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?
But now the UK demands I have an ETA, and electronic travel authorization. It is easier to get a visa to Russia. The UK has become a rather unfriendly place, actually that an understatement. One wonders what these folks are thinking.
Not that I have the least interest in anyplace in England, and especially the northern occupied territories, but why they have such a limitation?
Oh well, I love France and perhaps it is my Norman genes.
Well here goes. Some 35 years ago I was SVP and COO of NYNEX Mobile soon to become Verizon Wireless. The interesting thing I found out was in those days the least favored employees were sent there, the better ones assume wireless was just a fad. After all the old company had guaranteed earnings whereas wireless was competitive.
I recall once I asked the head of a region what her market share was. She said fifty fifty with the other player. I knew the answer, she had less than 20% and was clueless. She was from NY Tel. Churn was 20% per month, there being no reason for resellers to not do it since they had no retention policy. The list goes on.
Today Verizon has had a massive collapse. Now consider this:
They tell you to log onto their site. But the site demands that you enter a code sent to your cell phone. But if the service is down you will never get the code. Dumb, dumber, dumbest!
Never ask telephone types to design or implement anything. And worse with a company with over $160 billion in debt beware of their cost cuttings. The place needs a clean sweep!
The NY Times states:
Ms. Hochul specifically wants to prohibit campaigns from spreading A.I.-generated images of people, including opposing candidates, without their consent in the 90 days before an election.
Since the bill cannot define AI, nor can anyone else, this is another Government fiasco!
I wrote a short book on Individualism vs Progressivism. First I defined individualism and laid out porgressivism. Then I discussed the elements of both and contrasted them. I am a strong supporter of individualism. It has been the strength of this country, individuals taking risks to created new businesses, new technologies.
Along comes a fellow in New York who states:
"We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism."
Now this is the death knell of any society. I have seen collectivism. It is a form of slavery controlled by a limited class of overseers. If anyone wants to see the clear fallacy of this statement, just read through my short book, written some fifteen years ago.
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