Just need to vent...

The bandwagon of pop culture support for hamas.......regardless of who you feel is "right" or wrong....I urge people to remember the facts.
1. hamas attacked Israel on their soil, people were taken hostage,others were killed
2. War is violent and people are killed during Wars
3. No amount of wishing,soapboxing or protesting in the US will change the mindset of those actively fighting and dying in a War zone. Sympathy doesn't really exist in religious wars.
4. Younger people forget how awful a War is.....older people remember and do as much as possible to avoid it at all costs.
5. Less intelligent creatures are slow to learn and usually require a lesson in FAFO
6. Gaza is experiencing this lesson. If something is learned......... is TBD

 

Haters gonna hate.

80 years ago they were turning jews into air pollution.
You cannot expect this type of deep seeded hatred to go away in just a few generations.

The truth is that Arabs do not like the Palestinians much more than they like Israelis, which is why the Persian Foreign Legion (IRGC) has been so deeply involved in this twisted adventure.
Queen Riana has been all over social media slagging the IDF, while nobody seems to remember that her hubby killed more Palestinians during one black September than the Israeli army has in Gaza.

 

Owning a Prius, I soon learned how many people would 'hyper-ventilate' lies about my rides, I had three Prius over the years. So you became adept at answering the lies and which to let go bye-bye themselves. Having moved to EVs, the same pattern followed only now there is a name, Elon Musk, for vile ad hominem attackers waiting for a 'slip of the tongue' to pounce.

The latest, from two sources I follow, are to claim Elon is antisemitic based on Twitter/X nonsense. The first problem is to claim Twitter/X has some outsized effect ... a Svengoolie ability to exercise 'mind control' over people. The same accusation is applied to TikTok and library books. Just another corrupt censor attempting to control what free people see.

The most recent claims cite Elon agreeing with someone's Twitter/X post. If Elon were antisemitic, he would write his own posts, not nod at 'weak tea' of others. Yet the existence of 'bad posts' in Twitter/X is further cited for these claims. Yes I would prefer to not see lies anywhere but only because our species has developed better judgement-genes to filter the out. But we all can't be Vulcans and Thanksgiving approaches.

It is around the Thanksgiving table we often find loved relatives to spout nonsense. Thanks to shared genes, we love to eat the same things. But that does not extend to understand life, the universe, and everything. So the clever learn the value of silence and let 'reality training' teach the lessons needed.

That is my vent for today. Happily, the foolish will sell their TSLA at a lower price just in time for my Christmas buying.

Bob Wilson

 

Very smart guy but apparently, he just doesn't know how to keep his mouth shut.

 

The quest most have to be rich. And if you are rich and write, or approve of, something everyone talks about it, but why?

 

I suppose u use forbidden fruit.....shame....

 

i bought an asus or acer from amazon a few weeks ago because my 10 year old laptop was acting up.
after fiddling around with it for a day, i sent it back. i'm too old to change horses now

 

Around 1990, I got my first laptop, a PowerBook 140, and showed it off to some NASA technologists. One was polite and showed interest. He asked 'How much did you pay for it?' I answered and then he said, 'Well Bob, if you'd bought a PC version, you'd still have half of what you paid.'

As I was closing it up, I said, 'Sometimes I recommend PCs instead of Apples ... to my competition.' and left.

Bob Wilson

 

I'll start calling it "X" when they change the URL......
("New" Coke?)

 

Well some think it is now "X rated." <rim shot>

Bob Wilson

 

Walter's bio mentioned that he really digs the 24th letter in the Latin alphabet, and he is a centibillionaire.

I would think that he'd be able to lock up that URL.....

 

greeks use/used 24 characters - but didn't ancient Rome use 21 characters?
https://coriniummuseum.org/schools/resources/roman-writing/#:~:text=Roman%20people%20wrote%20in%20Latin,and%20W%20were%20not%20used.

old enough to have been offered Latin in high school. i know - i know .... count on mr. tangent here to miss your actual point

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No.
It's a valid point.

I was trying to be sensitive to the fact that we are a multinational forum.
I'm not especially sensitive to criticism AT ALL, but if had I said "English" alphabet, then some pucker-butt out there looking for an excuse to be offended would have bleated objections.

This IS a good place to do that, but my original intent was to recognize that the alphabet used to write the English language is the “Latin alphabet.” It is thusly named because it developed in Ancient Rome and was first used to write their language, Latin.
The 'Latin Alphabet' is used for most other European languages, and a few non-European ones as well.
Aaaaaaand Yes.
I'm aware that Latin doesn't have very many words in it with the letters 'U' or 'J' and I suppose some barista out there with an MA in English will know how and why they were inserted presumably at a later time resulting in the letters that Grover taught my kids and grandkids on government funded TV.

I'm struggling to stay proficient in using just the ONE language that I grew up with, and I do not tend to be a 'rules follower' as the constant reader might have noticed.

I'm also at a distinct disadvantage because I'm a DAMNED Yankee, and thus I do not even speak the local dialect.

 

There is a small but noisy group of ankle biters who live to criticize Elon Musk. But he leaves himself vulnerable by poorly thought out Twitter/X posts. I don’t see malice as much as sloppy posting habits. Food for the ankle biters.

Bob Wilson

 

Tough to say. A lot of people with just a fraction of his brainpower seem to manage to be less sloppy, if that's what it is.

 

Musk means what he says

 

I just checked Twitter and found a 'Hallelujah Chorus' blowing smoke up various rectums. Every school assembly and military formation drove me to hate mobs because a negative feedback loop instantly leaves reality and thinking behind.

Past Twitter had so little content, I didn't use it. Today's Twitter/X based on my recent visit, has become even more ignorable.

Bob Wilson

 

After getting upset at Microsoft and their end of life policy on software I was going to swear them off forever.

Our current home computer system is giving up the ghost and I began pricing a replacement - our system is early 2000's and can't run reliably any more or be updated.

After much research we decided on an All in One computer for a replacement either an iMac or a Dell All in One.
Wanted an iMac but for the Model we needed it was $700 more than the Dell All in One since Dell is running a blockbuster early Black Friday Sale on their All in One. Deliverd on Sunday

Being an unreformable cheapskate, I just couldn't spend the extra money for an iMac.

So far very pleased with the Dell All-in-One and Windows 11. I hope Microsoft doesn't bust my bubble anytime soon.

 

I also resist moving to a new computer as it usually takes 3-6 months to get the software configuration back up to full working order. I sometimes find a missing software application that I use for teaching a year after getting a new computer. Of course it sometimes becomes necessary to move to a new computer. My current Dell 2in1 is now 4 years old and has been upgraded twice. I bought it when my MS surface inconveniently died mid-semester.

JeffD