A Chinese spy satellite blew up a couple weeks ago. Just before that the Chinese sent pictures of US bases in the Mideast to Iran who threw some missiles at them. The day after the satellite blew up Hegseth mentioned that the U.S. has anti-satellite technology.

Now these could all be unrelated events, or they might not be, take it as you will.

Russia is powered by Zhukov spinning in his grave.

WWI came back.

Meeting minutes. Or the official summary of the meeting.

It happened during and after every meeting. I delivered the summary of the daily operations planning meeting to the operators I was responsible for for years. My supervisor delivered the results of the weekly planning meeting to me every week. You don't run a $1.6 billion dollar chemical plant full of highly hazardous chemicals by make it up as you go arm waving.

If high tech is managed by spastic arm waving that would explain a lot.

"As to your wording mistake, the CEO is never *responsible*"

And there is the problem. The CEO orders cost cutting that kills over 300 people (Boeing) and walks off untouched.

"Please put your order in writing sir."

That problem is solved too.

If they refuse then you document the request and their refusal in the logbook.

Yes I was in the Navy. If the helmsman and the duty office stick the ship on a sandbar the Captain still gets the blame.

The CEO needs to be held responsible in any case. That's the only way this sort of nonsense will stop.

I've heard plenty of whining about how power costs are spiking. Now plants that were not economic are probably profitable. The market responds. No surprise there.

Then there is my favorite graph.

https://transmission.bpa.gov/b...

The green line shows wind plus solar. The solar input pretty clear, it's been sunny lately, Indian summer has been wonderful. But the 3000 MW of wind power on the grid seems to be missing. Are you willing to turn the data centers off until the wind shows up? I didn't think so.

The local hydropower is tapped out by the way, fully committed. And Seattle is looking at back to back 10% increasesin power costs over the next couple years.

https://powerlines.seattle.gov...

I find Plasma to be overly cluttered myself. Desktops are a personal preference item.

That said I will be trying Fedora 45's version when that comes out.

CRE is in trouble but not due to AI. All those loans they took out 5 years ago at 1% are due to either be paid off (snort, snicker, tee-hee) or rolled over at 6%. That's if the banker is even willing to talk to you. the good news is she will be willing to negotiate because your building no longer pencils out and will likely be sold for less that the outstanding loan so the bank will book a loss.

As the famous song put it so well;

Gloom, despair, and agony on me
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all
Gloom, despair, and agony on me

Tablets are very easy to steal and the Pro ones are rather expensive. They start at $1500.

In fact Apple doesn't make anything that's hard to steal since they dropped the Mac Pro.

I have some X-10 controllers about the place. That's about it. The heat pump has its own programmable timer controller.

The AI fanboys still seem to be buying, money is no object.

I did some price checking a couple weeks ago and you can still assemble a non-AI capable AM4 system mini ATX system for about $800. I did not include the video card in that list as I'm not a gamer, AMD's APU integrated graphics are good enough for me. I currently use a 4600G.

Overwatering will get weight up and they are paid by weight. But that will dilute the nutrients.

On the other hand prolonged farming may just run out the trace minerals which has both direct effects (if the soil is short of copper then so will be the plants) and indirect effects on the nutrition, what ever the plant was making with the copper won't be made in adequate quantity.

Case in point of Flock being used for evil right on Slashdot.

https://yro.slashdot.org/story...

That didn't take long.

I hope you have noticed that the majority of the Epstein Class are Democrats or European Royalty. The latter can only be voted out by Madam Guillotine.