Floridian’s Please Note
If you think there is anything beneficial in slavery to the enslaved, you are a horrible person who should be enslaved for a few years so that you can experience the supposed benefits first hand.
The willingness to show blatant bigotry and racism by Florida Republicans is surprising only that they are now so delusional that they think some good people somewhere agree with them. Hint, believing there is anything good about slavery makes you a very bad person.
Culture of Fear
It saddens me that fools on the internet dispensing advice and politicians (mostly republican) have instilled so much irrational fear in the population that these stories exist.
Confused TikTok Mom Asks for Help When Random Child Comes Over To Play With Her Kid
54% of Protestant Churches Rely in Part on Armed Church Members for Security
Crime is lower now than during most of my over 60 years of life. I do not know anyone who was murdered, shot, stabbed, or even just beaten up in a random act of violence. (getting beat up from hanging out in rough bars is not a random act of violence, it’s an anticipated consequence)
NHTSA Considers Security
It’s good to see that the NHTSA and Automakers are going to workaround the ridiculous wireless access requirement in the Right To Repair law that I advocated and voted against. There is NO truly secure remote access, and the control systems of a modern car are far to dangerous to risk it so that auto techs can save a few seconds by not plugging in a communications cable..
Check out the article from Ars Technica
We Shouldn’t Poke the Bear
The Future of AI
As AI progresses companies will be able to have lower skilled employees successfully pull off work that required much more expensive skilled workers. This will allow companies to reduce their overall payroll, making the rich and poor richer and the middle class poorer.
This prediction is based on personal experience of technology impacts on my co-workers during my 40+ year career and the one fixed rule of capitalism. The rule is best expressed by the mom on Malcolm in the Middle, Lois Nolastname.
Lois: “I’ll tell you what they’re going to pay you, they’re going to pay you what all jobs pay, less than you’re worth and just enough to keep you crawling back for more.”
This is Sad
Been there done that, although I’m lucky that I haven’t had to do it in many decades.
Medical care is one of those things Americans skimp on when money is tight, the Federal Reserve noted. Among the types of medical care Americans put off, dental care was the most skipped, with 21 percent of American adults saying they put off dentist visits last year. That was followed by 16 percent of adults saying they skipped seeing a doctor or specialist. Ten percent said they didn’t fill prescription medication, 10 percent said they skipped follow-up care, and another 10 percent said they skipped mental health care.
More and more Americans are skipping medical care due to money woes | Ars Technica
Crazy Man Takes Advantage of Lax State Environmental Protection/Enforcement
Only the craziest of people truly believe that Southern New Englanders will need to grow their own food to survive in the next 50 years.
Brady this week reasserted his right to cut trees on his own property, saying he remains committed to the idea of creating a farm here that will produce food during a difficult future where there will be a great need for people to grow their own.
Trees keep coming down; developer insists he’s creating a farm | News | valleybreeze.com
Tucker Carlson Admits He’s a Racist
Here’s the quote, emphasis mine.
Anyone who is still a fan of his should now openly admit their racism, or at least their support of racist assholes. There are NOT good people on both side like Trump claims. All neo-Nazis, neo-confederates, KKK members and members of bigoted hate groups, are very bad people period.
A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living shit out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight.
Tucker Carlson had to go because his racist text cost Rupert Murdoch money – Media Nation
19% of Democrats are Nuts
They are anti-science loons who bring unnecessary suffering and death to children.
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