Apparently for the debate on October 9th you can submit, and vote on, questions to be asked of Hillary and Trump.
For now, it is dominated by questions very unfriendly to Clinton.
We should share this far and wide and change this.
I would love to see questions on preserving freedom of the press, reducing inequality, adapting to climate change, preserving the U.S. credit rating (with Trump saying earlier how he would be ok defaulting on U.S. debt), and teaching critical thinking
How is it that I get up at 5:50am and am still late for work at 9am?
What’s important rn far more than parsing the debates for entertainment is what happens to Deutsche Bank, but as usual no one is paying attention.
our coop squad leader is moving to NZ. till May at least. She’s skipping winter, and I’m very jealous.
Apparently, there is a program where if you’re a doctor (she’s a speech therapist) you can go to pretty much any country you wish and not worry about immigration etc.
Also, saw vacation photos of other people who were wrapping and pricing cheese with me. Nunavut Territory in one case, and Isle of Skye.
Definitely need to go to Scotland!!
Coffee is about to get a lot more expensive
Next time you head out to get coffee, you may want to stock up. Coffee prices are soaring and there’s no sign of the trend letting up. The higher costs mostly have to do with the weather — specifically, it’s not raining enough in Brazil. We’ve done the math on how much more you’ll have to pay.
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Missing the debates because coop shift.
Just as well.
Overhearing a coworker complaining on the phone about not indulging someone’s (his own?) “transgendered 5yo daughter”.
Not saying anything because I’m a coward.
Sunday accomplishment, besides getting home slightly less upside-down looking, is fixing the car.
Dealer wanted $300 for this, but replacing a burnt out blower motor resistor just took some bike-repair tools and phone-camera exploration finding where this thing plugs into. While the dash was off, I also got to replace the disgusting cabin air filter.
And got my 12 year old car to have a USB port!
I’m going to just stop using the word “Trump”.
I will just say “the Con man” – and everyone would know exactly whom I’m referring to.
Photo of UNICEF VR experience, Brighton Station, UK, September 2016, by Justin Pickard.
Following quotation from the founder of VR company Oculus:
Shortly after Facebook announced the acquisition of the virtual reality company Oculus VR for 2 billion dollars, the firm’s very young founder appeared onstage at a Silicon Valley VR conference. Someone in the audience asked Palmer Luckey a rather odd but revealing question: Why did he and his chief technology officer, video game pioneer John Carmack, often speak of a “moral imperative” to bring virtual reality to the masses?
“This is one of those crazy man topics,” Luckey answered, “but it comes down to this: Everyone wants to have a happy life, but it’s going to be impossible to give everyone everything they want.“ Instead, he went on, developers can now create virtual versions of real experiences that are only enjoyed by the planet’s privileged few, which they can then bestow to the destitute of the world.
“It’s easy for us to say, living in the great state of California, that VR is not as good as the real world,” Luckey went on, “but a lot of people in the world don’t have as good an experience in real life as we do here.”
In fact, as Luckey suggests to me in a follow-up conversation, it may be people from developing nations who’ll be among the first to embrace virtual reality. While the technology must become extremely compelling to attract well-off Californians away from their enviable real lives, he argues, “[i]f you’re talking about Chinese workers or people who are living in Africa, I think the threshold is a lot lower… it could be a lot of the early adopters are the people who have a greater incentive to escape the real world.”
Something about this that is absolutely nauseating. Taking us another step closer to the dystopian future that is becoming all too real.
Little wonder he is a Trumpist.
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