Wednesday, August 31. 2022
Recent reports show there are 2X jobs for every unemployed person. When I saw a comment on Linked In (which I use for business, so I won't comment or post there anything except that which is business), I couldn't stomach what I read. The comment said "I don't understand how so many jobs are available and I can't find one that matches my degree and pays a living wage."
Naturally, I had many problems with this. I did not respond there, however. I didn't feel it would 'help' me to have business cohorts seeing my views which are clearly unacceptable to so many these days. Not interested in being canceled (or possibly have my company restrict me in some way), I am sharing some thoughts here.
1. There is no such thing as a "living wage". What you can live on and what I can live on are vastly different things. When anyone is saying they need a "living wage" what they want is "a wage that lets me get everything I feel I want or need". These are incompatible ideas. Technically, a living wage would be a wage that gets you started and allows you to have an apartment and buy food. Beyond that, it's nothing. It shouldn't pay for your iPhone bills, or your gaming, or your travel or anything like that. I know that's what the person meant (it was implied in follow up comments).
Continue reading "A Living Wage"
Just as the male sexual drive and violent impulses can overwhelm their conscience and their ability to think and act rationally, emotions can do the same thing in girls and women: overwhelm their conscience and their ability to think and act rationally.
Ibram Kendi attacks John McWhorter's latest column on standardized tests for licensing
Tuesday, August 30. 2022
This is not intended to be about either weight loss or weight gain. It's about feeling good and lively all day without a siesta.
According to the stats, adult Americans are overfed or, more accurately, are overeating. Food is a pleasure, usually. Too much of a good thing makes us slothful, if not foggy or sleepy. The trick is to consume food until the moment that any feeling of hunger disappears. It is a "Stop" signal.
The challenge for many is that the sensation of satiety lags behind food intake by 15 or 20 minutes. If you eat quickly, you can miss that signal especially when the offering is delicious.
My advice (feel free to ignore it) is, unless underweight, to quit eating when a feeling of hunger disappears. It doesn't take much food if you eat slowly and chat with whoever is with you. After all, the reason to sit down with others is to socialize.
Most restaurants have "small plates" these days. They are usually plenty for most people. The point is that there is no law that we must clean our plates anyway.
The Hunger Scale: Mindful Eating for Weight Loss
 Even in a bad tomato year people get plenty of Cherry Tomatoes.
CHERRY TOMATO TART
Monday, August 29. 2022
Mrs. Bulldog and I got back a month ago from Stockholm. As cities go, it is by far the crunchiest I've ever seen, and where we stayed (Downtown Camper, part of the Skandia chain) really focuses on this kind of crunchy experience. The rooms are excellent, the location perfect (right in the middle near everything) and they offer many amenities which make it a great hotel experience, and then some. Rooms are well-appointed, they have a rooftop bar and spa (which we utilized and I was shocked to see Stockholm has very few rooftop bars of any kind), they offer bikes, skateboards, yoga, tours and a movie night. There is an excellent breakfast, which was a tad on the expensive side, but worth every penny. Staff, much like the Swedes themselves, was happy, helpful and willing to go out of their way to assist with our several issues (such as printing tickets to events or museums which we'd forgotten to print).
Stockholm is also a cashless society (Sweden as a whole is supposed to be, but Stockholm sticks to it with a passion) which is a good and bad thing. Good because it's easy to get around, pay and do what you want. No need to carry cash. One of the justifications for cashless societies is to reduce crime - yet pickpockets are still a huge problem in Stockholm, as they are in any other major tourist city. Crime, in general, is not really in decline but crimes related to cash have fallen.
Continue reading "Stockholm and the Cashless Society"
Sunday, August 28. 2022
He bought a 24-acre island in the Seychelles, and transformed it.
A Grain of Sand (2009) DOCUMENTARY from Wandering Eye on Vimeo.
Is Trump Derangement Syndrome any worse than the hatred of Nixon, Reagan, or Bush?
Trump Derangement Syndrome is Going to get Worse
Luke 14:1, 7-14
14:1 On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the sabbath, they were watching him closely.
14:7 When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable.
14:8 "When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host;
14:9 and the host who invited both of you may come and say to you, 'Give this person your place,' and then in disgrace you would start to take the lowest place.
14:10 But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, 'Friend, move up higher'; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.
14:11 For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted."
14:12 He said also to the one who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid.
14:13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.
14:14 And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."
Saturday, August 27. 2022
 Let Djokovic Play
'Trans-masculine' parents of 10-year-old 'trans model' plan for minor's gender surgeries at age 16
Georgetown University imposes mask mandates this fall, against CDC guidelines
Liberal Arts:
According to the course description for “Mental Health, Madness, and Neuroqueerness,” the class will, “critically examine how ideas about mental health and wellness are situated in systems of colonialism, white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy.”
Cornell is evil: Cornell perpetuates ‘colonialism, slavery, racism, classism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism,’ school’s website states
Whiteboards are racist because 'they collaborate with white organizational culture'
Spectator: Nikole Hannah-Jones has taken over the history profession. A professor strays from the woke line and gets slammed
College: Free is Free, Before or After the Fact; Yet, There is No Such Thing As Free
Hard-Working Plumber Looking Forward To Paying For His Neighbor’s Gender Studies Degree
Penn-Wharton pegs Biden's Academia bailout potential cost at $1 trillion
Big Tech Gears Up To Throw The Midterm Elections
We Now Know The Perfect Temperature For Your Home, Which Is Bad For ‘Climate Change’
Kathy Hochul’s call for 5.4M Republicans to leave New York is dangerous and disgusting
Mark Zuckerberg Tells Joe Rogan The FBI Told Him To Censor Hunter Biden Story…
Whistleblowers: FBI Leadership Told Agents ‘You Will Not Look at That Hunter Biden Laptop’
With a stroke of his pen before the midterms, Biden forgives $300 billion in student debt, without a care for the dutiful who paid their loans off or those who did not go to college but will now pay for those that did.
Anybody who imagines that the Jan 6th protest was an attempted coup is crazy
Europe Is Now "Powerless" And Its Inflation And Recession Are About To Get Even More Brutal
Friday, August 26. 2022
Apparently a court says it is.
I do not know what it is, but I know there is some sort of mass hysteria going on about it and it will not end well.
The term has a formal use and a casual use. For nitpickers like me the increasing casual use is annoying.
Thursday, August 25. 2022
Sex Drive: How Do Men and Women Compare?
How often do men really think about sex?
WSJ via Kling's summary:
... the group of people who have done particularly well from the free-marketization of sex are men high in the personality trait that psychologists call “sociosexuality”: the desire for sexual variety.
…Worldwide, there is a significant difference in average sociosexuality between the sexes, with men generally much keener to sow their wild oats than women are. The full WSJ piece is here.
I believe that most humans are highly sexual and sexually-motivated creatures. Many fantasies, if not action. It's about mostly-private thoughts. It is not as if men are always ready to go (although it is true that men are easily interested or seduced). Still, womens' sexual interests and fantasies are underestimated. Women always check out other women's clothing, but they check out men just as often.
Human biology.
Wednesday, August 24. 2022
 No, Eve did not eat an apple. It's called poetic license by the translator.
A small mountainside apple originated in the hills of Kazahistan. This heritage apple (in the Rose family) was probably the size of a rose hip.
It took me decades to realize that I don't like apples unless they are cooked in some way. Occasionally a thin slice with some cheese.
Exploring the origins of the apple
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE APPLE TREE
Who was Granny Smith?
Are apples "healthy"? Not much. Mostly sugar.
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