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Mon Aug 24 06:00:01 EDT 2020 ======================================== Slept from midnight to seven. Woke around five, and slept less soundly after. Mostly sunny early in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the late morning and afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. West winds up to 10 mph. Fifteen-minute walk in the morning. Sunny. Saw a pair of mourning doves flying west. Work ---------------------------------------- - 2 PM Fifth Third call Canceled. - Download and review Bullseye invoice Nope. Spent much of the day on Entrata validation. Home ---------------------------------------- - Use tmux instead of byobu Done. - How do I get a mail count on tilde.team? Done. Maybe new terminal colors? Light background: Foreground: #333333 Background: #cccccc Warm grays: Foreground: #DCD8D4 Background: #5A5149 Nah, I'll stick with my current color scheme. Is this real or parody? https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/republican-national-committee-2020-platform-trump.html > And perhaps most remarkably of all, the party has announced it will forego a platform altogether. In lieu of a document attempting to define the party’s beliefs and priorities, the RNC simply states that it agrees with everything Trump has done and will do > The official excuse is that the coronavirus has made it impossible for the party to get together and write a platform: “The Republican National Committee (RNC) has significantly scaled back the size and scope of the 2020 Republican National Convention in Charlotte due to strict restrictions on gatherings and meetings, and out of concern for the safety of convention attendees and our hosts.” Yet somehow the Democrats managed to come up with a platform without killing anybody. > What’s most remarkable about the personality-cult character of the Republican Party is that its leader is deeply unpopular with the public. Previous conventions have convened to support Republican incumbents who were genuinely respected by the public (Ronald Reagan, Dwight Eisenhower) without prostrating themselves like this. Why would the party, and its candidates running for office at every level, define themselves so thoroughly with a president who has never even briefly held the support of half the country? > It is probably because Trump is so deeply and historically unpopular that his party has embraced him so tightly. The Republican Party elite harbors quiet doubts about the president’s basic competence, morality, and fitness for office. As a result, Trump feels the need to force them to make public commitments of loyalty, to place their reputations in his hands so that no escape is possible. Oogami-san, Dadamore Desu is kind of funny, maybe. Not sure yet if it comes down on the side of manga smut or clever allegory. It's not just smut, anyhow. > So he's the fierce-looking sweet underling who longs for a brother but dies in the middle of a shootout! Ha. (And Ed sent me the article.) Listed mail count upon starting a new shell, in zsh, assuming the system uses maildir: ``` echo $(find ${HOME}/Maildir/new/ -type f | wc -l) new, $(find ${HOME}/Maildir/cur/ -type f | wc -l) saved mail messages ``` Servings: grains 6/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 1/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: banana, cucumber, coffee Lunch: peach, egg and avocado wrap Dinner: cheese curls, left-over curry

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