WTI: mid-day, on a Friday, WTI is up almost 3%; up almost $3.00; trading at $98.61.
BNPL: a new wrinkle with "buy now pay later."
- our apartment complex manager has partnered with a lending company that will pay one's rent automatically on the first of each month;
- the renter will then have all month to pay back the lender
- in other words, renters can now pay their monthly rent on a weekly or even daily basis
- it also makes it easier for unrelated roommates to share rent costs
- "enroll for a small monthly fee" -- which is not disclosed until you enroll
Tanks: huge; link here to Peter Zeihan:
- at the link, be sure to read the comments;
- Poland to buy 116 used Abrams tanks from the US
- this frees up Poland to send all its preexisting tank stocks to Ukraine
- WW-iii expands
Masks are back: Los Angeles County will mandate masks again on/about July 29, 2022.
- Most of the rext of California will probably say "nyet" to Newsom on masks.
Surge: see state-by-state surge in Covid the past month or so.
- California's numbers continue to rise;
- Texas: subtle but it looks like numbers continue to rise slowly;
- Florida: also subtle but it looks like Florida's numbers have peaked and are now dropping again;
Chrome: wow, wow, wow! This is amazing. How many old Macs are sitting around your home not being used because they don't have the chip / memory needed for new MacOS updates. I can't wait to get this firestick from Amazon and see if I can "re-vive" an old massive desktop. This would be huge. Link here.
- from Google: ChromeOS Flex
- will replace the operating system of older PCs and Macs that turns these old bricks into Chromebooks
- a bootable USB stick
- Chrome cloud-first operating system
- this is simply brilliant
- Macs released after 2010 with 16 GB of free storage
- universally panned by those commenting at the link; that's fine.
- I wonder if my old massive desktop would still work as a "streaming" monitor only?
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