Thursday, February 25, 2021

Does it make you angry?

 Daniel Prude.  

Northern New York.  March.  Night.  Light snow.  Wet streets.  A naked black man having a psychotic episode.

 

Police officers manage to get a "spit hood" on their victim, and then team up, pressing his naked body to the wet asphalt.

 

While they had him pinned facedown to the ground, they couldn't handcuff him, zip tie his legs, wrap him in a blanket, and call for an ambulance? 

 

Disgusting.  

To cap it all off, our so called justice system  lets all SEVEN police officers off without charges.

This is why there are calls to defund the police. This is why there are calls for reform. Yet nearly half the country gets outraged by the BLM movement, who try and protest this type of behavior.

Police who were supposed to be protecting our heart of government stood by and ushered in violent right wing extremists, with every intent of pointing the finger of blame at antifa.

If BLM protesters had descended on the capitol, they would have been tear gassed and water cannoned, at the very least.

If any of my readers followed the link on the previous post to end wildlife killing contests and watched the video at the link, they may make the connection between sadistic murders and torturers of animals and police brutality.  

It is a well know fact that psychotic murderers often start out as children torturing animals.  Yet Maine "sportsmen" have pushed legislation which encourages youth hunting "you have to get them started young".

This is where brutality begins.  Society needs to stop condoning violence towards living beings.  Teach kindness to those less fortunate.  

Is this violence allowed because people in power WANT to have an armed mob to rise up at their command?  Isn't that the heart of war? 

Here we see half our elected representatives found nothing wrong with what happened on Jan 6th.  Sure, they pay lip service to how awful it was , but what did they do to stop this kind of behavior in the future?  Put up fences?  Please.

I have posted my entire property line at some time and expense, but that doesn't stop sadists from letting their hounds chase terrified creatures through my land.  (dogs can't read signs)

I argue that people who get their jollies at causing fear and pain have something wrong with them.  They should absolutely NOT be in positions of authority.  

I believe this type of behavior is innate as well learned. 

Do you think that when AI inevitably takes over the planet that it will favor non destructive behavior and condemn violent destructive behavior? Or will AI be a war mongering entity?

I think it will take an AI to end violence.  Violence is part of our animal nature as a form of population control as well as evolution.  

This is usually where I start to stray into the hugely despised theory of eugenics. But truly, ask yourself, what do you want the future of our planet to look like? A bunch of morons running around with sticks?    

*edit most people think of eugenics as practised by white supremists trying to develop a "pure race" , which is not what I was suggesting.  One day we will find the gene behind violent behavior, which given our animal beginnings is probably endemic in the entire human race.

 

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Mars?

 I have been a nerd for a long time.  I grew up exposed to science fiction-watched the Apollo moon landing, had a real astronaut visit our 6th grade class (everyone wanted to know how astronauts went to the bathroom in the suit)


So of course it was just part of existance that space travel was part of our present and would certainly be part of our future.


Then there was the jelly doughnut.  Actually it started with a link to Martian blucberries.  From there I learned about the jelly doughnut-a rock broken and dislodged by one of the rovers, which then rolled downhill and magically appeared in the next image.

https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/5997/where-martian-jelly-doughnut-rock-came-from-true-color/?site=insight

The photo in the above link does not show the tread of the rover as clearly as the one I saw the other day, but you can still see the rover track, along what looks like my attempt at paving my back stoop.

Ethically, should we be landing on Mars and tromping and drilling and digging and leaving bits of man made stuff strewn all over?

Do we do it just because we can?  Are we looking to colonize Mars when we can't nurture our own beautiful Gaia?  Is it greed-to get there first, a strategic position for protection, a stepping stone towards longer space travel?  A planet to retreat to if ours suffers catastrophic failure?

I know between Nov and January I was thinking of a large group of people who would be welcome to go there IMO.

If there is advanced life out there, I wonder if they might be concerned about humans and their expansion desires.  One look at humankind's resume would surely put us on a watch list, at the very least.

Poor Mars.


Saturday, February 20, 2021

End WIldlife Killing Contests

 DId you know that killing contests still occur in this country?  The goal is to kill as many predators as possible.  This includes fox, raccoon, bobcat, coyote, and any other predator not legally endangered.

Project Coyote has a petition to end wildlife killing contests on Federal Land.  That's right, land that is owned by all Americans.


You can read more and sign here:


http://www.projectcoyote.org/?eType=EmailConfirmation&eId=cfd5c713-8863-4ba8-b121-fd42d5a5b45c