As suggested at left, the confluence of Donald Trump and tens of millions of totally ignorant Americans is having horrific consequences for essentially everyone on this planet, but especially for the aforementioned tens of millions of totally ignorant Americans who will be soon living under even harsher and more degraded conditions than they were before.
Even the most empathetic among us find it hard to feel sorry for the MAGA crowd.
Here’s an investment “opportunity” for people who don’t understand that:
1) Biodegradable plastic has been the object of scientists’ attention for at least half a century.
2) “Water-soluble” plastic faces a number of challenges, one of which is based on the fact that plastic bottles normally contain liquids that are mainly water. Sure, we don’t want our plastic bottles to last 1000 years, but precisely how soon should they degrade? If we’re talking about milk, which goes bad in a week or so, the answer might be a month or so. If we’re storing drinking water for an emergency, we don’t want the bottles to fall apart for at least a few years.
As we encounter so frequently, this is just another attempt to rip off ignorant people.
If any significant number of religious people looked at this subject the way Mohammad Ali did, we wouldn’t have the vast oceans of hatred and cruelty that dominate the human race.
The United States federal government is reeling under some of the most vicious assaults in the entirety of its nearly-250-year history.
First, in his attempt to stay in power after his loss in 2020, Donald Trump went on a flat-out attack design to overturn the election results, involving a large ring of coconspirators and at least a few thousand foot-soldiers, including both the insurrectionists and the fake electors.
More recently, Elon Musk came to Washington with his virtually unlimited sums of cash, so as to turn congress on its head.
Where from here? No one knows.
Until the last decade or so, Republicans were fairly reasonable people.
How all this lunacy came along is anyone’s guess.
These guys have been raising capital since they were founded 12 years ago. Will investors ever see a dime in return? No.
As it has been shown consistently, small wind is a nonstarter, and the only thing special about this organization is the ferocity with which it fishes for new marks.
There current claim is the low “cut-in speed,” (see photo at right) meaning the wind speed at which the turbines start to turn. 
This, of course, is completely irrelevant, since the power generated by a moving fluid is proportional to the cube of the velocity, and so low wind speeds produce almost zero power.
Trump and his team have vowed to attack journalists who will not fall in line with incoming president’s messaging.
Even with the enormous amount of power that Trump will have, however, it’s going to be immensely difficult for him to succeed in this venture, if only because journalism is the only profession mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.
From the First Amendment: Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…
A corollary to this quote from 20th Century author and poet Charles Bukowski is: “It shouldn’t have to have happen to you for it to matter to you.”
FWIW, this is just another way of looking at the term “woke.” Decent people honestly care about the well-being of others.
When MLK said this in the 1960s, he was probably referring to war, specifically nuclear war.
In any case, it was a time when there was very little awareness that humankind was on course to ruin our planet’s environment and would soon suffer the extreme effects of global warming and the staggering loss of biodiversity. Just 60 years later, it is these conditions that threaten our very survival.
What happens when you combine British comedy with a disbelief in the supreme being? You get Ricky Gervais, who, as suggested at left, has a biting sense of humor.
