#Senate now going through nonsensical #Republican motions re #Mayorkas#impeachment that are all being rejected. There will likely be more before a real vote on Schumer’s point of order that article I is unconstitutional.
From a seat I must fight for - a family of four spread out somewhat - I see a double seat taken up with luggage, from the one family, another double seat taken up with luggage, same family. The seat I had to clear, a double, luggage from the same family.
Boris Johnson to make a general election comeback for the Tories
An interesting experiment I suppose. Can many Tory voters, after Covid, the Economy, Brexit, Healthcare and other pettier larcenies, be fooled yet again?
Force them to compete against one other over who can best regurgitate the God's orthodox #ideology.
Reward those that most successfully regurgitate the God's orthodox ideology with great #jobs and access to influence by giving them A's and references.
Punish those who think critically by relegating them to low paying jobs and obscurity through low grades and withholding references.
There are planets in this strange and wonderful universe of ours where diamonds rain from the sky. You might think this would be quite a wonderful sight. You might think yourself mighty rich to be there. Wait until a diamond the size of a fist hits you in the head.
Exactly 14 years ago , Satoshi Nakamoto designed the most pathetic / inefficient system ever invented by humankind : the blockchain.
Today, it weights 60 000 tons, wastes constantly 10 gigawatts (more than Belgium or Chile) to process less than 7 transactions per second :
Less than a 33 bps modem from 1990.
This could be a joke if it didn't have such gigantic environmental impact, wasn't enabling billion dollars ransomware industry and was not crushing thousands of lives in the process.
A country smaller than Cuba, is the 2nd largest exporter of food in the world. It has as you would expect, hundreds of schools, banks, credit unions, restaurants, colleges, universities, trains, theatres, one of highest average incomes in the world, hodpitals, factories, grocery stores, and more.
And it uses far less electricity than "bitcoins" ~ which does nothing "useful" except to game money out of the pockets of fools.