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We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

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Thursday, September 2. 2021

The Freedom to Be Left Alone

Are there two tendencies? Those who want something from government, and those who say they want to be left alone?

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Wednesday, September 1. 2021

Beaufort Wind Scale

You can see why I almost never term things "storms". The Beaufort Scale.

Posted by The Barrister at 19:50 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

DIY Links

Top Admiral Warns of Rapid Chinese, Russian Nuclear Arms Buildup

Taiwan says China can 'paralyse' its defences, threat worsening

A Dishonest Afghanistan Accounting

What We Have Here Is Failure to Educate

Biden administration has lost track of a third of released migrant kids

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NPR wants speech to be controlled

But not theirs, of course.

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 15:52 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

Wednesday morning links

Study shows evidence of beer drinking 9,000 years ago in Southern China

Hydroponics Reveals That Organic Food Is About Ideology, Not Sustainability

More On European Climate Change Litigation: These People Are Crazy

U.S. Aid Will Keep Flowing to Taliban

The Media Will Lap Up Biden's Afghanistan 'Victory' Speech Like Dogs Returning to Their Vomit

Kinder, Gentler Taliban Murder Afghan Folk Singer, Because Music Is Un-Islamic

Taliban Expected To Double Down On Drug Trafficking

Taliban Committing House-To-House Executions Of “Traitors”…

Government Teachers Gone Wild: Teachers Direct Students to Salute the Gay Pride Flat and the Antifa Fla

Report: Libs ‘Discouraged’ After Months of Getting Owned by Kyrsten Sinema. 'Demoralization is setting in' among left-wing activists as Democratic senator ignores their pointless whining

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 11:03 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

What is a clock, and what does it do?

The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks.

Studies of the simplest possible clocks have revealed their fundamental limitations — as well as insights into the nature of time itself.

Early in their conversations in Barcelona, Huber, Erker and their colleagues realized that a clock is anything that undergoes irreversible changes: changes in which energy spreads out among more particles or into a broader area. Energy tends to dissipate — and entropy, a measure of its dissipation, tends to increase — simply because there are far, far more ways for energy to be spread out than for it to be highly concentrated. This numerical asymmetry, and the curious fact that energy started out ultra-concentrated at the beginning of the universe, are why energy now moves toward increasingly dispersed arrangements, one cooling coffee cup at a time.

Posted by The Barrister in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 08:35 | Comments (11) | Trackbacks (0)

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