A Rational Mind requires a Media Bullshit Filter

 "A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path - he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off.  You must also show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow.  But so long as you do not show it to him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity." - Epictetus

When do the wheels fall completely off?

 "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." - Ernest Hemingway

Recent developments - not much!

 "Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The elites and the media have gone insane

 "War imposes suffering on everyone.  The difference is that the winner suffers less than the vanquished." - me

Air Compressor Room - Part 6, and a bunch of completely unrelated stuff

 "You could leave life right now.  Let that determine what you do and say and think." - Marcus Aurelius

Compressor Stall on Industrial Gas Turbines - Inlet Filter Replacement

 "Think of the universal substance, of which thou hast a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has been assigned to thee; and of that which is fixed by destiny, and how small a part of it thou art." - Marcus Aurelius

Extreme Games: Virtue-Signalling Competition!

 "Never  value anything profitable that compels you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect others, to curse, to be a hypocrite, to desire anything that requires walls and curtains to hide." - Marcus Aurelius