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The jury is still out, but the society-wide decision in the last 20 years to completely abandon any hope of privacy for the sake of convenient gadgets has a chance to be something that people look back upon with amazement and horror.
Excellent one! That and Twitter take "The Internet" from net positive to waaaayyyyyyyyyyy negative.
The Internet: In at #4 !!
It is so wild to think that in the 70s we had both political parties pretty much on the same page about cleaning up the environment. You can certainly follow our general decline from there. Shareholder being the key word. We used to be a nation full of indebted sharecroppers now we are a nation of indebted shareholders.
Countries who still have not transitioned to making metric the official system of weights & measures:
you'll take my foot-long from my cold dead hand!!!!!!!!!!!!Countries who still have not transitioned to making metric the official system of weights & measures:
Liberia
Myanmar
United States
How is that even possible?
I think there is still broad agreement from the populace on the importance of parks, clean air, reducing waste, etc. It just seems that the climate change issue takes up all of the oxygen in the room and the other stuff doesn't seem to get talked about or focused on any more.
I think everyone agrees on the importance of parks, clean air, clean water, reducing waste, etc just so long as the federal government isn't imposing regulations on businesses to do so. Protecting an endangered animal is fine until it prevents a company from making money, then people start to disagree.
it's not just that. i was a part of starting my town's recycling center and spent many days off on river reclamation and we all just thought that this would be the Boomer legacy - a most natural activism, an integrated view of the world, the extension of the Kennedy/Unicef/CRA64 ethic we'd been raised on. all of our problems could have been and would be solved from that point if giving was as much a part of us as having. and we exclaimed a resounding NO! Carter entrenched the Middle East within our lives, Reagan tore Carter's solar cells from the White House roof and a-slurping we did go.
That raises a good point, I don't know much about wiener measurement in other countries but I would imagine smaller wieners would benefit greatly from the conversion to metric. 10 cm sounds a lot bigger than 4 inches.
I remember being a little kid and our whole class going to the Rouge River (Dearborn area, terribly polluted by the auto industry) to help clean it. It was a big success story how the river was saved. I definitely grew up thinking the country was moving in a positive direction.
That is an interesting one. He is a Serbian National Hero and was successful in ending Austrian rule of his people. I suspect he might NOT be so upset that his act toppled the aristocratic "caste system" of Europe and played a massive role in ending Europe's Imperial dominance of the world.
Whoops!Countries who still have not transitioned to making metric the official system of weights & measures:
Liberia
Myanmar
United States
How is that even possible?
We could have a great discussion about this. Does 80 million(ish) dead offset the needs of the few and allow one of the worst atrocities in recent human history to occur? Tough to say but I'd agree, at the time, I think Gavrilo would have still pulled the trigger.
Perhaps you're right. I may be insulated in my suburban bubble where I feel like open space preservation, environmental responsibility, etc. are big priorities for everyone. No argument from me that big business has an undue influence on many policies in the US.
Just looking at the current administration (not getting to arguments about right or wrong here, it's not the space for it) but one of their points of pride seems to be slashing regulations on business. Many of those regulations were aimed at protecting the environment. The NY Times quoted as Trump has undone 100 environmental regulations and he is quite popular with his party and has a high likelihood of winning the next election. So to me, it seems like the country does not all agree on the topic. Though again, I think how you phrase the questions will strongly tilt the responses.
After the country saw the pending environmental disasters occurring or about to occur, everyone was focused on that. 50 years in, the populace is blissfully ignorant of the "why" behind a lot of those laws because the threat has largely been isolated or abolished and those that fought so hard to put them in place are gone or so old that no one has considered them relevant for a long time. If you've ever been to any of our National Parks I can't believe you would think it's a good idea to let big business in to drill/frack/mine with the promise "they'll be kind to the environment."
No way......The Hershel Walker trade was much, much worse. Ugh, us Vikings fans just can't catch a break....
Jim Fregosi at the end of his career was traded for Leroy Stanton (who did quite well after the trade) and Nolan Ryan (also did quite well).
I can see that. It reminds me of a doctor I saw for my pre-work physical this summer. I have psoriasis and take humira for it which I disclosed to him when he asked if I am on any medications. His response was, "oh it doesn't look like you need it, I don't see any psoriasis at all." Yeah, because the medication works dumb ###.
While funny, this isn't quite true. I've bought gasoline very recently throughout the Caribbean and it is sold in imperial gallons.Countries who still have not transitioned to making metric the official system of weights & measures:
Liberia
Myanmar
United States
How is that even possible?
The qualifier is whether metric is the official system.
I take Enbril for psoriatic arthritis. Aside from the benefit of not being pain, all my psoriasis has pretty much cleared up as well. Wasn't bad before I noticed it. Had a similar conversation with an urgent care doc. "You should look at getting off that if you can, don't appear to have any signs of arthritis or psoriasis."
How many people do you expect Covid to kill? The Chinese Killing of the Sparrows in the 50's led to 20-40M deaths.
Yeah it always seems contemporary thought is that even if that never happened, something else would've started it anyway by that point.
Sorry that was mean.
