Well…with billionaires across this country putting their fingers on the scales of the election to try to throw it to the idiot trump, it highlights why there shouldn’t be billionaires and that can be prevented with a wealth tax that taxes every dollar over 10 million dollars that they “earn” at the rate of at least 90%…a great example of why there should be no billionaires came this week when the billionaire owners of the Washington Post and LA Times over ruled their editorial staff and stopped the papers from endorsing Kamala Harris for president, breaking a more than 50 year precedent for both papers…and the interference was so egregious that the editor of the Times and others at the paper quit in protest at the blatant bias they showed for the most unqualified candidate for president in the history of this country…and we all know why they did it…to make sure they get the huge tax cuts that idiot boy has promised them…so what should the personnel at the papers do now? They should go to the papers that have done the right thing for the country and write an op-ed why they think endorsing Kamala is the right thing to do to save our democracy…it’s obvious that Jeff Bezos doesn’t care about the US and some way of making him pay for this betrayal of democracy needs to be found..geez…
Elon is a Putin stooge…
Well…with the revelation that ole elon has been in constant contact with putin since 2022, how much do you want to bet that the money he is spending to install the idiot trump is Russian cash? You can be sure that every dime is going to reimbursed by putin and it is the same kind of crap that putin has pulled in every election since 2016…but he couldn’t do it without the help of traitors here in the US…and you know that includes the entire repub party at this point…but mostly three billionaires…musk, thiel, and murdoch…three “immigrants” who are a lot more dangerous than any person seeking asylum or undocumented immigrant who puts food on your table…so when are these guys going to be deported for being traitors to this country? They are naturalized citizens whose citizenship can be revoked if they are found to be criminals…do we need any more evidence that musk at least is a traitor? Look, musk is a government contractor and should have all of the government contracts he has terminated since he is obviously a security risk…get on it Joe, the country will thank you….geez…
Artificial intelligence is a waste…
Well…not sure if you know this or not, but every time anyone uses AI it costs 150 gallons of water to cool the servers it is hosted on…and the energy use for AI is already more than what is used to power an entire state…and what good is it? Have you ever used it for anything that makes your life better? Just last week it was reported that Bill Gates is hoping to restart the shuttered Three Mile Island Nuclear power plant just to power his AI servers and others who are trying to monetize AI are looking for power anywhere they can find it…including restarting coal-fired plants that have been shut down due to their effect on climate change…I guess my question is how can a few billionaires be allowed to use so many resources for their vanity projects that will wreck the environment? I know that these assholes are now looking at the Great Lakes for the billions of gallons of cooling water they need but what happens when they raise the temperatures of the lakes so much that there will be no ice at all in the winter? And what does that do to the wildlife that live there? Look, I think the benefits of AI have been overstated by the billionaires who only have one thing in mind…profit…that will cost all of us as they vacuum up resources that should be used for the common good and not to line the pockets of the 1%…the brakes need to put on this bullshit…after all, not one of these robber barons can tell you what AI will do to make your life better…it has already ruined internet searches that used to just give you the information you asked for but now give you crap that you have to wade through and still not get what you were searching for as it guesses what you really meant…I sure don’t need that…geez…
October 25th
Well…not sure why I feel so darn worn out today but I think it’s a continuation of how I felt yesterday afternoon…tired, just tired and I probably should be after doing over 30 miles a day on the bike for the entire year…went over 8,600 miles yesterday and I’m not sure if I can do 1,400 more miles this year…I will try but damn, that’s a lot of miles…it rained overnight and it’s only 46 right now so that means at least one indoor ride today that I need to get to in 45 minutes or so…I do need a day off working around here and it may be today…but I still have 5 windows to do and should get that done so I don’t have to think about it anymore…I do have to cook at least one meal today since I have the Masala leftovers for one and chicken thawed for another chicken/rice/potato dish in the half dutch oven…but that still means I’ll have to cook again tomorrow and I’m not sure what that will be…need to look in the freezer I guess…not much to do today…can I just sit here for a bit and not get going? I wonder how people just do nothing for an entire day? Haven’t done that for so long I don’t remember it…and I won’t do that today….oh, well…more later…
Dust bunnies the size of bunnies…
Well…decided to not do windows today when I noticed the cobwebs and dust bunnies in my bedroom along with tons of dust so I decided to clean it instead…I know this is a dusty house but the dust bunnies under my bed were the size of real bunnies and it took a while to get that cleaned up…I even went so far as to wash down the side table beside the bed and the dresser along with the baseboards and trim…pretty darned tired aft all that and the rides today and I can’t figure that out…oh, well…getting old I guess…it is nice to have a clean room…and with the rain coming in tomorrow morning, it looks like I’ll have time to do the bathroom and the living room…more work…ick…
Jeans that fit?
Well…this is a little weird…I was looking for jeans to wear to run errands this morning and ran across a pair folded up in the closet that I recognized were ones I’ve had for 20 years and never fit in comfortably…but, with the weight I think I’ve lost, I thought I’d try them on and see…man, they fit perfectly and before I could barely get them buttoned…so I guess that’s a confirmation that yes, I am losing weight still and that should be helped by not having cocktails…still haven’t found the jeans I’ve been looking for, though…I did hit the library and dollar store since all of my riding sunglasses have fallen apart and after repairing three pairs yesterday, I knew the repairs won’t last long so I bought 3 more pairs today for 4.50…one of these days I’m going to buy a better pair that may last a while…still too cold to go out on the bike so I made two more cups of coffee in the french press and I’m going to be jittery for a while…oh, well…
Gas prices and inflation?
Well…the coffee has started to work so I’m going to try to continue the trend of doing a political one before I go down to ride the bike…in surveys when stupid people are asked why they are going to vote for the idiot trump, two of the things they cite are gas prices and inflation and I marvel at the shallowness of their thinking as they go on that gas prices lower during the idiot’s term…yeah, they would be after he crashed the economy and mismanaged the pandemic that led to over 10% unemployment so of course demand and prices went down…don’t any of these low intelligence voters understand economics at all? Prices are down under 3 bucks a gallon out here right now so what is their bitch? Look, yeah we know that inflation has been too high but we also know that almost half of that was just greed of corporations taking advantage of inflation to raise prices and profits…the largest grocery chains profits soared to their highest point ever during the recovery and that is a result of consolidation in the markets that led them to have pricing power to raise prices any amount they wanted…if you don’t understand that, go read a book on economics…I learned that in Econ 101 in college…and current inflation is down under 2% as the fed manages a “soft landing” and avoids a recession that all of the right wing economists have been bleating that was going to happen during Biden’s term…never did…so the delusion that things were better under the idiot trump is just that, a delusion driven by the addiction to fox news that trump supporters have…by all measurements, the US economy is the envy of the world and that is not by accident…it is by a reality based approach that uses economic knowledge to make decisions..not the bloated blathering of an idiot who has no clue what the word economy even means…vote for facts, not for fascists…geez…
October 24th
Well…up a little later than has been the norm lately but still out of bed before 6am…I did have some dreams last night but they were pretty non-descript and had beaches and cottages in them but just to have any is not normal anymore…I must be sleeping a little better after the 4th day of no cocktails and I am a little interested to see what the effects will be as time goes on…I did spend the money to get some lidocaine to try to dull the pain in my neck and I don’t know if it works yet…tried it once yesterday and it might work…we’ll see…only did one ride outdoors yesterday with the wind way too strong and I didn’t want to hurt myself more but I am sore from it today…still got 28 miles in and stayed above the average I need to get to 10K for the year and will do the same today…it’s only 34 out here right now and that will help getting the leaves off the trees but that will keep me off the bike until it warms up enough around 10 or so…indoor ride before 8 and then I have to take some books back to the library…then I may make a run up to the dollar store to look for some new rings for the shower curtain to replace the damn hooks that keep falling off…and after 3 1/2 years of that, I’m finally annoyed enough to replace them…it looks like a puttering around day today but if it gets warm enough, I may tackle the 5 windows I have left to clean…still have leftovers so I don’t have to cook today but I will have to plan some meals…eating out of the freezer this week since no one had any protein on sale…more later…
Finally got the Rain-x…
Well…after getting the indoor ride in and then doing the grocery run, I did get out for one outdoor ride but, with the winds of 30 mph and gusting…I used up way too much energy t go back outside for another ride…and with getting the Rain-x, I went out and did the windows in the car with it and noticed I had a small slit in the roof so I repaired that and then checked the oil and coolant to keep on top of it…then back downstairs for a ride to make it 28 miles for the day…got some deals at Aldis today with a huge stalk of celery for 95 cents, 2 pounds of carrots for about 1.40, and a huge head of cauliflower for 2.50…and that will get me started on the trail to eating more veggies…going to steam and then roast some cauliflower for dinner to go with the leftover chicken thighs I have in the fridge…maybe a potato to go with it…but right now it’s weight work and soccer…
Poor Rudy…
Well…I was laughing quite a bit yesterday when I read that poor old rudy had to turn over all of his property but his clothes to the two Georgia poll workers who he repeatedly slandered after the 2020 election…making up lies that they “stuffed” ballot boxes and other cheating that went on for over a year…so now rudy has to turn over his 6 million dollar apartment in New York along with any cars he owns and all other property that he has stashed around the country…and he is still going to owe them over 150 million dollars more so anything he earns from the right wing wingnut machine goes to them, too…how’s being trump’s puppy working out for ya, rudy? Look…we know that idiot boy doesn’t hire the “best people” but I think there is more to it than that…even smart people who come into the idiot’s contact seem to have their IQ lowered by half and will do things that any rational person would walk away from…just look at all the lawyers who have gone to jail or are under indictment after working for the idiot…I have no sympathy for them…they knew what trump was and they worked for him anyway…geez…