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skipper wrote a new post, A Nice followup 3 months, 2 weeks ago
This is a nice followup to mariner’s post, ‘Good News’. It is published by Axios:
It’s Giving Tuesday — the annual day when people across America and around the world donate to the causes and organizations t […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Good News 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Over the last month or so, mariner has seen a notable increase in efforts to save water. What is even better, water projects frequently are implemented at the ‘grass roots’ level. These efforts are documented in […]
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Alas, my state has “prior appropriation” water rights and capturing rainwater is explicitly illegal! (That water “belongs” to senior water rights holders in the watershed the rain falls upon.)
I definitely agree that household autarky will be increasingly important in the mid-term future, as any products or services we rely on become points of late-stage capitalist exploitation. Most will have difficulty decoupling from the economy when it comes to housing, food, energy, education, transportation, water, and networking.
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Your insight into the immediate future is quite accurate, Ben. Thank you for contributing. Do I understand that water rights are a first-come privilege?
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skipper wrote a new post, Faster than a speeding genome 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Evolution has left the human body.
First Aboriginals in Australia. Using a diverse database of DNA from ancient and contemporary Aboriginal people throughout Oceania, researchers have determined that people […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Measuring the fog 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Readers are aware of mariner’s concerns about the future. Specifically, there are four global phenomena that are trying to make serious changes to the status quo of human life and to the planet.
The first to be […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Back by popular demand 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Indeed so! By popular demand, mariner’s wife submits one of her witty poems:
Housekeeping
Company was coming so I thought I should clean up a bit
Those dusty windowsills, for instance,
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skipper wrote a new post, Some issues are more important 3 months, 4 weeks ago
For example, in one stride, how many clop sounds does a galloping horse make? In the past this has been a troubled issue that folks went to a lot of trouble answering. How many clop sounds does the reader think a […]
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I think 3. Will there be an answer? Also, if a horse gallops through a forest and no one hears it, did it clop at all?
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I agree with your approach. Reality suggests that having four legs requires four clops. However, a clop is ill defined and subject to opinion and undefined physiology – is the first leg after being airborne a ‘cane’ to carry momentum forward to another stride or is it a final thrust from the current stride? My choice is to go with William Tell – I love his overture and the rhythm strongly suggests three clops.
But if you are intrigued by onomatopoeia, log on to YouTube for endless renditions or search for professional studies of horse physiology.
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So sorry, Robert. Welcome to my world – everything is a puzzle. Read my response to Marty; the puzzle is a bit of Schrodinger because one rear hoof and one front hoof frequently make a simultaneous sound and unless one consults an equine specialist, we can’t be sure.
Share your answer with mariner’s: William Tell Overture is a favorite with you, too, right?
Maybe you are a natural onomatopoeist . .skipper
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skipper wrote a new post, Jesus scrolled 4 months ago
Mariner’s local church is having difficulty sustaining its congregation. This is a common phenomenon across the nation. But the inevitable has happened – Jesus, meet Chatbot. Mariner cries in his heart as the true […]
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skipper wrote a new post, He is back 4 months ago
Mariner. Nobody special, just mariner. He has been visiting for a few days with long-time friends who live on a gorgeous property among the mountains of Arkansas. One could write tomes about the differences […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Sailing 4 months, 1 week ago
Sailing is an excellent metaphor for many of life’s experiences. There are the times when preparing to sail is overwhelming in its endless detail and distractions; there are times, while underway, when the weather […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Paint your lifetime in a picture 4 months, 1 week ago
Isn’t this an interesting thought? Imagine you are in a class of some kind and the assignment is to present your life experience in a painting. What would you paint? Perhaps some of your major events either of […]
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skipper wrote a new post, How long since you foraged? 4 months, 2 weeks ago
If one isn’t sure that evolution is at play in the way Homo sapiens is evolving, consider foraging.
Many of us are familiar with the nomadic model of foraging. Most kinds of animals forage today. In parts of […]
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skipper wrote a new post, A gift from Politico 4 months, 2 weeks ago
What an outstanding interview with Julia Angwin. Julia Angwin is a veteran investigative reporter and publisher known for groundbreaking, data-driven stories on the power of technology over our lives. She founded […]
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skipper wrote a new post, There's a weed in the garden 4 months, 2 weeks ago
If the reader has ever had a garden, they know the real trouble spot is weeds. Weeds sneak into the lawn or garden as tiny, well behaved plants; they may even have flowers. But gardeners know very quickly the nice […]
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I’ve been watching this year’s World Series. You’d be amazed at the number of AI “services” (apps, whatever the term is) that have been advertised.
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skipper wrote a new post, Whither we goest? 4 months, 3 weeks ago
This post shares some of mariner’s concerns for the future of Homo sapiens. In order to take a full measure, the first item is about Homos the way they were bred to be – properly balanced with requirements […]
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Aldous Huxley had a lot to say about Savages in Postmodern Society back in 1932 and I think he had a finger on the pulse of humanity even then (and how much has happened since?)
My hot take: there’s no such thing as an uncontacted tribe and hasn’t been for a couple decades at least. Traditional Amazonian tribes have known civilized South American poachers, loggers, rubber harvesters, slash-and-burn farmers, fishermen, soldiers, pilots, and God knows who else for generations. There’s no unexplored corner of the globe. Low-earth-orbit satellites map those “real, unsynthesized” jungle huts and foraging spots hourly.
I’m sorry, but real, unsynthesized humanity is launching the satellites and burning the carbon and dynamiting those aborigines from above. Allowing the 196 tribes to live in peace would be a very human gesture, but it seems unlikely. Assuming those tribes even prefer to avoid contact in the long term … I mean who doesn’t want a car and some antibiotics, even in the depths of the Amazon?
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A cogent response – evolution never learned to use scissors so shifts in history are always vague and take lots of time.
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skipper wrote a new post, The thin line 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Gardeners are well into autumn, planting new bulbs and plants to bloom next Spring, clearing out finished stalks and annuals – and weeds. Potted plants must come into winter shelter as well as garden plants that […]
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Nice writing elder bro’ .
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skipper wrote a new post, YIKES! 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Mariner went online today to check his email, where he has links to news and culture sources not contaminated by the distortions of broadcast television or the free-wheeling imagination on social media gossip […]
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skipper wrote a new post, More about self containment 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Mariner felt good reading the AXIOS piece about analog bags referenced in the last post. In his own romantic naturalist mind, he can see a correlation between a mindset focused on self survival in an AI world and […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Did you catch this? 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The latest must-have accessory is a “stop-scrolling bag” — a tote packed with analog activities like watercolors and crossword puzzles.
Why it matters: We pick up our phones 100+ times a day and spend hours g […]
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skipper wrote a new post, At the bottom of it all 5 months ago
In October 2024, mariner wrote a post in response to a challenge to describe ‘Armageddon’, a frequent term he uses to describe the future. Copied from that post, though not fully annotated, are the four elements […]
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skipper wrote a new post, A deeper interpretation 5 months ago
Pondering here could balloon into an uncontrollable pile of useless words. Nevertheless, mariner will take a shot at a large question he has that has interpretive references going all the way back to the Assyrians […]
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