Mokurai
Stories by Mokurai
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The Best of the Best: 👉🤣at the IT™’s Iran MOU👈🏽🤣
On the 40th try, The Orange Loonburger’s Iran MOU has declared the Iran war that is not a war is not only over, but signed, sealed, and delivered. Not so fast, say all but his darkest-dyed minions. Firstly, Lucy has given Charlie Brown a printed promise not to yank the football away this time. After…
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The Pushback Chronicles: Post Office Election Shenanigans
As Lucy yanks the football away again, after giving Charlie Brown a written promise not to do so, she remarks, “Peculiar thing about this document. It was never notarized.” That sums up everything to do with Trump, the greatest Lucy in the world. Never mind anything he says about “protecting elections”. It’s all lies, and…
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Renewable Tuesday: EVs at 28% of New Cars Worldwide
That’s new car purchases, not installed market share, but I’ll take it. Won’t you? Not in the US, of course, where we are stymied until after the 2028 elections. Then we can let in Chinese cars, with amazing battery and recharging technology that the [redacted] and his minions have tried their worst to keep away…
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Diabetes News: Higher Dementia Risk with Diabetes
Diabetes, all forms of dementia, and many other conditions turn out to be deeply intertwined, as we have seen with Alzheimer’s in particular. Likewise, medications for those and a wide variety of other conditions turn out to be helpful for a variety of other issues. There is, however, no known treatment for the various kinds…
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This Suffering World: 10 Worst Crises
There are many kinds of physical suffering in the world, such as dire poverty; climate catastrophes including fire, flood, and drought; slavery; or tyranny. We will consider them each some time. Today we are looking mainly at wars, with over 100 million victims in total, and immediate humanitarian needs estimated at about $30 billion. Each…
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Renewable Friday: Renewables Beating Coal and Gas
!!!Moar Tipping Points Moar!!! Solar ⟰ Wind ⟰ Coal ⟱ Gas ⟱ Nuclear Fuggedaboudit, and Just Wait Until Geothermal Kicks In The next ultra-big tipping point will come when new renewables cover 100% of growth in electricity demand. U.S. Worldwide The Good News As always, there will be lots of smaller tipping points to watch…
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The Best of the Best: The Demented [Redacted] Loves Inflation
There are people who deal in reality, including empathy for the vast suffering here and around the world, and people who deal only in the nastiest, most vicious fantasies of their own privilege. We know them in this political season as Democrats and Republicans, respectively. Well, the Bible that the ChristoFascists pretend to revere says,…
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The Pushback Chronicles: Grand Jury Malfeasance
I hope you watched Rachel Maddow on Monday, when she laid out an incredible string of botched Federal cases including Grand Jury tampering by US Attorneys. I am going to give you the cases as she went through them, but with additional information on the consequences of those actions. I like to describe this as…
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Renewable Tuesday: 50,000 Amazon EVs to Begin With
Amazon isn’t all bad, with 50,000 EVs on the road, out of 100,000 planned, and its own charging network. Eventually all of the big delivery companies, including the postal service, will do likewise–UPS, FedEx, DHL, Walmart, and the rest. Then we can get on with electric 18-wheelers. Meanwhile… Meetings The Good News Heatmap Daily e-mail:…
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Diabetes News: ADA Conference Bends Knee to [redacted]
The American Diabetes Association is properly appalled at the Maladministrations attacks on diabetes and other medical research and treatments, but its conference in New Orleans says that nobody may say so at the meeting, and called the cops on top researchers distributing ADA literature. The researchers were removed as conference presenters and barred from the…
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This Suffering World: It’s All in the Mind, You Know
As I like to explain, the worst karma in all of the worlds is the notion that karma doesn’t apply to you. So it is with all of the [redacted]ists in the Maladministration, and all of their MAGAtroid followers. This is how it is stated in the Dhammapada, a compendium of Buddhist wisdom from centuries…
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Renewable Friday: Against Stupidity
We don’t actually need an academic report to tell us to stop burning carbon and releasing other greenhouse gases, nor to accelerate buying EVs, induction cookers, heat pumps, batteries, and so on, nor to require data centers to have enough renewable energy and enough cooling capacity of their own before the first blade computer is…
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The Best of the Best: Paxton for Sacrificial Lamb
Sen. John Cornyn lost his Senate primary in Texas to the [redacted]’s chosen candidate Ken Paxton last week. Democrats are gleeful about the prospect of James Talarico beating Paxton in November, possibly sealing a D takeover of the US Senate, 51-49. Here is how unhappy Rs are about that. Feel free to click through and…
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The Pushback Chronicles: They’re Melting!
So many of us, voters, lawyers, judges, D AND R politicians, are pouring so much cold water on the Felon and his minions throughout the Maladministration that it is all dissolving away now. He has thrown away Pence, Noem, Gabbard, Bondi, Bovino, numerous generals and admirals, and so many others in the past, and shows…
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Renewable Tuesday: An Action Plan on AI
I repeat: We need a national law requiring builders of data centers to build out enough renewable energy to cover all of their needs before the first computer blade is turned on, and mandating massive industrial heat pumps for cooling. Among other things. And as always, #NoNewNukes. Also #NoArtificialStupidity. We have enough trouble with the…
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This Suffering World: Israel
Israel complains that its suffering is greater than that of anyone else, and is now out to correct that situation by spreading its suffering among all of its hostile neighbors, especially Gaza, the West Bank, Iran, Lebanon, and Syria. It is steadily throwing away all of the goodwill it ever had among its allies with…
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The Pushback Chronicles: Moms 4 Liberty [as if]
For a long time I only saw M4L in the context of calls to defend ourselves from their LGBTQ+-phobia, book bannings, and taking over school boards. Now I am getting e-mails from Educated We Stand, and seeing Bluesky posts about them falling apart and turning on each other. Excellent, amirite? It’s always good when our…
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This Suffering World: Ebola Outbreak in DRC
Creating suffering is the point of MAGAism. But these MAGA loonburgers and medical denialists don’t actually have any real concept of the suffering they cause, that they simultaneously rejoice in and deny is happening. Global health programs are just “woke” DEI to them. They would also hate that “Buddha” in Sanskrit means The Awakened, if…
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Renewable Tuesday: ICE Cars Dying
Another tipping point toppled worldwide, except in the US. No, not the Immigration Nazis. Gas-or-diesel-burning cars and other vehicles. Even electric ships and airplanes are coming along. As we noted last week, the Beijing Auto Show had more new EV models just from China than the total of EV models in the US market. You’re…
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Diabetes News: RFKjr. Again
But much more than diabetes. The [redacted]’s minions are still working as hard as possible on killing us all, while claiming that it is to Make America Healthy Again (MAHA). This is one of many stories where no matter how much you know, the reality is worse. Haiti, for example, or Milton Friedman’s Los Chicago…
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Renewable Tuesday in Texas
Solar has beaten out coal in Texas, according to ERCOT, the TX grid operator. Feel free to point and laugh at the industry denialists and obstructionists there, and (separate from Global Warming issues) the TX dummymander that may well lose TX House seats by assuming that Latinos will still vote for them in the midterms.…
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Diabetes News: Diabetes and Alzheimer’s
Scientists have been learning for some time about the PTP1B protein shown above. It is implicated in diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and several other dread diseases. There are several medications that react with this protein to stop many of these malign effects, and more on the way. Today we take a look at these various lines of…
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Renewable Friday
The Good News 🎩 T Maysle: EU doubles down on carbon tax for international flights 《《《《《《《《《 The European Commission says it will push ahead with plans to charge airlines for carbon emissions from international flights ✂️ The move sets up a fight with the United States, which opposes carbon pricing. a much-anticipated review of the…
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Diabetes News: Mental Health Effects
It should surprise nobody that a frequently deadly ailment with numerous other dread consequences should affect the brain and mind in deleterious ways. I watched my father and my mentor go through extremes of neuropathy. My father once had long-lasting, non-healing sores on his feet, threatening a need for amputation, which he managed to avoid.…
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Renewable Friday: Plants Replacing Petrochemicals
Even if we stop burning carbon, petrochemicals will keep getting into the environment, as in the case of microplastics. So how about plant-based replacements? Well, I’m glad you asked. It isn’t only this one. Hemp, for example, has been in this space for years, replacing petroleum in materials like plastic, paints, lubricants, and textiles, as…
