Author: Joel Gross
Hang up and call 911
When you are trying to call medical providers, every single voicemail repeats the same irritating phrase, “If you are experiencing life threatening symptoms, please hang up and call 911.”
I think I have heard that phrase 50 times today. Sometimes 4-5x in the same medical providers phone system.
Our lawyer centric country is a disaster.
Why Did a U.N. Agency Give a Family $61 Million?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/world/americas/un-loan-project-services.html
Government waste at it again at large scale. American tax dollars wasted by the UN. The US needs to back out of the UN, and shrink the size of it’s government. Government has no accountability for taxes it spends, so the money just goes to waste and is stolen by scum.
Ukrainian Sureogates
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/magazine/surrogates-ukraine.html
Great story about women in Ukraine who were surrogate mothers when Russia invaded.
Laurel and I just had a family friend be our surrogate, so we especially understand.
The parents in this story who did not go into Ukraine to get their babies are cowards. I would probably leave Laurel behind with our kids, but an intended parent owes the surrogate and his own baby to do everything to be there for the birth.… read more “Ukrainian Sureogates”
Watch “My Grandfather, Who Raised Me, Met Napoleon: Bertrand Russell Interview 1952 – Restored Video/Audio” on YouTube
The Revenues and Expenses Song
What is the Revenues and Expenses Song?
The lyrics go like this:
Revenues and expenses, revenues and expenses, revenues and expenses, revenues and expenses, revenues and expenses, revenues and expenses, revenues and expenses, revenues and expenses, revenues and expenses, revenues and expenses, revenues and expenses, revenues and expenses, revenues and expenses…
I think you can follow how this goes from here.… read more “The Revenues and Expenses Song”
Russian Tycoon Criticized Putin’s War. Retribution Was Swift. – The New York Times
One Reason for Rising Food Prices? Chinese Hoarding. – Bloomberg
Russia and China declared an unlimited alliance. The Chinese have been stockpiling food for months now. Is this correlated?
Eliminate Raytheon’s patents
If you get rid of Raytheon’s patents, a scrappy competitor could be mass producing a better Stinger in under a year.
Patents serve only to enrich incumbents by squeezing out innovation.