Wealthy To Pay More

California will soon become the first state to determine residents’ electricity fees based on their income as part of a new effort to spur households toward full electrification and bring down the state’s soaring electricity costs for low-income Californians.

Electricity bills are made up of fixed costs as well as fees that vary based on the amount of electricity residents use. Last year, the state passed a law giving the California public utilities commission a 1 July 2024 deadline to determine a fixed charge for household electric bills based on people’s income.

The new income-based electricity bills could hit residents’ mailboxes as soon as 2025. Based on proposals currently under consideration, residents who make more than $180,000 a year could pay about $500 more annually on their electricity bills, while Californians who make less than $28,000 annually could save up to $300 a year. The law is part of the state’s answer of how to equitably transition away from carbon as an energy source.

But state officials are already facing backlash from higher-income residents who don’t want to see their bills increase. The proposals have so far received more than 250 public with large number opposing the law.  READ MORE...

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Expresso Drinks Explained

 

Martha Stewart says...

Martha Stewart has shared her candid thoughts about remote work.

The 81-year-old media mogul came out against businesses allowing their employees to work remotely in an interview with Footwear News published on Monday (5 June). While describing her packed daily schedule, Stewart revealed that she didn’t stop working during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“I continued to work five days a week,” she said. As companies have slowly introduced return-to-office measures, with some allowing employees to opt for a hybrid work schedule, Stewart has taken a stance against remote work.

“You can’t possibly get everything done working three days a week in the office and two days remotely,” she told the publication. The Martha Stewart Living founder noted how many French companies allow most of their employees to take summer holiday between July or August, with some French workers receiving 30 days a year of paid vacation.  READ MORE...

Burning Wood

 

Surviving a Nuclear War

 I was in the military during the Vietnam War that the government called the Vietnam Era Conflict...  it was still a war in which countless of wasted lives were lost on both sides.

However, the GI Bill not only paid for 4 years of education (2 undergraduate and 2 graduate) but it gave me a housing allowance because of I was married.  Regardless of what the GI Bill gave me, I still worked FULL TIME during those four years.  Working full time and going to school full time was not easy but it got done.

I am not a war hawk nor am I a pacifist, but I do believe in a strong military presence if for no other reason than to deter our enemies who might otherwise perceive us as weak.  I also believe we should do everything in our power to avoid war.

The USA has enough nuclear weapons stored to blow this entire world to hell and back several times, but it is doubtful that these weapons will ever be used because it means the end of life on earth.

NOT SO FAST WALLY...  several govts including the USA, Russia, and China have been building underground complexes where only the privileged will go in the event of a nuclear war.  Some scientists believe that a nuclear war can be survived underground and while that may indeed be possible, no one would be able to leave that underground complex for hundreds of years.

Everything above ground would be destroyed, including the ground soil so that no plants will ever grow for a thousand years or more.  There would be no lakes or resorts or public transportation underground.  No professional sports teams or musicians.  I would assume that those who were picked to survive might cook up a little community theater for entertainment.

The other interesting aspect of life underground would be a selection of males and females who were brought there for no other purpose but to BREED and give birth to a future generation.

Some people would be alive but what kind of a life would they have.  The general public would all die as they have nothing of value to preserve.

Animals on Record

 

North Korea Hates the USA

North Korea has been scrambling to launch a satellite to spy on the US, but this is just a distraction from a far more worrying threat, an analyst told Daily Express US.

Kim Jong-un was left red-faced earlier this week when his attempted spy satellite launch crashed into the sea.

Pyongyang is allegedly planning to use the new technology to spy on the US from space and has vowed to make a second attempt this month.

But, according to Brandon Weichert, geopolitical analyst and author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower, these launches are just a distraction from a terrifying threat the hermit Kingdom is developing, which could put the US mainland at risk.

He told Daily Express US: "Like Iran, North Korea having a satellite program is at first not about the satellite capabilities.  READ MORE...

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Quantum Computers

 

China Builds Warships

If there’s an arms race at sea, China currently is winning.

The U.S. Defense Department’s own numbers support that view. It estimates China has around 340 warships, while the U.S. number is below 300.

On top of that, the Defense Department warns that China is building new ships faster than the U.S. is.

Beijing could have 400 warships by 2025, an increase of 60. But the U.S. may need more than 20 years to build 50 more ships.

In other words, according to CNN, the Chinese can build three warships in the time it takes the U.S. to build one.

If that’s not enough, the Global Firepower website says Russia and North Korea also have stronger Navy fleets than the U.S.

For the West to keep up with China, military experts say Japan and South Korea may have to increase production.

Japan’s warships currently “are among the world’s best,” former U.S. Pacific Command operations director Carl Schuster told Britain’s Daily Star.

South Korea reportedly has a destroyer that possesses more firepower than its Chinese counterpart.

But the U.S. cannot buy Asian warships. It’s against federal law. Warship construction in other countries for the U.S. Navy also is banned.  READ MORE...

Making Omelets

 

USA is Divided Big Time

This theme of division has been on my mind a long time, ever since it began to manifest itself in 2016 with the election of Donald Trump.  Six years later, the Dems are still trying to ruin Trump's life and his chances for election...  except in 2024, the Dems have mainstream media, DOJ, FBI, and several businesses on their side.

Unfortunately, this is pisses off a lot of parents who are opposed to WOKE, opposed to CRT being taught in schools, and opposed to Trans females competing in female sports.

In addition to this political division of Dems and the GOP, the USA is divided:

• Racially
• By Gender
• By Age
• By Education
• By Religious Beliefs
• By Wealth
• By Illegal Immigration
• By Having a Strong Military
• By Having a Large National Debt

The only way that division is good for a country is when they enemies take advantage of their division.  The economy in the USA is fragile since it no longer is supported by petroleum crude oil.  This weakness will be exploited by China and if China does what it is threatening, the USA will not longer be a global superpower economically in a couple of years.

It is true that the USA has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons and can completely destroy the world if it wants to.  But, do you think this is what the DEMS really want with all their social programs and concerns about the climate?

This Land is Our Land

 

House Illegal Immigrants in Private Homes

New York City Mayor Eric Adams proposed his vision to house illegal immigrants in "faith-based locales" and private residences on Monday.

"There are residents who are suffering right now because of economic challenges," Adams, a Democrat, said. "They have spare rooms. They have locales, and if we can find a way to get over the 30-day rule and other rules that government has in place, we can take their $4.2 billion, $4.3 [billion]. It may be now that we potentially have to spend."

Adams's call to action comes as New York City battles a rise in illegal immigrants flooding the city.

The city has helped support at least 72,000 immigrants, and over 46,000 still remain under the care of the city, according to a statement from the mayor's office.   READ MORE...

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Saudi Arabia

 

ChatGPT Taking Jobs

Tech jobs (Coders, computer programmers, software engineers, data analysts)

Coding and computer programming are in-demand skills, but it's possible that ChatGPT and similar AI tools may fill in some of the gaps in the near future.

Tech jobs such as software developers, web developers, computer programmers, coders, and data scientists are "pretty amenable" to AI technologies "displacing more of their work," Madgavkar said.

That's because AI like ChatGPT is good at crunching numbers with relative accuracy.

In fact, advanced technologies like ChatGPT could produce code faster than humans, which means that work can be completed with fewer employees, Mark Muro, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute who has researched AI's impact on the American workforce, told Insider.

"What took a team of software developers might only take some of them," he added.

Tech companies like ChatGPT maker's OpenAI are already considering replacing software engineers with AI.

Still, Oded Netzer, a Columbia Business School professor, thinks that AI will help coders rather than replace them.

"In terms of jobs, I think it's primarily an enhancer than full replacement of jobs," Netzer told CBS MoneyWatch. "Coding and programming is a good example of that. It actually can write code quite well."  READ MORE...

Bike Rider

 

The Trans Community Controls

Blacks in America comprised 12% of the population and the Trans Community is probably only 1% and yet they are exercising more control than the blacks over the rest of society.  While they may be realizing short term gains, the long term implication is that HALF OF THIS COUNTRY is going to turn against them to the point that the only thing left to feel is HATE...

There was a news story the other day about a high school senior could not walk across the stage to receive his diploma because he said MALES ARE MALES AND FEMALES ARE FEMALES...  The summer job that he had already been hired for was rescinded because of his comment as well.  That boy will grow up with HATRED FOR THE TRANS COMMUNITY and this experience will never be forgotten.

Bud Light has already lost a lot of sales because of the advertisement they ran with a trans female...  Males and females alike resent all this focus on the trans community and the backlash will be nothing less dramatic.

Trans females are getting into female sports and winning all the competitions...  sooner or later females will simply stop competing and it becomes pointless and they lose athletic scholarships to college.  Female sports will become full of trans females competing against each other and who wants to attend a competition like that?

BUT...  since the USA has changed to open the door for these trans females, it will be a while before the actually see the damage they have done.  They will never admit that they were wrong, but life will eventually go back to the way it was...  however, there will be a lot of pain on both side before that happens.