I get a lot of packages delivered to our house and I find UPS is the best delivery service in terms of provide me ways to be notified about the delivery status. On the morning of delivery I get a link to a live map that shows the delivery truck in relation to our house, so that I can narrow down when I can expect the package to be delivered.
It is possible that Trump will recover well from his bout with COVID-19, which will then result with his supporters declaring, “see, no worse than the flu!” We must not obsess on how this affects Trump personally and focus on how it spreads and affects others. Trump and those directly in his orbit do not care about others, and apparently people who should know better, like college professors and presidents, as if in an abusive relationship, are too intimidated to stand for themselves.
Chris Christie, for the sake of your family and your own life, stop hanging out with President Trump!
The purpose of wearing a mask is so that one may not spread the virus to others. Because Trump has demonstrated he does not care at all for others, anyone coming in close physical contact with him is putting their life in danger. This act alone is a violation of Trumps oath of office, but since grown ups who identify Republican were incapable of standing up to him and removing him from office when they had the chance, they get to suffer the consequences. (Republicans, when will you face the fact that Trump is not one of you and doesn’t care about you?)
Isolate Trump in the White House until after the election. No more tax dollars spent on him to spread the virus around. No more press conferences. No rallies. Enough is enough.
CNN: This is a code red moment for the US government
“Strategically speaking, it weakens any credibility that the US has, in terms of being a competent global leader prepared to confront threats. "
Making America Great? Greatness is not self declared, it is determined by consensus of others. If I say I am great, I am being arrogant. America’s greatness is thus truly determined by the people who live in countries other than the United States of America.
We were first considered great in 1787 when we did something never done before by creating a nation governed by citizens rather than ruled by monarchs. Any doubt was removed by the end of World War II when we saved the world from fascism.
Unfortunately we got drunk on our own press clippings, puffed our chest, and started trying to impose our superiority upon the world, first in Korea, then in Vietnam, and as we started losing the “war” in Vietnam the government declared war on its own citizens, which has been raging toward the near boiling point that we are experiencing now.
It turns out to be great you do have to care about others. Nobody ever thought to be great was so self centered as to not be willing to sacrifice for the other.
It puzzles me how people who demonstrate an incapability to handle simple things are given pass to do more important things like keep the world safe.
Took some pictures of the clouds the other day.
Two years later and the same question.
This is such a good article by the Rolling Stone, There’s a Right and a Wrong Way to Talk About Trump’s Attempts to Rig the Election
The main overarching issue, which has been the issue since the 2016 election, is Trump says X, and Democrats and progressives say, “Can you believe he just said X?” That’s the problem
The above is one of many good quotes.
Trump shouted, he bullied, he hectored, he lied, and he interrupted, over and over again.
Compare this to the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, which gained a positive reaction from Republicans simply because he was “angry.” Trump’s strategy is to appear stronger than Biden, but the thing is his definition of strength is not the same as many other’s definition.
Roam Is a Note-Taking Tool, and a Dream of a Better Self is a decent article about Roam.
If I’m being honest, what I do is not “note-taking” but rather “record keeping”. I write things down that I don’t want to forget. I don’t do it as an aid to “thinking”.
That’s what I do too, and there is nothing wrong with that, record keeping is important. In my work I take notes to record what I did and I often have do search for things along the lines of “when this last broke, what did we do?”
The new Extreme Battery Saver mode coming to Pixel phones looks interesting.
Om Malik shared the following quote of Steve Jobs that I find disturbing.
“We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids,” Steve Jobs, 1996.
I thought making America a better place for our kids was the American dream. What then does Make America Great Again mean?
Looking at the differences between the Pixel 5, 4A5G, and 4a phones and their associated prices, I think Google has a good line up of phones. I am curious to read the reviews and options that are forthcoming.
The debate last night had only one purpose, to provide entertainment value who think it funny to watch old men act worse than little children, fuel the rage of those already enraged, and turn off those who might still remain undecided. It’s not the right way to elect a President.
To those who are undecided and turned off by what you saw, I say, not voting for Biden insures what you saw will continue for another four years, not to mention increasing the probability of doubling if not tripling the number of COVID-19 deaths.
I am surprised that the power brokers of the United States have not told Trump in clear terms to knock off his comments about the election, and more importantly to clearly say he will concede if he loses. The fact that Trump continues to cause these people to lose millions with his comments supports that idea his real benefactors are foreign and are using him to diminish if not destroy the United States.
I’ve am using Pocket for reading web content and some time in the last few days the Chrome extension changed so that the option to save links via rick-click was removed as was getting the my Pocket list by right-clicking the extension icon on the toolbar. I miss both items and wonder why Pocket would make the user experience worse.
Last year I speculated that David Ross would be hired to manage the Cubs and wondered how well he would do. I think he has done a good job, but the issues about the Cub’s lineup persists. A team of Home Run hitters can be easily stopped by good pitching. Fortunately, this season was short enough so that their early lead held, but I don’t think they win their division if they played a full schedule.
Trump’s election as POTUS says less about him and much more about how we elect Presidents. Elections have become popularity contests in which sound bites are pitted against sound bites and not enough about competency. Political parties, particularly Republicans, seem to see only those who align to their ideology as their constituents rather than all Americans.
I am beginning to think that Apple’s decision to split iPadOS from iOS is a bad decision. While it makes total sense why Scribble is only in iPadOS, it makes absolutely no sense why one cannot place widgets on a iPadOS home screen, nor does it have the App Library. Their exclusion seems arbitrary as if Apple feels obligated to keep features out so that the OSes are different. The net result, however, is a worse user experience.
Two years ago we were talking about another Supreme Court nomination.