lol … psychopaths and sociopaths with a never ending thirst for profit are surprised that infinite growth no matter how much you want to believe in it can not sustain itself are surprised when their money can’t magically grow any more.

says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year

… which means, it already happened a year or two ago and it is much, much worse than anyone can imagine

Also doesn’t say what kinds of cancer. In those same time periods, lots of chemicals and substances have been introduced while CRT TVs disappeared. We might not have cancer causing rays from our TVs anymore, but we’re eating more cancerous materials, in, on or around our food everywhere … not to mention surrounding ourselves with plastics, chemicals and substances while closing ourselves inside perfectly sealed homes that trap everything inside for us to breathe and ingest.

We’re basically the Romans from a thousand years ago who installed lead in everything everywhere and basically poisoned themselves. We call them stupid for not knowing that … we’re doing the same thing to ourselves now with a thousand other chemicals.

The same meter is used for every decision …

• show gay pride flag
• show pink ribbon
• show black ribbon
• pizza party Friday
• use more AI
• throw children in boiling oil
• use more solar
• use more green energy
• supporting Nazism
• replace lead paint in offices
• raise worker pay
• apply more OSHA regulations and keep workers safe
• destroy all life everywhere
• bean bag chairs
• ping pong tables in workplace

… and depending on whether or not anything will throw the meter to Maximum profit or Maximum loss, the company, the CEO and the board will get behind anything, as long as it means more money for them.

The second coming of Christ could arrive tomorrow and if supporting Satan to battle against the Son of God meant more profit for the company, the company would throw all their support behind the Dark Prince and they would all hail Satan, regardless of how Christian they might have been beforehand!

Everyone’s riding the train and they’re all just hoping that today won’t be the day that their car will ride off the tracks … but they all have a sneaking suspicion that it’s going to happen soon … but hope it won’t.

They should fine European customers instead and order them back to remedial basic education for being dumb enough to order junk from Temu

The true test of a Trump Phone is whether or not you are a dumb enough to sign up to get one

I always enjoyed it because it’s very significant coming from Isaac Newton. Even he admitted that he had only scratched the surface with all the work that he had done and that there was way more out there in the universe that we don’t know about yet.

No I don’t … but you can also turn around and put your hands behind your back

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

• Isaac Newton

It sounds like we are part of the same generation (honestly, I don’t know or care what generation that is called, I just have a feeling you were born in the 70s and grew up in the 80s and 90s)

We got to see the internet come into being little by little over the 90s and early 2000s. At the time, we weren’t kids anymore and we did just fine keeping up with the technology. And I believe it was all down to our ability to be able to think, act and do things ourselves without any outside help. We grew up in an education system that forced us to think, to read, to write and to understand using nothing but our growing brain. We didn’t have the luxury of having a device show us pretty pictures or immediately calculate something for us. There is a lot to be said for a child that grows up and learns how to just write ideas, questions, answers and thoughts on an empty piece of paper with just a pencil or a crayon.

You can mimic all that on a tablet but the the process of using a tablet is partly entertainment because at one point, you start playing with the tablet rather than in learning how to draw a picture. When you have a pencil and a blank piece of paper, you have no choice but to use your mind and put something down on the sheet.

Because I grew up with new technology and the internet, I got to appreciate it all and I started tinkering with it all. I never turned into any kind of hacker or computer wiz but over the past 20 years, I’ve learned how to use/tinker/adjust/crack/tweak Windows, MacOS and Linux systems as well as build my own PC, recover old parts, mash together parts, keep laptops alive and recover tablets and devices. All done without any technical training other than what I learned from others online. In all that time, I got to meet and see so many young people who either didn’t know, didn’t care or were just ignorant as to how a computer even worked.

Nah … I just tie people to rails for the fun of it … now turn around and put your hands behind your back

Tech shouldn’t be allowed in the classroom until high school.

Kids need to learn how to think, use their hands, eye hand coordination, basic reading and most importantly … have a freakin ATTENTION SPAN!!!

The modern computer, internet culture and social media are all designed to shorten a person’s attention span as much possible to turn their brain into pudding and market anything to them.

One of the greatest skills in life in being able to think for yourself, to wonder, to imagine and to question the world with just your own mind rather than in occupying every waking moment to a digital device.

At least being number two, you get to be even

America, where you can be imprisoned indefinitely for stealing a few hundred dollars worth of product … but get elected as President if you can steal billions.

Are we talking about American candy bars or European candy bars? … because if it’s in Texas, the child is going to have instant diabetes and will probably lose both their feet … if it’s in Switzerland, they’ll probably break their fingers trying to snap that many Toblerone bars

Most global historic statistics have fairly accurate information for first world countries but seldom have any for developing, third world countries or rural populations.

I’m Canadian, Indigenous Canadian and my parents were born in the wilderness in the 1940s when starvation was still a thing when they were children. They got an education but one that centered around beating the ever loving shit out of you for being brown than in teaching them how to read or write. Even though they lived in a first world country, their generation in Indigenous Canada was more or less illiterate. And that was the style at the time … you counted only the people that were worth counting and you didn’t count those you didn’t care about (which was usually 90% of the rest of the world).

So in the 1950s, when the US, UK and French average literacy rate was about 70% to 80%, they only represented less than 10% of the global population … most of the world was unrecorded, badly recorded or just ignored, the global average at the time was about 20% (or probably less)

Great comment attached to the story in the comments section …

“America - the country where they can afford to send 25 police cars to your house for no good reason, but have no money to pay for cancer treatment. Amazing.”

That is interesting … but that’s the written language. Up until about 1950, literacy was only reserved for those who could actually afford a decent education. A hundred years ago, it was only a very small percentage of the population who could actually read or write. The vast majority of speakers spoke only a common language that was particular to their location and history … so the English they spoke was probably very different than what was being written by a nobleman from their time period.

Another fascinating read is just basic Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain … one of the reasons his writing became so famous was the fact that he wrote his characters speaking in every day language that people spoke … not a polished aristocratic uptight proper English that only the most wealthiest and properly educated people could appreciate.

The excerpts in that blog post are interesting but they would only represent the language of the most wealthiest people of their particular time. If you spoke and listened to a common worker from their same time period, you’d probably hear an entirely different language being spoken … and the difference would be even more pronounced the further back in time you went.

This life lesson definitely does come in handy the older you get. Nothing like receiving complicated tax forms that have to processed for your dead relative / spouse / or child to remind you of how cruel the world is.