Corporate America seems to be at war against its consumer customers. Driving up profits by increasing prices, shrinkflation, and other forms of corner-cutting are everywhere in our lives.
On top of everything else, we have products that simply don’t work, as shown at left.
The Canadians I meet on a daily basis seem to accept what’s happening in the United States more philosophically than former Member of Parliament Charlie Angus.
Holy cats!
Just the other day I was asked to explain how countries like Iran become so backwards in terms of humanistic values. A big part of the answer is they never went through what the West experienced in the 18th Century, called the “Age of Reason,” or the “Enlightenment.” Their theocracy has endured for the last 1400 years (Islam was brought to Iran in 650 AD by the Arab-Islamic conquest of the Sasanian Empire) and shows no signs of going away.
At left we see what Denis Diderot, a key figure in the Enlightenment, had to say on the subject. I’m not sure we need that level of violence, but his point is not lost on us.
These people claim: Human composting is now America’s fastest growing alternative to cremation and burial. This vessel holds the soil created from that process—soil that families can use to plant, scatter, or donate to restore natural landscapes. Get an instant quote online.
Apparently, they want to sell you the equipment, which seems kind of unappealing, doesn’t it? Do you want to keep this thing in your garage for use every decade or two?
BTW, the volume of an average composted human body is about 4 gallons; it’s not a lot.
IMO, this is simply an effort to energize his base of hateful morons. Trump must understand that the combustion of coal is causing not only greenhouse gas emissions, but the release of heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, selenium, mercury) and dozens of extremely harmful radioactive isotopes, sending more people to agonizing deaths with each passing year. But he needs the votes of completely uneducated people.
Ocean-current hydrokinetics has drawbacks, but harm to aquatic life isn’t one of them.
The real problem is the cost per KWhr of the electricity they generate.
When 2GreenEnergy was launched in 2009, the world was abuzz with the developments in a great number of variations on the theme of hydrokinetics: ocean-current, wave, tidal and run-of-river among the most popular. Given the plummeting prices of solar and wind, all that’s left of this is the hobbyists, and the folks who are content to focus on niche applications.
If I owned the place shown below, that might as well be on a different planet in terms of access to the grid, I’d have some sort of wave or tidal solution in place in a heartbeat.
The Founding Fathers are revered by patriotic Americans because they did everything they possibly could to avoid what is happening now, 200 years after Madison.
If one had to choose a single reason for the demise of the balance of powers, it would be the corruptive influence of money on what once were democratic principles.
To those who ask: “Well, what about ignorance? Why have Americans become so incapable of observing that Trump is a person of horrific character?”
It goes back to money. Wealthy and powerful people have no interest in a population of well-educated people who are capable of critical thought. Is there another reason for the destruction of our school systems, the banning of books, and the mandate of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom?
The purpose is causing non-whites to suffer, thus pandering to hateful, ignorant people.
Interesting discussion at left.
Keep in mind that Charlie Kirk’s audience almost exclusively consists of poorly educated MAGA racists; they generally don’t come across thoughtful stuff from people like Alex Cole.
There is a lot to look forward to about next year, 2026. One is the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of Aptera, founded in 2006, the company that promised investors that it would build and sell the three-wheeled EV shown at left.
Are they any closer today than they were back then? There’s no real evidence to support that belief. In fact, it looks even sillier than it did two decades ago.
Does this deter them from hitting up gullible fools? Of course not.
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