The graphic to the right really sums up the discussion.
Has Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and the rest....set up a path to confusion?
I would suggest that we've all gone down a path...asking stupid questions. Nothing makes sense in the solutions department....unless you've opened and poured half-a-bottle of Jack Daniels for thinking-purposes.
1. Trans-woman (biological guy)....if you didn't grasp that from very confusing news coverage.
2. I'm going to wait to see if anyone checks his/her drug situation. From prescription pills to self-medication....I'm curious what he/she was on.
3. Oddly enough, today....there's talk of a manifesto existing. If you go and review trends....women don't write manifestos. Guys are the ones who write stuff like this.
4. Two Nashville police bravely walked in, and took down the individual in the end.
5. Virtually every single network news group I watched....desperately identified the person as a woman. What I find odd....the police made a statement that they could find no mental issues with 'her'. Gender dysphoria has always been classified as a mental health issue. So their statement does not make sense.
There was some point in 2021 where I was watching a Sunday political talk-show, and some group of three with a moderator were trying to get a point across, and it just struck me....it was a conversation that you'd expect out of 11-year-old kids...there were no facts, they'd dumbed down the points enough where they made no sense, and there could not be a reasonable conclusion.
In simple terms....it's become a half-ass conversation with no value. I'd say from that point on (2021)....at least once or twice a day....I see a news programs (from CNN, Fox, BBC, MSNBC, etc) that has been constructed with no clear 'drawn lines'. It's like you went into a Piggly Wiggly....grabbed a couple of clerks, and asked the group to sit at some table to talk over Social Security reform.
These conversations seem to be existing mostly to drive you to x-position, yet you keep asking....can you give me more of the y-points, or explain this in better detail.
You almost get an opinion that they want fake problems to exist....keeping away from real problems....so that you don't interfere with incompetence.
A magic show? I'd offer that idea....that they seem to think that if you are kept busy with a decent magic show.....you won't go and jump into such-and-such problem of a bigger nature.
Am I watching less news TV? Yeah, I noticed that in the past year....I'm going more to podcasts. I probably watch four hours a week now of British intellectuals and comedians. From the American side? I probably view or listen to a minimum of a dozen hours a week.
The podcast folks avoiding the half-ass nature of what TV news slipped to? I'd suggest that presently....the podcast folks want something to be informative and interesting.....while the TV news people seem to be focused more on propaganda value.
An odd development? I don't think anyone started out with the half-ass agenda....it just landed there in the end.
What's next? That's what I wonder about.
1. Is VP Harris a crappy VP?
If you went to view VP's from prior to Bush II....most were marginal characters, and their name didn't appear in the news unless they were opening up a new federal building or attending some funeral.
Ever since Cheney....we seem to want some equal pair where the VP is significant.
Go back to the 1990s and look for Gore's name to be mentioned. In the first four years, I doubt that his name was mentioned more than once a month by the CBS nightly news.
2. California's governor wants Medicare to pay for homeless rent?
Yeah, he did say that. If you went to the books and figured the cost (especially around SF and LA)....it'd bankrupt the system in six months.
1. He keeps bringing up his service time, and one day....you ask what his MOS (duty or job description), and he can't answer you.
2. He talks about being in x-battle, but can't tell you which unit he was part of.
3. You ask the guy when he started/finished boot-camp, and he avoids the answer.
4. The guy keeps talking about military service but can't cite things because it was all classified.
5. Almost every single story that he tells....connects to the CIA or special operations like the SEALs.
I worked with a guy who retired in the 1990s, and upon retirement....joined up with some local VFW group. About three months into this participation (mostly drinking at their local bar), he came to establish that several guys who were VFW members were either total frauds, or were kicked out of boot-camp.
I spent about an hour today reading over Twitter comments of a person trying to impress upon people that 2 plus 2 can possibly equal 5.
The sales pitch here? Measurement uncertainty, and limits of casual intervention. Yeah, more or less BS.
The chief problem here....if you can't make two and two to come to the same conclusion each time....modern technology fails. There has to be a consistent path on physical reality, and a way that a mathematical form presents that reality.
Why this mindset that two and two might relate to five? The only way that this comes up....might be the idea the idea that nothing much can make sense, and if they can set you to think two and two might not equal four....maybe a lot of other things would fall into place.
You know....like dogs might be viewed as cats? Or that a one-dollar bill might be worth $1.01? Or that a speed limit of 65 mph....might really mean 67 mph?
My chief issue? If you walked into a bank to deposit a $1,000 check into an account with $2,000 already in it.....then it has to equal $3,000 in the end. Using this 'not-5' logic.....the bank might say my $1,000 check came to equal $900 upon the final details.
This is where I think we need to dispatch some stupid people to digging ditches for a living, or shoveling snow.....anything that avoids math.
Over the past year, gas-grills/gas-stoves have been projected as unhealthy and various laws are being drafted to prevent them in the future. Lot of hype and criticism over how this has been handled. I sat and pondered over where things are going, and this is my list of the next eight things to be banned:
1. Condiments of ketchup, with sugar. Non-sugar ketchup will be forced upon people....with most saying it has no flavor/taste.
2. Plastic silverware.
3. Lipstick.
4. Toilet paper on rolls. You use too much, so the gov't will suggest that it only come in 1-ply sheets, singles.
5. Car speakers are too loud, and only half-power speakers will be installed on new cars.
6. The word and use of 'demons' in the Bible will be deemed inappropriate.
7. Tight fitting jeans will be deemed a health hazard.
8. Sodas in aluminum cans will be deemed as unhealthy for consumption.
