Shoot Arch Duke Ferdinand. Few people even now about it today, but he was subject to a horribly mangled assassination attempt that many scholars belive would have set off a major war in Europe had he died.

There was a big, high wall there that tried to stop me A sign was painted said “Private Property” But on the backside, it didn’t say nothing This land was made for you and me

No costco nearby, but usually get tires at Sams. Walking around the store gives me something to do while I wait.

Simple bully logic. If you are bigger than someone else, simply hit and threaten them to get whatever you want. Works really well until all the victims gang up and fight back together.

Lawyer, friends/family, cloud storage, or safety deposit box all seem like viable normal options.

To be extra safe. 6 hard drives (each with a copy of the files, and four stacks of Blu-ray disks (each with a copy of the files). Divide these into at least two yeti coolers (include a large silica gel pack just in case), and bury the coolers as deep as possible in the woods.

Scenario I’ve been playing with:

Suppose you are kidnapped by two people. They tell you that one of them will shoot you and then let you go, but you get to decide who shoots. Person A says he will shoot you in the head. Person B says he will shoot you in the shoulder. Which do you choose?

The more think about this the more I like it. Both persons are clearly awful and contributed to the situation. Both could offer better choices but refuse. Both are rather similar in outcomes. But one is clearly worse.

Is it rational to choose to be shot at all? Is it rational to not choose the better of two alternatives?

The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if the plan is to run up a massive debt now and then push the responsibility for dealing with that debt onto democrats if they win control after midterms.

Cue music: “It’s the circle of life”

According to Yale’s website their operating budget is about 6 billion of which 2 billion comes from the endowment. That seems a bit low, but they are probably putting some money back into the endowment to grow it further.

I’m not saying they couldn’t afford to keep this one class (surely they could) but funding the whole operation with just the endowment would fail in the long term.

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Something about this feels different and maybe “fresher” than the last several marvel movies. The styling, color composition, music, etc. I’m more interested than I expected.

I used to think the Anne Frank quote was inspiring. Now I just see it as bitterly ironic.

A third term implies the constitution is still in place and don’t see them passing an amendment without doing something ridiculous like creating a bunch of extra states.

Far easier to just never end the second term. Claim a national emergency and suspend elections/the constitution.

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Why don’t they compromise and only count them as 3/5

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Sadly, I worry the US needs to suffer badly if there is to be any hope of embracing real progress in the future.

I was curious and checked while shopping today. There weren’t any, just a bare shelf.

Ah, but there would be another where someone anticipated this and figured out how to stop it.

Of course that then suggests a universe where a madman figured out how to destroy the multiverse and keep it from being stopped, and one where a dogooder anticipated that…

Such a multiverse could end up existing in a state of indeterminate existance. Like a certain cat…

I filled the rinse aide once, then lost the bottle. I refuse to buy more until I first find that bottle and use it up.