Greta!
When we see video clips of Greta Thunberg speaking to large audiences during international conferences, she is normally mad as hell. And given the truth shown in the meme here, is there any reason why she shouldn’t be?
“Classes” May Not Be So Bad After All
I’ll grant that the Albert Einsteins of the world are actually harmed by schooling. Of course they’re bored, but perhaps worse, their capacity to employ their creative genius is thwarted by the authority of the academic status quo.
It’s worth keeping in mind, however, that, for all but about one hundred millionth of us, education is what enables us to to understand science, so as to become our civilization’s doctors, engineers, and chemists. Want healthcare? Bridges? Air travel? It won’t happen without these horrible “classes.”
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Want Some Ridiculous Thinking To Help You Through Your Day?
The author of the meme here suggests: “We’ll revisit this post (about the price of a dozen eggs) in four years.”
Sure we will. We have the attention span of hamsters.
On top of that, we have propaganda machines that change the way we view American politics every few days, not every four years. The idea that we’ll be reviewing our economic status on an apples-to-apples basis, or doing anything else rational four years from now, is ludicrous.
Both Sides?
I was on a Zoom call the other day with a guy who was defending Fox News on the basis that it’s “for people who want both sides of the story.”
The cartoon at left speaks to this. If you’re talking about a matter of opinion, e.g., who was the greatest baseball player of all time, there really are two (or more) sides of the story.
In science, that’s simply not the case. No one with any sense wants to hear why Donald Trump thinks climate change is a hoax.
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American Stupidity Knows No Bounds
If you think there is a single kid in our schools who’s being taught to hate his country, you are a true moron.
Yes, it’s part of America’s present-day ultra-right-wing agenda to do its best to prevent us from thinking critically. But who honestly believes that school teachers are trying to convince our children that they should hate the United States?
Sorry, but that’s some hardcore stupidity.
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A Christmas Gift the Whole Family Can Enjoy? Not Sure
Pictured here, it’s an indoor open flame, a fire outside of the fireplace if you will, the perfect present for a family with little kids. Some ads show five-year-olds preparing smores next to the Christmas tree, captioned, “bringing the whole family together, one roasted marshmallow at a time.”
No chance for an accidental housefire, right?
Attorneys are already preparing their cases to support a class-action law suit in which thousands of plaintiffs who lost their tiny children in fiery deaths demand huge settlements of compensatory and punitive damages.
A Saturday Night Live segment in the 1980s offered a kerosine-soaked pair of pajamas as a Christmas gift called “Johnny Flame.” It was a joke.
This isn’t a joke; it’s a real, lethally destructive product on the market, and it’s representative of how greedy and stupid we’ve become in just 40 years.
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Biofuels Investment?
I’ll bet anyone $100 against his $10 (10:1) that no investor in this biofuels scheme sees a single dollar return in the next five years. That may seem like a long time to wait for $10, but, if you have a free minute, you may want to look at this, and I think you’ll get my point.
This type of scam, btw, is one of the most predominant of our age: offering techno-idiots a chance to invest in things they know nothing about.
Biofuels in general is a great example. This industry, I believe, had a chance when I was learning about the potentially available ways to decarbonize our transportation sector 15 years ago. It was abandoned by anyone who knew anything about it long ago.
And do these people really have anything like a breakthrough? Again, read a bit about it.
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What These “Kids’ Guides” Really Offer Your Children
Perhaps you’ve seen earlier versions of the ultra-right-wing “Kids’ Guide,” which present Donald Trump as an honest effective servant of the American people, and expose the “radical left” nature of mainstream media. They lay out the “evil” of certain social issues as well: LBGTQ rights, women’s rights to an abortion, DEI, wokeism, Critical Race Theory, etc.
The one at left, called the “Dynamic Duo” (Trump and Elon Musk) enables you to “teach your kids how these two men are shaping their future.” God only know what BS it contains.
The true shape of America’s future, unless these folks are stopped, will feature:
• The further looting of the U.S. treasury to make a few billionaires even richer
• The smashing of Social Security and other systems that were put in place to bolster the working class
• The end of America’s participation in environmental responsibility and climate change mitigation in particular
• More overt racism
• Social safety nets to prevent impoverishment and starvation
• Economic chaos that experts predict will ensue from huge tariffs
• The widening of the two-tiered justice system where the rich and powerful can commit crimes with impunity
• State-controlled media, where journalists with views that dissent from Trump’s are squashed
• The consolidation of power in the executive branch
• The further empowerment of Vladimir Putin and other world tyrants
We’re in a terrible place right now, and it’s propaganda like this that is largely responsible.
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Above the Law
From a reader:“NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW”!! Except Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Charles & Jared Kushner, Joe Arpaio, Dinesh D’Souza, Michael Milken, George Papadopoulos, Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Elliott Broidy, Rod Blagojevich, Elon Musk, Donald Tяump and these two….
How much money and power is required to buy your way out of prison? While there is no precise answer to that question, it’s clear that the United States is among the world leaders in its two-tiered justice system.
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Invest in Gold?
….. “what this economy is going through?”
Like most other seniors in the U.S., my portfolio is going through the roof. Now, this guy is Canadian, a country with different economical conditions than our own. If I were advising a client called “U.S. Money Reserve,” I would suggest choosing a quote from an American, rather that a Canadian, a Brazilian, a Korean, or a Spaniard.
But in any case, gold?
A few years ago, I heard a wealthy friend tell someone, “I’ve never known anyone who made money in precious metals.” He then immediately corrected himself as follows: “I’ve never known any smart person who made any real money in precious metals.” He made that correction because, there are always a few lucky idiots who buy gold at a certain price and sell it a few months later at a higher price.
There are also a few people every month who go from poverty to extreme wealth by “investing” in lottery tickets. They didn’t make a smart move, but a small fraction of them do make it happen. Walk into any liquor store, and you’ll meet people who believe that they are the one who’s going to beat the odds today. Very few of them do, but they doesn’t deter them in their thinking.
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