#progress

#encouragement

#AsSeenWalking Sunset 13/11/24 travelers in the sky heading west. The park near my house has been undergoing a transformation for a couple of months. Paths and paved areas are being added for accessibility. It's been just grass and play fields for decades.
#MyPhoto #Sunset #Outside #Progress

A quotation from Russell, Bertrand

I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Autobiography, Vol 3: 1944-1969, “Postscript” (1969)

#quote #quotes #quotation #betterment #vision #wisdom #meaningoflife #progress #purpose
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A quotation from Bill Watterson

HOBBES: A new decade is coming up.

CALVIN: Yeah, big deal! Hmph. Where are the flying cars? Where are the Moon colonies? Where are the personal robots and the zero gravity boots, huh? You call this a new decade?! You call this the future?? Ha! Where are the rocket packs? Where are the disintegration rays? Where are the floating cities?

HOBBES: Frankly, I’m not sure people have the brains to manage the technology they’ve got.

CALVIN: I mean, look at this! We still have the weather?! Give me a break!

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1989-12-30)

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#progress is a #snail and #leftAntisemitism and #racism are serious #problems!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/left-wing-defenses-of-hamas-are-an-insult-to-palestinians/

Left-Wing Defenses of Hamas Are an Insult to Palestinians

The fanatical terror organization does not speak for all Palestinians, which is why it’s wrong and bigoted for leftist activists to try to legitimize Hamas’ horrific crimes.

A quotation from Russell, Bertrand

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him. If a man has not this quality, he will feel that majority opinion, or governmental opinion, is to be treated as infallible, and such a way of feeling, if it is general, makes both moral and intellectual progress impossible.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Authority and the Individual, Lecture 4 (1949)

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Authority and the Individual, Lecture 4 (1949) - Russell, Bertrand | WIST Quotations

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him. If a man has not this quality, he will feel that majority opinion, or...

#US #WEAPONS #DEATH #MILITARY #ARMY #USA #ARMES #SOLAR #DRONE #HUMAN #HUMAIN #PROGRESS #progrès
and remember, #Nuclear is #green #energy
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https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/our-crisis-competence

We've reached the epitome with #Bidenomics:

Relatively straightforward infrastructure projects now face years or even a decade of #delays / zero real-world #progress. I can name several projects in my county where the environmental impact studies and various governmental reports have consumed six years, during which the harbor remains closed, the roads are unpaved gravel, the park is closed and the bridge is awaiting repairs.
When the public rightly complains of years of inaction and foot-dragging, local officials throw up their hands in frustration as all the necessary approvals and funding must wind their way through the impenetrable thickets of state and #federal agencies, a leisurely process over which they have no control.

#bureaucracy #BigGov #2024-06 #fail

Progress?

#progress

#progress in the #memes

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through February 10)

https://singularityhub.com/2024/02/10/this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-february-10/

#SingularityHub #chronicles #technological #progress by #highlighting the #breakthroughs, #players, and #issues shaping the #future as well as #supporting a #global #community of #smart, #passionate, #action-oriented #people who want to #change the #world.

Partially Synthetic Moss Paves the Way for Plants With Designer Genomes

https://singularityhub.com/2024/02/08/partially-synthetic-moss-paves-the-way-for-plants-with-designer-genomes/

#SingularityHub #chronicles #technological #progress by #highlighting the #breakthroughs, #players, and #issues shaping the #future as well as #supporting a #global #community of #smart, #passionate, #action-oriented #people who want to #change the #world.

A quotation from Billings, Josh

The best way I kno ov tew repent of enny thing is tew do better next time.

[The best way I know of to repent of anything is to do better next time.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 139 “Affurisms: Hooks & Eyes” (1874)

#quote #quotes #quotation #correction #improvement #penitence #progress #repentance #resolve
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Everybody's Friend, Or; Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 139 "Affurisms: Hooks & Eyes" (1874) - Billings, Josh | WIST Quotations

The best way I kno ov tew repent of enny thing is tew do better next time. [The best way I know of to repent of anything is to do better next time.] Variant: The best way I know to REPENT of anything is not to do it again and…

Scientists ‘Astonished’ Yet Another of Saturn’s Moons May Be an Ocean World

https://singularityhub.com/2024/02/07/scientists-astonished-yet-another-of-saturns-moons-may-be-an-ocean-world/

#SingularityHub #chronicles #technological #progress by #highlighting the #breakthroughs, #players, and #issues shaping the #future as well as #supporting a #global #community of #smart, #passionate, #action-oriented #people who want to #change the #world.

This AI Is Learning to Decode the ‘Language’ of Chickens

https://singularityhub.com/2024/02/06/this-ai-is-learning-to-decode-the-language-of-chickens/

#SingularityHub #chronicles #technological #progress by #highlighting the #breakthroughs, #players, and #issues shaping the #future as well as #supporting a #global #community of #smart, #passionate, #action-oriented #people who want to #change the #world.

The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. - Our World in Data | #world #awful #better #progress #improvement

The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.

It is wrong to think these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.

A One-and-Done Injection to Slow Aging? New Study in Mice Opens the Possibility

https://singularityhub.com/2024/02/05/a-one-and-done-injection-to-slow-aging-new-study-in-mice-opens-the-possibility/

#SingularityHub #chronicles #technological #progress by #highlighting the #breakthroughs, #players, and #issues shaping the #future as well as #supporting a #global #community of #smart, #passionate, #action-oriented #people who want to #change the #world.

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through February 3)

https://singularityhub.com/2024/02/03/this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-february-3/

#SingularityHub #chronicles #technological #progress by #highlighting the #breakthroughs, #players, and #issues shaping the #future as well as #supporting a #global #community of #smart, #passionate, #action-oriented #people who want to #change the #world.

An AI Just Learned Language Through the Eyes and Ears of a Toddler

https://singularityhub.com/2024/02/01/an-ai-just-learned-language-through-the-eyes-and-ears-of-a-toddler/

#SingularityHub #chronicles #technological #progress by #highlighting the #breakthroughs, #players, and #issues shaping the #future as well as #supporting a #global #community of #smart, #passionate, #action-oriented #people who want to #change the #world.

The First 3D Printer to Use Molten Metal in Space Is Headed to the ISS This Week

https://singularityhub.com/2024/01/31/the-first-3d-printer-to-use-molten-metal-in-space-is-headed-to-the-iss-this-week/

#SingularityHub #chronicles #technological #progress by #highlighting the #breakthroughs, #players, and #issues shaping the #future as well as #supporting a #global #community of #smart, #passionate, #action-oriented #people who want to #change the #world.