AKCHULY Homo sapiens have been living by their wits for like 300 ky, agriculture for not much more than 10 ky it all starts with chipped stone
Oregon Coast old-guy recluse. Dog person in a cat world, people are strange, when you're a stranger. Gardening with a survivalist bent. Streetstyle and trails bikes. Looking for a soft landing, if possible.
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AKCHULY Homo sapiens have been living by their wits for like 300 ky, agriculture for not much more than 10 ky it all starts with chipped stone
Ace used to print a lot of 'double' paperbacks with two novels, one from the front and one from the other front in what I just learned is "tête-bêche" format not such classy artwork tho
a liberal sits on his throne and says, it is good that I am not like other men, blind and hag-ridden. Not that the fubar hippie in his tent is a better person than the other, but he knows where he is and his Own Better Self can work with that if he will be still for a minute, doesn't even need God
We have a decades of scholarship on how pro-democracy forces win in competitive authoritarian systems: they form a united opposition that brings together people with otherwise profound political disagreements.
he was adopted, his original or "real" last name was Boman. Wikipedia says from Sweden, prob. means "off the farm"
affordable housing in the Bay Area is an obvious need, but not to preserve feefees in the Valley
supercommuting isn't about poor people ... driving your car 3 hours a day is expensive! It's about having a standalone house on an acre plot where you can keep a horse. Stanislaus County could do zoning to control their own problem of preserving farmland but simpler to demand Other People shape up
guy down the street here flew a US flag over a T flag as long as I've lived here but since sometime about May the US is still flying but the T is gone
does being cycled out of detention mean being deported? do we know how many? in some cases in the news they seem to be holding onto people they could deport right away (by own request, even)? for the per diem, maybe.
"legitimate army" if it's not a STATE i can't RELATE
ICE’s unchecked power has turned into lawless overreach—abductions by masked agents, denial of due process, secret police tactics. Democratic leaders can stop this, but only if we demand it: bit.ly/45Umbi3
seeing as he puts it that way maybe it's a good thing T is going to utterly collapse the economy
airports are a good place to observe ordinary behavior of kids who are definitely not overwhelmed and stressed out by the totally familiar and low-stakes environment they have been brought to by their completely calm and in-control parents, it is known.
what's changed since our origins is most cultural reinforcement/evolution was face-to-face ... that's all there was! ... but now our civilized mass media means few are speaking and most only get to listen. But we still go along with what's what because culture is what we like to do.
what we mean by 'culture' is a group of people who live and think if not "the same" at least compatibly and with a defined attitude towards each other. A uniquely human accomplishment!
Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia were theoretically at war with each other but actually they were converging on the same ideal. Trump is reinventing the classics
this generation of Reform thinks 'Works' are not just useless but actively un-Christian. Sola fide bro!! The apple has fallen far from the tree and it appears to be still rolling
"What happens when the creation of that sense of failure, of the complete ineffectiveness of political action against the system, becomes the chief objective of those in power?"
Imagine arresting firefighters during peak wildfire season here and thinking that you’re the good guys
to imagine that Trump supporters think educating the kids is worth spending a lot of money on is to project bleeding-heart progressivism on a place where it does not thrive
last I heard he was still in custody tho?
"Always try your best. That way, whatever happens, you never need to be ashamed." -T. K. Chiba
they're walking the DOGS they're walking the CATS they're WEARING THEIR WATCHES in dc
sure. if you tell me often enough I'm antisemitic after a while I'll start to believe it.
"I'll only take half"
I don’t give a single fuck how many Bluesky revolutionaries think it makes me a squish, this ain’t it. Not for a fucking second. If your response to “here is a way that the bad guys are bad” is to say “I should do the same thing,” you’ve lost your way.
the purpose of any good parent is to raise up honorable children by pointing out and covering for their mistakes, not by convincing them they really are filthy animals
trying to make Christianity into a reform of Temple Judaism has caused a lot of unnecessary agitation. "Behold, I will do a NEW thing"
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
people think the house of representatives has agency but it only does what's in the prompt
GREAT engagement pix
from the Lysenko Institute is it
same as they want all kinds of strict classifications, as by race, nationality, social class, political affiliation, etc etc etc you are your labels no argument
not that cis/trans is the only life choice young people make, which was my point. what sport to play, where to go to college, what crowd to hang out with, what kind of career to point to, all that kind of stuff.
I think it's awful that society forces young people into a binary sex choice. I would prefer an ideal of equality, and let your freak flag fly but here we are ==>
it's natural that Death and other Working People would think so but it's really not a good way to live your personal life
we have to destroy the country in order to save it
the thing I don't get about transexuality is how people rationalize that it strongly affirms binary sexuality from my youth I don't understand why there aren't more socially acceptable/recognized ways of being male [... female]
what good is statehood doing for California?
the whole thing about even having semi-independent 'states' desperately needs to be rethought
I don't think most Rs want more kids in general, just more of their particular faction and fewer of the other kinds a big drop in US population doesn't scare them
why do we even still have states as quasi-independent entities with their own rules/mechanisms for franchise. a federation made sense as a hack in the 18c ... in theory we settled the 'one country' question by the Civil War, sadly didn't alter the practice.
teenagers make all sorts of choices for their lives. permanent life-altering choices that some will cherish and some will regret. how to present yourself is in there as kind of a basic.
1. reminds me of an old joke ... 2. 'because it's always so crowded!' 3. lots of changes going on I personally am mad at 4. good point! always best to end well
concerns about the State of Israel's conduct didn't come out of nowhere on oct 7
no problem, he will put them in his library same as that giant airplane
sure I see that sort of thing here, more logging and shipping are what the county execs want, tourism is low-wage. we're about to have a fight about plan to clear cut our bike trails, likely to lose
the enablers are at least as bad as the perpetrators let her find out how to research the limes her own self
next gen AI will run on Spirits of the Air, we will simulate the hardware Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
Bonds was also an outstanding in left field and running bases before he bulked up to focus on hitting such a letdown to go to the park and watch him get an intentional walk
it seems humans always want to invest the surplus generated by new technology ... farming, industrialization, whatever ... in more babies, with the result that the surplus is consumed (...eaten...) and 'beggar thy neighbor' remains basic survival strategy www.scribd.com/doc/10096457...
governments are not inherently corrupt I am willing to understand that this country was created [imperfectly] by [imperfect] idealists, but right away the self-interested vermin commence to gnaw, burrow, and spoil. not that power corrupts: power attracts corruption. we need a better immune system
turns out your opinion of D leadership was vastly overblown I don't get it either
it may be that the collapse of this generation of the world economy multiplied by the effects of global warming will reset Humanity for another try. 2 steps back, 1 step forward still best to work for a soft landing
it seems humans always want to invest the surplus generated by new technology ... farming, industrialization, whatever ... in more babies, with the result that the surplus is consumed (...eaten...) and 'beggar thy neighbor' remains basic survival strategy www.scribd.com/doc/10096457...
it uses its humanoid body in a distinctly not-human way. that's what we should expect from AI
it uses its humanoid body in a distinctly not-human way. that's what we should expect from AI
Act Blue sends me a couple of texts a day from all over the country ashamed of the Democrats as a party
the disintegration of a unifying culture humans do not do well as isolated individuals
not to mention Feminism ie respect for human dignity being coded as 'female' anyway 'men of good will can reason together' is a trope i learned in my childhood in the 50s
oldskul Expert Systems used to do that chatbots don't 'compute' any better than regular humans
where go link?? wapo.st/3HFKUys
this is hilarious ... "(Some other [words we like] are “intricate,” “commendable” and “meticulous.”)'
people have been attributing intention to their tools and environmentals since forever, there you go swimming against the tide of human nature again. ought to consider maybe whether living in a world entirely made up of inanimate objects is healthy for people?
my mom, from WEST Roxbury thank you, thought those popish Italians were pretty swarthy (mid last century)
more on the New Normal
T shows Z around the Giffte Shoppe down front is the '4 MORE YEARS" special top left two are "TRUMP 2028'
THREE YEARS in well AI will just have to compete with all the other gigantic incomprehensible forces destroying The World We Knew at an unprecedented rate
"comfortably wealthy" is that a thing, where people get wealthy ENOUGH and stop being grasping assholes??
tbf uniform national voting standards should have been implemented when we had an opportunity to defederalize and reallocate the government after the Civil War. the fossilized archaic state/fed pushme pullyou has a lot to do with how we got here
mounted machine guns on humvees? towed artillery?
The Budapest Memorandum is a security agreement signed in 1994 by U.S. U.K. Ukraine, (ALL betrayed by Kremlin) with Russia, committing to respect Ukraine's independence, sovereignty, and existing borders in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons. Putin has betrayed U.S. U.K. and Ukraine.
in '68 candidate Nixon had a secret plan to end the Vietnam War but we never heard anything more about it after he got elected
the thing is there's been a whole lineage of them starting in my lifetime anyway with McCarthy, and like any progressive science they have built on each other's work we're a long way from the Founders who doubtless never anticipated Article I sitting on its collective thumb for 200+ years
the thing is there's been a whole lineage of them starting in my lifetime anyway with McCarthy, and like any progressive science they have built on each other's work we're a long way from the Founders who doubtless never anticipated Article I sitting on its collective thumb for 200+ years
The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.
we went through this in the Vietnam era and it took us a while to figure it out, that the kids were caught up and paid the price for a situation that didn't belong to them. shame of it, and shame of us if we take it out on these guys ... who so far a just set dressing, they haven't DONE anything
most people rely on themselves and their friends, neighbors, co-whatevers, for protection that's life in the Big City. but, who then is my neighbor?
the touch-tone signaling system uses pairs of frequencies; for '8' they are 852 + 1336 hz which is almost 2:3 which is a perfect fifth, a cheerful interval away dull fourth
it took us a while after Vietnam to remember that the Troops were victims drafted into an untenable situation and and the way they were treated was a national disgrace save the vituperation for where it is due, pour it out on the Pols who have the agency
want to hear from everybody in the comments here about how you are putting your ass on the line by refusing a lawful deployment order all the NG have done so far is sit in their vee hicles, not even beat heads like REAL Border Patrol
he should have gone with MLK like most of them do, safely in the ground
everything not required is forbidden everything not forbidden is compulsory
there's no hippie like an old hippie
good news is that this weathervane feels a wind blowing
totally
Learn to Grow Vegetables now more than ever
NB gerrymanders reduce the margin in safe districts to raise percentages elsewhere, which is a winner in quiet, predictable times but risks a big loss if you miscalculate
two words: "Army" "McCarthy"
classics is a branch of foreign languages
well, "planning" ... ;-}
the problem I have with Science is that PERSONALLY I can't make it work. I mean, I like to think about it and how things work according to physics but if I am ever to actually fix anything what I need really need is a ton of culture-dependent LORE about standard parts and How We Do Things
the fascists are also coming for science
it's not the Vets, it's the War
Constant hyperstimulation is really not a healthy thing for people but we do seek it out obsessively while instinctively fearful of being overwhelmed by it. We should work on ourselves more.
the "OC suburbs" are not a legitimate example of rural life, it is the thing that overran "tight knit communities" and small cities with a degraded version of LA/NY big city life, I suppose for the sake of imagined privacy.
