Re: blame electronics

On 29/04/2024 3:01 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sat, 27 Apr 2024 21:00:05 +0200, Lasse Langwadt <llc@fonz.dk>
wrote:
 

On 4/27/24 18:38, bitrex wrote:

On 4/27/2024 12:11 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 27/04/2024 11:56 pm, John Larkin wrote:

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/26/opinions/opinion-the-cause-of-campus-chaos-zakaria/index.html
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TV, and now cell phones.

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But that isn't the problem.
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The real problem is much the same as the change in the American diet
which has made Americans a lot fatter.
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People who sell food have tweaked it so that the people who buy it buy
more of it - it doesn't matter the the manufacturers that their
customers get fatter and die younger.
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People who sell opinions make their output more compelling rather than
more informative, because that enlarges their audience.
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Being able to get stuff published in the New Yorker won't make you all
that rich. Becoming a star on Fox News is much more profitable -
Tucker Carlson is a depressing example.
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John Larkin's enthusiasm for climate change denial reflects his
willingness to binge on the intellectual equivalent of junk food.
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We need an intellectual equivalent of Ozempic - critical thinking in a
pill. Academic education is supposed to instill critical thinking, but
it didn't work on John, or Donald Trump.

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Even many US university students tend to be smart enough to notice that
the US seems to have endless money to fund foreign conflicts, but always
talks austerity when it comes to them and their future (or lack thereof.)
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"Haha you'll never afford a home even with a college degree but here's
another $50 billion for Israel and Ukraine, and there'll be another $50
billion after that, and after that..."

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$50 billion is chump change compared to the US budget

 It's not even chump change compared to the $1tn increase in the US
national debt every 100 days.
I have no idea what the thrust of the original article is suggesting.
I have no idea what Bitrex is bitching about, either. Sending money
for war purposes whilst ignoring domestic concerns is just what
Globalism is all about.

It isn't. Globalism is merely more international trade - it lets nations specialise in making what they make best and trading those products with other nations who have other skills.
Cursitor Doom associates it with the kinds of imaginary international conspiracies that enrich his fantasy life, rather like my undergraduate friends who thought that adobe haciendas were exotic (which they were) and exciting, which mud-brick farm houses weren't, when I told them what the Spanish phrase meant.

Globalism is what Bitrex has always espoused here, so why he's got his panties in a bunch I simply don't know.

He knows what Globalism means in practice (and subsidising foreign wars isn't any part the practical reality), while you don't.

Anyway, what's most important is that the horse in the photo hasn't
been provided with eye protection. All riot horses in the UK are fully
kitted-out with personal protection gear. I'd assumed it was the same
in the US but clearly it isn't. THAT issue at any rate, definitely
requires addressing.

Getting horse used to wearing full personal protection gear takes time. Americans do tend to want to do stuff in a hurry.
Horses can be skittish, as a handful of the Household cavalry showed in London last week.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/27/army-injured-horses-household-cavalry-london
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Bill Sloman, Sydney