the judiciary system not understanding statistics (5 percent of all nurses have a statistically-significant high death rate)

There was a study years ago in Norway where they wanted to see if there were correlations between any disease and living underneath high-voltage power lines. They found that 5% of all diseases were so correlated … when using an alpha of .05.

Where I live (Philly suburb) there was an incident where a guy driving a 12,000 gallon gasoline truck pumped out 4000 gallons at his first gas station stop and then decided he just wanted to go home rather than making the rest of his deliveries. So he ran the hose to the back of the station and dumped the other 8000 gallons onto the ground. This happened to be right above a creek and about 200 feet from an elementary school.

It just doesn’t make any sense how anybody could be this stupid. He got 20 years in prison for it or something like that. He certainly deserved it, but meanwhile executives who manage to create far worse disasters never see a day in jail.

Don’t discount the Saudis. They don’t have wealth, they have a wealth faucet.

He claims to work 100 hours per week, but that’s still less than 20 hours per company.

They will also need rigorous safety testing before a new product like this is even allowed to be sold.

Sweet summer child …

Yeah, USD.

I live in the Philly metro area and you see exactly 0 tiny homes around here. They are just not allowed by any municipality, anywhere. The closest I’ve found are at a sort of tiny home park in Lancaster, about an hour and a half away. And the owner of that development had to fight tooth and nail for years to get approval for it.

I bought a home six years ago for cash. Unfortunately it is a used school bus and I can’t actually live in it legally anywhere.

I was looking at one of these a few years ago, a decent 1BR unit for $125K. I thought that was reasonable until I learned that the condo fee was $960 per month and that the building had hit owners with special assessments for about $10K each year for the three years prior. Like, I’m supposed to pay almost $2000 a month just to live in an apartment that I already bought?

I just bought an actual 2BR house for $140K and the cost of my taxes plus homeowners insurance comes to $400 a month.

I randomly got a job recommendation from one of the sites that looked for exactly my programming skill set. I was interested until I saw what company it was – Palantir. GOD DAMN IT. On the plus side, most of these job listings are fake anyway, so it was probably just a phishing attempt of sorts based on my resume. At least the AI isn’t smart enough yet to know they should not mention Palantir with me.

I always laugh when conservatives describe Cali as a “shit hole”. Yes, that’s exactly why property is so cheap in California, because nobody wants to live in such an awful place.

You get what you pay for.

Around the world, rich people often do relocate personally for tax purposes. One of the reasons we don’t often see rich people in the United States do this is that we have incredibly low taxes compared to the rest of the world. And that’s just nominal tax rates; in practice the super-rich pay almost nothing, which makes it even weirder how rabidly anti-tax they are.

There is quite a bit of business relocation that happens because companies are lured to different locales through tax abatements.

“Anyway, since you’re here, can you do something about autotune?”

We used to have a “Guess what?” “What?” “Nope!” routine going as kids. I still laugh at that one for no valid reason.

I’m a school bus driver and a former programmer. The elementary kids on my bus like to say “what is six plus seven? Six-seven!” and I say “sure, in Visual Basic”. They don’t get it, naturally enough.

My tenth grade nephew said something about how it started because NBA player Lonzo Ball is 6’7" and was described as “six seven” during a broadcast.

stray carts

This would be a good name for a rockabilly remix band.

some people also have larger-than-average holes

Like sleeve of wizard.

“Oh wait. You put a large cart in the small cart section.”