After reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, I’ve just been crossing my fingers for homemade drones to start taking down private planes.
That Department Of Government Efficiency is sure making an impact.
Another promise broken. What a loser.
I would love to pin it on one thing, like social media. While I felt, feel, like that was a big variable in the downfall, I can’t underestimate the loss of the “American Dream”. I felt like phones should be banned. But some teachers felt like phones could be integrated into the curriculum. I could see both points, but honestly I just felt like society had passed me by. One of my master teachers, when I had been student teaching 25 years previously, said it was time to go when the students no longer entertained you. I felt like that was about right. I don’t think knowledge at your fingertips is a reason not to actually learn stuff.
I retired from the job 5 years ago. Your description rings true from my experience then (and was a big part of me retiring), and the colleagues I’ve stayed in touch with say it’s very noticeably worse now. I’m glad I got out when I did.
China is not without a butt load of economic problems already. We are their biggest trading partner. I agree we, the US, is fucked, but China is about to be as well. There will be no winners here.
Q. Did your family support your decision to stay in Ukraine?
A. No, and it’s been hard.
No shit. She sounds like an awful person.
I’ve always wanted to visit, but from the footage I’ve seen it would probably be pretty depressing. Not so depressing once the Chagos people are allowed back though.
The history of that Island, the stark differences between Haiti and the DR, is just painful.
When we spend this much on the fucking military and are worried about declining stockpiles, there can be no doubt about widespread corruption.