Washington Post: Dylan Mulvaney should be a role model
Washington Post: Dylan Mulvaney should be a role model
I’ve been a fan of Megan McArdle’s writing since she was with The Atlantic. She can be very good on economics, but her privilege starts to show when writing about middle America and flyover country. She is missing the point on Dylan Mulvaney.
I’m not eating any God damn crickets.
Everybody says you should buy a house. Paying rent is just throwing your money away. Whenever everybody says something, that should be a signal to really think it through. Buying a house is the biggest financial decision most people will ever make.
Surge Pricing comes to bowling
Surge Pricing comes to bowling
Mr. Yenni, a 42-year-old advertising executive, tried to book online in advance at AMF Boulevard Lanes, where he wanted to reserve two lanes for two hours at 3 p.m. on the last Thursday of the year during winter break. The price quoted by the website, run by national operator Bowlero Corp. , knocked him over: $418.90. “This strikes me as outrageous for a pedestrian family activity,” he said.
Middle Management Terrorize Their Bosses Into Going Woke
Middle Management Terrorize Their Bosses Into Going Woke
Wokeness, the authors conclude, typically originates from power-seeking middle managers looking to carve out areas of responsibility that enhance their job security. Think of career fields that tend to attract more Democrats, like the human-resource bureaucrats who manage diversity-training programs or advertising teams that design social-justice marketing campaigns.
Because younger generations are more likely to take to Twitter or similar platforms to tarnish a brand that offends their sensibilities, businesses get the idea that their customers are more left-leaning than they really are.
Companies go woke, thereby offending potential customers, because middle managers need to stand out somehow. Woke policies don’t make sense to upper management, so rather than push back, they capitulate. In addition, woke people are aggressive on social media, and upper management thinks that’s real.
Housing affordability hits historic low, and I’m not sure that’s a problem.
Not everyone would thrive in a house. Owning a house is expensive and time consuming.
A condominium counts as a house, so some of those reasons don’t apply, but many people don’t consider that option.
Housing prices are cyclical. The housing situation will change, but young adults seem to be taking longer to step up to full responsibility.
If you aren’t skeptical of the authorities, experts and the commercial media after the disastrous handing of Covid-19, then I can’t help you.
There are dozens of valid reasons to be skeptical of the narrative on climate change. If you are actually interested in learning, then Watts Up With That is a good place to get educated. If you aren’t interested in getting educated, then you should get off your high horse and shut up about it.
Climate change is real and ongoing. I am confident of that because my area was once covered by a thousand feet of ice. Climate change would exist whether or not people existed. What should we do if the Earth is getting too hot?
If the climate is heating up too much, geoengineering is the only solution. Rolling back civilization to pre-industrial levels and allowing billions of people to die will not necessarily reduce global warming. There are many approaches to cooling the planet, but there will be unintended consequences and many approaches aren’t easily reversible. The time scales will be long, and natural processes can cause ice ages. We must be very careful.
The best approach is a sun shade at the L1 Lagrange Point between the Earth and the Sun.
Earth-Sun Lagrange Points
In a two-body system, a Lagrange Point is a place where the forces all cancel out. A satellite placed on a Lagrange point will just sit there, with minor adjustments necessary to hold station.
The L1 Lagrange Point is a million mile above the Earth. That’s four times the distance to the Moon, but not particularly far. At it’s closest, Mars is 50 million miles from Earth, and we’ve sent plenty of equipment there. A satellite could be placed at L1, with huge shades that unfurl. The forces all cancel, so shades could be very lightweight.
We would want to make an infinitesimal reduction in the energy reaching the Earth, and watch for the temperature trends over several years. A large volcanic eruption or meteor strike to the Earth causes atmospheric changes that result in global cooling. Both of those have happened in the past and will happen again. If necessary, the solar shades could be removed.
It is no secret that the WEF and global elites want us to eat bugs, own nothing and shut up. I suspect that we don’t talk about solutions like this because their goal is power.
I’m not clear on the Cuyahoga County’s plastic bag ban. The article says that North Olmsted opted out of the bag ban, but that’s the city were I am least likely to be offered a plastic bag. Most everywhere else uses the typical plastic bag.
As an old school environmentalist, I don’t take my direction from NPR, but try to do some research and think things through. I live in a modest house, heat mostly with wood and took my own silverware to school to use at lunch time. I’m aware of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch , but also know that ocean garbage comes from cruise ships and Asia. Americans are environmentally conscious. I live next to a major highway, and hop the fence to pick up trash about once per year. I get one garbage bag full in a third of a mile. That ain’t much.
I replaced my cloth grocery bags a few years ago. They were in good shape, but said “Finast” on the side. I decided to splurge. That is the beauty of cloth bags, they don’t split open. Plastic grocery bags aren’t really single-use. Most people keep some bags around, and pet owners need them for poop pickup. Nobody tells the pets that a plastic bag ban is passed. Pet owners start buying actual single-use bags. That isn’t helping anyone.
Eleven EU States Unite for Nuclear Power
Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia agreed “to support new projects” alongside existing nuclear plants, according to a statement released during a meeting of EU energy ministers in Stockholm.
Those are the eleven countries with their shit together. Anyone serious about Climate Change and moving away from fossil fuels, must be in favor of baseline nuclear power. Solar and wind power are not able to produce baseline power. Ever. There is not some breakthrough that is going to happen if we just cripple economies and force the issue.
Austria, Germany and Luxembourg reaffirmed their opposition in Stockholm to the development of nuclear energy in Europe.
For all of their technical acumen, Germany has a tendency to suspend their judgment and join the magical thinking parade.
In the US, we aren’t even talking about it. We tend to be overly optimistic and just assume that everything will work out. That works until it doesn’t.
NPR finds racism in race-blind tax code
There’s a broader question about whether institutions and rules and customs that are blind with respect to race are actually neutral with respect to race, or if they reinforce preexisting disparities.
NPR can always find a way to encourage racial animosity. Do our enemies still have to payoff these wreckers of our culture or do the Leftists just do it for sport?
We encourage equality of opportunity because a disparity of outcomes can always be found. Do the same analysis for the tax returns of single men versus single women, tall women versus short women or any other trait. Statistics will find a difference in outcome, and that can be used to drive a wedge between those groups.
I don’t know what minor lifestyle difference might result in this tax disparity. Black folks can live anyway they want. It’s none of my business.
A tax code with no institutional racism is the goal. NPR doesn’t suggest a solution, but instead, hope’s to nurture any racial tension.
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