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I don’t think the Moscow thing is a thing. The mayor is an Atlanticist, and tried this before. Three weeks it was dead on the vine. Someone I know who travels regularly to Vladivostok says mostly things are normal, very few restrictions, shot is considered ‘Get if you think you need it’ by most folks.

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@VV and MR re: lack of human labor

The desire is for robots to do it. That is the ‘hair on fire’ aspect of the Taiwan issue. The only other places in the West that produce high-zoot ‘general compute’ chips are Israel (Intel and some AMD) and S Korea (Samsung).

Also, there is a bit of a problem hanging on to Europe. ASML is in Netherlands. They’re the folks that make the chip-making machines/tools/software. Companies that can make these machines are more rare than a zebra-striped unicorn with clydesdale feathers. China’s chip process is about 10^2 places behind the West (larger transistor size, so less density/performance per cm2). But…China is now attempting to make chips from graphene…completely new process, a doorway into a new hall of chip tech.

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RE: Barley pop

Anderson Valley Brewing Company – there are a few IPAs there, but they have great ambers and stouts, and (did have, at one time) a stellar wheat beer that was between amber and ale.

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@John Day and others being pushed out

I’ve been perusing commercial-grade sewing machines lately. I’ve made/repaired/altered clothing in the past, fixed tents, backpacks and bike bags, etc. I was very surprised to learn how cheap a solid but bland machine actually is! Prices in US$150-$250 range for something that would suit me. I was ‘saddled’ with my mom’s old machine (Kenmore?) from the mid ’80s. It slowed to a stop some years back, but would still work fine if I could get it repaired. The last repair shop in my town closed last year. I’m a fair mechanic, but this is a ‘clockwork’ machine without a computer, and it can do dozens of stitch patterns, variable width/pitch, buttonhole, etc etc etc. I’d only break it if I attempted surgery.

Anyway, the tools to survive outside the bubble exist. It’s just a matter of developing new patterns of commerce. I’m going to have a rough time of it, what with the “I don’t like people very much” and passive/aggressive issues. I can barely function as a ‘component’ in a larger system of humans. Establishing my place as a cell in a new system is shaping up to be the biggest challenge of my life.

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@AG re: current-situation fatigue, and your statement:

Still, if she knew I was unvaxxed, I have no doubt she would have pulled her mask back up and backed away, calling for the store manager;^)

This started as the far more effective angle, it protects others, not yourself. This was part of the psychological hook for masks. Without that ‘You’re a monster!’ pressure, most folks would have not worn them, for, indeed, most folks are not afraid of this virus.

That has somehow flipped. I don’t watch any MSM, don’t use FacePunch, sort of a hermit married to a hermitess, I suppose. This, I don’t know if anything in media is flipping this, but now most folks commenting online about something mask-related have flipped it back to ‘protects self’. Is it now a prop to assist in fearing us unmodifieds?

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RE: Iver, HCQ, the new Phizer ‘black pill’, etc etc etc

I am amazed at the collateral mania for some drug, any drug, to come along and save us from this bogey. My view is Trump was the wind-up, and the rampaging herd was diverted easily once flowing. Is this the same thing? Was the shot the wind-up? Are we now being diverted down the ‘less scary’ chute?

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RE: Denninger <i>finally</i> speaking about the privacy angle

A quote from a LifeSite News article (ht to TBP):

Dr. Kilian asked a final question in the virtual meeting about the claims that Sims and others at GBHS have made about the majority of COVID-associated cased in the region being among the unvaccinated. She asked if there was a detailed database that could be shared to prove this point. Sims stated that the vaccination status of the individuals who have been admitted in his region could not be released due to privacy reasons, but that the provincial government would have the information.

And…as I have said several times since last year (probably even in a thread hereabouts)::

Consider this scenario:

Wife and I go to The Baked Potato to see a show. They, being within LA Co, are now required to ask me to ‘show my papers’ to enter. Doing so, and being admitted to the venue (or not), I have now broadcast my PHI to the door attendant, any passers-by on the sidewalk, the maintainer of the computer systems used to communicate this fact, all the club staff, all the other club visitors, the band, etc.

I guess the county could mandate secret entrances and exits, but that doesn’t suit their goals at all, and might remind folks too much of the Sneetches and their own ‘Dr Fungus.’

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Panel Of Scientists Determines Most People Don’t Need Boosters; Moderna Plummets

Walk back softly and carry a big sticky note…

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@V.Arnold re: the loquacious loops of lavender

Hang in there, sir! Seems lots of folks are about to crack. Denninger said in a recent thread he’s gonna close up shop…not about money, but more about all avenues of distribution are being blocked for independent authors/journos. Strangely, the request was for more tweets and FBs, but most folks replied with “…I know what you’re after, but f(#< FacePunch!” He, as many of us, can see the starting points for solutions (ignore twit and FB, move on, for one) but can’t execute.

I will try today to make some phone calls I’ve been putting off for too long. I didn’t want to know if some in my circle had ‘joined the cult’ so I simply haven’t attempted contact. I’m dreading the results. I can be good at the soft opening, but I can get really stubborn/pissy if things turn sour in a convo.

Not sure if you old folks appreciate the rock and roll, but here’s Jeff Beck: A Day In The House

“I repeat: Much is being said, My Lords, but nothing, Nothing, NOTHING IS BEING DONE!”

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ht to commenter Georgi at Market Ticker: Did the Brits quit?!?

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@UNY, yes, mail-in. This is sort of a McGuffin of an election, in my view. There is enough wrong with the ballots (the ‘holes’ to view the Yes/No, the ‘print your own’, the non-security envelope, and now this) that I think all it will take is for either side to stand up an anonymous complainant, and the whole thing gets scotched.

I’d vote in person, but I know a little too much about ca’puters and stuff to trust the counting. Until hand-count is a thing, this is what we get. I was seriously tempted to write in Pat Paulsen to send Them one of those double-entendre messages They like…Paulsen was also owner-operator of a winery in CA.

I saw this today, when we prepped our ballots (will drop at the library, not a mailbox). Now I’m feeling a bit blunt. It seems like we are at the point where peaceful citizens should strip down to render unto Caeser only that which Caeser can take at gunpoint, and spread the rest amongst family, friends and neighbors. I’m on a payroll, so I can’t avoid the bulk of my taxes, but I can sure steer my ‘consumption patterns’ a few more degrees to port/starboard/ain’t-tellin-nobodys!

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Wanna see a neat trick? Watch this…

Regardless which way you tri-fold the ballot, Elder’s bubble shows up in the crosshairs. Wife and I just creatively re-folded ours. Probably gonna get tossed because we’re weirdos.

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@VV re: end of the end

I view it as new stuff being built by grafting some of the best (and probably worst) of several ancient Trees of Governance onto various rootstock, some old, some new. The US republic isn’t really a ‘failed experiment’ but a moderate-age species, novel and instructive, maybe too ‘responsive’ or ‘sensitive’ to withstand internal attack. It was rather successful for a while, allowing for diverse systems via states’ rights. In the end, it is the gripping parent that causes rebellion and innovation in it’s offspring. Is that the parting gift of the Founders? A getaway car parked outside the gate? I’d hate to think their attempts to foster a robust citizenry were all for naught.

It’s hard to condense what I think about this into a para or 2…hmm…

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One of my favorites: Astrae – Ralph Waldo Emerson – Says to me the highest virtue is to be a good surfer.

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Yikes, showing my age. Who was the bicyclist again?

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I saw a hopeful thing last night whilst out on a long-ish bike ride. Part of my route goes through a mid-upper middleclass to ‘in-the-club’ neighborhood, with lots of ‘Old California’ money. So…I’m riding along, climbing a steep hill, and a painted sign catches my eye on the right.

“Pizza Pickup” was painted at the top of a sheet of plywood with a ‘service window’ cut in, little shelf at the bottom like any good take-out window, and affixed to a fence that was otherwise hidden by ivy. It was facing the street, with easy parking for one car only, and partly hidden by old trees. This is a suburban neighborhood, not zoned for businesses. My thought was ‘Harry Tuttle opened a restaurant chain?!?’ The theory: somebody cooks really good pizzas, shares this info with friends in some way, starts an on-the-sly pizza biz that can evaporate on short notice.

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@tdk:

Here’s a hint about my route: Mount Wilson Toll Road was the downhill leg, and I started on top at 10:30 PM. A distant relative owned the only gas station at the bottom of the Toll Road when it opened. My grandmother was among the unskilled workers polishing the mirror segments for use in the 100in telescope that is the midpoint in an evolution of apparatus culminating in the 200in telescope on the Palomar Mountains. It’s worth the journey to visit, as it’s one of the last ‘artisan’ ironworks, akin to a lovingly-crafted steam locomotive. The road up is…also a very good bike ride!

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Off-Guardian: The Vapor, the Hot Hat, & the Witches’ Potion

Yup.

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Thanks, ct and Doc. I can read cogent technical documents all day, but stuff that is designed to obfuscate doesn’t hold my attention.

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Comment from Denninger, someone had the stomach to read the FDA papers, and it looks like an extension of the EUA. Another bluff?

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The Khe Sanh, to me, says we sometimes find ourselves outside the bubble, and find it quite nice and worth a deeper dive. Says other things, but I’m in a positive mood. Tangential to this, as the Lizards slice off more folks in their Politicas Identitas, these newly cleaved persons tend to find others of like mind with which to congregate. Thus, old groups that may have been predictable or steerable are destroyed, and unpredictable new groups arise.

They say “Love your brother!”
But you will catch it if you try.

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@citizenx re: ‘face time’

I believe the Continued Push is because the higher-ups are not getting feedback. They spent the whole Trump era (and before?) actively hacking off the receivers of important signals. Sure, kick half the users off FacePunch, etc. They won’t talk to eachother anymore. But you’ve just lost the pulse of the populace. No more feedback for you! This hurts their ‘vacuum up everything’ strategy, eh?

Thank you so much for the Help On The Way quote!

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RE: the wikileaks trove

I’ve downloaded what appears to be the master .torrent file. I will not download any actual documents yet. I may build a tighter VM to do this, but even that seems sketchy. Understand that possession of some of these documents may lead to a knock on the door…or no-nock on the door.

Be very careful. PDFs can phone home if you load them in Acrobat, and other PDF readers may give away the game through some unintentional path. HTML files will have trackers. Other dirty tricks also. If you have downloaded any of these actual documents,<b> shut off your network </b>before you read them!

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Corrected link:

https://file.wikileaks.org/file/#8230

Had an errant ampersand before the pound.

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@Bill7, it won’t. Voting has become about the ‘meta’ – that is, procedure, arcana, a program for the evening’s performance. The game seems to be how to set up the board to prefigure a victory, or at least a useful stalemate. That can be used by us also. I was just discussing with wifey about butterfly ballots and hanging chads. It’s dirty, but if they’ve set out to fight dirty they thusly cancel the rules.

I think it would be a good thing for somebody ‘with means’ to hire some white-hats to go after Dominion. Don’t just collect evidence…destroy their operation.

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The Darkness – Stuck In A Rut

Kiss my arse, kiss my arse goodbye
Propelled by a carriage of aluminium am I
No more to rot in this sty
Turn my back on this shit-hole in the blink of an eye

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CFN commenter posted this re: Cali Newsom recall. The “Yes, I want to recall that shit-eating coyote!” vote can be plainly seen from outside the sealed envelope if the ballot is folded just so and placed in the envelope just so. It’s a numbers game to slice a bit more. If it works, few more percent chewed off the count. If it doesn’t, delay the recall while we decide how to f#(< you again.

https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1428462786389053443

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Language nitpick:

“…fight against <something>…” sounds an awful lot like “…War on <Something>…”

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@red re: Atwood

Margaret Atwood – Once In August

There is another NFB production that makes a nice companion watch – The Strangest Dream (no longer avail at NFB)

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I watched a bully berate a girl with severe acne once. That bully was surreptitiously fed a peed-on donut the next day. The rest of the year, folks did their best to boost the girl’s self-image. Most of the bullies I knew avoided all contact with the smart kids (fear), and were mercilessly hounded when they picked on someone with a disability or other physical difference.

But I drew several lucky cards with regard to schooling.

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@absolute re: preparations

I am not a prepper type. Far from it…go with the flow, mostly, passive-aggressive stubbornness otherwise. Here are some items I’ve purchased this month, mostly to test for what my wife and I can tolerate:

8kg canned black beans – I don’t know how to properly cook beans yet, will buy dried and practice
2.5kg brown rice – less carbos than white rice, better flavor, more satisfying
1kg wild rice mix – boredom antidote
4kg Tang drink mix – I KNOW I’ll drink this! Grew up on the stuff.
#10 can freeze-dried snap peas
#10 can freeze-dried strawberries

I’ll be ordering more bit-by-bit. This is an effort to stock about 2 months’ supplies. The expectation is to hunker down for a month, and if things don’t improve or stabilize, we can do a 2-week bike/walking journey with the remaining. I also have several kinds of water filters, and apparatus for purification when those become clogged.

RE: food, materials, etc

Here’s a little list I made strictly from memory. I didn’t Google-cheat. It’s also not comprehensive, just a quick ‘see what’s close at hand’ kind of self-test. I set out to see if I could at least supplement my diet, have something tasty, and get some wood to make furniture, waterwheels, etc.

I know where to acquire all the items on the list. Most are in LA county, within 1 hr drive (1/2 day bike, 1-2 days hike), some are 1000km north from me. Most of these I know by heart the uses, prep, effects, etc. Some I’d have to go back and review. This is only vegetable/mineral. I left out animal, since the attempts to end meat production in this country will quickly lead to extinction of all ungulates left on the continent. Didn’t want to give anybody pointers.

This kind of exercise, I find, helps to instigate other ‘self-inventory’ actions. The unexamined life, blah blah blah…

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Edible/Medicinal/Theraputic

Spearmint
Miner’s lettuce
Dandilion
Water chesnut
Yerba santa
Fern
Wild onion
Blackberry
Toyon
Sage
Juniper
Poppy
Acorn
Pinyon
Walnut
California bay laurel
Wheat grass
Buckwheat
Aanis
Wild cucumber
Willow
Water birch
Squawbush
Fig
Algae
Kelp
Nopales
Red honeysuckle

Chemically/Mechanically Useful

Maple
Black/White/Valley/Live oak
Ponderosa/jeffrey pine
Red fir
Incense cedar
Redwood
Walnut
Blackberry
Creosote bush
Cholla
Yucca
Joshua tree

Useful Minerals/Geology

Copper
Gold
Chert
Obsidian
Quartz (large crystal)
Garnet (large crystal)
Basalt
Pumice
Tungsten
Borax
Slate
Limestone
Salt
Alkali
Clay
Chalk

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@bluebird re: johndayblog.com – Working for me also, LA county CA, AT&T provider.

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Don’t like to post ‘thanks’ often because it’s thread clutter. This one’s a long-owed thanks. Thank you very much, John Day! “Of all the souls I’ve encountered, his was the most…human.”

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@Oroboros re:

DeSantis cannot print money, he can only withhold it.

He can order plumbing work done on the water mains. And “Geez, these pipes are rotten! We’re just gonna hafta re-plumb this whole school, I guess.”

Remember attacker-defender paradigm. “The Biden” is doing this to defend lower-level tools, thus at the disadvantage in that arena. The ever-increasing complexity ensures a geometric growth of available vulnerabilities. Pick something ridiculously mundane, and do it. Call for a Critical Mass bike ride on the day an important meeting is to take place locally. Remember HS Thompson: “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”

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@tkd:

we must destroy our village to save theirs.

The ultimate potlatch! As a sign of our power, we destroy what they would take from us. We give or share what they would have us sell for profit. I’ve heard it said the next ‘big move’ will be some kind of rug-pull. What if I don’t own a rug?

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@madamski:

I have a habit of reading ‘in-character’ if I know a little about an author. For instance, at MoA, I’d read DebsisDead and hoarsewhisperer in Aussie accents. For some reason, you’ve fallen into a Frances Sternhagen slot in my head. It’s quite pleasant, actually.

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HA! JP Sears…great stuff. My wife has been watching him since last year. I’m not much for this kind of video, so I await her digests.

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@phoenixvoice re: batteries and cool vs hot

Helms Pumped Storage Plant – This is a battery. It’s a freakin’ BIG battery. Surplus power pumps the water uphill in off hours, and it’s released for high demand. Same can be done with any size water container, and some low-tech waterwheel/belt systems. In Jakarta, most of the buildings I saw had a large water tank on the roof. This is for wash/utility water, but the concept is the same…high-mounted storage for gravity-fed contraptions.

Lots of physical materials can be used as a ‘battery’ – spin up a flywheel, inflate a float, ratchet a huge pendulum into place, wind up a giant spring.

For high-heat locations, you can build a ‘convection jacket’ house. It’s a double-hull construction, where the outer is some distance from the inner (30-50cm?), creating an air plenum. It wraps the whole house, walls, roof, and floor. Under the floor is a bigger chamber filled with large rocks (preferably granite). The rocks are a heat sink that draws heat out of the air and into the ground. As it does this, it impels the convection currents in the rest of the plenum.

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I hope def can hang on for a while and continue to grow. It’s a hard thing to cling to one’s illusions, and it has caused me great pain in the past. My dear mother still thinks the talking heads on TV are all Walter Cronkite.

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@UNY, thanks, exactly, but it is ‘symptom’ I think. The trusted authority has obviously been telling people to do those things. As an example, I’ll post something I tried to post weeks ago (coincidentally in response to one of yours), got eaten by the robot, and I figured I’d not post something so personal when I was feeling a bit more emotional about it, in a Dr D mood maybe:

@UNY: y’welcome! Gates is a hardcore monopolist, as in, I think that’s probably the kink in his cable. Damn shame he glommed onto ‘healthcare’ as his next jellybean.

It is this undercurrent of self-reliance that must be destroyed. We must shun anyone who knows the old ways. Destroy monuments to the doers. Same playbook as Iraq. Pillage the museums and libraries? Stupid, obvious, and very tragic. Same with not collecting data (correctly or at all). If the data exists, it can be ‘used against <something>’. View knowledge as a weapon, and you’re now headed for a *thislinkdoesntwork*.

Sorry, folks. I’m a bit sour this week. My mother, of all people, offered to bribe me to take the shot. All I can do is counter with a firm “No.” Any further discussion or explanation leads to utter heartbreak, either through severing the ties, or revealing to her what has actually happened. She’s a school psychologist, teacher, administrator, software engineer, airplane pilot, security guard, mother of 2 semi-failed sons. She and my father are the most healthy example of a life-long married couple I could imagine, and the reason I still have a marriage.

All this, and she is now enthralled to the Idiot Box and scared it’s the germ-pocalypse. We’ve tried over the past 2 years to break the spell, no avail. Shut off the TV, folks. The Alpha Wave Beam is lethal.

It was my own mother who taught me about Bernays, Milgram, Stanford, and a host of other non-physical atrocities perpetrated against innocents. She instructed my brother and I, while watching Wonder Woman (Linda Carter will always be WW! fight me), that even though the bad guys were obviously Nazis, it was wrong to make assumptions about people despite their ‘uniform’. She had a long foray as a near-libertarian (“Governments are only good for fire departments!”). The submission to authoritarian rule was never on the radar. I see Trump as the pick, gin up ‘the Indians’, then redirect them. Just f#(<ing breathtaking.

This situation is a complex stew. People will do very weird things. I know I’ve suffered severe operational paralysis over the past 2 years that has been a problem for many around me (sorry!).

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Chris Potter – Circuits

NOTE: removed link to please the robot

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Maybe d’s problem lies in viewing sources of information as authorities, rather than just sources of information.

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Lockdowns, Masks and The Illusion of Government Control Over Covid – interesting read, I’m about half finished, but it illuminated a couple dark corners in my brain:

1) As I have perceived for most of my adult life, and have recently had reinforced by Denninger et al, I don’t think ‘germ warfare’ is all it’s cracked up to be. The standard problem of a virus’ race against time to jump before the host dies is a limiting factor. Regardless of the initial apparent lethality of a virus, it will only be able to kill in clusters…only really a problem if you have extreme population density, eh? But even with density, the signal gets across and folks self-quarantine. Same as it ever was.

2) Related to my #1, and the signalling, I also think that our immunity to these is similar to our pattern recognition and generalization in perceptive senses. It’s ‘good enough’ that it sends a signal to us that we have to grab a bagel and hunker down for a bit, and sends a signal to others that they should probably avoid us for a while. We’re not supposed to live in fear of Invisible Death. If our ancestors had this paranoia, they wouldn’t be our ancestors.

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Yamandu Costa – No Rancho Fundo

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re: vocabulary (he he)

Herd Immunity – Next time someone uses that word, tell them what it really means
Demand Destruction – Ditto

Dr Fungus is an arsonist fireman of the worst order.

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There’s a hospital, a 150-year-old institution, that has been destroyed. I’m digesting this to suss out what parts of the story I can safely tell, and it’s still moving, so more detail as I ‘trim the hedge’ so to speak. The short is, janky dr buys hospital, all <i>real</i> doctors leave, taking their patients with them to other area hospitals. Appearances are this is one dr and a great big pile o’fraud. I’ve watched our business’ traffic from them drain over 2 years from 10k+ appts per day to 10-20 appts per day.

This fits a trend I’m seeing, that most medical in CA for the proles is being shopped out to clinics, and the hospitals are being destroyed. This follows a period of 10 years where ‘urgent care’ clinics started to crop up like (or in!) strip malls. The hospital in question is Midwest, so I tend to think it’s not regional.

I’m too dumb (or frightened) to figure where it’s headed, but it often arises in convo’s with my wife that medical in Jakarta is similar, lots of semi/unregulated clinics. Serious care for chronic/terminal illness will often bankrupt a family, so many avoid care or seek alternatives. Are hospitals this decade’s fracking? Ceased to be economically feasible, let alone profitable?

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There’s a lot of possibility for bicycle drivetrain improvement, but we’re stuck mostly with the “It’s too heavy!” mantra. This presupposes that nobody who operates a bicycle would be satisfied with a bit less efficiency if the trade was for longer wear, cleaner (enclosed, in some cases) operation, fewer delicate parts. For instance, gearboxes for bicycles are pretty amazing, but relegated mostly to downhill racing. I’d love to have one, but no (or few, pricy) XC models available. There are lots more belt-drive on the streets, and some folks working feverishly toward shaft-drive. Part of my continued attachment to chain-based gear systems is that you can make some pretty amazing machines using a stationary bike as a power source. Also, I’m confident I could probably build a belt-drive bicycle from natural materials available in the local forest.

I, too, miss those ’80s/’90s bikes. The Mule (1990 Klein Pinnacle) was my commuter/touring/trail blaster/grocery-getter for about 200,000km (heavy use over about 15 years):

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The Saker appears to have joined the “I HOPE YOU DIE!” crowd:

My bet is that in 1-2 years the anti-vaxx hysteria will die down again, and that the majority of those who now say “never! never! over my dead body!” will quietly get vaxxed, and the few who won’t will have a self-inflicted and rather shitty life which, of course, is their right!

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RE: the tree, the old man in the cave says ‘fire-resistant’ and much of the overall description sounds a lot like a coastal Live Oak. We have olives all over CA, but usually cultivated, decorative or feral, so it’s not usually a news item if an olive tree burns. My experience with oaks (now that I’ve lived long enough to observe these changes) is that the whole area can get razed to ash, with just a blackened stump, and within 5 years there is a crown of new foliage. The picture above shows much unburned material about. Lacking disturbance of the site, it should recover, though consigned to shrubbery status for a while. It also leads me to wonder how old some of the oaks I’ve seen really are.

I took this picture on a slope that had burned about 5 years previous. The pines are a mix of ponderosa, douglas fir and white fir. All of those are dead, but some ponderosa and white fir are sprouting. The smaller greens are various wildflowers, the bigger patches are interior Live Oak, with the dead branches poking out the top. Most of the oaks are now, 5 years again, about 2m high and bright green with new vegetation, despite the drought.

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Watch the olive tree closely. If it is anything like California Live Oaks, some roots will survive, and it will sprout a crown of fresh branches around the old base. As these branches grow, over about 20-30 years, they will push out the old dead snags and regrow as an even bigger tree.

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Rhinoceros – 1974 – Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel, Karen Black

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RE: anti-aging, that dude’s a charlatan.

Gregory Benford: “Artificial Biological Selection for Longevity”

Benford’s one of my favorite authors, brilliant, but sadly plugged in to the milsec. He for cosmic-scale phenomena and AI, and Vernor Vinge for serious AI. They both seem fearful enough they could be swayed to a Butlerian Jihad.

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