OT WE 3 JUN 26 ~ National Egg Day
The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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-- Mark Twain
Found an interesting break down of US education motives and results. It is rather long (about 50 minutes)
and spoken by an Aussie. Dealing with the reasons for the subversive labels given against developing critical
thinking skills. Pretty heady stuff, better taken with a strong cup of java and a shot of whiskey or something.
Touches on many issues pertinment to our present situation. Not for the faint of character.
Otherwise, this is just another placeholder in the effusive stream of information. This is also an opportunity
to add your voice to the platform in whichever dimension you see fit.
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... we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg
or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
-- Carl Sagan
Light sculpture Lawik Siwarek Bas E by Roda Medhat
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/05/roda-medhat-from-the-loom/
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Hey, good morning
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Another wondrous Wednesday is upon us.
Shared with the writing group the story of a
trip on the tugs down to the bay of Campeche.
Taking shore leave in the Yucatan Peninsula,
experienced some fantastic things. First time
telling the vignette. Want to put some things down
before they disappear in the memory abyss.
What excites your imagination today? Listening to
geopolitical podcasts this AM. Seems like Ukraine
and Israel are getting slapped a bit harder while trumpet
fiddles in tweet land. What's next?
Zionism is a social disease
FISA Again...
FISA - the much abused Patriot Act vintage spying authorization is expiring
imminently and the usual forces of darkness want it re-authorized with its
abuse-enabling features intact.
Killing it altogether would be preferable, but short of that there is a bill that would stem some of the worst abuse - would require warrants by name for the surveillance of any US individual and would prohibit the purchase and use of information acquired from data brokers that the government is not authorized to collect for itself...
Some renegade R's are pushing it - reasonable shot at passage if the leadership will let it come to a vote...
19:55
The video:
"Participation is technically voluntary, but refusal is punished."
Sounds a whole lot like Covid and the jab in Australia. Lot of
blind compliance and far too little in the way of critical thinking
and pushback when that was going down.
A bit rich to be lectured on blind acceptance of orthodoxy by someone
in whose country questioning it has to a considerable extent been criminalized.
And worse, to a considerable degree, throttling of free expression *normalized*.