We have created a new group for our pets and vet/pet care. But we need to have some fun and laughs too, so this weekend we are celebrating Caturday where the community can post pics of their beloved pets or their favorite animal-based memes.
I was moved when I read this article: Scared Stray Dog Roamed The Streets For Months, Hiding An Adorable Secret - The Dodo
Thanks for sharing the article Woodrow’s Story | Investing With Nature tomb of the mask I was very touched.
I’m a software engineer by trade and I’m looking at the government with an analogy I draw from the software industry. Software security has become, for obvious reasons, a hot topic. It is a systemic issue. It has happened because people and state actors have learned to abuse software for their own gain. However, what enabled that to occur was an ignorance about the future. Had software security been central to software design from the beginning we wouldn’t be where we are today. But few were exploiting software in the beginning and few developers have thought about it over the years.
Likewise, the design of governments and the priority on the issues of human health are strangers. We can dive into so many aspects of this and find examples of conflicts of interest, FDA, USDA, etc.
Unfortunately, we seem to find it very difficult to convince people to act and change how we approach things until it is too late, and damage has been done. We are reactive rather than proactive by nature.
My hope is for a serious and very deep review of all systems in government. We need a major overhaul and restructuring in all areas of government, and human health needs to be a value at the very top. So far, we can’t seem to so much as put the food pyramid in the US into the hands of health experts but rather the fox is guarding the hen house… and this should be an easy one to fix.