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Isaac Newton put it best:

“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

It’s completely stupid, short sighted and ignorant of us to think that we know everything there is know about the universe and natural world. There is still so much more to learn about and understand and probably far more than we can even comprehend.

But we also have to regulate how much we know and don’t know and how we can understand or not understand … because as Richard Feynman put it …

“Keep an open mind … but not so open that your brain falls out”

That’s also the thing I love about working on and maintaining your own vehicles … over time you learn new little things as people watch you work. You work on this and someone comes by and suggests you do this added thing or do things in this way or that way … they share their experience, just because they want to. You would have never learned those little things if you had gone out there to ask or interview people … you learned them because people saw you putting in the effort to do the work.

I’m no pro but every time I worked on my vehicles, I often had a mechanic friend or acquaintance come by or someone heard that I was doing the work and they offered advice or direction without being prompted.

When you start doing this kind of work … other knowledgeable people automatically want to jump in to help.

Keep working on it all … you only learn more, the more you do it.

Good time to flush your brake fluid as well and renew all the fluid. I did my brakes a few times on my truck and a mechanic suggested I should also renew the fluid as it needs complete replacing every few years. Apparently, the fluid over time collects water, which reduces its hydraulic force and also starts rusting parts in the system. Renewing the fluid serves to keep up maximum pressure and protect the system from rust over time.

Libertarians do care about freedom … their own personal freedom … and it doesn’t matter to them if it costs the freedoms of others

It’s a selfish mentality where they believe that they should have all the ultimate freedom to do whatever they please, regardless if it hurts, degrades or destroys anyone’s or everyone’s freedoms.

More like a liability

Planned Obsolescence … designing things for a short lifespan so that things always break and people are always forced to buy the next thing.

It all originated with light bulbs 100 years ago … inventors did design incandescent light bulbs that could last for years but then the company owners realized it wasn’t economically feasible to produce a light bulb that could last ten years because too few people would buy light bulbs. So they conspired to engineer a light bulb with a limited life that would last long enough to please people but short enough to keep them buying light bulbs often enough.

That we are both simultaneously intelligent and absolutely stupid.

We built a modern technological society for all of humanity yet set it up to only benefit a handful of individuals and convinced ourselves that this is acceptable.

The handful of beneficiaries are intelligent enough to lead but dumb enough to think that this is sustainable. The rest of us are intelligent enough to live and work in this society yet dumb enough to never want to do anything about it.

That doesn’t make sense. I watch Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney on my Ubuntu laptop on Firefox all the time. I have a laptop setup in front of my treadmill just to watch shows while I walk.

I have one large screen dumb TV and I just use a Roku device to watch shows through that. Everything else in the house runs in Linux because I got rid of windows years ago and never had a problem with streaming services.

25 years old

Old enough to be an adult to do adult things … young enough to be able to do everything a human body can do with the most optimal stamina and comfort. Good recovery and trained properly, is the optimum level of development, energy and strength. This age doesn’t get any better after this period.

Capitalism and profit and the need to make more money is like rot, a fungus, a bacterial infection or a viral infection.

Any service product or idea you tie to capitalism will inevitably become infected to the point where you infection of wanting to make money will over ride everything. In the end, it has nothing to do with ideas, development, evolution or making things … it always devolves down to just wanting to make as much money as possible.

That is what destroys and devolves any and all social media today. It has nothing to do with social media … it has everything to do with making money and maximizing profits.

Prosecuting war crimes are only followed or ignored by those with the biggest guns and bombs.

That is a solution … but you have to wait about 50 - 70 years to see the result

They are having a population crisis … an aging boomer generation that just won’t die and their many children who will add to the aging population while the generations after these groups had fewer children. The population is now full of old people with very few young Japanese to take care of them.

It won’t matter how nationalist they want to be … they’re stuck with the problem of having a huge aging population and far too few young people.

Whether they like it or not, if they want to maintain the country’s current level of development, they’re going to need young people from somewhere else to fill the gaps.

So you’re saying that we should do more AI searches for “Trump Dementia”

… and use variations of it like … “Trump old losing his mind”, “Trump old senile”, “Trump dementia don”, “Donny Dementia”, “Ding Dong Dementia Donny Trump”

Kindness and empathy is a sign that a person is able to think about the world more widely and intelligently … it means they see past the terrible person or terrible things to try to understand why people, populations or things are they way they are. If you have an understanding or patience to try to honestly and objectively understand why things are the way they are … the more likely you will have the tools and ideas to do something about those problems or those issues.

Someone without kindness or empathy impatiently makes simple assumptions of everything and everyone and immediately jumps to the easiest, simplest “solutions” that usually don’t require any of their responsibility or inconvenience. They don’t care about the source of the problem, they just want to get rid of the problem as quickly and as trouble free as possible, no matter the history, background or circumstances that caused the original problem. It’s a great way of solving problems quickly … but more often than not, this kind of mentality just repeats the same problems over and over again.

Kindness and empathy

Whenever I see or hear someone disregard or debase another person they don’t know or understand without even trying to get to know anyone … I immediately just think they are dumb

Whenever I see or hear someone treat someone else kindly without ever more knowing the other person … then that person is smart in my books … all that can change if the receiver of kindness starts acting like an ass though.

It’s the first impression … if all I see is kindness and empathy at the beginning, I know I’m dealing with a bright person.

It’s a survival mechanism.

We human animals were designed to live in the wilderness with no available food. We had to constantly be on the search for food or preparing it in order to survive. And when we found food, we gorged on it because we knew that there might not be another supply of food later.

Humans lived like that for thousands of years.

It’s only been very recently that the majority of us had a steady supply of food. There are starving populations but not as much as there was in the past.

We are designed and conditioned to be starving because we are not supposed to have freely available food all the time.

Maybe in a few thousand years we will adapt to having food around all the time.

But right now and for the foreseeable future, we’re going to have problems with our diet and health all the time unless we really apply our knowledge and self control to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Most people (including myself) are cowardly and selfish. If we have the opportunity to avoid responsibilities, especially if no one is watching or if we can “get away with it” … chances are most people would. I’m not saying that all people are selfish … if they are being watched or there are witnesses, many people (I believe the majority) would do the right thing and take responsibility.

Which is why we need a world with checks and balances … we constantly need to watch one another and set to systems where everyone is literally on a stage of sorts. Especially when it comes to politicians and government … if we leave people to do things in the dark without anyone knowing, chances are very high that they will do terrible things.

Yes

And also, the major internet services and social media platforms should be publicly controlled and owned like postal services, medical services, water services or waste services (I know most American services are private, even in Canada) but all these services should be publicly controlled without private interests because they are the basis of running and maintaining peaceful democratic norms.