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The -isms...
Last night I saw a forum post (that has now been deleted by the moderator) where someone complained about websites actually following up on their rules/policies. Twitter was one example. They choose to place warnings when users post/tweet questionable information and in many cases, accounts have been closed. It's against their TOS, Terms Of Service that simply means it's their site and you have to abide by their rules.
Note: that's the box you clicked (and didn't read the TOS) just to get to use their site.
The member construed it was censorship and stated comparisons to socialism, communism, fascism.
Censorship is different. For example... if you were 10 years old and said "Shit" around your parents... expect to be punished. If you complained to your parents and called them communists, expect more severe punishment.
Sometimes I'm glad we live in a socialist society.
Note: that's the box you clicked (and didn't read the TOS) just to get to use their site.
The member construed it was censorship and stated comparisons to socialism, communism, fascism.
Censorship is different. For example... if you were 10 years old and said "Shit" around your parents... expect to be punished. If you complained to your parents and called them communists, expect more severe punishment.
Sometimes I'm glad we live in a socialist society.
A Clear Definition of Politics
A Russian Jew named Jacob was finally allowed to emigrate to Israel. At the Moscow airport, a customs inspector found a statue of Lenin in his luggage. "What is this?" Jacob replied, "Wrong question, comrade. You should have asked 'Who is this?' This is Comrade Lenin. He laid the foundations of Socialism and created the future prosperity of the Russian people. I am taking it with me as a memory of our dear hero."
The Russian customs official sent him on his way.
At Tel Aviv airport, the Israeli customs official also asked "What is this?" "Wrong question, sir. You should be asking 'Who is this?' This, my friend, is Lenin, the bastard who caused me, a Jew, to leave Russia. I take this statue as a reminder to curse him every day."
The Israeli official sent him on his way.
When he settled in his new home, Jacob placed the statue on a table. The following evening, he invited friends and relatives to dinner.
Spotting the statue, one of his cousins asked, "Who is this?" Jacob replied, "Wrong question. You should have asked 'What is this?' This is five kilograms of solid gold that I managed to bring with me without having to pay any customs duty or tax."
The Moral: "Politics is when you can tell the same shit in different ways to fool different people and come out smelling like a rose."
The Russian customs official sent him on his way.
At Tel Aviv airport, the Israeli customs official also asked "What is this?" "Wrong question, sir. You should be asking 'Who is this?' This, my friend, is Lenin, the bastard who caused me, a Jew, to leave Russia. I take this statue as a reminder to curse him every day."
The Israeli official sent him on his way.
When he settled in his new home, Jacob placed the statue on a table. The following evening, he invited friends and relatives to dinner.
Spotting the statue, one of his cousins asked, "Who is this?" Jacob replied, "Wrong question. You should have asked 'What is this?' This is five kilograms of solid gold that I managed to bring with me without having to pay any customs duty or tax."
The Moral: "Politics is when you can tell the same shit in different ways to fool different people and come out smelling like a rose."
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Only yesterday
_the carpenters
After long enough of being alone
Everyone must face their share of loneliness
In my own time nobody knew
The pain I was goin' through
And waitin' was all my heart could do
Hope was all I had until you came
Maybe you can't see how much you mean to me
You were the dawn breaking the night
The promise of morning light
Filling the world surrounding me
When I hold you
Baby, baby, feels like maybe, things will be all right
Baby, baby, your love's made me
Free as a song, singin' forever
Only yesterday when I was sad and I was lonely
You showed me the way to leave the past and all its tears behind me
Tomorrow maybe even brighter than today
Since I threw my sadness away
Only yesterday
I have found my home here in your arms
Nowhere else on earth I'd really rather be
Life waits for us, share it with me
The best is about to be
So much is left for us to see
When I hold you
Baby, baby, feels like maybe, things will be all right
Baby, baby, your love's made me
Free as a song, singin' forever
Only yesterday when I was sad and I was lonely
You showed me the way to leave the past and all its tears behind me
Tomorrow maybe even brighter than today
Since I threw my sadness away
Only yesterday
After long enough of being alone
Everyone must face their share of loneliness
In my own time nobody knew
The pain I was goin' through
And waitin' was all my heart could do
Hope was all I had until you came
Maybe you can't see how much you mean to me
You were the dawn breaking the night
The promise of morning light
Filling the world surrounding me
When I hold you
Baby, baby, feels like maybe, things will be all right
Baby, baby, your love's made me
Free as a song, singin' forever
Only yesterday when I was sad and I was lonely
You showed me the way to leave the past and all its tears behind me
Tomorrow maybe even brighter than today
Since I threw my sadness away
Only yesterday
I have found my home here in your arms
Nowhere else on earth I'd really rather be
Life waits for us, share it with me
The best is about to be
So much is left for us to see
When I hold you
Baby, baby, feels like maybe, things will be all right
Baby, baby, your love's made me
Free as a song, singin' forever
Only yesterday when I was sad and I was lonely
You showed me the way to leave the past and all its tears behind me
Tomorrow maybe even brighter than today
Since I threw my sadness away
Only yesterday
The right to bear arms
Our Constitution allows any responsible citizen to own a gun for protection.
Our founders of this country had in mind that our protection is as important as our lives.
Some people think it should be changed because it's causing criminals to make killing faster and easier.
Really?
My question is, are these criminals not able to access these guns if this law is changed?
I don't think so.
What about you?
Our founders of this country had in mind that our protection is as important as our lives.
Some people think it should be changed because it's causing criminals to make killing faster and easier.
Really?
My question is, are these criminals not able to access these guns if this law is changed?
I don't think so.
What about you?
People Are Dumber Today Compared to Medieval Times
We look at our society and praise how much we have evolved, but these past years that have tried humanity have shown that in some social concepts we have devolved. We have created this credulous mindset that invokes that technology will help us evolve and get smarter, but people forget that technology is only a tool and our minds are for us to control and evolved through education.
It’s said to say, but since 2018 humanity has been becoming dumber and dumber. It is no surprise why we seem to have so much difficulty finding solutions for the current world crisis which humanity has been previously faced with. Our trust in technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and algorithms has led some people to think that the human mind is an aspect of the past and isn’t needed any longer.
We have become so lazy that we created artificial intelligence to think for us, but what happened with organic innovation? A term left in the past. Our world reverts back to the same ideology, we must follow human nature’s track of organic evolution, but technology seems more of an impediment in this process.
People will believe anything
Lately, with the war that has just broken out in Europe, I have been seeing an increased amount of online propaganda, and as you would expect everyone is falling for it. People seem to not understand the simple concept of the internet. Anyone can publish anything without being reviewed or checked by anyone. Once again our trust in algorithms allows random people to publish stuff online and get it on the first page of google.
There is absolutely no control over the internet due to the humongous volume of content published every day. People forget to use common sense and their brains to identify what is fact and what is a fairy tale. We are in 2022 and there is still a large portion of people worldwide that believe the vaccine contains a chip to which you can connect your phone through Bluetooth. People are so stupid that dozens of articles had to be written to ensure them that there is no chip in the vaccine.
As described in “Our Brains at War: The Neuroscience of Conflict and Peacebuilding” written by Mari Fitzduff, social media is used as a weapon and the easiest weapon to kill someone as it only takes one click through any sort of interaction with false posts. Social media has created multiple platforms that allow disinformation to flow like water in a river and a lot of it leads to violence, persecution, and exploitation.
The ease of access to information is another cause for the lack of intelligence. Why go read a reliable book that is the primary source of information when you can read “good old” Wikipedia. People still don’t understand that the problem with Wikipedia is that anyone can go and change the information on any post created.
If you think that some random person has a lot of potential at manipulating people through disinformation, just imagine what a well-known writer or influencer can do. During current events, governments don’t even need to try, they share a propaganda post and it goes viral overnight. The next day you have to listen to how misinformation is exchanged. Even with this war between Russia and Ukraine, everyone who has a social media account has become a politician, despite most of them not even knowing where Ukraine is on the World Map or the history behind this conflict.
It’s said to say, but since 2018 humanity has been becoming dumber and dumber. It is no surprise why we seem to have so much difficulty finding solutions for the current world crisis which humanity has been previously faced with. Our trust in technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and algorithms has led some people to think that the human mind is an aspect of the past and isn’t needed any longer.
We have become so lazy that we created artificial intelligence to think for us, but what happened with organic innovation? A term left in the past. Our world reverts back to the same ideology, we must follow human nature’s track of organic evolution, but technology seems more of an impediment in this process.
People will believe anything
Lately, with the war that has just broken out in Europe, I have been seeing an increased amount of online propaganda, and as you would expect everyone is falling for it. People seem to not understand the simple concept of the internet. Anyone can publish anything without being reviewed or checked by anyone. Once again our trust in algorithms allows random people to publish stuff online and get it on the first page of google.
There is absolutely no control over the internet due to the humongous volume of content published every day. People forget to use common sense and their brains to identify what is fact and what is a fairy tale. We are in 2022 and there is still a large portion of people worldwide that believe the vaccine contains a chip to which you can connect your phone through Bluetooth. People are so stupid that dozens of articles had to be written to ensure them that there is no chip in the vaccine.
As described in “Our Brains at War: The Neuroscience of Conflict and Peacebuilding” written by Mari Fitzduff, social media is used as a weapon and the easiest weapon to kill someone as it only takes one click through any sort of interaction with false posts. Social media has created multiple platforms that allow disinformation to flow like water in a river and a lot of it leads to violence, persecution, and exploitation.
The ease of access to information is another cause for the lack of intelligence. Why go read a reliable book that is the primary source of information when you can read “good old” Wikipedia. People still don’t understand that the problem with Wikipedia is that anyone can go and change the information on any post created.
If you think that some random person has a lot of potential at manipulating people through disinformation, just imagine what a well-known writer or influencer can do. During current events, governments don’t even need to try, they share a propaganda post and it goes viral overnight. The next day you have to listen to how misinformation is exchanged. Even with this war between Russia and Ukraine, everyone who has a social media account has become a politician, despite most of them not even knowing where Ukraine is on the World Map or the history behind this conflict.
A word we should stop using
"Billion" is a word we need to stop using. It represents such a vast amount that it's vague to the point of meaninglessness to anyone not a mathematician. Any discussion using "billion" is automatically and immediately evicted to the realm of the terminally abstract, lacking any reference to the world as we know it.
What do we use as a replacement? The phrase per capita, which provides with a clear and undeniable connection to the real world. The calculations are simple: there are approximately 330 million people in the United States. A billion is 1,000 million, so dividing 1,000 by 330 equals 3.03. In other words, when the federal government spends one billion dollars, the proportionate share for every man, woman, and child is a little over three dollars. Every time you hear that a government program costs X billions of dollars, just multiply the lead number by three to arrive at your share of the spending. You should then wonder, "Did I get my money's worth?"
Instead of saying, "The U.S. Department of Energy 2021 budget ask is $35.4 billion," we should say, "The budget ask is $106.20 for each and every person in the United States." The Department of Education's ask is $66.6 billion. That works out to $199.80 for every American.
Let's take some hypothetical situations to see what this means. The federal tax burden of family of four of these two federal departments will be $424.80 for energy and $799.20 for education for a total of $1,224. Remember that this is just two of the many federal budget line items.
A family of eight, for both departments, would pay $2,448. Remember: these amounts are just for federal taxes. There could also be state and local taxes earmarked for education or green energy. These could be special items such as property taxes, special assessments, and state taxes.
The question everyone should ask is, "Am I getting my money's worth?" I'll bet most people in Texas don't think they are getting their money's worth from the Department of Energy just now.
Here is a list of the 100 worst schools in America as of June, 2017. I will bet most people with kids in these school districts don't think they are getting their money's worth from the Department of Education.
So...the next time you hear or read the word "billion," just think "three dollars." Then ask yourself, "Is it worth it?" You might be surprised how often the answer is no.
By the way, President Biden is proposing a $1.9-trillion stimulus package. Your share of that amounts to $5,700. Do you think you will get your money's worth?
What do we use as a replacement? The phrase per capita, which provides with a clear and undeniable connection to the real world. The calculations are simple: there are approximately 330 million people in the United States. A billion is 1,000 million, so dividing 1,000 by 330 equals 3.03. In other words, when the federal government spends one billion dollars, the proportionate share for every man, woman, and child is a little over three dollars. Every time you hear that a government program costs X billions of dollars, just multiply the lead number by three to arrive at your share of the spending. You should then wonder, "Did I get my money's worth?"
Instead of saying, "The U.S. Department of Energy 2021 budget ask is $35.4 billion," we should say, "The budget ask is $106.20 for each and every person in the United States." The Department of Education's ask is $66.6 billion. That works out to $199.80 for every American.
Let's take some hypothetical situations to see what this means. The federal tax burden of family of four of these two federal departments will be $424.80 for energy and $799.20 for education for a total of $1,224. Remember that this is just two of the many federal budget line items.
A family of eight, for both departments, would pay $2,448. Remember: these amounts are just for federal taxes. There could also be state and local taxes earmarked for education or green energy. These could be special items such as property taxes, special assessments, and state taxes.
The question everyone should ask is, "Am I getting my money's worth?" I'll bet most people in Texas don't think they are getting their money's worth from the Department of Energy just now.
Here is a list of the 100 worst schools in America as of June, 2017. I will bet most people with kids in these school districts don't think they are getting their money's worth from the Department of Education.
So...the next time you hear or read the word "billion," just think "three dollars." Then ask yourself, "Is it worth it?" You might be surprised how often the answer is no.
By the way, President Biden is proposing a $1.9-trillion stimulus package. Your share of that amounts to $5,700. Do you think you will get your money's worth?
Fox News Peter Doocy's brilliant question to Biden's press secretary Jen Psaki
"Are You Guys Going To Blame Putin For Everything Until The Midterms?"
The Sky is Falling
Ohhh,dear lord, the majority of these blog titles tell me ,ALOT OF LETS WALLOW IN PITTY ... hey I get it, Ukraine & Russia, but what are you all doing about it??? Do you all know how much "thoughts and prayers and your blogs" mean to those people? Absolutely nothing, next to nothing, your not donating your time, compassion, nor money, even resources...With that being said...DO YOU ALL KNOW I'VE BEEN IN THE BACK SEARCHING "OR LOOKING" AT HOT ASIAN WOMEN FROM "GET THIS FELLAS" INDONESIA, VIETNAM, KOREA, PHILIPPINES, THAILAND, AND I'VE BEEN JUST READING THEIR INTREST,NOT ONE OF THEM HAD "MY IDEAL MATCH IS A SAD SAC WHO LOOKS AT THE UGLINESS IN THE WORLD " TIGHTEN UP MEN , LET THESE LADIES YOU ARE MORE THAN A PITTY PARTY ....SSSSOOOOOO IF YOU NEED A GOOD JOKE FOR A OPENER MEN ,JUST THROW OUT " what do you call a cows hiding in bushes ,investigating a murderer ...a steak out" NOW GET YOUR MACK ON and just just just SLAM ,LET THE BOYZ BE BOYZ JUST SLAM THADUDAATHADUDA JUST SLAM..
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