Friday, January 20, 2023

Three Observations

 1.  Somewhere out of yesterday (Thursday), I spent an hour watching bits and pieces of the World Economic Forum highlights. 

Key chatter?  The Siemens AG 'boss' did a talk that we all need to do our part in 'stop eating meat'.  It went along some chatter that a billion people need to step up....volunteer...give their 'all' in the fight to halt meat eating.

Personally, it might make health sense to consume half your meat intake in chicken/turkey....but beyond that....it's just not going to sell well to the general public.  It'd probably serve health benefits more if you aimed at sugar, and cut 50-percent of your daily sugar intake.

2.  This whole 'should we (Germany) give tanks to Ukraine' thing progresses along each day.  There must be 2,000 man-hours a day wasted between the Chancellor, the cabinet folks, and the German Defense Ministry.

At the end of each day....ARD/ZDF (the two public TV networks) do their best to encapsulate all of this into four lines of information....which seems to drift slightly each day.

3.  German Post says strike will occur shortly....asking for 15-percent of a pay-raise.  Around regular Germans....there's no hype or worry....like most of what they order now....comes via Amazon or special delivery service.  There's probably less than a dozen envelops that come to the house in an average month now.  


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