Previously on “The Secret History of Vermont”
Introduction
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Chapter 5: Going Uphill in Both Directions
The tendency for non-horizontal surfaces to always slant upwards is a peculiarity of Vermont terrain that has been alluded to from time to time in this book. In Vermont when a grandfather tells a grandson, “Sonny, when I was your age I had to walk to school every day and it was uphill both ways.” the grandchild rolls his eyes, not because he’s being fed another line, but because Grampy is again belaboring the obvious.
How is this possible? The answer involves quantum mechanics, the properties of subatomic particles, potentially dead cats, and the Burlington Free Press. In the ivory tower world of academia there are currently only five people with the intellect required to comprehend the situation. Fortunately there are no ivory towers in Vermont so the rest of us should have no problem with it.
In quantum mechanic circles it is a rule of thumb that all possible states exist until the probability wave function is collapsed by an observer and one of the states gets cruelly singled out by the rest to join the other unhappy states that comprise reality. The classic demonstration of this is called “Schrodinger’s Cat” which is a thought experiment in which one puts a cat into a closed box along with a vial of poisonous gas and a mechanism that has a random 50-50 chance of breaking the vial in a certain time, say one hour. Do this and wait for an hour. What do you get?
The obvious answer is that you get a lawsuit from the S.P.C.A. In the ivory tower world of academia however what you get is a cat that is both dead and alive at the same time until you open the box. By opening the box and looking inside you “collapse the probability wave function” and get either a dead cat and a lungful of poisonous gas, or a compact mass of muscles, teeth, and claws trying to impress upon you its opinion on being locked up in a box for an hour.
The point being that the cat is neither dead nor alive before you open the lid and observe what’s inside. The cat is in a weird state of being both at the same time.
A critical factor of the experiment is the random mechanism that may or may not break the vial of poisonous gas. For the experiment to work right in the quantum mechanical sense the random mechanism has to be really random. The classic random mechanism uses a radioactive atom as a trigger. If the radioactive atom decays within its half-life then the cat dies too, otherwise the cat lives on and can be reused in the next experiment.
Weird quantum mechanical effects, like both sides of an either-or situation being true at the same time, are generally only observed at the atomic and subatomic level because they require random events that usually only exist at the atomic and subatomic level. In Vermont however there is a macroscopic random process of such a large magnitude that quantum effects become a fact of everyday life. That process is the Burlington Free Press weather forecast.
Every day the Burlington Free Press prints a weather forecast. Every day thousands of people in Vermont buy the Burlington Free Press and read the weather forecast. Every day the weather forecast in the Burlington Free Press has absolutely no correlation to the weather that day. The number of people who daily observe the completely random process of the Burlington Free Press weather forecast vis-a-vis the actual weather creates an incredible quantum mechanical stress that is discharged into the ground like lightning. As a result the ground in Vermont has some surprising properties.
Obviously not all locales in Vermont have the “uphill both ways” property otherwise Vermont ski resorts would have a much more difficult advertising job to do. Quantum mechanics (the people, not the theory) guess that this is because there are enough foreign skiers who don’t read the Burlington Free Press to dilute the effect. Otherwise it is readily observed that, “On average, any given route in Vermont goes uphill.” This is because when one sets out to go somewhere in Vermont all possible route-states exist at the same time. When one decides where to go and how to get there the probability wave function collapses and the second most improbable route-state is chosen: A route-state that goes uphill even if one went uphill to get where one happens to be and is now going back.
It is the second law of thermodynamics, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” that prevents routes from going downhill in both directions.
There are other effects of the quantum imbalance in Vermont. One is that despite the fact there are a finite number of miles of interstate highway in Vermont, repaving the interstate highway is an infinitely long process. Another is that regardless how low the min-max thermometer at the author’s cabin indicates, the next day at breakfast there’s someone at the Town Restaurant who claims that it was colder at his or her house that night.
Richard wants you to know he can’t be here because his toilet asploded or whatever.
He was trying to flush it when the angle of the hill inverted.
It was probably caused by the pipes going uphill both ways.
Some people have no commitment to this community, really sad.
Hope your plumbing gets snaked good Richard.
Hope your plumbing gets snaked good Richard.
I didn’t know it was that kinda party.
It’s a composting toilet so no flushing. It has a chimney so it’s vented.
The first time I had a wood stove fire in the cabin I discovered the only source of incoming air was the toilet chimney. The cabin smelled of compost, both old and fresh, if you get my drift. I drilled some vent holes through the cabin logs near the wood stove’s air intake and installed a 12V fan on the top of the toilet chimney that I run until the inside/outside temperature differential is greater than 32 degrees Fahrenheit at which point natural venting happens again.
I think in Richard’s case it’s a terlet.
I think I need to lie down.
This phenomenon is not isolated to VT, but it might be more noticeable because there are less miles there.
In Chesapeake, they just expanded a section and it helped with traffic, but the new asphalt is very bumpy. WTH?
Just calming the traffic to a safe speed.
I recall in Madison, WI years ago, they had a big repaving project for a major road – 3 lanes each way for several miles.
The next year, they ripped it all out and did it again.
Sounds like Vegas. I swear they alternate East/West and North/South roads every other year.
Here in KY, the practice is to do a half-assed job on bedding in a new road, then coming around every year or so to fix the pot holes and dips that form under the new pavement as the road bed settles.
It is a perpetual job machine.
Brilliant!
One is that despite the fact there are a finite number of miles of interstate highway in Vermont, repaving the interstate highway is an infinitely long process.
Minnesota apparently has a similar quantum imbalance. CO avoids the issue entirely by never fixing the roads!
Not true. CO has been fixing I-25 thru FtC since I moved there 1.5 years ago. No progress, but they are fixing!
There is a major project starting this year on 1-70 which may put the final nail in my skiing career coffin.
Wait, what? Where?
https://www.cpr.org/2022/05/18/new-cdot-renderings-show-what-an-i-70-expansion-at-floyd-hill-might-look-like/
Thanks. Awesome, more I70 crap to deal with.
Ha ha ha ha. I-76 through Akron has been under construction continuously for 30 years.
When it comes to highways in New Jersey, there are two seasons: winter, and construction. Yet somehow, the roads never really improve.
Excuse me, but you seem to have misspelled ‘Michigan’. The cities are even worse.
Time to do some work on the GSP. When should we start?
How about mid-June? Right in time for summer traffic.
(Psst …it’s not a highway, it’s a möbius strip.)
https://www.aier.org/article/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-directionalists-vs-destinationists/
Read to the last paragraph, its the important one, IMO.
Thoughts, which way would you answer. I have mine, will post it in a while.
Why would I listen to a red like Munger?
We are not winning, folks.
Of course not, the game of politics isn’t designed for that.
robc: Sorry, I can’t totally avoid pragmatism in my thinking. My problem is, if you don’t, you easily lose people who want some problems solved now. (And yes, if you choose “destinationalism”, you could lose anyone who wants a good philosophy to follow). I think it would be more likely you could convince someone to follow your path if you can prove some benefits sooner than later. Otherwise, it strikes me as a religion.
Nothing necessarily wrong with that, but what are your end goals?
It’s unlikely we’ll (L-ish people) achieve anything real, one way or another, If it’s possible in the political realm, it needs to be
shoved in their facesbrought up whenever it can.I think my answer is directionalism is totally fine as long as you state the moral imperative that you are moving towards. Have a destination and make sure you are actually moving towards it. If Friedman/Stigler had stated the moral imperative in addition to the consequentialist arguments, then it might not have made the likes of Rand/Lane angry. They would have still preferred the full move, but with the stated goal in play, a move in the right direction is a move in the right direction, even if it isn’t enough.
Instead of writing angry letters, they would have grumbled. Okay, Rand might have still written an angry letter.
Maybe Rand would have let Milton Friedman ravish her, too.
Definitely a directionalist. It is my belief if we ever got to the Big L destination, it would end up just as fucked up as where we are right now, just for other reasons.
Destinationism. School choice is a perfect example. There is a ton of cheering about “funding the student” and the like, but even Florida’s anti-woke bill still has SEL specifically called out as the appropriate curriculum framework.
I used to think negotiating was a better route, but I don’t anymore. I think giving ground is partly why we’re here.
The spectrum as I see it, and a case where directionalism works, and problems with it.
Government schools
Charter schools
Vouchers
Separation of school and state.
The lower down the spectrum, the better. A directionalist would say that the growth of charter/voucher is a move in the right direction, and we need to continue to grow it as it is still not large. I agree, somewhat. But honestly, I think we are stuck. Even if we got to huge number on charter and voucher, getting the rest of the way is next to impossible.
However, I think, in that case, directionalism was the right approach as I think jumping from government schools to no government schools is even more next to impossible.
Goddammit. I’m losing my mind or WP is hungry today!
Anyway, what I thought I typed was that we may be stuck, but the sheer number of parents who are learning the true nature of the system may provide some measure of hope. Regardless, the message from the opposition should be the decoupling of schools from the government. Period.
Otherwise we are stuck, and no amount of charter schools, private schools or vouchers is really gonna move the needle. Decoupling is unlikely, yes, but I still think it’s the push.
The trouble with libertarianism is that, like communism, it’s not fully compatible with human nature. Rent control is a good example. No amount of principled reasoning is going to convince people that rent control is a bad idea. I suppose that acknowledging that makes me a directionalist.
But the directionalists failed to get rid of rent control despite their arguments too.
There was never going to be an argument to get rid of it – that’s what everyone in this internecine conflict doesn’t get.
I would argue otherwise, after all, we don’t have rent control everywhere, or even in most states. And directionalism has the benefit of being able to argue on both principle and pragmatism. It’s kind of a built in motte-and-bailey tactic.
In order for directionalism to work in our favor, you’re going to have to undermine the base of support for the Fabians, namely the university system. As it stands, they churn out far too many opponents that roll right into government.
Breaking the higher education system’s financing model should be a core objective for any libertarian-minded person.
Absolutely. And you’re simply not going to get there by arguing that government shouldn’t fund or underwrite education as a matter of principle. That’s just not going to fly with the general public.
Well demote them to Lt Col Public.
It would suffice to simply make it impossible the feds to continue underwriting it.
To that end, higher interest rates work in our favor.
They’ll still outrank Private Industry.
t would suffice to simply make it impossible the feds to continue underwriting it.
Money printer goes brrrrrrrr.
You’re actually seeing resistance to that behavior by Powell right now.
Yellen is a traitor to the country who would break the dollar’s back in order to remove the final impediment to full control of the currency by the government.
We now have rent control in states that never had it before.
They also concede the premise to their opponents.
Having never met him in real life (what is real anyway?), I choose to picture Richard in my mind as a Ted Kaczynski-like genius , but with a wry sense of humor, living out out in the woods of Vermont writing manifestos and newsletters (to which I should like to subscribe).
Glitter mail bombs, not explosive, murderous mail bombs.
I just think of him as his avatar. Beret and all, in a cabin working away.
Glitter bombs are war crimes. I’m still picking up pieces from one my brother sent three years ago.
a compact mass of muscles, teeth, and claws trying to impress upon you its opinion on being locked up in a box for an hour.
Bravo.
I’m here. Went to the hardware store to buy plumbing parts and came back to discover I got the wrong parts. Opened a beer. A young deer has decided to suffer my existence on his property. I could probably go up and pet it, if I wanted to get ticks and fleas.
You could have saved yourself a trip ’cause the inevitability of getting the wrong parts is not a random act. Now measure twice, go back to the store and you’ll only need one more trip and you’ll have the right stuff. Each part has a name but homeowners are not privy to the glossary. Thingamajig or doodad are most commonly used and the hardware store guy/gal can interpret from there.
Get more beer while you’re in town, save a trip.
This is excellent advice.
I’m formulating the Uniform Quantum Hardware Store Theory. When you go the to the hardware store all possible parts-purchases states exist. When you decide on the parts the second most likely part-purchase state is selected, the state in which one or more of the parts are the wrong parts. It’s perfectly congruent.
PLZ WRITE ARTICLE & SUBMIT. THX.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/4QHUV.png
This is why I ensure any house I buy is within a mile of a hardware store. Being mad for ten minutes is better than being mad for 40 minutes.
is collapsed by an observer
Carver Mead has some unkind words for that belief.
I’m not the only one?
There is a certain aroma of narcissism, isn’t there?
You’re all figments of my imagination anyway.
One of these days I’ll finally wake up in St. Elsewhere Hospital.
I’m sick of you imaginary people saying I’m not real.
We are not figments, we just different personalities who haven’t met in this big wide Tulpaverse.
No, you’re Tulpae.
Who in their right mind would make up Howie Mandel?
Meant “solipsism”, but whatever.
Absurdly anthropogenic – the universe exists because we observe it, this is one that “______ studies” can’t even parody.
Oh they draw heavily on it in postmodernist studies. They feel it validates their wholly subjective worldview.
The plumbing problem is entirely my fault. I did something so incredibly stupid that I’m questioning my right to existence. Buying the wrong parts is just the proverbial frosting. I may be able to jury-rig something using new and old parts. I’m finishing the beer first however.
All you really needed was a can of Flex Seal. Your repair would have been done by now.
I snapped off the twin sinks’ drain pipes. Duct tape would have probably worked for cold water.
I’m drinking Foley Brothers Brewing “Prospect” IPA. The Beer Advocate site rates it highly:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/30542/183754/
Hot water is over-rated anyway.
I did something so incredibly stupid
[snort] Did I ever tell ya’ll about the time I hooked up the public water line to the black-tank flush in my trailer, instead of to the water intake?
Yikes! I’ll bet that was entertaining!
In a sell-your-trailer-and-never-talk-of-it-again sort of way
That sounds horrible.
THANKFULLY, that tank was empty – it was our first trip of the year after de-winterizing, so although the toilet was transformed into a fountain, it wasn’t the disaster it could’ve been. I was tired and in a rush and in the dark and hungry – we had managed to sit down have a bite to eat and wondered why we didn’t have water pressure in the kitchen.
“toilet was transformed into a fountain”
LOL!
Sounds like a romantic dinner!
Had I made such an observation, those likely would’ve been my last words.
It’s the dream of every man to go out on a snarky quip.
“Totally worth it.”
That’s not a fountain, it’s a bidet.
The Doobie Brothers had a song about that.
I have a similar story that involves a 210cfm air compressor and my septic lines.
The result was a bathroom that looked like someone had loaded a blunderbuss with turds and fired it at the ceiling.
A quote from a YouTube channel I follow:
“If you’ve never done something and screwed it up, then you’ve never done anything”
He said this after doing brakes truck because the owner could not get the brake rotors off.
The man was unaware there were retaining screws on rotors on newer vehicles.
I have personally stripped a head bolt hole in my block, necessitating removing the head for a HeliCoil.
And many other stupid things I managed to conceal from my wife, so she only thinks I am half the idiot i actually am.
Not to worry. I’m sure she multiplies by two, at least.
Based on my personal experience, anyway.
Think how much money you’ve saved!
Kidding aside I think given the amount of DIY repairs that have gone well I’m ahead in the long run. Of course, now that I’ve got more money and no more reliable trades people I pick my DIY projects.
This is because when one sets out to go somewhere in Vermont all possible route-states exist at the same time.
This does not reconcile with the well known axiom: you can’t get there from here. Or is that a New Hampshire and not a Vermont rule?
I was once sorely tempted to use the line, “If I was going to Burlington I wouldn’t start from here.” on someone who stopped me to ask directions once. I didn’t because I didn’t think they’d get the joke.
It’s all in the setup. You need to be wearing overalls, and have a stalk of grass in your mouth. Long pause as you consider the horizon, and then deliver the line. Preferably in whatever local yokel accent you can muster.
“practice, practice, practice”
/might be in wrong joke
I think that’s a Maine thing.
GFD. I’m at the cabin running my notebook computer off the cabin’s battery bank. Or so I thought. Apparently I never turned on the 12VDC switch to the old-fashioned cigarette lighter socket. Except I distinctly remember turning it on and seeing the notebook computer’s power LED turn on to indicate the computer is on, and then turn off to indicate the internal battery was full. It’s not full now and now I’m charging one battery off another battery. I hate that.
I want the notebook battery to be charged because this evening’s entertainment is the latest Chris Rock stand-up act:
https://www.netflix.com/title/80167499
Ground fault detected?
I think it was just a short circuit of my memory bank.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdrawn_at_the_Memory_Bank
My friends here never fail to deliver.
Raul Julia nods sagely…
FINGAL!!!!!
Shades of Dave Barry. Nice job!
Interesting take on the Nordstream deflection.
I hadn’t considered the idea of prepping to dump Ukraine.
It was the first thing that came to my mind.
“Who do they want me to hate today?” is the question I ask about every major media headline.
From the Twitter thread:
“A pro-Ukrainian group may have carried out the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines last year.”
Isn’t the U.S federal government a pro-Ukrainian group?
I have seen a few stories about corruption let out of the bag. So maybe they’ve made enough money without getting us directly involved, and they’re looking for the next grift.
I snapped off the twin sinks’ drain pipes.
Beer-can-and-hose-clamp splints, FTW!
That self fusing silicone tape is an excellent solution, too.
Thats what we use instead of heat shrink to weatherize our cables.
Flood insurance is just like basinf premiums on how many POCs are in top management
RISKY BUSINESS — Insurers are already on the front lines of climate change. Now they’re getting their turn on the front lines of the anti-ESG movement.
Lawmakers in red states like Texas, North Dakota and South Dakota are trying to bar insurers from weighing environmental, social and governance factors in writing policies.
On the other side, activist shareholders and blue states are trying to limit insurers’ investments and underwriting in oil and gas projects. A bill introduced last month in Connecticut would establish a surcharge on insurers that underwrite fossil fuels.
For an industry that’s based on evaluating and pricing risk, it’s all a little rich.
“ESG is in the DNA of any insurance company,” said Michel Leonard, chief economist and data scientist at the Insurance Information Institute. “It would be very difficult for the insurance industry to insure in an economically viable and sustainable way without paying attention to environmental patterns.”
Insuring oil companies and coal miners should be illegal.
Fucking shitty article. Insurance is based on looking at historical losses and building models to assess risk. If you warp that risk to take into account losses that clearly never happened in the past (and won’t likely in the future), you will exceed your reserve limit and get into trouble. ESG is not responsible Actuarial science.
It goes hand in hand with the proposed bills. I can’t figure out exactly what kind of underwriting they are precluding.
If I expect FedGov to increase company liability and damages next year by regulation, I should be able to price for that. Especially on non-admitted business.
You can look at more than historical losses especially for risks that you don’t have actuarially credible loss histories.
Sure you can. And then when those don’t happen, and the trends don’t occur, you are over reserves. Absolutely you look at trends. Just so happens the ESG trend is a lie that will not match reality. This is the quote I have a problem with:
“ ESG is in the DNA of any insurance company,” said Michel Leonard, chief economist and data scientist at the Insurance Information Institute.”
No it isn’t. It is not good science.
At which point Uncle Sam wants it’s money. And the laugh here is that actuarial science is less of a science than economics.
Reserves are essentially perfectly “adequate” until they aren’t. The fiction I’ve always thought hysterical.
On long tailed casualty lines you can make so many arguments for reserve development that you can swing them pretty much any way you want. Usually the issue is that you won’t be able to price competitively rather than too conservatively reserved issue.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/pennsylvania/hershey-debuts-plant-based-reeses-cups-chocolate-bars/article_51b02542-bcf9-11ed-960e-cb3faf61b133.html
🙄
Just sell them the dark chocolate version.
Totally. Hershey’s is dead-set on going out of business apparently. Put a guy on a chocolate bar for women’s history month, sell vegan candy (which goes over like a lead balloon), what will they do for an encore? Dark chocolate crickets?
Well…..it was never marketed as vegan, but much of the old candies were technically.
Very true. They just wave a bottle of milk over the milk chocolate. It’s mostly other stuff that pretends to be milk.
https://www.amazon.com/Don-Bugito-Planet-Friendly-Chocolate-Crickets/dp/B075WGNSZ9/
Hersheys should buy them and re-brand immediately.
Isn’t reeses basically plant based already?
There’s milk in the milk chocolate.
The milk in the milk chocolate.
Arent both peanuts and chocolate plant based already?
Seems like a way for Hershey to make a cheaper product and sell it for more $$ to vegans.
Hershey has been using even lower-grade chocolate in Mr. Goodbar since 2008 and since then can no longer say it contains milk chocolate.
So you are no longer Looking for Mr. Goodbar?
This just adds more fuel to my call for a Reese’s Independence Movement. Support Reese’s secession from Hershey’s!!
I like this.
The Independant Reese’s Movement has already laid this claim
Where can I sign up for their newsletter??
Funny thing, Reese’s was started by a guy who worked at Hershey’s and left. It wasn’t until years later that Hershey’s bought Reese’s.
My wife is **really** into craft chocolate, went through a couple levels of tasting certifications, learned a lot about the industry. Hershey’s uses the absolute worst quality of cacao available, I think mostly from Ivory Coast. There is a lot of good, single-origin chocolate available these days, but it’s not cheap. This place is nice because they get in stuff from all over the world so you can get foreign bars without worrying about international shipping.
Also, milk chocolate sux.
Ivory Coast is 40% of the world’s chocolate, +-2%, about twice the next largest producer. Hearing a choclate company uses Ivory Coast choclate, my reaction tends towards “Don’t they all?”
The wife picked up a bar from Belize the other day, and the marketing on the back blathers about how they collect the beans green weekly and bring them to a central facility for fermentation and cleaning. They try to make this sound like they’re doing the growers a favor, growers get paid a fair price weekly, blah blah. The truth is the growers are likely to fuck up the fermentation and the chocolate maker is protecting their product quality by not letting them try.
My go to and they have very good milk chocolate.
I buy Lilly’s and stuff from these guys.
Hershey’s is garbage chocolate.
Elizabeth Warren asks Fed Chair Powell to ‘speak directly’ to the people he’s ‘planning to get fired over the next year’ by continuing to hike interest rates
I have some sympathy for this question. *Shrug*
It’s the grandstanding I have the issue with.
I just feel like the timeline of needing to fight inflation was that it was all transitory until they started to see wage growth, then it was suddenly a big problem and that they had to destroy the labor market to save the country.
Ultimately, I don’t think it’s really about that. It’s a battle between the ECB and the Fed.
And you want the Fed to win, which unless someone shoots Powell and Congress passes a ten trillion dollar spending bill, they probably have. It’s now just a waiting game as the ECB falls apart.
And Fauxcahontas can go fuck herself. She’s not interested in saving jobs. She wants to go full commie.
I’m just salty because they should have known inflation wasn’t going anywhere. Raising rates moderately a few years ago would have been the right move, more we’ve got to crank things way up because the Fed moved too slow.
Not sure how the ECB factors into things exactly.
I have sympathy for the question, not her motivations or grandstanding.
It’s the legacy of Bretton Woods and the offshore dollar (eurodollar) market. Functionally, the Fed has been bailing out the ECB by printing money here for a very long time. That is ending, and all of the chickens are coming home to roost.
https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1231&context=vjtl
I don’t know the actual size of the eurodollar market right now, but back in 2016 it was around $14T. It’s certainly even bigger now.
How many “few” years ago? Because turning the money printer up to 12 (it was already on 11) with the start of covid was a major factor in jump-starting inflation.
I didn’t realize 2008 was even more effed than I thought. Great.
I need to learn more about the eurodollar.
I’m not sure anyone really understands it.
He should have answered “Figured we’d draw on your playbook from Congress for that”
Disinvestment always follows malinvestment.
You know, like the Russia hoax, covid from pangolins, and support for Ukraine.
“Yes Senator, I can speak to that. The spendthrift ways of the US Congress have compromised the stability of the US dollar. If the Fed continues to underwrite monetary expansion or monetizes the federal debt as so many of you would have us do, we would be looking at a currency collapse and those people who may get laid off would then be using wheelbarrows to buy loaves of bread.”
Winner!
I would go with “we would be looking at a currency collapse and you can add a zero to the number of people who lose their jobs. For starters. I understand long-term thinking doesn’t come easily to academics and politicians, but I can tell you it is essential for bankers”.
“The more government-sector workers put out of work, the better. They’re a drag on the economy.”
“The same thing you said to the millions of people you put out of work with your support of covid lockdowns.”
“So Chair Powell, if you could speak directly to the 2 million hard working people who have decent jobs today, who you’re planning to get fired over the next year, what would you say to them?” Warren asked. “How would you explain your view that they need to lose their jobs?”
As if E Warren ever gave a fuck about putting people out of work.
My dream answer:
“My entire department, including me, is an illegitimate use of government power. I am sorry, people of America, for the damage my department has done. I am disbanding the Fed immediately and allowing market forces to decide the fate of the economy.”
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Putin hacked your link, bro.
I think it was a pro-Ukrainian group, they got to me in between bombing gas pipelines.
It’s too bad Powell didn’t say, “I’m just trying to clean up the mess you people made, Senator.”
Meanwhile what I call “Geezer Rock” continues. Newer bands have trouble filling large venues thanks to streaming and narrowcasting.
Peter Gabriel Announces ‘i/o’ North American Tour Dates, Drops New Single, ‘Playing for Time’
The guy is 73. Doesn’t make me like early Genesis or his solo stuff up until 20 years ago any less, but maybe enjoy retirement…
Normally I’d agree but that last Psychedelic Furs album from 2020 (29 years after their previous one) was actually damned good.
Playing for Time does nothing for me, unlike this.
… otherwise the cat lives on and can be reused in the next experiment.
So the cat is dead 50% of the time when the box is opened. But a cat has 9 lives, so the first time quantum mechanics says it will be dead, it won’t be, but it loses one of its lives. The cat will be truly dead only on the ninth time that quantum mechanics says it will be dead.
Homework question: What is the average number of times the box must be opened before the cat is really dead, i.e., has used up its 9 lives?