World View: etc!: Find a way.

Today's Tids Issue 5,941

Subversion excursion:

This is guilt season as your snail mail and email boxes are flooded with requests for contributions, and they all seem good. Except, how far can you go. Calls to help children are heart wrenching. But only a tad more than what you feel when asked to help a wounded soldier. And there is real guilt when services we use regularly plead for a little help. And you remember last year thinking I’ll send something this year for sure. Yeah, this year I'm going to be better at giving. But then, I have a month and a half until I have to make a New Years resolution.

Listening to Trump’s Q&A press conference yesterday, I had this sense of panic creeping in at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

A Pizza is basically a real-time pie chart of how much pizza left.

The Question:

How Many people work for Amazon worldwide?

The Headlines:

--UN Security Council Adopts US Gaza Peace Plan by a Wide Margin.

--Markets continue on edge waiting for Nvidia earnings: Wednesday results expected to determine whether AI is in next leg of expansion or entering “digestion mode”; Markets Opened Low and went Lower; Bitcoin falls Below 90K

--Cloudfare Outage Takes down X and ChatGPT.

--ICE Agents Move from Charlotte to Raliegh NC.

--Saudi Prince Visits White House; Trump to Push for Normalized Relations with Israel; The Two Countries intensely disagree on Independent State for Palestine

--Venezuela’s Maduro Ready to Talk to US.

Don’t you think it is odd that ages ago somebody decided there are 60 seconds in a minute and sixty minutes in an hour. Sixty, why sixty in each. Must have been a conspiracy.

There is along lis tof comments out there this morning from nervous investors over the possible fall of an over invested AI Business. Among them is Google CEO Sundar Pichel says, "Trillion Dollar AI Investment Boom has elements of irrationality,”. And there are more like that as the earnings vigil continues. I don't know whether or not these Exces see something, or they are just preparing themselves on record for a disaster from NVidia tomorrow’s report. Stay tuned.

The Ancestry site is touting its use of AI. Mainly from what I have seen is it being used to scour school and college year books. And every report I have seen regarding names close to me have been wrong. Isn't AI capable of looking at all the date of individuals in a “Tree” and determine whether or not the a name that sounds like one of my relatives is ligit or not. AI really is pretty incredible despite my negative meanderings about it, but worry some are just using it superficially to be hip in the trend. Maybe Ancestry bought AICheap.

I am neither especially clever or especially gifted. I am very, very, very curious. --Albert Einstein.

Yesterday I mentioned a columnist's quote, “América, home of the Brave and land of the fleeced.” There are many deals hidden in do goodism rhetoric that are adding to the fleecing. The mandated minimum wage for instance is in effect a tax on consumers. Period. And it doesn't move anybody up the real financial ladder. For years, a big business on Wall Street is called Private Equity Roll Ups. The idea is to combine together many small companies in the same business activity into a larger company for efficiency and purchasing power. For instance, a solid play today might be putting together many small companies assembling electronic gizmos. Yet, while adding efficiencies to operations over time, the demands for profit increases dramatically. And then there is this emerging application that has an effect on home owner costs. With technology it is easily possible to combine individuals and small companies into national service companies –Everything from food delivery to cleaning gutters will be reorganized, elevating minimal skilled labor jobs into national service conglomerates. And the homeowner budgets are the targets. Hey, I may be hallucinating. but, it's just a feeling I have when I see a service that I used to think was high priced at $80 now costing $250.

Speaking of the big devouring the little, did you ever looking the rear-view mirror at the huge grill of a large pickup truck mere inches from your rear bumper. Then think the grill is in effect looks like a large mouth full of sharp teeth which will devour my car in one bite. And you know that the pickup driver wants you to think exactly that and get outof the way.

With great power comes a great electricity bill.

The Answer:

Amazon Worldwide employs 158 million people!! In the US 1 of every 135 Americans who are employed work for Amazon. The company will hire another 250K people for Christmas season, just in case you are looking for something to do.