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Memories of the 28th Century

Miscellaneous thoughts about miscellaneous matters

  1. Smells and Spices

    by , 01-25-2020 at 04:40 PM (Memories of the 28th Century)
    As one person put it: "If you can’t tell what it is then you probably shouldn’t eat it." We were discussing Chinese food at the time, but I think that rule fits any cuisine; although there have been enough examples of Chinese restaurants being shutdown for serving things that are not generally considered edible that they are good examples

    Seriously, if you are going to pour on so much in other flavors that one can’t taste the main ingredient, then have something else. ...

    Updated 01-25-2020 at 06:09 PM by PeterL

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  2. Improving Life in America

    by , 01-20-2020 at 10:39 AM (Memories of the 28th Century)
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    Some people were commenting on the size of the military budget of the United States of America. I simply agreed that it is rather large, but I thought a little more about it and realized that the more than six hundred billion was less than $2000 per capita, and that’s not all that much, but it’s still more than I can afford. And it is also more than most Americans can afford, so, the country is adding more and more debt every year. If we were only wasting ...

    Updated 01-21-2020 at 05:09 PM by PeterL

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  3. To End Political Lies

    by , 01-12-2020 at 04:08 PM (Memories of the 28th Century)
    Has it become normal and ordinary for people who are demonstrably irrational or delusional or suffering from other types of mental illness to be treated as if they were sane?

    From political puffery to conspiracy theories to quack medicine to deviant behavior becoming the norm mental abnormalities are becoming acceptable in general society. In a general sense this is not a new thing; people have been complaining about the lowering of standards of behavior for thousands of years, but ...