This is going to be painful, but it can no longer be ignored. So I suggest doing it fast, like ripping a bandage off.
I'm going to apologize in advance for some of the worst rap music ever created.
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso
It has been along week and my mind has been basically blank coming up with a topic for today's thread.
Probably need more caffeine than my home roasted coffee is supplying. Taste is great, but no buzz or jitters.
Happy Friday everyone. As always, post any photos you like.
I took these about ten days ago at Santee Lakes. I'd never seen the Northern Pintail before. I did't know what it was. I had to look it up.
“There is no way we were ever going to unite Ukraine. I mean, Iraq. Afghanistan!”
- Biden
Biden wasn't the only one that got confused yesterday.
Let's imagine that the universe is a living entity and every heavenly body in the universe is but a cell comprising the totality of said entity. What kind of cell in that living entity would the earth be?
How will future historians view the internet? Will it be viewed as uniting or dividing humankind?
Is mankind doomed? If so, what besides greed is the damning factor?
Is the internet causing people to have split personalities with differing online and real life personas? Do people act differently online than they would face to face? If so, why? And how does that portend for the future?
In the future if the internet leads to a one world consciousness, like the Borg, which yin and yang aspect will win out, good or evil?
In this world, however, the nice liberals run pieces like this one on Scheerpost:
From Popular Resistance’s Phil Wiloytoo, Feb. 8, 2022 (Creative Commons):
‘Russia, Ukraine And The US: The Background They’re Not Telling You’
Above photo: U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland passes out food to EuroMaidan protesters on Independence Square, as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt looks on nearby
The current state of global affairs, the Covid crisis, the Ukraine war drum beating, the media flickering from 'scary' thing to 'terrifying' thing and back again, dementia Joe Brandon and his cabal is getting me down. I hope some of these are not doing the same to you. In an effort to lift hearts and minds for a bit I want to tell a story, in a really cheezy kinda Scandinavian or Anglo-Saxon saga way, about my wonderful farm dog, Jaska, and one of her farm friends - the rooster Buford.
