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skipper wrote a new post, Info for the reader's peripheral vision 8 months ago
The chart above illustrates how world population has changed throughout history.
At the dawn of agriculture, about 8000 B.C., the population of the world was approximately 5 million. Over the 8,000-year […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Am I important? 8 months, 1 week ago
This post is about the issue of self worth. But first, mariner’s comment on trends in automation as presented by Wiley’s desk calendar:
Perhaps the Egyptians had it right all along – hieroglyphics.
֎ H […]
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skipper wrote a new post, It's about identity 8 months, 1 week ago
Mariner may be considered a romantic when it comes to honoring the unique identity of individuals, families, communities, etc. Often, even more than often, he has attacked modern cultural trends because all of […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Peripheral vision is important 8 months, 1 week ago
The Atlantic magazine had a piece about what’s behind Trump irritating Greenland. The bigger perspective is what is important rather than Trump’s shenanigans about “buying” Greenland at any cost. From the […]
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skipper wrote a new post, New things 8 months, 1 week ago
This is very personal information about your body. Your body has 800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 cells. If the reader doesn’t know how to say 26 zeroes, it is eight hundred million billion billion. […]
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skipper wrote a new post, First sign of positive movement 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Recent news sources covered some new political action that may be the first positive sign of a transition out of the conflagration everyone experiences today. The new action is a sudden boldness by middle-liberal […]
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Dear Mariner,
None of your followers have a nephew’s perspective like me. When I was about 8-10 years old, you taught me the way that each Chess character moved–e.g. Pawn = 1 square forward. The Knight, always two squares linearly, then one square linearly or diagonally.
All this to say, I appreciate you Uncle Ed.
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skipper wrote a new post, Another perspective 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Regular readers know mariner is blessed to be married to the best poet ever to not be published. A few posts ago the focus was on the reintroduction of the Woolly Mammoth as a hairy mouse. It reminded him of a […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Social Security 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Mariner hasn’t commented on the Trump tornado, choosing to stay with Nosey Mole in his underground abode. But Social Security is an issue that must be openly talked about by everyone. Time is short, perhaps so […]
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Social Security’s financial problems could be solved in one simple stroke – remove the cap. It’s currently $168,000/ year. Imagine how much could be generated if Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg were taxed at the same rate as working people who never reach that threshold. In my working career, I’ve only made that financial hurdle twice, both times when the threshold was much lower and I had worked over 3,000 hours in a year. That one simple act would not only fund Social Security for decades to come, but allow for an expansion of benefits so folks who depend ENTIRELY on Social Security wouldn’t have to live in poverty. The obscenely rich owe it to the working people who made them that way.
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skipper wrote a new post, It's not just albums 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Mariner’s family and friends have experienced some shuffling in the last few years. A close family member passed away as did a few friends. Other friends have moved. The children and grandchildren live in far away […]
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skipper wrote a new post, How the brain would prefer to read written text 8 months, 2 weeks ago
This topic is one of those ‘Where did this come from?’ out-of-the-blue subjects no one ever thinks about but, as is his wont, mariner became interested in the process.
As this post is read, is the reader […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Are food prices really going up? 8 months, 3 weeks ago
There was an informative chart from NPR. The chart pointed out that a frequent pattern was the reduction in package size as a means of not raising prices. Mariner’s local supermarket also reduced options among […]
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skipper wrote a new post, And yet another side 8 months, 3 weeks ago
In a recent post mariner was baring his life experiences to demonstrate how one’s daily environment, whether work, community or family, sets the rules for one’s personal understanding of how human life works. One […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Practice for Spring 8 months, 3 weeks ago
As far as weather is concerned, today has been a fine day to practice the chores of Spring. 75°, no harsh wind, a cloudless Sun-shiny day. It felt good to be outside without sharing the experience with bitter […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Old Bunch 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Picked this article from AOL news:
“This Brain Disease Is Set To Double Worldwide By 2050. Are We Prepared? What Scientists Say.
While a lot of new scientific studies are focused on better understanding and […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The other side 9 months ago
Mariner has had 38 distinct jobs in his life. Everything from delivering newspapers to a contract in Taiwan building a computer system for the nation’s first fighter aircraft. He can avow that jobs shape one’s […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Change 9 months ago
Change can be good when it is needed. Changing underwear for example or cleaning the attic or buying another car. Every once in a while governments need to change, too. The issues are who (who changes one’s […]
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skipper commented on the post, Mariner warned about this 9 months ago
You have taste, Robert.
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skipper commented on the post, Mariner warned about this 9 months ago
Outstanding philosophical statement! Amen to that.
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skipper wrote a new post, Mariner warned about this 9 months ago
The biotech company Colossal Biosciences has long aspired to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, which roamed the Northern Hemisphere thousands of years ago during the last ice age. But for now, as a s […]
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Outstanding philosophical statement! Amen to that.
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You have taste, Robert.
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skipper commented on the post, More about happy 9 months ago
Eccentric but a good example of keeping happiness in the conscious mind.
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