EVs: A contrary perspective
Many challenging issues for EVs to replace today’s ICE vehicles. I think many of these challenges can and will be overcome – but it is fair to say we are…
Transportation: Oregon plans per mile vehicle usage fee, and to track all vehicles
Except I can and do turn off my cell phone: Another concern of Oregonians, according to Rep. Lively, is privacy. Many people worry about the state having the ability to…
Demographics: The World’s Happiest Country nonsense
As explained in excruciating detail here, the World’s Happiest Country metric does not measure anyone’s happiness. Instead, it collects some metrics, weights them, drops them into the Stat-o-Meter, and pops…
Automation: Most restaurants investing in automation
Restaurant chains experimented with automation this year as the labor crunch pressured their profits. Source: Restaurant chains are investing in robots, bringing change for workers The labor shortage is a…
Demographics: Education loan forgiveness, college tuition inflation
Demographics, fewer young people, demand for labor and higher salaries may result in fewer young people compelled to take out large loans and attend college. But the experts think college…
Followup: Economic forecasts were wrong, like most expert forecasts
As inflation surged over the last two years, the Fed and leading private-sector forecasters were persistently behind the curve, seeing it as a temporary phenomenon that would eventually fade. Source:…
Demographics: Paul Ehrlich argues science is wrong and peer review doesn’t work
He’s been wrong about essentially everything – just read the comments to his own post. But defends himself by “name calling”, then “appeal to authority”, then more “appeal to authority”…
Economy: WEF wants to end private ownership, wants everyone to rent
To enable a broader transition from ownership to usership, the way we design things and systems need to change too. For example, car sharing is made possible by new keyless…
Today is day #1066 of 15 days to flatten the curve and we get this …
We just need to lock down harder and longer, say the “experts”: That person self identifies as a professor. If only the U.S. had been more like China, this would…
Demographics: “the great demographic implosion”
This 25-minute video is a good overview of the demographic challenges we face. The media spends about 1000x more time on the climate change hypothesis while ignoring the demographic issues…