A Grain of Salt…
A Grain of Salt…
Column
By Patrick Tamayo/Opinion Editor
There is so much hate and anger all around us. As far as we’ve come as a society, with all the technological advances and milestones surpassed, we still fall so short.
It’s hard to comprehend the stresses and worries that other people have. One can usually barely cope with the complexities within themselves much less have any sympathy for anyone else.
We walk around campus in our own worlds. Hurrying to get to class, rushing to leave campus and run off the next place, never even having time to attempt to care about anyone else.
I walk the streets of San Francisco and most of the time I ignore homeless people, barely change direction when those people asking for donations to save polar bears, the planet or whatever they’re saving on any particular day and even if someone were to talk to me I wouldn’t hear them because I’ve got headphones on.
I’m in my own world. We’re all in our own world.
Our lives are so busy that there is simply no time to smell roses. When have you ever stopped to smell a rose, honestly, people don’t have that kind of time.
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There are people around the country serving lengthy jail sentences for marijuana. Yet out in the free world people are consuming marijuana medically and legally with no repercussions.
Marijuana is slowly becoming acceptable for its variety of purposes, but something needs to be done about the government’s involvement with it.
While states are slowly taking notice of the vast amounts of tax revenue possible by allowing the sale of marijuana to adults, our federal government insists on vilifying it by any means necessary.
They refuse to acknowledge the classification of marijuana and insist on keeping it at the same level as heroin.
The same federal government that participated in the shipping of guns and drugs into Latin America is in charge of telling the people what drugs they can and can’t take. This does little to convince anyone that the government knows what’s best for anyone.
The government’s war on drugs will continue to go on as long as the public continues to accept their lies and start thinking for themselves.
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As wars across the globe continue to escalate and tension between countries continues to grow, robots may soon be the ones that determine whether we live or die.
Boston Dynamics, which consists of teams of engineers and scientists who developed robots that resemble and move like animals, has now come up with human-like robots that are able to think, as well as run through woods and over several kinds of terrain.
They plan on developing self-sufficient robots that are able to operate as individuals and since Boston Dynamics is owned by our beloved Google X, the robots will be programmed with top of the line analytics that will allow them do pretty much whatever they’re programmed to do.
U.S. Marines recently trained with a four-legged robot. As if a squad of Marines knocking on your door in the middle of the night is not scary enough, they may soon have realistic robots alongside.
Wars of the future may very well depend on who has the more technological robots. What could possibly go wrong?
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I feel bad for kids nowadays for having to go to school in an age where they can be suspended for forming guns out of Pop Tarts and getting arrested for bringing bomb-looking clocks to school.
In the case of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, his name may have made the administrators at his school a tad bit too uncomfortable. Add a homemade clock that may or may not resemble a bomb and well, surely we’ve stopped yet another terrorist before he could tell everyone what time it is.
Our Commander in Chief was so impressed by the clock building skills that young Ahmed was invited to bring his clock to the White House.
Ahmed should probably jump on that visit sooner than later because if any of the current front runners for President of the United States are elected, he probably won’t be allowed within six blocks of the White House.
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Don’t get caught up in the political correctness being pushed at us from every direction and don’t be conned into believing one side of an issue without at least finding out about opposing viewpoints.
Life will continue with or without us. If it’s with us, we should try to make the most of it. Slow down, take a breath. Be cliché, stop and smell a rose.
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