Category: TD/GDMBR 2024
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Mexican Sidewalk (why ya trying to kill me?)
Tl;Dr: Mexican side walks (in La Paz) should be an Olympic sport. Funny video. Mexican Sidewalks I don’t really understand how this could happen, except possibly the sidewalk is owned by the property owner? There seems to be zero design guidance. On today’s stroll: Marcie thought Parkour. I think that’s right…
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I called Social Security today
Tl;Dr: Sign in now to find out what you have before you lose it https://www.ssa.gov/ The administration is cutting Social Security Administration staff, and shows every sign of messing with the rest. Time to sign in and make a record of what you’ve earned. I tried signing in, but needed to call according to the…
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Your Homunculus
Tl;Dr: Your brain’s representation of sensation looks really funny I’m always fascinated by how we see the world, and how that’s different from how our brains process input. For example – we think we see things like a camera (I see a complete colorful picture of what’s going on around me), but we really only…
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Birthday ideas: BlipGrips
https://blipsgrips.com/ Could be hooked up to dyno…
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Conflict of Interest: pt 1 of many
Why is Elon Musk involved in government at all? Oh yeah: to award huge contracts to his companies, so he can profit. An even more reputable news source
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Tea Party Reverso
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A brief & incomplete thought
Capitalism rests on the assumption that accumulating wealth and human interests are aligned. That may be true at smaller scales, but it sure doesn’t seem all that aligned at the scale of 300m Americans… In part I’m thinking about how our government is suddenly shifting towards oligarchy. You may think this is straight up democracy…
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Vienna 2025 Recap
A bit more info here later…
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It’s always never enough
Taking care of a family estate is a job bigger than you have time for, no matter how much you have. Huge gratitude to great friends & kind strangers in Vienna. M’s Grandfather passed away in early January – over 100 years old. He had 2 flats in a building downtown that his family built.…
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Executive Orders: Gish Gallop
Our new president has made a lot of strange executive orders. This technique is called Gish Gallop ‘presenting an excessive number of arguments, with no regard for their accuracy or strength, with a rapidity that makes it impossible for the opponent to address them in the time available.’ It’s a way of distracting or confusing…