Dueling experts, Part 2
This is the state of modern scientific discourse – sliming anyone you disagree with and engage in name calling, rather than addressing the issues in contention. Those of us who…
Hepatitis, a colonscopy exam, past TBI and a neighbor running a tractor 2 days straight
Until a week ago, I was fighting hepatitis of unknown origin. Blood tests last Thursday show the infection has gone away and I am now in the “recovery phase” –…
Incredible take down of India-based call center scammers
This was incredible – and the results even more so. In the past 4 days, this video has been watched 28 million times – and counting! Today, Kolkata Police shut…
How many people visit ski resorts each year in the U.S.?
Over the last ten years (excluding Covid years) about 10 million people or about 3% of the total US population visited ski resorts (most made multiple visits each season). I…
Inflation: 8.3% YoY
I am so old, I remember only a year ago when the experts said inflation would be mild and temporary… CPI April 2022: Inflation barreled ahead at 8.3% in April…
Follow up: Lifting airline mask mandates “horrifies health experts”
April 27, 2022: Lifting of Covid mask mandate on US transportation horrifies health experts | Airline industry | The Guardian Some travelers celebrate, but health experts worry after a judge…
1 in 4 CA Bay Area EV chargers found not to be working
A study of public electric-vehicle stations in California’s Bay Area found that only 72.5% of chargers were operational. California has by far the most electric car owners of any state…
Should you buy cryptocurrencies?
My thoughts, from the very beginning: Cryptocurrencies/digital currencies have important roles to play. This video sets expectations correctly – there is no reason for there to be one cryptocurrency as…
Just days ago, California boasted of being 100% renewable … for 2 minutes …
May 4th 2022: California renewable energy: State ran nearly 100% on renewables (for 2 minutes) May 8th 2022: (Reuters) – California energy officials on Friday issued a sober forecast for…
The end of passwords?
Interesting ideas: Instead of a password, devices could look for your phone over Bluetooth. Source: Apple, Google, and Microsoft want to kill the password with “Passkey” standard | Ars Technica
Young take on excess debts with “buy now, pay later”
Don’t worry – in a few years, President Ocasio-Cortez will cancel these debts too! ‘Buy now, pay later’ sends TikTok generation spiraling into debt Heh – wasn’t kidding – Biden…
Oppressive: “CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders”
Newly released documents showed the CDC planned to use phone location data to monitor schools and churches, and wanted to use the data for many non-COVID-19 purposes too. …. “The…
Follow up: Utah’s case numbers to quadruple, says model
August 5, 2021 Projection -> Cases to quadruple by October in Utah Vaccination and masks are key to keeping children safe from COVID-19 as they return to school, Utah state…
Follow up: Nebraska Garth Books Concert in August 2021
This was forecast to be a superspreader event. Like all superspreader forecasts, this one was wrong. I marked a red line on the chart indicating when the concert occurred. There…
Follow up: We won’t have enough pediatric hospital beds for Covid patients
Projection from December 2021: Actual Result There were a few states that had high numbers of pediatric patients (many or most of which were, as later reported, incidental cases of…