Things I learned lately 16 July

• The new Aunt Jemima pancake mix boxes are out. All they did was get rid of the little picture of Aunt Jemima.
• In 1979, Chevrolet sold 282,571 Camaro sports cars. In 2020, they sold 29,775.
• Apparently, 6 days after the last US election, which Trump lost, he tried to order all US troops out of Afghanistan, Iraq, Germany and Africa within weeks. Needless to say, the military didn't go along with his wishes.
  
  
  
• There is no evidence to suggest that using a mobile phone while pumping gas is dangerous.
• Based on the number of car fires per one billion miles driven, ICE cars are 11 times more likely to catch fire than pure electric cars.
• Electric cars are unintuitively just as loud as ICE cars, especially on the highway. That's because even though they have no engine making noise, their weight and larger tires create louder tire noise.
• Oregon was the first west coast state to complete its portion of Interstate 5 in 1966.
• "Trees" are not a coherent phylogenetic category. On the evolutionary tree of plants, trees are regularly interspersed with things that are absolutely, 100% not trees.
• Derm Assist, a web-based app developed by Google can identify skin conditions with just a photo. It will be launched starting in the EU by the end of 2021. You snap a few photos of your skin anomaly, upload the pictures to Derm Assist. Google's artificial intelligence and machine-learning capabilities analyze the photos and look for a match in a database of 288 skin conditions. It then presents a handful of possible skin conditions you might have with an accuracy rate of up to 97%. Derm Assist only needs three photos to match you with a few possible skin conditions, but to get more precise results, you can fill out an optional questionnaire that goes into more detail about your skin condition. Google makes it clear that this is not a diagnostic tool, but rather a way to help narrow down possible conditions so you can determine if you should see a doctor or just get something from the drugstore.
• Some folks in 5 counties in eastern Oregon and northeastern California want to join Idaho. I'll let you take a wild guess what party they support.