I can’t even hang up my office desk phone by hammering the receiver disconnect button with my finger anymore, the receiver has a sensor that detects it is close to the cradle.

Technology has gone too far.

For me specifically it is because I have dyscalculia. Which made all mathematics is school quite difficult. I could understand reasonably complex ideas and through my own methods could solve equations but I couldn’t show my work because it was all done it my head.

It took me until grade 10 or so to come up with a method to know the multiplication table but it still takes more than a moment to work a simple calculation out.

Oddly I can work out and calculate the weight of a trailer of freight within a few hundred pounds with very little information in order to balance it for shipping but 9 x 8 involves 10 x 8 = 80 - 8 = 72

I failed math multiple times until I was put into math B for the slow people. I did better than the teachers assistant on tests. Went back to regular math the next year thinking I could do it if I was so good at remedial class and failed within a few weeks and stopped going.

I don’t disagree. There were better songs on the Analog Worms Attack album but that is the song I remember the name of having not heard it in a decade or more.

Are subsonics the bass sounds that are so low that you can’t hear it but can feel it if the space is small enough?

I used to listen to some electronica that would move my cars subwoofers like crazy but you couldn’t hear an audible base.

Flat Beat by Dr Oizo

The Vegas album by The Crystal Method

So there is a sociological explanation for Daffyd Thomas being the only gay in the village.

Strange how the lonely “village homosexual” wasn’t so much lonely when the women were unavailable.

The Orange R by John Clagett written back in 1978 was describing this feedback loop in its story.

In the story Nuclear radiation was poisoning the air and scrubbers all over the country were cleaning up the radiation but were using nuclear power to power them creating a huge feedback loop where more radiation was leaking and needing more scrubbers to clean it.

I won’t give away what they thought about solar power, but it’s awfully close to the same messages that certain orange people say about wind and solar power to this day.

ETA: it’s amazing that back in the '70s they thought our future would be nuclear pollution from power plants while they had polluting coal plants and now 50 plus years later we still have polluting coal plants.

I got to go to up to 7 ingredients and I’m counting the four mandatory veg as one ingredient (1 cup each of carrot, onion, celery and 1 tablespoon of diced garlic) that I call mirepoix.

African ground nut stew:

• 10 chicken thighs
• 4 cups of mirepoix
• Large can of diced tomatoes
• Can of tomato paste
• Cup of chicken stock
• 2 cups of mushrooms

-High pressure for 28 mins

Stir in 3 tablespoons of unsweetened peanut butter to thicken.

If you want to make it 8 ingredients then add hot sauce to taste.

Unfortunately if that were the case we are still many years from discovering the Epstein drive. Still having to deal with the oligarchy and shit conditions unless you are the 1%

My favorite fiction still isn’t good for most people, Hard Sci Fi.

The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn’t communicated with us.

People with vending machines aren’t going to be happy, those new ones won’t fit.

Hold on tightly, let go lightly.

The Croupier in Croupier.

It doesn’t come with extra instructions, so it means what I want it to mean and someone else may have it mean something else entirely. For me it means hold on to the important things tightly while they are important and when they aren’t then it is time to let them and other things go.

Don’t carry things that don’t need to be held onto, especially if you can’t control them. I hold onto the memories of my sister both good and bad, I embrace the pain of her not being here anymore when they come, then I let the pain go because I keep ahold of the happiness she brought into people’s lives while she was here.

My buddy got me R2D2 this year, Chewbacca definitely took longer than R2D2 will in build time.

Not even going out of my way to walk other than just walking the dogs and being at work I would earn 41k this month so far.

I don’t think there is a way that the breathing would work out better unless you were paraplegic and couldn’t manage to take any steps.

What revolution really takes is soldier’s that are protecting the system being unwilling to kill when the “rebels” are their family and friends.

If soldiers have love for the people and see common cause more than they fear their leaders then the leader can fall.

I’m grateful the previous owners relationship broke down and he was forced to sell the house after only living in it for 8 months. I’m grateful to the original owner for being a stonemason and doing beautiful stonework around the yard with obviously hand picked stones including quartz crystals and fossil rocks hidden around.

I had a nosebleed for hours which would barely stop without full pressure pinch. I was at the ER waiting for hours and the doctor finally saw me and didn’t think it was an issue worth treating as I was asking for it to be cauterized. I simply exhaled through my nose at a normal level and it started bleeding again. She went out and got the silver nitrate to burn it without another word.

Don’t believe mass media, read Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent, join local progressive groups and be the unashamed progressive voice in your family.

His manners are somewhere up a small boys anus.

I knew it was going to be that shithead Ben Stein.