Random Thoughts or Whatever

[Mystic]

Gen "Z" is a disaster that requires emergency correction:

They want to put 12-year-olds to work in slaughterhouses, draft 18-year-olds for forever wars and hope only the ones with “bone-spurs” live until they can vote at 21.

 

[Mystic]

Ten worst states for mental health care in the USA (Forbes)

01) Texas
02) Mississippi
03) Alabama
04) Georgia
05) Florida
06) South Carolina
07) Arizona
08) Wyoming
09) Tennessee
10) Idaho

 

[Mystic]

The Ten Leading Causes of Death in the USA: 2020 versus 2021

Source: U.S. CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db456.pdf)

 

[Mystic]

After no fault divorce was legalized in the 1970s the female suicide rate dropped by 20%.

PS: And for males?

 

[Mystic]

She was Prime Minister of UK for only 44 days, but during that brief tenure she managed to “misplace” £12,000 worth of … bathrobes.

 

[Mystic]

Oklahoma’s Superintendent of Education has labeled the state’s teacher’s union “a terrorist organization.

 

[Mystic]

A school district in Pennsylvania has been court-ordered to allow students to convene an After School Satan Club, where they can indulge in verboten pursuits like a Judy Blume reading group, the study fossils from the Jurassic Age, conducting atmospheric CO2 tests and, on Friday nights watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

 

[Mystic]

The scores for eighth-grade students in United States History have been falling since 2014. In the past four years, it’s declined five points, from 263 in 2018 to 258 in 2022.

 

[Mystic]

Unlike humans who scatter the soil with micro-plastics to mark their passing, researchers working in Yellowstone have concluded that mountain lions “garden” the soil to favor the nutrient-rich plants their prey species feed upon.

 

[Mystic]

According to the latest IPCC report, by 2050 more than 1 billion people will experience “extreme sea level rise events” every four years.

 

[Mystic]

Last year, U.S. heat pump sales hit a record number. This year U.S. heat pump sales are up by 122% in the most quarter compared to last year’s record.

 

[Mystic]

Sierra Nevada Range Snow Removal -- Week of April 30 2023

 

[Mystic]

Norway’s oil fund is larger than the combined wealth of the ten richest people in the world and is growing by $1 billion a week.

 

[nailer]

Thanks to Mystic for providing support for the deterioration I've been perceiving. Things have been going from bad to worse since the mid 90s or so and the trend is continuing pretty much unabated.

Our stock market is like a ripe melon ready to burst.

 

[Mystic]

Ed Sheeran isn’t talented enough to plagiarize Marvin Gaye, even if he tried. Van Morrison, maybe. Late Van Morrison. Very late.

 

[Mystic]

The debt such "artists" as Ed Sheeran owe to Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Holland Dozier & Holland, Otis Redding, James Brown, Fats Domino and Little Richard is incalculable and goes well beyond the disputed chord progressions in any particular song. Let's impose a Soul Tax, where 5% of every sale just goes right into a fund to be distributed among the estates of the music’s pioneers.

 

[Mystic]

Backstage at the Concert for Bangladesh...


George Harrison: “You gonna play "Blowing In The Wind"?”

Dylan: “Why would I? Are you playing "I Want to Hold Your Hand"?”

 

[Pio1980]

Ed Sheeran isn’t talented enough to plagiarize Marvin Gaye, even if he tried. Van Morrison, maybe. Late Van Morrison. Very late.

What this as obvious as "My Sweet Lord" vs "He's So Fine"?
https://groovyhistory.com/george-harrison-my-sweet-lord-hes-so-fine-chiffons/6

 

[PioneerFreq]

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Image: an AI interpretation of a "Teen Tantrum".

everything I’ve seen come out of this supposed AI is borderline Downs Syndrome.

 

[BillyTheKid]

Ten worst states for mental health care in the USA (Forbes)

01) Texas
02) Mississippi
03) Alabama
04) Georgia
05) Florida
06) South Carolina
07) Arizona
08) Wyoming
09) Tennessee
10) Idaho

No surprises there...