Bogus Legal Claims in Unsolicited Email
Someone mistyped an email address – probably leaving out a middle initial – and it ended up in my in box. This happens often. This email, from a wireless service…
Stupidity: We “literally did nothing to stop the infection from spreading”
This is what counts as our brilliant technocratic overloads: If only we had been more like China … We did nothing. Like shutdown non-life-threatening health care, prohibiting me from seeing…
Brain injuries: Seven years of treatment later…
She kept her brain injury a secret… until she couldn’t. Source: This Professional Speaker & Auctioneer Couldn’t Talk Her Way Out of Brain Injury Symptoms – The Good Men Project…
Wrong: “They’re also at altitudes that could effect [sic] the safety of civilian air traffic”
“In the wake of that … the military fine-tunes their radar parameters to see more and of course they’re finding more. And you got these three, and they’re unidentified, they’re…
Demographics: More school enrollment declines
13 Investigates found there are 20,724 fewer students enrolled at HISD now compared to when the pandemic hit, leading to “difficult decisions” ahead. Source: 13 Investigates: Houston ISD faces $60…
International: How Global Are We?
I have updated this post with new information – about 1 in 4 US STEM workers were born abroad. In the Seattle area, over 40% were born abroad and over…
Everything you think you know is wrong
These bad think thoughts used to be called conspiracy theories – now they are mainstream Science: * United Nations projections point to the world population peaking at roughly 10.4 billion…
Aviation: NORAD and USAF shoot down hobby balloons
Although the club is not pointing fingers, there are suspicions among other prominent members of the small, pico-ballooning enthusiasts community. Source: Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down By USAF…
Education and Demographics: Alaska drops college degree requirement for most jobs
Source: Alaska governor drops college degree requirement for most state jobs to fight worker shortage Alaska becomes another state announcing an end to college degree requirements due to worker shortages.…
Demographics: Fewer kids because of fear
“It’s hard to have children in the United States right now,” said Hayford, who is also director of Ohio State’s Institute for Population Research. “People feel more worried about the…