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6 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Here's another look at the new cart. Off the trailer, still with single shafts. ImageImage
Team pole installed but not yet adjusted. Several feet too long here. ImageImage
Here's the best view. ImageImage
And it's *comfy*! Springs. Seat back. Chair arms. Comfy. No neck pain.

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9 May
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6 May
When I speak of speed and energy, the dominant reaction is to refer to previous years. We can't go back to 1850.
And - this may surprise you - I agree.
I'm not talking about 1850.
I'm talking about speed and energy.
I'm talking about something I call an energy budget.
2. I say speed, somebody else says medicine.
I have no idea what we could do, medically, under a "current energy" budget. I know that vaccination was invented in the 1700s.
Speed - physical objects moving fast - consumes an incredible amount of energy.
Why do we need to go fast?
3. Speed. Physical speed. It's thrilling. Dogs will slide down frozen hills and ride on skate boards for the thrill of speed. I got it.
Is it really, honest-to-god for sure, worth ending organized human society and much of the biosphere so we can get a cheap thrill?
That's it.
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5 May
I really like this tweet, and one of my favorite people rt'd it, but... Think about this from my perspective.
What the white people brought to this continent was climate change in its infancy.
That worldview that brought slavery, that's definitely the same one that causes cc.
The biggest single difference between slavery and high energy machines is that slavery killed and tortured currently living people, while high energy machines are killing and torturing people not yet born.
They exist for the same reason.
3. Why slavery?
So one man could hog more ground than he could work with his own hands and family.
So he could make more profit than he could earn.
So he could steal earnings from others.
From the end of slavery to the onset of fossil energy powered work was a blink.
Don't pay.
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2 May
About a third of all the people believe all the lies.
That really matters. More than words can express.
Think how simple the human operating system is. We have these senses which detect energy and chemicals from our surroundings, and what they tell us is absolute fact. It is warm. It is cold. It is bright. It is dark. I see other humans and animals. They are all undisputably real.
Everything we perceive is fact. We aren't even wired to evaluate that question. What could possibly create the illusion of warmth where there was none? Energy flows inward through our skin. Facts exist.
Time passes.
Depending on when you want to count, say 50,000 years pass.
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26 Apr
Have you noticed mostly the Administration isn't referring to an "infrastructure" plan.
It's a Jobs plan.
Bless his heart, Joe Biden is an honest-to-god Democrat. Build stuff, hire people to build it, get everyone out of the dumps, catch up on their bills.
Half of me approves.
2. There are well meaning people who sincerely believe that humankind can uphold our current style of living / interacting with the ecosystem indefinitely if we get rid of fossil fuels.
I disagree, but neither position, mine nor theirs, can be proven. The future is like that.
3. If those people are right, then Joe is right, and whatever you call his plan it is a good one.
All those redneck assholes would be a lot easier to deal with if they were knocking down a fat paycheck working their asses off in the weather, building stuff.
They'd have money and
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26 Apr
Tonight my old band (not "mine" in a leadership sense, just: the band I play with) got together for the first time in a year.
Our bass player died of Covid between Christmas and New Year.
His widow came to the jam today.
They were married 54 years.
2. Jim was more than a bass player. He was an arranger, a singer, a song chooser. We don't have an official leadership structure but he was a leader.
Sandy on 12 string, Bob on fiddle (Bob turns 92 next week), me on pedal steel, Matt on drums, Shawn on keyboard & vocals.
3. Sandy sings too. I used to, but the pedal steel takes all my brain power and I don't have any left to sing with. Hard to explain.
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