Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cursitor Doom Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: blame electronics Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 18:01:21 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: <662d2a1a$0$6542$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 19:01:24 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="26cff1648c2a261be1a8853e87698154"; logging-data="1229530"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Xg6zchgdQ1h93+T4Asu1XxVNFxn0AZZk=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:tvOpHHo30vaD25quZlOz1Jvbxd4= Bytes: 3679 On Sat, 27 Apr 2024 21:00:05 +0200, Lasse Langwadt wrote: >On 4/27/24 18:38, bitrex wrote: >> On 4/27/2024 12:11 PM, Bill Sloman wrote: >>> On 27/04/2024 11:56 pm, John Larkin wrote: >>>> >>>> https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/26/opinions/opinion-the-cause-of-campus-chaos-zakaria/index.html >>>> >>>> TV, and now cell phones. >>> >>> But that isn't the problem. >>> >>> The real problem is much the same as the change in the American diet >>> which has made Americans a lot fatter. >>> >>> People who sell food have tweaked it so that the people who buy it buy >>> more of it - it doesn't matter the the manufacturers that their >>> customers get fatter and die younger. >>> >>> People who sell opinions make their output more compelling rather than >>> more informative, because that enlarges their audience. >>> >>> Being able to get stuff published in the New Yorker won't make you all >>> that rich. Becoming a star on Fox News is much more profitable - >>> Tucker Carlson is a depressing example. >>> >>> John Larkin's enthusiasm for climate change denial reflects his >>> willingness to binge on the intellectual equivalent of junk food. >>> >>> We need an intellectual equivalent of Ozempic - critical thinking in a >>> pill. Academic education is supposed to instill critical thinking, but >>> it didn't work on John, or Donald Trump. >> >> >> Even many US university students tend to be smart enough to notice that >> the US seems to have endless money to fund foreign conflicts, but always >> talks austerity when it comes to them and their future (or lack thereof.) >> >> "Haha you'll never afford a home even with a college degree but here's >> another $50 billion for Israel and Ukraine, and there'll be another $50 >> billion after that, and after that..." > >$50 billion is chump change compared to the US budget It's not even chump change compared to the $1tn increase in the US national debt every 100 days. I have no idea what the thrust of the original article is suggesting. I have no idea what Bitrex is bitching about, either. Sending money for war purposes whilst ignoring domestic concerns is just what Globalism is all about. Globalism is what Bitrex has always espoused here, so why he's got his panties in a bunch I simply don't know. Anyway, what's most important is that the horse in the photo hasn't been provided with eye protection. All riot horses in the UK are fully kitted-out with personal protection gear. I'd assumed it was the same in the US but clearly it isn't. THAT issue at any rate, definitely requires addressing.