OK, instead of getting out of tech and farming goats, I'm gonna get my CDL and become a trucker! Wish me luck!

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People say "Quicksand turns out to not be as big a menace as I thought when I was a child", but it's an obvious case of survivor bias.

Economics fedi: Question about commonly discussed/used forecasts. The common forecasts seem to be being updated to include a large shock from the SoH foolishness (with varying assumptions, of course), as one would expect.

My question:
Do any of them also include the reasonably predictable shock from the Colorado River reservoir and dam system shutdown that's coming around the end of the year?

[edit to add] boosts for reach appreciated

#economics101 #economics

EPSTEIN FILES

K, So:

- "Look! Iran! Nukes! Ignore the Epstein files!"
- "Look! Cuba! Can't fight back! Ignore the Operation Epstein Fury debacle! Ignore the Epstein Files!"

Um. No.

EPSTEIN FILES!

On the DHS change: EPSTEIN FILES

Waitaminute. I own a spectrophotometer. I forgot. Cool.

The number of Americans who don't understand that starting a war with another country entitles them to attack you in return is amazing.

The reason you don't pick fights, even if you don't care about behaving decently, is that somebody will surprise you one day, and it won't be pleasant.

New @cstross novel out today. I will be in the blanket fort with my flashlight and book if anyone needs me.

Epstein files

Epstein files

A predator which trap-hunted humans by mimicking a cozy bed could probably make a living.

So, yesterday's results are great.

After you're done celebrating - and do celebrate - think about fascists' historical response to any dissent, filtered through this maladministration's idiocy.

There's a shit-flinging tantrum coming.

R.I.P. Tux the Cat 2008-2025

You were the best boss ever. I hope I was a good monkey servant.

You could tell he was the boss, because he always wore a suit. Also,
he was very strict about timekeeping. I would be where he expected
when he expected me to be there, or else he would come find me and
complain. Unusually for a cat, he was somewhat amenable to schedule
changes, as long as they weren't too frequent. But the Schedule Would
Be Kept To once agreed upon.

1/n
#CatsOfMastodon
#rip

Downside of WFH: No snow days. Unless your 'net connection goes out, and then what's the point?
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Which explains why the tone of conversation between elves from different realms is usually polite, but in no way friendly. What diplomats call "correct".

Tolkien's three elven realms were the surviving factions...

Hmm. That lens makes the classic fantasy trope of "the ancient elven wars" look dark.

I wonder just how cruel, even genocidal, those ancient conflicts were.

Horror story masquerading as fantasy idea:

Somebody comes up with an immortality virus, cheap and contagious. And so we become elves.

Not "we" in some metaphorical sense of the human race, but us, the current people around today. Locked into our current conflicts and differences forever.

It is Sunday morning. I have coffee and a back porch. I wish there was still a Sunday paper worth reading.