Three Things That "Bugged" Me Yesterday: Crypto Fraud Story, The Baltimore Bridge Story, And The Giddiness About That Chinese EV -- March 29, 2024

Locator: 46861B.

Before we get started, most California drivers now seeing this at their corner service station:

• easy to find higher prices; hard to find better prices.

Now, back to regular programming.

Nothing is perfect, but for all those folks complaining about twitter, it's amazing how useful it is. 

1. I was watching the "crypto fraud story" live yesterday and I had the same thoughts about the parents. Creepy. But didn't understand why. Just a gut feeling. Now this from twitter.

2. That Baltimore Bridge story. The blame / fault lies here: the Baltimore Port Authority not requiring tugboats to take these ships through the channel. Period. Dot. US government and state agencies regulate the oil industry "to death" as they say -- remember the government's lawsuit against CLR for two dead ducks a decade ago -- and yet even with a ship that had reported previously run into a bridge before (needs to be fact-checked) no tugboats required for this behemoth sailing through a channel for being particularly dangerous. Officially: the Maryland Port Administration.

3. I posted it yesterday, but for the life of me, I don't understand the giddiness, enthusiasm, whatever one wants to call it with regard to that affordable Chinese EV. Did folks not read how the company was able to get the price $4,000 below a Tesla, which by the way, had already cut its prices? Let's post the screenshot again:

3a. Has anyone seen an uglier car? This takes me back to the Citroën, c. 1975.

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The Book Page

My reading for the weekend. 

Ordered Wednesday evening; arrived Thursday, yesterday.

Nothing added to my credit card -- more than enough cash back to pay for this book. In fact, I generally don't pay anything for books. Will add more cash back when I book flights this year.

This book -- Annotated Emerson -- is "identical in format as my "annotated Wuthering Heights. Top shelf. Can't wait to share all this with Sophia starting in middle school -- two years from now.