Follow up: Forbes says SVB one of America’s Best Banks
And did this just 3 days before the bank collapsed. Experts rule! Seems likely that SVB will be declared “Too big to fail” and taxpayers will bailout the bankers and…
Business: Amazon Prime Air drone deliveries a fiasco
Amazon blames the FAA but the reality is the technology has not yet proven itself as effective and safe. Source: Amazon Prime Air drone business stymied by regulations, weak demand…
Follow up, Economy: How to turn $320/share into $0/share using this one weird trick
The trick is to listen to Jim Cramer – who pushed SVB stock just a month ago. Today the company is no longer in business. Cramer is an investment clown…
Stanford University and others sought massive censorship of Internet content
The Virality Project is part of the Stanford Internet Observatory which trolled the Internet looking for “misinformation” and “disinformation” – but become a source of disinformation seeking to ban true…
Demographics: How worker shortages are affecting everyone
A good Bloomberg article on the labor shortage, the demographic problem shrinking our labor pool, and the reality of what will probably be done.
Bill Gates: Telling people to live in the dark and not eat meat will not solve climate change
It’s unrealistic to expect climate change to be meaningfully mitigated by expecting global demand for energy to drop significantly or people to stop eating meat, Bill Gates said at an…
Tech: Is interest in VR helmets waning?
Meanwhile, he acknowledged that the current Quest is struggling to keep new users engaged. “Right now, we’re on our third year of Quest 2,” he told employees. “And sadly, the…
Public health and political officials accountable?
In April 2020, we wrote: ‘Lockdown is going to bankrupt all of us and our descendants and is unlikely at this point to slow or halt viral circulation.’ So it…
Energy: The inability to build new electric transmission lines
The inability to construct new, large electric transmission lines over hundreds of miles hampers the ability to use “Green energy” which must be routed from where it is available to…
Public health: What happened to Tomás Pueyo? He’s back
In early March of 2020, Tomas Pueyo wrote a post that argued in favor of school closures and strict lockdowns of the entire population. He was a nobody having no…