Gongol.com Archives: August 2019
August 21, 2019
What if Greenland had wanted in?
Greenland isn't for sale, but what if the people there had legitimately wanted into the United States of their own communal will?
The Cold War bunker still open for tours
Underground nuclear bunkers were built on a premise: That ordinary people suddenly forced to live underground for months at a time wouldn't quickly go stark raving mad. That premise was probably faulty.
Cameras (and police) catch tourists riding e-scooters on Milwaukee freeway
If it doesn't spontaneously occur to you that "Hey, this looks like an Interstate highway, so maybe I should stop my scooter", then maybe you shouldn't be allowed out in public without adult supervision.
What does the US economy make?
70% of the value added to GDP comes from services, not stuff. Retail trade creates 5.6% of GDP. For comparative reference: Arts, recreation, and entertainment account for 4.1%. And while some people say they would welcome a recession because it would mean less "stuff" being crassly consumed, to say something like that isn't making a reasoned argument; it's expressing a blind rage against the voluntary choices of millions of your fellow Americans because you don't like the choices they make.
