Granite Geek NH

Baloney - a million people out there worked as hard, didn't settle, had a goal, desire and all those LinkedIn cliches but they didn't succeed. Born at the wrong time (seen today's job market for graduates) or in the wrong country or the wrong parents, had one gene go bad, etc. Luck.

also: "I want my house value to go up but I don't want my property taxes, which are based on house value, to go up"

that one really gets me

As a kid my mom would keep the cover art (1960s era) and use them for decorative crafts

That farmer must be really good at very carefully using the pitchfork.

"there is no trend toward smaller families" - the question is not why people are having smaller families, it's why more people are choosing to have no family at all

It argues that the sharp rise in childlessness is usually triggered by an emergency: the '73 oil embargo in Japan, the South Korean currency crisis, the 2008 financial collapse everywhere. Once the pattern starts, he says, nobody has been able to reverse it.

YouTube video by Birthgap Birthgap - Childless World PART 1 (English Version)

This video says data shows the "birth gap" in developed countries is entirely due to an increase in number of women having no children. The average family with kids has the same number of children, on average, as they've had for decades.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6s8...

We care about what we can measure. It's easier to measure dollars than "health"

A city on Mars : can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? | WorldCat.org "Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away--no climate change, no war, no Twitter--beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Critical

9) Please read this thread, be bored instead of mad about the nuke thing, and focus on his actually horrible policies and actions.

10) All this, including lots of detail on how the international law works is available in my book, which is free at the library: search.worldcat.org/title/137148...

as the saying goes: "Everything’s a conspiracy if you don’t understand how anything works"

You have obviously never been a reporter on a local paper.

Chapter one: Detailed analysis
Chapter two: Highlighted points
Chapter three: Key words underlined
Chapter four: coffee stains
Chapter five onward: pristine

Florida reports 21 cases of E.coli infections linked to raw milk The Florida Department of Health said on Monday that there have been 21 cases of Campylobacter and E. coli infections linked to drinking raw milk in the state, including six children under 10.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

yes

(although cool weather is better for PV - electronics withers a bit in the heat)

but but but <waves hands> interplanetary species! um, er, operational flexibility in emergencies! uh, uh - manifest destiny! (OK, maybe not that one) er, inspiration! <waves hands more>

Schools in rural NH used to close on opening day of whitetail deer season, or so I'm told

definitely - we sent you invasives, you send us invasives, we both send them to Asia which returns the favor - it's a great big not-so-beautiful world

socks and sandals?

Rain in Spain might be doable but you need four songs for a skit

I had a robot sing "I Feel Pretty" and it went over very well.

And you should hear what I did with "Supercalifrgilisticexpialidocious" from Mary Poppins

Granite Geek: Concerns about wildfires are returning to New Hampshire. Just ask Henniker. Compound interest in banks is fun. Compound disasters in our surroundings, not so much.

New Hampshire: At least we don't have to worry about wildfires, like they do out west.
Climate Change: Oh, yeah?

concordmonitor.com/henniker-new...

I like My Fair Lady but the key with an audience is that they have to know the song well to enjoy the parody & it's not as popular

Sound of Music works

flip side of the "train delayed by wet leaves making the rails too slippery" issue

Sometimes the "free market" does see things clearly.

I write parody lyrics to musicals for local high school fundraisers. (Feeds my childhood desire to write for Mad magazine) West Side Story is the best target except maybe for Wizard of Oz.

Many, many parents are very jealous.

Don't be scornful - I have long thought that literature lacks enough well-written depictions of workplaces and everyday occupations.

Having said that: yeah, Updike and Cheever haven't aged well.

I was one of those who said, after Better Place went under, that battery-swapping wouldn't ever work. Oops.

Probably never for cars but it seems to be a hit with vehicles smaller (scooters) and larger (real trucks, not pickups)

on top of a car going 70 on the interstate?

It's an annoying invasive here in the U.S., driving out native wetlands plants. It's lovely, though, and many pollinators love it.