Part 1 of 2 Hello. I haven’t been here for a while. Ah. I thought as much. My nails are a little long for prolonged typing after all. “I wonder if my nails are too long to type” was going to be my next sentence you see. Well. They’re not that long so I’m just using the side or tip of some of them for a little. So. How have I been? Same as always. Feeling reflective so blog. I’m not so reliant on keeping the blog for external memory, by which I mean memories written down somewhere, ...
Updated 07-24-2018 at 10:00 PM by Bluebiird
What is the upper limit of the human lifespan? I recently saw an article that concluded that there is no upper limit to the human lifespan, and I recalled that there had been something about the upper limit being about 300, because murder or accident will get you, if your body holds up that long. I’ll look at the actuarial calculations for that, if I can find them. There are incurable diseases, but eventually cures will also be conquered, and the only real medically related problem will be getting ...
"I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes." W. C. Fields https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/w_c_fields_151502 I had a conversation with a medical person, who told me that I should hydrate after a CT scan. I said that I would have a few beers. The poor, ignorant person was horrified, so I explained that beer is excellent for hydration, but she had bought into the hydration myth so she was dubious. https://www.backpacker.com/news-and-...ter-than-water ...
Beyond fake news and other forms of lying we find marketing puffery: “The FTC stated in 1984 that puffery does not warrant enforcement action by the Commission. In its FTC Policy Statement on Deception, the Commission stated: "The Commission generally will not pursue cases involving obviously exaggerated or puffing representations, i.e., those that the ordinary consumers do not take seriously." e.g., "The Finest Fried Chicken in the World.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery ...
A lie told often enough becomes truth. Nicolai Lenin The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." from Mein Kampf “...a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.” from Machiavelli's, The Prince, note 2, at ch. XVIII The ...
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