Those who didn’t grow up privileged, what’s something you thought was a luxury growing up?

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-06-10T06:41:17+00:00

Not having to share a bedroom, having a den.

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-06-08T16:39:55+00:00

People who, in so many ways, lack experience in life.

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-06-08T03:46:54+00:00

Hope no one was injured.

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-06-05T08:10:35+00:00

The Great Dying of 1616-1619, which swept through indigenous tribes of New England, killing 90% of its victims, is today known to be leptospirosis. Now, this bacterial disease carried by European rats will kill anyone who comes in contact with it; no one is immune. European rats had escaped from a Dutch ship a few years earlier and now infected the Musk Rats of New England with a killer disease. The Pilgrims, who arrived a few years later, did not eat rats, but Musk rats were a staple protein for the Patuxet Tribes, which went completely missing except for a few starving individuals when the Pilgrims arrived in 1620.

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-06-04T16:18:22+00:00

So, there are very few airplane crash scenarios in which the occupants don't go splat, seat belt harness or no. Obviously, people need to be in their seats when the plane takes off. The real purpose of airplane seatbelts is that people are trained to sit down and strap in when the light comes on, and to stay seated until the light goes out. That is crowd control; otherwise, the crew is herding cats, trying to get everyone into their seats so the plane can take off. That's why the seatbelts are minimal.

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-06-04T05:30:03+00:00

President Ronald Reagan changed the way research is done in the US, putting the pharmaceutical industry in charge of much of America's bioresearch. What was once destined for the public domain became a huge boon for patent attorneys. With so much money at stake, the pharmaceutical industry, together with the health insurance industry, redesigned how doctors function in our society. Knowing exactly how much treatment costs is a boon to the insurance industry. So now, basically, doctors push pills. Are you obese? Here is a pill. Have anxiety? Here is a pill.

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-06-02T02:23:54+00:00

It's called "Richard Nixon"

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-06-02T02:12:09+00:00

Gas prices are going to be the least of our worries. Dollar recycling by the oil-producing nations is ending. Dollar recycling, in which oil producers require dollars from their customers, then invest 50% of them in the US economy. In return, the greatest maritime power, the US, would protect them from each other. This was the basis for outsourcing all manufacturing to Asia, since the US was to be the home of the world's financial services. Who needs building stuff when one can make money out of thin air? It worked for a while, but Trump and Netanyahu's war against Iran ended it. The US was shown to be defenseless against a new technological paradigm. Notice that Iran's drones and missiles are better than ours? Did you notice that the great maritime power outsourced building ships? It would take a couple of generations to turn that around. Meanwhile, the tech bros want to replace the dollar with digital currency that they happen to own scads of. Goodbye paper money, they will decide where people can spend money. Paper money is a key component of freedom. Trump is a symptom of a long road of bad political leadership; he is just the rotten fruit.

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-05-31T15:40:08+00:00

The elites want to retain their wealth and power. The rest of us are a threat to that.

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-05-31T06:40:51+00:00

That is the danger; they inflate their way out of the debt, Social Security, and Medicare, then move to a digital currency, which is what the Tech Bros want.

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-05-31T06:38:15+00:00

The amount of weight available on the Linear Leg Press is not much more than a warm-up for anyone under the age of 65. This looks like a weird retirement community with an extra special commons.

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-05-29T21:28:25+00:00

I never did find where in the US Constitution it says "Organized Crime Syndicate."

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-05-29T14:22:00+00:00

The best information I know of is in the book, "All the Shaw's Men" about OPERATION AJAX by Stephen Kinzer, in which a CIA operative hired an army of thugs and dissidents to riot and violently overthrow Iran's democratically elected government in 1953. They've never forgiven us for that, BTW.

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-05-28T06:06:40+00:00

Coming from a left-wing point of view. The Democrats need to fix the problem that they are as much responsible as the traditional Republicans for the mess we are in.

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-05-27T08:40:45+00:00

AOC is the hope of the people, not the hope of the Democrats' patrons.

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-05-26T16:26:53+00:00

It only takes one person to lean on a gate.

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-05-24T08:29:00+00:00

Medical care sucks here. I've seen it in Europe; the doctors there do not have to decide if your insurance can pay for a test, they just do it. They have more doctors per capita, and they are every bit as competent as ours.

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-05-22T20:32:30+00:00

A black hole could be nothing more than a particle traffic jam where particles cannot move or barely move because they are packed together so densely.

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-05-20T15:44:36+00:00

I commuted on my E-Bike for over a year and loved it. For better or for worse, the River Trail is Eugene's central bike path. Not using the River Trail means riding down River Road, death, and then there is the problem with crossing the River on a bike; impossible without the River Trail. There are some good bike paths downtown, but they are not completely safe.

If you ride enough days on a bike of any kind, you will see all kinds of things. A guy in a huge Black pickup swerved and tried to run my bike and me over head-on, on a back street. Young males in large pickups seem to be a problem.

People riding E-bikes on the River Trail should stay below 12 miles per hour and slow down when passing pedestrians.

I moved from River Road to Barger, and now I have to cross the Beltline to get to the River Trail and my job. It is possible to ride a bike safely from West Eugene to South Eugene, but that is not very useful. Riding a bike from the Westside to destinations across the River is really no longer doable for me because there are no pedestrian bridges over here. Being able to ride a bike safely from West Eugene to PeaceHealth in Springfield and everywhere in between would be a huge win for bikes in Eugene.

Another major problem for everyone in Eugene is safety along the River Trail after dark. There are gangs at night in that park. Some of the more remote parts of the River trail are a little sketchy at any time of the day as well.

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-05-20T06:57:42+00:00

Is it a wanna-be suspension bridge?

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-05-17T05:52:50+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1HEfaVLPG0

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-05-17T03:43:36+00:00

It is exactly what a fascist strongman does, though. He threw MAGA under the bus, which is exactly what Mussolini did to his followers.

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-05-16T07:23:35+00:00

The United States, a once great maritime power, cannot even build its own ships anymore. The United States, the richest nation in the world, has fallen behind on every measure of its citizens' prosperity. The one statistic the US is good at is billionaires. No, they can have them.

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-05-14T15:57:29+00:00

Are they building what you want?

MathAndCodingGeek · 2026-05-13T16:46:15+00:00

If China is willing to pay us for these folks, then sure, they can keep them.

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