MORNING THOUGHTS. Previously posted on my Facebook Page.

News: “`'Influencer fatigue' is real and young people are getting tired of it.” What do we expect? They are all over the internet: Facebook, Twitter/X, TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube, WeChat, Telegram, Snapchat, and many more. True, it’s a “legit” job for mostly the young. Seated 24/7. And “influencing” is bound to be The Job as A.I. implements a.k.a. robots accomplish most of the physical/manual duties. “Future shock” is an understatement. 🤖📱📲

Kiss had sold their catalog etcetera in a deal estimated to be over $300 million. That is not big news. Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, and Joni Mitchell are a few of huge names in music who sold their songs. Major reason: “Public domain.” Copyrights are forfeited after 70 years of the license. In most countries, the term expires 70 years after the death of the author. May as well sell them now. Also saves stress from A.I. freely stealing them, anyways. 🎼💲🎼

“NBA player misses free throws so Clippers fans get free chicken.” He is 7’4” Boban Marjanovic. Anyhow, the game was his team’s last for the season since Houston Rockets was already out of the playoffs. The Serbian giant is fun. More famous for his funny TV commercials, he was also in some movies. He is the assassin Ernest who quotes Dante's “Divine Comedy” in “John Wick 3,” who fought Mr Wick (Keanu Reeves) in the NY Public Library. 🍗⛹️🤣

We get older. And I think about my dad, who inherited properties. He could have allotted us, nine children, enough cushion to start the pursuit of life. But dad and mom were consumed with our present then over the future. They instead raised us as it was. Live life. Not perfect. But we evolve in a sense of independence in unity. Tight. Now I see my grown up children. Not perfect but they are individual energies, self-sufficient. What they gained, they worked for them. 🌬🌦☀️

CNN. “Biden unveils new plan to forgive student loan debt for up to 70 percent of borrowers.” Meanwhile, those who already paid their loans after years of 3-jobs toil and those who didn’t go to college will help cover for those billions$ via taxes–while they struggle with mortgage payments, credit card woes, and car dues. Gargantuan taxpayer money, for the meantime, is tossed to two ongoing wars as President Biden’s military aid to his favored side. 😵😵‍💫😵

I always read “Only in America!” and “Only in the Philippines!” and those are negative retorts. Seldom, people post good stuff about their country? Many post the bad to be cool? Really. Or because when people praise their home country, they’d be stereotyped as nationalists or conservatives? Influencers on this side of the political narrative would consign you as evil because you love your country? You see, our country is not necessarily the government. 😧😵😵‍💫

News: “Actress recalls Johnny Depp berating her on set for laughing.” Not that I am saying Johnny is some “good boy.” Yet this same bloated drama is common these days. Kids are told that being castigated by a teacher for undone homework or guilt from being late by 15 minutes to walk a dog means additional dosage of antidepressants. Ah. To think that I was trained by an editor whose famous temper and bad words would make Gordon Ramsay an altar boy. 😼😭😼

Unlike most who obviously enjoy them, I don't share hate memes or insulting GIFs that mostly pertain to partisan politics and religion or Christianity. I don’t also respond (to Facebook chats/posts) with a link to an article although reading stuff online (and offline) is a daily regimen. I don’t deepfake myself. I don't tweet/X or Tiktok. I don't share TMI family dramas or talk about my ex’es. Yet I obviously post a lot on a daily basis. Just being me. 😼😾😼

New York Times: “The Raunchy Christians Are Here.” Really? Although advocates of Christianity in America have dwindled to 210 million or 63 percent (from 90 percent in the 1970s), the global community sees the U.S. as a Christian nation. Yet I get the reasons why many give up the religion. But do we need to malign Christianity per se just because we hate some of the Faithful? Due to the overkill of insults, I see the evil in those who slur than the slurred. ✝️💖☮️

AFP: “`Real threat': Presidential long-shot RFK Jr. alarms Democrats.” Democratic Party hardcores or Joe Biden zealots should ease hate Trump fireballs and instead worry about Bobby Kennedy’s son. The Junior embodies ideals that the Old Left espoused and got lost in the New Left’s blurry paradigm. Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s faithful stay solid as rock. And so as Joe loses the Blacks and the young, which he gained in 2020, RFK Jr. could gather those votes for him. 🏛🗽🏛

About Dogs and Cats and their Buddies. And other quick jokes.

Previously posted on my Facebook Page.

UNLIKE dogs that express their remorse and guilt, cats are wired to live in the moment. This means that they react to things happening to them in real-time. Cats simply don't have the ability to show remorse or guilt for shameful actions they've done in the past. Cats be Republican or Democrat, Left of Right. Conservative or liberal. Even progressive and radical (obvious?) I don’t know. 😺🙀😼

THERE is no significant evidence to suggest that we only use 10 percent of our brains. On the contrary, all existing data shows that we use 100 percent of our brains. Really?!? Yet some ask, “What is your name?” They’d google it. When they want to know today’s date, they’d google it. How many siblings do you have? They’d google it. Their brain is Google. That is why if that cellphone gets lost, they are a done deal. 🥹📱📲

CATS love catnip because it makes them feel good. As your cat licks and rubs on the herb, the release of nepetalactone sets off a euphoric reaction. Scientists aren't sure exactly why this happens, but many believe cats are responding to the nepetalactone as though it is a pheromone. The majick words: nepetalactone and pheromone. You may google those for exact definitions. Or simply ask your cat what nepetalactone and pheromone meant. 🐈🎋🐈

HERDING breeds of dogs were developed to gather, herd, and protect livestock such as sheep or cattle. That shared heritage means they all have the instinctive skill and drive to control the movement of other animals. To a herding dog, however, “other animals” means the humans in the house, too. In fact, Arrow herds me and Fizz and Ching to bed on naptime and sleeptime, and me at morning bathroom time, 1:15 PM sniff-sniff time, and 3:15 PM walk time. 🐏🐑🐕

WHAT tricks can we teach a cat? <>Come When Called. <>Shake Hands. <>High Five. <>Jump Through a Hoop. More. In return they can teach us ninja expertise such as “tai jutsu” or unarmed combat, “kenjutsu” or sword techniques, “bojutsu” or staff fighting, espionage, eavesdropping, interrogation dynamical systems approach to backrub spins + academics like optic flow, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, objectivist epistemology, control theory, cybernetics etcetera. 🐈🤹🐈

WHEN should kids stop getting bedtime stories? According to experts, there's no age you should stop reading together either! Keep bedtime stories going even once they start to read on their own, and your support can help develop a love of reading that will carry on into adulthood. Uh huh. Many parents still read bedtime stories to their 30+ year old kids. That is why when these “kids” turn 45, they still believe in Santa Claus, Dracula, and Super Jo Koy. 🥱📖😴

BORDER Collie, the smartest dog? Their intelligence, enthusiasm and willingness to work has seen them awarded the top spot in canine psychologist Stanley Coren's intelligence rankings. Smartest dog breeds. Oh well. “Fake news!” exclaims Fizz The Wiz, and says Stanley Coren is actually a border collie disguised as a hooman. And Fizz adds, based on her thorough research, hounds like Arrow The Good Doog are the smartest dogs ever with an IQ average of 130 to 145. 🐕🥸🐕

DOGS do think and can experience a wide variety of thoughts and emotions. Although it's not known exactly how dogs think—after all, they can't think in words like humans can—evidence suggests dogs can learn, understand, and even be creative. But don’t ever think about creating A.I. version of dogs (or cats or any other animal personage). Ever imagine a Friday The 13th Jumanji? 🐕🤔🐕

WHEN did we start saying “like” so much? The term gained popularity within beatnik culture of the '50s and then diffused into culture at large. The term was lampooned in the 1982 novelty hit "Valley Girl" by Frank Zappa. This led to a popularization of the Valley Girl stereotype in movies and TV. Similarly, these days, when you hear young girls “Meow!” saying they identify as cats. That’d be because of Taylor Swift’s million-dollar cat Olivia Benson. You know, like meow? 😏😒🤨

WHY do dogs and cats ruin couches? They're likely to target prominent areas: Carpets or sofas, or your favorite armchair. This is because scratching these areas will make them feel more secure and relieve stress by putting their scent on things, making them feel more like their home. So the more they smell unfamiliar scent on your leather couch, the more they’d scratch and chew it, mess it up. Weird? Well, they are dogs and cats. But hoomans do the same, too, in so many ways. 🐕🛋🐈