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Thu Jun 27 09:09:52 EDT 2019 Slept from ten to seven. Woke briefly once in the night. High of ninety-one and mostly sunny today. Work: - Follow up with Gary and Jamie about prop mgmt software questions Done. - Remember to change backup media Done. - Follow up with Yardi about license Done. - Resume work on leasing desktops build Done. Scott took the day off sick again. No walk outside today, but I made several laps around Meijer while grocery shopping. Home: - Grocery at lunch Done. - A D&D thing Done. - Watch some of the debate Done. Ten-minute walk after work. Hot, hot, hot. Saw a big yellow and black butterfly. Vacuumed. https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders-and-two-paths-for-the-american-left > Elizabeth Warren is on the rise. Coverage of her array of policy proposals and hard campaigning has put her in second place over Bernie Sanders in at least one national poll and a few state polls. Sanders, meanwhile, delivered a major address this past Wednesday defining “democratic socialism,” a self-applied label that sets him apart from Warren, who has called herself “capitalist to my bones.” […] But since Sanders entered the race many commentators have expressed the view that the substantive differences between Warren and Sanders don’t extend very far. […] Warren has backed Sanders’s criticisms of Amazon’s labor practices, and both candidates support the Green New Deal. There is a key difference, however, on one of the race’s key issues: Warren is a co-sponsor of Sanders’s Medicare for All bill but has yet to state whether she supports its call to eliminate private health insurance, a provision that other candidates who nominally support the Sanders plan have waffled on or rejected. > It should also be said that Sanders and Warren talk about foreign policy differently. In an address at American University in November, Warren suggested that, at some point during the nineteen-eighties, American foreign policy had been captured and derailed by the same moneyed interests that she argues have rigged the economy, further bloating the country’s military-industrial complex and fuelling reckless, expensive, and counterproductive interventions. “The defense industry will inevitably have a seat at the table—but they shouldn’t get to own the table,” she said. “It is time to identify which programs actually benefit American security in the twenty-first century, and which programs merely line the pockets of defense contractors—then pull out a sharp knife and make some cuts.” […] Sanders’s critique of American foreign policy generally runs deeper and goes back farther. In his foreign-policy speeches, Sanders refers to decades’ worth of failures and moral disasters—including American support for the Iranian coup of 1953 and the overthrow of the democratically elected Chilean President Salvador Allende, twenty years later—to make the case that American foreign policy has long been destructive, under both Democratic and Republican Administrations. > Sanders calls himself a socialist; Elizabeth Warren identifies as a capitalist. The two ideologies, as traditionally conceived, are, on paper, diametrically opposed. You either believe that the productive constituent parts of the economy should be controlled by workers themselves or the state or you do not. […] But Sanders has complicated things. His campaign is reportedly contemplating proposals that would expand worker ownership and management in the United States, and Sanders has sponsored legislation aimed at providing worker-owned firms with financial assistance and guidance. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28669/navys-railgun-now-undergoing-tests-in-new-mexico-could-deploy-on-ship-in-northwest https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/28jfwf/eli5_why_does_a_railgun_produce_flames_when_it/ > The flame is called a plasma. > A railgun passes a very high electric current from the rail on one side, through the projectile, to the other rail. That current flows between the rails and the projectile as charged air, a plasma or spark. > When the projectile leaves, that spark follows the projectile, and then forms between the ends of the rails. Together with metal scraped and melted from the projectile and the rails, this makes the flame that you see. > The heat is cause both by friction and compression. > The flames are from the air ahead of projectile being compressed be the acceleration and motion of the projectile. This is same effect as atmospheric reentry of a meteor/satellite/space shuttle. When you compress air, you raise the temperature. ssh://paulgorman.org/~/repo/dnd/adventure-brainstorming The new Bell's Official Hazy IPA is good. Ironically, much cleaner tasting than the average Bell's beer. I like it. Watched a coupe Star Trek: TNG episodes. Watched a few minutes of the debate. Buttigieg and Sanders did better than any of last night's candidates. Many of tonight's candidates came off better than most of last night's candidates. Buttigieg came off especially well. Biden is so meh; how is he the front runner? Servings: grains 6/6, fruit 3/4, vegetables 4/4, dairy 0/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: migas, cucumber, Mandarin, coffee Lunch: Mandarin, celery, doughnuts Afternoon snack: coffee Dinner: orange, two beers, turkey sandwich, potato salad, coleslaw 118/65

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