"If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?" -Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

#Physics #Satisfying #AGoodPlace youtube.com/shorts/jtyRt...

Autumn 🍁 Mount Jefferson in Oregon

#GunControlNow #MentalHealthNow #HyperIndividualism #WeAreOneFamily

Reading more comments about how “liberals & Dems” are stupid & Marxists hold “secret knowledge.” Can’t we all agree on some things? Why so combative? #Inequality #MakeABetterWorld

Peace of Mind #AGoodPlace

Treat others the way you would want to be treated AND as they wish to be treated. #AGoodPlace #GoldenRule #PlatinumRule #BeNice #StopTheHate

The universe is playful. Joyful. So play, experiment, be foolish, be magnificent, fail gloriously, succeed lightly, love, lose, feel it all. The meaning is in the music. The meaning is in the dance. And YOU are the music. YOU are the dance. #Philosophy #AGoodPlace #AlanWatts 1/

Fix Social Security E2.1 Eliminate tax cap in 2025 & apply full 12.4% tax to all earnings. Don’t provide benefit credit for earnings above the current-law taxable max. Shortfall eliminated 73% Long-range actuarial balance 56% Annual balance in 75th year #SocialSecurity #Inequality #Econsky

The top 139 companies in U.S. made a net profit of $1.1T in 2024. Equal to the combined annual income of the bottom 90% of U.S. households. #Inequality #Econsky

Fix inequality Raise wages Medicare for all Strengthen EITC A much more progressive tax system Pass a tax on financial transactions; including paid by options Phaseout deductions for high earners. Progressive luxury tax, estate tax, etc Close offshore tax havens #Inequality #Hierarchy #Econsky

#AGoodPlace We have a Pandemic I see a lot of comments that criticize (often rudely) & very few offer solutions. People attacking strangers online for no good purpose. “Politeness is the flower of humanity.” Joseph Joubert Be kind. Be civil. Find solutions.

“No mention of inflation” Inflation is random. You can only predict that, With Rule of 72, your $ will have about half the value in ~30 years with 2.4% annual avg inflation. Rule of 72 Divide 72 by annual % return to estimate doubling (or halving) time of money. #Econsky

“You do not earn a steady 9% interest rate.” True. But you don’t teach savings & compounding interest with fluctuating returns. Annual returns are random. Distribution of 1-year returns avg 10% with 70% positive. 10-year: avg 10% with 90% positive. 30-year: 10%, ~100% positive. #Econsky

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Imagine if Bernie won in 2016 & we already had the #NordicModel, #M4A, #LivingWage

People on here are sometimes just real assholes. For the sake of being an asshole. Have a great evening!

True & bad, but There are industries that have a lot of competition, too. #Econsky

Boss v Leader #Inequality #Hierarchy #Econsky Be a leader.

"All the atoms that make each of us up—the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, the carbon in our brains—were manufactured in red giant stars thousands of light-years away in space and billions of years ago in time. We are, as I like to say, starstuff." -Carl Sagan,The Demon-Haunted World

“you don’t make your pig grow by repeatedly weighing it” #Edusky

Electricity prices. Partial graph, increases $.01 every 7 years. Full graph, increases $.01 every 3 years. #Econsky

Average Price: Electricity per Kilowatt-Hour in U.S. City Average (APU000072610) Two graphs. Full & partial.

Retirement Plan (math) Start with $60,000 salary. (Median $62,088 now) Save 6% = $300 per month or $3,600 per year. Your company matches 3% = $1,800 per year. Total saved Year 1: $5,400. #Retirement #Econsky 1/

#Econsky Some retirement math using today’s current full time median wage of $62,088. % needed to save & for how long. (Many assumptions; 3% match, 9% ROI, 1% annual raise)

Fact-check: It appears he didn’t make a full recovery. He apparently has lingering physical problems from his injuries.

U.S. homeownership rate by age, 1982-2024 #Econsky

Agreed! #Science #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

"Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact." -Carl Sagan

Einsteins theory has been proven.

The degree to which those comments can undermine public health, do harm to women who are pregnant, create anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic – is violence against the truth.

"Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, and to steer a safe course." -Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe which dwarfs -- in time, in space, and in potential -- the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors." -Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

#Inequality #PublicGoods #SafetyNets #M4A #MedicareForAll youtu.be/3I_f1DkMddU?...

"The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster." -Carl Sagan

Government of the people, by the people, and for the people… www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Wow! #MedSky #Neuroscience #NeuroSkyence www.bbc.com/news/article...

Carol Kaye, pioneering bassist & educator, played on an estimated 10,000 recordings spanning 65 years, shaping pop, rock, R&B & film music. La Bamba You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin Sloop John B Wichita Lineman These Boots Are Made For Walkin Mission: Impossible & MAS*H scores #MusicSky

Acetaminophen (Tylenol) doesn’t cause autism. Here’s the American Psychological Association’s statement about it. #autism #acetaminophen

The Government of Canada has decided to point out that Acetaminophen is perfectly safe for anyone to take. That stands in direct opposition to what the US government is now saying.

Maria Branyas Morera lived to 117 due to rare longevity genes daily yogurt boosting gut health a Mediterranean diet no smoking/drinking positive outlook strong family ties regular walking avoiding toxic people #AGoodPlace

#AGoodPlace A beautiful place; even when it storms!

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"If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves." - Carl Sagan, Pale blue dot

Just another reminder that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625% which is FAR lower than private sector retirement programs.

The FDA statement ends with a paragraph undermining its own warning. They signal parents to avoid acetaminophen. Except sometimes. And then: No “causal relationship… established” with ADHD or autism AND Alternatives to acetaminophen have “well-documented adverse impacts.”

Arthur Caplan, founding head medical ethics, N.Y.U. School of Med, "…autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science."

Ha! Message: Correlation is not causation. (Tylenol-Autism: There is no reported Pearson correlation coefficient in major studies, as the effect size is so small that it is both statistically and clinically negligible.) #MedSky #Tylenol #əˌsēdəˈminəfən #MAHA

Percentage of kindergarteners with a nonmedical vaccine exemption. #Vaccines #MedSky