frank pacosa

eclectic taster of stimulating thoughts with intermittent deep forays into cosmology, mindfulness, complexity, evolution, and the human condition.

[frank pacosa @pictonaut]

@michaelxpettis The same analysis does not bode well for US AI investment where debt appears insurmountable by any rational accounting.

[Bob Ortblad @BOrtblad]

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[Bob Ortblad @BOrtblad]

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[Bob Ortblad @BOrtblad]

WSP’s (IBR’s general engineering consultant) website claims a 120-year life for its tunnel design.
WSP’s “Tunnel Concept Assessment” fraudulently claims only 75 years for an I-5 Columbia River Tunnel.
WSP also inflated excavation by over 4 million cubic yards, and that local shipyards are incapable of fabricating tunnel segments.

[Bob Ortblad @BOrtblad]

The IBR has deliberately hidden the impact of bridge approaches on Vancouver & Hayden Island. No IBR graphic shows the “Ugly underbelly” of these approaches.
However, IBR’s general engineering consultant WSP boasts on its website, “rethinking the way commuters travel.”
WSP has received $116 million of IBR $300 million spent.
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[Bob Ortblad @BOrtblad]

The IBR’s “Tunnel Concept Assessment” falsely claims a costly casting basin is needed to fabricate immersed tunnel segments.
Steel shell tunnel segments can be fabricated a several local shipyards.
IBR also fraudulently inflated dredging & excavation by four million cubic yards.

[frank pacosa @pictonaut]

@IbrProgram Bloat

[frank pacosa @pictonaut]

@IbrProgram But will create an accident prone declining curve into Vancouver. And an unusable nightmare pedestrian/cyclist circular elevator to cross.

[Bob Ortblad @BOrtblad]

IBR’s bridge approach is an environmental disaster.

An Immersed Tunnel will:
Reduce noise & visual blight.
Save $141 million mitigation & $390 million demolition cost.
Create a park connecting Downtown with Fort Vancouver.
Be safer for traffic.
Be more earthquake resilient.

[frank pacosa @pictonaut]

Martin Picard’s Mitochondrial Theory of Mind https://t.co/nX8YFbtlyS via @QuantaMagazine

[Bob Ortblad @BOrtblad]

The Embarcadero Freeway and the Alaskan Way Viaduct were 1950’s massive mistakes.

IBR’s bridge and approaches are a 1950’s design and a gigantic mistake, over four times larger than the Embarcadero or Alaskan Way.

[frank pacosa @pictonaut]

Artist Transforms Burned Cars From the LA Fires Into Stained Glass Sculptures https://t.co/dsr0xxANsM via @mymodernmet

[frank pacosa @pictonaut]

The eccentric pharaoh and the ‘Wikileaks of the Bronze Age’ https://t.co/jOVtd70Oaq via @NatGeo

[frank pacosa @pictonaut]

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[frank pacosa @pictonaut]

@desk_jedi @gCaptain @johnkonrad There are some who miss the ocean for a grain of sand. Have you seen the endless revisions of major literary works allowed to great authors. Those errors will be fixed in time, but no one can create such an insightful, artfull marvel as The Catherdral and the Bazaar. Thank you

[frank pacosa @pictonaut]

@gCaptain @johnkonrad On first reading John Konrad's "Catherdral, Bazaar, and Hormuz" : "Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien" Hands down the best essay of the century in any category

[frank pacosa @pictonaut]

@Noahpinion Eschewing monopoly critiques because of inadequate studies reminds me of Supreme Court Justice Potter's pornography remark: "I know when I see it."

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

I asked Director Patel to pass on my thanks for FBI's work stopping a crook who scammed Medicare out of $205 million. He obliged.

Only problem? Trump pardoned that scammer.

So which is it? Should the FBI keep uncovering fraud, or should Trump keep pardoning these crooks?

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

With our team of 60 lawyers, Elias Law Group is currently litigating 85 voting and election cases in 43 states plus DC.

Perhaps someone should ask the law firms with thousands of lawyers how many pro-democracy cases they are handling. For most, the answer is zero.

[Ashley M. Gjøvik @ashleygjovik]

Remember when Apple blocked my lawsuit for 3mo because Apple bankrupted me? Apple sent discovery docs right before, let it expire, & hoped I forgot. I made Apple resend, got it today, & they're f'n wild. Ticket for final investigation into me included EEOC/DFEH & NLRB complaints.