4.02.2022
3.31.2022
In case you forgot (I did)…
…tomorrow, March 31, is World Backup Day.
Just in case you do it once a year.
Luckily…
…I don't drive. So the price of gasoline is not something I am required to obsess about.
But for the record, here are gasoline prices around the world.
In the U.S., the average price is $4.33/gallon.
So Europeans pay more—sometimes substantially more—than U.S. drivers, while some South Americans, Asians, and Middle Easterners pay significantly less.
Price differentials aside, Washington's frantic attempts to reduce U.S. gasoline prices seems to conflict with the present doctrine that Saving The Planet requires burning much, much less fossil fuel. Like, none.
Could it possibly be they have some hidden agenda, those politicians?
3.30.2022
3.29.2022
If this means I have to take fencing lessons, I'm opposed
Honor Culture Is Back. We Eradicated It for a Reason.
One of the great successes of the movement against dueling and honor culture was to remove speech from the terrain of violence. Words — even vicious, insulting ones — could be exchanged without either party feeling it necessary to respond violently to keep face. But now words are said to be violence themselves, which supposedly makes it justifiable to meet them with violence.
Netflix and maybe not totally chill
33 Movies People Consider To Be "As Disturbing As They Are Beautiful"
Possibly not all of these are worth watching: Several most definitely are.
Good luck.
3.28.2022
If you've never broken any major bones, here's your chance
Man touts electric unicycle as answer to high gas prices
Madeira’s Gotway Nikola Plus, with no seat or handle bars, just places for his feet, can go 70 or 80 miles (113 or 129 kilometers) on one charge and reaches speeds of up to 40 mph (64 kph), although he rarely goes that fast.
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