Blame Bad Weather for Your Bigger Bills [Click] From the Wall Street Journal, which isn’t in the business of pointing fingers at big business; but certainly worth consideration.
Yes, but cars are a core component of the arsenal of the culture of compliance. Think how convenient it is to keep the population in wheeled cages whose transit is strictly controlled by lights and signs and energetic cops to chase them? People on foot and on bicycles are difficult to round up. The SCOTUS has ruled they cannot even be stopped without specific probable cause.
It seems that there are multiple ways to pronounce the word. The “O” can be long as in “old” or short as in “odd.” The “i” can be even shorter than in “mill,” bordering on a mere aspiration; it can be long as in “eve” or “ice.” The primary accent can be on either the first or the second syllable. It seem that one can pronounce it pretty much any way one pleases and not be “wrong.” I shall continue with \O*mi"cron\, n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.], which starts off about the same as “Omaha,” because that is they way I have always heard and said it since grammar school. Harrumph!
WaPo: The most unusual job market in modern American history, explained [Click] Reminds me of the increase in wages following the Black Death. I do wonder when the zenophobes are going to wake up and realize that prosperity for all means welcoming those people we are now turning away.
Harry Reid has passed away [Click]
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this. I hadn't heard yet. A true human being to be commended for making such a worthy life out of so very little.
DeleteBlame Bad Weather for Your Bigger Bills [Click] From the Wall Street Journal, which isn’t in the business of pointing fingers at big business; but certainly worth consideration.
ReplyDeleteAmazon's Alexa tells 10-year-old child to touch penny to exposed plug socket
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cnn.com/2021/12/29/business/amazon-alexa-penny-plug-intl-scli/index.html
That's why we need humans and not just technology.
Big Cars Are Killing Americans [Click] The government [should] no longer allow the auto industry to treat walkers and bikers like collateral damage.
ReplyDeleteYes, but cars are a core component of the arsenal of the culture of compliance. Think how convenient it is to keep the population in wheeled cages whose transit is strictly controlled by lights and signs and energetic cops to chase them? People on foot and on bicycles are difficult to round up. The SCOTUS has ruled they cannot even be stopped without specific probable cause.
ReplyDeleteIncase anyone wonders, or cares, the actual pronunciation of the Greek word Omicron is
ReplyDeleteAWE-meh-cron
(not OH-meh-cron).
Although I don't understand why it's not oh-MY-cron, since the word means "small O" (as distinct from omega, "big O".)
DeleteIt seems that there are multiple ways to pronounce the word. The “O” can be long as in “old” or short as in “odd.” The “i” can be even shorter than in “mill,” bordering on a mere aspiration; it can be long as in “eve” or “ice.” The primary accent can be on either the first or the second syllable. It seem that one can pronounce it pretty much any way one pleases and not be “wrong.” I shall continue with \O*mi"cron\, n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.], which starts off about the same as “Omaha,” because that is they way I have always heard and said it since grammar school. Harrumph!
DeleteHow hydropower proponents bungled their New England project [Click]
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ReplyDeleteWaPo: The most unusual job market in modern American history, explained [Click] Reminds me of the increase in wages following the Black Death. I do wonder when the zenophobes are going to wake up and realize that prosperity for all means welcoming those people we are now turning away.
ReplyDeleteSame column at MSN [Click]