I just cranked up my Roku TV and went on the internet (YouTube) with no interruption.

‘UPS drivers are required to follow “the methods,” the company’s set of extremely detailed directions for how to do their jobsDrivers are told that, as they “move packages to the final selection area,” in the back of the package car, they should “visualize the actual delivery of each package.”’ (Gonnerman 2023:48) (Emphasis added) [Gonnerman, Jennifer. 2023. The total package. The New Yorker,16 January 2023:40-9.] (for more on this, click the top button on my home page: www.tedcloak.com.)

I believe I have it. I know I don't.

"Sweeping new law of nature", my ass. This is just a sweeping empirical generalization. It has no theoretical significance whatever.

A Badger is a student, alumnus/a, or fan of the University of Wisconsin.

Since you went off topic, I'll follow: I have received excellent care from the VA medical system. I wish all people could have such good care.

We're watching M*A*S*H every night on Prime Video.

The latest [Lazard] report shows that new wind and solar power plants can even provide electricity more cheaply than existing, in-operation natural gas, coal, and nuclear power plants! If capitalism is rational, that entails that every fossil and nuke plant is headed for the scrap heap in the next five years or so. https://cleantechnica.com/2020...

1. Boeing 2. Dilbert

I'm 88. I just completed a draft putting together my ideas about making cultural anthropology scientific. You can download it from my website. Please do that and respond to it.

A takeaway from an article I'm working on: "In the final analysis, both living things and human-made machines are mechanisms caused only by the basic forces known to physics; nevertheless, they are fundamentally, totally, different in nature, because of the way they come to exist. "Like all artifacts, human-made machines are designed/planned from the top down, created according to goals carried in somebody’s nervous system; i.e., nimages. As a rule, because engineered, they are subject to reverse engineering. They are special purpose mechanisms. "Living things, on the other hand, have none of those characteristics. Instead of top-down, they are the quintessence of bottom-up: trillions of unplanned, utterly goal-less trial-and-error events over billions of years on the part of molecules, each subject to all of the complexities of its environment. Efforts at reverse engineering, e.g. prostheses, don’t even come close. Living things are all general purpose mechanisms. "It is truly remarkable that only the latter process could have yielded the exquisitely controlled movements of earth’s animals, including of course human beings."

Anybody here old enough to remember the King Midget four-wheeler? Tom McCahill reviewed it for Mechanics Illustrated. To back up, you simply opened the door, stuck your foot out, and pushed. You can Google it. Me, I drive a 2012 Mitsubishi i-Miev. A four-passenger BEV, cost me $7000 from Carmax. Sun-powered by the 6 kw on my garage roof. A full-functioning automobile, great for getting around town and just fine on the interstate highway.

No, Magazines are for storing ammunition on a 19th Century warship.

I like The Selfish Gene very much, especially because Dawkins cites me in it. The Naked Ape, not so much.

In New Mexico, judges are thinking of using much methods when deciding to hold a defendant without bail, grant bail, or release on own recognizance.