We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.
Life is easier now. Right before washing machines there were washtubs and washboards. In the US, I think this was women's work, good for toning the arms and burning calories.
A good place for loners. I believe they have excellent fishing, and the birding is good. Land is cheap. Chilly winters though, and no nearby malls or shopping: Attu
The status quo bias is one type of cognitive bias that involves people preferring that things stay as they are or that the current state of affairs remains the same. This bias can have an effect on human behavior, but it is also a topic of interest in other fields, including sociology, politics, and economics.
By being aware of how the status quo bias influences your decisions and behaviors, you can look for ways to reduce the bias in the choices you make each and every day.
It is an anti-change bias, or an anti-risk bias. Surely it has some costs (and I do not mean financial). I know people who love change. It must be a bell curve of personality tendencies.
My bias is to resist change. It is a personality trait (perhaps not an ideal one), but maybe partly because I tend to be sanguine about my own life. I use the Serenity Prayer for additional support when needed.
On the global scale? World "stability" will never happen. Climates? Change will always occur over time. Re the latter, some change might be good but almost nobody discusses that.
Scientists discover laws of nature by acquiring evidence that some apparent regularity is not only never violated but also could never have been violated. For instance, when every ingenious effort to create a perpetual-motion machine turned out to fail, scientists concluded that such a machine was impossible – that energy conservation is a natural law, a rule of nature’s game rather than an accident. In drawing this conclusion, scientists adopted various counterfactual conditionals, such as that, even if they had tried a different scheme, they would have failed to create a perpetual-motion machine. That it is impossible to create such a machine (because energy conservation is a law of nature) explains why scientists failed every time they tried to create one.
He has been an enjoyable author, also a crank and sentimentalist. I like those types:
“I do not see that computers are bringing us one step nearer to anything that does matter to me: peace, economic justice, ecological health, political honesty, family and community stability, good work.”
Depending on what you want to hear, sound quality matters a lot. For background sound, or podcasts, it doesn't matter much.
For focusing on ambitious music, it does matter to me. Another factor is choices of music. I like to pick a CD, or sometimes even vinyl. If I am in the mood to hear Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony, Can I do that with wireless?
The expert's conclusion: ... the best working speaker system will always be wired speakers. Their ability to transfer massive amounts of sound data physically from source to device without any interruptions will always put them at the top of the list. Just be sure to invest in a good set of amplifiers and speakers to complete the whole system for the highest quality sound.
I also want to mention that I feel the idea of surround sound is silly.
If you listen to our WW2 posts, you will learn that Craps was a popular pastime among soldiers. They played street craps of course, not bank (aka casino) craps.
Alexander Joseph Bohen, Sergeant US Army, World War 2 (DOB: 6 APR 1925, Hometown: Brooklyn, NY)
He recalls England, where the Brits hated the Yanks: "Overpaid, over-fed, over-sexed, and over here." A tough guy, took it all in stride in the fight. I recommend.
Mothballs seem to be obsolete, because of their old-lady odor and some possible carcinogenicity.
Cedar seems to deter these bugs to some extent, but only if fresh or freshly-sanded. "Deters," not eliminates. There are moth trap things on Amazon. I do not know whether they can eliminate moths
Wool is what their larvae like to eat, plus spills in the kitchen pantry.
It is really a goose gun isn't it? I have never used one. They are not necessary for Snow Geese because, as my pal says, Snows "go down like a prom dress."
