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Bitchin Dave's Newsletter - April 28th

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About a month ago, I was contacted by my Alma Mater (UCF), and asked if I would like to participate in evaluating Senior Projects that were being completed by aspiring engineers. I am not a big believer in making financial donations to universities, but I am more than happy to donate my time, and some energy, to help students!  So I happily agreed. There was a short training course, and I was asked if I wanted to be virtual (for preliminary rounds), or if I wanted to come in per...
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Bitchin Dave's Newsletter - April 21st

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Journalism has reached such a sad state. I mean, we keep hearing nonsense on every front. But I thought I’d take a moment and share something I saw that was more trivial, and try to explain why it’s so misguided.  The headline read Costco hit with class action over unexpected membership renewals .  The stories on the topic all repeat the same thing. Costco is doing something and consumers are upset and Costco could be in a lot of trouble over the way they treat their customers! And on the heels of other ongoing lawsuits (and the ongoing stupidity about DEI) this will affect them! ...
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Bitchin Dave's Newsletter - April 14th

Given rising gas prices, a supply issue, and the want to build more things that need to tap into electricity (like data centers), it's amazing to me there isn't more coverage of the topic.  Americans are getting squeezed at the pump and in their utility bills. And it barely registers.  So here's a bill that was introduced to help Americans. The energy bills relief act would address some of this and might actually help.  Is it perfect? No.  Does it address the broad problem and make some reasonable tradeoffs to help? Yes.  ...
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