Sunday, April 9
Saturday, April 8
Robots Will Serve the Wealthy
The average income in 2021 was $87,432.
Why the difference?
To find the average, you take the gross US income and divide it by the total number of workers.
To find the median, you take that number that is in the middle where half the people make more and half the people make less.
Average and Median are different but many people think they are the same...
So, whether you are looking at the median income or the average income, the odds are, robots are going to take your job.
- All manufacturing and assembly jobs can be done by robots
- All teaching, instructor, or college professor jobs can be done by robots.
- All customer service jobs can be done by robots.
- All retail jobs can be done by robots.
- Many medical profession jobs can be done by robots.
- All military jobs can be done by robots.
- All wars can be frought by robots.
- All driving jobs can be done by robots.
- All farming and harvesting jobs can be done by robots.
- All media broadcasting shows (news) can be done by robots.
- All lawncare jobs can be done by robots.
- All maintenance jobs can be done by robots.
In short, most all our jobs can be done by robots, so who does that leave who will not lose their jobs?
...THE WEALTHY...
If most Ameridcans loose their jobs, there will not be spectators at professional sports competitions unless they are the wealthy. Those athletes will no longer be paid large salaries. The same holds true for golf, basketball, baseball, tennis as well as musical concerts... unless you are wealthy.
What will the rest of us do to earn money when we loose our jobs?
Believe it or not, this will start to unfold in 2025 and be almost complete by 2030... it is not just in the USA that this will happen but all over the world. It is cheaper (in the long run) to hire robots...
- They don't need breaks
- They don't get sick
- They don't take vacations
- They don't get pregnant
- They don't ask for raises
- They don't sabotage
What will the rest of us do?
How will we pay our bills?
What is the point of going to college?
Each time we improve technology we must look at all the unintended consequences of our actions... not just the short term benefits...
Puerto Ricans Leaving
Bags sit in front of Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in Carolina, Puerto Rico. (Salome Ramirez/VOA)
ADJUNTAS, PUERTO RICO — Achieving economic stability is typically the main reason that many Puerto Ricans migrate to the U.S. mainland. At the same time, thousands return to Puerto Rico annually, describing their homecoming as "a dream come true."
After 22 years abroad, married doctors Sheila Perez Colon and Lionel Lazaro Collazo decided to practice medicine in Puerto Rico.
“We always wanted to return to the island, but we couldn't find the way,” Lazaro Collazo told VOA. According to the orthopedic surgeon, attending medical school and building a practice led the couple to live in New York, Los Angeles and Miami. "It hurt us a lot when our daughter asked us why she wasn't born in Puerto Rico, if the whole family was from the island."
Data from the 2020 Census showed Puerto Rico’s population at 3.2 million, with an estimated 11.8% decrease over the preceding decade. Meanwhile, Puerto Ricans residing on the mainland reached 5.8 million, making them the second largest Hispanic population in the continental U.S.
“We always had Puerto Rico in our hearts, sometimes even with a bit of guilt for not being able to be there,” Perez Colon said.
A pediatric endocrinologist, Perez Colon said the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing isolation led them to return home. The couple arrived in Puerto Rico with their 10-year-old daughter in June 2022.
“Knowing there’s a great need for specialties like ours in our home country, while you are providing that expertise elsewhere and not back home, brought us back,” she said.
They say their biggest concern was the salary disparity of medical professionals in Puerto Rico compared with the U.S.
“That’s a reality that no one can deny. But we are prepared. We knew what was in store for us. We knew we were going to have a lower salary, but we would be rewarded to be with family in a place that satisfies us,” Perez Colon said.
For Lazaro Collazo, it was also an opportunity to give back.
“This was my dream, where I wanted to be to be able to offer my services to my people again,” he said. “What better than two well-prepared specialists who are bringing needed services to the island.”
A total of 17,859 Puerto Ricans moved back to the island in 2021, according to the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics. Two years earlier, 24,531 returned, one of the highest numbers in the past decade.
According to the Pew Research Center, 2017 hurricanes Irma and María were determining factors in the exodus of Puerto Ricans, as they sought safety on the mainland. In the year after the hurricanes, Puerto Rico’s population dropped by 3.9%.
“The mid-2000s marked a turning point for the island's economy when it entered a recession from which it has not recovered,” the Pew study said. “Since then, many Puerto Ricans have left the island for the U.S. mainland, particularly Florida, often citing work and family-related reasons.” READ MORE...
After 22 years abroad, married doctors Sheila Perez Colon and Lionel Lazaro Collazo decided to practice medicine in Puerto Rico.
“We always wanted to return to the island, but we couldn't find the way,” Lazaro Collazo told VOA. According to the orthopedic surgeon, attending medical school and building a practice led the couple to live in New York, Los Angeles and Miami. "It hurt us a lot when our daughter asked us why she wasn't born in Puerto Rico, if the whole family was from the island."
Data from the 2020 Census showed Puerto Rico’s population at 3.2 million, with an estimated 11.8% decrease over the preceding decade. Meanwhile, Puerto Ricans residing on the mainland reached 5.8 million, making them the second largest Hispanic population in the continental U.S.
“We always had Puerto Rico in our hearts, sometimes even with a bit of guilt for not being able to be there,” Perez Colon said.
A pediatric endocrinologist, Perez Colon said the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing isolation led them to return home. The couple arrived in Puerto Rico with their 10-year-old daughter in June 2022.
“Knowing there’s a great need for specialties like ours in our home country, while you are providing that expertise elsewhere and not back home, brought us back,” she said.
They say their biggest concern was the salary disparity of medical professionals in Puerto Rico compared with the U.S.
“That’s a reality that no one can deny. But we are prepared. We knew what was in store for us. We knew we were going to have a lower salary, but we would be rewarded to be with family in a place that satisfies us,” Perez Colon said.
For Lazaro Collazo, it was also an opportunity to give back.
“This was my dream, where I wanted to be to be able to offer my services to my people again,” he said. “What better than two well-prepared specialists who are bringing needed services to the island.”
A total of 17,859 Puerto Ricans moved back to the island in 2021, according to the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics. Two years earlier, 24,531 returned, one of the highest numbers in the past decade.
According to the Pew Research Center, 2017 hurricanes Irma and María were determining factors in the exodus of Puerto Ricans, as they sought safety on the mainland. In the year after the hurricanes, Puerto Rico’s population dropped by 3.9%.
“The mid-2000s marked a turning point for the island's economy when it entered a recession from which it has not recovered,” the Pew study said. “Since then, many Puerto Ricans have left the island for the U.S. mainland, particularly Florida, often citing work and family-related reasons.” READ MORE...
Tennessee Legislature
I do not keep up with state politics but apparantly there was some sort of riot at the state capital in Nashville recently where protestors were against some gun law that the legislature was in the process of passing and making into law, once signed by the governor. Tennessee has pretty liberal gun laws.
While this riot was taking place, 3 Democratic legislatures joined the riot in support of their cause which is not allowed by legislative law. The legislatures were 2 black males and one white female. The Republican legislative majority voted to kick the 3 democratic legislature out of the legislature because they violated the law.
Well, after the vote took place, the two blacks were kicked out but the white female stayed in by ONE VOTE...
OUTRAGE followed and the Republican TN Legislators were called RACISTS and WHITE SUPREMACISTS because of those action not to kick out the white lady...
Being a white male my thoughts were that all three should be kicked out not because of the cause but because they broke the law.
Clearly our Republican Legislators have ALL THEIR HEADS UP THEIR ASSES to have made such a stupid move, especially in light of what all is currently going on in this country. Hard to believe that TN is still so BACKWARDS in its thinking.
I would have to agree that those Republican Legislators are acting like they are RACISTS and WHITE SUPREMACISTS... and, I am embarrassed that they are leading my state.
Saturday Article
Incandescent lightbulbs have been providing light in American homes since the 1800s, when Thomas Edison patented the bulbs. But now, the nation has evolved into a more energy-efficient society and LED lights have become the new norm.
The federal government’s warnings started in January and have been getting progressively more aggressive as they want to make sure Americans don’t go back in time. The government announced a ban on the manufacturing and selling of incandescent bulbs, saying it will help Americans save money and help the environment.
At Straus Paint & Hardware in Queens, the word “incandescent” won’t be seen on any new purchase orders. “We saw this coming a long time ago, tried to phase them out for a while,” said Gary Straus, the owner of Straus Paint & Hardware. The store shelves were stocked with almost every shape, size and lumens of LED lights imaginable. “It will save energy and it will be cheaper in the long run,” Straus said.
The Department of Energy said LED lights provide more light using 75% less energy than incandescent lights. LEDs also last about 25 times longer. Starting in July, DOE will make manufacturing or selling most incandescent light bulbs illegal.
The agency also claimed that discontinuing inefficient incandescent lights will save Americans nearly $3 billion yearly and substantially reduce carbon dioxide emissions over 30 years. The DOE warned manufacturers and retailers about the change at the beginning of the year in January, with full enforcement beginning in July 2023.
Manufacturers who violate the ban could face a maximum penalty of $542 per illicit bulb. For restaurants like Blend Astoria, where its dimly lit ambiance draws steady crowds, retrofitted LED lights have saved the business cash.
The average cost of an LED light bulb ranges from $5 to $7 each while an incandescent light bulb would normally range from $2 to $3 a bulb, according to a report from Lifehacker. However, LED bulbs save money in the long run because they use less energy to run and last longer. READ MORE...
Friday, April 7
Radio Signals From Space
(CNN) -- Astronomers have detected a repeating radio signal from an exoplanet and the star that it orbits, both located 12 light-years away from Earth. The signal suggests that the Earth-size planet may have a magnetic field and perhaps even an atmosphere.
Earth’s magnetic field protects the planet’s atmosphere, which life needs to survive, by deflecting energetic particles and plasma that stream out from the sun. Finding atmospheres around planets located outside of our solar system could point to other worlds that potentially have the ability to support life.
Scientists noticed strong radio waves coming from the star YZ Ceti and the rocky exoplanet that orbits it, called YZ Ceti b, during observations using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array of telescopes in New Mexico. The researchers believe the radio signal was created by interactions between the planet’s magnetic field and the star.
A study detailing the findings was published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.“We saw the initial burst and it looked beautiful,” said lead study author Sebastian Pineda, a research astrophysicist at the University of Colorado Boulder, in a statement. “When we saw it again, it was very indicative that, OK, maybe we really have something here.”
Magnetic fields can prevent a planet’s atmosphere from being diminished and essentially eroded away over time as particles release from the star and bombard it, Pineda said.
How strong radio waves occur
In order for the radio waves to be detectable on Earth, they must be very strong, the researchers said. “Whether a planet survives with an atmosphere or not can depend on whether the planet has a strong magnetic field or not,” Pineda said.
Previously, researchers have detected magnetic fields on exoplanets similar in size to Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. But finding magnetic fields on smaller planets the size of Earth is more difficult because magnetic fields are essentially invisible.“What we’re doing is looking for a way to see them,” said study coauthor Jackie Villadsen, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, in a statement.
“We’re looking for planets that are really close to their stars and are a similar size to Earth,” she said. “These planets are way too close to their stars to be somewhere you could live, but because they are so close the planet is kind of plowing through a bunch of stuff coming off the star. If the planet has a magnetic field and it plows through enough star stuff, it will cause the star to emit bright radio waves.”
YZ Ceti b only takes two Earth days to complete a single orbit around its star. Meanwhile, the shortest orbit in our solar system is the planet Mercury, which takes 88 Earth days to complete a lap around the sun. READ MORE...
In order for the radio waves to be detectable on Earth, they must be very strong, the researchers said. “Whether a planet survives with an atmosphere or not can depend on whether the planet has a strong magnetic field or not,” Pineda said.
Previously, researchers have detected magnetic fields on exoplanets similar in size to Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. But finding magnetic fields on smaller planets the size of Earth is more difficult because magnetic fields are essentially invisible.“What we’re doing is looking for a way to see them,” said study coauthor Jackie Villadsen, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, in a statement.
“We’re looking for planets that are really close to their stars and are a similar size to Earth,” she said. “These planets are way too close to their stars to be somewhere you could live, but because they are so close the planet is kind of plowing through a bunch of stuff coming off the star. If the planet has a magnetic field and it plows through enough star stuff, it will cause the star to emit bright radio waves.”
YZ Ceti b only takes two Earth days to complete a single orbit around its star. Meanwhile, the shortest orbit in our solar system is the planet Mercury, which takes 88 Earth days to complete a lap around the sun. READ MORE...
Divide and Conquer
This is one of the first rules of WAR... if you can divide your enemy, you are more easily able to have victory over them...
Unfortunately, the USA does not think that it has any enemies, so the division inside this country is NOT A PROBLEM...
Is Biden compromised by the Chinese? Quite possibly...
Was Trump compromised or did he collude with the Russians? Absolutely not...
But, for the last 6+years, the Democrats and the mainstream media have been after Trump and all those attacks HAVE DIVIDED THIS COUNTRY...
Let's look at our divisions:
- Liberals versus Conservatives
- Republicans versus Democrats
- Trump Haters versus Trump Supporters
- Blacks versus Whites
- Religious versus Non Religious
- Educated versus Non Educated
- Weathy versus Not so Wealthy
NOTE: you may not think there is a difference between the first two, but I can assure you there is a difference... not all Democrats support the views of the liberals like: abortion, gay rights, transgenered, crt, and equity... but they do support large government, high taxes, and more services to the citizens... I would also say that no all Democrats support ending fossil fuels so quick without the infrastructure to back it up... while at the same time would like to put balls to the wall in going green.
The indictment of former President Trump who is the GOP front runner for President in 2024 is being criticized by leaders of countries all over the world...
WHY?
Because indicting the leading opposition candidate, whether the charges are fair or not, is what DICTATORS and COMMUNIST countries do to insure re-election.
The USA is no longer the GLOBAL BENCHMARK for democracy...
and, while you may not think that is a big deal, it really is.
If we are just like Russia, China, Iran, Iraq, and North Korea, then we are no longer special in the world and there is NO NEED for the rest of the countries TO FOLLOW OUR LEAD... because our lead has been tarnished.
This indictment will be used by our enemies to show the rest of the world that the USA is JUST LIKE THEM... so, why not support us instead of the USA?
Those Democrats, Liberals, and Progressives who think the indictment of Trump is the next best thing since sliced bread, ARE NOT LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE... they are blinded by their personal feelings and biases.
In 2030 or earlier when the world turns against the USA, the Trump Haters are going to wonder WTF just happened?
- Countries no longer seeing the USA as their role model
- Countries no longer wanting to us the US dollar
- Countries no longer wanting to support the USA at the UN
- Countries no longer wanting the USA to be in NATO
- Countries deciding they are better off supporting China
- Countries who would rather trade with China than the USA
What the Trump Haters also do not understand nor do they want to accept is the fact that:
- China is our enemy not our friend
- China's GDP is bigger than ours based upon population
- China's military is bigger than our military
- China's navy is bigger than our navy
- China's air force is bigger than our air force
- China wants to dominate and lead the world
What does the USA have that the rest of the world does not have yet?
MORE NUCLEAR WEAPONS - which will not make much difference if we are all DEAD...
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