The Right Folks Scenario

 I sat this morning and viewed a Twitter comment...."The fertility problem is really a marriage problem. I know a lot of people who would have had children if they had found "the right person".  (David Boxenhorn comment)

To which, the comment was:  "There are fewer "right" people than at any time in history thanks to social media." 

By the time you are 25, and apply the appropriate fifty filter-process.....you've eased out around 4,990 of the 5,000 potential marriage situations.

By filters?  I mean.....you took out the fragile folks, the dim-witted, the pronoun people, the folks who owe $90,000 in student loans, the weed-smokers, the people who have a one-page arrest record, the social media freaks who waste two hours a day dumping on friends/relatives, the Paranoid Schizophrenic folks, the overly religious, and the three-times divorced types (at age 30).

Would you have done this at age 25....in 1985?  No.  You might have three filters at best, and the only constant was crazy-crazy folks were definitely out, and overly consumed religious folks were questionable. 

The Thing About Gaslighting

 I sat the other day and contemplated when I first heard the term gaslighting.  It was probably between 2012 and 2015, and after hearing the term....I spent an hour reading up on the philosophy of gaslighting.

I probably had seen bits of piece of this while working in the Air Force, but as a media-control strategy....getting you to some favored opinion....this really started to appear around 2008 to 2010.  

The problem today....so many people are trained in recognizing it, and reversing it (Tim Pool is one)....that you really don't want to start an  engagement and think this will win the argument for you.

To be honest, the minute I see you portraying yourself as some kind of victim....I'm asking myself how stupid you are (maybe at the 3rd grade level).

There are college kids walking around and thinking that they have this great tool to win arguments, and in a matter of minutes....the other guy has revamped the gaslighting....and your whole win-attitude is spiraling out of control.

Having some management guy or CEO go this route?  It's unwise, and just demonstrating you aren't qualified for the work required.  

Twelve Things I Eventually Came To Realize

 1.  About a decade after my 7th/8th/9th grade math and science classes. I regarded this entire 3 year period to be a total waste of time.  Between the material, poor instructors....there was nothing gained.  It'd been better to just skip from the 6th grade...to the 10th grade, at least in my case.

2.  Driving around highly urbanized areas like Atlanta, Los Angeles, Seattle.....it's best to avoid if at all possible.

3.  In terms of crazy people.....there's plain-crazy and crazy-crazy.  One....you can entertain or talk with.....the other, you need to maintain a 20-foot distance.

4.  An all-you-can-eat buffet....is probably serving you no more than 2-star food.

5.  Intellectual people are probably the last folks on Earth that you want to take advice from.

6.  Whoever you vote for....for President....probably isn't a Jesus-character or likely to save you from 14,000 issues.

7.  There is a difference in hangovers from beer or whiskey.  One is slightly better than the other.

8.  You don't want to accept an airline reservation where leg #1 delivers you to an airport, where you sit for seven hours waiting for leg #2 to occur....even if it is dirt-cheap ticket.

9.  A woman who has a five-times divorced record....has a lot of things that she wants to tell you about, but it's probably not anything you want to hear.

10.  A no-go area....is precisely that, and if you don't understand the comment.....you need to experience it one time to better grasp the big world.

11.  Someone who is ultra-fragile....probably doesn't have the wits or understanding to even handle donut-shop clerk job.

12.  Even if you are provided a 300-page manual on operating/repairing a item....it's generally written by an engineer...in such a form, that the manual is worthless.  

Ten Observations

 1.  Some fed judge said 'no'....apparently you can't round up refugee/migrants, then slip them some paper....saying you need to show up for a court-date, but leave the court-date blank.

Yeah, this got the White House crew all disturbed.  If you tried to do something like this for anything else....it just wouldn't sit right with the court-crowd.

2.  It is rather shocking....various people are now interrupting news journalists and telling them their statement is a fabrication (lie).  Just a funny look on the journalists faces.....like some 8-year old kid caught stealing candy.

3.  This NYC subway court stuff....where the Marine had to choke-hold the nutcase guy.....apparently yesterday, some local 66 year old female witness came up and said: Neely (the nutcase guy) was threatening passengers in the cabin.  Neely said at some point....'he was prepared to kill a motherfu*ker and take a bullet...going to jail'.

You know that definition of 'death-by-cop'?  I think this guy basically wanted someone...anyone....to end his life.  He wasn't acting rationally or level-headed....in any sense.

4.  It may be news to some of you.....but you have no legal obligation to be physically assaulted or held ransom by a career criminal or nutcase that's been left to terrorize the streets.  

5.  The Levi jeans people (they only have one product to sell you) say that their gender-neutral jeans....will be changing the size choices to some degree....due to customers consuming more 'nourishment' (meaning it doesn't matter if you are male, female, or trans....you are getting fatter).  

6.  Tolerance is never a one-way street.

7.  Some researcher from Yale did some research, and oddly found that when a liberal goes to speak to a group of minority folks.....they tend to dumb-down the message.  

They didn't say this was a stupid thing or unethical....just that Carl X, or Wanda X....had two types of deliveries when talking to people, and just felt if you were minority....you needed the 'lesser' message.  

To be honest, since Roman times, I think folks have been doing this....thinking stupid people need simpler words to grasp something.  

8.  To be honest and humble....some of these drag-queen guys....probably need to give up the fantasy, because they look more like a ugly woman than anything else.

9.  Sometimes.....getting a full-up blunt message....isn't what people want.  The trouble is....they never tell you this ahead of time.

10.  What kind of townhall should CNN run in the future?  Maybe one with just cardboard cut-outs in the audience?