Chet Collins

Biden’s Top Science Adviser Resigns - WSJ

People with knowledge of his behavior accused him of bullying, embarrassing and insulting staff.

Sounds like standard operating procedure over at EEOB.

IRS Retreats From Facial Recognition to Verify Taxpayers’ Identities - WSJ

The Internal Revenue Service is scrapping its use of a private facial-recognition system to authenticate taxpayers’ identities for online accounts, the agency said Monday after criticism from lawmakers in both parties over privacy concerns.

Too late for parents who wanted to avoid a massive tax bill and had to use facial recognition to opt out of Congressionally mandated advanced child tax credit payments.

And last year, federal authorities said they would investigate after the news organization ProPublica released the tax information of several wealthy Americans. The potential breach raised questions about whether there were gaps in IRS data systems. The agency hasn’t provided any detail on what happened and investigations have yet to yield prosecutions or any publicly available reports.

That announcement was in June 2021. What’s taking so long?

Tyson Foods Says Higher Meat Prices Haven’t Cooled Demand - WSJ

Escalating meat prices haven’t slowed restaurant and retailer demand for meat, Tyson Foods Inc. executives said, as rising prices helped to more than double the company’s quarterly profit.

What are people supposed to eat instead of meat?

I’d rather have a president who says mean things on Twitter than one who’s policies result in 25% price increases on the milk my kids drink.

Frontier Group, Spirit Airlines Merge in $6.6 Billion Deal - WSJ

“This transaction is centered around creating an aggressive ultra-low fare competitor to serve our guests even better, expand career opportunities for our team members and increase competitive pressure, resulting in more consumer-friendly fares for the flying public,” Spirit President and Chief Executive Ted Christie said.

This makes no sense to me. Spirit isn’t just a damaged brand, but an irredeemable one.

I watch videos like this and think, “Wow, nature is so amazing.”

Then I think about the amazing human person, the quintessential expression of nature.

Seasonal shift.

Too Risky to Wed in Your 20s? Not if You Avoid Cohabiting First - WSJ

As we recently discovered, however, there is an interesting exception to the idea that waiting until 30 is best. In analyzing reports of marriage and divorce from more than 50,000 women in the U.S. government’s National Survey of Family Growth (NFSG), we found that there is a group of women for whom marriage before 30 is not risky: women who married directly, without ever cohabiting prior to marriage. In fact, women who married between 22 and 30, without first living together, had some of the lowest rates of divorce in the NSFG.

App-Store Bill Targeting Apple, Google Is Approved by Senate Panel - WSJ

Apple has privately warned the committee that the bill would enable so-called sideloading, where consumers could add apps to their device without going through the Apple App Store. This would allow app developers “to evade Apple’s privacy and security protections by distributing apps without critical privacy and security checks,” said Timothy Powderly, an Apple senior director of government affairs

A standard, decades-old feature on Apple’s Mac lineup which has led to every Mac being absolutely trashed with junk, unsafe software, and spyware.

Oh… wait…