These are some of the most visited and popular postings on this dzsokol.com web site: Is Anything Else Happening in the World Besides COVID? Is Greece the “Canary” for Economic Decline? Does AI Mean “Augmented Intelligence”? American Jewry & Israel
Links Between Liberalism and Capitalism
I originally watched the landmark Milton Friedman series, “Free to Choose“, years ago when my sons were just becoming exposed to macroeconomics. On the recent 40th anniversary of the show, the original producer had some interesting comments about how Friedman’s
Is Anything Else Happening in the World Besides COVID?
The orderly control of pandemics always starts with quick and reliable testing as well as proactive and selective prevention… Neither of which are being practiced with the response to COVID. It appears that the current state of medical uncertainty (i.e.,
One More Engineering Joke
How many nuclear engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? Seven. One to install the new bulb and six to figure out what to do with the old one for the next 10,000 years.
More Engineering Humor
Newton asked a group of medical students, science students, management students, and engineering students the question, “How can you write 4 in between 5 with just 2 characters?” The medical students answered, “This is a joke, right?” The science students
Only an Engineer Understands
A pretty decent article in Interesting Engineering: 1. You have the constant urge to build and tinker with something 2. Always thinking about making things work better 3. Going into a project and having absolutely no idea what to do
Ignoring the Smoking Gun
It’s pretty obvious that mainstream media (CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, NY Times, etc.) is doing everything possible to hide the obvious facts about the Biden family from the public: What they didn’t report on is the obvious thing the emails
Engineering Humor
A priest, a doctor, and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed, “What’s with those guys? We must have been waiting for fifteen minutes!” The doctor chimed in, “I don’t know,
Do US Tech Companies Have Too Much Influence?
If you want to review business and political fireworks that will become front-page news, then take a look at the major US-based technology companies: Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter. These six behemoths control the vast majority of information flow,
American Jewry and Israel
The relationship between American Jews and the state of Israel is very complex and forever evolving. This posting, which is now 5 years old, started during the Obama presidency when many leftist American Jews started putting the priorities of the
The Stealth Revolution Right in Front of You
A revealing summary from Victor Davis Hanson about the state of politics and the demonic positioning of the Democrats in the United States of America: To paraphrase Sophocles, 2020 saw many strange things and nothing stranger than peak Trump derangement