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skipper wrote a new post, Cash 2 years, 2 months 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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skipper wrote a new post, Catch up 2 years, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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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skipper wrote a new post, Gimme that old time economy 2 years, 4 months ago
Mariner had a chuckle when he read an NPR news item that said transport corporations were considering wind power to save costs and assist with fighting climate change:
Maybe we could hitch some mules to an […]
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skipper wrote a new post, News can be distracting 2 years, 4 months ago
McCarthy kicked out, eh. Talk about distraction! Today’s news is becoming so diverse and scattered across the subjects of human life that one may need advanced degrees to understand the nuance, detail and […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Melancholy about lost times 2 years, 4 months ago
Sincere moments reminiscent of our distant past sometimes occur today as if they were a fine artifact in an archeological dig. We have long forgotten certain attitudes and experiences that were moments to live by. […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The times they are a changing 2 years, 4 months ago
Human society as we know it today began as the last ice age receded, about 20,000 years ago. The earliest known communal societies were during the Neolithic Revolution, a time when the plant environment began to […]
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skipper wrote a new post, On democracy 2 years, 4 months ago
The premise of this post is to examine the impact of progress upon the cultural perceptions that existed in 1778 when the United States was born. Progress is not a bad thing; the benefits in comfort, health and […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Getting bored with the same old news? 2 years, 4 months ago
The reader can probably quote the subject of the top four headlines without turning the television on. Give it a try. Here is a sample: Trump, Biden, climate disaster and cost of living; there are variations. The […]
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skipper wrote a new post, We are in debt 2 years, 4 months ago
Mariner and his wife were talking about things in general when a meaningful metaphor emerged:
Every animal on the planet has to pay cash. Humans, however, have a credit card and it is maxed out.
Humans have, […]
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Mother Nature is going to foreclose and evict us.
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skipper wrote a new post, All over again 2 years, 5 months ago
We live in a time of change, no doubt about it. Not just the normal change between generations or the systemic changes brought on by cyclical weather eras or the changes in economics brought on by political […]
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skipper wrote a new post, World of work 2 years, 5 months ago
The following is a quote from Associated Press (AP):
Drescher told The Associated Press the moment is about the entire world of work, and a larger stand against corporate leaders who value shareholders over the […]
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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.