Kevin Bae

Non-Social in a Socially Networked World

  • No one wants to be a cop anymore… why would they?

    No one wants to be a cop anymore… why would they?

    Part of the problem is the militarization of the police force. This has been happening for decades. I’ve often thought military style training and equipment makes the people look like the enemy in the eyes of cops. When police show up to a domestic disturbance in tactical gear and armored vehicles it’s hard to trust…

  • NOTAMs are now more inclusive!

    NOTAMs are now more inclusive!

    The FAA had to ground all domestic flights this morning because of an outage in the NOTAM system. While a big deal, every system, especially old ones like NOTAM, should be expected to go down every once in a Blue Moon. What’s news to me is their was a change to the acronym. NOTAM used…

  • The Medical Research Industrial Complex is Anti-Science

    The Medical Research Industrial Complex is Anti-Science

    An article in The Free Press today, discussing the search for a cure for Alzheimer’s Disease, highlights how the Medical Research Industrial Complex over decades has stifled research on new therapeutics for the disease. When you come across articles like this you have to realize the same issues persist in any scientific research field. That…

  • Stossel full interview with Enes Kanter Freedom-China & NBA Hypocrisy

    Stossel full interview with Enes Kanter Freedom-China & NBA Hypocrisy

    This is one of Stossel’s more revealing interviews. No freedom loving American should ever watch another NBA game or wear Nike shoes until they stop doing business in China.

  • Is advertising revenue competition the real push to ban TikTok?

    Is advertising revenue competition the real push to ban TikTok?

    Has anyone looked into who is lobbying legislators to ban TikTok? As far as I can tell TikTok is doing the same thing with data that all the other social media companies are doing. If we ban TikTok we should ban them all. Google and Meta each faced headwinds in 2022, as people spent less…

  • WSJ slanted headline misrepresents article on Trump tax returns

    WSJ slanted headline misrepresents article on Trump tax returns

    The headline in the Wall Street Journal reads, “Trump’s Tax Law Echoed Through His Finances During White House Years”. I take that to mean Trump signed a tax law that was designed to benefit him. The WSJ headline instead should read, “Trump’s Accountants and Tax Attorneys Complied with New Tax Law”. Here is a key…