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Does anyone else fear they'll watch this movie half-expecting Belle to whip out a wand and shout "Expelliarmus!"?

Beauty and the Beast (2017)

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Curious about how the world's most advanced electric car actually moves? Here's a technical deep-dive into the AC induction motor (invented by Nikola Tesla) that powers all of Tesla's current vehicles.

Tesla’s 3-Phase 4-Pole AC Induction Motor — Why Nikola Tesla’s 19th Century Induction Motor Is The Ideal Choice For The 21st Century Electric Car

cleantechnica.com

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THIS!

#resist

via +Douglas Pierre

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Five Months on Google's Project Fi...and Loving It
I've written before about switching to Project Fi for my family's cellular service, but I wanted to post an update now after nearly half a year of using it.

All told, I'm delighted. Our monthly bill for two lines and 4G LTE data is averaging right around $57 and ranges between $50 and $60 depending on how much data we use each month. Compare that to $95 for two lines (non-contract) on AT&T and we're saving quite a lot. Plus, cellular coverage and call quality have been quite satisfactory...I've only had one issue with a dropped call, and I suspect that was because I left a Wi-Fi area and went through an area in a building that probably prevented good cellular access. C'est la vie...it happens. Data speeds have been excellent...zero complaints there. And I really like the transparency with which Google approaches the service. You can see every scrap of information about your calls and cellular usage at any time via the app or the Web. If you spend most of your time in Wi-Fi environments and don't use a ton of cellular data each month -- my wife and I average around 3/4 of a gig apiece -- Project Fi is probably an excellent option for you. And if it's an excuse to get yourself that new Pixel you've had your eye on, all the better. ;-)

Oh, and here's a referral code to get a $20 credit when you sign up. I will, too. Redeem it at https://g.co/fi/r/2PM058

Project Fi

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duane attaway: I love my Google Fi service. I'll never go back to the other providers.

Dean Barnett: I fled Verizon last fall for a Nexus 6p and Fi. My wife's contract expired a couple of months ago and she, too, picked up a 6p and I added her to my plan. Since then we run less than$85 a month and that includes the $15 payment for her phone. I'm happy with the service quality, tech support is amazing, and the control I have over the plans details is awesome.

Tim Crosby: I switched at Christmas last year and put the boys on the same plan. I chose the 6p and for the boys the 5x. It has been great, they are on WiFi most of the time and have not gone over 1 gig per month for data. It is truly worth switching. Last month I put my mother on the plan and switch her off of her iPhone. She was having dropped calls or no cell service where she lives. She is very happy with her 5x and the service is 1000 times better for her. I work in a building where there is no cell service at all. I used to miss allot of calls, but since switching to Find, no more missed calls. I am very glad I took the plunge and dropped the high cell phone bills.

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utterly brilliant…
giggleliciousness supreme...
thank you +Cynthia S.

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Your lifestyle is heavily subsidized by taxpayers. Even if you are among those paying the highest proportion of income tax, you are getting back huge subsidies in the form of everything from property tax deductions to before-tax deductions on your employer-sponsored health insurance premiums. Bringing more people into the great social safety net that already exists in the US should be a no-brainer. Sadly, and ironically, many without functioning brains reject that as "socialism."

Unspeakable Realities Block Universal Health Coverage In America

forbes.com

Craig Froehle: +John Walkenbach The full article was posted as a comment here.

david cooper (ko0p): Election 2016 has prompted a wave of head-scratching on the left. Counties Trump won by staggering margins will be among the hardest hit by the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Millions of white voters who supported Donald Trump stand to lose their access to health coverage because of their vote.

Individual profiles of Trump voters feed this baffling narrative. A Washington Post story described the experience of Clyde Graham, a long-unemployed coal worker who depends on the ACA for access to health care. He voted for Trump knowing it might cost him his health insurance out of his hope of capturing the great white unicorn – a new job in the mines. His stance is not unusual.

Why are economically struggling blue collar voters rejecting a party that offers to expand public safety net programs? The reality is that the bulk of needy white voters are not interested in the public safety net. They want to restore their access to an older safety net, one much more generous, dignified, and stable than the public system – the one most well-employed voters still enjoy.

When it seems like people are voting against their interests, I have probably failed to understand their interests. We cannot begin to understand Election 2016 until we acknowledge the power and reach of socialism for white people.

Americans with good jobs live in a socialist welfare state more generous, cushioned and expensive to the public than any in Europe. Like a European system, we pool our resources to share the burden of catastrophic expenses, but unlike European models, our approach doesn’t cover everyone.

Like most of my neighbors I have a good job in the private sector. Ask my neighbors about the cost of the welfare programs they enjoy and you will be greeted by baffled stares. All that we have is “earned” and we perceive no need for government support. Nevertheless, taxpayers fund our retirement saving, health insurance, primary, secondary, and advanced education, daycare, commuter costs, and even our mortgages at a staggering public cost. Socialism for white people is all-enveloping, benevolent, invisible, and insulated by the nasty, deceptive notion that we have earned our benefits by our own hand.

My family’s generous health insurance costs about $20,000 a year, of which we pay only $4,000 in premiums. The rest is subsidized by taxpayers. You read that right. Like virtually everyone else on my block who isn’t old enough for Medicare or employed by the government, my family is covered by private health insurance subsidized by taxpayers at a stupendous public cost. Well over 90% of white households earning over the white median income (about $75,000) carried health insurance even before the Affordable Care Act. White socialism is nice if you can get it.

Companies can deduct the cost of their employees’ health insurance while employees are not required to report that benefit as income. That results in roughly a $400 billion annual transfer of funds from state and federal treasuries to insurers to provide coverage for the Americans least in need of assistance. This is one of the defining features of white socialism, the most generous benefits go to those who are best suited to provide for themselves. Those benefits are not limited to health care.

When I buy a house for my family, or a vacation home, the interest I pay on the mortgage is deductible up to a million dollars of debt. That costs the treasury $70 billion a year, about what we spend to fund the food stamp program. My private retirement savings are also tax deductible, diverting another $75 billion from government revenues. Other tax preferences carve out special treatment for child care expenses, college savings, commuter costs (your suburban tax credit), local taxes, and other exemptions.

By funding government programs with tax credits and deductions rather than spending, we have created an enormous social safety net that grows ever more generous as household incomes rise. It is important to note, though, that you need not be wealthy to participate. All you need to gain access to socialism for white people is a good corporate or government job. That fact helps explain how this welfare system took shape sixty years ago, why it was originally (and still overwhelmingly) white, and why white Rust Belt voters showed far more enthusiasm for Donald Trump than for Bernie Sanders. White voters are not interested in democratic socialism. They want to restore their access to a more generous and dignified program of white socialism.

In the years after World War II, the western democracies that had not already done so adopted universal social safety net programs. These included health care, retirement and other benefits. President Truman introduced his plan for universal health coverage in 1945. It would have worked much like Social Security, imposing a tax to fund a universal insurance pool. His plan went nowhere.

Instead, nine years later Congress laid the foundations of the social welfare system we enjoy today. They rejected Truman’s idea of universal private coverage in favor of a program controlled by employers while publicly funded through tax breaks. This plan gave corporations new leverage in negotiating with unions, handing the companies a publicly-financed benefit they could distribute at their discretion.

No one stated their intention to create a social welfare program for white people, specifically white men, but they didn’t need to. By handing control to employers at a time when virtually every good paying job was reserved for white men the program silently accomplished that goal.

White socialism played a vital political role, as blue collar factory workers and executives all pooled their resources for mutual support and protection, binding them together culturally and politically. Higher income workers certainly benefited more, but almost all the benefits of this system from health care to pensions originally accrued to white families through their male breadwinners. Blue collar or white collar, their fates were largely united by their racial identity and employment status.

Until the decades after the Civil Rights Acts, very few women or minorities gained direct access to this system. Unsurprisingly, this was the era in which white attitudes about the social safety net and the Democratic Party began to pivot. Thanks to this silent racial legacy, socialism for white people retains its disproportionately white character, though that has weakened. Racial boundaries are now less explicit and more permeable, but still today white families are twice as likely as African-Americans to have access to private health insurance. Two thirds of white children are covered by private health insurance, while barely over one third of black children enjoy this benefit.

White socialism has had a stark impact on the rest of the social safety net, creating a two-tiered system. Visit a county hospital to witness an example. American socialism for “everyone else” is marked by crowded conditions, neglected facilities, professionalism compromised by political patronage, and long waits for care. Fall outside the comfortable bubble of white socialism, and one faces a world of frightening indifference.

When Democrats respond to job losses with an offer to expand the public safety net, blue collar voters cringe and rebel. They are not remotely interested in sharing the public social safety net experienced by minority groups and the poorest white families. Meanwhile well-employed and affluent voters, ensconced in their system of white socialism, leverage all the power at their disposal to block any dilution of their expensive public welfare benefits. Something has to break.

We may one day recognize that we are all “in it together” and find ways to build a more stable, sensible welfare system. That will not happen unless we acknowledge the painful and sometimes embarrassing legacy that brought us to this place. Absent that reckoning, unspoken realities will continue to warp our political calculations, frustrating our best hopes and stunting our potential.

Chris Ladd, former GOP Precinct Committeeman, author of The Politics of Crazy and creator of PoliticalOrphans.

John Walkenbach: I'd really like to read that. But Forbes won't let me. I disabled my ad blocker for the site, but I still can't see it.

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Truly one of the grandfathers of rock & roll. It's shocking to realize he was massively popular nearly 60 years ago.

Chuck Berry, Legend Of Rock And Roll, Dies At 90

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Bigscrod wants cake: +Jim Douglas I did mention that to him, but only part of one song out of an entire catalog.

Jim Douglas: +Bigscrod wants cake Has your 15 year old seen Back to the Future?

youtube.com - Johnny B. Goode - Back to the Future (9/10) Movie CLIP (1985) HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ROwVrF0Ceg

Bigscrod wants cake: My 15yo wasn't sure who he was. Tomorrow is going to be a musical education.

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As predicted, Google is throwing a lot of dev resources into Google Home and the Google Assistant. That Amazon's Echo paved the way is something I'm grateful for, but I still expect Home to "win" the same way that Android secured the top spot in the smartphone OS space. Will it be the only smart assistant platform? Nope, likely not, but it will be the most commonly used.

OK, Google, what can you do? New tips and tricks for the Google Home

digitaltrends.com

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drawninpowerpoint | original comics

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"innovative" -- a new #drawninpowerpoint

http://www.drawninpowerpoint.com/2017/03/innovative.html

John Bailey: +Craig Froehle I figured just that. I heard the ridiculous spin they've put on cutting meals on wheels, and school lunch and after school programs.( To name just a few. And these people will sit piously in church and say "amen" to the words of Christ.

Craig Froehle: +John Bailey This comic was inspired by the Republicans' language regarding the most recent budget and how states shouldn't see the massive decrease in federal funding as a cut, but rather "freedom" to be more innovative. It made my stomach turn.

John Bailey: Spoken like a true " Conservative"

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