We don’t have any apple trees.

I only process apples I get for free…

#Twitter / "X" supposedly has over 500 million accounts, but if you subtract, say, 100 million as being bots or otherwise illigetimate, and assume that every real human has at least one "burner" account, then we're down to at most 200M human users, most (~80%?) of whom are not, or barely active.

Of those that are active, a miniscule fraction are *meaningfully* active (say 1-10%), ie. Trying discuss matters of society and science or there to promote their company and products, leaving somewhere between 400.000 to 4 M meaningfully active humans, depending on how generous you wish to be.

Do the revenue and profitability calculations yourself. There's a long way up to 44 Gigabuxx even if you're being charitable and hopeful.

Elon made a very poor deal when taking over Twitter.... Even a deal with the devil you may say. Your product is burning cash, your revenue from checkmark sales and ad sales are anemic due to a generally poor value proposition, and your owner is addicted to his own product, plus your investor poor involves Saudi Arabian petty despots and Russian oligarchs. Ouch!

Raw numbers are cool until you apply scrutiny.

A lot of people like September. I always hated it.

End of summer is a feeling of life ending. Shit starts dying off. Weather gets colder. Sun is limited.

Fuck right off September. Never liked you. Never will. I’ll fight you anyplace, any time.

I do not want to process +150lbs of apples this year…

David Foster Wallace on Kafka’s humor:

“It's not that students don't "get" Kafka's humor but that we've taught them to see humor as something you get -- the same way we've taught them that a self is something you just have. No wonder they cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke -- that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home. It's hard to put into words up at the blackboard, believe me. You can tell them that maybe it's good they don't "get" Kafka. You can ask them to imagine his art as a kind of door. To envision us readers coming up and pounding on this door, pounding and pounding, not just wanting admission but needing it, we don't know what it is but we can feel it, this total desperation to enter, pounding and pushing and kicking, etc. That, finally, the door opens...and it opens outward: we've been inside what we wanted all along. Das ist komisch.”

interesting, will it work with other melon? i'm in europe, never heard about Cantaloupe melon

These are beauties… Good luck with the drying…

interesting, will it work with other melon? i'm in europe, never heard about Cantaloupe melon

Who’s a good dog?! What goes into that fresca? I have some cantaloupe to use over here too and it looks great.

I’m reading my first fiction book in four years, since Rhythm of War.

It’s called The Lost Metal and it came out a couple years ago but I’m behind on my fiction, since my financial work engulfed me ever since the pandemic.

Both of these are like deep sequels into stories I’ve been reading for a decade from Brandon Sanderson.

If anyone is interested in his universe, imo the best place to start is Mistborn.

I am progressively, and intentionally buying things from chain stores less and less. I found a guy today who sells hot, hand made filipino lumpia on Fridays and Mondays in a parking lot. People like this have so much more appeal to me now. Money is the most direct form of voting.

Update. After 13 very short and amazing years the pup has crossed over to the other side. The entire family is heart broken. The vet who did the house call said she was amazed that she had held on this long.

Today when it was just the dog and I she went to a part of the couch my kids had taken over years ago. She has not been able to stand up on her own without help for three days. She went there and I laid on the couch with her and she put her head over my shoulder and we just laid there for about 20 minutes. This meant a lot to me because this is something we used to do when I worked nights and when I would go in at 0400 to work come home and grab a nap before class. It's been years.

This was her main goodbye to me and I'll always treasure it. She went peacefully with family and a couple of a buddy of mine who was there the day I first brought her home. An absolutely amazing dog and animal as a whole. She will be missed by everyone whose known her. I will never be able to replace that dog and I wouldn't want to. Such a special bond and life I was able to share with her. I still see her and caught myself talking to her when I left putting my kids to sleep.

Make sure you love your animals. That bond is a miracle on its own.

Someone sent me this tonight "...Konrad Lorenz who received a nobel peace prize for his behavorial research with animals said "The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be."

Someone else this "“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” James 1:17

...dogs are an excellent example of a “good gift” that God gives us. He gives mankind lots of good gifts like dogs...

Dogs are a special creature that I’m convinced God created to show us that we are relational beings made to be in a loyal, steadfast relationship with Him. So many times I didn’t deserve the affection of my dog, but he still gave it. It was a convicting reminder of how I should not EVER withhold my affection from my family.

I am praying for you bud!"

Love your dogs for me. Give them good treats, good scratches, and take some extra time with them. Some of us won't have that ability with ours anymore.

Looking back I'm glad we spent the extra money and time finding places that our dog could travel with us.

In 13 yrs I was probably away from mine a total of about 3 weeks from traveling for work and leisure. That was three too many. God blessed us with the companionship of dogs.

Have a blessed night everyone. I have been blessed through my life and my dog has been an abundance of blessing through her short life.

#dogstr #doggo #plebchain #pets #blessed

I grew it last year and had ok yields despite sheer total utter neglect. We've barely used it because good friends gave us some cornmeal that they ground from corn they grew, and we haven't gone through that yet.

I did make chicha with a few smaller ears though. Pretty good, I'd make it again I think.

important items seen at Goodwill:

'Cause I'm praying for rain

I'm praying for tidal waves

I wanna see the ground give way

I wanna watch it all go down

Some say we'll see Armageddon soon

I certainly hope we will

I sure could use a vacation from this

Stupid shit, silly shit