Perhaps the most important Tweets I have ever read on Twitter
I am cutting back use of Twitter as most of the stuff there is garbage, increasingly from hysterical people living lives of fear and outrage. But then I read this…
College student loan forgiveness has little to do with loans
The goal is that college tuition be free and 100% socialized. Once other taxpayers pay off the loans of the mostly high earning college grads (most of the value of…
Restaurants using robotic cooking systems
As I have been predicting for several years: Robots have been making their way into kitchens nationwide as the technology becomes cheaper and finding workers becomes harder. Source: Robot cooks…
Inflation will be mild and temporary, said the experts: “Inflation rose 9.1% in June, even more than expected”
Expertise has committed mass suicide the past 2 1/2 years. Mild and temporary. Right. The consumer price index, soared 9.1% from a year ago, above the 8.8% Dow Jones estimate.…
The incredible shrinking product sizes
I’m so old, I remember when our technocratic elite said it would be just 15 days to flatten the curve. And here we are 2 1/2 years later, and that…
Self-inflicted problem: Semiconductor industry can’t find enough electronics engineers
Pay and job security has not been the greatest for some in the EE field. While the global chip shortage shows some signs of subsiding, semiconductor companies are facing another…
93-95% of US will eventually have gotten Covid
“They’re as transmissible as measles which is one of the most contagious viruses out there. I think most people can expect that they will get infected at some point,” said…
During the pandemic, government spending rose to one-third of personal income, before declining
Source Transfer payments are payment made without a contemporary and corresponding delivery of a good or service. In other words, when you buy groceries, you give money to a store…
Zoning changes: Goal is to make U.S. cities similar to old European cities
At the core of this housing supply action plan is a federal push to budge local zoning codes that restrict or forbid apartments across vast swaths of the country. Strict…
Short product life: why I switched from Mac to Windows-based PCs
Over the years I owned an original Mac notebook (1999 time frame), a dual processor G4 desktop, and later 2 Macbooks (first one was stolen), and then a MacPro 1,1…