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  • 1 Unfavorable Trend Explains the 21% Plunge in Tesla Stock in 2024

    02/28/2024 8:04:30 AM PST · by fireman15 · 28 replies
    The Motley Fool ^ | Feb 24, 2024 | Anthony Di Pizio
    Key Points: Tesla stock is down 21% in 2024 so far, and it's down 52% from its all-time high. Growth in Tesla's electric vehicle deliveries is decelerating. Tesla has a plan to reignite growth, but there are no short-term fixes for this problem. The electric vehicle giant isn't growing like it used to. Tesla (TSLA 1.81%) was the world's largest electric vehicle (EV) company by sales until the fourth quarter of last year when China-based BYD outsold it for the first time. Tesla once had the EV market almost entirely to itself, but now, it's grappling with a tsunami of...
  • The next Windows 11 version will refuse to boot on unsupported CPUs

    02/14/2024 5:19:59 PM PST · by fireman15 · 93 replies
    Xda Developers ^ | 2/12/2014 | RAHUL NASKAR
    Your PC without this CPU feature won’t boot Windows 11 24H2 KEY TAKEAWAYS Windows 11 24H2 update requires the POPCNT CPU feature, making it impossible to run on super-old PCs. Modern CPUs support POPCNT, so if you recently bought a new PC, you won't have any issues. PCs older than fifteen years will be affected by this change and won't be able to boot Windows 11 without POPCNT support. Windows 11 24H2 is the next big update that Microsoft will roll out later this year, and it might finally put an end to the practice of running Windows unofficially on...
  • Widely consumed vegetable oil leads to an unhealthy gut

    02/07/2024 8:46:30 AM PST · by fireman15 · 49 replies
    University of California ^ | July 6, 2023 | Iqbal Pittalwala
    High consumption of soybean oil has been linked to obesity and diabetes and potentially autism, Alzheimer’s disease, anxiety, and depression. Add now to this growing list ulcerative colitis, a form of inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, characterized by chronic inflammation of the large intestine. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, examined the gut of mice that were consistently fed a diet high in soybean oil for up to 24 weeks in the lab. They found beneficial bacteria decreased and harmful bacteria (specifically, adherent invasive Escherichia coli) increased — conditions that can lead to colitis. Soybean oil is the most...
  • Best PC Builds for Gaming 2024: From $500 Budgets to $4,000+

    01/28/2024 7:17:16 PM PST · by fireman15 · 75 replies
    Tom's Hardware ^ | January 4, 2024 | Avram Piltch
    We recommend the best PC builds for every price point. If you want a computer that meets your exact needs and budget, you need to put it together yourself. When you build a gaming PC, you get total control of the parts, choosing the exact make and model of motherboard, a case with the look you like and even the layout of RGB (or non-RGB fans). You could save time by purchasing one of the best pre-built gaming PCs, but you'll give up control and spend more. By constructing your own PC from components, you will likely save hundreds dollars...
  • 10 VR Game Trends for 2024: How the Market Is Evolving

    01/26/2024 9:18:39 AM PST · by fireman15 · 27 replies
    Udonis ^ | Jan 24 2024 | Andrea Knezovic
    Table of contents 1. VR Is Cheaper Than Ever 2. Major Improvements in VR Experiences 3. VR Games Lead the Way to the Metaverse 4. VR Games Follow Monetization Trends 5. Mixed Reality Experiences 6. Standalone Headsets 7. VR Cloud Gaming 8. Better and More Engaging VR Content 9. Adventure, Shooter, and Simulation Genres Are the Most Popular 10. VR Is Extending Beyond Gaming VR Game Trends: A SummaryThe VR games market is evolving and maturing. It's predicted to almost double in size in 2024 and grow at a CAGR of 42%. (Newzoo) That's thanks to key developments in VR...
  • Attrition: Cheap Simulators Threaten U.S. Air Superiority

    01/22/2024 8:12:11 AM PST · by fireman15 · 27 replies
    Strategy Page The News as History ^ | 1/17/2006 | Strategy Page
    The biggest threat to American air superiority is not Russia selling high performance combat aircraft to countries like China, but the development of really inexpensive flight simulators. Over the last decade, computers have become a lot cheaper, and the graphics capability of these machines has skyrocketed. That's important in bringing the cost of realistic flight simulators down to a level that any country can afford. Until a decade ago, a realistic combat flight simulator cost about as much as the aircraft it was simulating. While that did reduce the cost (per "flying" hour) of pilots practicing, it was not enough...
  • Flight Simulator 2024 is Set to Give it's Players a Purpose

    01/20/2024 11:03:07 AM PST · by fireman15 · 50 replies
    Video Games Chronicle ^ | 12-29-2023 | Chris Scullion
    Long story short, then, we love Flight Simulator. There’s just one problem, though, and it’s a fairly big one. What happens when you run out of ideas? As a sandbox, the game is great. Choose where to start, choose where to end, and enjoy the flight. But not everybody is comfortable with setting their own parameters like that in a game. Some people play games for the satisfaction of completing challenges set for them. In other words, some players like being told what to do and seeing if they can successfully do it. The 2020 release has some of this...
  • Vaccines Could Impact Mortality and Risks of Other Diseases: Study

    01/10/2024 7:15:09 AM PST · by fireman15 · 24 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 01-08-2024 | Marina Zhang
    Apart from potentially preventing a particular disease, vaccines may cause persistent nonspecific effects that can affect a person’s lifetime survival. In a review published on Dec. 26 in Vaccine, researchers found that non-live vaccines like influenza, COVID-19, hepatitis B, and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTaP) tend to cause adverse nonspecific effects (NSE), increasing a person’s risks of all-cause mortality and the potential risk of infections from diseases they are meant to protect against. A live vaccine contains a weakened form of the pathogen, which is less virulent but capable of replicating in the body, thus mimicking the actual disease progression. Non-live vaccines use...
  • Windows Subsystem For Android on Windows 10 (Running Android Games and Apps on Windows 10

    01/08/2024 10:31:35 PM PST · by fireman15 · 37 replies
    GitHub ^ | 12-15-2023 | MustardChef
    Text Guide: 1. Go to the Releases page 2. In the latest release, go to the Assets section and download the Windows Subsystem For Android™ version of your choosing (do not download "Source code") 3. Extract the .7z archive and rename the folder (that you extracted) to WSA 4. Delete the .7z archive 5. Move the newly extracted folder to a suitable location (Documents folder is a good choice), as you will need to keep the folder on your PC to use MagiskOnWSANoteIf you're updating WSA, merge the folders and replace the files for all items when asked 6. Open...
  • $60,000 to replace battery. The battery costs more than a brand new car!

    01/02/2024 8:56:15 AM PST · by fireman15 · 60 replies
    Motormouth YouTube Channel ^ | 12-23-2023 | Motormouth
    This is a Motormouth couple car video discussing the cost to replace the battery in 2022 Hyundai IONIQ 5. After finding out that his battery protection cover was scratched, the owner was told the battery needed to be replace for more than he paid for the car brand new. Over $60,000, so he decided to make a claim on his insurance and have the car written off. This is a cautionary tale to not only EV owners and potential owners but also other manufacturers, that these kinds of casts are out much more than consumers are expecting to pay. Hyundai...
  • Top 10 COVID Events of the Year: Revealing the Facts Unspoken and Unknown

    12/27/2023 8:35:37 AM PST · by fireman15 · 27 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 12-26-2023 | Marina Zhang
    Here are the top 10 major events that took place in relation to COVID in 2023. 1. FDA and CDC Find More COVID Vaccine Adverse Events, Including Stroke 2. Vaccines Cannot ‘Effectively’ Control COVID: Fauci After Resigning 3. Gold Standard Review Finds Evidence of Masking ‘Uncertain’ 4. Repeated Vaccination Weakens the Immune System, Studies Suggest 5. DNA Contamination Detected in mRNA Vaccines, and FDA’s Response 6. COVID Vaccine-Injured People Compensated 7. Doctors Can Prescribe Ivermectin: FDA Lawyer 8. Mask Mandates Return in August, New COVID Vaccines Approved 9. Final Batch of Pfizer Vaccine Documents Released by the FDA 10. Not...
  • Bad Jacketing: Accusations of "Controlled Opposition" 60's FBI tactic is remarkably effective in the internet age when coupled with neurolinguistic programming

    12/24/2023 8:20:19 AM PST · by fireman15 · 22 replies
    Robert Malone Substack ^ | DEC 23, 2023 | Robert W Malone MD MS
    Karl Marx:"Accuse your enemy of what you are doing as you are doing it to create confusion." Bad-jacketing is a term for planting doubt on the authenticity of an individual's bona fides or identity. An example would be creating suspicion through spreading false rumors, manufacturing evidence, etc., that falsely portray someone in a community organization as an informant, or member of law enforcement, or guilty of malfeasance such as skimming organization funds. Churchill, Ward; Vander Wall, Jim (2002). "Assassinations and Badjacketing". It is a cold gray day here in Madison, VA, this twenty third of December 2023. It could be...
  • NZ data shows up to 20% higher mortality for males that declines after each shot

    12/21/2023 7:53:26 AM PST · by fireman15 · 23 replies
    kirschsubstack.com ^ | 12/18/2023 | STEVE KIRSCH
    NZ data shows up to 20% higher mortality for males that declines after each shot. How can there be such a large dose dependency if the shot is safe? We've always known that the Pfizer COVID vaccine kills disproportionately more males than females. Thanks to Barry Young, we can now confirm this effect in the NZ data. I’ve known for a long time that the Pfizer COVID vaccine kills disproportionately more males than females. Females are disproportionately injured, but males disproportionately die. This post covers two different effects: 1) an effect whereby males die at a higher rate than females...
  • Tcuker Carlson Ep. 37 The two defining tragedies of our time — the war in Ukraine and the presidency of Joe Biden — are both finally coming to an end.

    11/15/2023 10:06:35 AM PST · by fireman15 · 20 replies
    Tucker Carlson on X TV ^ | 11/14/2023 | Tucker Carlson
    Tucker and Glenn Greenwald hit it out of the park... talking about Ukraine and Joe BidenEp. 37 The two defining tragedies of our time — the war in Ukraine and the presidency of Joe Biden — are both finally coming to an end.TIMESTAMPS: (00:17) Glenn Greenwald joins (05:41) Will the Ukraine War Hawks ever apologize? (07:25) Using foreign wars to punish Americans (10:00) Free speech hypocrisy (18:18) Biden’s awful poll numbers (21:31) Liberal media turn on Biden (25:09) 2024 predictions For those of you who prefer to latch on YouTube...https://youtu.be/8bqCRT2ySd0
  • This new phone is more powerful than my gaming PC and I don't know why

    11/07/2023 8:13:30 AM PST · by fireman15 · 28 replies
    tech radar ^ | April 12, 2022 | Tom Bedford
    18GB of RAM in a smartphone? It's no secret that modern Android phones often pack unnecessary specs - I'm looking at you, 108MP cameras and 4K screens - and the new Nubia Red Magic 7 Pro brings some more. This is a new gaming phone from a company that's made quite a few at this point (hence the '7' in the name), so you'd think it'd know exactly what gamers need. Well, what they apparently need is more RAM than your average gaming PC. That's right, the newly-unveiled Red Magic 7 Pro comes in a few configurations, and they top...
  • How Are Electric Vehicles Taxed in Your State?

    10/27/2023 9:17:30 AM PDT · by fireman15 · 37 replies
    taxfoundation.org ^ | September 20, 2023 | Benjamin Jaros, Adam Hoffer
    U.S. states fund most of their road and infrastructure budgets with revenues from gasoline taxes. The historical rationale behind this is intuitive. The more people use public roads, the more gasoline they consume, making the gas tax a well-designed user fee. The gas tax is often levied as a specific tax per gallon. While the commodity price of oil can fluctuate dramatically, the volume basis for the tax and citizens’ general dependence on gas for transportation have made the gas tax a stable source for funding roads. Gas taxes also serve as a disincentive to drive, decreasing both traffic congestion...
  • Researchers Find Pfizer Excluded Clinical Trial Deaths From FDA COVID Vaccine EUA Request

    10/21/2023 9:01:23 PM PDT · by fireman15 · 20 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 10/21/2023 | Megan Redshaw
    An accurate reporting by Pfizer would have shown equal numbers of clinical trial deaths in the vaccine and placebo groups and thus, no benefit of vaccination. To obtain emergency use authorization (EUA) for its COVID-19 vaccine, Pfizer and BioNTech submitted a data package in 2020 to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) so the agency could evaluate the safety and efficacy of its vaccine. A recently published peer-reviewed study by the DailyClout Pfizer/BioNTech Documents Investigations Team suggests Pfizer excluded known deaths in the vaccine arm of its clinical trial from its data filing and withheld information from the agency...
  • CDC and Doctors Say Fewer Pregnant Women Getting Vaccines

    10/19/2023 8:32:26 AM PDT · by fireman15 · 45 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 10/18/2023 | Jack Phillips
    Fewer pregnant women are getting influenza and other vaccines this year. Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as some doctors, say that fewer pregnant women are getting influenza and other vaccines this year. A recent CDC report found that among 2,000 women who were pregnant during last year's cold and influenza season, as the survey was carried out in March and April, about a quarter of them were "very hesitant" about getting a flu vaccine. A year before that, some 17.2 percent were very hesitant to receive the shot. The CDC study also found that...
  • Values Of Used EVs Plummet, As Dealers Stuck With Unsold Cars

    09/24/2023 10:21:05 PM PDT · by fireman15 · 120 replies
    Watts Up With That? ^ | 9/24/2023 | Paul Homewood
    The average cost of second hand electric cars is plummeting by a “phenomenal amount” as they sit for “months on end” without any buyers. Research by online motor marketplace, AutoTrader, revealed the average price for a used EV has dropped by 21.4 per cent this month, compared to a year ago. Marc Palmer, the head of strategy and insights at AutoTrader, told MailOnline: “The used market will now be slower to mature. There will be fewer new EVs registered and fewer used cars coming to market. “There will be sections of the public, especially those who are sceptical, who will...
  • FDA, CDC Hid Data on Spike in COVID Cases Among the Vaccinated: Documents

    09/05/2023 8:26:20 AM PDT · by fireman15 · 13 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 9-03-2023 | Zachary Stieber
    COVID-19 cases among vaccinated seniors soared in 2021, according to newly disclosed data that was acquired by U.S. health agencies but not presented to the public. Humetrix Cloud Services was contracted by the U.S. military to analyze vaccine data. The company performed a fresh analysis as authorities considered in 2021 whether COVID-19 vaccine boosters were necessary amid studies finding waning vaccine effectiveness. Humetrix researchers found that the proportion of total COVID-19 cases among the seniors was increasingly comprised of vaccinated people, according to the newly disclosed documents... Protection against hospitalization was also fading, researchers discovered. In the week ending on...