Good morning from my Hunker-Bunker. It is 0700 and sunny here in West Seattle, as I gaze out over the Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains in the background. Today’s forecast is a whopping 68° F and mostly sunny. More like Fall weather. It sure seems like Summer came on a Tuesday this year…
What am I going to do with myself on my two days off?
I plan on doing some more coding.
When I was tasked with this job about a year ago, I knew next to nothing about SQL-Server or ASP.NET. I couldn’t tell you the difference between Razor and Blazer. My prior experience in this kind of stuff has been limited over the past twenty years to Microsoft Access, and MySQL and html. Before that, it was Dbase III+ and GWBasic.
Thanks to ChatGPT and a couple of other AI models, I’ve learned quite a bit about programming. I’ve also learned quite a bit more about ChatGPT. I’m quickly coming to the conclusion that all this talk and worry about AI taking your jobs is not quite the case. There will soon be BIG money in knowing how to harness these AI models and creating your own models and selling them. Programming will be a thing of the past.
But I will talk more about this another day. I want to get back to my project. But first:
Some Iranian Plot no doubt …
Iran’s supreme leader opens door to negotiations with US over Tehran’s nuclear program
I have question that has bothered me since 1979: If your country has a “supreme” leader, doesn’t that render all lesser “leaders” irrelevant? I just think that the use of “supreme” is a bit much. Just forget I brought it up…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader opened the door Tuesday to renewed negotiations with the United States over his country’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, telling its civilian government there was “no harm” in engaging with its “enemy.”
Hmmm. Who could we send over to hear them out? The better question would be, do we want to eventually make our peace with Iran? Or do we just need to retain a boogieman to blame our actions on.
A Chicken in Every Pot
“A car in every driveway.” “Electricity in every house.” “Broadband in every house.” “An electric car in every driveway.” “Your wages will go up while your groceries and goods go down.” “A vote for me will fix everything!”
Trump economic plans would cost more than $4 trillion over a decade: Analysis
They call this period every four years, “The Silly Season” for a reason. Because of the fantabulous, supercalifragulisticexpalidociousness of the promises and “plans” that every presidential candidate tosses out there. Presidential candidates are nothing more than circus barkers and we are the rubes. They are trying to appeal to your emotions in order to get your vote. The idea that a president sets economic policies is a farce. “Plans” are proposals, for Congress to glance at and toss aside. Congress gonna do what Congress is gonna do. The president can either go along with it, or try to bully, and/or throw a tantrum, and try to negotiate something with Congress before the entire global economy takes a shit.
So The Donald has an economic plan. Isn’t that cute. I’m sure it is the bestest plan ever devised, and it will make you very very very happy. Oh, and by the way, it will cost a few trillion bucks in the form of additional debt.
Kamala Harris has an economic plan as well. Of course she does. I think it is a rule that you have to have an ‘economic plan’ or two in order to be considered a “presidential candidate”. She has a plan to end homelessness, pay minimum wage of around $30, subsidize housing, impose price controls… blah blah blah. Guess what! Her plan will also increase our debt.
Funny thing is, NONE of these plans would ever accomplish the utopia that is promised. It’s naive to think otherwise.
If you really want to get shit done, focus on getting a super-majority in the Senate, and control of the House. Then it doesn’t matter who is in the White House.
No, I didn’t bother to read the details in either candidate’s “plans”. It would be a waste of my time.
RFK’s Brainworm
Who thought it was a good thing to allow a presidential candidate to admit to having “brain worms”? Better yet, what kind of person supports a candidate who admits to having “brain worms”?
This wasn’t unexpected, was it?
I was expecting it after Labor Day. Trump ends up with the same charges, but framed to fit neatly within the Supreme Court’s new precedent for immunity for presidents. This makes the case more air tight. It might also cause a problem of optics this close to the election, and this close to a presidential debate with a former prosecutor who can be quite theatrical in that role.
I know things, fight me
Well, he did get a credit…
Our Health Insurance System still SUCKS
Our health care system is still the greatest in the world. The problem is how we pay for our healthcare needs — specifically, our for-profit, publicly-traded health insurance system, where your life and health is subject to a shareholder’s stock value and dividend.
How much money did we, as taxpayers, pay for the Boeing Starliner? Four billion? We have weird priorities.
Wait until you get a Elon brain implant…
When you are under pressure from all sides…
Biden pushed Gaza pier over warning it would undercut other aid routes, watchdog says
As I recall, Israel wasn’t allowing ANYTHING through the entry points closest to where the aid was needed, and what little did make it through was robbed by hungry people long before it could get to where it was really needed. It was a desperate idea for a desperate time. Those tend to fail consistently.
Extra, Left Over
Okay. That’s it for today. It is now 1455 hrs, and the site finally came back up so I could finish this.
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