1. There seems to be a lot of heartbreak, weeping and childlike behavior occurring from the general public over the Twitter 'banning' of WaPo tech reporter Taylor Lorenz.
To be honest, from the various videos I've seen on YouTube of her (from the past year or two).....she impresses me with almost no real reporter skills, and often deliveries some 'report' like a 12-year old kid (mostly 'acting' her way through some assessment).
On my BS-meter of any of this 'banning' being a terrible event....I'd rate it no higher than a '2'.
2. You get the impression after a while....that Twitter is mostly like a WWF-wrestling 'channel' and that you need good guys constantly fighting off bad guys. That's the gimmick or draw to Twitter.
3. It is 2022, yet about one-quarter of the public is hyped up and concern over free-speech....something that should have been settled 'science' in 1776.
4. You ever sat down and read the 18th Amendment to the Constitution? The one shutting down booze production, sales, and consumption in America?
The text?
Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the
exportation thereof from the United States and all the territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Yes, that's it.....nothing more. It's something that you could type up in five minutes....run a draft/spell-check ten times, and be ready for a vote in two hours.
5. Switzerland has one of the highest man-hour wage situations in the free-world. So I was looking at the cost of a Club-sandwich at a normal non-upscale place. This is just the plate (with fries).
Cost? $37 for the plate, and figure around $4 for a beer.
Minimum wage level (per-hour) there? 23 CHF ($24.68).
Crazy stuff.
