Sculptus Poe

Most of the time I find podcasts by accident.

Hard Core History - (Every series he makes is great but “Blueprint for Armageddon” describes WWI better than I ever heard it described and it is a masterpiece. Unfortunately that particular series is old enough that it is only on Dan Carlin’s website for sale, but his new shows are free.)

Coverville - A very well curated music show that is all cover songs and has been running since 2004. Somewhere around 2005 I was working at the postoffice, and that show got me through the day. It is still the best music show I know of.

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I agree. If they can’t afford to man the stores properly, they shouldn’t have stores.

I don’t even think this is intentional. They just under-staff those places so hard that there is no chance that somebody went around any time and updated the prices. I have walked into a half dozen dollar generals, got my stuff and stood at the register for minutes, never even seeing an employee. I could have walked out with a couple shopping carts of stuff unchallenged. Baskets of unshelved items are always stacked in the rows. The GAF is very low when you do see an employee. They must pay minimum wage. Dollar General used to be a pretty good store, so something must have happened in management in the last decade.

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Looking at that floof caused me to realize that it has been a decade or so since the last time I held a kitten. I wonder what shipping is like on one of these. Looking at the other boxes, I think it will come dented.

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Yeah, I mostly said that because the fantasies everybody online is having about Trump leaving office before his term is up has that one major flaw that would affect anybody hoping for it. They should probably be hoping for Trump’s continued health. Though I have zero idea what JD would actually do if he was in office. He would definitely not be as chaotic, for good or ill.

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Truly, this is the end times.

Israel sold weapons to Iran when Iran wasn’t their enemy and Iraq was the main danger. They would have no advantage at all in squashing the uprising there. This whole article is misdirection and misleading, playing into the hands of Iran’s despots. (Reading the article closely, which is a difficult task considering the horrible website, Iranian despots are claiming that Israel gave ammo and guns to the ones trying to revolt. That does make more sense, but the way the article is written, you can tell the whole article is propaganda for Iranian despots, because they spin it as a bad thing to help the uprising and use that kid caught in the crossfire as rage bait. )

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I’m going to have to read The Blazing World now. I’m surprised I haven’t heard of it.

Well, if you include Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666), you would have to put Johannes Kepler’s Somnium (1634) and Lucian of Samosata’s A True Story (2nd century AD) ahead of her.

I’ve listened to “A True Story” years ago but can’t remember any of it. Reading the synopses, I think all three are closer to fantasy than Sci-Fi. So I still Put Frankenstein as the first true Sci-Fi book.

Mary Shelley has to be up there for inventing Sci-Fi.

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The whole point of tariffs is to make the price high so that American farmers can sell their beef while hiring in the American economy… High prices are the whole goal.