Lion ponderings

Democrats traditionally won through heavy internet marketing because their voters were under 40 & online. Republicans traditionally lost because their voters were over 40 & offline. So why did democrats ban advertising on twitter now if it always benefited them in the past? Sounds like Trump fooled them with another bait & switch.

It occurred to the lion kingdom that universal basic income makes sense in 1 case: if you're already printing $70 billion/month to buy government bonds. In this case, they might as well split the $70 billion evenly, give everyone $175 every month & charge everyone another $2100 in taxes on April 15. It feels kind of like life support for the fed to now have to indefinitely print $70 billion/month to fund the government, after a failed attempt to make the government fund itself for just a year, but the white house decreed thou shalt restart quantitative easing all year & the bank of Powell finally capitulated in September. The only difference from universal basic income is the fed currently gives the $70 billion to primary dealers who then buy stocks. Putting the money into stocks supposedly gives traders leverage to borrow more, increasing the amount of government bonds they can buy above the $70 billion alone. If they want more leverage & quantitative easing is

The modern marathon distance is based on the distance from underneath the windows of the royal nursery at Windsor castle to where the king sat in White city stadium in London. The historic distance is the distance from Marathon to Athens or 25 miles. The location of the cities is based on geography, economics, strategic importance. All standards are based on something arbitrary, whether it's volumes of water, lengths of footsteps, economics, or geography.

Finally finished Neverending Story. The footage of run down 1980's Vancouver got the lion kingdom thinking how strange it would be to live that far up north for an extended time. It would be completely alien. Based on the internet, Canadians who are employed pay the same taxes as US who are employed, but Canadia's government allocates spending differently & has less access to credit, which results in a lot less productivity. The Canadian scene on streetview shows the same hints of disrepair & stagnation in past building booms as Cuba. Since all modern governments tax their slaves roughly equally, they're all basically socialist, but the term socialism these days refers more to how governments allocate spending than how they tax.

The lion kingdom was 1 of the few who got on board the Zumwalt before either the line was closed because it was too crowded or it left. Being 1 of only 3 Zumwalts in the world, it had a busy schedule. They only had tours on 3 weekdays while the other ships stayed for the weekend. Besides its tumblehome hull, the name Zumwalt conveyed something that zoomed through the water. In reality, it was named after some aspect of Admiral Zumwalt's career in desegregation of the navy. Like most tours, they didn't reveal any of the weapons or the gadgetry, just the hangar, the deck, & a lot of hallways appearing exactly the same as any other ship. They didn't even show the bridge like they did on the Coronado. Based on what we were shown, it was standardized navy hardware marked up to $8 billion. Most of the weapons were missiles concealed under doors on the sides. All the anti aircraft guns, depth charges, & torpedos of the old days are now missiles under the doors

Skimmed through an hour of lousy gootube videos to get to this gem before tomorrow's commute. John Candy's much maligned, later movies had a few gems of late 80's life. The rear projection TV in this scene brings back the cozy memories of the late 80's. A rear projection TV in those days was truly luxurious & signified great professional achievement.  Today, we're a lot more sensitive to vignetting & resolution.  Lion memory only remembered those TV's as crisp & bright from corner to corner.  The much higher quality of this movie today reveals the limitations of those TV's. A lot more stuff in those days signified luxury & set you apart from the rabble. Today, most everything is commoditized except for having a lot of space. In the 80's, square footage was the commodity. Then of course, the national debt clock in 1991 was amusing. It really was still below $4 trillion until 1992. The lion kingdom recalled panic in the 80&

Native pulseaudio without using the esound compatability layer is real good at capturing audio from other programs. It's trash for everything else. Play audio using pulseaudio while another program is playing using ALSA? Lockup. Play audio on pulseaudio while playing audio on Chrome? You have to kill chrome again before pulseaudio unfreezes. Pulseaudio doesn't work with optical outputs. Lions have to run Mix2005 after running pulseaudio to enable the optical output, then run pavucontrol to select the recording device. It's another example of why lions use virtually no software besides their own. Firefox uses pulseaudio for its audio. Ripping copy protected audio from Firefox seems to be the only reason pulseaudio exists. Making pulseaudio minimally functional required editing the /etc/pulse/default.pa file.  It needs the following lines. load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp auth-cookie-enabled=0 auth-anonymous=1 load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-cooki