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No shit! I paid for the waist deep ones. But there are so many minor ones that add up. The problem is finding the right books. I was reading about electronics when I was in high school, not as a result of school. It was what I taught myself in high school not the theoretical never never land stuff from engineering school that got me my first job at Panasonic. What books do Black adults suggest to kids? Then there is negative social pressure from supposed peers. "You are a scholar and a gentleman." Two boys paid me to take their SATs though. They were not friends Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics by Stan Gibilisco .

Understanding how reality works can help you fix minor problems on your car and get you to work. And replace a faulty light switch in the apartment building I owned so I didn't have to wait for and pay an electrician. I am not into abstract never Neverland bullshit. Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics by Stan Gibilisco .

The title says the Bible! More Black Americans regard themselves as Christians. .

Got a link to those statistics? You said: The goal of education is to equip people with enough skills to become productive members of society and stimulate economic growth. That sounds like being indoctrinated to be a good productive pawn. To me being "educated" means understanding how reality works, physically and socially. That means being able to figure out when someone is lying to you. Including planned obsolescence in automobiles along with the physics of skyscrapers. .

I searched the thread for Ethiopian and got no hits. Gotta say hhmmmm... about Black American Christians.

So accounting should be mandatory in high schools so people can best serve their own economic interests. Of course this Must bring up PHYSICS because of depreciation. Automobiles are engineering, which is applied Physics. How many people know what a Bathtub Curve is? The reliability and durability of machines can be tested, measured and specified. So the Depreciation rate of individual machine designs should be known before purchase. What happened to the price of the Model T Ford from 1908 to 1926? What would people think about the Twin Towers NOW if Academia had done its job before 2005? .

How many people are killed in traffic accidents in the US every year? 30,000+ That has been happening in the US since the 1950s. That does not count injuries. Do not take my word. How many Americans died in Afghanistan with their mothers believing that a 200 ton airliner could destroy a 500,000 ton building in less than 2 hours? What is EDUCATION?!?!? .

That is basically the same story I read but with more detail than I remember, if it was included.

It seems Taylor Swift picked a strategic moment to crack nuts. https://www.npr.org/2024/09/11/nx-s1-5108695/taylor-swift-endorsement-kamala-harris

Thanx, I just found this: If you consider my emotional state to be more important than a physics problem that has affected the world, that is your business. I left a comment: ============================= This leaves all of the engineering schools in America with a peculiar physics problem. How do they explain the collapses without talking about the distribution of steel down the towers? Think about the shape of the 10,000 tons of wrought iron in the Eiffel Tower. How was the steel distributed down the North Tower. Do you think level 105 contained the same amount of steel as level 5 that had to support the weight of 21 times as many stories? I downloaded the NCSTAR1 report in 2007. No data on the horizontal beams in the core. .

Ships have sunk for centuries. What sense does it make to not talk about the distribution of steel down a collapsed skyscraper when the steel is what held it up in the first place?

No, I did not see it. What did they say about the thermal capacity and conductivity of steel? Let's say you have a cubic foot of air at 75° fahrenheit. Then you raise the temperature to 2000° fahrenheit. Assuming you could do this with 100% efficiency and no loss of energy (probably impossible) then it would be some specific amount of energy required to do that. However a cubic foot of air weighs less than 2 ounces. A cubic foot of steel weighs in the neighborhood of 490 pounds. Steel is about 95% iron with various controlled impurities. So if you brought a cubic foot of 2000° air in contact with a cubic foot of steel at 75° fahrenheit what would happen? The surface of the steel would get hot but it would rapidly conduct heat deeper into the steel, the temperature of the air would drop starting convection currents. Once the temperatures stabilized I bet the temperature of the steel block would not rise 5°. We still have the issue of AUTHORITY Never telling us how much steel was in any area of the building. 100,000 tons of steel divided over 116 levels is 862 tons per level. There should have been less toward the top, but one of my complaints is that they do not tell us the distribution. But that comes to 1700 cubic feet of steel in around 500,000 cubic feet of space per level. A bit much to heat up to weakening in 2 hours. Of course then there is the conductivity problem. The vertical beam sections would have been 30 to 36 feet long. 12 feet of a beam could be on a level that was on fire and 24 feet not. The heat is conducted away. But for the most part I may not arguing about the fire. I am saying the collapse supposedly caused by the fire is impossible. The falling top of the North Tower would either stop after destroying less than 30 stores below, or it would fall down the side. So how can there be 150+ skyscrapers around the world over 1000 feet tall, but not plenty of "experts" able to figure out and tell us the distribution of steel down the towers and why so many videos where they do not even discuss the distribution of steel. Look at the Eiffel Tower. Believe what you prefer. Belief is not science.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/arts/james-earl-jones-dead.html RIJ: Reincarnate In Joy

GDP is Grossly Distorted Propaganda We have a Cash Flow Economy rather than a Net Worth Economy. Curiously Adam Smith wrote "read, write and ACCOUNT" multiple times in Wealth of Nations. I don't even know if my high school had an accounting course when I was there but the US could have made accounting mandatory since Sputnik. Marx used the word 'depreciation' 35 times in the first two volumes of Das Capital. This was before the invention of gas powered automobiles. Planned Obsolescence did not become a thing until the 1920s. Then television advertising got added to the mix in the 1950s. But doesn't planned obsolescence mean unnecessary manufacturing which means unnecessary CO2 put into the atmosphere? Is there some reason Black Americans could not have been teaching accounting to Black kids without haole permission? Of course someone would blab. Economic Wargames: https://www.spectacle.org/1199/wargame.html .

When have you ever heard any economist talk about depreciation of anything besides money? What has happened to the depreciation of all of the automobiles purchased by American consumers since Sputnik? .

This is Star Trek day, Sept 8. There are a bunch of series premiers on YouTube.

I would not have paid attention to Marcus Garvey when I was 12. Every time I think of him I envision that ridiculous uniform. Hubert Harrison I would pay attention to but I did not learn about him until last year. I used to read Mohammed Speaks newspaper before Malcolm X was assassinated. Then I came across that business about a Black scientist creating White people and wondered why Malcolm was involved with them. I read his autobiography in high school trying to understand his connection with them.

And who "owns" the land and collects the rent in the Afro-American community? Who has to send Black kids to schools that are not worth a damn? So the next generation cannot get jobs worth a damn to pay the rent. I know a Black woman who lost her leg from being shot by her mother. She is the mother of that 50+ year old "General" I mentioned. What kind of world views do kids create in their minds? I was called "goofus" but reading Hard science fiction gave me a perspective beyond The Hood. Do we need a little Intellectual Segregation from the White morons? .

That is why we should have a K-8 reading list. Do not trust the haoles to suggest worthwhile material. There is lots of old sci-fi in Project Gutenberg now: Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/18137 The Servant Problem by Robert F. Young https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/23232 Black Man's Burden & Border, Breed nor Birth by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/32390 Omnilingual by H Beam Piper https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/19445 Deathworld by Harry Harrison https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/28346 The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/20919 .......

These are interesting in that they were written before Gaddafi came to power but the same year that Patrice Lumumba was killed . Black Man's Burden (1961) by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/32390 Border, Breed Nor Birth (1962) by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/30639 50 years later Gaddafi was taken down while a Black man was in the White House who got a Nobel Peace Prize. Obama was born in 1961 the year I started reading SF. .

More stupid than slavery. I know a "General" in his 50's who has spent more than a decade in prison and now talks about how stupid it was/is. I first met him when he was 12. What happens to kids trapped in toxic environments with elders as bad as the environment?

The entire automobile industry is bullshit. I never bought a new one. The Laws of Physics do not change style from one year to the next. Where have economists listed the annual depreciation since Sputnik? The Screwing of the Average Man (1974) by David Hapgood

I use an app called AIReader for text to speech. It is not as good as professionally done audiobooks but it is better than some of the free audiobooks in Librivox. It has some dumb flaws like saying Drive for the abbreviation of Doctor. You would think there was a setting for that.

If you are looking for suggestions: Daemon & Freedom by Daniel Suarez A book has to be good enough to overcome my antipathy for reading. The problem is finding them. I don't care about the quality of writing very much but the info/ideas in the story matter a lot. Daemon and Freedom are a single story spread across two books. There is a murder in the first 3 pages but the culprit is already dead. A daemon is a computer program that sits in the background and does nothing. It just waits for a trigger event to execute its code. If the code is to kill someone, it does not care. https://www.lfs.org/newsletter/030/02/Suarez.shtml There are two Black characters, male and female, but they are not involved in any way. .

Another Haole perspective on the Negro Problem: Black Man's Burden (1961) & Border, Breed nor Birth (1963) by Mack Reynolds In 1972 I read Mack Reynold’s Black Man’s Burden/Border, Breed Nor Birth, a cool looking ACE Double. I discovered the stories were reprinted from ANALOG and written a decade earlier. Yes, there are some politically incorrect aspects to these stories of a group of African-Americans who decide to unite North African countries by creating a mythical leader, El Hassan, to bring progress to suffering people. In the Introduction to “Black Sheep Astray” Mack Reynolds writes that John Campbell, editor of ANALOG , suggested elements of the series. Later, I learned there was another book in the North Africa Series, The Best Ye Breed, where the Soviets, Japanese and Americans decide El Hassan must be assassinated because he and his group controls too many vital natural resources. Mack Reynolds may have come up with this idea because of the OPEC oil crisis at the time. Nation-building isn’t a common Science Fiction theme, but Mack Reynolds–a SF writer who wrote about politics and economics–delivers a thought-provoking series. GRADE: B+ https://sfgospel.typepad.com/sf_gospel/2008/08/mack-reynolds-on-africa-islam-utopia-and-progress.html