Thoughts from NEO on the social costs.
I was talking to a college roommate about this yesterday, though in his case it wasn’t so much a political change — he’s always been libertarianish — so much as the costs of coming out now.
Safety At Blue Origin
This can’t give Tory Bruno a warm feeling about the engines for Vulcan.
Self-Replicating Protocells
This is an interesting result.
Weird Internet Issue
My desktop has quit communicating with Slack (slack.com). I can access it from a laptop, but not from my desktop. It acts like a DNS issue, but I can ping everything except it. It just started doing this a couple hours ago, and I didn’t change anything. Any ideas?
[Update a while later]
[root@localhost ~]
# ping slack.com
PING slack.com (54.87.197.95) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
— slack.com ping statistics —
14 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 13292ms
Same thing happens when I ping the address directly. So it’s not a DNS issue. Very strange that I can get to it from the Windows laptop, but not the Linux desktop.
[Update late afternoon]
It’s back up. I guess I was one of the one percent.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Aaaaaaand it’s down again. At least now I know there’s nothing I can do about it, and no point in wasting time trying to figure it out. I just have to hope that they’ll get it sorted.
Milley’s Dishing
A good report (as usual) from Byron York. Milley should be, but won’t be, canned.
Early Voting In Virginia
If this results in McAuliffe losing, and Democrats suddenly deciding they don’t like the electoral abomination that is early voting, that would be a bonus.
The “Space Cowboys”
Criticism of them isn’t enough.
Uh, huh.
…is effectively a hostile foreign power, and it’s time to treat it like one.
Biden’s World
Thoughts on its collapse.
He is not a man for the times. But then, he was never a man for any times.
Food Myths
Busted: High-fat dairy, meat, and salt are good for you, and processed grains are terrible.
And no one will be held accountable for the unscientific nonsense that western governments have been dishing out for decades that have caused so much illness, death, and misery.