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Did CGI destroy the world? Did it make it so easy to tell millennial apocalypse tales on the screen that an entire generation was primed to believe in the deepest corners of their minds world was coming to an end?

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Our government is now being chosen by algorithms. Kash Patel is a scam artist who hocked snake oil on social media He is going to be FBI director because algorithms raised him to prominence

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After you have the production wells you still need to circulate your heat transfer fluid. Not trivial. Then you need to run a plant to extract the energy. Those turbines are special/custom. Because the delta T is low.

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In order to be taken seriously they can’t have a plot. I find this sad. Smith wrote a piece in the New Yorker about writing the Fraud. You know it was almost an apology. For what? Writing a book that the reader would enjoy?

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I also read The Fraud this year, by Zadie Smith. I put her in the same bucket. She is a great writer and nails all the elements of a novel, but ever since White Teeth she seems to have eschewed the plot. As a reader I find this annoying. I get the sense that she and Obreht have been told that

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My reaction to Inland? I would recommend reading it. The writing if beautiful. The characters are interesting, tactile. The dialogue is clever- she has a great ear and it always feels authentic. So why was I disappointed? She just doesn’t do her plot justice. And I don’t understand this

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A few years ago I realized that I had spent my life reading books written exclusively by men and a good share of those from the UK. Think Robert Harris. I have been trying to read more by women. I will never read George Eliot. And Jane Austin ain’t for me. I just finished Inland, by Tea Obreht.

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Mandatory gun safes or locks seem basic. Standard psyc evals are more imposing but worth testing in the courts. Insurance requirements seem basic. When your kid has their first lockdown drill you wonder that we can’t be a tad more thoughtful about the gun control-rights trade off.

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How ‘bout this: have a male student at school and a gun at home? Require him to take the standard military psych eval. If he is not deemed fit we have some options. It annoys me when I hear that there is nothing to be done to prevent gun violence. There are lots of things we can do.

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We wonder how much of radical ‘68 was Vietnam driven vs. gen1 of duck and cover. Ditto today how much are young people today influenced deeply by First Person Shooter Drills?

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A large percentage of America’s seed corn comes from the Treasury Valley, the large valley the Boise sits in. So what will happen as that land gets developed? Seeds are grown in very special locations. But how special will this land actually be? There is lots of other dry land out West.

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But these days you can’t do that. Instead, a scholar of the internet will google it and tell you that this regionalism is actually not related to gyro, but comes from the English word indeed as in ‘you would need to be a hero to eat that’. Do we really need to live this way?

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Why is this on my mind? Every kid in NYC at one point or another asked his mom, why is this delicacy called a hero? Answers were hard to come by but invariably if you persisted a scholar of the classics would declare that it was an an eggcorn of gyro.

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In NYC this is called a meatball hero. In ye olden times every pizza place sold them. And they were all good!

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It is just a fact that the best thing you can put between two slices of bread is a meatball

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And of course, the easiest way to spend $36B right now to reduce GHGE would be to use it to build a large solar farm in the sunny South West.

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While we are at it, why not a HVDC power cable between North America and the UK? By smoothing out the peaks in the demand curve you potentially reduce GHGE. It also allows more intermittent sources on the grid (renewables). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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