Random Thoughts or Whatever

[45rpmspinner]

Business investments in the UK have nearly ceased since Brexit

Decreased? yes.
Ceased? not even close.
The graph shows something around 50 trillion in investment in 2022.
Still a hefty figure.

 

[Ohighway]

Surround yourself with people that discuss VISION & IDEAS, not other people.

...

 

[Pio1980]

 

[Mystic]

 

[Pio1980]

Coming up on the 50th anniversary of the 1 March 1973 debut release of Dark Side of the Moon.

50 years previous top 5 most popular records, 1 March 1923, all acoustically recorded, for perspective;

1. Billy Murray - You Tell Her - I Stutter
2. Nora Bayes - Lovin' Sam (Sheik of Alabam')
3. Henry Burr & Albert Campbell - Carry Me Back to My Carolina Home
4. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Journey's End
5. Al Jolson - Who Cares?

 

[Quadman2]

I now know why there's a "Leap Year".

Always was aware it was there.

Didn't know a Pope was involved as well.


My secret!


Q

 

[Pio1980]

Why are adult males frequently referred as "gentlemen", when often they are anything but?
An anachronistic broad term that should go on the bonfire of absurdities.

 

[Quadman2]

Why are adult males frequently referred as "gentlemen", when often they are anything but?
An anachronistic term that should go on the bonfire of absurdities.

Words change, P.


"Gentle" from Old FR. indicated: "high born/nobility".

Like "virtuous" had nothing to do with being "good" in the past.


Q

 

[Mystic]

The Russians are watching old movies to get ideas how to win in Ukraine:

"The Russian military on Kremlin State TV is calling for nuking the San Andreas Fault to trigger earthquakes and kill millions of people in America. This was originally Lex Luthor's idea in Superman I (1978)."

- Jake Broe

Comment: the nuclear activation of the “the ring of fire” would also, in theory, ignite the volcanoes of Kamchatka, which I believe is where Vladimir Putin likes vacation for his shirtless horseback rides?

 

[Mystic]

AI .. or something ... in action?

The state of Ohio approved a police department’s proposed use of something called a Fusus Tech Real-Time Crime Center, via which police will be able to “reach out” to people who own security cameras & ask them to “opt”-in to the platform, then their cameras will have Fusus tech added to them.

Too funny.

 

[Mystic]

How is it that the world’s most insane people come to live in the world’s most beautiful places?

 

[Mystic]

The National Labor Relations Board ruled last week that employers can no longer demand laid-off employees refrain from publicly disparaging the company as part of their severance agreements.

 

[Mystic]

A study published in the Journal of Political Science analyzing the responses from over ninety countries yield the surprising finding that today’s citizens are more favorable toward their country’s former colonizer than they are toward other countries, by a factor of by 40 per cent of a standard deviation.

 

[Pio1980]

A study published in the Journal of Political Science analyzing the responses from over ninety countries yield the surprising finding that today’s citizens are more favorable toward their country’s former colonizer than they are toward other countries, by a factor of by 40 per cent of a standard deviation.

Descendants of the colonizers, or indigenous?

 

[Mystic]

That feeling when the pre-Socratics aren’t long for the library shelves of certain states in the USA:

Empedocles: “For I have been ere now a boy and a girl, a bush and a bird and dumb fish in the sea.”

 

[Mystic]

If you want to explain contemporary America to the next (Alexis) de Tocqueville, you might start with the story of the Georgia woman who was so enraged that she didn’t get biscuits with her drive-thru order, she returned to Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen and drove her SUV through the entrance and into the lobby.

Link: https://people.com/crime/georgia-woman-crashes-suv-into-popeyes-after-order-didnt-include-biscuits/

 

[Mystic]

In Vermont, a train derailed this week on its way to pick up nuclear waste. It was empty. This time.

LINK: https://beyondnuclear.org/train-der...9PNrQKiAhfs8qE4YHGfppCkE5xer_ezAMFXqMGZgXDuN4

 

[Mystic]

In 2022, global sales of SUVs hit an all-time high, increasing their annual CO2 emissions to nearly 1 billion tonnes. The surging number of SUVs in 2022 were responsible for a third of the increase in global oil demand.

It is what it is?

 

[Pio1980]

In Vermont, a train derailed this week on its way to pick up nuclear waste. It was empty. This time.

LINK: https://beyondnuclear.org/train-der...9PNrQKiAhfs8qE4YHGfppCkE5xer_ezAMFXqMGZgXDuN4

Needs more de-regulation so stockholders get bigger dividends and management their golden parachutes padded.
I've got mine, screw you.

 

[Mystic]

Synthetic chemicals are now written into human biology: “PCBs and PFASs are now an integral part of the human story. They pass from species to species, from mother to child."

LINK: https://aeon.co/essays/how-20th-century-synthetics-altered-the-very-fabric-of-us-all