Alaska Airlines to retire all Q400 turboprops by end of 2023
Sad to hear this: Alaska Airlines has announced that by the end of 2023, the Seattle-based carrier’s fleet will consist exclusively of Boeing 737s for mainline flights, and Embraer E175s…
Why go to college? :” Walmart to Pay In-House Truckers Up to $110,000″
Serious question – why invest so much in a 4-year degree that probably starts at far less and which has limited upside as well when you can make $100k as…
Economics “experts” were just as wrong as the epidemiology “experts”
Epidemiologists have been wrong about most everything pandemic related. The economists who said the government could print money without worrying about inflation – to cover the costs of the inept…
Probably: Government spending the cause of inflation?
The US government issued more stimulus money than needed. When economic output fell by $2.3T, the government spent $3 trillion to prop things up. That excess money leads to excess…
Follow up: “Feb 1, 2022 – Infections will rise in Norway”
On Feb 1, 2022, the Chief of Norway's National Institute of Public Health said that "infections will rise when restrictions are lifted" and there would be a new "wave of…
Follow up: “Oregon predicts staggering omicron infections, hospitalizations”
Follow up on Oregon's OHSU disease models for Omicron. Like nearly all models, this was wrong, off in space, as usual.
Follow up: “Trucker protest could become a superspreader event”
Like nearly all forecasts that predicted an event would be a "superspreader" for Covid, this one in Canada was wrong, like they all are.
Large study finds no links between cell phone use and brain tumors
Large study finds no evidence that cellular phone usage causes brain tumors. This more than a decade after prominent public health pronouncements that led to calls to even ban Wi-Fi…
Oh my: “‘Long concussion’ plagues 1 in 4 kids after even a mild head injury”
Mild childhood head and brain injuries can have long term effects. I know - I've had several TBIs.
Governments want to make “Daylight Saving Time” permanent, but Standard Time may make more sense
The Science appears to support making Standard Time, not Daylight Saving Time, permanent. Of course, governments are passing laws to make DST permanent – just wait ’til winter when kids…