Random Thoughts or Whatever

[noogies]

One can get a full glass by combining a half full with a half empty. I want quantity and quality

Can one achieve top speed by combining half-slow with half-fast?

 

[nailer]

Can one achieve top speed by combining half-slow with half-fast?

Full speed?

 

[Pio1980]

Did you get it right?

Usually something about "food", water", "outside", or, treats?", or "play?".

 

[Pio1980]

Can one achieve top speed by combining half-slow with half-fast?

Maybe half-assed speed.

 

[noogies]

Maybe half-assed speed.

I know, right?

 

[Spitfirejoe]

Can one achieve top speed by combining half-slow with half-fast?

I've been accused of being half-fast. At least that's what I think he said.

 

[Mystic]

I know people who read Marx in order to learn how to exploit the holes in the capitalist system to make big money.

 

[Mystic]

A society that systematically victimizes people tends to reflexively blame its victims for their own misfortune: poverty, hunger, chronic illness, homelessness, mental distress, and more.

 

[Mystic]

Murder On The 'F' Train
(2023)

 

[Mystic]

 

[Mystic]

POPULATION, U.S. FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM: JANUARY 2021 - 4 MAY 2023

 

[Mystic]

Three women were charged this week with “home invasion” in the Detroit suburb of Roseville. Two of them were police officers.

 

[Mystic]

Most of us know that with 1.9 million people beyond bars, the US has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. But this doesn’t even tell half the story. On any given day in America, there are another 3.7 billion people who are under some kind of court-order supervision, 2.9 million on probation and 800,000 on parole.

nb: Bad boys 'n girls.

 

[Mystic]

Supposedly, 34 states have shoplifting laws even more lenient than those in LA-LA Land.

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/hi-youve-been-referred-here-because

 

[Mystic]

Apparently, women are more likely to blame a rape victim who is shown wearing red vs. one who is wearing green, especially when the blamers have heightened just world beliefs, i.e. they believe life is fair.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sjop.12870

 

[Mystic]

“Wherever you go there is always a Hoosier doing something very important."

- Kurt Vonnegut Jr

 

[Mystic]

CNN "star" reporter Kaitlan Collins once rated male Syrian refugees by their hotness for "e-zine" The Daily Caller.

https://dailycaller.com/2015/11/18/13-syrian-refugees-wed-take-immediately-photos/

 

[Mystic]

“His speech was slow, but it easily kept pace with his thoughts.”

- UK PM MacMillan on J. Foster Dulles

 

[Mystic]

The average taxpayer in the U.S. contributes $1,087 per year on weapons contractors compared to just $270 for K-12 education.

- Ben Freeman and William Hartung

 

[Mystic]

Annual U.S. Gasoline Consumption, All Grades, Million Gallons Per Day: 1976 through 2022


Source: U.S. DOE / U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) - April 2023