Public health: Covered California health exchange sent personal data to LinkedIn
Covered California was sending highly personal information to LinkedIn. Without your permission.
Economy: Consumer confidence falls to early 2020 level
Consumer confidence level falls to 2020 Covid era depths.
Economy: Inflation, tariffs pricing people out of hobbies
Are hobbies important? Yes Hobby inflation is likely to register (and may already be registering) real social, political, and economic consequences—because not only are hobbies good for the well-being of…
Crime/Corruption
Dueling Experts
Models
Nation of Idiots
Policy/Government
Public Health/Nutrition
Stupidity
Experts: The out of touch expert class
After the Covid era and a few other things I agree 100% with this.
Models: 2024 Predictions gone wrong
Model projections are often worthless and in some fields, completely worthless. Yet we blindly follow them.
Public health: Per CDC, 20% of US population died of heart disease in 2022
The CDC actually says that on their web site... geesh.
Nutrition: The Mediterranean Diet is Systemic Racism
Expert says the Mediterranean Diet is a subset of what people there eat, chosen to be palatable to white northern Europeans - and is culturally exclusive and racist.
Climate: We must ban all dogs
Dogs and cats consume 20-30% of the meat supply and we must immediately seek to ban all pets to save the climate. It's Just Science.
Public health: Evidence of a Wuhan lab leak
Numerous government agencies concluded Covid was a lab leak - but this information was hidden from the public.
Climate, Aviation: Tracking climate hypocrites in private jets to end?
The FAA is anonymizing private jets in air travel tracking databases.