This noted meteorologist says average highs around these parts is 77-79F. And that it’ll be about 5 deg. or so warmer for 10 days … but “The kind of pattern that makes western Oregon and Washington warmer than normal is not associated with heatwaves…”

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/

‘Theeeere once was a girl from Nantucket’ … well, sort of works.

As a very curious person with very wide interests, it is so easy to access really hard-to-find information. In the past five years I’ve satisfied my curiosity more than adequately on hundreds of topics I’d wondered about all my life … from home. One plus side of Covid.

On the darker side, there were plenty of predictions (from science and fiction) in decades past that are becoming very real. Too many heads buried in sand.

Another victim of COVID, and rents rising sky-high.

I know what you mean. But at least it’s in the spirit of Leary’s admonition, “Now find the others”. It’s astounding that people weren’t at least talking action ten years ago … but then who expected COVID.

I’ve read recently that a LOT of people are sorely needed to learn about heat pump installation. That could be one priority.

Ask the people of Vancouver, BC … they’ve had a 50-mile ‘Skytrain’ since 1985. The 2023 ridership was 141 Million.

Yeah! Did that once, many years back. took a couple weeks. Used a ripper program that went out on the net and got all the metadata, saved to a HD (now on the third one). Put the CDs in Logic cases (no-wear), recycled the jewelboxes.

Over time, started to drop album folders into VLC, save the playlists, at ur fingertips.

So, let’s sort of , uhm, try to guess what percentage of SPD employees making big city bucks … er, uh … might be cowards? Or not…

FLAC is good, but not necessary for background listening. At 192k the average song is ~ 5Mb. 100k x 5 = 0.5 TB.

With a long, varied list of select internet radio stations, you can choose what genre (or special weekly show) you want to listen to at the moment. Picked by people, not algorithms. Keep a playlist of the stations you like best, startup your player (like VLC) with the list, and pick the one you’re in the mood for.

Or you could just collect mp3s locally for choosier days, dump a bunch of them into VLC, listen to them in album or random order. In either case, at no cost.

Dinty Moore still comes in cans … and is better than ever (esp. compared to most of today’s canned “food”.

Strange to see people blaming their fellow citizens, when it was a certain beloved King that started off his reign by hugely cutting the tax-rate of corporations, leaving them with the ‘trickle-down’.

Somehow rulers manage to keep the people divided by keeping them blaming each other rather the root-cause.

KInda stupid question, innit? If I still have it, I don’t think it’s a misconception. You’d have to tell me.

But then, anyone can make a mistake. Doesn’t make you a bad person. I make mistakes every day. I shouldn’t have said stupid, I should said… whatever they call it now. Meathead?

Oh yeah! And that bus sliding slowly at an angle down John St, and colliding with a telephone pole.

Don’t respond in any way to whatever they say about each other.

Close, I liked Marvin. It IS all so depressing.

The better the film is, the less likely it gets a sequel. (Or an Oscar.)

Blade Runner, for example. Released in 1982. Oh sure, it got one in 2015 … because the slo-mo’s had 33 years to catch up. And half the original audience was no longer around to mock it.

Try this: first, give me (mere offers are refused). the cold hard cash. This experiment will cost you, oh, $1000. Cash in advance. Per hour. Second: see what you get.

One word solution: tolerance. If you expect others to live and believe as you do … or else … there’s no solution. Just centuries of feuding.

Historically, tribes, city-states, they all had problems just as or more severe than ours.

We have living examples - today - of countries in the world which are faring very well. (Oh of course, some would say, they’re all doing something wrong. Uhm, no.)

This guy is visiting many places all over the US, month after month, spending his time (often for days) talking to the natives and really digs into that diversity.

https://www.youtube.com/@PeterSantenello/videos