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Sun 24 Feb 2019 09:09:50 AM EST
Slept from midnight to eight thirty.
Woke briefly around three-thirty.
High of forty-six today, but falling, with afternoon snow amounting to less than an inch.
High winds.
Goals:
- A D&D thing
Done.
- Play with a Go thing
A bit.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-hard-lessons-of-dianne-feinsteins-encounter-with-the-young-green-new-deal-activists-video
> A group of school students, at least one as young as seven, went to the senator’s San Francisco office to ask her to support the Green New Deal climate legislation. In a video posted online by the Sunrise Movement, she tells them that the resolution isn’t a good one, because it can’t be paid for, and the Republicans in the Senate won’t support it.
> Then, when the group persists in supporting the Green New Deal, which was introduced by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Feinstein responds, “You know what’s interesting about this group? I’ve been doing this for thirty years. I know what I’m doing. You come in here and you say, ‘It has to be my way or the highway.’ I don’t respond to that. I’ve gotten elected, I just ran, I was elected by almost a million-vote plurality,” she continued.
> Feinstein’s condescension […] echoed that of Nancy Pelosi, from earlier this month, when the Speaker of the House talked about “the green dream, or whatever they call it. Nobody knows what it is, but they’re for it, right?”
> If I’m a lawmaker and I think that the minimum wage should be thirty dollars an hour, and you’re one who thinks that eight dollars is generous, we’ll probably try to pass a law that sets the mark somewhere near fifteen dollars, and then argue about it again after the next election. There would be no point in holding out for what I can’t get. But, in the case of the environment, the opponent is not the Chamber of Commerce. The opponent is physics, and physics doesn’t negotiate. It’s not moved by appeals to centrist moderation, or explanations about the filibuster. And it has set a firm time limit.
> Well, maybe. But Feinstein was, in fact, demonstrating why climate change exemplifies an issue on which older people should listen to the young. Because—to put it bluntly—older generations will be dead before the worst of it hits. The kids whom Feinstein was talking to are going to be dealing with climate chaos for the rest of their lives, as any Californian who has lived through the past few years of drought, flood, and fire must recognize.
Ugh, Feinstein and Pelosi are both terrible.
https://hypercardadventures.com/
https://chaudronchromatique.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-shrinking-land.html
Ten-minute walk in the evening.
Strong wind and some snow.
Servings: grains 2/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 3/4, dairy 1/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5
Breakfast: carrots, banana, mandarins
Lunch: cucumber, migas with lots of vegetables
Afternoon snack: beer
Dinner: ice cream
125/70
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