Tag: TomD
Tom’s World – 15SEP2025 – The Black Cat
Tom’s World – 09SEP2025 – Drugs
Truthfully, I went through a phase when I did drugs but that ended well over 40 years ago. I was lucky, not smart, no incredible willpower, just lucky. I apparently didn’t possess whatever gene creates the predilection to addiction and dependency. I could try something and say, “That was kinda cool” and walk away. A lot of people do have that gene and they are the unfortunates that battle dependency their entire lives. Some people, bless them, do possess that gene but also have a strength of character to refuse to succumb to alcohol, or drugs of lord knows what type.
A big problem being there have been some frightening drugs created over the last decades, drugs so horrendously addicting and/or destructive. I’m not certain that that it is possible to 100% solve the problem but, with these, an effort has to be made.
Having know a few of the addictive unfortunates, I have some sympathy and wouldn’t accept any solution that required that addicted users end in a jail cell.
I never dabbled with the supply side but obviously knew people who did and also know there is, and will always be, a percentage of the population that can no more resist the prospect of easy and big money than the users can resist the product.
I have no ideal what the solution could be other than to contain it to whatever extent possible. A lot of lives ruined and this includes especially alcohol. I do know that simply criminalizing every aspect, even strongly, reduces the problem but does not eliminate. Ever heard of Prohibition? That worked well, humm?
You’d think that the flood of fentanyl would act to suppress drug use because if you have to worry that the next dose of your whatever contains a fatal dose of something unexpected.
As far as blowing people away who are part of this plague of Musk level rich narco-terrorism? I’m perfectly okay with that.
Tom’s World – 07SEP2025 – Military Aircraft
Tom’s World – 06SEP2025 – Photo
If you don’t mind I’ll piggyback the scene below. Not planned, leaving my house at 06:30. I can tell from the sun location that it is mid September but several years back. This is why I tend to carry a smaller camera with me to capture unexpected scenes.
Tom’s World – 29AUG2025 – Chaotic Input
The thing about highly ordered systems like the social system of a large country is that they can only take so much disordered and chaotic input. And if the insanity forced down the nation’s throat over the past 12+ years doesn’t count as chaotic input, I’m not sure what would short of a total collapse.
I think that in a future in which social science has evolved from a pretend science for average or less intelligent people to waste money getting degrees in to a real evidence and calculation based science, one of the social real scientists would point to these happenings and say in consternation, “Well, what did you expect?”
Tom’s World – 28AUG2025 – Afrika-Corp-Bug
Tom’s World – 16AUG2025 – Photos
Tom’s World – 11AUG2025 – Tunnel Munch
And now, something completely different—- I added an element to this shot in Photoshop, see if you can find it.
