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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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Last of the V8s
on 12/07/2018, 13:20:17 UTC
Coincidentally-Russian-owned Standard reports https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/pub-renamed-trump-arms-for-presidential-visit-a3879986.html
Turner-owned tv has a new show https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/new-game-show-paid-offers-chance-eliminate-student-loan-debt-n890316

From Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" (1985) (via @bitstein)
Does that mean "Ignore anything outside of your backyard and lead a happier, more meaningful life"?

That argument doesn't seem too relevant to the studen loan issue (except for the peculiar quiz show prize).
I'm not sure I follow.

BTW, as you undoubtedly know quite well living on the older side of the Pond, in most parts of the world public education is reasonably effective and free - or priced outside of the debt-inducing threshold (yes it means subsidized). Extortionately priced education is an almost exclusive feature of the "land of the free".

Intriguingly, you once said you prefer an essay to a video, or similar, but it seems you are not entirely impervious to the 'graphic revolution'. Nor am I. But it has lead us to a time where we just point and say, "Look there are Trump supporters in the UK, so life is fair and equal" and "look at these silly mugs on the tv begging for their sovereignty. One of them even gets to go free, so life is marvelous". Just as in the videos called 'Hunger Games' or 'Black Mirror'. This 'pointing' gets us nowhere.

Meanwhile the universities, funded by whichever local scamola or chumpatron, are not teaching anything of any value to the students themselves. Anything that might combat the visual fog of today's virtual slave empire.

Here, a person, her gender and nationality irrelevant, but her 'education' 'imperial', is 'bright' enough to go hiking in Austria because it's the done thing, but has no skills to cope with the real world smacking her in the face: https://www.dw.com/en/american-tourist-takes-unexploded-wwii-munition-to-vienna-airport/a-44611194

Here I've made 3 or 4 assumptions, but they stem from how I see the world, and I beg you to start looking at it more critically too.