I am still waiting for more than empty claims from you.
But all you can muster is to say I am dumb two days later?
You called the article a lie multiple times, very emotionally, yet provide nothing but "you are to dumb to understand".

Here I will help you:
1. A Misleading Definition of "Upper Middle Class"
The most glaring vulnerability in the article is its baseline: categorizing a household income of $133,000 for a family of three as "upper middle class."

Failure to Account for Geography: A flat $133,000 national benchmark ignores the drastic disparities in the Cost of Living (COL). While that salary might afford a comfortable, upper-middle-class lifestyle in rural areas or parts of the Midwest, it does not stretch nearly as far in major metropolitan areas (where the majority of these high-earning jobs are actually located).

The Squeeze on $133k: Many families earning near the $130,000–$150,000 threshold today report feeling distinctly "working class" or standard middle class. They are often renting, driving older vehicles, and struggling to afford child care. Lumping them into the same bracket as households making $400,000 distorts the reality of their financial security.

2. Confusing Income with Wealth
The WSJ article focuses heavily on income, but high income does not automatically translate into wealth or class security.

The Timing of Assets: A family making $130,000 who bought a home prior to the 2020s and locked in a 3% mortgage rate is in a vastly different financial position than a younger family making the exact same income trying to buy their first home today.

The Reality of Debt: The article downplays how much of this new "upper middle class" income is immediately swallowed by structural debts, particularly student loans required to get the credentials for these higher-paying jobs.

3. Flawed Benchmarks and the "Cheap Goods" Illusion
The article points out that modern families can easily absorb costs that used to be catastrophic (e.g., a $1,000 car repair) and can afford more luxuries. However, this relies on a flawed historical comparison.

The Changing Poverty Line: Calculations that place these families "far above the poverty line" rely on a federal poverty metric established in the 1960s, which was heavily weighted on the cost of food. Today, food takes up a much smaller percentage of a family's budget (dropping from ~30% to ~6%), while housing, healthcare, and education have skyrocketed.

Material vs. Positional Goods: It is true that material goods (televisions, smartphones, clothing, cheap travel) are far more accessible today due to globalization and automation. However, positional goods—the true markers of the upper middle class, such as desirable real estate, good school districts, and high-quality healthcare—have become exponentially more expensive. Affording a flat-screen TV is not a valid indicator of upper-middle-class status if the family cannot afford a down payment on a home.

4. The "Hollowing Out" of the Middle Class is Not Purely Positive
The WSJ spins the shrinking of the traditional middle class as a triumph of upward mobility. However, economists and sociologists warn of the negative consequences of this "hollowing out."

Opportunity Hoarding: As outlined by scholars like Richard Reeves in Dream Hoarders, a swelling upper middle class can actually stall broader societal mobility. This demographic has the capital to dominate the most desirable housing markets and school districts, effectively locking out those in the lower rungs.

A Widening Gap: While some Americans are moving up, the distance between the remaining working/lower-middle class and the upper-middle class is widening. This creates a deeply polarized, two-tiered economy rather than a cohesive society where upward mobility feels attainable to the average worker.

Summary: The WSJ article correctly identifies that more Americans are earning higher nominal salaries. However, by using an artificially low income threshold and ignoring the explosive costs of housing and education, the article paints a rosy picture of "upper-middle-class" prosperity that simply does not align with the material reality or purchasing power of millions of American families.

... or we take all you cute guys for a weekend at the Bohemian Grove.

You choose.

Yeah. There are a number of ways to encode instructions.

Connect to what? My old Kindle connected via 3G. They'd have to rebuild the 3G cellular system to brick that. It will also connect via USB to allow access to its storage for side loading PDFs and open format compatible content. Since that requires no Amazon app, it will be fine. It still has many good years of life ahead of it.

You transmit using a secure protocol (burst, frequency hopping) and then move. The enemy can only track your position to where you last broadcast from (you can bet the Iranians knew roughly where the missing pilot landed). At some point, the subject can stop transmitting and listen for instructions from the rescue team.

... one of these.

You can buy a rough civilian equivalent from REI.

The bad guys will continue to innovate and find new vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, the bug hunters have all been laid off, to be replaced by this new system. Until someone realizes that, up until now, it has been finding bugs based on the training it has scraped from the far corners of the Internet. And since there is no training data on these new attack methods, it falls on its face.

Why? Because it might upset the purchasers of the more expensive 6-core models? So, ship them with a few dead pixels and you can still call it the budget model.

As in "Take the money and run"?

Maybe not laziness. Chrome -> Google -> Major PG&E customer.

Back when I worked for Boeing, we were a Macintosh shop. Then, Bill Gates started his annual dinners for the movers and shakers in the IT industry. The more Microsoft stuff your company had, the closer they seated you to Bill. Our CIO had to sit in the back of the room. He came back and announced that we'd be scrapping all the Macs and switching to Windows.

When it comes to corporations, you can never tell from which end the technology is driven.

That's the ticket!

It is is interesting it is actually not a shelter, but the facility specifically works to get people off the street: provide a meal and clothing, wash clothes and get a shower, but most importantly get help getting off the street. The facility works with shelters, but is not specifically letting people spend the night. The people I see who fail to get off the street have obvious mental issues or drug problems. Many of the staff used to be on the street, and their testimonials are usually about finally giving up the drugs.

I have not talked to everyone coming through of course, nor am I in the counseling side, but I have yet to have someone tell me a story about ending up on the streets because of a medical expense. I am sure they exist, it makes sense, they just have not ended up in front of me. I have seen the losing a job and having no support cascades into ending up living out of your car and a warm meal and a shower helps until they can find work. People out of prison have a tough time getting on their feet sometimes as well, but it does seem medical care is easier to come by than housing. It does not hurt when you have nothing to your name and the emergency room by law must see you.

$42,000 a month in prescriptions is insane; glad you have it down to $5 a month in the end.
Only people I know personally with serious prescriptions are over 70, and Medicare is helping there.
Your situation is just not one I have first or second hand experience with.
I worked for medical offices most of my life, but obstetrics and gynecology, so they tend to be a lot more positive outcomes from the area.
In addition the state is very happy to pay to make sure you do not get pregnant, and more inclined to help cover the bills if you do.
The game with medical billing makes things look insane as well, one insurer will pay $5k for a procedure, while another will only cover $500 for the same procedure. So the procedure gets priced at $5k, no one pays that, but the invoice says this cost $5k, and the actually cost $250.
I had a boss in consulting who used the same trick, he never gave anything away for free exactly, it was line up $10k, and discount $10k; so the client did not get in their mind the works was worth nothing and he could ask for more handouts.
But for sure do not let anyone ever make you pay $42k for those prescriptions, nor got without them if you do not want to.

I am sure this is key to what we see out our front doors personally. Where I live has no state income tax and is very business friendly, so the story is that it attracts growth. But I am sure that will get flagged as MAGA propaganda.

When all the headlines are doom and gloom and I just see sunshine outside it really starts to make you wonder if I am being lied to.
Of course the "Good News" newspaper went broke, not because they had nothing to publish; but because it was a boring read.
You know 59 active state based conflicts today, wars, they get the headlines; not 136 nations at peace today.

Viet Nam: Oooh! I'm so scared.

Perhaps someone wrote a browser extension that can log activity between itself and remote systems.

Maybe walk the DOM for their own document. But what moron would build their core browser to allow sites to walk/query content from other, unrelated sites? That just sounds like content theft to me. Just the kind of scraping that LinkedIn claims to be detecting.