“Flight shaming”: Global travel should be banned.
Saving the planet requires that we stop gaping and gawking at travel blogs and vacation selfies. Instead, everyone who cares about the environment should shame those who clamber onto an…
‘HOAs are basically neighborhood tyranny systems’
True: ‘HOAs are basically neighborhood tyranny systems’ — why people are blasting homeowner’s associations on Twitter – MarketWatch I have only had one home that fell within an HOA. The…
Wow – what a heart tugging story – well worth reading
Cranbrook, BC is one of my favorite small towns. And after this, it still is 🙂 But then, as he looked at the young woman who had taken his dog,…
Executive Order on “right to repair” may have broader “ripple” effects
US President Joe Biden will soon sign an executive order that will give farmers the right to repair their own tractors, said Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary in a…
Pilobulus
This outside my usual interests but just saw that the dance company Pilobulus was in the news. In my tech career, I worked with one of the co-founders of this…
California dependent on international immigration for growth
“Our demographers anticipate we will return to slightly positive growth 12 months from now as the pandemic is brought under control and we see changes to immigration policy,” he said.…
Adopting Scandinavian social benefits and taxes in the U.S.
For something unrelated, I was researching some of the “social benefits” programs in Norway. This is my summary of what I came across – which may be sort of accurate…
Does auto-enrollment in retirement plans make sense?
Source: A new law would require employees to save for retirement – MarketWatch The law would mandate automatic payroll deductions of 3%, rising 1% per year until 10% is reached…
Bill Gates says he buys green aviation fuel, uses solar panels on his homes and eats synthetic meats | Daily Mail Online
Bill Gates has become a parody of living the green life: Bill Gates says he buys green aviation fuel, uses solar panels on his homes and eats synthetic meats to…
I witnessed the last of the scheduled “firefalls” to occur in Yosemite National Park
A long time ago, park staff would push a pile of burning embers off of Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park in an evening display of a “Fire fall” that…