Gyroscopic Investing

Desert wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 3:19 pm

yankees60 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 1:08 pm Wow! Many people call me Mr. Memory because of MY memory but with this feat on your part I may have to move aside!

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Xan is the MAN!


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I was also impressed with the efficiency. Xan didn't have to type a single new word to point this out. That's why he's running things around here, I guess.

Desert wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 3:19 pm

yankees60 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 1:08 pm Wow! Many people call me Mr. Memory because of MY memory but with this feat on your part I may have to move aside!

I was also impressed with the efficiency. Xan didn't have to type a single new word to point this out. That's why he's running things around here, I guess.

boglerdude wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 1:08 am https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/ ... e_at_port/

Reddit in shambles.

Is illegal immigration actually up over the last 10 years? Why? And why didnt they do this bus trick years ago

MangoMan wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:51 am No way to read all the comments at Reddit and still have a life. What is the preferred sort method? Best? Top? Or something else?

MangoMan wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 7:09 am

yankees60 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 13, 2022 11:07 pm https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 43359.html

Whole Foods CEO says ‘socialists are taking over’ schools and gun control debate

The grocery store chain’s CEO claims leftists are taking over schools and corporations

You know it's bad when a leftist is making this complaint. I guess he should have been more careful about what he wished for.

doodle wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 11:08 am John Mackey has never been a 'leftist'

Another head scratcher for me....why are natural and organic grocers and health food stores generally associated with left wing? Wouldn't conservative food practices look more organically Amish than Monsanto and syngenta?

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 12:40 pm Perhaps the left wing people are more willing to eat produce with insects, bird droppings, fungi, and assorted weed material. Just kidding - sort of! I worked for a large agricultural company that made herbicides, fungicides and insecticides. Extensive tests showed the vegtables and such produced using pesticides was higher quality and safer than that labeled natural or organic. But that was a few decades ago, perhaps things have changed since then. YMMV.

doodle wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 11:08 am John Mackey has never been a 'leftist'

Another head scratcher for me....why are natural and organic grocers and health food stores generally associated with left wing? Wouldn't conservative food practices look more organically Amish than Monsanto and syngenta?

Jack Jones wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 2:29 pm

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 12:40 pm Perhaps the left wing people are more willing to eat produce with insects, bird droppings, fungi, and assorted weed material. Just kidding - sort of! I worked for a large agricultural company that made herbicides, fungicides and insecticides. Extensive tests showed the vegtables and such produced using pesticides was higher quality and safer than that labeled natural or organic. But that was a few decades ago, perhaps things have changed since then. YMMV.

Yeah, the devil is in the details. Consider Bacillus Thuringiensis. It is a pesticide, but it's a living organism, so it's natural, organic and safe to consume.

Jack Jones wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 2:29 pm

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 12:40 pm Perhaps the left wing people are more willing to eat produce with insects, bird droppings, fungi, and assorted weed material. Just kidding - sort of! I worked for a large agricultural company that made herbicides, fungicides and insecticides. Extensive tests showed the vegtables and such produced using pesticides was higher quality and safer than that labeled natural or organic. But that was a few decades ago, perhaps things have changed since then. YMMV.

Yeah, the devil is in the details. Consider Bacillus Thuringiensis. It is a pesticide, but it's a living organism, so it's natural, organic and safe to consume.

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 2:36 pm

doodle wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 11:08 am John Mackey has never been a 'leftist'

Another head scratcher for me....why are natural and organic grocers and health food stores generally associated with left wing? Wouldn't conservative food practices look more organically Amish than Monsanto and syngenta?

Right wing is more pro-business and anti-regulation? Just a guess; I don’t know the answer.

joypog wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:07 pm

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 2:36 pm

doodle wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 11:08 am John Mackey has never been a 'leftist'

Another head scratcher for me....why are natural and organic grocers and health food stores generally associated with left wing? Wouldn't conservative food practices look more organically Amish than Monsanto and syngenta?

Right wing is more pro-business and anti-regulation? Just a guess; I don’t know the answer.

How do either of those stances have anything to do with Organic foods?

The only regulation I could imagine is labeling requirements, but that is a basic role of government in the marketplace.

doodle wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 8:00 pm Definitely aware that organic pesticides and methods of growing are not necessarily healthier or safer. It's a mistake to think natural equals safer or better.

The point I'm trying to make is that it strikes me as strange that conservatives don't seem to want to conserve anything......in many ways they seem quite radical and progressive in their pursuit of economic growth and profit at all cost. I would think conservatives would be the party of slow and steady and most concerned with preserving the Earth's natural environment. They seem enamored with scientific advancements that change humans traditional relationship to our environment but not very interested in scientific studies pertaining to how these technologies impact and change our planet in perhaps negative ways. They seem to have a lot of risk tolerance when it comes to altering our planets systems when i would think they would be rather risk adverse towards that in general.

Desert wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 12:23 pm The last several posts are particularly interesting, and I agree with most of the content.

One thing to add: I've never found a lot of coherence in the set of views that is considered conservative or liberal (or right/left, if you prefer) at a given time.

For example, I find the following list to be coherent and complementary:
1. Pro-life
2. Pro environment
3. Pro birth control

Neither of today's parties would support all three, so I'm left voting for the least-bad candidates. But as individuals, we are free to hold whatever combination of views we find to be morally defensible, without regard to the constraints of what's considered right or left at the moment.

I also strongly agree with Xan's point regarding focus: It's terribly counterproductive to mix other left views with environmentalism. Environmentalism is the most conservative view there is (going back to the garden, for us Bible thumpers). And it just makes sense; we don't pee in the swimming pool (our own, at least), because we're going to be hanging out in there. It's in all our interests to keep the environment clean.