Today, in the Elon Jet tracker thread.
I recently read “North and South” which explores the motivations behind the US civil war from a few different angles, and am currently reading Heinlein’s “Stranger in a strange land”
I need to get back into my Great Books collection.
Where are you at in your reading?
https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/great-books-reading-list
May 1, the start of summer.
I plan to canoe the Missouri from Coal Bank landing to Fred Robinson Bridge- 3-4 days.
Other smaller trips will be Maria’s river from Sanford landing to the confluence of the Missouri, a two day trip, and the North fork of the Sun river, a long single day trip.
I also plan a few overnighters in the Bob Marshall Wilderness complex.
I realized years ago that I live in a place where many folks pay good money to come visit. So it makes little sense for me to fly to some other place when I can access all this great country within a hundred or so miles of my house.
Montana is a big place, and there is plenty to see without tripping over mobs of tourists.
There wasn’t anything left to take a picture of. It turned out awesome!
“I am the last one doing the dirty work and putting in my time- nobody else is doing this any more”
~Maybe your business model is obsolete and you have too much hubris to see the writing in the wall.
Ag is not alone in this, but ag certainly makes it more visible. Many ag businesses are run as operations, not businesses. No one ever looks at the cost of investment, and true profitability.
Fewer yet look at where the profit centers are and think about the morality of the profit centers- do those income sources align with stated values?
Agriculture has an is/ought problem.
Thanks for the zap!
Just go check the wallet you have attached to your profile here. It has a complete ledger of transactions.
Can anyone point to a single advancement useful to mankind which has occurred as a result of foreign bio labs or gain of function research?
Did you recieve my zap? I am still testing zaps as well.
A man with many books in his lair is a man with wealth beyond compare.
Maybe. My simple life is packed.
The curious thing not pictured here: that USA and China are each others largest trade partners.
I don’t know how to think about this- I have admired South American countries for generally staying out of world affairs, while being open to trade as needed around the world.
Historically, Argentina and Brazil both have mature basic manufacturing capability and can be as autonomous as their agrarian economy will permit.
I haven’t yet. My reading has been limited as of late.