Saved by the bell

A saying thought to originate from the old custom of safety coffins … where corpses were tied to a string to the surface above them to a bell. So that in case they didn’t die and were still alive, their moving body could pull the string and ring the bell.

If you were buried alive, and you rang the bell and were rescued … you were ‘saved by the bell’

It’s called a plutocracy … a system built on power and those who hold power.

Whatever it is … it isn’t a democracy.

It arrives with one critical screw missing making the whole thing unusable.

Super hyper reactive concentrated dead whistleblowers

Gotta be … especially if the chances of your exterior door blowing out at any time is greater than 20% … in space!

Everytime someone asks that question, someone else dies

This is funny because the satire is like reality but the reality is too sad … which is why this is funny … because it’s supposed to be sad.

This is like looking at a distant mushroom cloud from a major nuclear explosion and telling the person next to you that “a bomb may have gone off”

From a technical point of view I agree … I have a few friends who work in music and visual arts and they swear by Apple products and software

But to average users and people who just want to go online with social media, snap a picture, share it, forget it and do it over and over and over again … they really don’t care if it’s an apple product or not. The family and friends I know that are not technically minded only understand one key technological specification when it comes to devices … PRICE and COST.

If they can’t afford a $1,000 apple phone … they’ll buy a $500 android phone … or just stick to their five year apple phone and won’t upgrade until they can buy a used $500 apple phone.

Or everyone is starting to figure out that the garden looks just as good outside the fence as it does inside the fence. Technology has been converging for many years now to the point where most devices especially smart phones have reached a bottleneck and no one can make things go any faster and there is really no big need for even more massive storage space for the average person. So phones have hit a ceiling and the place that Apple once had where they were one of the few manufacturers that made good phones is now overshadowed by lots of other companies that are comparable or near comparable. Does the average person really care if they have a high definition 20MP camera or a 22 MP camera. All they care about is being able to scroll through Tik Tok, FB or Instagram and no one really seems to care what device they use to do that any more.

I’m having a hard time too … I had to get a ladder to pick up my phone from the ceiling

I grew up in a very unorganized town that wasn’t really regulated with traffic laws. I learned to drive a truck at about 12.

When I was 14 I was driving my dad’s truck around town. I suddenly had the urge to see how well the brakes worked. I drove fast down a gravel road than slammed on the brakes as hard as I could. Within seconds it blew both front brake lines.

Later that same year in the winter I got the truck stuck on some ice. It wasn’t bad, I just happened to stop on a very slippery patch of ice and couldn’t move forward. I got the idea that as the tires spun, they were getting hot which meant it was melting the ice. If I did it long enough I would eventually get down to the gravel. I got impatient and spun the wheels faster smoking them like crazy while the engine roared. In the middle of the noise and smoke, a tire exploded and the truck jumped and deflated. I had blown out a tire.

Dad wasn’t happy with me for a long while because the truck went to the shop and we had to pay a lot of money to get them fixed.

At the very least, I never made these mistakes again.

Of course they’ll say that … from the dawn of time, part of military strategy is never to show your opponent your worries or concerns, even if you have any.

I live in northern Ontario and I spend a lot of time in the summer outdoors and there are days where you can be swarmed by mosquitoes.

When my friends from the city come to visit, they look at me weird for wearing jeans and boots on a hot summer afternoon.

Me fail English? … That’s unpossible

Theorists and futurologists refer to it as the ‘Great Filter’ … a series of challenges that civilizations go up against which determines if they make it past the filter or not.

Our current filters are climate change, nuclear war and artificial intelligence … will we use nuclear tech or AI to benefit ourselves? Will we work towards dealing with climate change? or will us acting negatively with all this be the cause of our regression … or destruction?

We have equal capability at this point … we are just as capable of collectively solving these problems … or using them to destroy ourselves.

Our collective futures are most definitely in our own hands … whether or not we use those hands for good or ill is up to us.

If a civilization chooses not to be civil … why call it a civilization?

I’m stocking up on potato chips and soda … I really don’t care what anyone does any more, I’m just gonna watch the end of the world from my front deck until someone murders me in the food riots.

It’s like we live in two different realities.

One for the US and Israel

And another for the rest of the world

1/3 of America is still thinking about it … that alone is a worrying state of the country’s mentality