Cool and damp, warming to hot and moist. Or just raining all day. Or is that tomorrow? We’ll see which liar is closer to the truth. Yesterday was not horrible. Overcast and muggy most of the day though. Sweaty.
So I did outdoor stuff. ‘natch. Cut the grass in the back. Because my life is fractally complicated, that meant fixing a string trimmer first. I brought a good runner home from the BOL because I’d dropped it and cracked the fuel tank. I knew I had a non-running one, same model, that I could steal the tank from. So I did. And the tank has a pinhole leak. Dang. So grab another non-runner, see what we can do… realize it’s a four stroke, put regular gas in it, and it starts. Doesn’t run well, but runs enough to use the string trimmer head (after a trip to Lowes for string, bar oil, and a chainsaw chain… which I forgot). Knocked down the stuff that would stop my mower, got the mower running and cut the back yard.
Blew a lot of leaves and mess to the yard, and mulched that. Then tackled a non-running pressure washer. Determined that it had spark, but no fuel. Cleaned the carb and it still wouldn’t fire up. The air cleaner housing is an integral part of the idle circuit, and once I figured that out, I got it to start and run. I can’t find the air filter and cover. They are here somewhere but I started poking at the washer a couple months ago, and can’t remember where I put them. Without the restriction of the air filter and housing, it won’t run properly… but it does run, hose and gun work fine. Shelf that for now.
Blew some of the debris off the canned goods shelves. Didn’t get all hazmat suited to tackle that yet…
Checked that my ham antenna wasn’t in danger of coming down. It’s not plumb, but I can’t get to the bolts to plumb it, and so it’ll be fine for now.
Put the backup weather station in place. Still getting the incorrect temp and humidity I was getting with the old one. Something must be interfering with the radio signal. Shelve that for now.
Hit two stores looking for the aloe gel I’ve used for decades to treat sunburn. Didn’t find it. Ordered it online. Tried to shop local… and they had the brand and the product, just in a juice not a gel. I don’t drink the stuff, I use it topically, so the gel (which is pretty watery anyway) is better. I tried. Amazon got their skim. Product manufacturer got the money, but the locals missed out. It should be here today.
One good thing from yesterday- my grapes are going nuts. The vine froze back to the ground, but has recovered to grow up the trellis this year. I didn’t expect any activity until next year, but I noticed that suddenly I have bunches of grapes all over the vines. This is the vine that has never produced, and didn’t really flourish. I had some limited fruit on the other vine a couple of years ago. This year I did nothing, and I will probably be getting fruit.
Peach tree is about half dead. Apple tree is thin but flowering. Blueberry bushes look weak and spindly this year. I’m not optimistic that I’ll get much fruit, not that I get much, but yield has been increasing every year, until now.
I have to get the sprinklers working again, so that will be today’s project. At least, I’ll begin replacing the vacuum breaker and see what that entails. Probably would be easy if all my plumbing stuff wasn’t at the BOL… I’ll probably have to shop. I didn’t bring the stuff home because I still have the sprinklers up there to get sorted. Maybe I’ll get lucky.
I’ve let stuff go for too long. Now I’m paying for it. Stay on top of maintenance projects. If TSHTF, you’d be wishing you had. Heck, if you need it for normal everyday life, you’ll be wishing it was working.
Things seem to be accelerating. We are definitely already past the point where we were predicting stuff would be, when it started heading south. Layoffs, bank failures, bankrupt retail, mass migrations, decreases in services, cities deteriorating farther, faster, it’s all actually happening. The violence and further schisms can’t be too far away.
Stack while you can. Get your stuff in order. Plant some food.
nick
Rather, he doesn’t believe that his income will rise with inflation.
In this case there is an added factor: The willingness of half the population to confiscate retirement funds from people who have been prudent and saved.
Matt Gaetz represents FL1, one of the Congressional districts most dependent on Federal largesse in the entire country. His frequent collaborator this Session, “The Witch”, Freshman Anna Paulina Luna, sitting in Charlie Crist’s surrendered seat covering most of South Pinellas County, also faces reelection from a district with lots of oldsters and Defense pork spending going back to C. W. “Bill” Young’s multi decade tenure sitting in that chair.
Gaetz wants to be Governor. Who knows about “The Witch”, but she has five years of real military service without any Beau … Beau … Beau privilege, even working as a stripper off base at one point. She has ambition too.
They’ll cave. That will be enough.
Anyone who prepays a mortgage with a good rate does not believe the inflation rate will rise.
– Or he thinks that monetary inflation will wipe out the value of the saved money before he can use it to pay for his mortgage.
We turned savings that were losing 30% of their value to inflation into property that (for all the other issues, and there are issues with anything) should retain value no matter what the currency does. Certainly it has value to us beyond it’s monetary value.
n
Cool and damp, but not raining. It’s lightening outside but I can’t tell if it’s overcast or not yet.
Kids are moving.
Coffee should start flowing…
n
My reason for paying the mortgage off would not be for any perceived financial advantage but rather liability protection from my wife returning to the world of private practice and the brain-dead support staff.
That said, I pay the mortgage at a 15 year armortization schedule starting when we could afford it and carry the house on our balance sheet at the purchase price from 2014. I’m counting on inflation to provide a better return than what I could get elsewhere with the money right now.
A 30 year mortgage is a poor deal for the borrower regardless of rate. The new gimmick when borrowers of the last few years get into trouble is to shift the note to 40 years, which is insanity
Someone’s debt is always another person’s (or 401(k) account’s) asset.
Regional banks plunge in value by up to 45% as shockwaves from First Republic’s collapse continues to reverberate
– despite comments and articles to the contrary, does anyone think it will be limited to “just a few”…
n
The banks were nationalized the weekend SVB went under and Yellen agreed to backstop all deposits instead of letting haircuts happen where necessary.
Management isn’t even going to try anymore.
Ordered four more Airtags for the upcoming trip to Europe. The tags will go in the luggage so I can track the location. The tags are being ordered engraved so I can tell them apart. The tags are being shipped, via Fedex, from China. They will arrive in six days.
Last full day with the annoying kids. Yesterday afternoon and evening we gave the parents a break and we took care of the kids. With some moments of returning to normal screeching behavior, the kids did OK. One time the boy picked up something he was not supposed to have and I sternly told him to put it back, and he did. That is a change from other times.
I think some of the issues are that the parents are trying to be friends, rather than parents. Parents sometimes have to be stern, and the kids know what it means.
The family leaves tomorrow afternoon for Atlanta to visit a friend, then drive all night to get home.
Articles are popping up claiming the Dumbo’s want to run Moochelle in 2024. There is no way she is giving up the jet-set, rich, multiple mansion lifestyle. She stuffs Barry in the closet and does whatever she wants. Giving that up would be a sure sign of evil engrams.
Silver has important industrial uses, unlike gold, and it is a lot more common in household items such as grandma’s flatware. Outlawing private ownership of siliver would be a huge problem from an enforcement angle.
Why should that be an “accusation”? Putin is a legitimate military target.
Sadly, it’s probably not even true. The Kremlin has got to have plenty of air defenses, and it’s unlikely Ukraine has anything that could penetrate them. More likely, some protester threw a molotov cocktail…
I would love to see Ukraine able to strike targets deep in Russian territory. Logistics, command-and-control, parked aircraft, etc.. Take out the leadership, take out the depots and airstrips, and the war would be over.
Moochelle is the last Jesus Candidate left standing now that Stacey Abrams and Val Demings were sent packing. The Dems can’t credibly run the new Governor of Maryland in 2024, but he might work as Jesus in 2028.
They want another Jesus to deliver a fillibuster-proof Senate and return control of the House. That isn’t going to happen with a replay of Biden/Trump. Rafael Edward and Rick Scott in Florida would coast to reelection in that environment where they would both have trouble with a Messianic presence at the top of the ticket.
LOL:
Waiting for the Republicans…
I don’t call them spineless for nothing.
Yes he is. But this gives Vlad an opportunity to claim “we are not at war so this is a crime”, yes, a joke, and legitimacy to continue the “war.” A perfect propaganda op.
@Nick
”One good thing from yesterday- my grapes are going nuts. The vine froze back to the ground, but has recovered to grow up the trellis this year. I didn’t expect any activity until next year, but I noticed that suddenly I have bunches of grapes all over the vines. This is the vine that has never produced, and didn’t really flourish. I had some limited fruit on the other vine a couple of years ago. This year I did nothing, and I will probably be getting fruit.”
If the vines were grafted, you may be growing from the root stock now.
A “drone” covers a wide variety of remote controlled aircraft which would not show up on radar.
We went to a presentation in Dallas about eight years ago which covered making a hobbyist drone capable of carrying a payload of a couple of pounds over a range of several miles, controlled by cell phone. The entire fuselage was folded from a precsion cut piece of foam, and the cost of all of the other pieces totaled about $100 not counting the small cell phone control module.
Granted, you needed a laser cutter to cut the foam, but the point of the presentation was to promote the Dallas Maker Space and their new homebrew cutter which could be rented by the hour by anyone.
>> (from yesterday) The outfits got them what they wanted, attention and press. Since they are attention hoors, every ‘eyeball’ they attract earns them money.
This is the “attention economy” people used to talk about. Monetizing eyeballs. Influencers make truly astonishing amounts of money to simply draw and keep your The outfits got them what they wanted, attention and press. Since they are attention hoors, every ‘eyeball’ they attract earns them money.
This is the “attention economy” people used to talk about. Monetizing eyeballs. Influencers make truly astonishing amounts of money to simply draw and keep your attention..
How much longer is the “attention economy” sustainable? Are there really enough one percent’ers that will continue to spend freely for this cr@p? The last new clothing I can remember buying is a twelve pack of Haines white cotton t-shirts. For some reason the wife insisted that the old “gray” ones were well past their useful life.
And Zelensky can say: “I didn’t do it, but if I did, it would be a Special Military Operation, not an act of war”.
Sauce for the goose and all that.
Based on what I saw during our trips to Houston and Orlando in March, the “attention economy” was still alive and well.
Economic analysis of the Bud Light debacle’s likely effects:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/why_the_bud_light_disaster_could_cripple_the_entire_companys_many_brands_for_years.html
ABI’s greed has made their distributor’s more vulnerable to sales downturns, and their stupidity has created a big one.
I’m going to christen this “The Bud-er-fly Effect.”
Thinking of starting a new Etsy store for my shirt ideas: “This Bud’s for the guy in the skirt”
InBev has a lot of brands, and Anheuser Busch management has harbored a desire to break the power of the distributors for a long time. I’m starting to wonder if this wasn’t deliberate.
Anyone who prepays a mortgage with a good rate does not believe the inflation rate will rise.
The mortgage on my commercial property is a 15 year note at 5.7% from 2018 with a middle four figure payment. I’ll have it paid off in four years at the current payment. I have already paid it down some with some cash that we had previously.
The problem is that I cannot tell when and if they are going to seize the pensions, IRAs, and 401Ks to “reinvest” in tbills. I am firmly convinced that this will happen before 2030. Maybe in 2025 after Biden is re-elected.
Niels Bohr, the Nobel laureate in Physics and father of the atomic model, is quoted as saying, “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future!”.
Arlo and Janis: Fishing
https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2023/05/03
Yup, the fraud is increasing daily.
Rather, he doesn’t believe that his income will rise with inflation.
Exactly. My income is dropping right now due to customers and prospects in the oil patch going out of business.
Articles are popping up claiming the Dumbo’s want to run Moochelle in 2024. There is no way she is giving up the jet-set, rich, multiple mansion lifestyle. She stuffs Barry in the closet and does whatever she wants. Giving that up would be a sure sign of evil engrams.
Michelle spent Barry’s eight years petrified that Barry was going to be assassinated. There is no way that she is going to get in that box. And she has her Netflix and myriad other sweet deals to fund their future.
This is the “attention economy” people used to talk about. Monetizing eyeballs. Influencers make truly astonishing amounts of money to simply draw and keep your attention..
How much longer is the “attention economy” sustainable? Are there really enough one percent’ers that will continue to spend freely for this cr@p? The last new clothing I can remember buying is a twelve pack of Haines white cotton t-shirts. For some reason the wife insisted that the old “gray” ones were well past their useful life.
Just wait until Biden is reelected in 2024. If so, UBI (universal basic income) is coming. And Medicare for All ™.
At that point it will be Medi-die, except for the privileged congress critters class who will have private healthcare.
Spending every morning swimming in what is literally the tidal pool from the opening credits of “Magnum PI”.
OTOH, she is already “in that box” until the day she dies. The Secret Service hut at the LBJ ranch is the most current structure on the property because they were there until 2007, when Lady Bird passed.
The next Jesus Candidate will be the Dems last so they’re going to go for broke. A fillibuster proof Senate means no obstacles to packing the Court or enacting the voting legislation stripping the states of any control in Federal elections.
Silver has important industrial uses, unlike gold,
— gold is a very important industrial metal. Every piece of electronics in your house has gold in it.
gooogles results say 11% of gold produced is used in industry.
n
In China.
I’ll admit I hadn’t thought about it, but nothing electronic gets made here anymore except high end DoD gear. Maybe simple control boards, but Tyco bought up a lot of those plants 25 years ago before going Tango Uniform .
Gold use in industry probably isn’t at 1933 levels yet, but it is heading there.
FIFY
FIFY
Your case is special, what with being a small business owner, moreso because you’re dependent on customers in a narrow slice of industry, even moreso because many of your customers are from nations and cultures where paying for a product when you can just steal it is viewed as foolishness.
My comment about income not keeping up was referring to regular employees, who might get a 3% raise to cover cost of living increases, and no performance raise because “we can’t afford it”. Of course, 3% is only half of the official inflation rate and a small slice of actual consumer price inflation. Not to worry, though: the tax brackets have not been re-indexed so the raise may push you into a higher bracket and you’ll in effect have a 1.5% raise. It’s ok, though. Most Americans are overweight, so having to miss a few meals because you can’t afford to eat is good for you.
3% has always been a punishment raise. It still is, but everyone is getting punished now.
At that point it will be Medi-die, except for the privileged congress critters class who will have private healthcare.
It depends on your Social Justice score. Have you danced on Instagram lately ? Are you Transgender ?
I remember once when I had a 50¢ an hour raise and my take home /dropped/ $30 a week. “Not amused” is the polite term for how I felt.
Yeah, sure, perhaps an extra $20 a week isn’t a huge raise, it’s a whopping $80 a month and that was actual money to me in the early ‘80’s. But to get that and lose $30 on the take-home stung…. that $120 loss stung.
Just one data point on why I want to pull less than 12 grand a year from my 401k.
Avoiding taxes, aka theft by the Gov, is not a sin.
Empires decline slowly, over decades or even centuries. I don’t think they’ll seize anyone’s pension. But benefits like SS will stop matching inflation, which will hollow them out. The budget deficit will increase without bound, which will drive inflation, as the dollar sinks against other currencies. A weak dollar means that federal budgets will have to increase, driving the deficit, driving even more inflation.
Probably the best defense is to have capital, things like property that will appreciate. Of course, you have to start off with money to acquire that capital, which has already become difficult for the younger generation. It will get even more difficult. They won’t have the money for IRAs or 401Ks. What with student loan debt, many people already don’t. Whatever good intentions were behind it, the student loan has re-introduced a kind of debt-servitude, where people can work decades, or their entire lives, paying off debts they should never have accrued.
But that’s just my guess. It’s also possible that a spark will ignite something much more sudden and disastrous, and take history in a completely different direction. Hungry people without hope can do unexpected things. What kind of bread-and-circuses will keep the masses entertained? Right now, it’s TikTok and social media. Tomorrow?
It’s a nice day out. 85F or so. Hazy clouds but bright and with a patch of Sun once in a while. I don’t know what is in the air but my eyes feel like I’m on the beach at South Padre and the wind is blowing sand all over.
Including into my gin and coke. That’s in a red Solo cup. (After the vodka bottle ran dry.) Good times.
Without student loan debt, most of the skilled medical professionals in the US would have “shrugged” in the Ayn Rand sense of the word and gone off to run sailboat and/or scuba charters in the Caribbean years ago.
Blanket student loan forgiveness won’t happen. $10k from Corn Pop is a drop in the loan bucket for most providers, even high end nursing diplomas.
College is bare minimum 40k for 4 years. At the University of Alabama, Freshman year was 10k tuition and 10k housing (dorm). Next year, no university housing, but he has to live somewhere. His apartment will be right around the same. Luckily, He got the full presidential scholarship, so tuition is fully paid for 4 years. He also received an Engineering department scholarship of 10k spread out over 4 years. That essentially covers his book costs and other various fees. Interestingly, his scholarships killed my chance at claiming the tax credit, but that’s ok.
He’s also on the 6 year plan, since he will begin a coop program next year, and is tacking on an extra year for his MBA.
He has his last exam Thursday, and I’m going down to help him move back home Friday. It looks like his gpa will be down a little this semester – probably a 3.5. I’m very proud. He navigated the weed out classes that are Physics I and Calc II quite well.
No, but student loans have definitely reintroduced indentured servitude. Of course, all with the purest, snow-white intentions. Enable more people to go to college (um, why?), especially those from lower socio-economic groups. The colleges smelled money, inflated their prices, dropped their standards to keep as many students as possible, and…you get baristas trying to pay off 6-digit debt for their useless degrees. I’m not even exaggerating – a brief Google shows that 43% of them have bachelor’s degrees.
Best thing that could happen, would be to end the loan programs tomorrow. Colleges will either get their costs under control, or have no students. The poor suckers who have loans should be allowed to clear them via bankruptcy. High earners won’t do that, but the indentured servants most definitely will. Make the colleges liable for the repayment, since they provided the useless degrees.
Of course, it’s easy for me to say, being outside the US system. We also have administrative bloat and quality issues, but an order of magnitude less severe…so far, anyway…
Join Tau Beta Pi when he is a junior. 50% of applicants for a scholarship get one. A check to spend how they wish. $2,500.00. In grad school a fellowship is available for $10K. The networking connections are awesome with some real industry leaders.
The paper from the Federal Student Loan program in the US since 2010 contributes to the cost of Obamacare under Reconciliation, the mechanism used to pass the bill after the underwear model took Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. The loan program is not going to go away, and a blanket forgiveness would require a complex act of Congress since it would monetize more than a decade of Obamacare borrowing, transferring the balance to the national debt.
Thanks for the info!
I suggest that he take the EIT/FE exam as soon as he has completed all of the relevant coursework.
Even if he doesn’t think he will ever need a PE, it is impossible to say for sure, and the FE is damned hard to pass if you haven’t seen the core engineering cirriculum in a while.
Roughly 40% of the EIT was time value of money when I took the exam, which I breezed through.
The Lindberg FE Review Manual used to be the only book someone taking the test really needed, but they used to allow all kinds of references.
I took the Lindberg book, a CRC Math tables book, and my HP 28S into the exam and scored an 82. Passing was 72 that year.
In my own defense, fluids was 15% of the exam, and I Christmas treed that section of the test.
“When Bobcat designed this construction vehicle, it wasn’t enough to go electric. It reimagined the entire thing”
https://www.fastcompany.com/90878768/bobcat-t7x-all-electric-compact-track-loader
“Not only has Bobcat replaced the main diesel engine of its vehicle with electric power, it’s also electrified the hydraulic system, reducing the amount of potentially toxic fluids the system requires.”
“The T7X runs on a gallon and a half of propylene glycol coolant (rated safe by the Food and Drug Administration) and less than 2 ounces of gear-box oil as opposed to the nearly 60 gallons of fluids required to run a conventional diesel loader. These improvements eliminate both air and noise pollution on job sites, which often are located in densely populated urban areas. The vehicle is also comprised of 40% fewer components, which makes maintenance significantly easier and reduces the number of parts that might need to be replaced, providing another environmental benefit.”
However, come selling time and the buyer is going to want a new set of batteries. That won’t be cheap.
In my own defense, fluids was 15% of the exam, and I Christmas treed that section of the test.
Christmas Treed ?
“Victor Davis Hanson Says FOX News Won’t be Able to Replace Tucker Carlson (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/victor-davis-hanson-says-fox-news-wont-be-able-to-replace-tucker-carlson-video/
No one is irreplaceable but, replacing Tucker will be difficult especially since Fox News is not looking for a conservative.
Some prepper you are.
I just bought a bottle of Akvavit in honor of my late Swedish friend. First drink was Akvavit and tonic, which was good. Next will be with ginger ale.
“Go Passwordless: Google Accounts Now Support Passkey Sign-Ins”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/go-passwordless-google-accounts-now-support-passkey-sign-ins
“Google is starting to nudge users to try out passkeys, a replacement for traditional passwords that can stop phishing attacks and make sign-ins easier.”
Looks complicated.
“Starlink Cancels High-Speed Data Caps, Offers ‘Priority’ Plan for Best Speeds”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlink-cancels-high-speed-data-caps-offers-priority-plan-for-best-speeds
“Starlink.com scrubs any mention of the high-speed data caps, which were originally supposed to arrive ‘no earlier than April.’”
I got an email yesterday that there will be no 1 TB / month limit for now.
“Microsoft Reportedly Making New CPU for Windows 12”
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-is-designing-new-processor-for-windows-12-report
“But it may be another customized Snapdragon, rather than a wholly internal project.”
Intel is getting left out in the cold even as they set new sales records.
“The Best Modern Artificial Intelligence Science Fiction Books” by Dan Livingston
https://best-sci-fi-books.com/the-best-modern-artificial-intelligence-science-fiction-books/
I have read:
5. We are Legion (We are Bob) – great book covering hundreds of years
2. Ancillary Justice (one freaky AI in a clone body)
I have #7, Illium, in my SBR (strategic book reserve).
Randomize the multiple choice on the Scantron is how I interpret the term.
That’s what I did. I never saw Fluids in my EE program.
The Lindberg book used to be the key.
When I took the EIT, the prof who flunked half of my graduating class — me included — rolled into the room with a hand truck full of books, taking the exam for the umpteenth time, complaining about “The kids with the fancy HP calculators.”
The legend in the department was that he washed out of the NASA Astronaut Corps due to vision problems.
I don’t know if he ever passed the test before he retired.
Microsoft will have to get rid of Qualcomm if they want Microsoft Silicon to work.
Apple hired the best Qualcomm engineers here in town around the time we arrived.
Why would you mix it with anything? Put it in the freezer and slam shots ice-cold.
Hannity will get cancelled next without Tucker Carlson as a lead.
Hannity will get cancelled next without Tucker Carlson as a lead.
I am surprised that Fox News has not fired Hannity already.
I understand that sentiment, and my friend Bengt would second it.
But then, he used to drink it while eating Surströmming.
If I were forced to eat that, I’d do shots too.
But I don’t do shots any more, except rarely with others to toast “absent friends”.
My list of absent friends keeps getting longer.
Hannity was a shill for vaccines and the mask kabuki. He’s probably what we used to call “low hanging fruit” at the Death Star — someone to fire quickly when needed.
The stories keep dropping about Pfizer and media influence.
List of tainted-by-association ABI beers:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2023/05/03/conservatives-boycott-bud-light-but-what-about-these-other-anheuser-busch-brands-n2622778
I’ll keep Bass Pale Ale and Redhook ESB on my list. Probably a bottle a year each when I happen to be out. Wish I could find Winterhook, but local distribution doesn’t seem to have it or Coors Winterfest available.
@Lynn
I usually find Livingston falling a bit short, and this is no exception.
#1 Accelerando is the third book in a trilogy. Recommended.
He couldn’t just say “21st Century”, but waited until comments to define “modern” as such, in reply to a question about Heinlein’s TMHM.
Pre-21st century examples are much scarcer, as might be expected, but “The Caves of Steel”, TMHM, and “The Ship Who Sang” are all standards in the sub-genre. Make it a separate list and Jones’ “The Forbin Project” is on it; expand it and “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” is second in the short story section. The Bolo’s, of course, are their own sub-genre, but “The Last Command” tops the short story list.
Post-21st century, Ringo’s “The Hot Gate” would have a place on my list, as would Taylor’s “The Singularity Trap”.
Overall the question is better served by two lists: the artificial human intelligence and the non-human machines (humand and alien).
>> It depends on your Social Justice score. Have you danced on Instagram lately ? Are you Transgender ?
How many points for hanging out in an AOL chatroom?
Points docked for knowing about AOL.
Wait til you see my AOL install CD collection!!
>> We turned savings that were losing 30% of their value to inflation into property that (for all the other issues, and there are issues with anything) should retain value no matter what the currency does. Certainly it has value to us beyond it’s monetary value.
As they say in real estate, no one is making more land. (Yeah, always an exception or three.)
Jeremy P. Shapiro
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University
“The thinking error that makes people susceptible to climate change denial”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/03/the-thinking-error-that-makes-people-susceptible-to-climate-change-denial/
Eric Worrall eviscerates this clown’s “argument” and ends with “Feel free to share your own theory, about what might have gone wrong with Professor Shapiro’s analysis.”
University website lists two papers–both pontificating on other peoples “thinking errors”.
Hmmm… Might have gone wrong… What kind of error does it take to think psychology is a science? Shuffling survey data and organizing it to feed a canned statistics program and make meaningless graphs is not science. Got thermo?
His photo is cropped, but that looks suspiciously like a bog-standard mock turtle under a pseudo-tweed jacket. Sniff! Do I smell fake leather elbow patches? It must be troubling to grow up and realize that you’re not the next John Barth* and have to pay the bills, but there are so many openings for sushi roll rollers.
ADDED
*I had to take one philosophy class and the prof tried to get me to read “The Sotweed Factor” and write a paper. Passed on that and still passed the course. Don’t remember what paper I did write. Pretty sure I didn’t have a copy ten minutes after I got my final grade.
@Alan
New, sealed? Hard to find? Variant colors and designs?
At one point I considered doing a collector’s guide for AOL disks, or at least an April 1 announcement of a work in progress.
Post-21st century, Ringo’s “The Hot Gate” would have a place on my list, as would Taylor’s “The Singularity Trap”.
And the Murderbot Diaries.
@Lynn
Yes. More sentient ships.
Or someone who has recently returned to writing after taking a couple decades off to raise his kids. Daniel Keyes Moran. Ralf the Wise and Powerful is an AI, and it finds another at the end of the books… his stories are both more enjoyable and more memorable than that POC Ancillary Justice.
n
And Heinlein had multiple characters that started as computers, became sentient through some unpredictable process related to complexity, and were transplanted to living bodies. Ira Weatherall’s computer Minerva became Pallas Athene in “Time Enough for Love”
The main character in I, Robot becomes self aware. Builds himself sex organs and the nerve tissues to enjoy them, iirc. Humans and sufficiently advanced computing = better porn apparently.
n
>> Hit two stores looking for the aloe gel I’ve used for decades to treat sunburn. Didn’t find it. Ordered it online. Tried to shop local…
And if you managed to find it locally, factor in the 5 minutes or so wait time for someone to come and unlock the glass anti-shoplifting case (which I’m guessing won’t be too much of an inconvenience for the flash mobs as their first stop was Home Depot for some crowbars.)
>> One good thing from yesterday- my grapes are going nuts
Make your own cereal…call it “Gra…”
>> No one is irreplaceable but, replacing Tucker will be difficult especially since Fox News is not looking for a conservative.
I hear Don Lemon is still available. Definitely fills the “not a conservative” ask.
>> The banks were nationalized the weekend SVB went under and Yellen agreed to backstop all deposits instead of letting haircuts happen where necessary.
I wonder how much of the First Republic / JPMC deal was a real estate play by Sir Jamie. There’s got to be a good deal of overlap in branches which will be closed and the duplicate properties repurposed.
>> Why should that be an “accusation”? Putin is a legitimate military target.
I’ve seen some chatter that this could have been an attempted Russian false flag operation.
>> Your case is special, what with being a small business owner, moreso because you’re dependent on customers in a narrow slice of industry, even moreso because many of your customers are from nations and cultures where paying for a product when you can just steal it is viewed as foolishness.
Other than that Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?
>> But that’s just my guess. It’s also possible that a spark will ignite something much more sudden and disastrous, and take history in a completely different direction. Hungry people without hope can do unexpected things. What kind of bread-and-circuses will keep the masses entertained? Right now, it’s TikTok and social media. Tomorrow?
Tomorrow? How about some Shakespeare – check out “Station Eleven.”
https://g.co/kgs/XoAgHt
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Thanks for the info!
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Continue to be amazed by the breadth of knowledge here!
Late to bed – night all.
“Joe Biden Wants Every US Military Vehicle To Be Climate Friendly”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/29/joe-biden-wants-every-us-military-vehicle-to-be-climate-friendly/
“Could you imagine?! It’s bad enough that the Department of Defense has a scorecard to keep itself accountable as it advances “environmental justice for communities across America.””
“The DOD has at least 640 staff working “on environmental justice, either in a full- or part-time capacity.”
“No wonder we couldn’t execute proper plans in Afghanistan or Sudan. The military is more concerned about environmental justice.”
I would add Fred Saberhagen’s Berserkers. Intelligent machines whose purpose is to end all biological life…