the beautiful colorful mosaic of the American people.
Terry_NZ retweeted
The NYT ran a mushroom Wellington recipe for thanksgiving and the Australians are having a ball in the comments
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Whoever Made This Video….Congratulations It’s Brilliant !! He Is A Creep !! They Are Creeps And Weirdos !!
Watch To The End…We’re Taking Back The Soul Of America !! 💙💙💙
Terry_NZ retweeted
A wild donkey in the Arizona desert will dig a well six feet deep with its front hooves, and for half a century the United States government has been shooting it as a threat to the desert.
August on a dry wash in the Sonoran. The creek has been gone since May. The sand is hot enough to cook on and every animal for miles is standing in what shade it can find, waiting for a rain that is not coming. A burro walks down the wash, stops at a bend for no reason anyone else can see, puts its head down and smells. Then it starts digging. Front feet, one after the other, like a dog after a bone, until it is in up to its shoulders and the bottom of the hole goes dark and wet.
It drinks and walks off.
Within the hour there is a queue. Mule deer. Javelina. A bobcat. A scrub jay standing on the rim. In 2021 a biologist called Erick Lundgren published the count in Science: 59 species of vertebrate drinking at donkey wells, 64% more species than at the dry stretches of the same streams, and in the driest months the donkeys were raising the amount of open water in the desert by 300% on average and by up to 1,450%. When the wells were abandoned, cottonwood and willow seedlings came up in them. The donkey had been planting the riverbank.
Asked about his methodology, the donkey had another drink and left.
When a beaver builds a pond, a film crew is sent. When a donkey digs a well, the Park Service sends a marksman. The burros came up from Mexico with the Spanish and the prospectors, carried the ore out of every mine in the West, and were turned loose when the mines closed. Then they were reclassified. In 1979 the National Park Service planned to shoot all 577 in the Grand Canyon. A writer called Cleveland Amory raised more than $500,000 and lifted 582 of them out by helicopter, slung underneath, the most expensive taxi ride a donkey has ever taken. Death Valley shot 400 between 1987 and 1994.
Lundgren said that when he started, people did not think a donkey digging a hole was worthy of scientific attention.
The animal was listed as a threat to the desert's water.
It was the one bringing the water up.
Fifty-nine species knew.
The ones with the rifles had never sat by the hole.
Terry_NZ retweeted
I realize I’m in a tiny minority here, but I consider Nvidia selling sensitive AI tech to a Chinese front org after Trump approved the sale despite warnings from US intelligence and Congress about security concerns to be a much bigger story than the Dana White foolish distraction.
