Sun Sep 21 10:00:01 UTC 2025
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Slept from ten to seven.
Woke briefly around three.

Partly cloudy in the morning.
A chance of showers in the morning, then showers and a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 80s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 80 percent.

Read more of They Though They Were Free and Rose/House.

Walked for fifty minutes in the morning.
Mostly cloudy and not yet hot.
Saw blue jays, mourning doves, a dragonfly, a chipmunk, and a groundhog.
Usually, they're common enough that I don't mention them, but it's odd that I haven't seen an robins in the last few weeks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45322050

> hliyan 27 minutes ago | parent | next [–]
> I recently heard a US journalist/author named Chris Hedges say something to the effect that the US has the symbols, the iconography and the language of a democracy, but internally, corporates and oligarchs have seized all the levers of power, and that it is reminiscent of the end of the Roman Empire. He also went onto distinguish between corporates and oligarchs, claiming that the two political camps in the US actually represent these two sides (rather than democracy vs. facism or socialism).
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>	koakuma-chan 8 minutes ago | root | parent | next [–]
>	And why would "corporate" and "oligarchs" fight? Can the same person not be a "corporate" and an oligarch at the same time?
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>		mapt 4 minutes ago | root | parent | next [–]
>		Another way of looking at this would be in terms of the millionaire managerial and professional class holding up the Democratic Party versus the interests of the billionaire aristocratic and executive class holding up the Republican Party.

When corporations can lobby to influence legislation, pay to get a candidate elected, and CEOs hold positions of power, including the presidency itself, any semblance of democracy is an illusion.

Rewatched a few episodes of Firefly.
I'd forgotten that it's such a fun show.

Washed linens.

Servings: grains 4/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 4/4, dairy 1/2, meat 1/3, nuts 1.5/0.5

Brunch: banana, breakfast burrito with egg and beans, tomato, cucumber
Dinner: Japanese curry

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