3 Rs - Repair, Reuse and Restraint

They design lifespans of products such as smartphones and laptop computers other electrical appliances to be artificially short, so that consumers are forced to ditch functional products and acquire new ones.

Some devices are also designed to be difficult to repair, or with replacement parts that are tightly controlled by the company, thereby making it challenging to extend their lifespan through replacing faulty parts.

Device repair services have also become few and far between such that consumers find it easier to buy a whole new device.

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/commentary/wasteful-practices-of-affluence-repair-cutlery-plastic-bags-11880308

The above report is about wasteful habits of affluent Singaporeans. It is also about saving mother earth, about climate change and disappearing animals from this planet.  It is also about the existence of humankind while we, the supreme species on earth, charted our own course of death and destruction.

Today everyone is crazy and in heat about saving a few pieces of plastic bag when each piece of plastic bag when rolled into one is not bigger than the size of a 50c coin. Yes, it is wasteful consumption of plastic and the impact is severe when they are not properly disposed off and ended up everywhere, in the ocean, in the stomach of fish and mammals and killing them. What is the solution?

Saw a documentary by some kids in CNA proposing that instead of using one plastic bag for each item of purchase, they should put all in one big plastic bag. Just throw the fish, meat, vegetable, fruits, buns and cakes, all into on bag and save 10 bags. Brilliant ideas from the kids. But the kids at the end also knew that it was a foolish idea. But it was not worse than stupid people proposing to ban giving plastic bags to hold their purchases in supermarkets and make people buy more plastic bags to store their waste and swills for disposal.  The cheap plastic bag is the most efficient piece of invention of humankind. It is how it is being used and how it is being recycled or disposed that is the problem.

But the real problem is not the use of plastic bags but consumption. The article quoted above exposed the real problem behind the survival of the human species and mother earth. It is reckless and mindless consumption for the sake of economic growth. Use and throw, buy newer ones, pulling down houses and buildings to build more houses and buildings, scrapping good working vehicles after 10 years or less to buy new ones. These are very serious and expensive wasteful behaviour of human species. But no, no one is looking at them as they make economic sense. How much energy and material are wasted compare to the use of plastic bags? Such mindless behaviours are destroying mother earth! No, just turn a blind eye and go for the good thing, economic growth. Economic growth is everything. We need economic growth to get rich and appear to be richer. Nevermind about irresponsible and meaningless increase in population. Is that all there is to living?

The most serious human indiscretion and irresponsible act to destroy mother earth is increasing human population for the sake of economic growth. How much more is being consumed by one human bean alive for 80 or 90 years? How much more destruction would be due to his existence? If human beans start to think about controlling population growth, for human beans to live better quality of life, not to produce human beans for the sake of economic growth, there would be much less destruction and threats to the existence of human civilisation and the end of the world.  The main threat to the destruction of mother earth is CONSUMPTION by an ever increasing growing population. By maintaining and controlling population growth, the problems of a dying mother earth, the wide spread use and disuse of plastic bags would be more manageable without have to do crazy things and stupid things to try to solve a problem that humankind has created for itself ie economic growth through increasing population and mindless consumption.

Do we need more crazy and stupid ideas to control use of plastic bags and to control climate change? Do we need 10m population? Why do we need 10m population? How many more plastic bags would be used with 10m population when the amount used by 5.6m is already unacceptable?

Another example of saying one thing and doing another is the F1 races here, extended to 2021. Speed kills and the govt is promoting Speed thrills by spending billions of dollars on the wasteful F1 races. What does it say?

The John Bolton Sickness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh6V84mBdpE

Watch the above clip and understand how the numerous wars were started by one man until he was fired. The news makers and Rick Sanchez and US Senator Ron Paul exposed the evilness of this man and his gang of murderers in Washington. Rick Sanchez and Ron Paul are among the few sensible people that could see the truth and realities and not be blinded by the barrage fake news.

The USA is the world's number one trouble maker, conducting wars and genocides everywhere, killing hundreds of millions everywhere, and still look like saints and angels in white robes by the unthinking. Understandable for the Americans as they think they are the living white gods and it is their rights to kill the coloured people. But very sad and pathetic for the coloured people aka bananas and coconuts, to be colour blind and cannot see that they are also potential victims of the

white gods, maybe not now or not personally and keep cheering when the Americans go around killing other coloured people.

They cannot see that the Americans are conducting wars genocides everywhere and that this is bad.

After viewing this clip, would you still believe that the USA and Israel are peaceful countries? Or would you still think and believe like the silly bananas and silly Asean leaders thinking that China and Russia are the aggressive and dangerous countries and Americans should be invited to be the policeman of this region?

How the West was won

"When Malaysia’s deputy minister for international trade and industry, Ong Kian Ming, toured a Huawei training centre in Cyberjaya this week, the vibe was more “humdrum public relations opportunity” than it was “visit of epochal significance in a battle of East and West”.

Followed around by an entourage of interns, the minister gamely engaged in all the classic press conference moves: making small talk with trainees, commending the Chinese company for investing in his country and waxing lyrical about the coming 5G internet revolution.

There was ample time for snacks, a chat with Huawei Malaysia CEO Michael Yuan – in Mandarin, naturally – and, of course, the obligatory photo op full of smiling faces and raised thumbs....

(Sense how sour is the above remarks by a Meaghan Tobin post in SCMP? And she continued with the real pain...)

Yet half the world away in Washington’s corridors of power, it’s hard to imagine there were anything but grimaces.

Malaysia is just the latest in a string of Southeast Asian nations to have welcomed the world’s largest telecommunications company with open arms, flying in the face of warnings from the United States that doing so will leave their most highly classified secrets vulnerable to Chinese spies....

But in Southeast Asia, where Huawei estimates there will be 80 million customers within the next year and US$1.2 trillion of business opportunities over the next five years, Washington’s fears have had little impact.

Thailand hopes to roll out a Huawei-led 5G service by 2020 and is already carrying out joint research with the firm in its hi-tech Sriracha district; Singapore’s M1 service, Malaysia’s Maxis and Indonesia’s Telkomsel have all signed up to trial services with the company; and in the Philippines, a Huawei-backed service is to be introduced by the leading wireless provider Globe Telecom as soon as the second quarter of this year."

The above article in the SCMP told a story of the fear in Washington and its anti China allies of Huawei's 5G technology.  To stamp China's march and charge into futuristic technology, the US is trying its damn best in the most clumsy way to strike fear across the world that Huawei is dangerous and cannot be trusted. And they kept uttering that no one trust China and would not use Huawei.

The truth is that no one is bothered by the nonsense coming out of Washington. Asia and Europe and SE Asia are embracing 5G technology without sleep. They are not going to be left behind and 5G is the only way to leap frog the Americans and the West in the game of technology competition. With 5G, Asia and SE Asia, including Europe, are going to conquer the USA and leave the Americans behind. 20 years down the road, Asia and SE Asia will be proudly telling the world how the West was won, how the Americans were left behind as a sore loser, by not willing to embrace 5G but unable to develop their own to compete with Huawei and the rest of Asia, SE Asia and interestingly Europe.

The Make America Great Again slogan is a march backward when the rest of the world are running forward. A generation down the road, scholars would be asking, who defeated the American Empire? How did the USA become a backward country?

Shameful Hong Kong activists crying to their white fathers in Washington

A few Hong Kong activists appeared in the American Congress urging ‘members of the US Congress to pass legislation to combat human rights abuses in the city, rejecting any suggestion that such a move would be inappropriate US involvement in another country’s affairs,’ reported by Reuters.
 
According to this singer activist Denise Ho, ‘This is not a plea for so called foreign interference. This is a plea for democracy.’ Does she have a brain? Is Hong Kong a colony of the USA? Is Denise Ho a citizen of Hong Kong or a Canadian?
 
Another idiot, Joshua Wong, said, ‘Beijing should not have it both ways, reaping all the economic benefits of Hong Kong’s standing in the world while eradicating our sociopolitical identity.’ This is another case of stupidity has no cure. This boy is still living in the 19th Century when China was weak and poor and at the mercy of the white imperialists and colonialists. He still believes that the white imperialists and colonialists are strong enough, and China weak enough, for them to walk into Hong Kong to whip the Chinese. I can’t believe the Hongkongers believe in the silliness of these kids, thinking that Hong Kong belongs to them and the Americans and they could ask the whites to tell China what to do.
 
And they blamed all this to ‘the creeping interference by Beijing in Hong Kong’s affairs, despite promise of autonomy.’ And this creeping interference is due to the Extradition Bill to bring criminals to justice proposed by the Hong Kong legislature, not China. What has the Extradition Bill got to do with creeping interference by China? Who is misleading who?
 
An extradition bill is a normal international agreement between two administrative states to bring to justice criminals committing vicious crimes in their respective countries. If an Extradition Bill is interference in another country’s affair, then all the countries with Extradition Bills are also guilty of this allegation.
 
How many stupid people believe in this childish logic? Only the unthinking will think so, that an Extradition Bill on criminals is interference in another country. In legal terms, to use this as a cause is a miscarriage of justice.
 
The few traitors would have been executed on their return in Imperial China, but not in modern China. Hongkongers must know that the reprieve they are having, under the one country and two systems would come to an end in less than 28 years. The 50 year grace period is not to let Hong Kong to run continuously under a different system but to be gradually merged with China under one China one system. The earlier Hongkongers get this message into their heads, the earlier they adapt to the system in China the better it would be in their interest. By the end of the 50 year grace period, there will be no more one country two systems. Period. The Basic Law is only for an interim period, not to be permanent, to facilitate the gradual integration of Hong Kong into China proper, not to be totally different from China.
 
The reality, Hong Kong is a part of China. A tiny piece of rock cannot change the whole of China or be different from China. The protesters and those that cannot live with China when China takes over Hong Kong fully have the choice to leave Hong Kong. They can leave Hong Kong, but Hong Kong cannot leave China. 2m Hongkongers can leave Hong Kong, China. 2m Hongkongers cannot be allowed to disrupt the stability and security of 1.4b people in China.

Hong Kong is our role model is a curse

Seriously:

September 14, 2019 at 12:52 am  (Quote)

The Govt gorged on the religion of free market principles imported lock stock and barrel from the US in the 2000s, and have spend almost as many years winding back their big theoretical error ever since.

Unfortunately, for all the so called smarts they supposedly possess, for quite a number of years they used to benchmark us against HK and seemed to think that we could go down the same path as HK. At that time it wasn’t anywhere near mainstream belief to question the HK model. But I did wonder for a long time how long that ridiculous HK model of ever rising real estate costs, the ever wonderful shrinking real estate unit sizes, stagnant salaries, etc could go on without reaching a breaking point. But somehow, those politicians and GLC top management kept singing those ridiculous tunes which suggested it was a proven path we could also take.

This is a classic case of auto pilot, and monkey see and monkey do on the part of the Govt. And it shows you how independent their thoughts and actions are. And I leave you to conclude whether they are anywhere near as clever and talented as they often claim to be.

The above comments were posted in TRE.  The first sentence already showed the foolishness of the so called thinkers or planners, a lack of depth in their thinking, same as Seriously said, monkey sees, monkey do, with no value add or critical thinking. A very good and sad example is the copying of the New York stock market business model, lock, stock and barrel and leading to the demise of the stock market industry. They could not see the difference between an elephant and the smallness of a pea and thought that what were good and applicable to an elephant would also be good for a pea. And now the industry is about to turn belly up.

What about Hong Kong? Is this a good role model for Singapore? Again, from their comments and the things they used to compare Hong Kong with Singapore, what were good for Hong Kong must be good for Singapore, we are going to be in deep shit.

Blindly using Hong Kong as a reference to what we should be, what we could be would be a disaster to Singaporeans. I am not talking about the mass demonstration and rioting in the streets of Hong Kong. Hong Kong has a godfather in China that we don't have. The most ludicrous thing is to think we should have the same kind of population and population density as Hong Kong, our housing prices can go higher because Hong Kong's prices are so high, we have room to grow, our housing are cheap, very cheap compares to Hong Kong and things like that. It would only lead to smaller and more expensive HDB flats.

Using Hong Kong as a model is for the unthinking. But if so called elite, supposing to be very clever people, blindly used Hong Kong as a model, intentionally or stupidly or for whatever selfish reasons, it is unforgiveable. We will all end up having sex in small places and pretend this is a good thing while the rich and elite live in their expansive landed properties that they need to use GPS to move about in their homes.

Hong Kong is successful because China allows it to be. Without China's blessing, Hong Kong will be history. In today's news, a few traitors have gone to Washington to appeal for American intervention in Hong Kong and claiming that Hong Kong's success was due to the special trade status given by the Americans. They stupidly believe the success of Hong Kong is due to their cleverness and this special status. These kids are beyond salvation. They are suffering from the Singaporean Stupidity has no cure disease.

The stupidity has no cure mindset is to compare how expensive housing or transport/taxi fare are in some countries and how to raise our property prices and transportation fare to be as high as these selected cases. They would not want to compare and bring down property prices and transport fares by comparing to those that are cheaper. They would not compare the pay of political leaders and to lower the pay of our political leaders to those that are being paid lesser.  Don't ask me why.