I just ordered a new phone. Paid for it and it was to be sent. Verizon used:
DHL FWD DFILL GROUND
Now this is some screwed up amalgam of DHL and UPS which got lost somewhere in northern NJ. Impossible to track and guess I will have to deal with the incompetents at Verizon.
That company is close to total implosion. Fortunately my pension is with Prudential now and not these incompetents!
Now New Zealand is an English speaking country but in many ways an outlier. In a Nature article the authors discuss Toxic Masculinity. They state:
The term toxic masculinity was coined in the 1980s, and expresses the idea that some of the traits that many societies consider stereotypically ‘masculine’, such as dominance and aggression, can have damaging social impacts. Today, the phrase is often used to describe all manner of behaviours, from sexual violence to a disinclination to help with chores around the home. The concept has proved helpful in many ways — highlighting how gender-based expectations can contribute to depression in men, for example, and encouraging men to see value in being open about their emotions. But it can also be problematic, researchers say. Casual use of the term might falsely imply, for example, that all societies think of manliness in the same way, that all masculine traits are negative or that all men are toxic. Researchers have delved into similar concepts, including hegemonic or patriarchal masculinity, which examines how a dominant, culturally idealized view of manhood upholds the patriarchy. But the term toxic masculinity hasn’t had as much academic attention. “Nobody measures it,” says psychology researcher Steven Sanders at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Some psychologists are now trying to pick apart and quantify its aspects.
Now clearly the authors have not been examining the trends of American XX in the recent decade of protests. Dominance and aggression is an understatement. Ruthless, assertive, and provocation are more the likely assessments of XX.
The XY groups try to keep their own but clearly the behavior is dominated by the aggressive XX groups. But alas this is New Zealand.
More and more web sites demand use of Cloudflare. Time and time again it messes everything up. It asserts that my IP address is a risk. I have used it for three decades! No risks. It fails to learn. It then inhibits log in to common sites. You spend time working around it.
I agree we should be careful. But it appears Cloudflare despises users! Security should be better at what they charge. If all else fails listen to the customer. They clearly do not.
In the years that I was flying back and forth to Europe, the return trip often took me across Greenland. I often thought I would like to go there. I hired an advisor who had been the US Ambassador to Greenland and he told me that the only way to get there was on a flight from Copenhagen, which went but 2 days a week.
Then as I kept looking at Greenland fly by me at 35,000 feet, there really was not much there. Perhaps a few rotting US radar facilities and some lost B-17s. Yes, a Soviet sub would go between Greenland and Iceland to the North Atlantic, AKA Red October and the SOSUS arrays would try to track it, but weapons have changed in fifty years.
So I ask what war are we fighting. The old adage is when the war begins the plans get thrown out the window. Then the Generals and Admirals we started with ket booted, think McClellan. So why is it strategic?
Perhaps a White House telling us all the reasons would help. I really don't sense it filled up with Russian spies. What are the strategic needs? The sop of rare earths is true nonsense, California and western states have more than we ever will need. And we don't have to annex them, kinda!
The new NY Mayor's Housing head allegedly is in favor of massive public housing, seeing individual home ownership as some capitalist evil. I guess I have a strong sense of small. As a young man, grammar school, I had an uncle by marriage who was the head of maintenance for one of the massive NYC housing projects. As I walked through them, because he lived there, the smalls were overpowering. Food, excrement, urine, and the overpowering odors of humanity on the edge.
Segue to the 1970s and Soviet Moscow. January, 20 below zero, yet as one walked along the streets one could smell the kerosene and borsch, from small stoves, and inside were people brushing their teeth with vodka because the drinking water was infested with giardia. It reminded me of NYC housing, just older!
Communism is forced communal degradation, and perhaps that is what this Housing person wants, One just wonders why?
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