Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Hot New Boondoggle
When I was a young lad in the southern wilds of Louisiana, I would love to grab a random volume of our World Book, flop on the sofa, and just thumb through it. I was a curious kid, and one of the entries I enjoyed was in the “C” volume – – Computers – – which at the time discussed these electronic machines that only governments and large businesses could afford.
One of the illustrations I vividly remember showed a very tall skyscraper next to a person, and the caption explained that a computer that equaled the thinking power of a human being would be 28 stories tall. God only knows who dreamed up that “fact”, but as a kid I felt pretty proud to be walking around with a squishy organ in my head that was just as powerful as a skyscraper-sized computer.
(more…)Fargate
Just One to Go
I made three specific predictions about the DOGE effort:
- ONE: They would never find any meaningful “savings“, and in fact the federal budget would probably go UP as opposed to the $2 trillion they “pledged” to save
- TWO: There could only be one leader, so Vivek would ditch the effort
- THREE: Before April 2025 was over, Elon would be bored and tired of it and leave as well.
As of today, numbers ONE and TWO have already been achieved. Number THREE is coming, and I gave it a deliberately generous deadline. I wouldn’t be surprised if he blew the whole thing off within the next eight weeks. As with every other cynical prediction I’ve laid out about this new era……….you’ll see.
Mourning in America
