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Biden putting $10 billion into high speed passenger trains.
This is another bad idea that we will have to spend a trillion dollars on before we give up.
WSJ: What Friends Can Teach About Money
WSJ: What Friends Can Teach About Money
Interesting article about how Gen Z and Millennials learn about managing money. The author does seem to have missed a few things.
A friend offered to pick up the whole tab on her credit card, “for the points.” At the time, six years ago, “for the points” meant nothing to Saint-Vil, now a 30-year-old planning manager in Brooklyn, so he pressed for more details. They lingered over the dim sum meal as a larger conversation unfolded about annual percentage rates, credit-card debt, payment schedules and more.
Sparky enjoys novel experiences. Well, I think he does, who knows? He still runs like mad when we play “Chase the Moose” with the Maxx. For all I know, he thinks Mr. Moose is being kidnapped. With Winter coming, we need an alternative. In snow, the Maxx breaks traction, spins around and is no challenge. Sparky grabs Mr. Moose, and drags the RC car back to the deck. On wet grass, we are evenly matched.
Gun season is over and I got nothing. There are two bonus days later in December, but I’m not optimistic. Deer get smarter as the season progresses.
It isn’t clear what ChatGPT is good for, but that doesn’t stop people from predicting it’s going to take all the jobs. Try hiring a handyman or someone to cut your grass. They are busy and expensive.
Electric Grid Reliability by State
I was recently talking to a nephew about the frequency of power outages. The general topic was about having a supplemental heat source in case the power went out in the Winter. I estimated that my power goes out about 6 times per year, but usually it happens in clusters. If the power goes out once in a day, it may go out once or twice before the issue is resolved. Also, I am shit at remembering random things like that, so have no confidence in my estimate.
This website posts the results of an interesting poll conducted by Harris of 2000 adults.
This website posts the results of an interesting poll conducted by Harris of 2000 adults.
It’s interesting that the generations agree on the required annual salary to be happy, with the exception of the Millennials. Boomers (1946 to 1964) are at or nearing retirement, so may be making that much or stable in retirement. Gen Z (1996 to 2012) are very early in their careers, so may be in college or unsure about careers. The survey was only people over 18, so kids in school didn’t count. Gen Z has an amazingly realistic annual salary requirement for people who may still be on their parent’s health insurance and cell phone plan.
I have often been asked by people over 35 or so, “Are we supposed to say ‘they want’ or ‘they wants’?” I always answer that the proper form is “they want,” but must it be? Instead, we could say this, which would make perfect and intuitive grammatical sense:
Singular: I want, you want, he/she/they wants
Plural: we want, you want, they want
My proposal is that we agree that male, man and boy refers to a person born with a penis, and that female, woman and girl refers to a person born with a vagina. For the exceedingly rare people born with neither or both, they can choose. My proposal has the advantage of being consistent across cultures for thousands of years.