My wife was an elementary school based sub for years and quit during the pandemic.The lack of respect administrators in this school district had for teachers was really shocking to me. My wife would occasionally read emails to me that were blast emails sent out by the administration to all teachers, and it blew my mind how uncaring and harsh the emails were. And I feel like Arlington is supposed to be one of the good ones.

I thought that might be the case.

Sorry monster.  Hell, it's 3 days later which tells you how out of touch I've been. I'm realizing now I have no idea if you have siblings or other family that would have been paying closer attention to her status and alerted you to her death.  So you had to figure it out yourself that she died, huh? Nobody contacted you?

wait, was this banana lady? 

They just got played in my Apple music mix.  Fun stuff.

It is hard to argue in favor of blindness, so I'm not going to.

But I wonder if we have learned any lessons from history about unintended consequences of making a decision about Mother Nature simply because we didn't understand the bigger picture. Is removing a gene like this similar to introducing a wonderful new plant to the Americas that cattle just love to eat and that would secure soil in the dust bowl? And then Kudzo proceeds to swallow the South.

And then I think of selective breeding of animals, like for example, the bulldog, that have been bred to be a certain way and are unhealthy for it.  Can you imagine what people would do if there are no limits?

I think we need to be cautious with IVF gene editing.

Good luck Fargon.  Hopefully it's the "good" kind of skin cancer.  My wife has had that kind 3 times, and it's not really "good," but she's alive and kicking.

Measles.  WTF?

I'm getting an MMR vaccine tomorrow because I don't have copies of my records and I am of an age where I might have received the measles vaccine that doesn't work.

So maybe you saw that over the weekend, someone with active measles flew into Dulles and took the Metro home.  Went to the doctor a day or two later and learned it was measles.  They must have exposed thousands of people from this region.

Maybe the shot tomorrow will be too late.  On the other hand, maybe I don't even need the shot because I might have received one of the booster shots for older kids who got the worthless shots when they were younger.  Hell if I know.

Show of hands, how many of you have actual records of your childhood vaccinations?
 

Your original post seemed to be focusing on the micro level, and we are getting all macro.  I wonder what you might learn from spending some time watching videos playing backwards?

The ball quickly flies up from the ground and decelerates into the hand, which gently wraps the fingers around it, instead of being released and accelerated by gravity to hit the ground when the video is played forward.  Every action and thought would be played in reverse in a timeline that runs in reverse, and a being in that timeline would also think in reverse, and perceive things in reverse.

I can't even begin to understand what that would feel like, to think in reverse.

If I recall correctly, Memento takes events:
1-2; 3-4; 5-6; 7-8; 9-10

and tells them:
9-10; 7-8; 5-6; 3-4; 1-2

So time is still moving forwards, but in a chopped up backwards way. 

I wouldn't even begin to be able to tell you how Arrival tells time.

My initial thought about your first post reminds me of what I faintly remember LJ saying a while ago in the old Callar about Eckhard Tolle.  Something along the lines of there is only the present, and the past doesn't exist, and neither does the future. So live in the moment.  In the here and now.  Be present.

Different than Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow"

griff wrote:

https://open.spotify.com/album/6EdJbUFYeAkSACKTPUnUos?si=wvwKdXhJQDmR6dY5CrZH9A

The EP dropped! Sitting Duck by Hereboy Besides Spotify it’s on Amazon, Apple etc…

Just listened to it.  It's good stuff!

tw, it sounds to me like you are arguing for Musk to take over NASA with his private company.  Did you mean to do that?

griff wrote:

My retirement clock is ticking. I'm pretty done with other people's tech choices.

I could have written this post.

I'm pretty done with all of it, and I think I might have enough squirreled away to make it work.  Not sure.

I spend a lot of time on social media consuming content about retirement.  One of the biggest regrets some influencers talk about is that they didn't retire sooner and that life is shorter than you realize.