APING EACH OTHER
These Baby Monkeys Are First Cloned Primates Created Using The Dolly Method
Despite low success rate and ethics issues, creators hope they're useful for research.
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Sunday, January 28, 2018
What Should Really Scare Us Here Is What Happens When The Results Of This Research Is Commoditized
Always remember: If it can be commoditized it will be. Just like if a thing can be corrupted it will be, inside of this toxic, destructive economic operating system we call Capitalism.
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Thursday, January 25, 2018
If We Redefined Work, As Well As What Values We Want To Work For, We Could Live Wherever We Wanted
This would also presuppose that all information, as well as, applied information, in the form of actual instrumentality, would be public property for the entire nation, and therefore usable without the ridiculous need of net gain, licensing payments, or money itself, for that matter.
We could do that if we just understood how profoundly electrically retrieved skill sets has changed our world. Changed it to the point where having such skill sets as a continuing, viably competitive commodity, has become absurdly ridiculous. As well as to say how electrified transaction networks have rendered the idea of stable markets equally ridiculous. So much so, in fact, that thinking we can continue to have our values defined from them (working in isolating groups of specialized, and privately own, interest; almost always at divergent, and conflicting purposes), as opposed to working to define our own values, has become absolutely inhuman, immoral, and toxically destructive.
It is this ancient economic operating system that we've been using for the last hundred plus years that is the problem. Not the people. And only in a limited sense the geography; where the limits are primarily our knowledge base, our own imaginations, our creativity, and our willingness to cooperate, and work hard to achieve what we wish to achieve.
The sooner we realize this the sooner we can get started on what has made so many people everywhere so increasingly desperate.
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[Post Note: More examples of trying to maintain islands of wellness inside systems designed primarily to produce profit. J.V.]
WELL, WELL, WELL...
[Post Note: Although this is certainly an idea that has obvious merit, you have to wonder at the incongruity of thinking you can purchase your way into an island of wellness, all the while still living within the larger chaos that is our current economic, and planetary environment. Just how much of the wellness these islands can continue to provide, as markets continue to swing wildly one way or another under the influence of all of the issues accumulating; precisely because they can't deal with those issues at all. It seems just as wildly problematic as it is a lovely dream to try to maintain.
Perhaps the real irony, though, is that we could make this ideal a great deal more realistic if we were to realize that it could be obtained as a more integrated approach to what work, and communities, should be, if we weren't burdened with an economic operating system so fundamentally opposed to human values, or health, as our current one is. Just something to think about as you dream about what life could be like if you could live and work in this kind of more holistic thinking about wellness. J.V.]
[Post Note: And here is more indication of how complicated things get. Sure, getting rid of cars would be a good idea, in and of itself. But we live in an economic operating system that has these beasties as a huge part of our jobs pool; and not just from their manufacture, as all of the repair shops, and tire shops, and parts stores, and gas stations will attest to. But that's just further indication of how you can't do reform piecemeal; as one person's livelihood is another's inefficiency, detriment, or outright poison. J.V.]
[Post Note: And then there is this point of view on moving around to a new place: J.V.]
We could do that if we just understood how profoundly electrically retrieved skill sets has changed our world. Changed it to the point where having such skill sets as a continuing, viably competitive commodity, has become absurdly ridiculous. As well as to say how electrified transaction networks have rendered the idea of stable markets equally ridiculous. So much so, in fact, that thinking we can continue to have our values defined from them (working in isolating groups of specialized, and privately own, interest; almost always at divergent, and conflicting purposes), as opposed to working to define our own values, has become absolutely inhuman, immoral, and toxically destructive.
It is this ancient economic operating system that we've been using for the last hundred plus years that is the problem. Not the people. And only in a limited sense the geography; where the limits are primarily our knowledge base, our own imaginations, our creativity, and our willingness to cooperate, and work hard to achieve what we wish to achieve.
The sooner we realize this the sooner we can get started on what has made so many people everywhere so increasingly desperate.
Telling Rural People To Move Won’t Solve Poverty
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[Post Note: More examples of trying to maintain islands of wellness inside systems designed primarily to produce profit. J.V.]
Workplace Wellness Programs Really Don't Work
They don't save money or make employees healthier, a new study finds.
[Post Note: Although this is certainly an idea that has obvious merit, you have to wonder at the incongruity of thinking you can purchase your way into an island of wellness, all the while still living within the larger chaos that is our current economic, and planetary environment. Just how much of the wellness these islands can continue to provide, as markets continue to swing wildly one way or another under the influence of all of the issues accumulating; precisely because they can't deal with those issues at all. It seems just as wildly problematic as it is a lovely dream to try to maintain.
Perhaps the real irony, though, is that we could make this ideal a great deal more realistic if we were to realize that it could be obtained as a more integrated approach to what work, and communities, should be, if we weren't burdened with an economic operating system so fundamentally opposed to human values, or health, as our current one is. Just something to think about as you dream about what life could be like if you could live and work in this kind of more holistic thinking about wellness. J.V.]
Utopic Wellness Communities Are A Multibillion-Dollar Real Estate Trend
[Post Note: And here is more indication of how complicated things get. Sure, getting rid of cars would be a good idea, in and of itself. But we live in an economic operating system that has these beasties as a huge part of our jobs pool; and not just from their manufacture, as all of the repair shops, and tire shops, and parts stores, and gas stations will attest to. But that's just further indication of how you can't do reform piecemeal; as one person's livelihood is another's inefficiency, detriment, or outright poison. J.V.]
PUTTING A STOP TO THE START-AND-STOP
Planes, Trains And Anything But Automobiles
Self-driving cars, bicycles, ferries, flying between cities — in the coming years, urban planning will be all about getting rid of traffic gridlock.
JET SET ON GOING NOWHERE
The Lost Art Of Staying Put
We've been fed a bunch of fake reasons to travel by evil geniuses determined to use up all the fossil fuels as fast as possible, so as to coerce us all into accepting nuclear power as soon as possible.
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
The Poster Boy For Big Tech's Brilliance, Hubris, And Inability To See...
...It's own role in making money, as well as the operating system that supports it, as absurd as it is corrupting?
I can only hope that such creative people gain better eyes before it is too late.
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I can only hope that such creative people gain better eyes before it is too late.
WHAT ELON MUSK’S INSANE $55 BILLION PAY DEAL SAYS ABOUT THE TECH INDUSTRY
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ATF doesn’t know why Elon Musk said agency is ‘A-ok’ with flamethrowers
The Internet Is Enabling a New Kind of Poorly Paid Hell
Saturday, January 20, 2018
And It All Revolves Around An Obsolete Economic Operating System
An economic operating system more than a hundred years out of date that can't deal with any of it any more. The fallout from which, of course, just accumulates, and accumulates.
Too divisive, corrupting and toxic at every level. And the more we pretend that we can fix it the more the clock winds down to the inevitable precipice of too late.
An alternative is not only possible, it is absolutely mandatory. The first step, though, is to recognize this fundamental flaw.
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Too divisive, corrupting and toxic at every level. And the more we pretend that we can fix it the more the clock winds down to the inevitable precipice of too late.
An alternative is not only possible, it is absolutely mandatory. The first step, though, is to recognize this fundamental flaw.
Homeless After Harvey: A Crisis In Texas
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BURNT RUBBER
How Goodyear Hid Evidence Of 'The Worst Tire Made In History' Linked To At Least 9 Deaths
"There’s nothing to discuss. It is the worst-performing tire ever made."
'THE NEW CLASS WAR OF THE WEST'
The Rich Landowners Blocking Access To Public Lands
The Rich Landowners Blocking Access To Public Lands
Private landowners present a rising threat to the millions of acres set aside for public use by blocking access to public lands.
*POINTS AT EVERYTHING* NATIONALIZED
Privatization Is Bad
Privatization Is Bad
What happens when one company provides so many government services and then evaporates?
What Kind Of American Would Believe The Russian Propaganda Machine
Over their own Department Of Justice. The same Department of Justice that the criminal Trump Administration praised when they were investigating the Clinton campaign's handling of emails.
Do not believe any of this corrupt hogwash.
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Joe To GOP Leadership -- Stop With The DOJ And FBI Conspiracy Theories -- Morning Joe
Do not believe any of this corrupt hogwash.
Right-wing demand to #ReleaseTheMemo endorsed by Russian bots, trolls
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House Republicans Obstructing Robert Mueller? | Morning Joe
A CONSPIRACY TO GIGGLE
'Secret Society' FBI Text Actually Began With A 'Beefcake' Putin Calendar
The backstory to the message that's been blowing up conservative media is pretty funny.
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
The Problem With The Continuing Viability Of Education...
Like the problem with the continuing viability of care for the elderly, is that both represent the absurdity of continuing both processes as commodity based services; services conducted along the old mentality of the factory churning out a product. And worst of all, a product that must return a profit.
The truth of the matter now is that they need to be organic parts of the proper functioning of an community; where we all participate in not only helping others know what they need to know, in running their community, but also in taking care of those who need to be taken care of.
The truth of the matter now is that they need to be organic parts of the proper functioning of an community; where we all participate in not only helping others know what they need to know, in running their community, but also in taking care of those who need to be taken care of.
FOUR FEWER YEARS
The Case Against College
"Education is like John Gotti," Bryan Caplan writes in a new broadside against the US system. "Guilty as sin, but everyone’s petrified to testify against it."
REPO GRAN
The Cost Of Moving My Grandmother Into A Retirement Home
Six months ago we discovered my grandmother had outlived her savings and could no longer afford to stay in her home.
Monday, January 15, 2018
The Exact Opposite Of What True Public Transportation Should Be All About
Bad enough that it will be a massive, installed piece of inflexible infrastructure, subject of course to all the vagaries of geo-physical realities that cut across several fault lines, it will also serve to further isolate, and marginalize, a significant number of people who already can't get where they need to go.
And then we need to ask ourselves what happens when, like a lot of empty Walmart mega stores that now now litter so many abandoned communities, what happens to this installation when it's market falls out from under it. Will its creator succeed in making it big enough that he can claim it is too big to fail?
In my view this is another reason why mass transit on the regional level, as well as on a world scale, must become an issue of economic morality.
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Elon Musk wants to dig a 6.5-mile tunnel under LA
And then we need to ask ourselves what happens when, like a lot of empty Walmart mega stores that now now litter so many abandoned communities, what happens to this installation when it's market falls out from under it. Will its creator succeed in making it big enough that he can claim it is too big to fail?
In my view this is another reason why mass transit on the regional level, as well as on a world scale, must become an issue of economic morality.
HYPERINFLATED
You Probably Won't Be Able To Afford A Ride On Hyperloop
Hyperloop is going to have a capacity problem.
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