How does that explain this data that Musk posted? Yeah, it is dirty database but COBOL epoch dates do not explain it.

Age Range Count
0-9. 38,825,456
10-19. 44,326,480
20-29. 47,995,478
30-39. 52,106,915
40-49. 47,626,581
50-59. 45,740,805
60-69. 46,381,281
70-79. 33,404,412
80-89. 15,165,127
90-99. 6,054,154
100-109. 4,734,407
110-119. 3,627,007
120-129. 3,472,849
130-139. 3,936,311
140-149. 3,542,044
150-159. 1,345,083
160-169. 121,807
170-179. 6,087
180-189. 695
190-199. 448
200-209. 879
210-219. 866
220-229. 1,039
240-249. 1
360-369. 1

It did not forestall Nokia’s doom.

“we are standing on a burning platform” - Nokia CEO Stephan Elop - Aug 2011

Back ordered for yearsâ¦

The World's Most Desperately Needed Airplane Is Back in Production
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/the-worlds-most-desperately-needed-airplane-is-back-in-production

True because next time:
- 1/3 of the population will lock down and demand everyone else does as well.
- 1/3 will actively resist locking down.
- 1/3 can be persuaded one way or the other. Which ever way they go is the overall majority. What the majority will tolerate determines the possible public health response.

Due to the recency of the last pandemic and the overreach and mistakes made last time, that last third is going to be tough sledding to sway. So if you want the govt. to enforce to get lockdowns that last more than a couple of weeks, you are SOL. At least for a few decades.

Do what Musk proposed for X. Charge $5/yr or whatever. Nominal costs to break bot scaling. Payment systems can at least limit the number of accounts that can be economically created.

Most office workers were not remote before 2020. Many did move far out and ran up property values in the exurbs and towns near cities. The top brass increasingly wants people back in the office.

The Federal government here in Canada is forcing people 75 miles from the nearest office to commute in 3 days/wk. For 1.5 years it was 2 days/wk and not enforced. Now they mean it. I expect the USG to order full return to office in late Jan. Many are going to be forced to move back.

A classmate in Toronto told me a couple of his guys moved a 2 hour commute away. Now his company is enforcing the 4 day/wk mandate and his discretion to let them only come in 1 or 2 days/wk is gone. He will likely lose them. Likely he will have no trouble replacing them though.

I hear stories about those who bought a 2 hr commute away from the office during the pandemic. Some were told by upper management that full remote work was for reals here to stay. They made life affecting choices based on wishful thinking. Since then, employers have put on 3 and 4 day in-office mandates and have recently started to enforce them.

The exurbs look less attractive unless you have an apartment in town (a pied-à-terre) to bunk for a couple of nights and a salary to afford that.

Nothing. It is a valid policy to right size it.

Musk will almost certainly advise Trump to issue an executive order directing full return to office for all Federal Employees. It will likely be one of the Day 1 directives. The only surprise will be if something like this does not happen. They want to downsize the bureaucracy.

Whitelist the IPs of the Wifi access points. Solves that problem.

Yeah, I have read that it’s like that in some orgs.

I doubt it will. Most mandates result in 2/3 complying. It is the last 30% that is tough. This kind of nuclear action would only be reserved for those not coming in *at all*. The ones that think that they are more key than they likely actually are. Cut them off 9 to 5 Mon-Fri until they come in or are fired. Designate your truly remote people that way and except them. Everyone else gets job flexibility.

This bullshit game of non compliance and spineless management is an across the board problem.

This is not cutting it for all employees, just the ones who refuse to come into the office *at all*. The biggest problem management faces is those who do not comply at all. Either designate them as remote, fire them, or make them come in like everyone else.

Enforcement is easy for full 5 day RTO, if you want to go nuclear. Just disable remote access privileges for those that don’t show up without a reason, after a suitable period of time. Reinstate once they agree at actually show up. Fire them if they don’t. Require higher level management to sign off on reinstatement.

It’s just that very few want to go that far.

People usually have several days of warning for hurricanes. You can assume every one will be Cat 4/5 now.

Once you get too many EVs there is no general evacuation possible, period. Not even the kids once all the busses are EVs too.

Mass evacuations via cars ahead of a storm are not really feasible with EVs. Try and move millions of EV cars over 500 miles. Many don’t have half that range when fully charged. Many won’t be fully charged. You can’t rapidly recharge enough of them.

Compare to ICE cars that you can rapidly refuel with tankers.