How do I create images for a PowerPoint / Poster explaining the Trolley Problem?

Hi everyone,

I would like to make some teaching and presentation resources to explain the Trolley Problem using pictures.

Although there are a number of these pictures online, what I would really like to do is find some resources to make my own.

In particular, does anyone have any recommendations for free programs in which I can select the composite elements - train, track, workmen, footbridge, workman etc... - and slot them all together?

Cheap Phablet?

Like $69, https://www.walmart.com/ip/Plum-Opti...df&athena=true

I need an oversize phone for my dumb fingers and tired old eyes. Usual phones are 5.5". I tried a dinky not-quite-flip-phone for a couple weeks and hated it. But cell phones have become a necessity today. I spend no time on the phone, do my computing on a PC.

So, cheap phablet, cheap plan, move the land line number over- will I be sorry, or thrilled?

John Smith 25 years on

The sudden death of Labour's leader a quarter of a century ago was to a lot of people genuinely shocking.

A decent man, though with a reputation (at least in the media*) for being dour (though this was the time of John Major's premiership, so go figure). After his passing, some viewed him as the best PM Britain never had.

So many what-might-have-been questions. Though three years later the party would go on to win three elections in a row under Blair and then Brown.

* - Only a week or two before his death, Spitting Image was lampooning him for just this.

laptop is plugged in and not charging

Well shoot, my only five month old laptop is running into the problem where the battery won't recharge. It is now down to 89% displaying that it is "plugged in, not charging" and I've tried everything except removing the battery and putting it back in which is something the online tech support suggested.


I had worried about this since this was a refurbished unit I got for half the price of a totally new one. Hopefully, worst case, all I need is a new battery or AC adapter.

Amazon: Belief, Bias, and the Evangelical Underground

I do suspect there is something rotten in the state of Amazon. The Institute for Creation Research, an evangelical antiscience mill, sponsers the Wonders of Creation, a series of publications advocating biblical literalism over science. They seem to have at least one fan on the Amazon Forum Team.

My review of the mineral book was briefly posted then vanished. While I was monitoring two other critical reviews vanished. I became suspicious and sampled reviews posted on the entire series. Recent reviews were glowing and rah-rah; anything critical was a couple of years back. I'm not going to conclude that the Amazon team itself is promoting the books (content of the series is just too loopy). I do think their team has a mole.

Those curious can find my commentary on the mineral book through goodreads or google books.

Trump to head nation's 4th of july celebration

Will Trump behave himself and act presidential and bipartisan? Or, will this result in a massive Trump rally, a Nuremberg rally on the Potomac?

https://www.adn.com/nation-world/201...o-the-program/

Political Correctness actually goes mad: Danny Baker's chimp tweet

Quote:

The BBC has sacked Danny Baker, saying he showed a "serious error of judgement" over his tweet about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's baby. The tweet, which he later deleted but which has been circulated on social media, showed an image of a couple holding hands with a chimpanzee dressed in clothes with the caption: "Royal Baby leaves hospital".

BBC

Why did the BBC sack him for this?

Oh, because it must have been racist. It must have been. When Danny Baker heard that it was how the tweet was interpreted, said that he didn't mean it that way because he doesn't have a diseased mind. Cue a lot of outrage that those who complained must have diseased minds.

The tweet appears here in an article that asserts that intent is not the only thing that matters. (i.e it doesn't matter if he was being deliberately racist)

So, since then, Baker has apologized profusely, but that's no good. By apologizing, you put blood in the water, and now there are several editorials and talking heads saying apologizing is not enough...

What is enough?

Well, the police are on the case now investigating the possibility of hate speech.

Link

This is absurd, in my humble opinion.

First of all, it is absurd to assume that the tweet was obviously racist. Has anyone ever had any reason to consider him racist in the past?



By the way, when Charlotte Royal Baby was born, a zoo in Japan named a monkey after her. Some people in Japan complained that it was disrespectful but the zoo kept the name of the monkey.