The requested 1.5 trillion Dollar military budget means they will spend 2,853,881 dollars per minute, that’s two million, eight hundred and fifty four thousand dollars, every minute. This is money they don’t have (the federal deficit is 1,800,000,000,000 dollars, or 1.8 thousand billion dollars.
Its been said that, for every story that leaves one with a negative feeling, it takes ten positive stories to make up for it. At this site there is one a week. www.npr.org/series/11349...
My Unsung Hero
The My Unsung Hero series, from the Hidden Brain team, shares the stories about people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else.
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I saw a Ford F-450 Super Duty, one of the largest pickup trucks for sale, it looked like it had never carried anything in the truck bed, parked next to the sidewalk. I have never seen a more appropriate bumper sticker on the tailgate. It said, “Baby on Board.” Another case of TDS. No, not that one.
Enlightened public figures like @rbreich.bsky.social have been commenting on this topic for a long time. I had a conversation with a co-worker a couple of years ago about wealth inequality. I asked her at some point, “do you know how much a billion dollars is?”
She was incredulous when I noted that a billion dollars are one thousand million dollars. I may as well have asked her about a distance expressed in light years.
Here is a site I found that allows one to gain some perspective (at least at the beginning) about wealth obscenity. Better viewed by using the “scroll right” arrow on a keyboard. eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-weal...
Wealth, shown to scale
Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.
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Shankar Vedantam and his team produce a stellar show every week, but this one is worth passing on- listen to the podcast, if you can. hiddenbrain.org/podcast/no-h...
No Hard Feelings | Hidden Brain Media
Holding a grudge can feel like a form of justice, a way of punishing those who have wronged us. But psychologist Fred Luskin says that more often than not, grudges don't hurt the targets of our anger....
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