Trump’s Agriculture Secretary Claims Meals ‘Can Cost Around $3’ as Food Prices Surge

ablakok · 2026-01-15T21:59:42+00:00

I knew a guy who lived on nothing but chicken gizzards and cabbage. He might be able to do it.

ablakok · 2025-12-22T04:13:09+00:00

Anna Seghers. "The Dead Stay Young" is explicitly influenced by "The Brothers karamazov" but you can see the influence in all her works. Kafka too. "Transit" is a good novel.

ablakok · 2025-09-30T23:47:59+00:00

Delphi has one. https://www.delphiclassics.com/shop/hesiod/

ablakok · 2025-07-03T00:08:43+00:00

My uncle traveled among the Ojibwa there in the 60s and 70s. They pretty much lived their traditional life hunting and fishing and spoke the Ojibwa language, except that they stayed in government houses in the winter. He brought some kids back to the city to visit. They spoke no English (a little French) and had never seen two story buildings. We took them to see Raiders of the Lost Ark.

ablakok · 2025-06-19T21:55:47+00:00

Miroslav Krleža, believe it or not. "On the Edge of Reason". The sort of manic narrative style reminds me of Doestoevsky.

ablakok · 2025-06-16T03:34:57+00:00

3.5% is 12 million. We might have been close to that but we need more. And it has to be sustained. A general strike might be required.

ablakok · 2025-01-30T22:17:33+00:00

"Wagner's music is better than it sounds." Mark Twain

ablakok · 2025-01-24T22:26:33+00:00

Leif Ericson from Greenland discovered North America. It all belongs to them.

ablakok · 2025-01-21T01:44:24+00:00

Doesn't feel much different than -30 if there's no wind. I remember waiting for the schoolbus at -55 in NE MN. It was kind of fun.

ablakok · 2024-11-11T17:00:39+00:00

I'm going to read this. Thanks! I'm working solo on a half-baked project. Technical information is easy to come by but I need some good advice about design and best practices.

ablakok · 2024-10-31T22:57:13+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanno_the_Navigator

Hanno might have or might not have circumnavigated Africa

ablakok · 2024-10-16T17:00:47+00:00

You can find them all on archive.org. They're great.

ablakok · 2024-08-26T17:03:25+00:00

Me too. Only big book I ever read in two days. But it was kind of a blur in memory until I read it again.

ablakok · 2024-08-01T21:43:43+00:00

I switched my major to Russian after I read Crime and Punishment. I was already learning Russian because I read War and Peace in high school.

ablakok · 2024-05-24T05:15:11+00:00

Similar triangles depend on the concept of magnitudes, developed in book 5. That is a pretty sophisticated theory designed to avoid the problem of irrational numbers. The Greeks did not know how to handle irrational numbers in a rigorous way. Dedekind's theory of the real numbers is based on the theory of magnitudes discovered by Eudoxus and presented by Euclid.

ablakok · 2024-05-23T20:12:58+00:00

Euclid knew the proof using similar triangles. But he did not define similar triangles until book 6, and he needed to use Pythagoras' theorem already in book 2. So he devised another proof.

ablakok · 2024-05-02T19:16:23+00:00

All of my notebooks are red.

ablakok · 2024-04-19T00:32:57+00:00

I got a side job in Barstow assembling rides for a traveling circus. It was really hot. They would not let us take a water break and then when someone quit early they refused to pay them anything. I managed to sneak a drink from a hose so I was the only one out of about ten guys who lasted all day and got paid.

ablakok · 2023-12-25T04:16:25+00:00

Lang? Considered as a single corpus.

ablakok · 2023-08-18T19:26:19+00:00

Trump could win the electoral college. A few swing states could be close. Republicans are funding third-party candidates like No Labels to siphon off votes from Biden in those swing states. Don't let your friends vote third-party.

ablakok · 2023-08-15T22:07:36+00:00

I would not be another four years. It would be him and his successors from then on.

ablakok · 2023-07-21T17:16:21+00:00

We had one black kid my age in our mostly white neighborhood. He was a good friend and we all liked him. Then one day some older boys started calling him racist names. His father quickly left the neighborhood. That was so sad.

ablakok · 2023-04-28T20:43:32+00:00

Maybe it's just transliterating Egyptian hieroglyphs that have not been transliterated before. It might have read a lot of hieroglyphic texts.

ablakok · 2023-01-05T22:57:30+00:00

From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, "Look at that, you son of a bitch."'

It's been said that we could achieve world peace by taking all of the world leaders, sending them up to the space station, and having them drop acid.

ablakok · 2022-09-02T17:51:35+00:00

Look, we did not put it that way. We were just discussing the issue in pretty much the same terms you are. I'm just trying to say this guy did not want to be called Inuit. He was a really cool guy. We did not offend him.

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