After too many decades, almost a century, the people have pulled aside the curtain, and the man behind it has been exposed.
Category Archives: Business
The State Of The Bar Community
…is dire.
I’ve never frequented them much; I think the price for a drink at one is ridiculous, but they’re an important element of culture.
Factory Farms
Hey, I’d like to end them, too, but his solution–to go vegetarian–is not nutritionally viable to me. It would be in no way a dietary improvement.
It sure would be great if we could somehow manufacture meat without the suffering, though. It’s a technology that would be very useful for spaceflight.
A Cuomo Nomination?
I agree; it’s looking more likely by the day.
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Is the pandemic making Trump stronger? And how the establishment continues to not get it.
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Trump’s strategic foresight is being put to the test.
Remaining U.S. Hospital Capacity
A hard look.
I’m unlikely to be killed by this thing, but I don’t want to even get it, let alone be hospitalized.
[Wednesday-morning update]
Why that doomsday scenario is likely way off.
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[Wednesday-afternoon update]
Bob Zimmerman doesn’t think that this will overwhelm our national hospital capacity. Though it does seem to be doing so in New York city.
Five Needed Paradigm Shifts
…revealed by the pandemic. The latter two are particularly important.
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Related: A litany of useless laws have been exposed as well.
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The coming age of dispersion.
We’ve been wanting to get out of the city for a long time. Most people don’t realize how large and empty the American west is, including California itself. New technology is going to make it increasingly possible and affordable to live comfortably off the grid.
Turning Back The Clock
Rejuvenating cells by reprogramming them.
Faster, please.
Hoarding
Why toilet paper?
I was in Ralph’s yesterday, and the shelves of paper products in general were still empty. They can’t keep it stocked. It was also the first thing that I noticed had disappeared at Costco a couple weeks ago.
I also noticed that I picked a bad time to pay for unlimited car washes at the place across the street; it’s closed.
Woke Speech Trumps Free Speech
So says a terrible court ruling.
Bad Regulations
Yes, the best response next time would be to shut down the CDC and FDA. Even Cuomo admitted that the regulations were slowing things down.
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Stop panicking over bad data.
I won’t be surprised to find out when this is all over that the mortality rate was one in a thousand.
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Ford is making ventilators from seat fans.
#Murrica
[Update a while later]
Sorry, first link is fixed now.