"A republic, if you can keep it."
"A republic, if you can keep it."
Yikes, food production requires huge amounts of water and contributes mightily to eutrophication. It behooves us all to figure out ways to slow or reverse this. Because water and land are static resource. And this is all contributing to climate…
Vegas bling and sights on Thanksgiving weekend.
Microgrids are essentially backup power for grids, communities, essential services, utilities, hospitals – anywhere where power needs to stay on no matter what. They generally use wind and solar to store power in batteries. However, if the outage is long…
Millions of taxpayers will receive 1099-Ks this coming tax season for the first time. These 1099-Ks will report third party payment transactions totaling over $600 in 2022. This includes from PayPal, Zelle, Venmo, eBay, Amazon, Etsy, Discogs, as well as…
Join me on a journey to the cosplay socialist parties in the US. Surely, they will be opposing the authoritarian right loudly and strongly. Oh gosh, silly you, of course they aren’t. They’re much too busy fund-raising and recycling Pride…
1099s may list income that is genuinely not taxable. An example would be someone whose roommates Zelle him their share of the rent each month, then he pays the full rent. This is not taxable income, even though Zelle might…
The war in Ukraine could become a world war. The upcoming midterm elections will be vicious. Climate change is changing things in ways we can barely predict. Unhinged conspiracy theories are going mainstream. The response to all of this can…
The Salton Sea in southern California contains one-third of the world’s lithium supply. It’s an inland saline sea in a baking hot, unforgiving area. The lithium is contained in geothermal liquids, which have been harnessed for decades to create electricity.…