umbrarchist

A House of Stupid cannot Stand!

Chess with China

For some reason I get the impression that you do not think having an egotistical imbecile for Preztard is a good idea. You don't like the new name: Gulf of Preztard ??? Actually I do find the idea that so many White people voted this clown into office somewhat amusing. But I wonder how many in the upper echelons of the military have to be contemplating whether he qualifies as a "Domestic Enemy" and what to do in that case? Of course I am not a Lawyer and I am not in the Military and I am not White. So I will just sit here and eat my popcorn. Try not to spray it across the floor when I laugh.

Then what was the earthquake and tsunami that caused the Fukushima meltdown in 2011? Aren't the LA fires trivial by comparison?

Should Donald Trump just kick the bucket and quit wasting the planet's oxygen.

Is this accurate/relevant? https://radicalscholarship.com/2024/02/23/big-lies-of-education-reading-proficiency-and-naep/

I communicated with an accountant about that. He said that he did not mind as long as it was not done until after he retired in 6 years. I am not sure how long it has been. More than 3 years. But I do not doubt for a second that if it actually became an issue Professional Accountants would be up in arms against it. The complexity and difficulty for any business under a few million dollars is no big deal.

So what does 4 years of English literature in high school do for anybody. Drop a year or two of English Lit and replace it with accounting. Big Deal!

"Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland. He immigrated to what is now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States with his parents in 1848 at the age of 12. Carnegie started work as a telegrapher. By the 1860s he had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges, and oil derricks." Funny how they don't say much about 1848 to 1860s. I find this defense of ignorance about some 700 year old knowledge rather curious. One might think it was difficult like algebra that is required.

How much horsepower from the gasoline engines in 1783? The P-38 Lightning had two 1600 HP engines with a cruising speed about 220 mph My point was if that was possible in 1940 without computer aided design then why are we expending resources no useless variations in cars rolling along the ground unless the real purpose is to keep the peons running on a treadmill making money for stockholders?

They had to spend money on accounting firms instead of knowing it themselves. Adam Smith wrote "read, write and ACCOUNT" multiple times in Wealth of Nations. I concede READING comes first. Read, WHAT?! It is an absolute Fact that I cannot remember a single book that the nitwit nuns assigned when I was in grammar school. I found and read Star Surgeon by Alan E Nourse when I was 9. Totally blew my mind. Wasn't accounting. This was before Star Trek. But that is how I learned that the Sun was a star and that all of the stars are suns. No adults were telling me anything like that. I was supposed to pay attention to baseball. I didn't mind playing but otherwise it was boring shit. Who gives a damn about what team is in what city. There is lots of free Science Fiction in Project Gutenberg now: The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/20727 Damned If You Don't by Randall Garrett https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/24064 Badge of Infamy by Lester Del Rey https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/19471 Black Man's Burden by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/32390 Space Prison by Tom Godwin https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/22549 Omnilingual by H Beam Piper https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/19445 Cat and Mouse by Ralph Williams https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/24392 The Night of the Trolls by Keith Laumer https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/53132 Star Surgeon by Alan E Nourse https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/18492 The Highest Treason by Randall Garrett https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/24302 Anything You Can Do ... by Randall Garrett https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/24436 Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/18137 Subversive by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/23197 The Servant Problem by Robert F. Young https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/23232 Border, Breed nor Birth by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/30639 Deathworld by Harry Harrison https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/28346 The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/20919 The Fourth R (1959) by George O. Smith https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/18602 Eight Keys to Eden (1960) by Mark Clifton https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/27595 Ultima Thule by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/30334 Adaptation by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/24749 The Common Man by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/23194

Well psychological reasons for buying a car are absurd. Just watch a World War Two movie with fighter planes. Machines designed without electronic computers to do 350 to 400 mph 30 years before the Moon landing. Most changes in cars since Sputnik are only for those psychological reasons. Then decades of Depreciation have been ignored. The corporations have produced well trained consumers. In 1948 less than 1% of American households had televisions. By 1962 it was 90%. The first TV car commercial was broadcast in 1948. It was for an Oldsmobile or a Chevrolet, sources disagree. Are Americans the most electronically psychologically manipulated people on the planet? But what is to be done with literacy? The Screwing of the Average Man (1974) by David Hapgood

I am not talking about learning accounting to get a JOB in accounting. I am talking about knowing accounting for better financial management. How many people buy a new car without thinking about the depreciation first?

JOBS!!?!!???? According to ChatGPT 650 million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. There were 200,000,000 Automobiles in the United States in 1995. Years ago I asked a PhD economist to explain how an automobile engine worked. No electrics at the time. He couldn't even start explaining. But he drove a white SUV. The schools produce brainwashed workers and television creates brainwashed consumers. It is a Treadmill. Meanwhile paying palefaces to live on the planet. Oh, and how many White people do not own a single square inch? How about mandatory accounting for all Black kids? JOBS!!?!!???? According to ChatGPT 650 million cars have been manufactured in the United States since 1950. There were 200,000,000 Automobiles in the United States in 1995. Years ago I asked a PhD economist to explain how an automobile engine worked. No electrics at the time. He couldn't even start explaining. But he drove a white SUV. The schools produce brainwashed workers and television creates brainwashed consumers. It is a Treadmill. Meanwhile paying palefaces to live on the planet. Oh, and how many White people do not own a single square inch? How about mandatory accounting for all Black kids?

Education is the acquisition of relevant knowledge. I had to spell ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM in 7th grade. We compared Romeo and Juliet to West Side Story in 11th grade. How relevant is that? How about a K-12 National Recommended Reading List? 100 books for kindergarten 200 books for 1st grade 300 books for 2nd grade etc. That would be 9100 for K-12. I tell people that I read a lot of science fiction from 4th grade on. Most people do not take SF seriously. Star Wars ain't Science Fiction. Star Trek is feeble science fiction. A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C Clarke Clarke used Plato's Allegory of the Cave to explain the infrared perception of reality. To me a lot of White people who regard themselves as educated talk as though all reading is good and pretty much the same. I don't agree. Most books are mediocre to crap Wild Seed by Octavia Butler is fantasy not science fiction and not in the same category as Clarke's Moondust. Daemon & Freedom by Daniel Suarez https://www.unfinishedman.com/daemon-freedom-daniel-suarez-future-dark-automated/ Are up to date with the current techno-zeitgeist. A cyber-thriller with a murder in the first 3 pages but the culprit is already dead. The police and FBI are not amused. No sense of humor those guys.

Asshole of the Year! Will the MAGA Morons be able to handle the stench for Four Years? .

Abracadabra! https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2680

Asshole of the Year! Will the MAGA Morons be able to handle the stench for Four Years? .

Even fictional stories have characters more complicated than Heroes and Villains. It was a crime but I won't shed a tear for the victim. The perp was a dummy for not wearing a mask all of the time. In the Age of COVID it is not that unusual.

By overshoot I mean a population collapse. I do not think that there is a significant chance of extinction. But a drop from 8 Billion to less than 1 Billion would be pretty traumatic and how scattered would the people be.

I only started hearing about micro plastic in my body a few years ago but I was thinking about planned obsolescence before 1980. I can only wonder how bad the environment will get before "normal" people react. I assume that we are passed overshoot already.

It is standard operating procedure in science fiction. History is taught almost as though things had to happen that way. But so much was just random. What if a hurricane had sunk the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria? I look at history as a record of who had technology versus who didn't. The Haoles had the technology but most of them are dummies. And the ones who invent the tech are not in control. Planned Obsolescence is a global problem now but most people don't see that.

Pearl Harbor was Commodore Perry's fault. If they had just let the Japanese keep their feudal culture they would not have made the planes to bomb Pearl Harbor. The US would not have entered WWII and the Germans would have taken over Europe.

Life as a contrarian is so aggravating. His point about peer pressure in 4th grade is interesting then he starts talking about Competition. I was bored out of my skull in 3rd grade and then discovered science fiction in 4th grade. But the nuns NeVeR taught science. I was learning things that the nuns were not teaching and so there was nothing relevant to compete about at school. I think letting White people define education is part of the problem. They cannot make accounting mandatory in high school and then economists fail to discuss the Depreciation of Automobiles for 70 years. The system is designed to screw White people. The Screwing of the Average Man (1974) by David Hapgood

No problemo! I just find it rather shocking that school seems to be worse than it was when I was there and none of this Science Fiction Technology.