Weapons Of Mass Deception

…of the reality that we are all, ALL, shitting in our boots.

“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.”

get over the assumption that you are an endall in the game.

“The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It’s proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or “accessing” what we now call “information” - which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.” Wendell Berry
i am out for a while. robie, husband, father, farmer, optometrist, a poor and reluctant typist

MM, I was under the impression that the Nest did indeed have a microphone, the listing of which was overlooked in the specs. Google apologized for the oversight. As for the camera, not easily determined although there is a motion sensor.