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Life and politics

The leader of the deceived

If, within a short time all illegal immigrants are deported, will you dismiss this new government apparatus of oppression? With...

Are we having a dress rehearsal for a police state?

When police enforce malum in se laws only, they are part of us. When they are used to enforce...

May 18, 2020

Who is gaslighting whom?

Mr. Gambuto is right that as soon as the worst of COVID-19 is behind us, advertisers will lure us...

May 2, 2020

Is inequality unequal?

There is a Polish saying that, for a poor one, the wind always blows into the eyes. There are...

Apr 23, 2020

Human and artificial intelligence in capitalism

One cannot pass a law making Americans smarter.

Privacy or anonymity?

Most of us live in big cities where we enjoy anonymity, often mistaken as privacy.

Apr 15, 2020

Cash is king, more potent than we think

The cashless economy leaves us at the mercy of an operator. Also, a centrally controlled system can be abused...

Mar 30, 2020

Argentina – a warning to the United States and China

For about two generations, from about 1870 until 1930, Argentina was firmly among the 10 most prosperous countries in...

Feb 18, 2020

Science and money in the climate change debate

It is not about climate change but grandiose government spending for unrelated ideological reasons.

A wrong way about Huawei

The WSJ does not ask the most obvious question: What is wrong with the United States that it cannot...

Jan 15, 2020
Remark of the day

Testing 7

December 21, 2024
Artificial intelligence, Life and politics

A Russian propagandist made a joke about Russia giving up nuclear weapons by sending them on rockets to the United States. I remember a similar joke from 1971 when Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon tested the newly upgraded hotline. Brezhnev said: “I saw the White House in my nightdream last night.” Nixon responded: ”What is unique about that?” “Above it was a red flag with a hammer and sickle on it,” Brezhnev replied. “It is an interesting coincidence,” Nixon said, “because, in my nightdream, I saw the Kremlin with the red flag above it and something written on that flag.” Curious, Brezhnev asked, “I understand the red flag, but what was written on it?” Nixon answered: “I could not figure it out because it was in Chinese.” That joke is timely because, after the dust settles, China will be the real winner of the war in Ukraine. It might not rule in the Kremlin, but it could de facto control the big part of Siberia.

Testing 6

December 20, 2024
Climate change

A Russian propagandist made a joke about Russia giving up nuclear weapons by sending them on rockets to the United States. I remember a similar...

Testing 5

December 20, 2024
Artificial intelligence, Media

A Russian propagandist made a joke about Russia giving up nuclear weapons by sending them on rockets to the United States.I remember a similar j...

Testing 4

December 20, 2024
Media

A Russian propagandist made a joke about Russia giving up nuclear weapons by sending them on rockets to the United States. I remember a similar...

Testing 3

December 20, 2024
Artificial intelligence, Climate change

A Russian propagandist made a joke about Russia giving up nuclear weapons by sending them on rockets to the United States. I remember a similar...