Even though the city is full of vacant office space, Portland can't find space for the 12 extra city council members that were voted in. The reason? They think their offices should have internet fiber, for the fastest connections. They're not doing internet-intensive work, like medical centers do with electronic health records. They're not providing cloud services to edge computing devices. They're just doing routine government work. Why is it necessary to rip up the streets to install fiber to the offices. This is why Portland is dysfunctional, and why they need all that tax money.
And Oregon needs more tax money, too. To fix problems they created.
NVIDIA is more valuable than Google and Amazon. Incredible. Just came outa nowhere.
Cats want to kill us. They carry bubonic plague. And Alaskapox.
California's wealthy are leaving the state because of high taxes. Gee, who saw that coming. Bet the state is going to impose new creative taxes. Look for tolls, levies, fees.
Caesars will no longer host DEF-CON. Caesar's got tired of getting hacked and losing money. What were those hackers thinking, anyway? Now, nobody will want to host them.
Sad. Hong Kong is no longer the vibrant city it once was. It took communist China 26 years to bring the great city to its knees. And Hong Kong stocks are back to what they were in 1997, at the time of the takeover.
And the Chinese aren't reproducing as much as before. The efforts to reduce fertility linger, even though the campaign has stopped. Right now, China is #2 in terms of population, but if current trends continue, it will get overtaken by Nigeria by the end of the century.
Funny. The gays and lesbians had a Mastodon instance called "queer.af". But that domain comes out of Afghanistan, and the Taliban threw that domain name off the rooftop, I guess.
Maybe, maybe, maybe. 45% of men are going to use A.I. to help compose something nice on Valentine's Day.
Inflation was higher than expected, according to today's report, leading to the stock market crashing. With all of Biden's giveways and free stuff, how could inflation not be higher. Student loans being forgiven. Free stuff for all the migrants entering the country. All this amounts to cash dumps into society, like quantitative easing. Money flowing into business and banks, when the economic production hasn't really changed. Gas prices are predicted to increase above $4/gal again, and when gas prices increase, the price of everything increases, because it affect shipping and deliveries, too.
And now the Fed may even hike interest rates further.
Oh, and global warming is a hoax.
