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What's the wrongest thing a teacher ever told you?
  • The Russians/Soviets have guard towers on every block who monitor which rooms citizens are in at any given moment. Absolutely no true freedom of movement, unlike those of us in the free world. At the time, I figured people could trick the guards by just not turning on lights in the room when they moved about. As the years went on, two questions came to mind: isn't that prohibitively expensive? and why???

  • What's the deal with Moms Across America?
  • Sorry -- by locally sourced, I mean that they locate some sort of cookie maker in the area (state? region? county?) to produce the cookies for them. It isn't a single organization/location that creates the cookies, so contamination wouldn't be across all cookies distributed. At least, that's how I recall hearing it, long ago.

  • How are you actually doing today?
  • Here's my take. I grew up in the Cold War. I saw no way out. Figured we were all done, with a state of permanent Cold War until an inevitable Hot War that ends it all. And then, very suddenly, in 1989, the Cold War was over. No nuclear explosions, no cities vaporized. Just a new and hopeful future.

    And now, here we are today. I see no way out of the climate crisis, and it's depressing. But I haven't forgotten the lesson I learned from the Cold War. Just because I can't see a way out, it doesn't mean there isn't, or that there won't be. I don't know how, but I've seen it before, humanity's disaster somehow averted out of nowhere. Doesn't mean we'll skip climate disaster. Just means that just because you don't see a way out right now, there still may be a way, and we should all work toward such a future.

    Thank you for reading my Ted Talk. Fingers crossed.

  • [OC] The Train and The Moon

    Considering this was a spur of the moment snap from the car, and with my phone, I'm happy how it turned out.

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