So, Pinker Than Thou, eh?

c/nominativedeterminism crosspost?

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I like the feathery sound vultures make when they swoop over low.

Epstein said that he was D’s best friend for 10 years. Said he was charming and could sell anything. Then said he used that for evil as he trashed all his friends and wives in a pattern: build trust, draw people in, and pop a nasty betrayal.

The recording is doing the rounds on social media again.

Ospreys and buzzards and Coopers hawks and Mourning doves. I can hear the osprey in the big snag outside the office window right now.

The big snag in particular is a gathering spot. Bald eagles, and a rare Golden eagle last week. A peregrine, occasionally. Ravens and crows and Stellar jays, and woodpeckers, including Pileated and Flicker.

Hummingbirds, local and migratory. Blackbirds and different kinds of thrushes, plus all the little birds, so many species in the summer.

The Barred owls are really intense sometimes.

A large bevy of quail.

Rafts of ducks. Cormorants, when it’s stormy.

Deer are constant. Otters rarely.

Bats and dragonflies. The clouds of midges etc. are not typical anymore. We work hard to encourage pollinators but the total insect population has crashed somewhat. Fewer swallows this year.

[edit- they are so constant I forgot, we have a cottontail problem – maybe more raptors can feed here, so OK I guess?]

In the 1700’s, IIRC, the king of England tasked a researcher to find out why the Huron in what is now Essex County had three times the productivity of settlers growing maize.

The report was inconclusive but I believe it was no till, mounded in a certain way, and carefully managed in spacing and irrigation.

Interestingly the farms were usually tended by professionals who lived at the farm, but worked on behalf of families who had plots and participated at crunch times.

Huron villages were pretty sophisticated.

Alt: a holy potato with a worm. Credit: potatonewstoday.com

Someone has to stay up and watch for tigers, or spend 11 days nonstop searching for a spring.

Where’s that petition to revoke his citizenship at, anyway? Would be a nice elbow to the head.

On the west coast we usually say Fisher. Works.

FlashMob there is exhibiting a common bias that the only reason to keep traditional group display behaviours around is if they’re religious. This means they are probably from a settler state where colonialism relied on suppressing local culture.

Sorry bud, comparing the haka to animal noises is not “tone”, so fuck off with the disingenuous bullshit.

Now that you mention it, the lunatic fringe right wing that calls every social benefit or progress “communism” is a little bit correct.

The state, and private ownership of the means of production, withers away the more we have things like retirement benefits and weekends and universal healthcare and livable welfare payments.

Each increase in public services reduces the profits of the owner class. As we deal with the oligarchic stages of late capitalism there will probably have to be a lot of nationalizing, or monopoly breakups. Eventually, as governments take on more and more ‘essential’ services, including housing, public ownership becomes normalized.

So, assuming continuing “progress” in economics away from capital worship, and that we survive both energy overshoot and rapid A.I. development:

Co-operatives etc. will eventually take over as the most common economic organization, globally. Co-ownership in many variants. Nationalized industries and assets will likely devolve into more local control. Traded and private companies will have to adapt to less opportunity to skim surplus labour, and innovate more. Fewer rentier activities for passive income will likely be a common policy in many regions. Many will do just fine as gig workers with automated administrative systems, and that time freedom will come to be normalized.

U.B.I. in some forms will be a bridge in a lot of regions, I expect.

[note: this scenario does not appear to be the current timeline for much of the world… work to be done]

Atari 520ST with the monochrome monitor. Motorola 68000 I think. 1986.

I was a student and paid for the computer plus most of my tuition by typesetting essays using a word processor named Paper Clip. Started a bad habit of independent geeky gig work because of it.

Namespro is privately owned, based in Richmond, IIRC. Only good experiences for me: support consistently responds quickly and helpfully, the interface is still web 1.0 and not polluted by upsells or dark patterns. They have been reliable for me for over 20yrs.

Yes, genX is kind of characterized by ‘boomer class betrayal’ apathy, growing up in the reggae/punk/goth and oldskool hiphop music era, and Pong to Quake gaming.

The dates are fuzzy, because generations are more cultural than clinical.

If person born in 1984 grew up thinking “I could get a good job but what’s the point” and worried about nuclear war constantly, they might ID as genX.

Boyle uses low budget guerilla film techniques for feature films sometimes. 28 Days was the first feature shot on consumer tape cameras, Canon X1 I think, and they compensated by using a lot of them at once.

Most expensive scene was an empty bridge in London at 5:30AM, IIRC, and they only had a few minutes to pull it off. Lots of cheap cameras gives you options, if you can work with resolution and lens and colourspace issues.

Your recent comment history is a series of bitter one-liner quips designed to drag people down.

Ghost pepper