Recently, I was talking to an acquaintance about the corona virus, COVID-19, and in talking to them I realized the amount of disinformation being spread is such, that even for someone like me, that tries to stay up to date, can impact you. The reason I found this to be scary was because we're talking about an issue that should have no partisanship or political party. And so, while I know there are incentives behind the curtains for disinformation, you would think they would be caught by people...

There are times when you learn of a person that completely changes your mind, and view on life. It's like a revelation. It's almost like being born again. I mean it. For me, that was yesterday, 2-11-2020. Yesterday I listened to the JRE podcast, and though I have been a critic of the show, credit should be given when it is due, and it is due. On episode #1419 (below), Joe Rogan had the most amazing person I had never heard of, Mr. Daryl Davis. Mr. Davis is...

This article has a follow-up update on the bottom. I realize this is the buzzword of the 2020 election, universal healthcare, but I am here to tell you that we need to do something about it and soon. As you may have read, I returned from Europe about a year ago after a 5-year stint. I have been blessed to have been privately insured through my employment for most of my adult life. Before I left, my run-ins with an insurance representative were minimal with 1 exception. A...

A year back, my daughter's laptop broke. At that time I could not afford to replace it with the same MacBook Air she had and so I looked for a cheap replacement. I found one on Amazon, Jumper EzBook. If you look at the specs, the laptop is a steal. Though the CPU is not the fastest, it comes with a good amount of RAM and enough disk (considering everything is kept on the cloud these days) for normal duties. Even the screen is not so bad, with...

A few days back, one of my colleagues wrote about Edward Snowden's appearance on the JRE. In his post, he talked about how freely Snowden was able to communicate his motivation for the actions he took in 2013. In another post, he wrote about the various changes that have taken place in the internet space since those revelations. In both cases, the posts have been from the perspective, or at least with the assumption, that in an aggregate, those revelations were positive. I think it is important to...

Feminists and general female-rights activists tend to drive this point home a lot; men and women are equal. I get it, women have suffered through much unfairness throughout life. In relative terms, at least in the US, only recently could women vote. Even more recently, could women work, and these days, 100 years after our voting battle was won, there are still fights for equal pay. However, the reality is that women and men are not equal, not the same. Women, physically and emotionally are different than men....

The other day, while on social media, I got to see this video. It is a video titled "Is Global Warming the Biggest Fraud in History?". Many memes have been created off this, the one that got my attention was something about "Mexican businessman shuts down liberal...". I got to watch it and noticed two things, 1) the power of having the loudest blow horn, and 2) the power we (everyone) give to the larger consensus. The former, I think has been made clear by other people and...

#amazon #shopping #freemoney Until the end of this year, Amazon is offering up to $10 off your next purchase through their Gift Card Reload Program. The gift-card reload program is basically a credit to your Amazon account which you can later (or soon thereafter) use to purchase products through Amazon, of course. It works like a gift-card you would normally give to a friend, but you give to yourself. You can then use the balance of this gift-card to purchase items as you normally would. The current offer...

@joerogan #jre The JRE podcast has, in recent years, become a touchstone for anyone trying to reach the "unreachables". Those adults that do not get their news through the so-called, main-stream media. Until the JRE and other shows like it, caught on, these unreachables remained just that. This is why it's no surprise our 2020 Presidential candidates and politicians often visit the show. I began listening to Joe Rogan a few years back. Back then he'd do shows with other comics and fighters, and sometimes, he'd have some...

#strongmantactic #election2020 #trump Strongman, those politicians that cycle through time with the promise of fixing everything and anything the populous wants, just as long as they remain in power. Strongman are nothing new. For as long as humans have organized themselves into governments, there have been people presenting themselves as strongman. Man, that as long as you keep them in power, will fix any and all of your ailments. Initially, these strongman, mostly do what they said they will do, if with little concern on the long-term consequences....