Dear God, I keep expecting this to run out of gas and it just won’t quit!

Reminds me of that 4chan post where anon gets stopped by a stranger who tries to explain that Aluminum is the best metal. Anon tries to stay calm and explain the iron is the best metal, but the guy just kept going off about Aluminum and started talking about rust and ruined Anon’s whole day.

okay, report:

• good lord, Antares and Vega are offensively bright once you adjust to the dark.

• M4!! HOLY GUACAMOLE WOW! M4 by itself made being out tonight worth it!

• M80: cool, felt cool to find it, but it looks like any of the other tighter globs and I didn’t want to mess with switching to one of my narrow AFOV higher power eyepieces on my manual dob. May revisit once I invest in a higher power eyepiece with a decent AFOV.

• Epsilon Lyrae: hmm, am I maybe just not using enough mag? looks like a regular double star to me.

• Took the telescope for a slew through Sagittarius, for a laugh, was not disappointed. Breathtaking amount of stars there.

• Was all aboard the strugglebus making sense of Hercules’s constellation. Didn’t help that he was at the zenith, which made using the dob weird when looking for M13 and made looking at the constellation annoying after staring straight up like a turkey for minutes.

• Took some time to re-acquaint myself with Draco, Cygnus, and Aquila.

• Didn’t pick out any more DSOs, in part because I got annoyed with blowing out my night vision, even with the red light, on my charts.

• I’ve been fairly serious about the hobby for about 9 months now, and it seems like I saw way more satellites out tonight than I did when I stopped back in May. Bruh, the little bastards were everywhere.

maga: “Everyone needs to stop being such fucking snowflakes”

also maga: “Filming the police is VIOLENCE”

It’s much more clear, especially if you read the book, that JP is about accountability. All throughout the book, as shit’s going sideways and people are dying, everyone’s playing hot potato with accountability. At the end, Grant forces Genero into investigating a wild raptor nest with him, in spite of Genero’s protests that he’s “just the lawyer” because somebody has to take some accountability.

this is You Kiddin geometry

The way I’m reading this is that poor and middle income folks are so squeezed that they can’t meaningfully contribute to spending on anything that isn’t a necessity. This is untenable, and really not the world I want for us.

I did, while in high school and well before I realized I had ADHD and probably autism too, given the familiar behaviors in my diagnosed kids. That’s relevant because I had to work hard at learning social norms and conventions for stuff like interviews. Wal-mart offered me the job anyway, but I missed out on it because I missed the call and kept forgetting to check my voicemail.