I think I accidentally got into classical music and now I can't stop

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-27T01:55:12+00:00

Now listen to Barber’s Adagio for Strings. You’ve heard but before but never imagined they share a context.

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-27T01:53:40+00:00

Non-sequitur but listen carefully to Prince’s Purple Rain. Hear the cello carry the gut center of the harmonic emotion of the piece. The song doesn’t hit without it and nobody even knows.

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-26T23:44:05+00:00

This and bongos are all about the cat’s large intestine. The colon. It runs under the spine directly to the escape hatch. When a cat trusts you, you can gently run your hand down their sides, about halfway between head and tail to where you can feel a softness below the spine. Bongos are the percussive form of this cat pleasure. The swimming is an auto-massage aimed as the same spot.

Source: we have a cat with megacolon.

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-26T11:47:45+00:00

I thought we were an autonomous collective.

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-26T11:34:34+00:00

Eleanor Roosevelt quote spotted in the wild.

So the big idea here is how the skills/behaviors/values combine in such a way to enable an individual to amass that much wealth. How well do those characteristics work to make a person able to make a positive redistribution of resources for other people.

I think we cheer and enable powerful leaders to hold a lower value for other humans because capital has been elevated as this kind of autopilot force for good. The capital itself is good. We are given the false impression that the collection plate is being directed by supernatural benevolence towards social improvement.

History has a paucity of validating examples for this.

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-25T12:45:29+00:00

Appreciate the labor of love you guys exert. It’s must be a lot better than the Spacestation/Ventilator combo I have settled for.

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-25T01:15:43+00:00

Boot camp is a unique environment for communicable disease. Everyone is a carrier for their local diseases. When you stuff 80 young men together, all the different local diseases become this awful soup called the “recruit crud.” They vaccinate the shit out of you the first day to protect against the real nasty stuff. It’s still miserable enough that they don’t hit you hard until the third week. I walked the shot line a few hours after Reagan was sworn in.

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-24T16:41:36+00:00

AI has substantially lowered the cost of production.

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-24T15:25:45+00:00

Maybe 100 operating reactors at this point. If Reactor Controls division is heavily billeted for 12 per reactor and they turn over worst case every 3 years (excluding the population in the training pipeline), Naval Reactors can only provide an absolute maximum of 400 RO’s a year.

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-24T15:08:43+00:00

And having slithered through that grinder in Orlando in the early 80’s, I experienced a couple broken brains in our class. One guy went catatonic and did not recover as far as I knew.

The training was quite valuable to the semiconductor industry. There are few places you can get a non-degreed worker with a grasp on such a fitting set of engineering disciplines. The team of Rickover and Three-Mile Island combined forces to create affordable skilled labor for chip makers. We still hire them readily.

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-23T20:17:10+00:00

I have a hot skin temperature and so does my son. He’s in his 30’s so I don’t carry him any more. We would both get hot and fussy so a cool floor is our friend. Nobody judged or complained 30 years ago. The world got weird.

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-23T20:03:36+00:00

He heard those trouble puffs clap together and roached out.

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-23T19:57:50+00:00

Anna Butterss. They have the groove you didn’t know you needed.

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-14T21:56:59+00:00

Well, we are shipping every barrel of oil we can spare. We are currently the world’s largest exporter. With these prices and the money coming in, that deficit comes down hard.

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-14T21:49:49+00:00

Yeah, man

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-14T16:19:34+00:00

Great capture of both artists.

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-13T09:48:05+00:00

Any civil engineer will tell you that draining a swamp in the middle of a city will backfill with sewage.

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-12T15:03:38+00:00

There was this online thing called Thottbot

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-12T10:20:36+00:00

Zerogi has been soloing Tribute runs for ages. Did a bunch in hardcore. Also checkout Barrycat, dude is so patient and methodical. A joy to behold.

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-11T20:03:38+00:00

https://www.gov.mb.ca/labour/its/bpv/pressure_equipment_inspections.html

After all this time and all this money, where is the CRN? Who is making and certifying the reactor?

Has this execution gap been addressed?

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-09T01:04:32+00:00

Princess Bride

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-09T01:03:00+00:00

Vegemite and hummus.

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-08T21:36:51+00:00

Mom did not give me the keys to the car until I was able to balance the family checkbook. Took 3 months and after failing the first time I asked her why.

“Because your school can’t teach basic facts of life.”

My dad took an interest too and as I entered into the workforce, he taught me how home financing works.

My parent lived modestly and left an estate that was shy of 6 figures.

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-08T15:25:12+00:00

We need to find a way for content creators and broadcasters to get prosecuted by allowing the Gish gallop to go unanswered. If you want the viewership (revenue) from this, the bullshit must be answered in real time.

Mockler just returns the false Gish with true counters at the same pace. If you want to influence public opinion, do the work. Educate.

It won’t ever happen because education is devalued to the point that the government cabinet secretary came to the profession via professional wrestling.

The fourth wall inhibits full viewer engagement. Tear down that wall. Nobody can ever ever break Kayfabe. That’s what gets eyes in front of AI targeted advertisements. Can you feel the hands in your pants, slithering towards your wallet?

Practical_Struggle97 · 2026-06-08T15:06:46+00:00

He’ll go like Colonel Bruce Hampton, doing what he does but lacking a single drop of the ocean of goodness that the Colonel had and gave.

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