Vets become another monopoly

 

This is the main way to get rich in Canada -- form another monopoly, and soak the people.  Unfortunately, this tears down the economy.

The neat thing about corporate monopolies is that you can't get caught for price fixing.  

AI meets the curse of the mainframe

 

Central AI has flared up and died.  I like that it can write Python programs for me, but they give me more trouble than mucking about on my own.  This is a classic 'central control' scaling problem.  It's like having one sewer plant in the centre of a circular town, and allowing endless development.  The load depends on the square of the radius, and the plant can only increase linearly.  It is soon hopeless.

We had the same for central mainframes.  Square vs. linear.  Never ends well, and the hopeless tech giants forgot all this for AI.  Let's have a nuclear plant!  Nope.

AI will break up into tiny pieces, like my dreams for AI-mini-me, that can tell endless stories about physics.  So neat.

Life of the Endless Clipper

 

The Arctic is in full recharge, so the weak Pacific plumes come out to play.  I've never seen a continuous clipper.  Some people are getting a lot of snow.

All the plume action is very weak.

We're getting a nice black for the Arctic.

California is getting a huge clockwise gyre, a total creature of Arctic cold.  However, the LA winds seem muddled.  I can't see it staying that way if the gyre moves down.  Remember that the LA winds are a product of cold, not warmth.

Here's where it gets interesting.  The Arctic is stewing up a giant blob.  I'm still going for an M9.5.  Toronto is going for -30C, so tend to your furnaces.  Trumples has tempted the gods by saying "We don't need your stinkin' oil and gas."  I love it.  When the super mega-blob hits, they won't have a speck of natgas in reserve.  I give it 80% for a huge disaster, but maybe it all fizzles out, and they don't learn anything.

No blobs for Europe.  Maybe next year.