– by New Deal democrat Step away from the ledge, everybody; and pay no attention to the DOOOMers, who are surely out in force this morning: the big increase in initial claims was almost all about Hurricane Helene. By the numbers, initial claims increased 33,000 to 258,000, the highest number since August 2023. The four week moving average increased 6,250 to 231,000, the highest in a month. Continuing claims, with the usual one week delay,...

A good friend recently told me about Google’s NotebookLM. To test it, yours truly uploaded one of his articles from this blog, and out came a four-minute rather insightful discussion about the content. Pretty cool! https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/untitled-notebook-1.wav

Good news now just waiting for the power to come back on.

Ημερίδα για τον Λένιν – 12 Οκτωβρίου 2024 ΗΚΡΙΣΗ και το Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Ιστορίας του Παντείου Πανεπιστημίου συνδιοργανώνουν επιστημονική ημερίδα αφιερωμένη στα 100 χρόνια από τον θάνατο του Λένιν. Η ημερίδα θα πραγματοποιηθεί το Σάββατο 12 Οκτωβρίου 2024 στο Αμφιθέατρο Σάκη Καράγιωργα ΙΙ, Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο.  ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ  11:00-12:30 | 1η ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΑ | Κράτος και ΠολιτικήΑλέξανδρος Χρύσης, Δημήτρης ΚαλτσώνηςΣυντονισμός: Γιώργος Φαράκλας  13:00-14:30 | 2η...

I’ve posted here before about herd immunity. Prior to inoculation/vaccination, herd immunity was the result of enough people dying or surviving that the transmission of the disease (plague, smallpox, etc) was arrested in that population until the next generation of uninfected people grew up, whereupon the substrate for another round of death appeared.But let’s be clear: the survivors weren’t necessarily healthy. Many polio survivors spent the rest of...

This is for my commonplace book. "It is true that some lengthy or roundabout processes are physically efficient. But so are some short processes. Lengthy processes are not physically efficient because they are long. Some, probably most, lengthy processes would be physically very inefficient, for there are such things as spoiling or wasting with time. With a given labour force there is a definite limit to the quantity of labour embodied in roundabout processes which can be used to...

I very much agree with these findings. With Trump, the nation and labor would have floundered. WE are lucky he had the wherewithal to act quickly with the right stimulus to support job growth. Two months after Dean’s post the nation is still going strong. Christmas maybe good for many. U.S. Workers are Far Better Off Than Four Years Ago – Center for Economic and Policy This is not a tough one. First and foremost, workers are better off...

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Court likely to let Biden’s “ghost guns” regulation stand, SCOTUS BLOG I used the word firearms so as to include rifles also. I do not know from where the word “guns” evolved. Maybe those old Westerns? To this old Marine Sergeant, it is a firearm, a rifle or a pistol. If you were careful, one could probably assemble a firearm from various other unusable weapons to make one good one. What the law does is make illegal the sale of the types of...

“My Lords, in taking part in this debate, I must declare an interest: recently, I was a victim of the committee chaired by the noble Baroness, Lady Manningham-Buller. Although this is not the kind of interest a Member is normally obliged to declare, I believe that my personal experience has given me a certain insight into the way the system works, which may be of public interest. I welcome the committee’s aim to shorten and clarify the code and guide wherever possible—they require...