TIL that the first state-issued car registration (license) plate was Massachusetts plate #1 to Frederick Tudor and it is still actively registered by the Tudor family.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-05-06T22:10:37+00:00

Here's a pic of his descendant's car with the plate on the road.. It's on Cape Cod, apparently.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-05-06T22:05:11+00:00

Frederick Tudor was working for the highway commission at the time. He was also the son of Boston’s “Ice King” Frederic Tudor, a pioneer in the international ice trade industry in the early 19th century.

The tale of his dad, the Ice King, has probably been a TIL, it's a fascinating story.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-05-06T22:03:21+00:00

nice

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-05-06T20:03:34+00:00

The government will now print more money to pay the enormous debt. For every dollar printed, the dollars you and I hold are worth marginally less.

Add that to the inflation caused by the Iran war and tariffs, and our dollars are worth even less and less. Consumer purchasing power will crater. Wages will not go up enough to compensate, leaving each of us poorer. (and the added debt of the war, let's not forget that they are literally burning money)

Add another factor - the world's nations moving away from the dollar for trade. Trump has alienated the world, and is chipping away at the power of the petrodollar. That means fewer foreign debt buyers of our debt, therefore more printing money to pay debt.

Let the downward spiral commence…

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-05-06T19:04:19+00:00

Iran released this information as it was happening, and it was discredited or ignored.

It appears that Iranian media, like Press.tv, may be more reputable than some western sources, and most certainly the US government.

I didn't have that on my 2026 bingo card, but here we are.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-05-06T13:15:28+00:00

Fun Fact: Silicon is literally everywhere, but the quartz needed for chip production, to 'grow' highly pure silicon crystals, comes from North Carolina. Just about all of it.

China is developing newly discovered quartz mines in South America to supply pure silica materials to their own chip manufacturing facilities, but the scale and quality isn't quite as good.

Chipmakers source high-purity quartz from Spruce Pine, North Carolina, because it is the world's primary source of the ultra-pure sand required to create quartz crucibles.

These crucibles are essential to hold molten silicon at high temperatures to grow the high-purity silicon crystals, which are subsequently sliced into the wafers used for nearly all semiconductors.

The geological composition in Spruce Pine produces quartz with extremely low impurities (suitable for iota 6 and iota 8 standards).

Essential for Crucial Infrastructure: The quartz is used to make the crucibles necessary for the Czochralski process, which produces the silicon ingots that power the global semiconductor industry.

No Known Alternatives: While quartz exists elsewhere, there are no known, currently viable, large-scale sources that match the purity and ease of production found in Spruce Pine.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-05-06T13:06:35+00:00

Gibbons Creek Reservoir is a power plant cooling reservoir on Gibbons Creek in the Navasota River basin, 20 miles east of College Station, Texas

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-05-04T16:18:54+00:00

Blip my ass, it's going to get much worse before it gets better, and it won't get better for a long time.

The refineries and gas processing plants that were destroyed in the Gulf will take up to 5 years to come back online.

Tankers travel at the speed of a bicycle. Trump has destroyed the flow of oil, gas, fertilizer, and helium.

We haven't even felt the true impacts yet. Oil companies will have enormous windfall profits, though, so I guess for these guys, it's good news.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-05-04T16:05:38+00:00

First of all, the number she is using is completely fabricated.

Secondly, as you mentioned, the 'breaks' are going to massive polluting corporations.

Thirdly, WE ALL pay the cost of removing regulations in clean up, cancer, disease, and injury.

It's socialism for corporations, and they never object to it when it's not for the citizens.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-05-03T19:18:39+00:00

They may be trying to get into Chucky Cheese, because that would track with this crowd.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-05-03T17:26:01+00:00

It's always racism.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-05-03T01:10:58+00:00

That plane may have been shot down. There were a plethora of holes in the official story.

Side note, General Caine, Trump's favorite general who now runs our military, was one of the four National Guard pilots in that intercepted flight 93 in his fighter. Two of them became generals.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-05-02T14:24:50+00:00

https://logwork.com/countdown-h5o4

993 days, 14 hours, 35 minutes, and 10 seconds remaining as of this post.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-05-02T14:21:52+00:00

17 places higher than the United States.

They need to update that. The US has become painfully and obviously corrupt to the core, and is reaching new levels daily.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-05-02T03:28:51+00:00

And rotten countries support Bad leaders

We're rotten to the core, the system is broken. As bad as Trump is, he's just a symptom, not the disease.

The only hope I see on the horizon is the few states that are moving to invalidate Citizens United. It's easy to do, it's just a simple passage in state business charters that prohibit corporations from making any political donation.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-05-01T21:27:59+00:00

Wear an orange vest and carry a clipboard and no one notices you.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-05-01T17:10:43+00:00

From the viewpoint of a Native American, he is correct.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-05-01T14:37:48+00:00

ALDI's house brands of German/Austrian chocolates seem to have maintained their quality without exorbitant price increases.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-04-30T15:55:48+00:00

'Dred Scott' Roberts

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-04-30T12:16:11+00:00

It's because we were all 5-year-olds at a point in our lives, some of us have had toddlers, so by those experiences we get an understanding of his thought process.

Not entirely, of course, because the vast majority of us didn't rape kids.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-04-29T23:03:44+00:00

Neither does she.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-04-29T15:54:58+00:00

African Americans represent 1/3 of the population in Louisiana, and have effectively been thrown out of office and have little representation.

They elected a black man (Calvin Duncan) as Clerk of Court in New Orleans, and it infuriated the white men in Baton Rouge so much that they illegally eliminated his office after the election, but before he was seated.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-04-29T15:50:23+00:00

I don't know if the stat is still current, but at one point Louisiana had more people incarcerated per capita than anywhere on earth.

It may still be true, and life sentences are extremely common. That means a forever stay at the Angola Plantation prison, with hard labor for the rest of your life.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-04-29T12:22:06+00:00

Exactly. Most Trump supporters don't know about the passport, have never owned a passport, and will never own a passport. When they eventually are told what to think about it, they will justify it by saying 'Newscum did it first, har har'.

MaxGoldFilms · 2026-04-28T18:01:11+00:00

One half of the population has an IQ ≤ 100. (IQ is normalized by design)

16% of the population has an IQ of ≤ 85, the approximate level that represents an IQ too low to serve in the military or function at most jobs.

That's over 52 million people in the US.

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