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By the end of this year, the trucks will for the first time start traveling alone, without human minders, as two major companies — Aurora and Kodiak Robotics — launch fully autonomous trucks in Texas. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/31/autonomous-semi-truck-jobs-regulation/

LOL, so I hurt my left knee and it swelled up for about a week. (How did you do that, Jim? I have no FREAKING idea! Old age sucks.) Can't do anything but sit around. So... Last Bottle had a Marathon on Thursday, Friday and into Saturday morning. Here's the calculus: Injured Bored Jim +...

Millions of vines are being destroyed in Australia and tens of millions more must be pulled up to rein in overproduction that has crushed grape prices and threatens the livelihoods of growers and wine makers. Falling consumption of wine worldwide has hit Australia particularly hard as demand...

YAAAY! This, I can support! The Alabama Senate on Thursday approved legislation banning the sale of meat produced from cultured animal cells. https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/alabama-senate-passes-ban-of-lab-grown-meat-moving-it-in-the-state-would-be-felony.html

A bill introduced in Tennessee could ban the sale of refrigerated or cold beer. The bill, SB 2636, aims to prohibit a beer permittee from selling, at retail, refrigerated or cold beer. It was introduced on Jan. 31 in the House and Senate. So far, it’s passed on first and second consideration...

Lord, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway... The good fortune to run into the ones I do... And the eyesight to tell the difference.

Jimmy Buffett’s 1963 Ford Falcon is set to be auctioned off at a GAA Classic Cars sale later this month. Buffett purchased this classic Falcon in 2002 and immediately set out to enhance it a bit, adding a new intake manifold and a Holley carb, Australian sheepskin seat covers (which are now...

Man, I am so hooked on watching these California eagles incubate their 3 eggs... I keep it on in the background whenever I am online... It's kinda like watching golf! 🤣 It calms me...

An Alabama radio station has been forced to temporarily shut down after thieves stole a 200ft radio tower. WJLX, a station in Jasper, Alabama, was ordered to go off air by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after thieves took the station’s AM tower last week, the Guardian first...

Cork is experiencing a revival as more industries look for sustainable alternatives to plastic and other materials derived from fossil fuels. The bark is now used for flooring and furniture, to make shoes and clothes and as insulation in homes and electric cars. Portugal’s exports reached an...

Hey, if anybody has Acorn, I found this to be an entertaining 3 hours even if it has a good deal of self-promotion in it and glosses over a lot. The host is entertaining.

A guy joined a religious order where he would be allowed to speak 3 words every 5 years on the anniversary of his acceptance vows. After the first 5 years, he is summoned into the bishop's office and is told to speak his three words. He says, "Food always cold" and goes back to to his duties...

We wanted a bathroom fan, so I paid a guy to do it. Now she complains that it makes her uncomfortable having a stranger in there cheering her on.

...and instead refusing to brine 95% of your roads, including interstates! 🤣 It's especially great that when you do brine, you just run one lil strip down the middle of two lanes rather than doing the whole road. 🤣 I-65... On US 231/431, leaving Alabama and entering Tennessee. I used to...

You think you've got it tough…..? I just got off the phone with a lady friend of mine who lives in northern Montana. She said that since early this morning the snow has been nearly waist high and is still falling. The temperature is a frigid 32 below zero and the north wind is increasing to...

I tried this and it works. Cool!

The service that kept countless Americans stocked up on beer, wine and booze during the pandemic will deliver its last bottle this spring. Uber confirmed Tuesday that it will shut down Drizly, the alcohol-delivery service it acquired in 2021, at the end of March. (Note: Uber acquired Drizly in...

Driverless trucks with no humans on board will soon cruise Texas highways if three startup firms have their way, despite objections from critics who say financial pressures, not safety, is behind the timetable. After years of testing, Aurora Innovation Inc., Kodiak Robotics Inc. and Gatik AI...

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