Author Archives: Jim at JimsBBS

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VOTE

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Be sure to vote if you want to be heard.

Meanwhile, California really does need to change our voting method to RANKED CHOICE (sometimes called Preferential Voting). Someone needs to do what needs to be done to get this on the ballot here.

Learn more about Ranked Choice here

https://www.rcvresources.org/what-is-rcv/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting

https://fairvote.org/our-reforms/ranked-choice-voting/

Here is a good review of all the different voting methods (there are many)

https://www.princeton.edu/~cuff/voting/theory.html

From what I hear, Arnie Schwarzenegger is responsible for California having this awful voting method. Meanwhile, VOTE.

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Jim Robeson

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clever or wise

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“We have come as far as we have because we are the cleverest creatures to have ever lived on Earth. But if we are to continue to exist, we will require more than intelligence. We will require wisdom."
– David Attenborough

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Living Life

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Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. – Bertrand Russell

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Gemini Can Be A Great Wordsmith

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I gave Gemini the prompt: “Take the following sentence and turn it into a catchy memorable phrase.

Don’t waste money on travel to Mars. Instead, give more money to medical research.”

and it gave me back the following.

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Here are a few ways to rewrite that, depending on the “vibe” you’re going for:

The Punchy One-Liner

“Fix the humans before we find the Martians.”

Short & Rhythmic

“Better lives, not better rockets.”

Action-Oriented

“Invest in the breath of life, not the vacuum of space.”

A Bit Witty

“Let’s cure the Earth before we colonize the stars.”

My Personal Favorite:

“Don’t fund a flight to a dead planet—fund the fight for a living one.”

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