OAITW r.2.0
OAITW r.2.0's JournalIf you think Trump is off the rails now.........
give him another month. He's lost it and even he doesn't believe his bullshit. A Magnificent Failure of epic proportions! He will be remembered for centuries his entire history recorded in 1080p resolution.
So I was just on my back porch and I now have a new light show I will see nightly.
There are a string of at least a dozen wind power generators on a ridge about 10 miles away. I had just noticed them with the binoculars the last week or 2, but now they must be operational and in-sync with their aircraft height warning lights.
A very cool display, I like what it represents.
If occurs to me that we are few Republican Senate votes away from a remedy to our current situation.
Signal Senate Democrats to re-submit the Articles of Impeachment and revote.
I don't think Mitch could stop that dambit.
Come this summer/fall, I think Farmer's Markets are going to be very much en vogue.
A very 20th century solution for food distribution and security.
Also, I see community organizers becoming more important at the local level. I'd choose Barack and Michelle to get the message out and recruit the next generation political leadership.
It's going to be a lot harder on the prepper, anti-socialist types....you know, Trump's Base. There will quickly find out just how co-dependent they are on the welfare of the community.
Questions for OS Techs wrt Memory Usage
I was curious about which programs take up the most memory in my PC. Surprised to see Google Drive and Dropbox accts uses a combined 400MB of constant memory allocation.
I would have thought that far less would be needed in "standby" mode. Any reason why so much real estate is needrd in my PC?
My browser Opera is hogging 360MB, 8 processes. Again, it's in standby...why should it take up so much space? Just opened Chrome and it automatically loads a constant 250MB with 12 processes running. And I haven't even starting using the program.
That's 1 gig of memory allocated for these 4 programs. Another 237 processes running totally 4.6 GB. Luckily, I have plenty of memory - 16GBs - so it's not an issue now. It was an issue on my last desktop when I only had 4GB and running all of the same apps.....very slow.
I've been reading DU for almost 20 years.
It has never been a more important resource then it is now. Thousands of people posting real world-real time stories that we need to know.
Big thank you. and a big donation to this website.
Sent this to my biz.partners tonight.
We are a small company that swings above its weight.
He starts with Italy and starts asking the bigger question. Highly recommend this analysis. Should be available online. It is realistic to a sobering degree.
How does this change us?
My thoughts…
Everything is going to change in our recovery period. Socially, economically, politically.
• Socially - until there is a vaccine - doesn’t exist. It won’t exist until we have a vaccine solution and/or a therapeutic silver bullet for those infected. Sadly, South. Korea is reporting that recovered CV-19 patients my still be possible re-infection candidates. How fast does it mutate? We don’t know until we can test. A federal government failure to date.
• Economically. We may yet be picking vegetables in the Central Valley to survive. Remember when we had immigrants doing that? Not now. Trump and the Nazi’s who run our Homeland Security and Border Enforcement are keeping immigrants from coming to the USA. But here is the point, we will need a shitload of immigrants to deal with climate change when sea levels are totally destroying our East/West Coast and our major river tributaries. Than it will get real.
******* Economics. There is no crystal ball, but we need to think about a post-industrial world after covid-19. Will the same supply chains hold? Or will nationalistic tendencies take hold? Don’t know, but I think we should engage with extrusion / diecasting suppliers in Canada, US, Mexico We have plenty of time to cultivate new relationships and prepare for the future uncertainty. And we have an option to support these new suppliers to opening lower cost producers when it may make sense for their bottom line. We ought to be selling ****** to selected extrusion/diecasters that we want to connect with in our primary markets.
• Politically, Republicanomics has failed. In 6 weeks. They are incapable of governing a democratic society. Apparently, they have no problems letting Trump’s ownership by Putin get in their way to create a 1 party state. If you want a democracy, you best vote against these evil motherfuckers.
• Religion. Easter was today. No celebration here. Nothing to celebrate. Truth be told. It’s a nice story, but I am an agnostic….thanks Jesuit education.
Anyways, look forward to comment from all ,,,,times, they are a changing……..
Richard Engel / MSNBC- On Assignment - covering the Italian Covid experience
and comparing how the rest of the world leaders pretended it wasn't happening. Trump being the biggest denier, of course.
I didn't celebrate Easter today.
Nothing to celebrate. I have a President that wants to kill his political enemies by controlling where the federal effort to combat the pandemic is applied. I am alone and really don't find a goddam thing to celebrate today. Sorry, that is my reality.
I want Trump to experience being intubated with a ventilator.
I'm betting Boris Johnson gets it now. Trump should experience the same procedure that his inaction has caused for 100's of thousands. Maybe if he gets to reap some of the same life-saving procedures that his leadership fail has condemned many Americans to, he will understand the problem and why you don't try to make political points when a pandemic strikes.
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