"It's young people like her that make this world better"

 

That poor little dog!

 

The cop in the first video was oblivious. The best way for a cop to stay alive is to be alert. The perp could have taken his life before he even knew what happened.

 

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/20...oting-storm-wrecked-house.html?outputType=amp

Portland homeowners become detectives to find man now charged with looting storm-wrecked house

 

 

There is hope for Gen-Z.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...y-gen-z-turns-to-physical-books-and-libraries
‘Reading is so sexy’: gen Z turns to physical books and libraries
Book sales boom as readers escape the ‘oversaturation and noise of the wild west digital landscape’

 

There is hope for Gen-Z.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...y-gen-z-turns-to-physical-books-and-libraries
‘Reading is so sexy’: gen Z turns to physical books and libraries
Book sales boom as readers escape the ‘oversaturation and noise of the wild west digital landscape’

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I haven't bought a paper book in ages. I buy all of my literature in electronic form and then read it in my Kindle. It's a much better reading experience, in my opinion, because it lets you underline important paragraphs, and take notes and then share them with other people. Books are far more organized and easier to search and look for. And the e-ink display won't make you miss the appearance of paper one bit. And the big plus is that one will never ever loose the books one buys.

BUT ... I understand and respect the attitude of my papyrofile friends that simply won't give up on paper. I think this resurgence of physical paper books is akin to the boom that vinyl records is experiencing.

 

 

 

An engineer, instead of using his mind producing life enhancing products for profit, toils in his free time as a day-laborer.

This is not a good thing. The world is upside down.

I'll take Hank Reardon over this man any day.

 

An engineer, instead of using his mind producing life enhancing products for profit, toils in his free time as a day-laborer.

This is not a good thing. The world is upside down.

I'll take Hank Reardon over this man any day.

To him, it's like relaxing at the pool with a drink after a hard day at work as an engineer.

You are not the world.

 

To him, it's like relaxing at the pool after a hard day at work as an engineer.

If he was serious about cleaning up his environment, he'd quit misallocating his resources: use his mind to create value, trade that value for cash, then trade that cash for ***a hundred*** day-laborers to pick up trash -- if he so wishes.

Otherwise, he's just a waste of a human brain.

 

If he was serious about cleaning up his environment, he'd quit misallocating his resources: use his mind to create value, trade that value for cash, then trade that cash for ***a hundred*** day-laborers to pick up trash -- if he so wishes.

Otherwise, he's just a waste of a human brain.

Anyone willing to stop and clean the dangerous streets of Oakland obviously has superpowers, he might not be human.

 

Anyone willing to stop and clean the dangerous streets of Oakland obviously has superpowers, he might not be human.

If he leveraged his mind -- instead of his muscles -- he'd have super-duper-powers.

 

If he leveraged his mind -- instead of his muscles -- he'd have super-duper-powers.

Leave him alone. You want him to report there's nothing of value on this planet, other than the trash that runs the time-machine.

 

joeyd has his own idea of a perfect world. To each his own.
Yes, I too go around picking up random trash.
The other thing I do is repair other peoples broken things rather than having them throw it away and buy a new one.
This week I repaired a house lamp that needed a new cord, a beautiful German made anniversary clock, and an ice maker machine, all at no charge to the owner.

 

The other thing I do is repair other peoples broken things...

I hope you understand that this is an effort of mind, not of muscle.

Huge difference. Muscles can generate at best, and are limited to, one manpower -- barely enough to even feed ones self.

A mind can multiply that effort many times over.

 

I hope you understand that this is an effort of mind, not of muscle.

Huge difference. Muscles can generate at best, and are limited to, one manpower -- barely enough to even feed ones self.

A mind can multiply that effort many times over.

Mind or muscle... it makes no difference. The most valuable resource you can contribute to society is your time. Mind and muscle you can regenerate. You can never recoup your time you give to others. This is my way of paying it forward.

 

The most valuable resource you can contribute to society is your time.

It's too bad then, I guess, that Aristotle, da Vinci, Newton, Galileo, Shakespeare, Einstein, Curie, Edison, Musk, etc., etc. didn't contribute more of their time.

Imagine how much further our society could have progressed but for their dead weight.

 

It's too bad then, I guess, that Aristotle, da Vinci, Newton, Galileo, Shakespeare, Einstein, Curie, Edison, Musk, etc., etc. didn't contribute more of their time.

Imagine how much further our society could have progressed but for their dead weight.

Man, you're funny.