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skipper wrote a new post, Past Forty-five 1 year, 12 months ago
Mariner reports from an electric recliner in his henhouse apartment:
This post primarily is for anyone over forty-five. Name five activities the reader hasn’t done for the last five years. For example, walk […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Where is the sheepdog? 1 year, 12 months ago
Remember that mariner writes from a one room apartment in Chicken Little’s hen house. Current news is forbidden here. So mariner writes about whatever drifts into consciousness.
It occurs to mariner that humans […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Oh Dear 1 year, 12 months ago
A few days ago mariner was visiting the local establishment with a relative. A point was made that saying ‘dear’ to a woman is a mild form of sexual assault, an assumption that there is more to the relationship […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Plastic Christmas 2 years ago
Mariner is just old enough to remember when an important holiday event included acknowledging the religious significance of the season. Church services and the rituals of Hanukkah and even of Kwanzaa were a […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Communal life survives 2 years ago
The holiday season has begun and the town is enjoying itself with many appropriately focused activities. The willingness to volunteer is widespread. The churches, of course, are providing special dinners and […]
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This sounds wonderful. I’m so happy the town is coming together to enhance and sustain the community. Maybe this is the beginning of a rebirth for the town.
Season’s Greetings!
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skipper wrote a new post, Who should Sue sue? 2 years ago
When Sue’s lung operation doesn’t come out right, who will she sue? The doctor? The surgeon? chatGPT? Amazon? TikTok? Maybe all of them. It’s a new issue, that of seeking damages. Doctors can blame chatGPT; […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Do you see what I see? 2 years ago
The reader should know mariner has returned to his rented one-room apartment in Chicken Little’s henhouse. News? What news? A poc of lips? What’s that? So the reader must endure whatever subject pops into […]
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skipper wrote a new post, More on systemic adaptation 2 years ago
In the last post, mariner used the transition from cash to online as an example of how humans shift behavior because that is how everyone else does it and there is some benefit attached. Money, credit cards and […]
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skipper commented on the post, Cash 2 years ago
Yes, I thought about checks as well. I accepted checks with the same mindset that people who sold pigs and chickens found it easier to use coins than to carry home wheat and vegetables in exchange. It was still a dollar-for-dollar exchange. What changes everything is the presence of a middle man, an agent. Our price for something is never the…[Read more]
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skipper wrote a new post, Cash 2 years ago
Right this moment, how much cash does the reader have in their pockets, wallet, etc.? Is there enough to buy supper at a fast food restaurant? Can the reader pay cash for a nice looking sweater? Ever use the cash […]
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Yes, I thought about checks as well. I accepted checks with the same mindset that people who sold pigs and chickens found it easier to use coins than to carry home wheat and vegetables in exchange. It was still a dollar-for-dollar exchange. What changes everything is the presence of a middle man, an agent. Our price for something is never the same as the price the agent paid.
As to storefronts, I am saddened by their demise. It is not only true that ordering online is more convenient, it is also true that one cannot find a product on the street; living in a rural town in the midwest, relatively simple items are not available anywhere except online.
This subject has interested me as I research a phenomenon called systemic adaptation, the processes that, because of their commonality, we innocently change our culture automatically without considering ethics, environment, economy, etc. Adam Smith was aware that cash had to have an independent value not controlled by the market itself yet today the Googles and large banks over manipulate cash value using unrelated value systems. So everyone changes their behavior without considering the humanist benefits – or abuses.
Thanks for responding.
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skipper wrote a new post, Catch up 2 years ago
Greetings, Readers
Real life distractions have drawn him away from the blog. Perhaps a few catch up thoughts should be offered.
Guru passed along some thoughts. Electing Biden for the first term was the […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Doodling 2 years ago
Doodling is when the brain needs a new battery or an oil change or something. It is a state when one is compelled to think about something when there is nothing to think about. This is a major disease for mariner. […]
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skipper wrote a new post, A new sign, a new hope 2 years ago
One of the main reasons mariner has had such a cynical view on the state of affairs is that there were no positive movements. Every issue was argumentative and intent on destruction of counter proposals. Every […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Survival skills 2 years ago
The really old folks can remember the times of the World Wars in the last century – the really big ones: WWI and WWII. The sadness of it all was the thousands of lives dying in battle day in, day out. It was a […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Just the Facts, Ma’am 2 years, 1 month ago
Across the board, recent polls about public confidence in news broadcasts has fallen in every poll. Why?
Mariner suspects it may be the ‘social media’ style of content. A hint may be that Huntley, Brinkley, Kur […]
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skipper wrote a new post, What if – 2 years, 1 month ago
Our nation went back to the original campaigning environment where, because of the spread of the population and a relative isolation because modern transportation and communication weren’t around yet, the funds f […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The good and the bad 2 years, 1 month ago
Mariner often has feedback suggesting he is an ‘old timer’ that won’t accept the modern world; they suggest he is too negative. He can’t deny these opinions and he is vulnerable to flamboyant metaphors as well. […]
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Regarding your moniker “old timer”: As you may remember, we watch our grandson, Wesley, twice a week at his home. Because his parents are “Gen something or other” , they have eschewed cable tv and instead rely on streaming services for their smart TV. They have grouped these services according to the persons(s) watching. These groupings are titled: “Jeremy”, “Kati”, “Kids” and our category, “Old People”. We know our place.
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skipper wrote a new post, Clearer insight into future 2 years, 1 month ago
Yesterday, mariner had one of those moments of clarity when deep wisdom falls upon a person. He saw the future as it will be. The moment occurred as he watched a clip of a man talking in English. Suddenly, the man […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Abortion 2 years, 1 month ago
The post about population provides a new perspective on abortion. Today, abortion is seen as an individual choice, either by individual right or a mandated right to the unborn. Mariner has been befuddled about the […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Population 2 years, 1 month ago
Regular readers may recall that mariner would mention rat and mouse studies done in the 1950s-70s. The focus was to document what happens when populations grow too large; the animals were given all the food and […]
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