Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Chicken Owners Must Register in UK
May 16th, 2024Via: Alison Morrow: Research Credit: cgroove
Lithium from Shale Gas Well Waste Water
May 15th, 2024Via: University of Pittsburgh: Most batteries used in technology like smart watches and electric cars are made with lithium that travels across the world before even getting to manufacturers. But what if nearly half of the lithium used in the U.S. could come from Pennsylvania wastewater? A new analysis using compliance data from the Pennsylvania […]
Chat GPT-4o: OpenAI’s New Realtime Multimodal Model
May 13th, 2024A few initial thoughts… This will make the individual profiling and surveillance that has been done by search engines for decades seem trivial. OpenAI almost certainly wants this to be free for everyone in order to gather up as much personal and training data as possible. OpenAI is probably able to review each of these […]
Naomi Wolf: ‘If Europe Does Not Wake Up, You Will All Be Dead’
May 13th, 2024I recently had dinner with someone (in her 40s) who was very nearly killed by the Covid vaccine. She thinks her blood clots and heart attack were just bad luck, like all of the other horrific health outcomes for her vaxed and boosted family members. After emergency surgery and a couple of stents, she survived. […]
California: $73 Billion Deficit
May 13th, 2024What does it mean when even the Jackasses are fleeing California? The part to pay close attention to happens at 8:08, “Marking the days on… my calendar, so I don’t have to pay California state taxes”: Via: ZeroHedge: In the course of two years, California has turned a $100 billion surplus into a $73 billion […]
Buffett Continues to Grow Cash Pile
May 11th, 2024Via: MHFIN:
War Is A Racket: Anduril Pulsar
May 8th, 2024Here’s a tiny curiosity to add to your long herniating War Is A Racket file folder. The U.S. Government paid Anduril about a billion dollars for a system that seeks to counter a sub-$500 threat: The company in 2022 mentioned the EW equipment after winning a nearly $1 billion counter-unmanned aerial systems contract from U.S. […]
Cost of “The American Dream”
May 8th, 2024Via: End Of The American Dream: According to a brand new report that was just released, it now takes over $100,000 a year for the typical family to live “the American Dream” in all 50 states, and in 29 of those states it actually takes over $150,000 a year… A household would have to spend […]
Google Lays Off Hundreds of ‘Core’ Employees, Moves Some Positions to India and Mexico
May 8th, 2024One for your, “Laid Off Factory Workers Should Learn to Code” file folder. Via: CNBC: Just ahead of its blowout first-quarter earnings report on April 25, Google laid off at least 200 employees from its “Core” teams, in a reorganization that will include moving some roles to India and Mexico, CNBC has learned.
Record Wave of Americans Fled Big Cities for Small Ones in 2023
May 8th, 2024Via: Bloomberg: Score a victory for Mayberry. America’s small towns, like the iconic setting of television’s The Andy Griffith Show from the 1960s, saw more in-migration in 2023 than larger areas for the first time in decades. The remote work boom that prompted Americans to flee urban areas for mountain hamlets and seaside towns during […]
