Twitter: Media has meltdown over proposal to charge a fee for “Blue check”
Much of the media is having a meltdown over Twitter’s proposal to charge users for a Blue Check verified account. Here’s a quote from a Bloomberg news column: The plan…
Business: Kroger’s acquisition of Albertsons/Safeway will not result in lower prices
It might result in higher profits, but not lower prices for consumers. Their goal is to turn grocery shopping into a surveillance service to better target you with advertising: One…
Media, economy: “Majority of Americans now doubt attainability of generation-to-generation upward mobility”
This assessment will prove false within a few years, of course but it fits the meme of the day of media’s obsession with negativity: More than half of Americans believe…
Demographics, Media: “Staggering visualization shows the world’s population at 8 billion”
The reporter is 100% unaware of the global decline in fertility rates and as a consequence writes a scary headline news report that is disinformation: And, looking at those numbers,…
Demographics: WaPo blames “race” for Oakland CA school closures
Oakland is closing public schools, a precise and grim measure of a city’s health. In the case of this proud city, the trend has clarified for many that Oakland, traditionally…
Demographics, Media: BBC acknowledges fertility rate decline, kind of
Lots of scary information about overpopulation – until you reach page 10 of this 22-page BBC report when, oh, by the way, the fertility rate is in sharp decline. This…
Public health: They did everything right but still got Covid
Why mitigations and lockdowns were mostly useless: For more than two years I basically lived like a hermit to avoid just this scenario. Sure, after getting vaxxed and boosted I…
This is America – Happy Independence Day
This, below, is America, not the constant drumbeat of horrible, terrible scary news trumpeted by the media as they seek to divide us and tear us down rather than build…
Funniest video you’ll see today
NBC Today show “reporter” tells us how to improve our gas mileage – but in the clip, she is doing her demonstration in an EV while telling us how to…
Follow up on Czechia: “no question” their success was due to face masks
I save bookmarks of past forecasts for future follow up. Steven Kashkett of USA Today claimed in July of 2020 that Czechia proved face masks worked to stop Covid-19. He…