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Curiosities for 07 → 13 February 2022
As one of my pre-teen kids told me last week: Facebook is for old people…and what happens with old people…
It Makes Sense to Someone, Somewhere:
Lay's Reveals New Potato Chips Made from Potatoes Grown in Dirt Taken from NFL Stadiums.
TOP 5 for the week
>01. Can Tesla (TSLA) Be Stopped? Toyota, VW Pour Billions Into Electric Cars 2022.
via Bloomberg
Executives at the very top of these incumbents are acutely aware the transition from the internal combustion engine won’t be orderly. It could get ugly — something akin to when Apple Inc. entered the mobile phone market and outclassed once-dominant Nokia Oyj.
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New French Law Requires Car Commercials to Tell People to Walk or Bike Instead.
Finnish Man Blows Up Tesla Car Instead of Replacing Battery.
>02. Drone carrying a defibrillator saves its first heart attack patient in Sweden.
via The Verge
In a four-month pilot study testing the EMADE program, the service got 14 heart attack alerts that would be eligible for drones. Drones took off in 12 of those cases, and 11 successfully delivered the defibrillators. Seven of those defibrillators were delivered before the ambulance arrived.
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>03. Tech Companies' Most Unlikely Partners: Corner Stores
via The Atlantic
Overall, the global corner-store market is worth at least $900 billion. So it’s no wonder that when the tech industry looks at these shops, it sees dollar signs.
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Amazon's healthcare business has landed Hilton as a key customer.
When a grocery store closes up and it's your last one, you feel it immediately.
>04. The Intrinsic Futility of ES(G) Investing.
via Advisor Perspectives
No matter how much you or I might abhor companies that pollute the planet, gouge the sick with criminally high pharmaceutical prices, produce dangerous weapons for public purchase, or poison our democracy with dangerous conspiracy theories, we can’t make the shares of those companies disappear; someone will own them, and the more abhorrent those companies are, the higher the return those shareholders will reap.
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>05. The US plans to reduce roadway deaths with smarter road design.
via Ars Technica
Compared with the rest of the world, the picture looks even darker: after accounting for population size, more people die on US roads than in any comparable high-income country.
And moving from the ground to the air - See also:
Tangents
Quote for the Week
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
Oscar Ameringer
Best for the week ahead!
-Tim