Is artificial intelligence going to take over our jobs and leave us all unemployed? Relax, my children. Hi-tech Luddites, put away your social media scythes and hammers. We’ve been through all this before. When mechanical looms started putting out smoother cloth than handloom weavers, it created more jobs in the factories. When word processors…
Month: January 2023
Social Commentary
Colonial Selfishness in Medicine
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I have written before about our exploitation of third-world medical systems, but a news report this week brought home to all Canadians how despicable this practice is. Added to that, our unwillingness to educate our own healthcare providers has contributed to the mess in our hospitals. How Would We Feel? What if you met…
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Anti-Monopoly Rules Don’t Apply to Winners
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A couple of examples in the news recently demonstrate clearly how another myth of capitalism doesn’t work. Big kafuffle because two of the major players in Canadian Telecom want to merge. The Government Departments that Pretend to Control Big Business jumped into action and held their meetings. Recommendations from everyone came down that this joining…
Social Commentary
Mouths
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https://www.today.com/food/chewing-mouth-open-t262505 Copyright Yagi Studio Okay, too much portentous political stuff lately. Now that we’re started out on the new year, we can look about for other serious problems to study. And the first travesty that forces itself into my consciousness is a disgusting habit that is appearing more and more in TV commercials: Mouths. Huge,…
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2022: The Era of Idiocy Continues
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Okay, we’ve been watching the “Best and Worst of the News” on all the media, and everyone is astounded at the absolutely inane doctrines that people have been taking seriously. What can it mean when large blocs of people seem to be falling under the spell of such obvious manipulators? “I know I’m right…