It is commonly understood that his glasses are taped to his head but their frame is drawn over what is more likely therefore to be a clump of old white hair, making him bald from age and not from a fashion choice in youth. A final insult, found only if you go looking for it.

They are moving into Africa like they think they are Old Europe.

I think Sunday evening, about seven has the most difficulty based solely on position in the week. Throughout your entire life that is the time you are most regularly aware what is being taken from you.

I was probably a touch hard on the frogs.

Sometimes note taking can be very very time critical, once travelling with Dr Who the Daleks gave a laser bank disarm code which I tried to jot down in Keep but owing to not being able to start in one stroke I missed the first digit. It resulted in the destruction of 12 planets. Fortunately they were unpopulated except for one which had some frogs on it, but I don’t really care for frogs anyway so I can’t see it hurts. Still I am glad of the update.

It has been said here already but I will say it again, there is no why. Why is a human thing, perhaps an animal thing, at least it is connected to conscious thought. When it rains you do not ask why you can only research how. This is a difficult lesson, we live in a human culture and so feel comfort in being able to ask why people do things as well as how. Not having the why attribute for the physical universe feels cold and inhuman, but the universe is inhuman, even if it’s difficult that is the deal.

This is a search engine showing open evidence of skewing results away from true for their own motivations. Slightly comic when it is Microsoft doing it to Google but if they do this so blatantly how else are they more subtly redirecting our searches towards biased or even false results that benefit them and misinform the user.

This week’s weak bean’s been Heinz.

At some point every person who enters a relationship in this way realises that they have generated absolute proof that their committed partner is utterly open to infidelity to the point of separation.

It is just your brain doing worst case scenario planning, the brain while idling loves to run through all of the most awful things that could happen in order to plan for them and give you an advantage should they occur, however outlandish and unlikely. It treats unpalatable opinions about the decisions you have made and your progress through life in the same vein. Turning them around to see how well they fit and if you could benefit from them in some way or to prepare you in case they arise via an external agent.

Came here to say that, I can not remember the exact details but I read somewhere there is an additional chemical complexity to emotional tears as opposed to practical flushing tears that thickens them such that they flow more slowly down the face and so are visible for longer.

Your population is essentially being farmed by corporations.

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I think western interests at least are beginning to detach from nation states.

Yeah, the American tag was just a throwaway line, greed unchecked, insane and self-harming has always been with us. We let it sit with us around our camp fires like wolves but unlike wolves we never tamed it.

The way my Surface Pro was packaged I can completely understand this, all the cardboard was pulled open at one side.

So the development of inorganic intelligence, considered by many as an inflection point in human civilisation is to be handed to business graduates who are historically proven to be capable of any level of atrocity in the name of corporate greed. America, fuck yeah.

No. I think the idea that every event that could have multiple outcomes, no matter how minor generates a dedicated full universe from each choice is silly. I do not think there are timelines in that sense, only time. I do think there probably is something in the idea that the observed linear nature of time from past to future is just an idiosyncrasy of our type of life. So it is possible to be informed by other times because they are only separate from a particular point of view.

I believe that might be slightly relegated in favour of the more colourful ‘show time’.

Maybe it’s local, I am in the UK and every computer I bought with Windows installed up until about 8 years ago came with standalone Word bundled. Works was there too but unused.