Washington proposes mandatory 2.5 cents per mile vehicle fees
Washington drivers would pay 2.5 cents per mile under recommendation | kgw.com Vehicles could pay by the odometer reading or via a GPS tracking device. The latter would exclude charges…
Public health: “China’s Covid spike not due to lifting of restrictions, WHO director says”
It only takes a tiny bit of logical thinking to understand why this was the eventual and natural outcome of ZeroCovid strategies: Covid-19 infections were exploding in China well before…
Follow up – No: “Inflation Forecasts Were Wrong Last Year. Should We Believe Them Now?”
Models making long range predictions are mostly wrong, all the time. Why do we give them any credence? Go back and look at worthless disease model projections: Economists misjudged how…
International: How many Americans have lived abroad at some point?
I previously estimated between 1 in 4 and 1 in 3 have lived abroad at some point in their life. I just increased that estimate to 35-40% of U.S. residents…
Part 2: Climate Hypocrites
Part 1 has been extended to Part 2. New Jersey Governor Mikkie Sherill NJ governor went to college alumni event using a tax-payer funded helicopter: report New Jersey Democratic Gov.…
Follow up: Twitter will break in coming weeks
Nov 8, 2022: One insider says the company’s current staffing isn’t able to sustain the platform. Source: Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks…
Demographics: What Languages Do We Speak in the United States?
The number of people who spoke a language other than English at home nearly tripled from 1980 to 2019, but the number who spoke only English also increased. Source: What…
Demographics: Fertility rate decline and impact on state budgets
Process efficiency improvements and automation are essential to addressing this, but will states embrace real solutions? When the economy takes a downward turn, couples often temporarily put off having children.1…
Demographics: Europe’s shrinking population
By 2050, according to the UN, populations will be in decline in more than half Europe’s 52 countries, including Italy, Spain, Poland and Germany. In five – Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania,…
Demographics: “The labor shortage could last for years”
Correct: The world is aging faster and allowing less immigration. It all adds up to a shrinking workforce population, Indeed and Glassdoor say. Source: The labor shortage could last for…
Demographics: More school closures due to declining population
The Granite School District Board of Education voted unanimously on Dec. 6 to close three elementary schools. Twin Peaks, Spring Lane and Millcreek elementaries are closing due to declining enrollment…
Crime, Fraud: “The GRE is no longer useful in evaluating students for graduate school”
The Graduate Record Exam or GRE is a standardized exam produced by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) organization, to judge one’s suitability to attend graduate school – except it turned…
Climate: U.S. Carbon emissions since 1990
More here. And emissions by U.S. state (from EPA) – Excel spreadsheet format.
Public health: Most of China’s population will get Covid-19
The vast majority of China’s population may eventually contract Covid-19, a senior health-policy adviser warned, as Beijing makes concerted steps toward dismantling its zero-tolerance approach to the virus and living…
Business: “thaw and eat” foods
Does anyone still cook real food, from raw ingredients?