I think it’s a good sign when I don’t score all that well on The NY Times weekly news quiz. It means I wasn’t paying that much attention. You really shouldn’t do too well on that quiz. It’s not healthy.
Is life getting faster, or are we just getting older? At some point, I think we have to ask ourselves, what are we really getting from all this innovation, other than fleeced? How much better can it be? How new and improved can it ever really get? Is there an end goal to innovation other than profit?
Human beings think we’re so evolved. We’re spending millions to feed and care for Palestinians so Israel can kill them with bombs we gave them. It’s lunacy, moral gymnastics with no logic.
If ever intelligent life were to observe us from afar, they would keep their distance. We’re not stable.
@WarnerCrocker Team sports, especially ones that take money from taxpayers to build stadiums (which is all of them), should be required to broadcast on public airwaves. None of this streaming bullshit. I don’t want to see a baseball game on Apple+.
@WarnerCrocker@terrygrundy My family moved a lot when I was young. Even though it was a rather short part of my existence, it was formative. I don’t feel like I’m from anywhere. My wife is different. If I weren’t married, I doubt I would be living in America. I don’t know where I’d be, but it would be someplace else.
@WarnerCrocker@terrygrundy Yes. I used to travel a ton. I enjoyed BEING in new places but increasingly, it was the getting there and back again I began to resent. But I don’t think home is a place. It’s a mindset. It’s safety, comfort and familiarity.
@WarnerCrocker@terrygrundy Reareanging the nest is difficult. Some of us are less tied to consistency than others. I think I could move anywhere and be perfectly happy. Not so sure my partner would feel the same.
@WarnerCrocker@terrygrundy I have zero interest in moving but I’m a little jealous of the opportunity to change things up. Not just how things are situated, but how I am situated in the world. What’s nearby? Who is close? What’s the view? What are the possibilities?
You don’t know until you do. It’s a bit of a thrill.
There is the weird fundamental misunderstanding that because humans can talk, we all want to just talk to machines to make them work. For years they’ve been pushing talk to text tech that will allow otherwise incapable people of writing. They keep trying. Alexa. Siri. Whatever.
Have you heard most people talk irl? It’s painful.
@WarnerCrocker Yes, but continually they discover it’s not as easy as just saying fuck it and doing whatever you want. Ask the governor of South Dakota.
I think I understand the idol worship from the deplorables and I understand the Useful Idiot theory from those who simply want power, but I have a hard time reconciling otherwise intelligent and informed people who appear to genuinely like Trump. It’s all got to be an act, right?
I mean everyone can see that he’s a morally depraved, addled tyrant who is a perpetual failure, right?
Just look at the things Tucker Carlson said off the record. He’s just a meal ticket.
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