Non-Elites, The Real Problem at Yale Is Not Free Speech , Natalia Dashan August 5, 2019 When I saw him, he was outside Payne Whitney. Nothing about the tall, gray façade suggests it is the university gym, unless there is a new trend of contractors housing athletics departments in Gothic cathedrals. You wouldn’t guess by looking at the frosted glass panes and arches that the third floor hosts the world’s largest suspended indoor swimming pool. It is a work of art, like the rest of Yale’s buildings.
But it can be priceless! Yesterday some meat puppet was telling us about the shortage of charging stations for EVs; today another meat puppet told us that the demand for EVs was dropping. These folks are so clueless they happily contradict themselves, and then when the mispronunciations begin you can find yourself rolling on the floor with laughter.
Mr. Fritz, your comment roped a thought in my mind that I was troubling over. About Yale. It's to be expected the Yale shall reap what Yale sows. Let the gavel drop and spot in the eye. So saeth and so be it!
Thanks for another provocative compilation of stories. And a photo of your garden!!
International humanitarian law is MIA. The UN and other presumably international assistance programs have abandoned Gaza.
I hope that Aaron Bushnell did not die in vain. I was glad to see the 1963 photo of the Buddhist monk who self-immolated. What a classic! And yet today I do not know or remember what he died for.
Do you think that Yale is the only university to lose sight of its obligations and responsibilities “as the preserver of cultural knowledge”? Might a commitment to DEI have damaged more than one university?
Pullease - Trump only fights for himself. He will say anything to get a vote. What Christian man has been in court as frequently as Trump?
Now we’re going to see a raft of stories about politicians looking for the VP slot.
I pray that Ukraine survives, and not under the “leadership” of Zelensky. Let Russia have it. Preserve northern Europe.
I have been rooting for the European farmers, and thinking that American farmers had best look to themselves, before the woke and WEF cut them out. How about a little aggression? A little showmanship?
Who in the hell is Draghi? Are we not suspicious that his solution to “global challenges” is to depend on bankers and public debt? Sounds too self-serving to me.
If there are problems that need solving, then we should be focusing on individuals, NOT corporations. Otherwise we are just willing slaves to the WEF and the corporatocracy.
Another good post John as always. Watch out for that hard frost on your fruit trees, and everything else for that matter! The new reliable pattern is decidedly unreliable, which I believe is the point. Some changes are good some not so much. Changes, going through changes!
Hmm.. possibly but probably not with us in mind. We have some new lessons to learn from it I expect. As posted here at SO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFM58YCvwYk The AMOC is slowing and as with most things, faster than expected. This will play havoc with the jet streams and likely already is, allowing much weirder weather patterns than any one location is historically used to by living memory standards. The weather patterns I experience now are not those of my grandfathers born in 1892. I grew up working in his garden with him in the 60's and the patterns he understood still held true then and into the 80's. It was later in the 90's that I noticed changes in the patterns, not all at once mind you. Todays patterns wouldn't be recognized by him at all. Deep snow falls yes, winters with not enough ice to make the lakes safe or not freeze over at all, no. Rain falls of more than two inches in under 24 hours unheard of in his time here, he was amazed if we got over an inch. All that and yet the averages over the individual seasons remain consistent. It's the extremes that will cause the most difficulty I think, at least in the beginning.
Maybe I should have written "help us", but if one wee engineering weather, and trying to see how little winter would still keep an ecosystem functional as "winter" then this would seem to be a "good" way to try it. Create a huge cold pocket, such as by seeding/clearing the night skies of moisture over a large area, then disrupt to polar vortex and let er rip down towards the equator over Europe, Asia or North America. I felt Texas weather change in the 2000s, and it keeps changing. The sun is more intense on my skin, and it's not just my old skin. The vegetable plants don't handle the new type of intensity well.
I find the sun more intense as well up here at 45 degrees north. I'm blaming the weakening ionosphere as the more likely culprit. More radiation is slipping past not just uv. I have no way to qualify that statement just a sense that something is different due to observation of my surroundings. I've been outdoors most of my life whether it was play, recreation or work so unless the weather was very bad I was out in it and I am still. The one thing I noticed first was the speed that standing water seems to evaporate anymore. It doesn't seem to stand around as long measured in days/weeks as it used too. Again just casual observation no documented record for me to go back on. Why would a casual observer make note of the drying up time required for a large puddle to evaporate if they didn't expect a rapid change in their lifetime. I now notice faster drying even when the daytime temps are at or below seasonal norms. This is what has alerted me to it in the first place and only really noticeable since 2000 +/- a couple of years. Regardless of the source/reason we are definitely going through changes brother, "may the force be with you" to use a famous quote and not against you. Take care as you now have a new generation at hand that could benefit greatly from your experience and knowledge.
Red - jet streams apparently vary pretty significantly anyway, with 'wavy jet streams' creating the wild swings in temperature and weather, depending on whether you are north or south of the 'wavy jet stream'. It can pull really cold air down quite far south, but further west, warm subtropical air can arrive at 50N at the same time.
Piers Corbyn, a very good medium/long-term weather forecaster (www.weatheraction.com ), who has predicted extreme weather events successfully months in advance (I have purchased several of his forecasts over the years for gardening purposes), is quite hot about wavy jet streams being prevalent during mini-ice ages.
What we should therefore be asking about is what controls 'normal' vs 'wavy' jet stream patterns and can it be influenced by solar events, any sea-level-associated events and, if it can be influenced by humans, how do those dodgy humans manage to achieve it?
I'm not quite at 45 degrees (central Maine), and of course my weather is deeply affected by the ocean nearby. We've always had swings in the weather -- January thaw was customary -- but now it swings all the time. One day it's 40 degrees, next day it's 20 degrees (really hard on people with respiratory issues). But when I spoke to my dogs' foster mom in western Tennessee, she is experiencing the exact same thing: a really cold day followed by a very warm day.
And, yes, we've had many people fall through the ice, lack of snow, a lot of rain earlier in the winter. Yesterday felt like spring, but one thing I notice is that the swings seem to last longer into the spring than they used to. None of the corporate solutions are of the least help, they only encourage further industrialization and wealth transfer. We just need to accustom ourselves to what is happening and what will happen, and think about changing our mentality. Hahahaha to the last suggestion!
Thank you. I keep at it pulling weeds and tending. Lots of it is not working out, like my Mexican Avocado project since we stated getting one exceptionally hard. fast freeze every winter.
An old Croatian friend of mine who survive the German occupation of WW2 had a friend here in Nova Scotia that grew a fig tree. Every year he would dig a trench and lay it down cover it with dirt and mulch for the winter, then come spring we would stand it back up. I'm sure he would have pruned the root ball and tree to keep the size manageable, my point is it's doable. Then there is this method used by the soviets in the first half of the 20th century. If you have the area it could work well most anywhere with a little adaptation to your location.
Could you try the fig tree growing method I first saw used in Massachusetts in the 1970s? Plant your avocado in the most protected spot near your house? Mulch heavily? Can an avocado be bent over then swaddled for the winter? Someone was growing bananas indoors in northern Maine in the 1980s, and now I think there are people planting figs who have the right conditions outdoors.
"self-righteous upper class"... yep that sums it up.
In Buddhism we have a saying:
"Whatever you frequently think and ponder upon, that will become the inclination of your mind"
Yale is based on Skull & Bones...
The secret Societies of the Ivy League are the Poison Ivy of Society..
Like Bush Kerry Zuckerberg and so on.
Put Manure on them I say... Support the Farmers I say.
Big Dr. John... sign up to his substack... my Friend and a man of Truth
https://fritzfreud.substack.com/p/generalstrike-why-we-all-must-support
Thank You, Fritz.
I'm not THAT "big".
:-)
I don't know... all I can say that I always enjoy our conversations even thought we never met.
Yet as you once said... we both been to different cultures... me in China and you in Japan...
I studied Aikido and Ju Jitsu too you know and we both could ravel in stories and tales I guess.
I do appreciate your thoughts and your blog I highly regard.
Somehow... I love most of you that yo show your true love and somehow always this song pops into my mind...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0xy-LoDi94
Through early morning fog I see
Visions of the things to be
The pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see
That suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
P.S. It also connects me to my ex... the Girl I loved... the women I hate...
I always liked that gentle song, and I never knew quite what to make of it.
That was the only medical TV show I ever liked.
;-)
No TV for me in this new millennium ...
Same here my friend... same here...
It is the grotesque of war it documents so blatantly Ironic...
Like today the people who cry war... have they ever seen mash?
And if they have... has it not touched them?
Suicide is painful... I know that for sure.
War is murder... people crying for war should be tried for murder!
Elliott Smith - Ballad Of Big Nothing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU9yMN1MCfY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU9yMN1MCfY
But it can be priceless! Yesterday some meat puppet was telling us about the shortage of charging stations for EVs; today another meat puppet told us that the demand for EVs was dropping. These folks are so clueless they happily contradict themselves, and then when the mispronunciations begin you can find yourself rolling on the floor with laughter.
Mr. Fritz, your comment roped a thought in my mind that I was troubling over. About Yale. It's to be expected the Yale shall reap what Yale sows. Let the gavel drop and spot in the eye. So saeth and so be it!
You will find the gavel in the hands born of thee of blood of the infinite obsession to control the underlings... undermining society.
There is no justice in the hands of thee.
Poison Ivy.
Yet the power of truth is within the underlings awakening from a dream of life that has become a nightmare by the obsession of the incest breed...
Poison Ivy.
I be the light... the light of truth ready to be judged for my heart is pure.
Thanks for another provocative compilation of stories. And a photo of your garden!!
International humanitarian law is MIA. The UN and other presumably international assistance programs have abandoned Gaza.
I hope that Aaron Bushnell did not die in vain. I was glad to see the 1963 photo of the Buddhist monk who self-immolated. What a classic! And yet today I do not know or remember what he died for.
Do you think that Yale is the only university to lose sight of its obligations and responsibilities “as the preserver of cultural knowledge”? Might a commitment to DEI have damaged more than one university?
Pullease - Trump only fights for himself. He will say anything to get a vote. What Christian man has been in court as frequently as Trump?
Now we’re going to see a raft of stories about politicians looking for the VP slot.
I pray that Ukraine survives, and not under the “leadership” of Zelensky. Let Russia have it. Preserve northern Europe.
I have been rooting for the European farmers, and thinking that American farmers had best look to themselves, before the woke and WEF cut them out. How about a little aggression? A little showmanship?
Who in the hell is Draghi? Are we not suspicious that his solution to “global challenges” is to depend on bankers and public debt? Sounds too self-serving to me.
If there are problems that need solving, then we should be focusing on individuals, NOT corporations. Otherwise we are just willing slaves to the WEF and the corporatocracy.
Love to listen to Russell Brand.
MelK: The POISON IVY League. And that sums up what I think of quackademia.
sweet pic, rock on
Early spring, after a mild winter, with one horrific hard-freeze.
This is the new reliable pattern since 2020. Why might that be?
I wonder...
Another good post John as always. Watch out for that hard frost on your fruit trees, and everything else for that matter! The new reliable pattern is decidedly unreliable, which I believe is the point. Some changes are good some not so much. Changes, going through changes!
Gaia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESE0ohvyOmA
I have to wonder is one very hard freeze is being engineered each winter to "help" us.
Really, I wonder.
It does accomplish "winter".
Hmm.. possibly but probably not with us in mind. We have some new lessons to learn from it I expect. As posted here at SO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFM58YCvwYk The AMOC is slowing and as with most things, faster than expected. This will play havoc with the jet streams and likely already is, allowing much weirder weather patterns than any one location is historically used to by living memory standards. The weather patterns I experience now are not those of my grandfathers born in 1892. I grew up working in his garden with him in the 60's and the patterns he understood still held true then and into the 80's. It was later in the 90's that I noticed changes in the patterns, not all at once mind you. Todays patterns wouldn't be recognized by him at all. Deep snow falls yes, winters with not enough ice to make the lakes safe or not freeze over at all, no. Rain falls of more than two inches in under 24 hours unheard of in his time here, he was amazed if we got over an inch. All that and yet the averages over the individual seasons remain consistent. It's the extremes that will cause the most difficulty I think, at least in the beginning.
Maybe I should have written "help us", but if one wee engineering weather, and trying to see how little winter would still keep an ecosystem functional as "winter" then this would seem to be a "good" way to try it. Create a huge cold pocket, such as by seeding/clearing the night skies of moisture over a large area, then disrupt to polar vortex and let er rip down towards the equator over Europe, Asia or North America. I felt Texas weather change in the 2000s, and it keeps changing. The sun is more intense on my skin, and it's not just my old skin. The vegetable plants don't handle the new type of intensity well.
I find the sun more intense as well up here at 45 degrees north. I'm blaming the weakening ionosphere as the more likely culprit. More radiation is slipping past not just uv. I have no way to qualify that statement just a sense that something is different due to observation of my surroundings. I've been outdoors most of my life whether it was play, recreation or work so unless the weather was very bad I was out in it and I am still. The one thing I noticed first was the speed that standing water seems to evaporate anymore. It doesn't seem to stand around as long measured in days/weeks as it used too. Again just casual observation no documented record for me to go back on. Why would a casual observer make note of the drying up time required for a large puddle to evaporate if they didn't expect a rapid change in their lifetime. I now notice faster drying even when the daytime temps are at or below seasonal norms. This is what has alerted me to it in the first place and only really noticeable since 2000 +/- a couple of years. Regardless of the source/reason we are definitely going through changes brother, "may the force be with you" to use a famous quote and not against you. Take care as you now have a new generation at hand that could benefit greatly from your experience and knowledge.
Red - jet streams apparently vary pretty significantly anyway, with 'wavy jet streams' creating the wild swings in temperature and weather, depending on whether you are north or south of the 'wavy jet stream'. It can pull really cold air down quite far south, but further west, warm subtropical air can arrive at 50N at the same time.
Piers Corbyn, a very good medium/long-term weather forecaster (www.weatheraction.com ), who has predicted extreme weather events successfully months in advance (I have purchased several of his forecasts over the years for gardening purposes), is quite hot about wavy jet streams being prevalent during mini-ice ages.
What we should therefore be asking about is what controls 'normal' vs 'wavy' jet stream patterns and can it be influenced by solar events, any sea-level-associated events and, if it can be influenced by humans, how do those dodgy humans manage to achieve it?
I'm not quite at 45 degrees (central Maine), and of course my weather is deeply affected by the ocean nearby. We've always had swings in the weather -- January thaw was customary -- but now it swings all the time. One day it's 40 degrees, next day it's 20 degrees (really hard on people with respiratory issues). But when I spoke to my dogs' foster mom in western Tennessee, she is experiencing the exact same thing: a really cold day followed by a very warm day.
And, yes, we've had many people fall through the ice, lack of snow, a lot of rain earlier in the winter. Yesterday felt like spring, but one thing I notice is that the swings seem to last longer into the spring than they used to. None of the corporate solutions are of the least help, they only encourage further industrialization and wealth transfer. We just need to accustom ourselves to what is happening and what will happen, and think about changing our mentality. Hahahaha to the last suggestion!
your photos pretty consistently make me jealous of your homestead.
great work you've done there.
Thank you. I keep at it pulling weeds and tending. Lots of it is not working out, like my Mexican Avocado project since we stated getting one exceptionally hard. fast freeze every winter.
An old Croatian friend of mine who survive the German occupation of WW2 had a friend here in Nova Scotia that grew a fig tree. Every year he would dig a trench and lay it down cover it with dirt and mulch for the winter, then come spring we would stand it back up. I'm sure he would have pruned the root ball and tree to keep the size manageable, my point is it's doable. Then there is this method used by the soviets in the first half of the 20th century. If you have the area it could work well most anywhere with a little adaptation to your location.
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/04/fruit-trenches-cultivating-subtropical-plants-in-freezing-temperatures/
Lots of interesting things to try at this site, the above is from page three:
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
You have shared this tale and the links before, and I had seen them before that.
:-)
It is all food for thought. I liked Croatia when we visited Pula.
Could you try the fig tree growing method I first saw used in Massachusetts in the 1970s? Plant your avocado in the most protected spot near your house? Mulch heavily? Can an avocado be bent over then swaddled for the winter? Someone was growing bananas indoors in northern Maine in the 1980s, and now I think there are people planting figs who have the right conditions outdoors.