As promised in the last Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over. Almost certain about a Friday Overflow-Overflow. We’ll see.
Now, let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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This, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, Frankenstein… all are warnings.
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I see things like the above IMHO principled stance, and have hope that Musk is, overall, on our side. And then something like this, below, comes into view:
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I think it was the Greeks who said “Eat small amounts of a wide variety of foods”… and I don’t recall who said “Always leave the table a little hungry” but I do know it’s an old, old saying. Truth. Interestingly, so much of the angst about saturated fats comes from the Seven Countries study, discussed here:
The near-gospel level adoration for this is a critical lesson on groupthink. It’s also extensively discussed in this excellent book: The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
I’d argue a lot of health issues have to do with our sedentary lifestyle. We’re idle, but too busy to exercise. Guilty. 🙁 That, and the increasingly targeted flavors of processed foods to hit the addition centers in our brain. So we eat more of the highly-processed food.
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Aaaaaand, it’s gone from the news. Nothing like not conforming to The Narrative. Speaking of:
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I was honored to have a correspondence, albeit infrequent, with this great man. His framed picture, autographed to me, hangs on my wall at home.
In parallel, there’s a fantastic video by Milton Friedman discussing capitalism:
In which he said:
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
In a very interesting bit of serendipity, I have been discussing capitalism with an internet friend and how capitalism / the free market is great… so long as the behaviors & decisions are moderated by morals and human compassion. Consider the H1B fraud, where companies game the system to replace American workers with lower-wage foreign workers. And lawyers hold seminars on how to do this. All purely legal, but not right.
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Pick of the post:
Indeed, what a stunning coincidence.
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Hysterical!
I’ve worked at some very “relaxed” places, and I’ve often wondered how some of these people would fit in at a more conventional company. One company had an engineering manager (male) who was “built” and, objectively, very good looking. His attire was more suited to trawling the meatmarket bars than a workplace setting. At the same place a female coworker liked to wear low-cut, or open, blouses, and several times had a one-piece dress “sl*tware” dress that was, as above, more suited to going out to a bar than a workplace. A different employer saw a guy, always in Bermuda shorts, zipping up and down the halls on a two-wheel scooter. Back in the Cambrian, when I was young, it was dress clothes, ties, etc., even for co-ops and interns. In many ways I miss that; it gave a professional atmosphere to the place which, IMHO, elevated behaviors.
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I’ve already told my kids that, if asked at school or by the doctor, to lie: Daddy doesn’t own guns.
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Palate cleansers:
