Steve’s Barking; The luck of Tesla 🍀

 Tesla the car company just caught the greatest luck 🍀any car company could possibly have. First the government is giving it seven billion💰 dollars to open up its charging  🔌⛽️station to all. Then oh my goodness Ford and GM is paying Tesla to open up its charging 🔌⛽️stations to their EVS ( something I really don’t get if the government is paying Tesla to open up its charging station to all) there by allowing Tesla to under price other car companies for its electric vehicles and still make a profit. Will wonders never cease.

Steve’s Barking; Be careful of the new silent majority !

 Remember in the old days when Spiro Agnew called out to the country’s so called silent majority, those who were angry at the anti government left. Well the new, new Republican Party better be careful of the new silent majority who’s getting angry at the anti government right.

Steve’s Barking; To bring equity to NYC schools you need inequality

 Oh no, not again. Stuyvesant high school is again in equity with so few black and Latino students coming into the incoming class. Now I’m saying that we of New York City should not look at the immediate future. Stop trying to integrate greater numbers, black, and Latino students into the elite high schools next year or in the next 5 to 10 years. We have to train all the students to be able to pass the stringent entrance exams that the schools require. The way to do this is by not having all school districts in New York City get the same amount of money. We should use much of our monetary resources for tutoring those who want the tutoring. We cannot, in all likelihood tutor, every student who wants it. We can tutor on a select basis of income. How do you even that might not be equal. There might be more students or at least their parents who want their child to be tutored. Because we of New York City have a finite budget, we cannot tutor all those who are deserving of tutoring. We might just have to have a lottery for tutoring. Now part of the tutoring would be how to take entrance exams for select high schools. Hopefully, in less than five years, this would bring equality to elite schools, where the percentage of black and Latino students would equal to the percentage of the population that they represent in the city school system. The New York City school system cannot continue. It’s foolish chasing of integration of the city school system by legislation. This has been one of the biggest failures that the city school system has been doing for over 60 years. This is what is known as insanity, doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results.

The purpose of any school system is to teach and bring out the best in the students. Now I’m not naïve enough to believe that every student is going to achieve an education that brings out the best of their ability.  I do believe that in order to achieve a higher level of equity in the school system we have to treat students on an unequal footing. Giving more emphasis to those who are from a depressed household.

The Tudors would if they have student debt, the city, and possibly the federal government would help relieve that debt.

Steve’s Barking; Seeing a sun that not there.

 I know it’s true but it still boggles my mind. We see a sun that was in a spot 100,000,000 light years a way, through a telescope such as Web, but that sun is no longer in the same spot in the universe and we see  it in an instant that we want to see. I know that there is a scientific explanation to this, but even if you explain this to me how this is possible, I would still be bewildered in my punny mind.

Steve’s Barking; The good, bad and ugly of immigration (illegal)

 Because of war and very harsh living conditions in many countries, immigrants are flooding the borders of more stable countries. Now this may seem like a terrible thing for the countries that are being inundated by these refugees. Countries don’t have the means to house, feed and give basic necessities to these refugees. There is also the ( irrational?) threat that many of these refugees will bring with them gangsterism disease, drugs, and other bad stuff. In the United States at the Mexican border there are 10s of thousands of these migrants. The fact of the matter the United States may need these migrants. (1) There seems to be a lack of workers to help on the farms. (2) There is a shortage of workers that are willing to do low paying jobs. (3) The work force is getting older and there aren’t enough worker to replenish Social Security and Medicare. In the Eurozone, they’re already enough new workers to replenish their pensions, and therefore their pensions are under attack. We keep hearing of the birth rate bomb, well one can assume that the refugees can fix that.

In New York in the short run the refugee problem is scary ( lack of money and space)but in the short term future the benefits to the city by having a larger work force and larger population that would bring in more federal dollars and in tens years even more representation in congress. Every day I keep reading of the losing of population well the refugees add to the population (chuckle).

* The United States had a history of being anti-refugee ( Think of the exclusion of acts of Asians. Think of  the limiting of Eastern Europeans , Italians and German Jews just before World War II. All these refugees who did come added greatly to the United States.

Steve’s Barking; What happened to the end of colossal computers? 🤷‍♀️

 Now as I recall , not to long ago, maybe a decade ago a simple laptop 💻  was taking the place of  colossal computers that was taking the place in memory and computer 🖥️ power that would take up a whole room. Holy moly suddenly we have cloud ☁️ computing.. My goodness how many city 🌆 blocks do those storage bins for memory take up. Holy 💩 how large do digital currency computers have to be? And now we have a thing called artificial intelligence and how huge do those computers have to be I seen pictures and it looks like those computers take up more space then my whole apartment complex. What happened to the dream of smaller computing is better.?

Steve’s Barking; A one word answer to integration in New York City public schools

 New York City public schools we’re pretty much segregated when I was going to high school over 60 years ago. Every five or so years the “reformers” have tried every trick in the book, except one and have failed miserably. The one thing the “reformers” haven’t tried is gentrification.