Five Observations

 1.  I predict within one year....mini-AI data centers are existing....hidden from the public and drawing no attention....maybe a quarter the size of a normal center.  

2.  More drone BS....over US base at Lakenheath (UK).

3.  Jensen Huang of NVIDIA ends up (I believe) as a partner with Elon's, and has a whole new 2nd career brewing.

4.  Kevin O’Leary gave a talk....says most people waste $15,000 a year on things they could easily avoid.  His 'punch'?  Stop paying $5.50 for stupid overly expensive coffee.  

My German wife lectures me over this daily.  For 20 years, she's been on some Moses-like life-style....probably saving in the range of $10,000 minimum.  I lecture her back....that capitalism needs people like me to pay $5.50 for premium-coffee. 

5.  If you were a passenger on the New Orleans riverboat that got hit by the tanker, and tipped over.....lawyer-up, and expect a pay-day of $1-to-2 million for your 20 minutes in the water.  

Illiterate Chatter

 Yesterday, I read a piece....concerning Detroit.  Some group did a study and found that roughly 50-percent of the city's residents....are functionally illiterate.

 Meaning?  Functionally illiterate means a person has basic reading and writing skills (probably at the 5th/6th grade level)....but they are not high enough to manage everyday tasks and live independently in modern society.

Math-wise?  You can probably add and subtract....as long as you are dealing with a sum of 1,000 or less.  Multiplication and division?  You might be able to handle 2-digit numbers.

Explaining this?  

I think the number cited is probably incorrect...maybe off by half.  What you have is a 2nd and 3rd generation descendants of drug-users...who were generically altered in some way, and face reality today of being 'slow'.  If you gave a math problem (102 x 56)...a normal guy would take 30 seconds to reach a solution.  The 'slow-guy' would require probably 60 to 90 seconds, but still reach the solution.

We need a invented term to place into the system....instead of using functionally illiterate.