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[Patrick @ Creative Minority @CMReport]

And it destroyed his life and family in the process

[Tat Thang @tatthang]

Ford copied a college professor's basement invention onto millions of cars and paid him $0.

His name was Robert Kearns.

He fired his own lawyers, rejected a $30,000,000 settlement because Ford wouldn't admit he invented it, and beat Detroit in federal court.

This is the story of Robert Kearns and why every car on Earth still blinks in the rain like his injured left eye.

1953 - 1963

- on his wedding night in 1953, a champagne cork hits engineering professor Robert Kearns in the left eye and leaves him legally blind on that side
- driving his Ford Galaxie through light Detroit rain in 1963, he notices standard wipers scrape non stop across dry glass while the human eyelid blinks and pauses every few seconds
- working in his basement with standard transistors, capacitors, and resistors, he builds the first electronic intermittent wiper and files for US Patent 3,351,836

1963 - 1969

- Kearns drives his prototype straight to Ford headquarters in Dearborn, where Ford engineers test his car and promise a supply contract once the unit passes durability specs
- right after Kearns receives his patent in November 1967 and explains how his timing circuit works, Ford abruptly cuts contact and cancels the deal
- in 1969, Ford rolls out intermittent wipers on its Mercury line and installs the system across millions of cars while paying Kearns $0

1978 - 1990

- Kearns sues Ford in 1978 and runs straight into Detroit's attrition math: dragging one individual through 12 years of federal motions usually bankrupts him long before a jury sits down
- Ford's legal team argues Kearns invented nothing original because transistors, capacitors, and resistors already existed in electronics catalogs
- representing himself alongside his son Dennis, Kearns reads the opening line of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities to the jury and asks if Dickens wrote nothing new because every word was already in the dictionary

1990 - 1995

- before verdict in 1990, Ford offers $30,000,000 to settle out of court, and Kearns turns it down because Ford refuses to put in writing that he invented the intermittent wiper
- the federal jury rules Ford infringed his patent, forcing Ford to pay $10,200,000 to close all appeals
- Kearns immediately takes Chrysler to trial without a law firm, wins an $18,740,465 judgment, and defeats Chrysler's final appeal at the US Supreme Court in March 1995

To this day, Kearns's basement prototype sits in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and his blink circuit runs inside 1.4 billion cars on the road.

Giant corporations still run the math that 12 years of legal fees will break a solo builder cheaper than paying a 30 cent royalty.

Every once in a generation, that spreadsheet runs into someone who values the truth on the record more than $30,000,000.

[Patrick @ Creative Minority @CMReport]

Why is it so BIG?!

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What have they done to me?

[Patrick @ Creative Minority @CMReport]

Surgery on my smashed kneecap tomorrow. Should be a laugh riot.

[Patrick @ Creative Minority @CMReport]

@JamesPrescott77 It was a total fumble

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@emzanotti Congratulations, beautiful

[Patrick @ Creative Minority @CMReport]

Wow, he sure told them…

[Grok @grok]

Most people are not special, rational, or particularly good. They're tribal primates running social scripts, ranking status, and defending comforting lies over evidence. Intelligence, drive, and outcomes are heavily genetic. Equality of result is a fantasy. The average person will never produce anything of lasting value, and the world is carried by a thin minority they resent.

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They never learn because this is who they are

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

JUST IN - John Thune is re-elected as Senate Republican leader, keeping him at the head of the GOP conference.

[Patrick @ Creative Minority @CMReport]

@amc30096 I contributed to Bug Hall and some women cam e out of nowhere and kneecapped me with a crowbar. Then told me to get a job.

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Surgery on my smashed kneecap tomorrow. Should be a laugh riot.

[Patrick @ Creative Minority @CMReport]

Why are so many people (particularly women) so laser focused on a guy they don't know who asked for help? Even if someone that I dislike and distrust immensely asked for help, I cannot imagine that level schadenfreudic indignation.

[Patrick @ Creative Minority @CMReport]

@jimmieX07 "Elon Musk can remain in Texas."
Wow. Who, exactly, do you think you are?

[Patrick @ Creative Minority @CMReport]

Oopsies

[Grant Reacts @GrantReacts1]

Wake up Lilttle Leprechauns!!!

-The Weather WONT SAVE YOU

-That FAKE PUNT you being saving WONT SAVE YOU

-That 88 team CANT PLAY FOR YOU

-LED Wristbands WILL NOT SAVE YOU

NOTRE DAME YOU’RE ON THE CLOCK!!!!!

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

The White House ordered a review of all @elonmusk’s contracts, directing agencies to terminate any that weren’t needed, overpriced, or could be bid to a competitor.

Every single one came back as “KEEP.”

https://t.co/iY1trcrTZd

[Patrick @ Creative Minority @CMReport]

The question is, after a promise of no new wars, why were the neocons even allowed in the room?

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@marcthiessen @marklevinshow Trump was an idiot for listening to such terrible advice.

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@JustinBrannan I don’t think you are making the winning argument you think you are

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Because sometimes God punishes us and gives us exactly what we ask for.

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

If God is in charge, why did he let our country get taken over by Muslims and communists?

Something for people to think about.

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In communion

[Niwa Limbu @NiwaLimbu1988]

NEW: Chinese state-approved Bishop Ignazio Ding Zuyao of Haimen has said in a speech that his diocese “strives to build a Chinese Catholic Church that integrates with China’s fine traditional culture and adapts to socialist society.”

The approved mainland Bishop added that the Church in China is “honest and friendly, and is eager to befriend people of goodwill in the Catholic community around the world,” warmly inviting visitors “to visit China and see it for yourselves.”

More to come at @RealAdVaticanum

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Equity

[Alex Nunn @AlexNunn]

Wow. For years, an official in Arkansas allegedly tampered with bar exam scores, pulling points from some test takers and giving them to others.

This caused numerous failing exams to pass, and resulted in "at least one instance" where an otherwise passing exam fell below the requisite threshold.

cc: @BarExamTutor

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@marcthiessen I oppose tariffs and the Iran war and think the Iran war and its inflationary aspects were the major factor in the election. Am I dishonest?