Lion ponderings

  The gubment has to debase the dollar roughly every 8 years when treasuries start to get ahead of liquidity.  Your best bet for buying a house might be 2028.  They're going to keep going up until then, but they might take a dip in 2028. It could be 2026 when the gubment runs out of liquidity again. We'd then have 6 years from 2008-2014, 6 years from 2014-2020 & 6 years from 2020-2026. The problem is the dip will make everyone significantly poorer before they print. The lion kingdom will probably not be buying after the september dip & rate cut.  Having said that, lions would consider the stonk market a surer thing than employment after 50.  A salary is normally not part of future projections.  It's believed staying at the same company for a long time & not having gaps is better. Something lions have pondered is how japanese rural houses lost all their value & whether it could happen h.e.r.e..  It would definitely be limited to rural ho...

     Dave burns $.29 kw/h for electricity in auzzie bucks.  In Calif* it's $.45 USD or  $.68 auzzies. The amerikan people insist immigrating is the only path to success. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The fact that Bide never abdicated the throne despite disappearing since July shows how bad the Kamal is going to be when she really takes the throne.  They're trying to defer the unveiling as long as possible.  The amerikan brain votes democrat as long as the democrat has a heart beat so their best move is to say there's a candidate but not show the candidate. So the party which called itself the last hope for democracy picked its candidate by executive order instead of a primary election.  In some ways, abandoning democracy was exactly what the last hope for democracy needed to do.  They needed someone much younger, female, & black.  The democrati...

  Virtual machine tip: start your windows VM with networking disabled. Disable updates as long as it allows before restarting networking. Surprised no-one has ever questioned why updates have to be mandatory, but that's the generational shift since 1999.   Softies can cry lions a river.     A career at JPL was still unattainable.      ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   BBQ lion today  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------      

 Looked up some more Cinelerra contributors from the 2004 era on linked in.  A stint at Tesla & big college education credits were a common theme for all of them. 1 went to NVidia for a time & 1 went to Adobe.  The 1 in Slovania was the only one who didn't get into a top tier company but went into an executive role in his home country.  Presumably, their stonk options in all those companies partially vested.     Working on Cinelerra was a consistent predictor of big job titles even if it was for only a short time during their student days & their work wasn't very useful.  Looks like they all went into non developer roles.  The lion kingdom did not have the education pedigree to benefit from any of its work. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------   There's a guy who just can't get a break.  There are definitely times when all of us get singled out by heavenly mother. Honestly a...

  What if an artificial superintelligence rigged the primary elections, causing the only human candidates to be the most incompetent dimented possible, so we would have no choice but to vote for it? It couldn't have already happened.  The artificial superintelligence couldn't be the current aggregation of all human knowledge and it can't be causing the primary elections to yield only bottom denominators.   Given the internet's 10 second attention span, would expect Bide to get elected like nothing ever happened. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With many consecutive days over 100 & limited nighttime cooling, the apartment will be above 100 for most of those days.  The night temperature will bottom out at 85. The new strategy is to keep the standing desks as high as possible to keep the thermal mass above the lions.  Freeze an ice block at night & hold it during peak heatin...

  Blue Angels 2024 in 4K had a few improvements over the 2006 documentary.  The mane difference was 4K quad copter shots not possible in 2006, except for the very luckiest.  Insta 360 shots abounded.  The chipped paint, how old everyone really is, all come though.  No-one is anywhere close to lion age anymore, but still very old. Insta 360 footage works best when it's locked down, rather than the usual globe effects, fisheye effects, & trick panning. Some of the quad copter footage was pretty slick.  They're not as cramped in the C-130 as they say, compared to the meat packers.  Noted the black pilot seemed to have an easier time than the white pilots.  They seem to have more innate muscle coordination. Reviewing the 2006 version, it was all the crusty ground based footage expected for the time.  It looked a lot better to a generation which never saw HD before. Noted some footage from when muni pier was open. They were still flying late m...