Public debates about crime often focus on punishment, as crime increases the political response is predictable: increase the sentence. Five years becomes seven, ten becomes fifteen, mandatory minimums get...
“8.1% Guaranteed for Life” Misleading Annuity Video for American Viewers A YouTube video recently caught my attention with a remarkable title: “It’s boring, but it pays 8.1% guaranteed for...
Cheap Is Not the Same as Livable: What the Visual Capitalist City Ranking Leaves Out Visual Capitalist recently published an attractive chart titled “100 Global Cities by Quality of...
A recent ZeroHedge article makes a provocative claim about the economic revolution normally associated with Ronald Reagan: much of the deregulation for which Reagan received credit had actually been...
There are aircraft that look fast sitting still, and then there is the SR-71 Blackbird. At more than 80,000 feet and Mach 3, the Blackbird operated in a part...
That “Generous Pension” Ranking Doesn’t Actually Rank Retirement Living Standards A recent Visual Capitalist graphic makes for an arresting comparison of retirement systems. Spain supposedly replaces 80.4% of a...
What the Data Says A recent article making the rounds under the title Society Collapse 2040: The Year the World Stops Working and Starts Dying resurrects one of the...
Moving enholm.net from HostGator to Hostinger taught me more than I ever wanted to know about web hosting For years, web hosting occupied a pleasant little corner of my...
A recent ZeroHedge article, drawing on UBS Evidence Lab data, declares a collection of restaurant chains the winners of the second-quarter 2026 “social media war” for the attention of...
Research field report on fitting a 27B open model into a practical workstation build using llama.cpp, Vulkan, quantized KV cache, and Qwen’s hybrid Gated DeltaNet architecture. Qwen3.8-27B is a...