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“We are energy independent, we are food independent, we are in a good place”- but Christiane asks why all the corporations are axing people. As a capitalist, Galloway loves to trivialize what the news makes a big deal out of. “I am a believer the faster you fire people, the faster you can rehire them.”Continue reading “Space Karen”

I have always thought a way freeze people without damage would come first and then there would be a race to reverse aging while millions would be frozen and stored to keep them from dying. Maybe we will not have to freeze anyone.

Money has become the demon-god of this world. There is little doubt of this in the early 21st century. Neoliberalism has become the driving force in civilization and now threatens to burn it to the ground by way of Climate Change. What immediately comes to mind is the Fermi Paradox and the most likely solutionContinue reading “Left-Right-Mixed”

When considering the end of anything it is helpful to revisit the beginning. The very beginning of this thing we call democracy can be traced back to ancient Greece. Five hundred years before the time of Christ, an Athenian named Cleisthenes established a new form of government where authority over the state, and by extensionContinue reading “Is Democracy Ending?”

I commented on YouTube they should rewrite the lyrics, so this is my best try: “WILL OF THE PEOPLE” The will of the people, the will of the people, the will of the will of X 4 Let’s vote the orange into oblivion, The will of the people, the will of the people, the willContinue reading “WILL OF THE PEOPLE”

“It’s OK to be white….left on the internet to be found and taken down the rabbit hole with.” “The thing about any kind of conspiracy theory, or an idea, or any of these things is, they work, they go viral, when they play on something that feels true. Right? You don’t get conspiracy theories thatContinue reading “Meme War”

Heather Digby Parton The Republican base is highly motivated by the Big Lie and its ongoing hatred for what they perceive as the forces that are destroying American culture — immigrants, Black people, “cosmopolitan” city dwellers (often meaning Jewish people), feminists, liberals (aka “communists”), LGBTQ people and so on. The proliferation of crazy conspiracy theoriesContinue reading “Behind the GOP gaslighting over Pelosi attack: They know it won’t happen to them”

Minimum wage should be considered a “first job wage” for teenagers working part-time over the summer break. If wages had kept pace with productivity instead of flatlining during the Reagan Revolution the minimum wage would be 23 dollars an hour. That would be what teenagers working over the summer would get. The best places toContinue reading “23 Dollars per Hour in 2022?”

A new series of nine experimental studies indicates that “discordant knowing”, certainty about something one perceives as opposed by the majority of others, predicts greater fanaticism. The studies showed that experimental manipulation of participants’ views, i.e. putting them in a situation where they are set to see their views as being in opposition to theContinue reading “Discordant Knowing”

Nasa emailed asking for more input and a link to register for their “Moon to Mars” town hall. I responded with this. I provide input and now I am being solicited to do the same for “Moon to Mars.” Except…I don’t want America wasting money on going to Mars. My position on Ceres being theContinue reading “Email to NASA”