🔗 Culture Got Us Into This Mess - Gapingvoid
Over the last few decades, while China created a world-class manufacturing capability, we created the Rust Belt. We bled our manufacturing capability dry.
🖇️ On my ‘TV Show Reviews’ - some are growing in number of series - so rather than repetitive postings on the same series - I am revisiting older ones as I watch and editing. I discovered I’d missed Slow Horses - just ‘fixed’ - not completely since I need to add reviews for a couple of the series - but really. Why? ALL so good.
Manton writing today : 🔗 about something that @devilgate wrote : 🔗 Maybe You Can Post Your Way Through Fascism
💯 .. we’ve sort of been down this track before .. not so much Martin’s pov .. as the …
Originally published on ‘this’ blog in 2007 - 🖇️ The world has not changed as much as we think …
18 years later … the quotes hold and still I would argue that “The world has not changed as much as we think”.
Saw it a couple of nights ago … and gave it the worst movie ever award …
To be fair others did like it - but nobody even thought it worth a nomination .. much less a win .. in any category.
5 wins out of 6 nominations?
Seriously?
I know the world’s gone mad … but really?
At one point in 🖇️ Zero Day, De Niro talks about Freedom and Liberty.
Perplexity…
The terms freedom and liberty are often used interchangeably, but they have nuanced differences:
Freedom …
🎵 🖇️ Blog Challenge - Music Edition - thank you for the inspiration @Annie
🚧 Links To Posts by Others
A little over a week ago - I threw out 🖇️ this little billy do onto my blog and thought nothing of it. To save you the click through I was just pointing out some internet speeds I was experiencing - …
Collections is a new micro.blog feature on micro.blog that allows images to be grouped together in … wait for it … ‘Collections’!
It’s a cool extension, but I wanted to feature collections in related posts which gave me problems if I used the recommended CSS. (Problem, because 20 images in a collection resulted in those 20 images appearing at the bottom of all the posts that featured the collection which I felt was overwhelming. Not anymore.
My real desire was to feature them on each post on my blog as a scroll (like on the micro/blog timeline. (The default was to lay them all out on a grid - which resulted in the post being overtaken with a lot of old images). Nothing in the standard CSS allowed for that.
My short term fix was to have a link on a post to a page, 🖇️ like this.
BUT - let’s face it - a kluge.
Just cracked the entire problem in less time than it has taken for me to write this post.
- Give ChatGPT current CSS
- Ask it for the CSS that would do the same job - but so that images weren’t just there - but featured as a scroll.
First Time.
See what I mean : https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/17/inspired-by-people-martin-luther.html
Next job … Have the scroll sometimes display square images - and sometimes landscape / portrait.