I am surprised to see how many here are still fighting the outdated battle of Democrats vs Republicans. That is so outdated. Many Democrats are abandoning their party to side with President Trump. Some Republicans are undercutting President Trump, putting their own economic interests far above party loyalty. The two opposing party system is desolving into chaos, with only out of touch and ill informed voters blindly following party line voting.
After over 1,000 major corporations pressured Facebook to limit pro-Trump posts, it seems the old idea of who is the party of the common man vs who is the party of Big Business has shifted too. As Pepsi, the NFL, Facebook, Apple, and other mega corporations "take a knee" and support Biden, it becomes obvious that the Republicans are no longer the "Party of Big Business" as they were seen to be in the past.
The new reality is that the battle is between globalists and Nationalists. The international opportunists who are getting rich off the China trade, from both parties, are attacking President Trump for limiting China's plundering of our economy. Some want the US Public Health to guard American health, while others want to follow the lead of the World Health Organization. Globalists want to dissolve National borders, and provide health services, welfare, and education to anyone who walks into the USA and demands them. But they never say who will pay for all that. But we know it is the American tax payer.
That roughly corresponds to political Elite vs the average citizen, those who would revoke Constitutional rights against believers in American democracy. Profiteering against freedom. Regardless of which Constitutional right is attacked first, it will not stop there, but continue to destruction of other rights.
What do you think? Do you think? Opposing views welcomed, but rudeness will be deleted.
Early in my relation with Amazon, I made the mistake of buying several items in my cart, just after a price increase. Apparently the algorithms decided that price increases were the way to get me to buy, because pretty soon most of the items in my cart were getting their price bumped up. I found that annoying……and expensive.
So I moved items up from my "saved for later" list to my cart; I kept at least 6 items in my cart. Because most purchases are from WANT and not NEED, I am in no hurry. Each time one of them got increased in price, I deleted it from all lists. It only took Amazon about 10 days to notice. Now, when Amazon wants to encourage a purchase, they >decrease< the price, with no more bumping up the price.
Yes, Amazon algorithms study your buying patterns, and price accordingly. Depending on shopping and buying habits, different people get different prices on the same item. You Amazon addicts out there, if you are not in a rush, and if you want to pay less, you might want to give my method a try.
I was making a can of tomato soup yesterday, following the instructions on the can. Being a man of science, I decided to do a little experiment. Instead of adding one can of water, I added 8 cans of water. Much to my surprise, the soup came out just as thick, creamy, and delicious as when I added only one container of water. When I ate it, it was just as satisfying, and it carried me through to supper, so it was just as nutritious. I tried a can of Chef Boyardi raviolis, cutting it with nine cans of water, and got the same satisfying result. I had equal success with Dinty Moore stew, cream style canned corns, spaghetti sauce, and almost everything else I tried, finding almost no difference from the extra water.
So, if you really want to save some money in the kitchen, just dilute canned foods with several times more water than the instructions suggest. You won't notice the difference, you will enjoy just as much nutrition, and you will get way more food for your dollar.
It is all Google’s fault. I got tired of the same old ads that Google kept pushing on my Youtube videos. I knew the ads are based on my digital description that the algorithms has built up based on my viewing habits, so I decided to throw the algorithms a few curves. I decided to search for some products that would make the algorithms blow a fuse.
The algorithms focus on major life events, so I cooked one up. I got engaged. I pulled a gender bender, became a blushing bride, looking for wedding gowns, a double whammy on Google. That worked…sort of. I got ads for wedding stuff, but still the same old ads for outdoor sports and motorcycle stuff. I decided to move on to the next major life event. I didn’t wait, because most couples don’t seem to wait anymore either, and the 9+ month waiting period between marriage and baby’s arrival seems to be out the window. I searched for diapers, but got ads for senior diapers. Yecchh! Next I tried nursing bras, a combo punch to the algorithm, both changing gender and having a birth “event”. Bingo! The old ads decreased, but new ones appeared – bra ads. I figured that if I was going to look at boobs, I might as well look at big ones, so I searched for 44DDD Bras
OK. I was now getting a lot of ads featuring glorious bosoms. But then I started getting ads for “the thing”, sort of a compression garment. The ads featured frowning, unhappy ladies, looking in the mirror at bulging dresses, with muffin tops, multiple ripples, and enough love handles for a whole bowling team to take hold. But then the lady pulls up the elastic sleeve as she tucks in all the protuberances, skin aprons, lumps, and blubber bulges. She then pulls down a slinky dress, and Voila! She now smiles at the reflection of a body that looks like a slightly chubby Olympic gymnast.
I used to admire women with a good figure, picturing them jogging, working out at the gym, and picking the diet special when they ate out. Now I have nightmares of meeting a shapely woman, who, upon removing her garments, displays white flesh popping out the top of her clothes, like shaving cream spouting out of a ruptured aerosol can. I see visions of slender figures unleashing what looks like waves of lava, hardening, and overlaid with more and more successive layers, sort of like a human stack of pancakes. I no longer trust my own eyes, and can think of no way to avoid being defrauded, short of joining a nudist camp.
Alas! I now have realized that what I see is not what I will get.
I have lost my faith in Womanhood.
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