Okay… what’s the difference between a beautiful and highly produced radio program and a podcast?

UNCANNY on BBC4

Tell me that someone has mentioned resting this system with a Linux distro? Wouldn’t that resolve the problem?

People can have a rich spiritual life and not believe in religion.

Try some organic food.

I will spend it educating people that we write fifteen dollars as $15.

Forgive me but the Pi is an order Of magnitude better than the dinosaurs you mention.

Sounds convenient.

I’m sure they have an app to help you understand.

Nope. Just like living. Not sure what all the hoo-haw’s about. Never felt so old in my life.

Who doesn’t like hand feeding the fish? Why even have them?

Imagine… setting it while at home.

That’s true. It doesn’t.

I like the idea that some folks have entirely private systems run by raspberry-pi. That sounds fun.

But what can it do more easily than an mid 20th century home can do?

Okay — can anyone — and I mean anyone, please explain to me that allure of the so called home assistant. Our home was built in 1965. Its housed many families very comfortably. It houses our family very comfortably. Our kids are heading off to college. Tra la la. We have holidays, happiness, and we contribute to the community at a variety of events. We sleep well. Eat well. We host parties of up to fifty people sometimes… we have a yard.We have a dog, two cats, fish etc. All the things that happen in a home.

We are happy.

We have no so called smart products. We use a terrestrial radio in the kitchen on the daily. We stream from the rip-off services when we desire. We are up on the shows etc. So we have internet — each of us has a phone and a device for working. I just don’t get it.

What is the allure of the so called smart home etc?

I’m more at risk for being construed as saying: patting ourselves on the back for being offended by a pig toy is ridiculously self serving.

Perhaps I didn’t understand your point about slavers? What did you mean?

This ad was produced decades after the abolition of slavery. Yes, things were even worse during slavery. And slavers were not average people; they were scum then and now.

This was culture. Just because we have managed to slightly altar a few cultural norms over a hundred plus years hardly makes us better people.

In fact…

Majority of these people lived without electricity, phone, or private vehicle.

Huge percentage of these people still did not have indoor plumbing.

Many had never had a hot shower.

Hygiene norms for the majority were a once a week bath of that.

Impoverished children were born to parents that sent them to work as early as four years old.

They were beaten with heavy blunt objects if they objected to anything.

Many watched their mother’s murdered by drunken fathers who received zero consequences for the murder and would not receive consequences for the suspicious death of a child either.

These children went to work the next day.

I’m no expert on this but I look at the faces of the children in the forced child labor pics and I can see that they are dead inside.

My heart goes out to the people who built this country. Millions were once enlaved. Millions more lived in a harsh universe where death of loved ones was common place and ailments we now think nothing of were deadly.

These were hardy people doing the best they could in a world that would astonish us if we were teleported through time on a one way ticket. That their sense of humor trended dark makes sense to me. I’m glad that found anything funny at all.

This was culture. Just because we have managed to slightly altar a few cultural norms over a hundred plus years hardly makes us better people.

In fact…

Majority of these people lived without electricity, phone, or private vehicle.

Huge percentage of these people still did not have indoor plumbing.

Many had never had a hot shower.

Hygiene norms for the majority were a once a week bath of that.

Impoverished children were born to parents that sent them to work as early as four years old.

They were beaten with heavy blunt objects if they objected to anything.

Many watched their mother’s murdered by drunken fathers who received zero consequences for the murder and would not receive consequences for the suspicious death of a child either.

These children went to work the next day.

I’m no expert on this but I look at the faces of the children in the forced child labor pics and I can see that they are dead inside.

My heart goes out to the people who built this country. Millions were once enlaved. Millions more lived in a harsh universe where death of loved ones was common place and ailments we now think nothing of were deadly.

These were hardy people doing the best they could in a world that would astonish us if we were teleported through time on a one way ticket. That their sense of humor trended dark makes sense to me. I’m glad that found anything funny at all.