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by Bob Butler
Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:30 pm
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: Generational Dynamics World View News
Replies: 13823
Views: 7197540

Boiled Frogs

Shows how glass fragile the system is. In generational perspective, fragility becomes more of an issue when the systems become more dysfunctional. Downplaying the dangers we currently are facing by comparing them to previous years is an oversight. The frog is almost getting boiled but still thinks ...
by Bob Butler
Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:46 am
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: Generational Dynamics World View News
Replies: 13823
Views: 7197540

Re: AT&T Phone Glitch

Shows how glass fragile the system is. As is any large program. Before I retired I was a software engineer for GTE Communications Systems Division. You play with something big you are going to break it occasionally. We were lucky in making most of our changes off line. AT&T's network couldn't be ta...
by Bob Butler
Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:45 am
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: Generational Dynamics World View News
Replies: 13823
Views: 7197540

AT&T Phone Glitch

First, it hit AT&T much more than anyone else. A user of another network calling an AT&T user could be effected. That and the fix was to a known piece of software. The government has no evidence contradicting AT&T. Based on our initial review, we believe that today’s outage was caused by the applica...
by Bob Butler
Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:49 pm
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: Generational Dynamics World View News
Replies: 13823
Views: 7197540

Re: Generational Dynamics World View News

Solar flare and cyber attack are nice and possible theories, but cyberattacks are quick. We would have seen troops moving to the ports well before Chinese cyberattacks were launched. Maybe someone other than China. I'd like a source for the solar flare theory. There are enough solar observatories th...
by Bob Butler
Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:27 am
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: Generational Dynamics World View News
Replies: 13823
Views: 7197540

Re: Generational Dynamics World View News

It was their chance to flood our nation with so many migrants that there would be no hope of deporting them all. The bipartisan border bill among other things would have expanded the group working asylum approval to deport the undeserving quickly. Trump killed it as he perceived Biden solving probl...
by Bob Butler
Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:47 pm
Forum: Generational Theory
Topic: Civil war coming?
Replies: 7
Views: 36969

Eternal Crisis?

The progressive perspective goes the other way. Maybe the 14th Amendment boots Trump. Maybe a reputation as a criminal prevents him from getting the electoral college. Maybe the failure of the Republicans to pass anything will be noted by the voters. The big thing is the Congress and Presidency in D...
by Bob Butler
Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:28 am
Forum: Fourth Turning Forum
Topic: Polyticks: Bob Butler's Perspective
Replies: 1179
Views: 462223

Maybe moderators should moderate?

Status has been granted, but rarely used in the news thread (where there is most of the controversy). My other thought is that some people and posts are concerned with insults and disparaging people. Such posts are much more concerned with the poster's ideas that the person insulted. Perhaps they s...
by Bob Butler
Mon Feb 12, 2024 4:23 pm
Forum: Fourth Turning Forum
Topic: Polyticks: Bob Butler's Perspective
Replies: 1179
Views: 462223

Asylum

In the days of the Cold War, a CIA agent would need to learn a new language to perfection and craft a whole new persona just to get into the Eastern Bloc. Today, all Chinese agents need to do to infiltrate the Untied States is walk across the border and call anyone who tries to stop them racist. Pr...
by Bob Butler
Mon Feb 12, 2024 4:11 pm
Forum: Fourth Turning Forum
Topic: Polyticks: Bob Butler's Perspective
Replies: 1179
Views: 462223

One contrarians to another

We now have Bob indirectly accusing everyone else on this board of being conspiratorial MAGA types. He's gone too far again in purposely hijacking the forum for the intent of spewing falsehoods and inflammatory rhetoric. Liar. I see several motivations, and you could likely find somebody who emphas...
by Bob Butler
Mon Feb 12, 2024 11:26 am
Forum: Fourth Turning Forum
Topic: Polyticks: Bob Butler's Perspective
Replies: 1179
Views: 462223

Re: Conspiracy Theory?

In this case, Dear Robert, the onus is on you to prove that it's NOT true, as the consequences of being wrong are significant. The maga crowd is into conspiracy theories. In other words, they make stuff up. It is not up to rational people to disprove their lies. Have you ever heard of something cal...