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11 Jul, 6 tweets, 2 min read
How you get donkeys arranged on the tongue to hitch to the wagon.
Next you hang to tongue to their collars via the neckyoke.
The tongue, neckyoke, belly straps, and britchen (the strap around their behinds) is the braking mechanism.
3. Then you hook one donkey's traces to the evener so she can pull...
4. Then hook the other donk to the evener so they can pull "evenly".
5. and away we go!

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13 Jul
I'm going to ramble a bit this afternoon on and around the topic of the ecosystem catastrophe we choose to call climate change.
Some of us refer to it as "The Anthropocene," but I think that's a misnomer.
Ought to be "Industriocene."
We were Anthro for a quarter million years.
2. Twitter is full of #ActOnClimate #ActNow and everybody knows what "act" means.
It means build and install a vast global electro-mechanical overlay in addition to the ones we have already built.
Can we agree on that?
When we say, "We have the technology," we don't mean,
3. you know, *have* the technology, as in, I have three donkeys. Have and can point at. Have in terms of physical reality.
We mean, "We have built a small model of the technology we think will enable us to power the entire industrial economy without emitting CO2."
Have. Not.
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12 Jul
If you want to see my brain damage in action, watch the latest video.
I have mirror image failures. I tell you we're going to look at the right side when we're going to look at the left.
And I have trouble pulling out nouns. Writing is easier in that way than speaking.
2. I spend the whole day confused about the word for cart. I call it a bench and I don't know what all.
I'm talking along and I just cannot think of the name of something. The noun. The word that means, This object.
Drives me crazy.
I'll get so stuck I'll have to Google descr.
3. Writing comes from a slightly different place in the brain than speech.
The hole in my brain is right near - like almost on top of - the speech center.
I lose my temper, too. I hate that. I'm not a person I would like at all in that mode. Struggle to control it.
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12 Jul
Well, I took a chance once tonight. Here's another risky topic: slavery in an economic, wider context. But again - read a little before you assume you know what I'm saying. Please.
Why did men want slaves?
2. Men wanted slaves so they could control and reap the harvest of more land than they could manage with their own bodies, minds, families and community.
Why do men want tractors? So they could control and reap the harvest of more land than they can manage with their own ...
3. I read a report lately that humans actually feel as if the tools we use are parts of our bodies.
No shit. I guarantee my nervous system extends to the end of a wrench around on the back side of a transmission where I can't see it. It's just more me.
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11 Jul
This is one of those topics that pisses people off, but I ask that you read into a ways before you dump a load of shit on me.
That topic is: the Bible.
What I think the Bible is, really, actually, is the oral history of the agricultural revolution written down by memory later.
2. I think it's useful, but not in any way The Word Of God.
We know, pretty much for sure, that about six to eight thousand years ago, right there where the events are staged, people invented annual grain agriculture and civilization.
Can we agree on that?
3. The Garden of Eden was the previous quarter million years in that same region.
The Forbidden Fruit is annual grain. Wheat or barley or whichever one came first.
Since then we have gained our livelihood by the sweat of our brow.
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10 Jul
This is one reasonable person asking another reasonable person a sensible question, and getting a sensible answer.
John in Twitter-know, Thomas I'm just meeting.
Hello, Thomas.
An answer follows. A thread. Image
Here is my reply to Thomas's tweet above.
The math is horrible. I will grant you that it may be too late no matter what we do. However, I don't see anyplace to go from there, and, in the immortal words of John Carter of Barsoom, "We still live."
There is, I believe, one power vast enough to get us out of this mess, Life.
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There is an established norm regarding weather reporting. Each article must carry the mandatory disclaimer, a statement that no individual weather event can be attributed to climate change because "we can't know."
This is how to lie with true words.
Allow me to explain.
2. All weather is caused directly by energy in the atmosphere. Absent energy there would be no weather.
That said, the atmosphere is so complex that we are not able to track the path the energy takes directly to the rainfall, or the wind, or the temperature increase or decrease.
3. Roughly we know. We can explain it in block diagram form, in rule-of-thumb form, but not absolutely specifically.
We do know one thing for sure, though: more energy must, in all cases, result in more action. Energy causes action. That is how the whole universe works. Always.
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