“it’s a major blow…” 🧐
“it’s a major blow…” 🧐
But perhaps exactly what was (unfortunately) needed;
Don’t assume institutions and those in power or authority are anything more than fallible efforts. Ever.
Toxic climate change and toxic masculinity-- don’t mess with Toxas.
We’re 5 years from someone proposing “smartwall displays” where the entire wall is your display. No more messy cables or creaky mounting brackets. They’ll, of course also have removed the on/off button and you won’t get to control the volume, but just think of the stimulation!
Fahrenheit 451’s technology just around the corner of the next shitty planned community coming soon near you.
Win+ca+enter = calculator
Recommend high quality short stories. Edgar Allen Poe has a collection that is some of the most thrilling, mysterious and fun, imaginative, adventurous, grotesque and other depending on the story. https://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Allan-Poe-Complete-Collection/dp/1453643141
Robert Louis Stevenson was also a fantastic writer of short stories.https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Short-Stories-Robert-Stevenson/dp/030680882X
I like short stories sometimes as I can’t commit to a larger read.
There are specific language in NLRA and other related labor bills defining terms of engagement, contracts, etc.
Just like the rest of business, they mean something. “Best and Final” doesn’t mean the last offer ever…it just means federal mediators might get involved. Corps won’t pay realistically and more and more are using mediators as a scapegoat so they don’t have to be the one to tell their board their approach is shit and won’t fly in a contact.
Think of all the “extra” bolts that competent mechanics and engineers would put in airplane doors, you’d hurt margins…slightly. Hard no from Board.
That’s actually part of the shipping package for new Windows boxes due to Recall and all the other shit they want to stuff in there.
If you think crude is a barrier, people were goaded to storm our central governing building. Everything is downhill from there in “is it possible?”
Changes from 2Pac.
It’s the Black “imagine” by Lennon, philosophically, but also approaches the cognitive dissonance of what is wrong in the world from raw, honest and depressingly still accurate lyrics 30 years on. For me, this is a far braver and more interesting song than Imagine–and Imagine is a classic. It doesn’t let listeners off the hook and even calls them out as part of the problems.
Great rhythm, beautiful melody contrast and creatively selected issues addressed.
Ha, just responded to “coming thru” recommendation above and then saw yours!
Coming thru is one of my favs. Also dig “Day at the races” from J5 has a similar upbeat rhythm, narrative with theme, and of course flow.
Parts of it could be done, but it would always stop at “the subject is uncomfortable”, which is the whole point of why changing someone’s mind against delusions, illusions and propaganda is hard. They don’t want to, so without some treatment experiments that would certainly not meet today’s medical and/or psychological standards, we wouldn’t get an answer to many questions.
You could make a TV show sure, but all the wrong people would tune in.
I would hope aliens, being intelligent, would communicate with other humans before they get to government representatives. We’d probably never hear from them again.
Let me tell you how primary lane travel works out in the US. Drunks, elderly, distracted drivers, and raging truck man-children run the cyclists over. Go for it though!
A bit contemporary, but I’d like to have studied what it takes to break someone of illusions that were fed and forced on them externally, e.g. schooling, TV, social media and other forms of cultural imprinting and propaganda.
We’ve all had that “what would it take to get this person to realize how far off base they are?” question, it would be fascinating, in a no-holds barred experiment testing various solutions and combinations to find out which is the most effective.
E.g. someone believes climate change isn’t real because (x,y,z irrelevant). No amount of written evidence is effective to people who don’t understand the scientific method, so would it be videos, traveling to acutely affected places, having polar bears removed from all zoos, baseball bats on their knuckles when they make a logical fallacy?
It would be interesting to then categorize the types of delusions or illusions and then prescribe treatment based on these results.
Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd already published the definitive paper on this.
What Musk has done in the last 2 years with Twitter looks a lot like a gangster moving into valuable turf. Granted, he immediately scared off a lot of people but it’s still pretty valuable turf.
Well captalists sleep easier when they have a “labor” president who broke the railroad strike last year. All they did was print some scary news stories for a month, get the public opinion whipped up and suddenly the Dems were happy to play Reagan.