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Being a billionaire doesn’t mean you’re not totally nuts
The ‘The Richest Person on the Planet Hat’ is passed around from time to time. When I wrote my ‘open letter to all billionaires, everywhere‘ post in September 2020, Jeff Bezos had the hat. Forbes World’s Billionaires List 2023 now … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Core thought, People, Phlyarology, Rants, Science
Tagged 'common' sense, billionaires, cognition, Elon Musk, politics, stupid
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Politicians: we demand better!
My bro sent me a link to this ‘open letter to (UK) politicians’ this morning. I agree wholeheartedly with every word, and, though I don’t believe that petitions do very much (or voting, for that matter, given that our political … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Economics, Energy, Environment, Food, GCD: Global climate disruption, Health, News and politics, Strategy
Tagged climate action, fossil fuels, leadership, petition, politics, pollution
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Knowing there’s a trap is the first step in evading it
Normality is slippery. What’s ‘normal’ for me is very different from what’s ‘normal’ for many in other parts of the world. Normality also shifts over time. My home often featured a fine haze when I was a child. My parents … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Core thought, Phlyarology, Strategy
Tagged addiction, behaviour, habit, normal, normality, stupid
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Why on Earth is there laughter in slaughterhouses?
The vast amount of land used to rear animals for the meat industry is a major contributor to climate change. You might think that it therefore makes sense to minimise land use by employing factory farming techniques. If you’re comfortable … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Core thought, Culture, Food, Health, perception, Phlyarology, Strategy
Tagged bacon, belief, chicks, climate change, factory farming, horror, inhumane
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The only solution to the unfolding catastrophe
It’s all about belief. Not even the flawed so-called ‘democracy’ ‘enjoyed’ by the ‘free world’ can steer the Titanic away from the iceberg if too many believe utter nonsense and vote in favour of those who would continue on the … Continue reading
Your call is SO important to us!
I saw this, and it reminded me of my 2007 post ‘Let’s Play… talk to a human‘. Although of course I’m fooling myself, I do like to think that Matt Green stumbled upon that post and thought, “Hey, that’s a good … Continue reading
Where are our rich influential people? – revisited
TL;DR: They’re laughing (at us), all the way to the bank. Just over a decade ago, I posted a wibblette entitled ‘Where are our rich influential people?‘. A few days ago, I stumbled upon an article on Wired: ‘Millionaires Are Begging … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Core thought, perception, Phlyarology, Rants, Strategy
Tagged #TaxTheRich, inequality, Justice, wealth
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Finally: climate science humour goes viral
We at Chevron believe that nothing is more precious than life and that the most precious life of all is the dead kind that has been compressed for hundreds of millions of years under massive rocks until it magically becomes … Continue reading
So encouraging to know that peaceful protest is being made illegal in other countries, too…
… not. Kind of gives credence to thejuicemedia’s allegation that Those In Power are indeed actually the captains of the fossil fuel industry, at the helm of the SS† Spaceship Earth :( † SS = sinking ship Zoë Amanda Wilson/ … Continue reading
The BIG Big Bang Theory Trivia Quiz – Part Two
Given that ‘Part One‘ of this quiz must be, by any measure, one of the least popular posts I’ve ever created, I really, really don’t understand why I bothered to make a ‘Part Two’. But I did (and it took … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Just for laughs, Phlyarology
Tagged Quiz, The Big Bang Theory, Trivia
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