Three Things I Don't Understand

 1.  Target (the store) has a team of people who buy the latest trend stuff, and market it (usually at the front-door).  Most of the time....it's $15 t-shirts designed for teenagers/juveniles.  

So this guy came along and sold them a design/look....that has to do with symbiology/imagery that you'd regard as devil-worship stuff (satanic).  Front-door market?  Yeah.

The Target team not really grasping the meaning or symbiology?  Yeah, I get this impression.  

People walking in and IDing the stuff as devil worship stuff?  Yeah.

Same management type folks as Bud-Lite?  Well....it just makes you wonder.

2.  The DeSantis 1st day web site for the Presidency? 

Crap.  It's something that you'd hire a 12-year old kid design.

3.  I think if you walked up to a hundred people on the street and asked them to define the word 'tramp'....less than one-third would give you 'something', and the rest would think it's a trick-question.  

How Civics/History Went Down the Toilet in American Schools

 Around the mid-1970s....I started to notice once to twice a month....the civics-history class had what I'd call a down day, and the teacher would attempt to have a current events day (to explain things to us).  

I commented on this trend in the late 1990s....to an American military member who had their two daughters in the military school at Ramstein. The response from the other person was.....this was now a guaranteed thing with a minimum of one to two days a week spent on current events....instead of civics or history.

Back around 2012, I got into another discussion with someone in the Pentagon that I worked with, and their kids were in the Fairfax, VA school district.  He figured that at a minimum of two days a week....sometimes even three days....civics/history was cut entirely and current-events-explaining was chief topic for that 50-minute period.

The current-events-explaining 'drill'?  Well....after a while, this guy had come to realize that it was more of a propaganda effort than any true explanation episode.

I would take a guess....presently....that whatever knowledge I left school with at age 18....the current knowledge base is probably around 60-percent of my level then.

Intentional loss?  This is what I ponder about.

Fourteen year old kid hears something via news or via a friend, and wants someone to stand there and explain this in eight minutes (his max limit of attention span).  In a group of 25 kids....figure at least six kids have such a question each day.  Can you get across the screwed-up nature of health-care insurance in eight minutes?  No.  Can you detail the reason why nine Supreme Court Justices exist?  No.  Can you explain abortion in eight minutes?  No. 

So what we have is a mini-dose of knowledge that doesn't do justice to the facts and reality.

You wake up on a Tuesday night, where the kid (13 years old) wants to explain how your knowledge of capitalism is 'fu*ked-up', and he learned this via one of the 8-minute lessons by Carl (the teacher).  You try to bring the kid back around to reality with a 16-minute dose of economics and capitalism....but lost them around minute nine.  

The problem here....if you start to really think hard about the mess....you've got a nation of 8-minute geniuses standing there, and unable to think in a coherent manner.  

Five Observations

 1. I went back to watch the Lakers-Nuggets game (23 May)....first NBA game I've watched in roughly ten years.

It was the first time I've had a chance to observe Nikola Jokic (center of the Nuggets).  I would readily say....his passing skills rate as five star.  He makes every player of the team look better.  

2.  DeSantis is geared for the run.  He has issues (same for Trump....same for Biden). 

Odd factor?  Well.....Bush II, Rove, Cheney, and Paul Ryan have endorsed DeSantis.  Normally, I'd say if all four were in this direction....there's something 'wrong' with DeSantis.  

3.  Oprah is still being floated as a replacement for Senator Feinstein (bad health).  

4.  California to 'ban' Skittles candy....over chemicals used in making it.  Other 49 states....full-speed ahead.

I expect bacon to be outlawed in California within three years.

5.  Political refugee status is now some gimmick of Americans who live in Florida and believe things have gone so badly....they may have to 'escape' the state.  

Just Some Advice

 I noticed today....some new bathing suit 'deal'....a one-piece that is for both men and women.

It has this feature: 'extra-crotch coverage (meaning to cover up the balls)', and 'tuck-friendly construction (meaning you could push the extra-crotch material closer in).

And when I say one-piece....I mean there is no top (you'd be going to a topless beach area, I assume).

If you are going to this level of public beach appearances.....you might as well go to a nude-beach and not waste money on 'extras'.

Five Observations

 1.  I watched a conference of 'comrades'/socialists in the past day or two.  Basically, it was a bunch of start/stop moments, where members of the audience were being 'triggered' over a hundred different things.  It was like a collection of freaks had gathered up. 

I'm not much into socialism or socialist-chatter but I'm willing to listen to a constructive dialog/discussion.  The problem here....folks seem so triggered-up....they can't even allow regular talks, without freaking out.

2.  At the rate of things....I think within a hundred years, there will be just one gender....men and transwomen (everyone will have a penis), and then society can die out within fifty years, and mankind can restart from scratc.

3.  You noticed....anything that the news media can't control/manipulate or censor....ends up being called either 'right-wing' or 'Russia-controlled'?

4.  Did Sirhan-Sirhan ever admit to killing RFK?  No.  His lawyer gave him advice to just say he was intoxicated and couldn't remember anything (bad advice).  In all those years....he more or less remembers nothing.

5.  Around 60-percent of Americans in a survey....say Biden won't 'make it' to 2028 (if re-elected).  They aren't talking about impeachment.....they mean age-wise, he will just run-out.  

In this scenario, you are betting that Harris is the best back-up deal....and that's near impossible to sell on that idea.

Just An Odd Story

 It would appear that the Target store folks went out and hired some t-shirt design individual (just happens to be trans)....to have a line which is a bit....well....'satanic' in nature.

I looked at the t-shirt offered up....simply symbiology of satanic-type.  If you weren't paying attention....it'd just slip right by you.

Did Target intend for this to occur?  I kind of doubt it.

I was one of those parents who didn't really care what the kid wore.  I'd simply say....you got 15 minutes to pick-out two t-shirts, and not to exceed x-amount.  Beyond that....I didn't care.  

In today's atmosphere?  Yeah, I'd probably have to ask and see the t-shirt before buying.

Just inviting trouble?  I doubt that the management folks really grasp this satanic angle.  

When Artificial Intelligence (AI) Arrives And You Need To Rethink Things

 1.  You sit at your office and get a call  from someone called Mr. Jones, and about three minutes into the conversation....it hits you that Mr. Jones is AI, and you probably shouldn't have answered his questions.

2.  The bank AI writes a 7-page email....to note fifteen different 'bad' habits on finance that you have, and wants to lead you to better planning on spending.

3.  You 12-year old son notes that he has a new 'friend' on social media, and about six months later...you come to realize it's an AI 'friend' (not real).

4.  You come to find that AI has been adding layers of medical tests, with these warning notes coming to you that your alcohol consumption is endangering your liver.  These notes now come almost daily.

5.  Your AI system starts to monitor your household situation, and warns you in some way that your spouse is having an affair with the neighbor.

6.  Your company hires a AI to monitor the calorie intake of employees, and you start to get friendly hints of lessening 'bad' foods....every single day.

7.  Your religious group has a AI connection....which judges stress and problems in your life, then starts to call you and request prayer-time to chill out.  

8.  You start to notice fake news going on a good bit.....going back to a media AI operation, and it's now in competition against human fake news.

9.  As a single guy, you start to get AI 'tips' on dating women.

10.  You wake up one day to realize that AI is convinced that it's never wrong.