EVs: How many EVs sold in the U.S. in 2022?
918,000 EVs were sold in the U.S. in 2022. 13,750,000 total vehicles were sold in the U.S. in 2022.
I am so old, I remember when Amazon Prime meant 2-day delivery! Hah hah!
Pre-pandemic, we generally saw Amazon Prime deliveries within 2-3 days. Now it usually takes 1 to 3 weeks.
Autos: Ford ends production of it’s last small vehicle
Ford Fiesta: End of an era as last Fiesta rolls off production line (cnbc.com) Ford no longer manufacturers any small cars – all vehicles, except the Mustang – are in…
Public health: Public health doctors say they were wrong about school closures
Doctors reflect on race, schools three years into Covid-19 (missionlocal.org) Dr. Carlos del Rio, interim dean at Emory University School of Medicine, said public health experts didn’t foresee the effect…
What could possibly go wrong? Don’t pay off your education loan debts?
The above individual notes he did, in fact, pay off his own education loans and did not give permission to Newsweek to quote his above tweet (where I learned of…
Arghhh: Only 59% of Americans know why we celebrate the 4th of July
40% of those surveyed in the U.S. do not know why we celebrate the 4th of July.
Public health: Study finds lockdowns led to minimal reduction in Covid-19 deaths
Stringency index studies find that the average lockdown in Europe and the United States in the spring of 2020 only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 3.2 per cent. …. Herby, Jonung,…
Demographics: Congress proposes to pay people to have babies
More than 200 members of the House support a plan to renew the $300-a-month child tax credit payments and a $2,000 baby bonus. Source: Stimulus update: Child tax credit gets…
Instagram really is killing off still photos
Instagram is gradually eliminating still photos and adding 20% of posts as "suggested' - so you don't see those you follow.
Future: Everyone thinks the future will be worse
Even though, historically - as in forever - over time, the world gets better, and in recent decades a LOT better, the non-stop doom and gloom reporting of the media…