Please don't, that way there will be enough for me.

and there it is… pizza was wonderful tonight

 

If you really believe this, the best action you can personally take to help humanity survive is to hold your breath for eight minutes.

That's kind of the problem the music stops and there are not enough chairs, who decides who leaves.
If you don't want to believe this your free to continue to live in your world without limits ( keep hoping and wishing it doesn't stop )

 

This article has made me think deep about the "benefits" of wealth and abundance ... my personal conclusion is that a complete absence of stress is one of the worst things that could happen to any species (or to any human individual, for that matter):

Universe 25: The Mouse "Utopia" Experiment That Turned Into An Apocalypse
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Now I want to watch the secret of NIHM.
https://archive.org/details/TheSecretOfNIMH

 

so is the cup half empty?

 

Now I want to watch the secret of NIHM.
https://archive.org/details/TheSecretOfNIMH

One of my favorite animated movies ... thanks for sharing

 

so is the cup half empty?

Maybe its the wrong size cup

 

Maybe its the wrong size cup

That can be very uncomfortable - or so I'm told.

 

and there it is… pizza was wonderful tonight

No wonder I couldn't find one.

 

That's kind of the problem the music stops and there are not enough chairs, who decides who leaves.
If you don't want to believe this your free to continue to live in your world without limits ( keep hoping and wishing it doesn't stop )

You haven't been here long enough to know joey is a Ayn Rand believer. And won't believe she died while collecting social security, almost penniless. A boy and his dreams never will part.

 

You haven't been here long enough to know joey is a Ayn Rand believer. And won't believe she died while collecting social security, almost penniless. A boy and his dreams never will part.

If she tought the SS pot was almost empty, she surely wanted to convince everyone else that government handouts (like social security) are bad.

 

If she tought the SS pot was almost empty, she surely wanted to convince everyone else that government handouts (like social security) are bad.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ayn-rand-social-security/

 

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ayn-rand-social-security/

" your moral integrity does require that you view the funds only as (partial) restitution for all that has been taken from you by such welfare schemes and that you continue, sincerely, to oppose the welfare state"

I loved fountainhead, amazing book.

 

Think about this.
You live better than a king did in the Georgian era.
They didn't have Pizza

Not sure about that, I just want to live better than Dirac,
Are you proposing we go back to the Georgian era?
Why stop there? Why not back to the caves?

 

Now I want to watch the secret of NIHM.
https://archive.org/details/TheSecretOfNIMH

That was really a great movie. The message was great.

Ron

 

Mostly product of Covid shut downs and change in market behavior to online. Doesn’t really affect me personally but it’s a brutal change for those in retail.

https://www.obsev.com/life/restaurant-chains-that-are-quickly-disappearing/

https://za.investing.com/magazine/l...UbNpDDxNWS2pOUffvRbyg5c89gprzKgJeEv_MEzgmS89o

 

Heard about the plastics shortage?

I work for a company that packages, stores, and distributes plastic pellets (polyethylene, polypropylene mostly. Some PVC powder other plastic raw material) for the likes of Dow, Lyondell, Ineos, et al.

The company I work for has dozens of locations across the country, with the bulk of them concentrated here in Houston where all the chemical companies are. Of the 15 locations in the Houston area, 5 of them are >500,000sf and the newest location is > 1M sf. So, that's to say, not a small operation and we have capacity to store A LOT of plastic.

I am the horse's mouth. There is no plastics shortage. Not now, not last year, not ever (since covid and associated "shortages"). The plastic kept coming just as steady as ever, but it stopped leaving. Not entirely, the outbounds just slowed. They slowed and stayed slow long enough that now we have reached max capacity at all our locations and can only package (make money) as space allows. The backup is now making its way upstream from us to the chemical plants.

I asked my boss about it because he is right hand man of the owner and much more in tune with the market than I am. Here is our conversation:



I don't know what's going on, why this plastics "shortage," eh... "exists." But it isn't real and I suspect that it isn't the only fake shortage.

What would be the motive of the powers that be, to manufacture false shortages (or at least a false shortage) ?

 

Not sure about that, I just want to live better than Dirac,
Are you proposing we go back to the Georgian era?
Why stop there? Why not back to the caves?

NO For one thing, those wigs look itchy and uncomfortable.

What I mean is look at all the creature comforts you have and think of how many servants you would need to be as comfortable then.
Dishwasher, car to get around, fridge to keep exotic things like pineapple fresh.
To be 21 first century comfortable in 1822 would requires all kinds of wealth and servants like a king and then maybe more...

 

You haven't been here long enough to know joey is a Ayn Rand believer. And won't believe she died while collecting social security, almost penniless. A boy and his dreams never will part.

You know a very significant number of people today believe things that thirty years ago would have got you laughed at and kicked out of the bar for being drunk.
Now its acceptable to believe in what ever you like as long as self identify with and surround yourself with like minded people.
It does not matter if its real.

The law of gravity isn't real, its a man made law.
And if I believe I float, and you believe I float.... then I do
If there is no one left to argue the point, all those splattered bodies down there are inconsequential to the remaining floaters standing on the bridge looking out into the blue sky.

And don't be smug and laugh at them.
You have an ideology all your own.
You try very hard not to be bothered by the fact so much of your daily life forces you to keep two or more contradictory thoughts in your head at once and pretend they mean the same thing or nothing at all.
Anything to avoid looking in the mirror and excepting you might be wrong about what you think or do.

You know junk food is bad for you and eat it....
You flush the toilet and the poo vanishes but deep down inside you know its not gone, its just moved off someplace else for someone else to dea with.
I knew leaded gas was poison, but it was 3 cents a litre cheaper.
My Dad thinks a crooked businessman is better than a crooked politician without ever hesitating to consider maybe the problem is they are both crooked and that's why he keeps getting screwed.

Here's a real nutter's idea.
Lets make pieces of paper into a promissory note to represent gold and use that to barter labour for goods and service.
The gold itself is a fetish item, what can you really do with it except bust your arse to get some.
And that's the foundation of our economic system.
If we don't collectively believe these things have a value then they quickly end up shiny rocks and bits of paper and we are fighting over scraps if meat with sharpened sticks again

So....
What does it matter what people believe?
As long as we are toiling away at tasks of dubious value for bits of paper ( or bits and bites of digital fetish items like Non-fungible token ).....the lights stay on its not planet of the apes time for one more day.

 

NO For one thing, those wigs look itchy and uncomfortable.

What I mean is look at all the creature comforts you have and think of how many servants you would need to be as comfortable then.
Dishwasher, car to get around, fridge to keep exotic things like pineapple fresh.
To be 21 first century comfortable in 1822 would requires all kinds of wealth and servants like a king and then maybe more...

I get the comparison is there a point you’re making?

 

You know a very significant number of people today believe things that thirty years ago would have got you laughed at and kicked out of the bar for being drunk.
Now its acceptable to believe in what ever you like as long as self identify with and surround yourself with like minded people.
It does not matter if its real.

The law of gravity isn't real, its a man made law.
And if I believe I float, and you believe I float.... then I do
If there is no one left to argue the point, all those splattered bodies down there are inconsiquential to the remaining floaters standing on the bridge looking out into the blue sky