It’s not just bad, it’s not just harmful, but it’s also ruining the potential good.
Tag: The Economy
Anticircumvention laws are authoritarian monopolistic industry killers.
kill the killswitches
Companies that are probably maneuvering for short-term gains should not be trusted as fortune-tellers.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but companies sometimes announce layoffs, or do mass layoffs, or even financially unwise offshoring or whatever, just to send a “signal” to the stock market, because they’ve all been trained that Wall Street loves a company that’s slashed a bunch of jobs.
Pandemic fraud leads to jail time for a landlord in Scranton Pennsylvania.
“The companies had no business operations, according to a federal indictment. Four companies own five residential buildings, where the businesses supposedly operated, according to deeds.”
AI data centers and the real economy.
This big tech AI data center boondoggle push is leading to soaring electricity prices. Nobody wants that.
There’s no reason to assume we’ll need these monstrosity data center power plants in the future.
Myth is all the tycoons have, because reality doesn’t care about tech monarchist fantasies.
The federal government is essentially embracing eugenics programming.
My letter to the editor, and to elected reps who are supposed to be overseeing healthcare and science, but Republicans seem to be embracing a new Dark Ages instead.
Government determines the distribution of wealth. That’s not charity, it’s governance.
Social insurance is not charity. Social programs make a civilization work.
Vaccine uptake is down because vaccine disinformation is well-funded.
There’s no mystery here. Vaccine uptake declined after the start of the pandemic because anti-vax disinformation went mainstream and financial interests against public health protections minimized the threat of covid
If you “agree with” any of MAHA you’re signing onto eugenics.
MAHA is a movement involving anti-vax eugenicist principles. Even if you can pick out one little part of it that sounds ok, do you really want to sign on to the stink of eugenics?
Maybe let’s rethink the “great filter” theory (that supposedly explains the Fermi Paradox).
I heard the “great filter” referenced twice in one day, once on PBS Space Time and again on Conspirituality Podcast. And I wish people would understand that this is a concept come up by an economist…
Kevin Hassett has been wrong a lot and who knows what’s going to happen because of the economic disruption and corruption going on.
Talking about economic uncertainty due to the continued tariff related fruit basket upset, Kevin Hasset told CNBC that things will clear up after April 2nd. This is the same Kevin Hasset who has been repeatedly and outrageously wrong.
Rep Rob Bresnahan’s Tele Town Hall, PA-08
The tele town hall recording is available on Facebook
Parks, forests, and nature, are economic powerhouses, actually.
If all you care about is the economics when it comes to parks and public lands, then you should want them, because setting aside and preserving nature is actually very good for The Economy.
Medicaid info town hall by Pennsylvania state Rep Kosierowski.
I listened to the whole thing in case you can’t or don’t want to. (Voila, you can thank me later!)
Cryptocurrency is bad – it’s a vehicle for hurting people.
It’s bad for the environment and the society that all us people have to live.
Republicans know their project is crushing financial decisions for ordinary citizens.
I’m probably not the only person who’s now holding back on major purchases, such as planned home improvement projects, because of the uncertain state of the economy caused by the political disarray of the nation which is already resulting in financial hardships and forcible downsizing of community investments.
Utility rate increase proposed in PA.
WNEP16 – Scranton requests public hearing with UGI following proposed rate increase – Scranton city officials are requesting a public hearing regarding UGI’s proposed gas rate increase. Author: Maggie Zaleski Published: 5:05 PM EST February 13, 2025 The utility provider filed a request with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) last month for an overall […]
Butts in seats downtown for “The Economy” (aka commercial real estate & fossil fuel)
RTO GTFO. The future of our civilization depends on maximizing remote options wherever possible.
Hinting atrocities.
I just keep racking up instances where I see things going on in the US that are eerily familiar to things I’ve read about Rwanda. Seems problematic.