Establishing routes is a good thing before traveling, knowing your interchanges. Coming back from my wife reunion 4 years ago, Lajunta to Denver Col, she can't run her phone I'm driving traffic was smooth, I took my eye's off for an instant when she tried to show me her phone, suddenly just after an exit and over pass the traffic was dead stop, luckily the slow lane was empty and I braked to swerve.

Traveling in the future will be planned to the head of a pin, any questions un-answered I will pull off on a exit, and find a parking lot.

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Russians playing tag again at sea just like the good old Cold War days. Only this time they are hungry. Food in exchange for Vodka.

On June 7th, 2019, the Russian warship Admiral Vinogradov came alongside the USS Chancellorsville in what many described as an aggressive and hostile maneuver.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia...llides-uss-chancellorsville-today-2019-06-07/

 

"Do not fire. We are very hungry." !!??

If that were real - and who knows - wouldn't that be a ticket to a gulag, to embarrass Mother Russia with such a statement?

 

"Do not fire. We are very hungry." !!??

If that were real - and who knows - wouldn't that be a ticket to a gulag, to embarrass Mother Russia with such a statement?

It's not real audio but it was funny and the Russians were not serious (guys were sunbathing on the Russian helo deck) about ramming the US ship. In the old days we would moon their ship if it got too close or hang nasty messages in Russian for their surveillance aircraft to photograph.

 

Never mind. Look away.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/06/06/glacier-national-park-quietly-removes-its-gone-by-2020-signs/

 

Never mind. Look away.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/06/06/glacier-national-park-quietly-removes-its-gone-by-2020-signs/

But....science!

 

Millennial dads are less likely than their boomer counterparts to be able to change a car tire on the side of the road, unblock a toilet or sink, reset a tripped circuit breaker or even open a stuck pickle jar with their hands.

On this we agree. We are raising a bunch of no knowing nothing, safe space, animal petting therapy goons.

Brzrkr

 

On this we agree. We are raising a bunch of no knowing nothing, safe space, animal petting therapy goons.

Brzrkr

I hate to admit it, but my daughter will be one of the first casualties of the Zombie Apocalypse.

It's not that I didn't try to teach her. She simply has no interest.

 

On this we agree. We are raising a bunch of no knowing nothing, safe space, animal petting therapy goons.

Brzrkr

I tend to agree but as soon as I had kids I realized they would not be learning the same things I did as I grew up. They were going to need different skills.

I spent play time rebuilding lawnmower motors, sharpening knives, tying knots, traveling the local creek, stuff like that. Helping my dad paint or build a rock wall or whatever. I'm not sure what the girls at the time were doing but my own girls certainly didn't learn any of that. They learned to to type and use the internet. They took gymnastics classes. They started on things that better fit the world they were living in. Hopefully the millennials will find something useful to excel at.

 

The baby boomers are the last pre-abortion generation. Many will be retiring in the coming years.

Many will have only SS to retire on. They did not share in the growth and posterity like government and big business have over the last decades. Many earn less at retirement, then in their younger years.

This will cost more than it "brings" in with our present workforce. What's gona happen? Will they turn socialist to protect or gain their benefits?

The baby boomers had to work for their living. Will they demand the same from their children?

How much of our present generation, works for sustenance? Any homeless in America can get free shelter, medical, food, and showers, if they can take a break of getting high in taxpayer funded drug houses.

Baby boomers believe bums are cheats. Appeasing a cheat, manufactures more cheats. It's the free market in action.

The people that do work, have to pay for that retirement too. Boomer retirement PLUS parasite cheat retirement. And don't forget millions of alien cheats. We welcome them too. Join the cheat club, come on in.

What could possibly go wrong? Climate change worries me to death.

 

On this we agree. We are raising a bunch of no knowing nothing, safe space, animal petting therapy goons.

Brzrkr

I would add at least one more. Reading or watching some SCI-POP nonsense and then thinking they understand complex science principles. Being a Know Nothing is bad but being a walking and talking example of the Dunning–Kruger effect is a lot worse.

 

The baby boomers are the last pre-abortion generation. Many will be retiring in the coming years.

Many will have only SS to retire on. They did not share in the growth and posterity like government and big business have over the last decades. Many earn less at retirement, then in their younger years.

This will cost more than it "brings" in with our present workforce. What's gona happen? Will they turn socialist to protect or gain their benefits?

The baby boomers had to work for their living. Will they demand the same from their children?

How much of our present generation, works for sustenance? Any homeless in America can get free shelter, medical, food, and showers, if they can take a break of getting high in taxpayer funded drug houses.

Baby boomers believe bums are cheats. Appeasing a cheat, manufactures more cheats. It's the free market in action.

The people that do work, have to pay for that retirement too. Boomer retirement PLUS parasite cheat retirement. And don't forget millions of alien cheats. We welcome them too. Join the cheat club, come on in.

What could possibly go wrong? Climate change worries me to death.

First, the label “pre-abortion generation” poisons the well. It means nothing. Our generation fought for women’s rights. We fought against war. We fought against injustice. And anyone suggesting that our victories are wrong, never faced the meanest, bad-ass generation since the greatest generation.

Financials? As a bona fide retired baby boomer, I earn half of what I was making; SS pays 25% of my prior earnings. Savings pay another 25%. So I’m living with half of what I was used to. But hey, I have savings!

My kids were pampered. But they work. They can support themselves and are doing what they love. A dad can’t ask for much more.

I worked as hard as I did in my profession to make my life better than it ever was before in my life. I take care of myself (I live alone). I contribute to society. I am happy. What more can a man ask for?

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...945ae5db8fb_story.html?utm_term=.15a7469d2556

“If we are paying attention to our environment, we are stimulating our hippocampus, and a bigger hippocampus seems to be protective against Alzheimer’s disease,” Bohbot told me in an email. “When we get lost, it activates the hippocampus, it gets us completely out of the habit mode. Getting lost is good!” Done safely, getting lost could be a good thing.

Saturated with devices, children today might grow up to see navigation from memory or a paper map as anachronistic as rote memorization or typewriting. But for them especially, independent navigation and the freedom to explore are vital to acquiring spatial knowledge that may improve hippocampal function. Turning off the GPS and teaching them navigational skills could have enormous cognitive benefits later in life.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...945ae5db8fb_story.html?utm_term=.15a7469d2556

Makes perfect sense. A different way of looking at it is technology in and of itself is not bad. But “No one expects a Spanish Inquisition”.*. There are always unanticipated side effects for every new technology.

Moving from horses to electric/gasoline powered engines had an unintended economic effect. It made horse breeders and farriers poor career choices.

One of my favorite SciFi stories told the story of a contractor who invented arithmetic after his calculator died.

We’re now living the same story with different technologies.



* line from the Monty Python comedy troupes movie.

 

Sound for electric cars.

I want this sound.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...945ae5db8fb_story.html?utm_term=.15a7469d2556

That's essentially what I've been preaching for nearly three decades -- what I call The Cash Register Syndrome. Take away the need to think, and you end up taking away the ability to think. We are victims of our own technological success.

 

It's not real audio but it was funny and the Russians were not serious (guys were sunbathing on the Russian helo deck) about ramming the US ship. In the old days we would moon their ship if it got too close or hang nasty messages in Russian for their surveillance aircraft to photograph.

Looks like someone else noticed the sunbathing Russians on the video clip.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/...tless-on-deck-while-confronting-a-us-cruiser/

When a Russian destroyer came close to colliding with a US Navy warship last Friday, Russian sailors were spotted sunbathing on the deck. A retired Russian admiral says there's nothing weird about that.

Russian Admiral Valentin Selivanov, a military analyst who previously served as the chief of staff of the Russian Navy, told Russian media Monday that there’s nothing wrong with relaxing topside when you’re not at war. “There is a time for war, and a time for sunbathing,” the admiral explained.

 

This is what happens when they are serious.

Welcome to the Cold War.

 

My daughters award from the school after finishing 8th grade with Advanced STEM courses.

Nice, but I'm headed to the school office for a correct one for framing.

https://www.greatschools.org/oregon/fairview/999-Reynolds-Middle-School/

 

We are screwed. Can you imagine what is going to happen if the government has to ration food and water?

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/free-theme-park-pass-chaos

When animals fight over relatively worthless scraps?