STOP the Hero Worship. :)

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People need to remember, the biggest porn star in the world is Kim Kardasian. She was Paris Hiltons closet organizer (literally, that was her paid job) until her porn tape came out, interest grew, she got tit/ass implants, lip filler, Botox, she and her sisters started banging entire sports teams, married, divorced, married, divorced, gold digging, started selling products from 3rd World sweatshops. 

Their getting a lifetime of fame, good salaries, comfort, notoriety, private security, is not based on...intelligence, ethics, education, integrity, honor, honesty, brilliance or anything else...it's a fucking high school popularity contest, and not worthy of praise, adulation or worship. 

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Social Media Influencers.

The so called "influencers" have been proven, almost all of them, to be using staged photos (posing in front of cars, homes, mansions, private jets, boats, yachts, ranches, property) they don't own and are either just using for a photo shoot, or rented for a few hours. 

Private Jet Studio, created a unique business by renting out a private jet for Instagram photoshoots, but there’s a catch. People can experience what stepping onto a luxury private jet feels like, however they won’t actually be travelling anywhere, with the plane remaining firmly on the ground. The cost is $220 for two hours on the jet with a photographer, or $170 without. However, Private Jet Studio is a mocked-up aircraft in a studio. The interior appears to be a hybrid of several aircraft models. And the vast majority of photographs on Private Jet Studio’s Instagram page are collected from other sources on the web (one was the cover for a 2010 Hawker Beechcraft magazine).

Most "Influencers" are just pimping OnlyFans accounts through Instagram. And according to various personal finance websites, the typical OnlyFans creator earns about $180 per month, or roughly $140 after taxes. Yes, $35 dollars a week. They lie a lot...about everything. 

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SCOTUS, the Supreme Court, are nominated by whichever POTUS is in office and either confirmed or denied, based on party lines. It's a popularity contest. Whichever party has the White House and a majority in the House/Senate, usually gets their candidate confirmed. 

Their getting a lifetime appointment, a good salary, the prestige, comfort, notoriety, private security, is not based on...intelligence, ethics, education, integrity, honor, honesty, brilliance, or anything else...it's a fucking high school popularity contest. Most of them are not worthy of praise, adulation or worship. 

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People Who ARE Worthy of Admiration. 

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Malala Yousafzai.

A Pakistani female education activist and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate at the age of 17. The youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, the second Pakistani and the only Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize. Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native homeland, where the Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. In 2012, a Taliban gunman shot Yousafzai as she rode home on a bus after taking an exam in Pakistan's Swat Valley. Yousafzai was 15 years old at the time. Yousafzai was shot with one bullet, which travelled 18 inches from the side of her left eye, through her neck and landed in her shoulder.

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Jonas Edward Salk:

An American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. Salk never patented the vaccine or earned any money from his discovery, preferring it be distributed as widely as possible. He wanted to save lives...period. 

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Bob Dole: 

An American politician and attorney who was in the Senate from 1969 to 1996. He was the Republican Leader of the Senate. Dole was also the Republican presidential nominee in the 1996 election and the vice presidential nominee in the 1976 election.

 In 1945, while engaged in combat near Castel d'Aiano in the Apennine mountains southwest of Bologna, Italy, Dole was seriously wounded by a German shell that struck his upper back and right arm, shattering his collarbone and part of his spine. Dole was paralyzed from the neck down, with blood clots, a life-threatening infection, and a fever of almost 109 °F, he was expected to die. His arm was never fully functional and in his right hand he held a pen so people would not try to shake his right hand. He first witnessed hunger and poverty as a child during the Great Depression, and later while serving in war-ravaged Europe during World War II, and ended up being one of the main driving forces for The Food Stamp Act of 1964 for poor people, making that a permanent piece of legislation.

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The old GOP, with people like Bob Dole, from a previous era. 

 The new GOP under Trump. 

Seriously, I am not a huge Biden fan, and the Dems often piss me off, often, but what in the living fuck happened to the Republican party?

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There are people on this planet that do good things. They are worthy of praise and admiration. However, the majority of people that receive those accolades, are a bunch of dumbfucks that somehow lucked into a cushy life...and are not worthy of anything other than...being mocked and maybe a bitchslap. Don't confuse the two.  :)

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Alrighty then...time for me to shut up, go find my submissive husband and make him...

worship this.  :) 

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Do you get it?

One NightStand.

Cock.

Creampie.

Got it?

Good. :) 

World Record Attempt for Drag Story Time. :)

                           

Philadelphia attempting world record for drag story time. 

Saw the above in the headlines, speculated what the majority of the comments might be like, and the morons did not disappoint.  :) 

Some stats: Who commits the most crimes against children? Men perpetrate most sexual abuse and sex crimes. Sex offenders against children tend to be juveniles or young adults under the age of 30. Most sexual abuse and sex crimes are committed by people who know the victims. Acquaintances are most often the perpetrators, followed by family members and then strangers.

Sexuality of Offenders: Science and case management experience has shown us that most child molesters are heterosexual. Abuse is about power and control and is not anchored by sexual orientation. Dr. Gene Abel, a researcher in the field of sexual violence for over twenty-five years, wrote an article for the average parent in Redbook magazine to take the knowledge he gained in doing over 100 scientific articles to provide specific warning signs for parents and caregivers. In this article, he explicitly states that most cases of boys being molested are attributed to heterosexuals.

When I search for trans people molesting kids in news articles I came up with...nothing. When I search for trans people exposing themselves to kids in public restrooms I came up with...nothing. Not at all surprised as...we all know (those of us with intelligence anyway) one main demographic of people that abuse kids are...Catholic priests. 

So idiots question why trans people are intent on reading to kids, and assume it has to do with "grooming". It does not. It has to do with educating kids and showing them that there are a myriad of different types of people that exist on this planet, and they should be embraced, not feared, and for any kids that may later fall into the LGBTQ spectrum, it teaches them to not be filled with self loathing, it's fine, you will be fine, grow up, take care of yourself, live your life. 

Side note, Jesus and Muhammad, both wore dresses (skirts, robes, whatever, but not pants).

Gay men, gay women, trans people, gay or straight, are not pedophiles, they are not recruiting, not seeking new applicants, not grooming. They are attracted to grown adults that are of like mind, or similar tastes, or whatever, but one has nothing to do with the other. 

  Little kids don't see anything sexual about this, they don't see sexuality in just about anything. To be honest, they probably view some trans people as overdone, over the top, over made up, over accessorized, flamboyant, outrageous, amusing, entertaining people, almost like cartoon characters or clowns, Disney characters, or people from Marvel Comics that are in movies. They are innocent, as are the intentions of the Drag Queens and the trans people that are...simply reading books to them. 

When conservative straight people sexualize everything, that speaks to their mindset, to their thought process, their emotions, paranoia, dreams, nightmares, their repressed sexuality and ideology...and not to that of others. It is their minds that came up with this stupidity...they need to seek help, and leave everyone else alone.  :) 

Ballbusting - Kicking - Home Movie. :)

May be similar to others, or a repeat, I have no idea. 

They all start looking the same to me after a bit. 

What the hell do I know?   :) 

Holy Fuck!! :)

 

 Warren Buffett: If the top 800 companies in the U.S. paid their taxes, no other person would have to pay federal taxes, income, estate taxes or social security. 

I don't think the entire tax burden should be shifted to corporations, everyone should pay their fair share, but, most major corporations pay either very little...or nothing at all, and I mean nothing. Side note, it's Republicans that want to cut taxes even more for companies, and increase spending. 

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My kind of woman.  :) 

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Some Arizona counselors are using ‘sex addiction’ to practice conversion therapy.

Side note, it's Republicans that want to control other peoples sex lives and what we do with our genitals. They are obsessed with gay sex, gay marriage, gays in the military, trans people, want to outlaw porn, want to outlaw dildos, sex toys, want to control how short our skirts are, they are just obsessed with other peoples sex lives...while claiming to be the "Party of Small Government". 

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Enough with the labels. Seriously...I don't care, just fuck off. 

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This is their guy?

This guy?

Trump promised to cut the deficit. He added $8 Trillion.

He promised a wall. Only did 52 miles of new wall out of 2,000. The rest was repair or replacement.

He promised to make Mexico pay. They didn't. We did.

He promised to unveil a new healthcare plan. It didn't exist.

He promised a middle-class tax cut. He cut taxes for the rich. The middle class is paying for it.

He said he wouldn't play golf as POTUS. He made 285 visits to golf clubs, costing taxpayers $150 to $300 million.

He said he'd increase economic growth by 4%. Nope. Biden did.

He promised an infrastructure plan. He had none. President Biden signed a massive one.

He promised to hire "the best people." He fired 3/4 of them and then said they were the worst ever and they said HE was in fact the worst ever.

He promised to bring down the price of prescription drugs. He didn't, Biden did.

Promised we'd win the trade war with China. Nope, It cost about 250,000 American jobs.

He promised his corporate tax cuts would help workers and corporations would use that money to invest in American workers. They didn't, they used that money to buy back stocks.

He promised to revive the coal industry. Nope - more coal jobs were lost during his presidency.

He promised to drain the swamp. He didn't: He IS the swamp.

Jan 6th-- used fake electors and stood silent for 4 hours while insurrectionists ransacked the Capitol.

91 indictments, twice impeached (the only POTUS to hold that record), involved in over 4000 lawsuits, most of which he lost, most of which were him trying to fuck contractors out of their money after they built his halfass buildings, is in court for paying hush money after banging a hooker while his 3rd wife was pregnant with his 5th child (3 baby mommas, 5 kids) 2 wives that were immigrants (not sure why he hates immigrants), has gone bankrupt 6 times, was AWOL in Vietnam due to fake bone spurs, was the worst businessman in the USA, Trump Lost More Money Than Anyone in America Between 1985-1994, is in bed with Putin, loves dictators, wears makeup, a wig, lifts in his shoes (high heels) a girdle, he's a crossdresser, has been spewing Nazi slogans, is incapable of telling the truth, has a short orange dick, is a coward, unpatriotic, ignorant, a moron that has lived off of his Daddies money for nearly 8 decades...and this is their guy?  

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AI: Artificial Intelligence or AI: Actual Ignorance? 

AI Fails. 

More AI Fails. 

Yes, there are some applications from AI that might benefit humanity, down the road. But for the most part, thus far, it's just a pain in the ass bunch of stupidity that large corporations are using to lay off/fire employees to make more profit, and fuck you the customer if it burdens your life further. 

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Bear versus Man.

There is a gaggle (a flock, a pack, a herd, a school?) of stupid bitches on TikToc saying they'd rather be stuck in the woods with a bear as opposed to a man. See, once one stupid twatwaffle says something and gets some clicks, *all* the other retarded attention seeking whores parrot the first one saying and posting the same stupidass nonsense. No originality, no original thought, not capable of unique thought, they just follow along like sheep. 

The thing is, yes, there are some jackass guys on this planet, rapists, whatever, but probably 98.99% of them would protect the girl/woman, like she was his mother, wife or sister. He'd build a shelter, a lean-to, forage for food and water, protect her from the elements and animals, and risk his own life to do so.

The bear? 

Not impling all bears attack humans, they don't, they mostly want nothing to do with us. But at the same time, leave the animals alone, and airhead TikTok chicks...get a fucking clue. 

Anyway, enough of my little rant...time to go work out. 

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Pointless Blog Post? :)

A little something to brighten up your day.  

ZZ Top: Viva Las Vegas.  :) 

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This was the Cincinnati Public Library, which was built in 1874 and demolished in 1955. What sort of jackasses demolished this fantastic building? I love, love, love, old architecture and "things". Old buildings, old world crafts, art, music, food, dance, some customs, habits and fashion. Sure, the modern world has a lot of lovely and useful "stuff", but a good part of it does not impress nor interest me. Mass produced cheapass plastic items, generic music, fast food, disposable clothing...bleh. Whatever. 

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I just like this. 

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It's odd when you see something like this, consider the math, the numbers, it makes you feel "connected" to your past, your ancestors, history, and humanity at large. 

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How's the News?

Trump violated a gag order, while in a hearing about violating a gag order, over a trial where he paid hush money to a porn star he was banging, while his 3rd wife was pregnant with his 5th child. Just part of his 91 indictments, which go with his 6 bankruptcies, 3 failed marriages, two impeachments (the only president to "achieve" that) and below is a partial list (partial only) of some of his failed businesses. Trumpie is a "leader" alright...he leads all other humans in being...white trash. 

Moving right along...

An Arizona grand jury indicted Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows, lawyer Rudy Giuliani and 16 others (all Republicans) for their roles in an attempt to overturn Trump’s loss to Biden in the 2020 election. Including the former state party chair, a U.S. Senate candidate and two sitting state lawmakers, who are charged with nine counts each of conspiracy, fraud and forgery. Trump himself was referred to as an unindicted co-conspirator.

 

Rudy Giuliani, with hair dye running down his face...and never forget, Giuliani needed Apple to help him unlock his iPhone...after being named Trumps cybersecurity adviser, and he butt-dialed an NBC reporter, twice, and was overheard discussing a need for cash and trashing the Bidens. What a crack squad of "stable geniuses" the entire Trumpie organization was.   :)

I guess this is somehow part of the modern GOP's "Family Values" and "Patriotic Nationalism" agenda, which befuddles me as how it is "vote worthy" by any sentient being or anyone with more than 2 brain cells. I do however know it proves, there was indeed interference and fraud during the last election...and virtually all of it was done by Trump and the GOP.   :)

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Food News Report.

Earlier, I made spaghetti.

Then I ate spaghetti.

End of Food News Report.  :)

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There seem to be a lot of college protests going on, wherein the faculty calls the police.  

Seems like we did this before, during the Vietnam war era.

Apparently the staff and police are under the impression that students and protestors are supposed to get a permit and stay in designated "protest" areas. News flash, if you have to obtain a "permit" to protest...it's not a protest, it's a fucking parade. I know some people think protests and "breaking the law" are in all cases unsavory and not a worthwhile effort of time and energy. I would point out a few examples of law breaking "protests"...

The American Revolution.

The Boston Tea Party.

The Civil War.

Suffrage.

Civil Rights Marches of the 60's.

Gay Rights....to name a few. 

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Additional Food News Report.

 I ate far too much spaghetti.

Me so fat.   :)

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Anyway, enough about all the "Rebels"...well, with one more exception.  :) 

Facesitting B/B - SPH Home Movie. :)

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Rush - Spirit of Radio - Performance Analysis. :)

 

Alrighty then...yes, I am at home today, not doing much, checking out some reaction videos. So, I come across this reaction (video below) of a well known Opera singer, reacting to, the greatest band the planet has ever seen, with my favorite song (though pretty much whatever Rush song I'm listening to at the moment, is my current "favorite"). I find it interesting when people that are extensively trained, classically trained, break down the music of people that...mostly have no training, but are just born with a natural gift for creating the kickiest kick ass, rocking rock music ever made. Best drummer, best bassist, best guitarist, best lyricist the world has ever seen. Light years ahead of anyone else. 

Yes, I have gone off the deep end, lol. 

But, for those that are Rush fans, who may be bored, it's fascinating to see the delight, the thrill, the enjoyment of someone from a totally different musical genre, be so impressed by 3 Canadian dudes that were mostly baked on hash and weed when they wrote much of their music. And again, for these guys, it was not due to education, training, college, or anything other than, just innate talent. Okay, enough out of me. Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend...I sure as hell am.  :) 

For a sampling of who the above "reactor" is, click below...

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I Now Support Donald Trump!

April Fools!!!   

Fuck Trump.  :)

Check out his insane, ranting, unhinged lunatic "Easter" message above. Trumpie posted 77 times yesterday on his failed social media site. 77 times. In one day. Assuming he sleeps about 8 hours, that's a post about every 15 minutes. So, every 15 minutes, this orange deranged putz was posting some nonsensical crazyass nonsense. 

In case people forget what all this is about, here's Trumpie trying to rig and steal votes...ergo steal the election, and undo the legitimate transfer of power, meaning undo democracy. 

Anyway...time to go to the gym.   :) 

 

Computer Question...

 

I have 2 computers that I can no longer log in to. One is a few years old, the other is 1 month old (literally, one month). Both have Windows 11.

I turn them on.

The login window pops up. 

The keyboard won't work to type in pin.

On the right lower corner, there is a "person" icon.

Click on that and a window pops up to allow one to toggle a thing so an onscreen keyboard pops up. (Photo above with red arrow shows the "little man" icon.)

On the older computer, for months I could use the onscreen login. 

Now it won't work at all.

Earlier tonight, the new one won't work either.

So, my mouse and keyboard work just fine.

There is some glitch within Windows 11.

The computer I am using to type this, is about 9 years old, and has Windows 10.

Yeah, I have too many damn computers. :) 

All filters are toggled "off" from the on screen keyboard option. 

If anyone knows how to fix this, bypass it, a work around, I would appreciate any advice. 

When I Google search this, it appears to be a somewhat common issue, but the "advice" is all over the place, some is questionable, some is outdated, some is for laptops, some applies to other issues and it gets confusing and overwhelming. Just to reiterate, this is not a mouse, keyboard issue, it's a glitch within Windows 11 which is fucking everything up. If anyone has knowledge and is willing to share it, feel free to e-mail me at vanessachaland at gmail.  :) 

Cheer up! Things are Getting Better. :)

Contrary to the doom and gloom predictions, reports and statements by the media selling drama and alarm for clicks and traffic, and the insane chronically negative (and stupid) GOP trying to sell fear to get elected or reelected, things are not as dire as some assume. Sure, the world is huge and bad things happen, they are happening somewhere, to someone, every second of the day. But overall, globally, life is improving for the majority of human beings. 

The World is Not Getting Worse, It’s Getting Better: 35 Good News Stories.  

1. Over the last 20 years, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty has almost been cut in half.

2. Just 200 years ago, 85% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. 20 years ago it was 29%. Today only 9% live in extreme poverty while the majority of people (75%) around the globe live in middle-income countries.

3. In 1997, 42% of the population of both India and China were living in extreme poverty. By 2017 that share had dropped to 12% in India and less than 1% for China. That means almost three-quarters of a billion fewer people are living in extreme poverty in these two countries than there were just 20 years earlier.

4. In 1800, among all babies who were ever born, roughly half died during their childhood. Life expectancy was just 30 years and no country had a life expectancy above 40. Life expectancy at birth was only 45 years in 1870. The average life expectancy around the world today is 72.

5. The violent crime rate has been on a downward trend since 1990 in the U.S. Just under 14.5 million crimes were reported in 1990. By 2016 that figure was well under 9.5 million.

6. The number of deaths from natural disasters is 25% of what it was 100 years ago.

7. Flying has gotten 2,100 times safer over the past 70 years. 2016 was the second safest year in aviation history. The odds of being fatally injured in a plane crash are just 0.000025%.

8. The real price of plane travel in the U.S. has fallen by more than half since the late 1970s.

9. Between the late Middle Ages and the 20th century, European countries saw a 10-fold-to-50-fold decline in their rates of homicide.

10. The share of homes that had electricity in 1870 was exactly zero. Today the proportion of people with electricity is 85%.

11. In 1905, a Vermont doctor and his chauffeur were the first to successfully drive a car across country from San Francisco to New York. It took them 63 days. Today you can fly cross country in a matter of hours while using wireless Internet.

12. There was no entertainment available to the average family in 1870, except for a few traveling musicians or circus performers or in-home board or card games. Today our entertainment options are almost unlimited.

13. Close to 20% of males born in the U.S. died before their first birthday in the year 1900. Today the mortality rate doesn’t reach that high until you get to age 62.

14. More than 37% of deaths in 1900 were caused by infectious diseases. That number dropped to less than 5% by 1955 and just 2% by 2009.

15. Retirement is still is a relatively new concept. In the past most people simply worked until they died. In the year 1870, for those who lived past age 65, the labor force participation ratio for males was close to 90%. Today it’s less than 20%.

16. The average American now retires at age 62. One hundred years ago, the average American died at age 51.

17. The percentage of the population living past their 65th birthday was only 34% in 1870 but jumped to 56% by 1940 and 77% by 2000.

18. Up until the 1870s, people typically worked 11-12 hour days. By 1900, the typical worker put in 10 hours a day, 6 days a week. It wasn’t until 1940 that it came down to the standard 40-hour, 5-day workweek. And these weren’t office jobs sitting behind a desk. The conditions for most workers were terrible and hazardous to their health.

19. Time spent on laundry fell from 11.5 hours a week in 1920 to 1.5 hours in 2014 (although I have twins so my family brings up the average on this one).

20. By the late-1600s, one-third of the children born in the richest parts of the world died before their 5th birthday. Today, this sad fate befalls just 6% of the children in the poorest parts of the world.

21. The proportion of people killed annually in wars is less than a quarter of what it was in the 1980s, one-seventh of what it was in the early 1970s, one-eighteenth of what it was in the early 1950s, and a 0.5% of what it was during World War II.

22. Early in the 19th century, 12% of the world could read and write. Today it’s 83%.

23. Americans are half as likely to be murdered as they were two dozen years ago.

24. The world’s nuclear stockpiles have been reduced by 85% since the Cold War.

25. Over the course of the 20th century, Americans became 96% less likely to be killed in a car accident and 95% less likely to be killed on the job.

26. The world has gotten richer (as measured by Gross World Product) in 51 of the last 55 years.

27. In 1929 Americans spent more than 60% of their disposable income on necessities; by 2016 that had fallen to a third.

28. Since 1960, the fraction of a person’s life taken up by work has fallen by 25% through a combination of shorter workweeks, more paid time off, and longer retirements.

29. The high school graduation rate was just 9% in 1910. It jumped to 52% by 1940 and 83% today. 

30. Every single country in the world today has a lower infant or child mortality rate than it had in 1950.

31. A British baby who had survived their first year of life would have lived to 47 in 1845, 57 in 1905, 72 in 1955, and 81 in 2011. A 30-year-old could look forward to another 33 years of life in 1845, another 36 in 1905, another 43 in 1955, and another 52 in 2011.

32. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of deaths from malaria (which in the past killed half the people who had ever lived) fell by 60%.

33. The control of infectious disease since 1990 has saved the lives of more than a 100 million children.

34. Between 1961 and 2009 the amount of land used to grow food increased by 12%, but the amount of food that was grown increased by 300%.

35. 1,000 years after Jesus walked the earth the world was barely any richer. It took 500 years for income to double from there. Then between 1820 and 1900, the world’s income tripled. It tripled again in a little more than 50 years. It took only 25 years for it to triple again, and another 33 years to triple yet again.

36. Since 1995, 30 of the world’s 109 developing countries have seen economic growth rates that amount to a doubling of income every 18 years. Another 40 countries have had rates that would double income every 35 years, which is comparable to the historical growth rate of the U.S.

37. The number of people in extreme poverty has fallen by an average of 137k people every day for the past 25 years.

38. Two centuries ago the life expectancy in The Netherlands, the richest country in the world at the time, was just 40, and in no country was it above 45. Today, life expectancy in the poorest country in the world is 54. There are no countries where life expectancy is below 45.

39. When poverty is defined in terms of what people consume rather than what they earn, the American poverty rate has declined by 90% since 1960, from 30% of the population to just 3%.

40. There are 180,000 people walking around today who would have been murdered just in the last year if the global homicide rate had remained at the same level from a dozen years ago.

41. Between 1950 and 2009, the rate of death in traffic accidents fell six-fold.

42. In 1970 the chance that an airline passenger would die in a plane crash was less than 5 in a million; by 2015 that small risk had fallen a hundredfold.

43. In the 1990s, the U.S. saw its homicide rate plunge by half in just 9 years. In New York City, it dropped 75% in the same time.

44. There has been a 37-fold decline since the turn of the 20th century in the chance that an American will be killed by a bolt of lightning.

45. Roughly half of the adults in the world own a smartphone.

46. Just 7% of the world’s population lived in a free or relatively free society in 1850. Today that number is closer to two-thirds.

47. The literacy rate from the 17th to 19th century was just one-eighth of the global population. From that point on the world’s literacy rate doubled in the next century and quadrupled in the century after that, so now 83% of the world is literate.

48. In 1820, more than 80% of the world was unschooled. It’s estimated that by the end of the century this number will be close to zero.

49. In 1920, just 28% of American teenagers ages 14-17 were in high school. The latest stats show over 80% graduated high school, of whom 70% went on to college.

50. In 1940, less than 5% of Americans held a bachelor’s degree. By 2015, it was up to one-third.

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Of course, if dumbfuck cowardly, traitorous, treasonous, unpatriotic and exceedingly retarded (morally, emotionally, intellectually, physically, spiritually and sexually) Trumpie wins...things will deteriorate.

 

CadetBoneSpurs reposted a video by some inbreed moron with the image below. 

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If that happens, precautions and safety measures must take place. 

Personally, I'm going to wear protective gear.   :) 

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Anyway, overall, cheer the hell up and try to enjoy life.

The End.  :) 

Pavarotti, Bocelli, Zucchero. :)

 

Regardless if you are "into" this sort of music, or not, you gotta, gotta, gotta, watch both clips.

That's right. 

I said...gotta.

No seriously, your soul will never be the same.   :)