gwiss rebloggedchaospoet (58)in #prose • 7 years agoOther People's MoneyI can fix everything With other people's money I can educate everyone With other people's money I can solve health care issues With other people's money I can solve…gwiss rebloggedfinnian (58)in #recipes • 7 years agoAncient Orange Mead RecipeA friend of mine, who is not on Steemit yet, convinced me to get into brewing. I am not a big beer drinker however, so I ended up brewing mead instead. Mead is expensive unless…gwiss rebloggedgrow-pro (63)in #gardening • 7 years agoBe Careful Adding Wood Ash to the Garden 🔥Fire & Hard Lesson Learned...Gardeners Beware! Many gardeners are aware of the benefits of using wood ash in the garden. It can be a great source of potash for plants, among numerous other benefits, but it…gwiss (48)in #society • 7 years agoBill Cosby versus Roman PolanskiSource @dana-edwards had a post yesterday about whether Bill Cosby was guilty of rape or not, and in the process of trying to find out whether there has been any objective…gwiss (48)in #philosophy • 7 years agoSpiral Dynamics and the Houston floodingI read a post by @luzcypher this morning about what level of conversation most people enjoy and it got me to thinking and researching about spiral dynamics and the theory of…gwiss (48)in #philosophy • 7 years agoWoodstock versus CharlottesvilleI read a comment by @aedroberts in a recent post about books that will help your children see the wisdom of anarchy , and his comment was that Orwell was actually a Statist…gwiss (48)in #philosophy • 7 years agoGender ConfusionSource Having read recent posts by @kyriacos about transgender issues and by @lukestokes about the role of women in society I was struck by a contradiction. So let’s…gwiss (48)in #philosophy • 7 years agoStar Trek SnowflakesImage link Matt Novack at Gizmodo did a piece recently on William Shatner talking about Shatner's attacks on Social Justice Warriors. Shatner apparently has a distaste for…gwiss (48)in #economy • 7 years agoHeroin and Economic CyclesThe poppy has been a part of human civilization for a long time -- the Sumerians in 3400 BC called it hul gil , or "joy plant", and tablets found at Nippur describe the…gwiss (48)in #society • 7 years agoTechnology and the Generalist@kyriacos had a post this morning about how thinking critically is more important than citing references and it got me to thinking about the nature of the world that lies…gwiss (48)in #economy • 7 years agoSeattle can't stop shooting its own toes offFirst they hurt their minimum wage workers with an ill conceived mandatory minimum wage increase. Now, they passed a 2.25% tax on the wealthy. Guess that's one way to…gwiss (48)in #steem • 7 years agoFuture of cryptocurrencyNone of us here on Steemit are surprised by the reality that fortunes are being made by cryptocurrency traders. But the question I have is: What will authorities do when…gwiss (48)in #science • 7 years agoPesticides behind bee deathsNeonicotinoid pesticides, often used as seed coatings, is likely cause of bee colony deaths being seen in many countries. Quote from study: Overall neonicotinoid…gwiss (48)in #politics • 7 years agoTaxation, Representation, and Negative FeedbackI was reading a post last night from @calaber24p about hardfork 19 and voting and it got me to thinking about systems design, which got me to thinking about back when the US…gwiss (48)in #health • 7 years agoHigh Intensity Training@kafkanarchy84 had a good post about running and detoxification. It made me think about the physiology involved with running, why it is good for us, and what it does to the…gwiss (48)in #education • 7 years agoSchool is broken@krnel had a good post about school bullying recently, and it got me thinking about how school functions now and what it might function like in the future. The current US…gwiss (48)in #economy • 7 years agoCorporations -- vital or parasites?Corporations are an ancient concept. They were widespread in Rome, the concept being that when a group of people band together they form a body (corpus) that is treated as a…gwiss (48)in #society • 7 years agoSeparating Cream from Crap@dana-edwards had a post a couple of days ago about whether centralized pyramid style organizations favor psychopaths, and it got me to thinking about how the reward structure of…gwiss (48)in #politics • 7 years agoCNN Producer: American voters are "stupid as sh*t"So this is what we get when we combine a perpetual sensation of low danger, a society where all of the corners are padded, with a relentless corporate drive for profits at all…gwiss (48)in #philosophy • 7 years agoOn getting Forked...I was watching the video of the Playboy reporter and the White House press secretary Sanders, and was struck by something he said: Come on, you’re inflaming everybody right…