One year ago today: August 12, 2023, 5.5 lbs
Five years ago today: August 12, 2019, remember Patrick Coombs?
Nine years ago today: August 12, 2015, 15,000+, unbelievable.
Random years ago today: August 12, 2009, Coconut Grove.
Other than another argument with another asshole at Region's Bank, I have little today. Waiting in line at the DMV (Mr. Trump, get rid of the lot of them. It should not be the government's business who owns a car, only whether it has been reported stolen or not). I had to pay $351 tax on a 17-year-old SUV. In the line-up, I read the June copy of Time Magazine. It was free, heavens I would not waste money on it. For a prime example of contemporary societal degeneracy, Time ran an article on the 100 most influential companies of 2024. It did not say worthwhile, or nice, or good, just "influential".
The first thing you'll notice is the lack of American companies, the second is the focus on Indian & Chinese outfits, followed closely by the realization this is deliberate. Top story is some lady on Instagram sharing her mental health issues. I will ignore most of the fashion & sports operators, but the most irksome were some chubby lady saying her clothing line represented women's empowerment through pant suits, and a sports network reduced to showing only clips of the highlights for millennials too lazy to evenwatch the game. This gives them more time to get back to whatever it is they do. Are you influenced yet?
Well-represented was the contingernt of Green/EV/Climate changers, which most Americans regard as government-sponsored scams. The only real US company mentionee that was not selling no-alcohol beer or praising the appointment of an Indian-dot over a White CEO was "Intuitive Machines", near the end of the list. The message is clear, a US company has to achieve a soft-landing on the Moon to rate mention next to a Japanese medicine company that "listens to patients". I can tell you are getting influenced. Middle America has built an economy based on computer games and it is just as durable. Top mention went to some people who produced an on-line version of the century-old Monopoly board game, for which they are hailed as heros.
Time magazine is so woke, they don't know they are ill. These people write, but they do not read.
Cabinda.
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Since the airwaves are flooded with nothing but glitzy praise of Kamela and constant spins on her rather sketchy background, I thought I'd step through the Most Influential list and comment on the more obnoxious establishments and their claims to fame.
A) Blackrock: has overcome pension-manipulation barriers in "Republican-led" states.
B) Pinterest: for producing evidence that their competitors "negatively impact teenage girl's mental health".
C) Reddot: for allowing OpenAI & Google to use private customer data to train their systems.
D) BAIDU: the Chinese browser famous for search enngine tracking.
E) Danco Lab: the abortion pill people for 25 years of avoiding "political attacks".
F) Climeworks: saving your planet by building new facilities in Iceland.
G) FarmBoxRx: for using your Medicare funds to deliver restaurant meals to welfare cases who live in "food deserts".
H) Airbnb: for gradually, grudgingly getting price-transparency software that allows users to "more easily see" added costs.
I) Palantir: "Defender of the West".
J) Frida: getting pregnant isn't easy, apparently not a company for teenagers.
K) VinFast: for building factories on land reclaimed from the South China Sea.*
L) Google: for combatting threats to open societies by turning them into closed societies.
M) Banza: chick pea pasta.
N) UPS: for announcing 12,000 layoffs.
O) NuBank: praising digital currency and aiming to "completely marginalize" cash users.
P) Disney: for firing all staff who though the company was "too woke" and ignoring a $1 billion dollar loss.
Q) Hanwha: formerly Korea Explosives Group for supplying bombs to Poland and Ukraine.
R) World Central Kitches: for feeding terrorist's families since 2010 while daddy was away at work.
S) TomorrowID: weather satellites linked to Denny's restaurants (weather dependent menu-pricing?)
T) Brightline: Florida's "high speed" rail operating at half the speed of decades-older overseas systems.
U) Food4Education: feeding public school children presumably so their parents don't have to.
V) Flutter: major league sports gambling how has a stock listing.
*This company is owned by Vietnam's richest man, an instant noodle maker.
I know you are beyond influenced by now, you did not even notice the lack of pictures today.
