Chet Collins

Omicron Reinfects Government - WSJ Opinion

With Omicron’s discovery days ago in South Africa and before that the surge of infections in Europe, it is striking how reflexively governments are reverting to the strategies used at Covid’s onset in early 2020—crude travel bans, lockdowns, border closings and quarantines.

Emphasis mine.

Hour-to-hour adaptability is the 21st century’s defining characteristic. One word defines government’s response to the Covid pandemic: rigidity.

‘Handled Variety Of Tasks,’ Writes Kamala Harris, Struggling To Fill Out Performance Review Self-Assessment - The Onion

Harris reportedly said to herself as she sat in her West Wing office and stared at the blank form, eventually resorting to a Googled list of phrases commonly used by employees when evaluating themselves. “Let’s see. Oh, that’s good—I’ll put that I ‘used my organizational and problem-solving skills to help others facilitate the achievement of key objectives.’ That could mean anything.

Some Professional Degrees Leave Students With High Debt but Without High Salaries - WSJ

In three popular fields—chiropractic medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine—every professional program with available data had median debt loads that topped median earnings two years after graduation.

Oops.

Metaverse Real Estate Piles Up Record Sales in Sandbox and Other Virtual Realms - WSJ

Republic Realm, a firm that develops real estate in the metaverse, said it paid $4.3 million for land in the world Sandbox, the biggest virtual real-estate sale publicized to date

I’ve got some digital plots that I’m willing to let go for $4.2M.

A Dubious Union Revote at Amazon - WSJ Opinion

Union advocates claim to empower workers but are quick to cast them as dupes if they refuse the union message.

Big day!

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I lost 3lbs on vacation.

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Make this trip end.

Gulls hitching a ride across the bay in the ferry’s draft. Kind of genius.