Rhaedas

Dysfunctional society governed by foolishness rather than wisdom.

A number of great songs with the title too, with similar messages. Robert Plant, Grateful Dead, Bob Seger, World Party, The Doors.

we will investigate how this occurred

I have a theory. If you hit a light pole and a vehicle on the expressway, it’s clearly too high of a light pole, and the vehicle was over-height.

All pay rates (not just minimum wage) should be tied to inflation, so any raises are on top of that adjustment. That would of course bankrupt all companies (is what they’ll say).

Doesn’t fix the topic, but it does address the real wage increase of practically nothing.

I ran into this dramatization for media hits before, with the complaint about rocket launches and their contribution to pollution. People were all about getting out the pitchforks, especially since it was mainly about Elon Musk, but when the actual numbers were mentioned (very small), suddenly, I was the bad guy. No one likes real facts.

Now, should we be launching so many things that are designed to fall back down so soon? Probably not, that’s the mark of a disposable society in high gear. But how we’re doing things, and why, should be the focus, not a headline that makes it sound like things are falling out of the sky to hit people.

Narrator: The fire detector in fact did not work.

There’s more than one kind of backup in life, check them all.

And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles They can always fly away from this rain and this cold You can hear them singing out their telegraph code All the way down the telegraph road

Just a subset of the idea that we’re all born sinners and have to claw our way up to show worthiness. It’s about control.

My hope is for Iran to return to a time before the US got involved with it at all. Pictures from the 60s show an incredible country and people, but over time, Western manipulation drove them back to religious suppression and anger at the world.

Take the bait? Look, playing chess with a pigeon is difficult. Given the terms listed out, someone took bait, but I don’t think it was Iran.

With a warning beforehand, so no one gets hurt except his ego.

I’d comment on the question of whether or not such a weapon should even be legal to use, but since they’re bombing schools, hospitals, and houses with no consequences to them, I don’t think ethics is on the table right now.

A complicated question, but in short, yes, it’s finite. The amount is actually far more than we could ever use possibly, but the real limitation is accessibility. As we extract and use up the easier to get oil, it costs more to get the harder to get. At some point we won’t be able to get to oil that’s there, and what we can get will cost so much that usage will be limited.

In some cases we’ve still extracted from places that had a low or negative ROI, such as tar sands, because at the time investment was persuaded that it would pay off. Then there’s the changes that make hard to get places suddenly an opportunity, as the arctic areas might soon be.

We should be changing not because of supply, but because of what the use of oil does. But we haven’t changed in the right direction after decades of saying that.

Both. He’s always been racist, but dementia removes what filters do exist.

Was going to make some Titanic analogy jokes, but in trying to do so it’s just depressing.

Money.

Not at all equal time measures.

The ones that followed his order? Apparently not.

The end of Season One of “Years and Years”.

Funny how people use other movies like Idiocracy to compare where we are, but I never see this one mentioned. It’s a UK drama and the US is in the background, but the parallels that we do see are disturbingly close. Particularly in how the world shut out the US as it declined into a fascist state.

If we start seeing a bunch of “Don’t change horses midstream” political commercials soon, then I know we’re in a simulation, and the creators are just lazy, pulling from “Wag the Dog” because they’re out of ideas.

This is the least of the reasons why he should be removed from his position by the people who can do it. But it’s a reason. They won’t because they’re benefiting (or hoping to benefit) from the shitshow.