https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faiyum
Faiyum[1] (Arabic: الفيوم El Fayyūm pronounced [elfæjˈjuːm]; Coptic: ̀ⲪⲓⲟⲙPhiom) is a city in Middle Egypt. Located 100 kilometres (62 miles) southwest of Cairo, in the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum Governorate. Originally called Shedet in Ancient Egypt, the Greeks called it Crocodilopolis or Krocodilopolis, the Romans Arsinoë.[2]It is one of Egypt’s oldest cities due to its strategic location.[2]
Lights are being put up all over town.
I feel like it’s still too early.
Probably my 3rd fave marvel movie after guardians and cap.
Some nice visuals and I liked it overall. Cumberbatch had the look but his acting was a bit weak.
Check out Big Trouble in Little China/Escape From New York on hoopla digital.
https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11739054 #hoopladigital
Allison sees the Goodyear blimp from the front door of our condo in deerfield beach.
Item of note, the condo was sold Monday, and it was a wash. No real profit, but no more condo fees or mortgage payments. I have no more financial ties to Florida.
I honestly didn’t expect this outcome.
To say I’m disappointed and unpleasantly surprised is an understatement.
I’m more than a little dumbfounded. I thought that the country would not choose someone so comically undistinguished and ill-suited to be the commander-in-chief.
I thought the republicans somehow magically found a way to pick a candidate less appealing to voters than the democrats, but it seems we prefer to pick someone who acts like a petulant and spoiled child, or maybe an amok chimp with a handgun. Apparently we like the angry monkey, he makes us laugh. Mind the teeth, chimps can get mean.
Like it or not, he’s our president now. Our job is to remind him that he answers to us, and we as a group are going to have to make sure that he, his vice-president, and rest of the folks elected are pushed toward a sane agenda.
I’m just not sure how to accomplish that goal. He seems to exist in another reality, where he can say and do anything and not worry about being taken to task for it.
I’m luckier than the folks that will take the brunt of this situation. I’m a white, straight, married, fairly financially stable male. My family has decent medical insurance. I’m too old and infirm to worry about being conscripted into any wars with which we might get involved.
I don’t know how to process this. My heart goes to everyone who will be affected by this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_cognition
The cultural cognition of risk, sometimes called simply cultural cognition, is the hypothesized tendency of persons to form perceptions of risk and related facts that cohere with their self-defining values. Research examining this phenomenon draws on a variety of social science disciplines including psychology, anthropology, political science, sociology, and communications. The stated objectives of this research are both to understand how values shape political conflict over facts (like whether climate change exists, whether gun control increases crime, whether vaccination of school girls for HPV threatens their health) and to promote effective deliberative strategies for resolving such conflicts consistent with sound empirical data.
Applies to all of us, how our brains work.
We are prone to make outside information fit our values rather than vice versa.