This concept of a new life form which I call Macro Life and Isaac Asimov calls “multiorganismic life” serves as a convenient shorthand whereby the whole collection of social, political, and biological problems facing the future space colonist may be represented with two-word symbols. It also communicates quickly an appreciation for the similar problems which are rapidly descending on the whole human race. Macro Life can be defined as “life squared per cell.”
Taking man as representative of multicelled life we can say that man is the mean proportional between Macro Life and the cell, or Macro Life is to man as man is to the cell. Macro Life is a new life form of gigantic size which has for its cells, individual human beings, plants, animals, and machines. …society can be said to be pregnant with a mutant creature which will be at the same time an extraterrestrial colony of human beings and a new large scale life form.
Among the first forms of macro life were earth’s latticework tier cities of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. They were preceded by the historical city-state, and followed by small organized communities on the moon, Mars, the various space bases, and by Asterome, the hollowed-out asteroid that became the core of the first macroworld…. The tier cities were made possible by the application of advanced structural materials. The building of these cities led to the radical reorganization of urban earth society, the stabilization of population at 12 billion, and a decrease in the frequency of disorderly political change (this last change was helped by the influx of psychosocially trained designers and engineers into politics and planning).
The planet was partially macroformed, and the grosser industrial processes, among them solar and fusion power systems, were moved into space…. The start of the century saw the sustained widening of the world’s industrial base through the exploitation of the solar system’s huge reserves of energy (the sun), raw materials (the asteroids, moon, and planets), and off-planet manufacturing conditions (where pollution could never be a problem); earth’s isolation was over, the finitude of its resources no longer a liability. The new economic-industrial base not only created nearly full employment; it gave earth its first chance at creating a Type II civilization. —RICHARD BULERO,
The History of Macrolife, vol. 1, Asterome,
Sigma Draconis Star System, 2041
From the vantage point of several decades in the future, I believe that our children will judge the most important benefits of space colonization to have been not physical or economic, but the opening of new human options, the possibility of a new degree of freedom, not only for the human body, but much more important, for the human spirit and sense of aspiration. —GERARD K. O’NEILL,
The High Frontier, 1976
We are in the teen-age period of explosive growth and acquisition of knowledge. We are achieving control over our environment and our destinies, and even the power and responsibility for determining the time of our own deaths. We have secured weapons with which we can kill ourselves if we choose, and we have now achieved the first sign of biological maturity—we can reproduce. We can send out colonies to other parts of the universe which can take root, grow, and establish themselves as new civilizations…. The next step in evolution is from man—as the most highly organized example of multicellular life—to Macrolife. …we should not be surprised if the race on earth ceases to proliferate its “cells,” achieves maturity, reproduces, continues its growth in other “individuals” (space colonies), and the “individual” remaining behind on Earth, ages through hundreds of thousands of years and finally dies. —DANDRIDGE COLE,
Beyond Tomorrow, 1965
Each of our cells contains dozens of tiny factories called mitochondria that combine our food with molecular oxygen to extract energy in convenient form. Recent evidence suggests that billions of years ago, the mitochondria were free-living organisms that have slowly evolved into a mutually dependent relationship with the cell. When many-celled organisms arose, the arrangement was retained. In a very real sense, then, we are not a single organism but an array of about ten trillion beings and not all of the same kind. —CARL SAGAN, 1978
Pictured.
Actually something far larger, the possibilities are endless
Oh yah… I was just reminded of the Clive Barker story depicted in the illustration.
Good stuff 👍🏻
The book is very good, just my type of fiction, I want to be a Cylon
This afternoon we were discussing whether we’re entering a recession or a complete societal collapse.
Tucker just did a long segment on the Greens’ agenda that has just destroyed Sri Lanka and Ghana. Lots of clips of our insane elites who are undeterred in their goal of returning those of us who survive to fuedal dirt farmers.
We aren’t going to space for a long time.
Elon would like a word, this isn’t over yet
I truly wish him well.
I’m starting to worry he might be assassinated, or at least rendered unable to operate due to underhanded means. There are a lot of powerful people who do not like the fact that he is successful in many endeavors without him kissing their rings.
Musk is a bit of a fraud though. He wasn’t the brains behind Tesla and PayPal.
Neither was Steve Jobs the brains behind Apple.
Leadership and vision are their own skills.
And from what I read he didn’t have those either.
Yeah, SpaceX wouldn’t exist without Musk. Nor would Tesla have survived all of its road bumps.
I’m more bothered by the graft but of course what are going to do when the government sprays money at you – say no?!
Graft? He charges 10 % of ULA rates, if we launch sattelites at least get a good deal
I’m thinking of Tesla. Fine, it’s not exactly graft – I’m sure he didn’t ask the government to throw money at customers in order to cajole them into buying his products.
The depressing part of all this is that no one is fighting back.
“What do we want!
The status quo from a few years ago was pretty acceptable!”
doesn’t roll off the tongue very well.
I fear that fighting back at this point would be a bad thing, patience and dry powder for now.
I’m at a loss for words. These past couple of years have astonished and appalled me.
Took me a while to come back here and still struggle trying to make it a habit again.
Losses of our leaders and malaise, the world wears on one,
Yes. And learning that people you know have bought into the tyranny and malaise without batting an eye. Very troubling.
Coming from the most conservative and reactionary of backgrounds, the one thing I can say is that I was never remotely surprised: I’ve heard very aggressive talk all my life and always knew that by freedom most folk, left and right, mean you are free to agree with me. For example, the oppressed Baptists of my childhood were uniformly anti-papist and anti-Semitic; their war-against-Christianity chants are full of observations that don’t, apparently, work in a mirror. I could go on but will spare you all.
I come from good, honest, conservative back-the-blue salute-the-flag folk, and I have no intention of living under their dictates for even one second of my life. I live very conservatively by many measures, and I too fear and loathe the mindlessness of progressivism, but the hollow ring of Republican promises and the general hypocrisy of voters tell me that the right will pragmatically tolerate considerable overreach.
I lost a friend when I told her that the only difference between her “side” (conservative right) and “their” “side” (progressive left) was the kind of rules they wanted to force on people, and that conservatives were no better than progs in wanting people to do what they say. She did not like this. We never spoke again.
ahoy!
**lights candle in corner Gilmore shrine**
I was thinking about Gilmore the other day as I put on a fine tailor-made suit. He never appeared again eh?
I’ve asked and don’t think so.
Maybe someone should write an article about the most-missed Glibs.
I saw Juvenile Bluster, Lord&Mrs LH come back. Pat freed up. Suthen dropped by to say he’s got a lot going on (again).
I’m not around much but haven’t seen these in a while
Streetgang
Commodius
Hyperion
AlexinCT
Leap
Jaime
Playa
Doyers
Creosote
Annoyed
Alex is around a fair amount during AM Lynx. I’m pretty sure Creosote has commented within recent memory, and I’m virtually certain Annoyed Nomad has within the last day or two.
Yup – AN commented on Tulip’s online dating post. He was talking about “speed dating.”
Commodius is also Groat Scotum, and he is rhysett (sp) on Discord, where he is fairly active.
Creosote is on Discord.
Vhyrus is on Discord.
I worry the most for Commodius.
I think he’s in roughly the same headspace as myself and that’s generally not a good sign.
Also; festus. He got “retired” recently and seemed particularly despondent.
Yo! Both of you pricks drop by and give us a wave hello. We care.
Festus is around quite a bit
I cannot remain ignorant of what’s going on. Snarking is how I deal.
“…insane elites who are undeterred in their goal of returning those of us who survive to fuedal dirt farmers.”
I used to think that sounded a little over-the-top paranoid, but it is truly the common thread through policies pursued in the name of “preventing climate change”, “achieving equity”, “reducing consumption of resources”, unlimited abortions and voluntary population control, mandatory vaccines, confinement to homes and prevention of voluntary assembly in the name of public health, preventing build of desalinization plants and new reservoirs, etc. Heck, the Klaus Schwabs don’t even cover it up anymore.
They want a new Cultural Revolution to put the best and brightest into the rice paddies, Mao-style.
Spectacle wearers hardest hit (that really was one criterion for being banished unto farm labor life).
They hate you and want you to die.
/is there really any other explanation?
In my world, the trees hate me, and want me to die,
/ disc
They have a different opinion than you about who is part of the “best and brightest”.
My boss just went back home to Ghana for a vacation… >.>;
You still drive a Kia?
2007 Sedona 180k, runs like a top
Sweet.
Ki-yeah!
Good stuff, Yusef.
If experimentation, competition, and natural selection (or conscious and unfettered choices by individuals) were allowed to play our, I imagine the possibilities would indeed be endless.
However, there are always non-contributing parasites who sabotage the progress of others in order to grab power and ensure that they aren’t cast aside as the chaff they are.
Thats why Im staying low, waiting for the S to HTF
Prepare my friend
‘In a very real sense, then, we are not a single organism but an array of about ten trillion beings and not all of the same kind.’
Related: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-43674270
You are a meat-mecha for a colony of bacteria.
Interesting stuff but I don’t think I want my toilet bowl analyzing my contributions and nagging at me.
Thats just gross,
Heh.
Relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
No idea why I couldn’t submit a proper link…
Hence the next step, macrolife
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/07/08/pete-buttigieg-michigan-resident-politico-reports/10015102002/?gnt-cfr=1
McKinsey man volunteers for 30% cost of living increase move
Yusef,
You’ve mentioned a couple of times that you were homeless. I thought that things were working out for you, including a home and one or two jobs. Did that all fall through?
My back blew out, I wear a brace,
I cant do what I used to, so I drive for 13.50 an hour
Im saving to go back home to see my kids abd grandkids before the shithouse goes up in flames.
And yes, I lost my house
Damn, dude. Sorry to hear that.
I’m hoping that when you get back out west you will be able to find a doctor who will attest that your back is a permanent disability so you could be eligible for some SSA disability. I couldn’t believe it when the Michigan doc wouldn’t do the paperwork.
Hopefully you’ll have more options in a bigger town.
Picked up two side jobs this week. That’s good news… I’m trying, damnit!
Always get the cash bro!
Yep. I’m not a whole helluva lot better off than you at the moment. Make money, money, dolla, dolla bill, yo.
Im sleeping in Sisters basement, saving cash, trying to get back home.
Still no landing place, so save and hang tight
You’re always welcome to crash at my place for a night or two on your journey back West.
Where are you? I may ask you about that
Kansas City Metro Area. About half an hour East of Ozy and and half an hour North of Mo. It’d be fun for us all to meet up for dinner, smoke, and a drink if possible…Mo can have a Shirley Temple and some chewing gum.
*ponders*
Explaining lengths of distance via road travel time is a very Midwestern thing to do.
*burp*
South of Mo.
Sorry.
I was gonna say…
I drink, get confused at times, and rarely proofread, my dear. 😉
2 more jobs, or to replace the painting job?
Regardless, congrats!
Still working the regular painting job. Picked up two side jobs for the next couple of weekends. You all bailed my ass out fairly recently to pay off utilities (special extra thanks to Trshmstr) and I’m not going to use that generosity to sit on my ass only to put myself back into the same situation. Some of us poor people actually want to do better, even if we ultimately fail. I’m going down swinging.
I (and others here) have faith in you. Keep on doing your best and know you have friends here. Go out and make a big return on our investment! 🧐🙂
Thanks, my friend.
…and root for Uncle Bob.
Always. He’s my new disc golf guru!
what kind of painting ?
Interior and exterior residential.
On topic: Blood Music by Greg Bear
Yusef,
Thank you for some much needed optimism. We used to be a country of boundless optimism. We need to get back to that attitude again.
Redhedz 4 Yusef.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
50/50 chance she kills you or someone you love at some point, but wow. Tempting.
Only 50/50? You must feel generous tonight.
Macrolife. Interesting take. My initial reaction was to balk at it, but the more I think about it…it’s interesting.
Does the Sagan quote about the complexity of, say, a human being, indicate that life could only have been created by a Supreme Being/God? Or does it indicate that the complexity of life indicates it was not created by a Supreme Being because an all-powerful Creator would surely have engineered simpler things?
I don’t think anything about the Sagan quote necessarily implies either. Your second thought is worth pursuing this far: what are the limits of what we consider “simpler?”
I’m satisfied that Hume explains the emptiness of the argument from design: that AfD is just a projection that serves only to demonstrate the paradigms by which its adherents live without proving anything about the systems before us. A similar construction could be used to attack “simpler.”
For me faith needs no defense. Indeed, to the extent that it is not falsifiable, I don’t know what it can’t be happily embraced without regard to proofs about the nature of the order of the universe.
Interesting that “faith needs no defense.” I’ve heard numerous pastors, not to mention laymen, argue passionately in defense of their faith (using archaeology, “near death” experiences, medical miracles, etc.) Are we to accord other “faithful believers,” say of the benefits of communism, the leeway to not have to defend their faith?
I’m arguing in defense of faith even by making the point that it needs no defense.
I don’t think anyone has to defend anything if they believe it just because. Assertions as to history, physical phenomena, efficiency, that sort of thing are surely fair to critique. Back to falsifiability: if a belief can’t be shown to be false, it avoids critique; if an assertion can possibly be shown to be false, it surely will be critiqued.
O/T: If only they’d sent a social worker instead./sarc
Is there a state in the Union without a county named for Dr Warren?
I always assumed it was named for Warren Zevon.
Time traveling fans of Senator Warren, obviously
that might explain the crop circles outside Vicksburg
Arizona, Hawaii, Wyoming, and Montana have no counties named for any Warren. Warren must be an east of the 100th meridian thang.
36 of them, in fact.
General Wayne and Commodore Decatur do awfully well as well
Is there a state in the Union without a county named for Dr Warren?
Down in Florida, we have counties named for dead major politicians (Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Taylor, Franklin), generals and explorers (Lee, Lafayette, Osceola, Hernando DeSoto gets a county for both his names), geographic features (Gulf, Bay, Suwannee, Lake, Palm Beach, Indian River) plus various and sundry minor pols, hangers-on, and modified Native American place names, but no Warren.
The bridge over the St. Johns River in Cow Ford (now known as Jacksonville) is named after a Warren, but he was a one-term governor of the state back in the 1940s.
OT: new episode of Only Murders in the Building dropped today. (Hulu)
The plot thickens, big time!
Dammit! I forgot about that. Watched Earth vs The Flying Saucers with the ever lovely Miss Milly/Mrs Hawaii 5-0 , yet again.
It’s been renewed for a third season.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gavin-newsom-dc-education-award-california
We are truly through the looking glass.
He funneled money to the right people.
So many observant, thinking men through recorded history, at least Western history (which includes Israel and Byzantium, in my thinking) have little looked aghast at the downward spirals of cultures and predicted their imminent collapse with a touch of unwarranted panic, that I try to remind myself that it’s some natural tendency of civilizations to think that “We’re going to hell in a hand basket.” And thus I try to remain unconcerned.
But it really does feel like the changes since the Age of Reason through the Enlightenment to now are in a deaths spiral. We’re raising generations in wealthy societies but failing to teach them how to think, or even have manners.
I suppose it’s worse when it’s YOUR turn, and not just reading the history of the fall of some other civilization.
So true HS. Our present age seems like a parallel to the story of the golden calf. G-d leads the Israelites out of slavery but that trek the the desert was a bitch. Oh, some of my coreligionists thought, G-d isn’t so great. Let’s worship an idol. Because that worked so well for other people.
Today, it’s empirical thinking has lead to 300+ years of rapid economic progress. We are far more prosperous than every generation before us. But life isn’t fair, complain many a lunkhead. Let’s lower our standards and rely on our feelings. Because that worked so well for other people.
Well said, Chafed.
But we, like the ancient Israelites, are a “stuff-necked people.”
For many years, the parable Jesus taught ending with “Truly I tell you, it is easier for a camel to enter the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven” baffled me. The fact that the young man in the parable was rich didn’t mean he was a bad guy, after all!
Finally I realized what this Jesus of Nazareth dude meant was that if you have every thing you need in terms of material wealth, health, peace, etc, you begin to take them for granted or even to credit yourself a bit too much for the fact that you have them. This belief that you’ve already got it all is what makes is difficult to recognize what may be spiritually lacking. Difficult, but not impossible.
News sites have truly shot themselves in the foot and slit their own throats with total abasement of their product with advertising.
They can’t all be funded by sugar daddy billionaires here.
Fauci can fuck right off.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11007769/Dr-Fauci-emerges-two-weeks-experiencing-rebound-COVID-symptoms.html
Why is he still wielding authority? He’s been far worse than useless all along!!
If only covid were as deadly as they pretended it was….
*sigh*
The belief that they themselves alone are indispensable men. It’s why Buttglug
took paternity leaveabandoned his job for months, rather than just resigning if he’s unable to carry out the duties of his appointed office. Or why the Secret Service and lesser agencies create giant security blankets and inconvenience the general public who are bosses of these parasitic shitstains. There are plenty of people who can step into those shoes, mostly better the further away from politicians they are. We should have far more parasites swinging from lampposts and getting whacked Abe style given what they have done and are doing.Because he knows where Hillary disposed of the bodies?
Noticed how even though countries that have had BA4/5 roll through show minimal symptoms, the American press pushes “DEADLY!”
Fauci and Walensky can fuck right off.
Thank you for reminding me of Walensky. I couldn’t remember the name earlier.
https://youtu.be/BpeZ5CFzpTs
🫡
Thank god we didn’t video everything we did in the military
Single handedly took on a small army by herself. She’s the real soldier.
😀
That ignorant dumb fuck Lebron James has spoken out on the Griner situation. This time, he suggests that she should not even want to come back to the US because they showed they don’t have her back.
No word from Lebron on the number of other Americans who have been in captivity in Russia for years, many of whom are veterans. We should have invaded Russia to get Griner back to show just how much we appreciate our black, gay, female basketball stars who ignored State Department advice and traveled to Russia and then proceeded to try to go through an airport with drug paraphernalia.
Yet another appeal to emotions.
Let’s break it down. LeBron knows that Griner’s wife has rather loudly said that it was LeBron over there, he’d already be back in the (evil) USA.
So wifey has chosen to toss the racist bit of her complaint (as LeBron is also black) and focus on the sexism thing. Or is it the fact that nobody cares about the WNBA thing? Or unequal pay? I lose track.
LeBron is now feeling a little pressure to “do something” and, not being noted for his intellect, seems to believe if he serves up some word salad, Russia will relent and hand over an American who broke their laws.
This is a profile in stupidity by sooo many principals involved.
I guess they’re all too young to remember the movie “Dada is Death.” Hell, you can’t even bring chewing gum through a Singapore airport.
Actions have consequences. Read the brochures before you visit unknown or KNOWN HOSTILE territory. And maybe don’t diss your own country, a country so accommodating that it allows you to pretend that WNBA “star” status offers you immunity from your actions.
“If it was LeBron over there”
Gah. Pardon my typing. And ranting.
I’m so sick of this notion that “celebrities” deserve more airtime and government intervention and sympathy than ordinary folks, as you correctly point out, Bro.
I even hate the term “celebrity” itself; why should these various dumbfucks be celebrated? For being an athlete but a shithead? Being an actor but a shithead? Making a sex tape and leaking it?
I ain’t celebrating any of those nobodies.
Lucy Ricardo hardest hit.
The funny thing is, Lebron likes to push a public image of himself as an educated athlete. And the media largely signs off on it.
She’s going to be back in a few months. The US will have given up way more for her than anyone with half a brain could actually sign off on (rumor being that the Biden administration is offering up a notorious arms dealer for her). The media will cheer.
She’ll come back and be the same entitled, ungrateful cunt she was and we’ll continue to hear nonsense about how she was only made to suffer so much because of racism, sexism and any other ism they can attach to it proving how awful the US is. Meanwhile, lesser known and usually white guys wrongfully detained in Russia are left to rot for years. Many of them having actually served their country because Russia seems to have a thing for going after ex-service members.
All this for someone who completely ignored State Department warnings for Americans not to travel to Russia in the first place because of shit like this. The aspect of this story that the media doesn’t even touch.
One other thing that gets me about all this is how quickly the media jumps to the notion that she is being wrongfully detained. Now, I don’t think she should be in a Russian jail because of some casual drug use, but there is absolutely no evidence that the Russians made up the evidence against her. Maybe they did, but it would hardly be surprising if entitled, ignorant athlete tried going through an airport with drugs on her. christ, an NFL player was just arrested in an airport in LA for having a gun in his bag – this happens at least once a year, I’d say, where some athlete stupidly forgets they have contraband on them going through airport security.
In the past, I’d say you’re right, she’ll be back to her hated home in the US.
But now… Putin and his close circle are unpredictable. If they think she’s important they might keep her as an act of defiance. But if their intelligence network in the US (which is pretty good, BTW) know that very few people are even aware of her plight, they might trade her out, as you suggest.
It’s kind of hilarious to me that the MSM is learning that outside the US, their standard emotional appeals and talking points don’t shift the needle on anyone’s opinion.
Whatever happens, I expect they will play us like a fiddle.
“That ignorant dumb fuck Lebron James has spoken out on the Griner situation. This time, he suggests that she should not even want to come back to the US because they showed they don’t have her back.”
I’m okay with this plan. Can they take Leboring too?
John Stossel has a new video.
It’s more accurate to say that Johan Norberg has a new video.
Norberg could be a powerful libertarian (small L) influence because he’s young, Swedish, polite, and a very good author and presenter. His documentary “The Real Adam Smith” is a great introduction for proggie youths in your sphere to see a new point of view without vitriol.
Anyway, here’s Stossel’s video “Dictator Envy” (NOT on YouTube!)
https://johnstossel.lt.acemlna.com/Prod/link-tracker?redirectUrl=aHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZydW1ibGUuY29tJTJGdjFidjlhei1kaWN0YXRvci1lbnZ5Lmh0bWw=&sig=C61RtJRAScubeRcdgzjEPvarYj1ExzBqX9hcxm5eCPPk&iat=1657656466&a=%7C%7C25764800%7C%7C&account=johnstossel%2Eactivehosted%2Ecom&email=dSEWrT9RzdqrOWerrN6zAgA3SuMkJhmkGexv49sZvNU%3D&s=e31f058f32273d5313a13e2d3e557b8b&i=342A1137A1A2926
Thanks for sharing Hayek, that was really good.
Chilling, but not surprising to see people like Fauci sucking off China who absolutely caused the whole coronavirus shit. For that alone they deserve a few nukes shoved up Mini-Mao’s ass.
Morning peeps.
morning.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/07/11/a-mystery-solved-in-delaware-county-foxes-caught-on-camera-stealing-shoes-other-items-off-peoples-porches/
Shoe thieves.
Daily Sanford and Son?
https://ktla.com/news/california/california-blocks-gun-sales-to-those-at-substantial-risk-of-breaking-law/
“You need to fill out this 4473 while I shake this magic eight ball.”
This standard could be applied to any consumer item for all kinds of nebulous reasons. Anyone clapping like a seal for this is too stupid to breathe.
I mean, just look at the comparison this gem of a human used:
Minority Report was a fictional movie, not a blueprint.
Oh, come on, I’m sure we can find three Albinos to shove in a tank of gel and pretend to be psychic.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/07/13/richard-jones-charged-murder-james-lambert-beating-death/
That’s a 14 year old? GTFO.
Some people develop fast… that is why I am always a little skeptical of the ‘(s)he was just a kid’ line of defense for people who get into interactions with police or others after about age 11.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/read-polls-jack-guys-biden-snaps-reporter-asking-ny-times-poll-showing-64-percent-dems-dont-want-run-video/
Read the polls Jack!
He’d be so much more tolerable if he wasn’t such an abrasive douchebag and thinskinned to boot.
There is that, and everybody knew this about him but pretended it wasn’t true and MSM pushed him as a kindly uncle who will be the adult in the room.
And I am struck by how the MSM keeps conveniently forgetting such facts as his direct promise to the American people during the debates that he will kill the fossil fuel industry.
Anyone who was paying attention could have predicted the shit-show that was coming.
So, he’d have to be a completely different person?
Biden looks like a mafia don about to order a hit. That reporter better watch his back.
He’s funny though. ‘they don’t want me to run, but they know they don’t have any choice but to vote for me’
Morning, Glibs.
My mostly water rehydration beverages displaced too much of the caffinated mainstays (I don’t drink as much in volume of those, and focusing on not sweating to dehydration meant I was drinking mostly water) and I feel like crap now.
Also, my wrist is acting up, making it hurt to type. (particularly when I need to use a shift key) This is not so good for me since I often need to type. I’m trying to force myself to remember to use the opposite hand shift key to avoid the issue, but muscle memory is what it is.
Obviously too much blood in your caffeine stream. Don’t any of those rehydration/ sports beverages also have caffeine so you can avoid those gawdawful caffeine deprivation headaches? 🤕
I’ve been having some wrist issues too. I’ve taken to wearing a wrist wrap – it started “life” as a wrap that also extended up over the palm of the hand (and was the only thing I could find that wasn’t black,) but that part was annoying and unnecessary, so I cut it off. I think the wrist wrap helps some.
They’re just filtered tap water with flavorant added. (I do the filtering of the tap water, and just buy the flavorant so I can have some variety). One does have caffiene, but it’s the purple drink mix. Besides, I don’t moderate quantity properly when trying to replace what I sweat out, as the goal is to get as much water back into me as possible to avoid those nasty dehydration headaches.
Mornin’ peeps, have any fun last night?
Good morning, Yu, U, rhy, Stinky, Sean, Teh Hype, and Tulip! This morning I go back to the dentist for the permanent crowns on a couple of lower molars. It’ll be nice not to have to “baby” my mouth for fear of the temporary crowns coming off…but it also means I no longer have an excuse NOT to wear that damn anti-snoring appliance. 😞
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Mornin’, reprobates!
Good morning, ‘patzie! How’s the world in your little corner of it? Any wildlife about?
Mornin’, GT! Foxes have apparently moved to PA, haven’t seen them in a while. Lots of boids, as usual.
I know they live around here, but when I see them, it’s just a glimpse, then they’re gone.
Shy creatures.
LOL. Not 5 minutes after I posted a young fox peeks at me from behind a shrub about 5 feet away and scurries off.
😎🤣 🐾🐾🦊
Over the weekend, I saw a rare fox while I was out on Tranquility Base. It didn’t just skulk along the back of the lot, either – trotted through the yard and around the corner of the house toward the street! Hope it made its way back to the woods and didn’t get hit! 🦊
Good Morning all:
Media does seem to be starting to work Biden over now. I don’t see how this helps the DNC. Inflation numbers today supposed to be “Brutal”.
ZARDOZ approves!
Good morning, ‘bodru! How are your lambies?
Hmmm…inflation numbers today mean they’ll probably come up in my boss’s monthly report to the Board, so I’ll see what his (knowledgeable) take is on the matter. He’s already said we’re almost certainly already in a recession, and he expects our CU will soon see higher delinquencies and charged-off loans.
lambies are hungry, we need water badly for them. Going through two bales of hay a day. Could easily eat more.
My bottle fed lamb needs to be reintroduced to flock I think its time.
Baby cow is cute as ever.
Do you have a lead on getting them the water?
I just has an internal serer error
They are drinking from a stock tank. we need rain for pasture
I figured you had something of a drought.
I’d type more, but my wrist hates me at the moment.
Its ok, i hope your day is quiet, and you have victory over HR
Was watching a mediocre movie on the tube last night. The best part of TV lately is advertising. An advert led me to this site – if you’re looking for the perfect gift for that special XY in your life, they’ve got what you’re looking for (can a web store be NSFW?)
https://ballwash.com
Just the stuff to use before you put on a nice clean pair of Duluth Trading Ballroom jeans! 👖
Pants for dancing?
Obligatory.
I think that there are too many people who have forgotten the true meaning of life. To be First. To never waiver from that goal.
Im concerned with the finish,
Enjoy your firstyness
Honestly, I thought you were already dead.
Let’s get ready to RUMBLE!!!!
https://nypost.com/2022/07/12/nj-may-make-it-impossible-for-states-like-ny-to-issue-its-drivers-speed-camera-tix/
“New Jersey pols want to prohibit other states from accessing its driver records to levy speed and red light camera fines — setting up a confrontation with New York City, where the majority of out-of-state speeders come from the Garden State.”
“O’Scanlon called the red light and speed camera programs “government-sanctioned theft.””
O’Scanlon finds governmental theft outrageous when it isn’t going into his coffers.
But a rare move from NJ that doesn’t suck.
We could always plug the Lincoln and Holland tunnels.
Yes, please.
Wouldn’t the Dutch take issue with that?
STEVE SMITH PLUG TUNNELS!
“O’Scanlon finds governmental theft outrageous when it isn’t going into his coffers.”
Yup. No matter who the winner turns out to be, the tax cattle wind up losing.