From Pine View Farm

March, 2023 archive

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” shows his politeness to a friend.

Meanwhile, in a sane universe . . . .

Share

The Misdirection Playbook 0

Title:  How To Get People To Vote for You Even after You Show Complete Disregard for Their Lives.  Frame One, captioned

Click to view the original image.

Share

Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Woman looking a television which displays a channel titled,

Click to view the original image.

Share

It’s All about the Algorithm 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry charges you with being addicted to your phone.

Yes, you (but certainly not me–well at least to the extent that I avoid “social” media like the anti-social plague that it has become). They further argue that this is no accident:

Your phone is designed to be addictive. Multibillion-dollar corporations have used all its features to play your brain like the instrument it is and give you little shots of dopamine all day long like a rat in an experiment being dosed with sugar, food pellets, or cocaine. The more attention you give it, the more money they make, so they made it work like drugs work, and if you are at all susceptible you are down the rabbit hole just as surely as you would be if you were addicted to cocaine, with tolerance, withdrawal, and ongoing use despite it causing problems with work or relationships, an inability to cut down, and so much time devoted to its use that the rest of your life begins to be organized around it.

Follow the link for some recommendations on how you can get your life back.

Share

QOTD 0

Jane Wyman:

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

Share

A Pence-sive Moment 0

Share

Suffer the Children 0

Misbehave in second grade, go to the principal’s office jail.

Also, too.

Share

Indoctrination Nation 0

Share

More News of the Polite 0

Last year, the Transportation Security Administration seized a record 6,542 guns at airports around the country. Most people who are stopped for having a gun at an airport checkpoint say they forgot they had the weapon with them.

If you’re too stupid to know you’re packing heat, maybe you shouldn’t be allowed to pack heat.

Afterthought:

Yeah, I know that most of them didn’t really “forget.” They just couldn’t face being separated from their portable phalluses.

Let’s try this again:

If you’re too stupid to realize that metal detectors detect metal, maybe you’re too stupid be allowed near anything made of metal.

Share

All the News that Fits 0

I think that a strong argument can be made that Fox News is little more than Pravda, Republican style.

Share

The Lethal Weapon 0

LIttle boy is holding book titled

Click to view the original image.

Share

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Show your politeness to your fellow driver after a fender-bender.

We are a broken society.

Share

QOTD 0

Patrick Lencioni:

When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.

Share
From Pine View Farm
Privacy Policy

This website does not track you.

It contains no private information. It does not drop persistent cookies, does not collect data other than incoming ip addresses and page views (the internet is a public place), and certainly does not collect and sell your information to others.

Some sites that I link to may try to track you, but that's between you and them, not you and me.

I do collect statistics, but I use a simple stand-alone Wordpress plugin, not third-party services such as Google Analitics over which I have no control.

Finally, this is website is a hobby. It's a hobby in which I am deeply invested, about which I care deeply, and which has enabled me to learn a lot about computers and computing, but it is still ultimately an avocation, not a vocation; it is certainly not a money-making enterprise (unless you click the "Donate" button--go ahead, you can be the first!).

I appreciate your visiting this site, and I desire not to violate your trust.