is almost half over. What have you done? What have I done? We all exist in the twinkling of an eye that’s for sure. In the scheme of things we’re a drop in a vast ocean of matter that we don’t even understand. It’s always amusing when scientists try and explain how the universe was formed.
The Big Bang theory I never believed. How the fuck would they know? Nobody can successfully explain the infinite, our brains can’t process such things. Everything has to have a beginning and an end, which clearly the concept of the infinite does not include. I don’t know why I’m bringing up the philosophical or the metaphysical today. I just feel like it. I’m not pondering my own existence. We all live in the eternal now, some of us more than others.
I was looking at the US debt clock the other day. It’s an online representation of the financial status of the country There are other statistics that it contains such as energy supply and usage.
China uses the most energy, almost twice as much as the US. The much maligned so-called “fossil fuels” make up the bulk of world energy use. Solar is second from the bottom, a small fraction of the total energy sources. Could somebody tell me how these magical “renewables” are going to replace gas, oil and coal? I’d love to know. Wind, although further up the list, isn’t even close to the top three, so when politicians tell you that renewables are going to fix everything, you know they are speaking from out of their asses.
Seymour Durst’s father was a tailor who arrived penniless to the United States, eventually becoming a successful dress manufacturer and then expanding into real estate management and development
The story of the debt clock is an interesting one. The first National Debt Clock was installed on Sixth Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets, one block away from Times Square, by New York real estate developer Seymour Durst, who wanted to highlight the rising national debt. Up until the week before his death in May 1995, Durst himself adjusted the tally via modem.
In early 2000, the clock started to run backward because the national debt was actually decreasing. It showed a national debt of $5.7 trillion and an individual family share of almost $74,000. With the original purpose of the clock being to highlight the rising debt, the reversal of the figures gave a mixed message, added to the fact that the display not being designed to properly run backward.
You can read all about it here The online version of the US Debt clock is also owned by the The Durst Organization, although there appears to be other iterations run by different organizations. At the time of writing this the national debt is hovering around 36 trillion dollars.
Zimbabwe could clear this debt up with one banknote!
No doubt we can continue printing money to support this monstrosity. The question for another day is how long can it be sustained without the whole thing imploding? Elon Musk is justifiably right to point out the flaws in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”, however the way politics unfortunately works is that you sometimes have to make compromises to get anything passed. I believe that’s what’s going on here. As long as people keep voting for idiot politicians this isn’t gonna change. Maybe it’s time to put down the crack pipe and stop making things worse.
Happy Friday