I am a silly girl who did not put sunscreen on her arms properly today. Nor, for some strange reason, her left knee.
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A friend posted this elsewhere and I got permission to copy-and-paste. It's a description of Trumpian rule.
So ... first we cancel all the spending, then we ask them to tell us what spending we just stopped? Yeah, that's how to run a business.
This is what running the government like a business looks like. A business can try dozens of products. As long as one or two are successful they come out ahead.
But with government programs everything is supposed to work. Every failed program is people suffering.
As far as crashing the economy, that has always sounded like the liberal version of "libs want to destroy America!" But I recently had a realization about Trump.
Maybe this is old news, but I never thought of it this way before. He styles himself as a businessman, but is actually a vulture capitalist. He uses other people's money to invest in everything and anything he can put his name on and doesn't care what fails as long as he gets the occasional success and it lets him keep moving on to the next thing.
For investment firms, they pretty openly say this is their model, and even have theory to support why it's good: Darwinian capitalism. But he gets out in front as the cheerleader for each new venture, and is immune to the stink of each failure because he's working with other vultures.
Some implications:
- He doesn't believe there's any project or program that can't be allowed to fail.
- He will pit programs against each other and intentionally cause some to be ended.
- Services are a cost center. So end all services. Only profits matter. (Like from tariffs. /s)
- Extracting value from current assets before moving on is the point.
So yeah, crashing the economy so you can pick the bones is exactly what "running it like a business" looks like, when your model is to extract all the value before dumping it.
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There's no kill like overkill. Wanted a small pad of post-it notes. Didn't want a simple yellow pad, so bought a bigger packet with colours. Now I have two yellow pas, two light green pads, two light blue pads, two lilac pads and for some reason four pink pads.
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I don't post so much here, but here's a selfie from today.
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I think the programmer for SBS World Movies has the measure of world politics. They were today showing the movie The Scarlet and the Black. It's about a monsignor who hides Jews from Nazis in World War II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_and_the_Black
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FreeCAD is powerful, but there's a learning curve. And there are omissions in the Tutorials.
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After only ever using Araldite (epoxy resin) in the two-tube solution, I bought the twin-syringe version a few years ago. It is so much messier. Even though there is half the product left, I think I'll chuck it out and buy the older packaged version again.
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I'm getting tired of migrating CSS from tailwind to real classes.
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One thing I am starting to really miss with loss of SBS PopAsia's weekly TV show is the celebration of Lunar New Year. Maybe I need to go watch more #Kpop news channels on YouTube or something.
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Maybe I won't go for an after-dinner walk tonight. Might need some water-wings...
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I just realized today has been Monday the 13th. Garfield the cat would not have gotten out of bed this morning...
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Also don't realize the usefulness of a completely open machine. I can look across the room and see where the AS1 is up to. Couldn't do that with the CR-100.
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3D printing one of my own models. Already I can see the A1 is much faster and a better printer than the CR-100.
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It's January in Sydney and I have my heater on.
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New toy just got delivered!
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For #KpopMonday #MusicShowStages I give you #Unnies and their track from season 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZBNn20fHk&pp=ygUHdW5uaWVzIA%3D%3D
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Was looking forward to seeing friends at dinner tonight, but sadly I twinged my back a few hours ago and it wouldn't be happy with an hour+ drive there, then sitting in unfamiliar chairs for dinner, then an hour+ drive back home.
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Last boost: We've found a new cadre of people who think they understand randomness but actually do not.
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Car has been washed.
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Is it too much to ask that US-based companies use an unambiguous, non-US date format in emails sent to anyone in the world?
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