I asked my brother to make a nice graphic for me to announce my summer internship on LinkedIn and this is what he came up with.... 😠pic.twitter.com/aG3zCloXwv
— Shelby Swanson (she/her) (@shelbymswanson) May 5, 2024
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Today's news and jokes
Dense Helldivers fan art
I've been playing a lot of Helldivers 2...
— Richard Parry (@_RichardParry_) May 8, 2024
It's a bad day to be a bug pic.twitter.com/trY0ATus2M
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
"American oil tycoon accused of trying to conspire with OPEC to inflate prices"
CNN:
Regulators acknowledged that [the CEO] did not hide his efforts to “align” US production with that of OPEC, pointing to public comments he made urging US rivals to be “disciplined” about production.
“But [the CEO] did not limit himself to public signaling to US counterparts — he has also held repeated, private conversations with high-ranking OPEC representatives assuring them that Pioneer and its Permian Basin rivals were working hard to keep oil output artificially low,” the FTC said.
The Federal Trade Commission recently uncovered another underlying cause: an orchestrated plot between OPEC and an American fracking tycoon to exploit the inflationary period to push prices even higher. That was arguably even more critical to the overall price-fixing scheme, because the U.S., since the fracking boom of the mid-2010s, is the largest oil producer on Earth, and the “swing” producer with the greatest ability to move prices.
This scheme cost the average American as much as $2,100 a year, according to one estimate.
...
He’s also been a major heavyweight in Washington for the oil and gas industry across Democratic and Republican administrations. Though mostly a GOP mega-donor, it should come as no surprise that [he] has financed the political careers of Big Oil’s most loyal foot soldiers in Congress regardless of party
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the FTC could still push for a criminal case against him for collusion
Using "cold spray" 3D printing to reduce the cost of fighter jet wheel replacement from $100,00 each to $300
TWZ:
F/A-18E/F pilots often land hard on carrier decks, causing the fighter’s main landing gear wheel rims to oblong and the tire mounted on the rim to shake. If the tire wobbles, he said, the wheel and tire assembly is taken off and discarded.
That gets expensive very quickly. “We go through 166 of these tires a year and they cost six figures apiece,”
...
“There wasn’t an effective way to repair [them]... We realized that eighty percent of those rims are repairable with cold spray technology.”
Today's news and jokes
Wikipedia.No one:
— Carey O'Donnell (@ecareyo) May 6, 2024
Gustav Magnar Witzøe, the Salmon King of Norway: pic.twitter.com/sF6nyOZjdT
Biopunk pistols
Second one for #MaySketchADay.Another meatcannon but a tad metabaron pic.twitter.com/nBwIjeWEm6
— chee fong (@CheeF0ng) May 4, 2024
third one for #MaySketchADay. Gunblade from Hell pic.twitter.com/8RDfpttXpC
— chee fong (@CheeF0ng) May 4, 2024
last one of this set and bit more silly. day 4 for #MaySketchADay pic.twitter.com/BIa61VA6ns
— chee fong (@CheeF0ng) May 5, 2024
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