Business, Privacy: How Kroger stores track you both off and online
Kroger stores, and most stores now, collect and store massive databases on their customers, including inferring your health conditions, income and more.
Follow up, Climate: What caused the Maui wildfires
After the Maui fire in summer of 2023, the media quickly blamed climate change and a hurricane. Neither were true.
Climate: Food uses up all the carbon emissions budget; stop eating?
Yep, we need to stop eating. And breathing - we emit CO2 and methane.
Climate: We eat 38% less beef than we did in 1975
In 1975, Americans on average ate close to 90 pounds of beef each year. That has now dipped to around 57 pounds, and chicken has assumed beef’s place as the…
Follow up: Wildfires and Hurricanes 2023
Total acreage burned less than 1/2 the ten year annual average.
Public health: Former NIH Director says public health was not capable of evaluating benefits versus harms
Former NIH Director says public health gave infinite value to potentially preventing one death, and 0 value to the costs and harms to accomplish that.
Automation: Lots of white-collar jobs will go away
2024 is the year that AI begins eliminating white-collar jobs.
Climate: EVs vs ICE – cars are a smaller part of emissions than most realize
Little known fact - personal autos are a small part of U.S. carbon emissions.
Climate, Economy, Education, Etc: Shhhh-don’t tell anyone but much is getting better
Improvements | Gapminder Ask any journalist and they will tell you their purpose: Or as Poynter now writes it: This is interpreted as finding something that someone views as wrong…