The Nuclear Option
Rapper Macklemore is miffed because nine major US arenas have refused to let him do his “Free Palestine” tour in their locales. When I hear this kind of thing, I have to wonder. Do these people actually know what they’re saying? In order to “free Palestine,” you’d have to either do a two-state solution where Palestinians and Israel share portions of Gaza, or the nuclear option … where Israel is removed from the face of the planet. Since Hamas (not Israel) has categorically refused the two-state solution, that leaves one campaign for the “Free Palestine” folks. They want everyone to get on board with eliminating Israel. And they’re miffed that a good bit of Israel as well as the rest of the world isn’t on board with it.
The Real Conspiracy?
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, is resigning and testifying before Congress amid first having an affair with a fellow executive and then being accused of spying for China. Conspiracy theorists have always been pointing fingers at high tech Chinese products as spies for the Chinese, and now it looks like they might be right? This can't be a good thing no matter how you look at it.
Not a Good Outlook
Microsoft has been struggling all week with a massive failure of their premiere 365 product, including Outlook and Teams. Businesses and individuals rely heavily on the software in order to do their business and keep in touch with people. Despite the certainty that science is reliable and tech is our best hope for mankind and Microsoft is our friend, it appears that all of them fail us. And you wonder why I don't trust those particular "gods" in our lives.
Can't Trust the Top
Starlink is a system that is supposed to help Ukraine track incoming Russian drones and shoot them down. Ukraine says they're limited in access to targets under 100 miles per hour, making it impossible to track and shoot them down, and people are dying. No one is yet sure who has limited the access or why. Congress is outraged. To me, it highlights the real problems of science and technology. It's not the science and tech that are most dangerous; it's the people behind them. And you wonder why I don't trust those particular "gods" in our lives. Wait a minute ... I think I just said that.
A Chuckle or Two
After the firing of White House Press Secretary, Katie Zacharia, Trump has secured an agreement with the Miss America Pageant to crown the next White House Press Secretary. I mean, obviously they're hired for their looks, right? The Bee put out a satirical and way-too-true piece after last week's midterm elections. They admit "Satan is once again favored to emerge as the Senate majority leader." Of course, I'm not sure it would have been a different story if the Republicans had won, either. Finally, their take on the Microsoft Office debacle was more optimistic, declaring that national productivity skyrocketed when Microsoft Teams went down. Having used the product ... I actually can see the point.
Must be true; I read it on the internet.
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The Nuclear Option
They chant "From the river to the sea" with no clue what river and what sea, or that it means all of Judea and Samaria. They don't seem to realize what the people of Gaza and the West Bank want, they don't simply want Gaza and the West Bank, they want all of Israel without any Jews in it. Nobody asks what should happen to the Israelis, or worse, some do and say they should be sent to other countries. Because that's worked out so well for them in the past.
The Real Conspiracy?
My guess is that he turned a blind eye to the idea that her company in Singapore would hold to US law and not turn around and ship to China. Not sure what testifying in front of Congress will do, I've never seen any sort of repercussions from those hearings. If he did something illegal, try him in court. But I guess hearings make congressmen feel useful.
Not a Good Outlook
Technology may be useful for making our lives easier, but it makes no change to our nature or make us better humans.
Can't Trust the Top
It is sad to watch the victim mentality in action. Ukraine has done an amazing job defending herself against insurmountable odds. But to turn around and complain about those things gifted to them, while training Mexican cartels and Al Queda how to operate drones better, shows a lack of gratitude and fortitude. If instead they had said, "Look what we've done with only 100 miles notice" they'd still be pointing out the shortcoming without sounding whiny.
“And you wonder why I don't trust those particular ‘gods’ in our lives. Wait a minute ... I think I just said that.”
Actually, I would imagine that you could probably add that to most of your News Weakly entries. (I know I can!)
I did find the Outlook outage annoying; and then our power went out for three hours the next morning on top of it, which was really annoying. Make me appreciate when everything is back up and running as usual … until the next random time.
David, on the Ukraine story, I understand you. It also disturbs me (anywhere) when people say "Because of your actions, people are dying" things that are not accurate. People are dying in Ukraine because the Russians are launching weapons. They aren't dying because Starlink isn't perfect. It's not just Ukraine. We all do it, attributing blame to the ancillary contributors rather than to the primary problem. (Like "gun control" to fix the problem of humans killing humans, etc.) We need to be clear on actual blame rather than perceived blame.
Did either of you notice (as I did) that David and I both were found to make the exact same typo in our comments today? Both of us typed make when we meant to type makes. I make mention of it only because I think it makes for an amazing coincidence. What do you make of that? I’ve heard that “great minds think alike”; does that mean that they make the same mistakes??
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