Mindwalker

We all have things we’re good at and many things we aren’t good at.  The smart ones realize they’re idiots.

Depends?

Sorry, old recycled Bob Packwood joke.

With the clear intention to silence people who question him, there’s a real problem.  When he says gain of function research isn’t gain of function research, there is a real problem.  People aren’t going to trust this person more, in a time when trust in government is low and that’s a big part of the problem as to why people don’t get vaccinated.

However, I’m sure today is especially bad.

The NY Times has an article about Biden saying Trump is “holding a dagger to the throat” of America.  What a steaming pile of BS!  If he really believed it was that dire, maybe he should do his damn job and fix what’s wrong!

Hell, the next variant could turn our skin plaid, or do absolutely nothing.

I can’t offer any ideas or data on the Mayan ideas 🙂  As for the universe always having been here, it seems not to be the case for the universe as we know it.  The thing came into existence at the big bang, somehow, and seems to be slated to disperse itself eventually into nothing.  What it exists within is another question.  I don’t mean spa…[Read more]

There is the idea that the big bang happened with inflation, but it’s often put that space expanded abnormally fast in that period.  But then there’s the idea that space is already there and the big bang grows to take up more and more space.  I’m not sure how to reconcile these two things: was there space, and the big bang caused a part of that s…[Read more]

At least when I was in school, I was taught that one core principle of a market economy was to have competition.  Because of the choice to allow companies to consolidate into monopolies, there is no competition or very little, and the prices can rise all they want.  Economists talk about “efficiency,” when allowing there to be single sources of t…[Read more]

God farted, the universe must be rebooted for the changes to take effect.

… or at least a traditional business.  Everything has been architected to direct cash to those in power, whereas a business should use money to help itself grow and do a better job, make better stuff, etc.  Businesses these days seem to be corrupted by the stock markets in that they shovel more and more money to shareholders (creating “…[Read more]

Corruption is really the heart of all this stuff.  From military being geared to suck up more cash, to congress people being paid by the military (and other) contractors, to police getting their funding from tickets and thus incentivizing them to criminalize everything, the prisons requiring more people to jail…

It seriously surprises me this…[Read more]

Uh, nevermind.

You fuck with powerful people and law don’t mean squat.  Lots of people are behind military stuff, and they don’t want that interrupted.  Laws are not going to stand in the way of profits but exposing our breaking the laws looks bad.  Donziger is another obvious case of fucking with the wrong people.

Rule of law is a joke.  This country is a joke.

I wanna rock!

We can’t do anything, fix any problem, do anything worth doing.  Of counrse no one expects to get anything out of government.

Then government teaches us not to trust government.  The health “care” industry teaches us not to trust it either, as do many other industries.  My impression is that the low-frequency sine wave of politics is an expression of people wanting things to be fixed and continually not getting it.