“Quiet. Quiet, Piggie”
Trump seems to want to drive every decent human being away from him.
Maybe he actually is losing his mind.
Autonomous Farming Vehicles
Here’s a short video on a concept I found interesting.
Is there a future for autonomous farming vehicles? Obviously.
In the earliest days of human civilization, the power that we put into farming came from our own bodies and the chemical energy we ingested from the food we ate. Later, and all the way up to the late 19th Century, the energy we put into farming came from horses and other beasts of burden. The early 20th Century brought us tractors, and the more recent past has given us enormous combines that would have astonished our grandparents.
Given our advances in technology, farming is most certainly entering a new era. The question is this: Do you believe that Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary and this company are going to succeed? If you’re considering investing and you believe everything he says, jump on in.
If you’re skeptical, maybe it’s worth a few minutes of your time researching this.
Some people love the guy; I wouldn’t trust him farther than I could throw him. And considering my advancing age, that isn’t far.
Trump: So Petty and Cruel
There has to be a limit to our country’s appetite for Trump’s small, narrow-minded, and mean-spirited nature.
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“Universal and Supreme Happiness”
At left we see what the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz thought about the ideal society.
On this planet, we have three principal types of government:
Authoritarian dictatorships and oligarchies, e.g., most of Asia and Africa. Under Putin, the Russian people lead lives of great privation.
Capitalist democracies, e.g., Japan, most of Europe, the U.K., Australia, and what the U.S. was before Trump. In these cases, the government is indifferent to the happiness/suffering of the people. Want to be called a “woke libtard?” Just tell someone in a red state that you care about the well-being of the common person.
Social democracies, e.g., Scandinavia, Iceland, Costa Rica, and New Zealand. What makes these countries stand out from the rest is that they actually care about the happiness of the people, and believe it or not, it works. These nations are consistently rated at the very top of the World Happiness Rankings.
Why Not Sustainability?
To the reader who sent me the meme here: It depends on whom you mean by “we.”
Most of us would love to have the “sustainable version of human activity” you mention. But there is a small group of extremely powerful people on Earth, that, speaking generally, would rather get richer than implement anything remotely like this.
The saddest part of all this is that human civilization is actually fairly close to sustainability. All we really need to do is a) decarbonize our transportation and energy sectors, b) stop destroying our rainforests, and c) move to the form of government that we see in places like Iceland, Scandinavia, New Zealand, and so forth, that have been successful in all but eliminating poverty, and where everybody abides by rule of law.
I was pleased to see what Iceland did following the banking-fraud-driven economic crash of 2008. They rounded up those responsible, charged them with crimes, put them on trial, convicted them, and sent them to prison. Stuff like this doesn’t happen to rich white men here in the U.S. — especially now that Trump is in power.
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Trump and Young Girls
The man pictured here is repulsive as a human being can be, but he represents something that all Americans have to deal with: there is a limit beneath which Trump’s approval rating cannot fall.
This guy and probably a few million like him are fine with a mentally and emotionally ill criminal in the White House.
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Third or Fourth Grade Geology
I like it!
We didn’t have enough stupidity, but now the inner core is outside of the core!
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Cold Fusion
Cold fusion. As an extremely senior scientist once told me: “It’s more related to seances than sciences.”
I thought that was pretty clever.
Gifts
Are the best gifts made of bison leather? No, and I’m not talking about veganism.
I’ve had the same belt for my entire adult life. I don’t need another. Trust me, your dad or husband feels the same way.
Write him a poem and put your whole heart into it.
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Truth in Advertising
Do you ever wonder if the photos that you see in advertisements may have been altered? Astute Americans have been concerned about this for at least a century.
Did that guy really lose all that weight? Have all this lady’s crows’ feet actually disappeared with just a jar of this incredible cream, invented by a 13-year-old?
At left is an ad for the treatment of nail fungus that just may have been doctored. How can I be so sure? She (Janet) has four toes.
Like many of us, I have a bit of toenail fungus, and this stuff is extremely tenacious. Maybe I need a stronger medication, but I certainly don’t want something so strong that it removes a toe.
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