Thought for the day...

Businesses that have left my area,,,

Thriftway supermarket
Payless shoes
Church's Chicken
Crown Chicken
Subway
McDonald's
My bank branch
Both 7-elevens
Rite-Aid
A fantastic Italian deli and steak shop
The best Chinese restaurant in the city
Notary Public
Scott's florist
And the latest...Walgreens
And some I probably missed.

But at least the nail salons and the state store are still here.

And the new homeless encampment is looking sharp.
 

joeyd999

Joined Jun 6, 2011
6,325
Businesses that have left my area,,,

Thriftway supermarket
Payless shoes
Church's Chicken
Crown Chicken
Subway
McDonald's
My bank branch
Both 7-elevens
Rite-Aid
A fantastic Italian deli and steak shop
The best Chinese restaurant in the city
Notary Public
Scott's florist
And the latest...Walgreens
And some I probably missed.

But at least the nail salons and the state store are still here.

And the new homeless encampment is looking sharp.
We have no homeless camps, and plenty of shopping.

I wonder if politics has something to do with it?
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
16,333
We have no homeless camps, and plenty of shopping.

I wonder if politics has something to do with it?
The politics of drug addiction being a right. I see a revelation happening, even here, on how stupid that is, when the homeless (IMO addicts) would IMO rather freeze in the cold to maintain that 'freedom'.
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
8,782
The politics of drug addiction being a right. I see a revelation happening, even here, on how stupid that is, when the homeless (IMO addicts) would IMO rather freeze in the cold to maintain that 'freedom'.
Politics of drugs in particular, yes. But it's the politics of death (and also of nihilism) in general that's currently sinking the west, IMO.
 

joeyd999

Joined Jun 6, 2011
6,325
On EPA's EV Mandates: "Unrealistic And Unattainable"

The history of the EV is a century of failure tailgating failure. In 1901, in an article headlined “Edison's New Storage Battery,” the Los Angeles Times declared, “The electric automobile will quickly and easily take precedence over all other” types of motor vehicles. It said, "If the claims which Mr. Edison makes for his new battery be not overstated, there is not much doubt that it will make a fortune for somebody.”[ii] The media hype continued for the next 100 years...
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
8,782
Have you ever read Atlas Shrugged? If you had, you'd understand.

More general: it's the politics of altruism.
I bought that book a few months ago because of you.

Right now I'm finishing a nice work of fiction by Dean Koontz, and next I'm going to read Atlas Shrugged. I promise I'll let you know what I think of it after I read it.
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
8,782
People trust science, they don't trust scientists as leaders or makers of law in the name of science. Trust is earned, not given by position or attainments.
One of my heroes is Professor Richard Feynman ... he's remember as a man of integrity. It's scientists like him that benefit the image of science among the scientifically challenged.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
16,333
Scientists don't trust scientists, they trust actual evidence from actual experiments, that's why there is this thing called, peer-review, designed to see if the paper writer is full of it.
Lately, there's been a lot of IT in those papers.
 
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