537 oh what the hell

Oh what the hell, it's time to deal with those screencraps.

Above, two graphs depicting coronavirus in the Bay Area. Amazing how much more accurate the wastewater survey is versus the official count. Because...

Although that headline is a week or two old, Alameda County just brought back a facemask mandate.

From the official count, it looks like this surge is diminishing.

What will the next phase look like?

How about, "hard to avoid?"

And still, something to be taken seriously.

For at least ten days.


So we've got an $80 billion budget surplus. 

How about spending some of it on high speed rail?

Right now, the plan is to give $9 billion back to car drivers, so we can all splurge and buy, uh, less than four tanks of gas. How, exactly, is that taking us toward zero emissions?

How sweet would it be to take a 400mph train to LA? Or NYC?

Currently I'm looking at taking Amtrak cross country this summer. It's a three and a half day trip, and no, I won't be getting a sleeper car.

What is causing all of this inflation?

Is it the money we printed to get out of the pandemic? Is it the war in Ukraine? Is it shortages caused by pandemic production slowdowns?

Is it the powers that be (money) throwing the Dems under the bus again?


And why are we getting asked to come back to the office? Is it to boost the boss' ego?

It's tough to get handies from employees who are at home.

Because it's not data.

Yep, pretty sure it's the handies.

Oh what the hell, how about a little more?

Hearing from Moxie Marlinespike is always an eye opener. Here's a leader in cryptography talking about cryptocurrency, NFTs, and the security of Blockchain transactions.

In his view, Web 1.0 was all about starting your own server. And web 2.0 was all about using someone else's server. Web 3.0, he proposes, is actually backsliding, where we're all...uh... Let's see what he says...

So apparently there are only a couple companies who are providing most of the access to "crypto." He sees this as, uh, well, not robust. So he did an experiment.

He created an NFT that will be built by users, like a wiki.

And he's having mixed feelings.

Apparently, the promise of web 3, of cryptocurrency, of being able to have money that's independent of outside control... That's not happening. 

At least not yet.

All I know is my investment in dogecoin is currently paying for Mark Cuban's kid's ice cream fund.

Be safe everyone!

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