6,000-year old West Texas rock art influenced Mesoamerican cosmology Texas State University (RK)
Messengers of perception: Inside the campaign to reshape the UFO narrative The Blind Spot
From ChatGPT to strength training: Here’s how 100-year-olds are thriving NPR
Climate/Environment
Zillow’s climate risk reversal looks like a setback. It’s really a wake‑up call. Moving Day
Who should pay? RealClimate
Pandemics
Tuberculosis rates are rising. Here’s who’s most at risk BBC
Can past COVID-19 weaken the body’s ability to fight tuberculosis?
➡️ A new study comparing immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) suggests COVID-19 may dampen both antiviral and anti-TB immunity — even months later. 1/ pic.twitter.com/DguNcPFOBz
— Vipin M. Vashishtha (@vipintukur) December 3, 2025
A guide to returning to masking M (Is) Living With Long Covid
Japan
Japan defense firms saw sales boom in ’24 as Tokyo eyes end of more export curbs Japan Times
China?
Nvidia lobbies White House and wins loosened AI GPU export control to China — U.S. lawmakers reportedly reject GAIN AI Act Tom’s Hardware
Chinese reusable booster explodes during first orbital test, in failed bid to catch SpaceX CNN
China: ‘World’s first’ 40,000-ton drone carrier moves closer to service after new trail Interesting Engineering
Taiwan airline seeks role in ‘whole of society’ defense with surveillance flights to counter China Kyodo News
India
Inside Story | Why India–US Trade Deal Has Been Pushed To The Back Burner Business World
From Arms to Agritech: How India and Israel Are Rewiring Their Partnership India Narrative
Syraqistan
During the push to free Mohammed, a handful of AIPAC-Democrats reached out to offer help, but it had to be in secret, because they couldn’t be seen publicly fighting to free a Palestinian American child from Israeli military detention. https://t.co/w37rzWamLb pic.twitter.com/f1FDjGjo0n
— jasper nathaniel (@infinite_jaz) December 3, 2025
Inside Israel’s shadow campaign to win over American media Responsible Statecraft
🇮🇱🇺🇸 At the DealBook Summit, Netanyahu confirmed what many suspected: Trump’s Gaza “peace” plan isn’t about peace, it’s about elimination and control.
He declared Phase 1 hostage retrieval complete. Phase 2 is disarming Hamas. Phase 3, he says is “de-radicalizing” Gaza’s… pic.twitter.com/u9Kjy7sCOH
— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) December 4, 2025
Egypt denies coordinating with Israel on Rafah border reopening The Cradle
U.S. Deploys Shahed-136 Clones To Middle East As A Warning To Iran The War Zone
Old Blighty
Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide The Guardian
European Disunion
EU looks at legally forcing industries to reduce purchases from China The Guardian
The Czech mining town saying ‘no thanks’ to Europe’s critical raw materials push The Parliament
New Not-So-Cold War
Ukraine, Along with Some Europeans, Are Playing a Dangerous Game Larry Johnson
Von der Leyen pushes ahead with reparations loan for Ukraine as Belgium maintains its opposition Euronews. “If no deal is found on the reparations loan, the EU will resort to joint borrowing, as it did during the COVID-19 pandemic, von der Leyen said on Wednesday.”
Europe could be on the hook for $160 billion to keep Ukraine afloat Ian Proud
NATO chief urges allies to send message to Putin by buying more US arms for Ukraine Stars and Stripes
UP reports there was a clash involving firearms between HUR’s (Ukrainian military intelligence) elite crack unit soldiers and soldiers from a unit identifiable as National Guard’s Rubizh brigade in Koncha-Zaspa, Ukraine’s golden mile area near Kyiv. The conflict is over the…
— Leonid Ragozin (@leonidragozin) December 3, 2025
IN TEATRALNAYA PLOSHCHAD, WITKOFF, KUSHNER, AND DMITRIEV POINT TO THE RIGHT OF THE KARL MARX STATUE John Helmer
Your Questions Resolved Oliver Boyd-Barrett
The Great Game
PANNIER: Who’s killing Chinese workers on the Afghan-Tajik frontier? Intellinews
Tajikistan in talks with Russia for joint patrols as tensions rise on Tajik-Afghan border Firstpost
South of the Border
The United States imposes new sanctions related to Venezuela El Pais
L’affaire Epstein
Newly Released Photos Offer Glimpse Inside Epstein’s Private Island TIME
Trump 2.0
Trump admin will reconsider part of rule to protect miners from lung diseases The Hill
More chaos at FEMA as agency “re-suspends” employees it just reinstated last week Balanced Weather
Trump says Somali-American Congresswoman Ilhan Omar should be thrown out of US Anadolu Agency
Authority Crisis
Fascinating read from .@WSJ
Ousted SOUTHCOM Commander Admiral Holsey “had initial concerns about the legality of lethal strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, according to former officials aware of the discussions.”
Shortly after taking over Southern Command, Hegseth… https://t.co/ntC7Fykd6F— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) December 4, 2025
‘Kill Everybody’: Hegseth’s Reported Order Echoes WWII War Crime The After-Action ReportWhy Hegseth’s Alleged War Crime Will Never Be Revealed Ken Klippenstein
Pentagon Watchdog Finds Hegseth’s Use of Signal Posed Risk to US Personnel Military.com
GOP Funhouse
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell files paperwork to challenge Walz for Minnesota governor: ‘I want to save my state’ New York Post
Democrats en déshabillé
First step for Walz: Take responsibility Minnesota Reformer
Bipartisan Obamacare deal remains out-of-reach in Senate hearing The Hill
Spook Country
The Former Israeli Spies Overseeing US Government Cyber Security Nate Bear
DOGE
Forget Whether Or Not DOGE Exists: Will Anyone Be Held Accountable For 600,000 Deaths? TechDirt
Imperial Collapse Watch
Alone With Our Thoughts. Aurelien
IMPOVERISHMENT DOES NOT MAKE SOFT POWER GeoPolitiQ
Accelerationists
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business Gizmodo
Police State Watch
Drunk DHS Employee Crashes BMW Into Buildings in Vermont Migrant Insider
CBP and Border Patrol are not sending us their best. Borderland Talk with Jenn Budd
MAHA
FDA Expands Artificial Intelligence Capabilities with Agentic AI Deployment U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Press release)
Don’t License AI to Prescribe Medication MedPage Today
Healthcare?
Hospital labor expenses escalate as C-suites rethink long-term strategy Becker’s Hospital Review
The ‘AI arms race’ reshaping healthcare Becker’s Hospital Review
AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce CNBC
Journalists win a key battle over AI in the newsroom Blood in the Machine
Supply Chain
AI frenzy is driving a new global supply chain crisis Reuters
Big Brother Is Watching You Watch
DHS Expands Migrant Database to Screen U.S. Citizens Migrant Insider
Poop-peeping toilet attachment has a different definition of ‘end-to-end’ encryption The Register
Our Famously Free Press
CNN strikes prediction data partnership with Kalshi Axios
‘Unauthorized’ Edit to Ukraine’s Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket’s War Betting 404 Media
The co-founder of Kalshi says: “ The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion.” pic.twitter.com/M1gf0leJFV
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) December 3, 2025
Sports Desk
Exemptions for ADHD drugs in MLB drop to record-low 54, down from 119 in 2013 AP
Economy
There’s a small business crisis underway. Between the tariffs, spikes in health premiums (half of exchange users own or work at a small business), soaring monopoly tolls imposed by Visa, Amazon, DoorDash, etc; lack of action on supplier price discrimination, and more, it’s worse… pic.twitter.com/obhoM0IbMe
— Stacy Mitchell (@stacyfmitchell) December 3, 2025
Affordability of necessities in the US continues to deteriorate:
Since January 2021, food away from home prices have surged +28%, to an all-time high.
Shelter prices have risen +27% over the same period, also setting a record.
Food at home and services other than rent have… pic.twitter.com/8WF1iODRV0
— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) December 4, 2025
Why “affordability” suddenly matters in Washington Stephen Semler
Class Warfare
How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices The Guardian
This Microbe ‘Plays Dead’ in NASA Clean Rooms, and We May Have Sent It to Mars Gizmodo
🚨 Earth may be trapped inside a giant void in space, scientists say
A bold new analysis of the universe’s large-scale structure suggests that Earth — and the entire Milky Way — may actually sit inside a massive cosmic void, a region far emptier than average. This idea… pic.twitter.com/Lrdm5Z6vrE
— Curiosity (@MAstronomers) December 3, 2025
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
“Japan defense firms saw sales boom in ’24 as Tokyo eyes end of more export curbs”
For the export of basic things like artillery, tanks and warship designs this may not be a problem. But for more sophisticated weapons there is the question of sourcing of refined rare earths and I believe that most of it comes from China. But right now there is a bun fight between China and Japan over the question of Taiwan. I would imagine that refined rare earths would be restricted right now but if it was totally stopped, then Japan may not be able to develop sophisticated weapons for export which would limit the range of their military exports.
Those basic things are brimming with electronics, radars, and optics that more often than not do require a variety of rare earths, so selling them may require a small print in the advertising flyer indicating that “the product is sold without communication gear, range finding tools, and detection sensors (product delivered with NATO-compatible pylons and bays for user-supplied equipment as a standard feature)”.
Sounds like a variation of ‘Batteries Not Included’ :)
Thank you, Conor.
With regard to Ian Proud’s post, he’s right to call out the knighting of Bill Browder. Browder was given a military order gong, not an entry level one. Browder is persona non grata in the City as his frauds are well known, but Westminster and Whitehall fall for his BS.
With regard to Israeli spooks, there’s one at No 10, Asaf Kaplan, and one at the BBC, Raffi Berg. There are some on secondment in Whitehall. We’ll see more, I think, especially after the politicians and media and Israel were not able to force West Midlands police to back down over Maccabi Tel Aviv thugs.
The Jewish community has its own taxpayer funded police in some British cities, Shomrim. It also has its own ambulance service.
Hi Colonel, something I have found fascinating about the Starmer etc., and friends of Israel led gaslighting of the Birmingham police decision to ban Tel Aviv football hooligans/ fans based on events in Amsterdam is the contrast with Thatcher. The current parliamentary panel investigating this is stuffed full of zionist supporters and friends of Israel.
One of the first things Thatcher did was to get the police onside by awarding big pay rises and generous bonuses which proved very handy during the coal miners strike protests and Hillsborough football disaster. The police were exonerated from blame for both and heavily supported by the Thatcher government.
As things go from bad to worse for the Starmer administration, I wonder at which point will the police think “Starmer tried to throw us under the bus”, and be disinclined to put down riots and arrest pensioners for holding up placards decrying genocide in the Middle East. Especially as still jury trials are refusing to find such genocide protestors guilty of supporting terrorism etc. If the neoliberalist experiment continues, societal breakdown must eventually happen. Police loyalty to the regime may prove brittle. Not to mention if Starmer were to send boots on the ground to Ukraine meaning little of any military back up available to quell rioting on the streets absent police action.
The UK police is loyal enough to efficientöy beat and arrest Palestine protesters. Where may this priority come from?
Apropos, Der Starmer, I’m currently reading, “The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeny and the Crisis of British Democracy”, and it casts a very interesting light on the rise to power of this faux Cromwell who has surrounded himself with Jewish Zionists or the spouses of Jewish Zionists, and Christian and secular Zionists, to the extent that we have a United Kingdom government with its various agencies, trusted courts and the SIS, acting primarily in the interests of Israel as little more than Jerusalem’s satrap.
The book ties together many things we knew about the McSweeny’s rightwing factionalist maneuvers to destroy the electoral chances of Jeremy Corbyn in 2017, when he would have emerged as – at least – the prime minister of a minority goverment, if not a majority givernment, and saved the UK a good deal of pain, and the destruction of Jeremy’s good name and his electability by the McSweeny faction financed by pro-Israeli Jewish interests.
If the police wish to regain their rightful role as a citizen force defending their fellow citizen’s liberties and freedom from crime, each invidual force should investigate the conduct of McSweeny’s operations, including the provision of finance and other tools to influence Constituency Labour parties and their candidates in their police areas in the period before each of the two Corbyn general elections, then we might see for the first time the powerful taken down and tried for conspiring to obtain unlawful control of the Labour party and, subequently, Der Stramer’s government, and their deliberate and criminal activities as election thieives and financial fraudsters acting on behalf of a foreign government.
It’s a gripping read anyway which I would recommend to anyone intrerested in British politics and/or the political operations of Israel’s land stealing, genocidal Zionist cult.
“U.S. Deploys Shahed-136 Clones To Middle East As A Warning To Iran’
You’d think that at the very least that Iran could sue the US for copyright infringement. In the Ukraine those Shahed drones have had all sorts of upgrades so you wonder which generation of Shahed drone that the US duplicated. The US may have ideas about sending these copied Shahed drones to Iran but they will probably pass much more sophisticated Shahed drones going the other way.
“Iran could sue the US for copyright infringement”
If Iran (1.a) had registered a copyright in the USA; (1.b) the Iranian entity holding the copyright is not sanctioned; (1.c) the persons to be sent to defend or witness in favour of Iran do not risk arrest in the USA.
What is noticeable is that the organization that copied the Shaheed drone did not do what is usual when a foreign piece of equipment is to be adopted by the USA: tweak and alter it to such an extent that it (2.a) no longer resembles the original product; (2.b) costs at least an order of magnitude more; (2.c) is performance-wise inferior — when it manages to be at all functional. Case in point: the Constellation-class frigates.
That’s not a bad point that. You would have expected those Iranian drones to be modified until they were twice as large, cost five times the original and could barely fly. So what happened here that they just did a direct copy-and-paste effort. For the life of me I cannot think why this was the case here.
Maybe they actually are just refurbished Russian drones, captured by Ukrainians and sold in the Dark Net?
Purchase price: $1000
Paint job: $200
Profit margin: 3000%
“For the life of me I cannot think why this was the case here.”
One possibility is that the military is desperate, in need of a functional, affordable, battle-proven system — forthwith.
The fancy Anduril drones are unusable; the older, seasoned ones like the Reaper are being shot down by Ansarallah like turkeys; the Bayraktar has been rendered obsolete by modern Russian AA defences; the Israelis need all the drones they have to fight an increasing number of enemies.
What remains if you want to go fast, for instance because you have some major engagement looming, say in the Orinoco basin?
AFAIK originally these things were to be used to test and evaluate US defenses, so they were supposed to be close copies, and perhaps there was even expectation they will be easily blown out of the sky, so no hope for multi-decade contract, just few units to confirm they are crap and of no use for superior western forces.
And then there’s this:
China Speeds up Delivery and Deployment of J-35A Stealth Fighter Jets in Pakistan By Q1 2026
https://www.aeronewsjournal.com/2025/05/china-speeds-up-delivery-and-deployment.html
adding: Pakistan has a quiet alliance with Iran.
Missiles, Militants, and Markets: Pakistan’s quiet alliance with Iran runs deeper than you think.
tl;dr.
“Synopsis
Amidst escalating tensions between Israel and Iran, Pakistan has openly condemned Israeli aggression, expressing solidarity with Iran. This alignment stems from shared security concerns, historical ties, and economic dependencies, particularly regarding energy. Pakistan’s support reflects a strategic pivot towards the East, seeking diplomatic and economic opportunities within a China-Russia-Iran axis.”
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/pakistan-alliance-iran-israel-war-khamenei-shabaz-sharif-asim-munir-energy-security-baluchistan-geopolitics/articleshow/121971288.cms
It wasn’t long ago that Iran and Pakistan were thought to be enemies (Afghanistan being a major reason, with US-Pakistan cooperation being another). How things change! (The weirdness, however, may persist since US-Pakistan relationship remains a thing…I wonder how long Pakistan can continue to juggle both China and US.)
Think CIA infills (Baluchs terror in east Iran etc) that were presumed allowed by Pakistan.
Things are soon different than appeared a few years ago.
Who wants to be run by a dying empire?
U.S. will also “flip the script on Yemen” by deploying two dozen troops in sandals armed with rusty AKs.
First you bomb them, then you warn them.
The irony is that the Iranians received a boost to their drone program in 2011 when they tricked an American drone into landing in Iran and the copied it (not the Shahed). Plus I believe US drone program was inspired by the Israelis doing it first.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Shahed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shahed_136
I’m so old that I remember when Russia’s use of Shahed inspired Gerans drones was trumpeted as proof of Russian incompetence. I assume the same pundits will be consistent and use this as evidence of US incompetence…
Highly modified these days, some are being fitted with short range air to air missiles now. Ukraine uses helicopters to shoot them down, machine guns on both door sides. Not to mention I saw a video of a Ukrainian AA gun on a pickup truck like vehicle and after it started firing on the Geran, it targeted and hit the truck. You could hear the Ukrainian operators panic as the scream of the dive bomb attack by the Geran and ran from the truck.
*Sigh*
As Scott Ritter has recounted, the Shaheed drone is an improvement of a US drone the Iran downed impressively by taking control of an electonic handoff from one control center to another.
Looking at the Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel that the Iranians nabbed, you wouldn’t think that the designs had much in common-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incident
They have nothing in common, except that they are things that fly and resemble Doritos (a thing that Horten Ho 229 does too). RQ-170 Sentinel is “flying wing”, while HESA Shahed 136 is “delta-wing”. In addition to that, their purpose is also unrelated, and hence the electronics and the engine.
Either Yves misremembered, or Ritter was talking out of his rear end (which would not be the first time). I remeber Larry Johnson making similar claim. Neither of them is an (aerospace) engineer. People should not take “internet celebrities/influencers” as an authority on everyting. Dunning–Kruger effect can affect anyone.
Ritter described in exacting detail the indicident in which Iran divereted the US drone. It was intended to counter repeated claims that Iran was not technologically sophisticated.
A search confirms that some Shaheed drones are copies or reverse engineering of captured US drones, but use different engines and other componets. I recall reading elsewhere that it leveraged technology from a downed drone, without the further Ritter part that it was actually a high tech capture/diversion. So your diss of Ritter on this issue is out of line, effectively an ad hominem, particularly since you provide NO substantiation of your position.
*Sigh*
Incident did happen, and Iranians did copy the drone, but did not make Shahed 136 as a result. Some Shaheeds are copies of US drones, some are not. Shahed 171 is, Shahed 136 isn’t. The second one was copied the other way around, as The Rev Kev commented.
It ain’t really rocket science, but it is engineering (and being one, I just gave my 2 cents). The diss is not on Ritter, but on all “armchair engineers” pretending to be the real ones.
Match for that straw?
Nowhere did I say that the captured drone that Ritter talked about was the origin of the Shaheed 136. The point was Rev Kev was arguing intellectual property theft. The point of mentioning the copy/tech hoisting from the US drone was to show it has gone both ways with the Shaheed.
And stop trying to play credentials (when you have presented no credentials or useful technical information of your own) when this topic does not require expertise. Web searches provide plenty of detail on the different types of Shaheed and which ones used elements of US technology.
Micron Technology’s consumer memory business Crucial is shutting down, will now focus instead on supplying memory for AI system buildouts.
This is going to be very painful for home PC builders
RIP. the Crucial brand has been around since the BASIC years.
just another sign that Normie retail demand is low-margin and a drop in the bucket versus enterprise sales.
I’ve used RAM from Chinese supplier (TimeTec, which use Micron or Korean modules) with no problems, very happy with them especially at the price, lmao.
I get the sense of a deliberate destruction of STEM knowledge capacity in the USA and the West. First Qualcomm buys Arduino, now Saltman uses his huge hoard of borrowed money to monopsonize the supply of crucial (heh) computing components available to Western consumers so that they have to suck at his metered API teat.
Familyblog this entire timeline.
If you have the scratch, I highly recommend grabbing one of the 8tb Crucial micro external SSDs. An amazing piece of tech. You can store a family-blogging ton of data on one little tiny drive that would fit almost anywhere.
You need 2 with another 4, ie, 1 + 2 for backup for data security, I use 4TB Crucal X9Pros, and I’ve just started using the new 4TB Crucial X10 Pros. Absolutely brilliant drives and the best on the market. Thought long and hard about the 8TBs but I prefer to keep data in smaller discrete units using Carbon Copy Cloner for backups and I perform regular backup checks of all drives not in use to ensure no data loss through fragmentation.
A big loss for DIY PC builders. I often bought their SSDs and currently run 3. One of the few producers beside Samsung and Toshiba (Kioxia) I think who has the expertise to make the whole stack – NAND memory chips and the controller chip inhouse. Their RAM sticks were a choice if one wanted highly dependable and conforming to spec.
‘DD Geopolitics
@DD_Geopolitics
🇮🇱🇺🇸 At the DealBook Summit, Netanyahu confirmed what many suspected: Trump’s Gaza “peace” plan isn’t about peace, it’s about elimination and control.
He declared Phase 1 hostage retrieval complete. Phase 2 is disarming Hamas. Phase 3, he says is “de-radicalizing” Gaza’s population after “60 years of brainwashing.”’
As an astute observer on the net pointed out, if they really wanted peace in this region then it would be the Israelis that would need to be “de-radicalized” after “77 years of brainwashing.”’-
https://twitter.com/TheGrayzoneNews/status/1740221120954110279
Thanks for the link to the story on the India-US trade deal being sent into the deep freezer.
Remember how Trump lied back in October? “Deal imminent!” Bwahahaha!
Or whaddabout this whopper: “Modi told me he isn’t going to buy Russian oil?”
We need a laugh track. It would be nice, too, if our famous free press covered this story, rather than having to dig it out of an Indian media source. Oh wait, there’s that laugh track again!
DT Barnum would lie if telling the truth was easier, just to keep in practice…
At some point we the people are going to pay the price for his fabrications, really the only growth industry in the country.
It is an excellent article this. It seems that every time Trump offers Modi some sort of deal, the provisions of it means wrecking India’s economy such as India trashing their farming industry just so US imports can come in. Trump is also demanding that Modi get rid of those Russian S-400s and I guess replacing them with Patriot batteries – that currently have a seven year waiting list. Thing is, India just had a short, sharp war with Pakistan and are in no mood to accept dodgy military equipment or putting their economy at hazard. It’s a rough neighbourhood over there and that cannot afford to play games just to keep Trump happy.
I learned something about how good those French Rafale fighters are. A much cheaper alternative (and quite effective, kudos to the French) to the super-expensive F-35s that come with all sorts of problematic gotchas, like remote kill-switches if the buyer starts to get too uppity. Or, as the article points out, a virtual kill-switch as in ‘sorry, we can’t upgrade your software to the latest version until you bow down and grovel to the empire’s demands’!
Trump is finding out that unlike Europe and Japan, you can’t just bully your way to a trade deal with India.
“Poop-peeping toilet attachment has a different definition of ‘end-to-end’ encryption”
You wonder if in their calculations, that they used log based maths.
The new Miranda warning: ‘they look Hispanic-cuff ’em’!’
Or; “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you do not say can and will be held against you. If you cannot afford an attorney, tough s–t. Please, as a courtesy to the arresting officer, stop hitting yourself. If you understand what I have just told you, whimper.”
It’s looking more and more like the policing methods described by the old-time crime writers are making a comeback.
Sam Spade to detective “friend” Tom Polhaus: “You wouldn’t be trying to strongarm me now, Tom, would you?”
How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices The Guardian
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You know your town has gone to shit when a Dollar General shows up along with a check cashing place, rent to own store and more.
DG was eyeing us as store # 9,652, but the only location they could put it had a local who owned it, that in no way would allow such a monstrosity to be built.
“You know your town has gone to shit when a Dollar General shows up”
And when things get really bad, even the Dollar store closes. We’ve lost a Rite-Aid and a Dollar General in the last 6 months.
What tells the tale for me is when the payday loan shops and auto-title loan shops start closing. That has begun to happen here, and this is not a tiny place.
Speaking of hearing aids… The article above talks about some that are way over my price range, but bear with me. I’m almost 70, on SS with a supplemental insurance. I don’t hear well. For example, I can hear a train coming at night miles out in the country, but I can’t hear someone sitting across the room.
So it seems to me it is about frequency. I am told by many I talk to who have hearing aids they don’t like them because they don’t work that well. Why? Seems to me they would be made, or set, to hit the frequency one needs to hear. Or even be adjustable to do so. Then off you go. I’m sure it’s not this simple, but why not? And why so expensive? People on fixed income cannot afford 5 or 6 grand for these things, especially if they don’t work.
I can hear pretty good when I use a simple standard set of earplugs that cost 10 bucks.
Or am I completely delusional about all this? Or just another American racket?
The ones that are in the 5-6K range can work very well. Mine has, I believe, the equivalent of a five-band equalizer; it’s only adjustable by the audiologist, but there can be (in this model) up to three pre-sets that I can switch back and forth, so I can have one setting for conversations and two for music. And this is the ten-year-old technology.
Maybe some of the 5 grand is a racket, but by no means all of it. They have the technology of a pretty fancy stereo system built in to a very small package.
I worked in the electronics industry for 40+ years and knew two electronics engineers who tried to design their own hearing aids, one analog and the other digital (DSP based).
Per a lecture one of them gave at work, when one is young, one has wide dynamic range (can hear both loud and soft sounds) and wide frequency response (low to high frequencies).
As I recall, hearing loss occurs at about twice the frequency of a sustained loud noise, so it is insidious as loss happens outside the range of the loud noise.
One loses both dynamic range and frequency response as people are assaulted with loud noises.
In my view, hearing aids can boost amplitude in different frequency bands, but compensating for loss of dynamic range tries to squeeze soft/loud sounds into the same diminished window.
Again, as I recall, birds are the only animals who can repair damaged hearing, humans cannot.
One of the engineers opted for a cochlear implant.
It is interesting that Edgar Villchur, an admirable man per all reports, developed loudspeakers at the Acoustic Research Company in the early days of hi-fi and later developed hearing aids.
In my opinion, his Wikipedia page is well worth a view for both loudspeaker and hearing aid information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Villchur
Thanks to you both for the information. I am looking into this as it becomes more difficult to interact with others. I’m tired of not hearing anything and just nodding my head like I heard them but really didn’t.
Mine are probably damaged due to noise over the years. I was around race cars and loud engines, rock and roll music turned up too loud, and high decibel jobs I had.
I live in a small town with little choices and none I trust. It’s a world I know nothing about, but here we go.
I’m 71, similar story. I went to a non-profit hearing center (Marion Downs, in Denver, named after a pioneer in hearing loss and protection in children). Complete hearing test, examination, consultation with an audiologist all covered by medicare and my supplemental insurance. The hearing aids were about $3,500. High end, different programs controlled from my phone (restaurant, music, crowd, etc.) I am a trombonist in an orchestra, so this is very important to me.
From your history you’re pretty much guaranteed to have hearing loss at both ends of the spectrum, especially high frequencies, which is why it’s hard to understand speech. I understand limited resources, but the quality of your hearing is directly related to mental and physical health. Socialization is important. Do what you can to correct this.
I am not a doctor, this is just an informed lay opinion.
I wish I had been more disciplined about hearing protection decades ago. If you have children or grandchildren, get them ear protection and in the habit of using it. They’ll thank you when they are our age.
Yes, there are models where you get tested to determine in what frequencies your hearing is poor and the hearing aid is tuned to boost those frequencies. Those hearing aids are normally very pricey, as in over $3,000 or $4,000 but Costco audiologiist can test you and you can buy them at Costco for less.
Thanks to all – a great help.
“Newly Released Photos Offer Glimpse Inside Epstein’s Private Island”
I didn’t see a photo of the concrete slab that was laid down after Epstein was arrested and a month before the Feds finally got around to visiting that island. I sometimes wonder what lies beneath that concrete slab. Videos? Photographs? Documents? Guess we’ll never know. If the Feds had wanted to know, they would have sent agents down there while Epstein was being arrested but they didn’t.
What in the heck was the dental chair all about in his little shop of horrors?
It was meant for checking out cavities.
I feel sure it was all coincidental…
In-network.
Fully covered.
Up.
By Blue
CrossDress Blue Shield?While digesting disgusting views
Of those few adore
A pin-back old glory
The last refuge for a scoundrel
Samuel Johnson might implore
And if I could see old Betsy Ross
I’d tell her about who to ignore
But your flag lapel pin won’t get you
Into heaven any more
They’re already overcrowded
From your dirty little wars
Now Jesus don’t like killin’
No matter what the reason’s for
And your flag lapel pin won’t get you
Into heaven any more
Well, I watched C-Span today
And the Congressman said to thee
“If you vote for me
I’ll wear it for all to see”
Well, I didn’t mess around a bit
I took him up on what he said
Wondering why he couldn’t
Use a pin-back adorning his forehead
Well, Congress was so filled
With flag lapel pins for all to see
This habit was hard to curb
They thought it was expected of them
Patriotism on demand
And I’ll never understand why the man
Standing in the pearly gates said…
But your flag lapel pin won’t get you
Into heaven any more
They’re already overcrowded
From your dirty little wars
Now Jesus don’t like killin’
No matter what the reason’s for
And your flag lapel pin won’t get you
Into heaven any more
Your Flag Decal won’t get you into Heaven Anymore, by John Prine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE7lVN07Q-Y&list=RDiE7lVN07Q-Y
The US is not at war with Venezuela. The regime is not even citing the AUMF, Congress’s weak-kneed dodge around its stated power to declare war, but claiming on no evidence that … hand wave, whip off the MAGA red sheet … Venezuela is poisoning Amurica and Maduro is a DRUG KINGPIN. Therefore with, what is it 1/4 or 1/3 of the US fleet off the coast, Marines ready to hit the beaches, air forces straining at the leash, plucky thickly muscled special operators doing dark deeds bravely, spindly tricky ones quietly at work buying off whoever needs to be bought off … with all of that the only answer to speedboats doing who knows what, fishermen fishing maybe, the only answer is NARCO-TERRORISTS … I rather like that formulation. Hope whoever came up with it gets a cookie … Wow guys, you stitched together the (fanfare) War on Drugs: (subtitle) failing consistently for over 50 years with (louder and more patriotically heroic fanfare) War on Terror: (Subtitle) finally providing the tools to whip the proles in line now doubling down to do so. What do you want Donnie? He offered you a good deal on the oil. What’s the problem? Vlad, incomprehensibly to you, will not horse trade on his oft repeated non-negotiable aims. Violates one of your bred in the bone and Cohn reinforced rules: everything is negotiable. Or is it Bibi who will persist in slaughtering every pesky person wherever found for no reason at all and is getting in the way of the “Gaza Riveria” and all that beautiful money. You’re annoyed so you need to beat up on someone and Maduro has given the. middle finger to your awesomeness one too many times. Time to take his shitty little country and throw it into the wall just because you want to? Is that it. Is that way you are squandering billions to keep this charade going? Man. you guys need new script writers/ This is pathetic. Or have I misunderstood?
Re: Who Counts, Who Knows…”: “Despite decades of democratic governance and constitutional guarantees, these hierarchies continue to shape India’s public institutions... ”
And still to this day, amongst Americanized Indians, even. I worked in the US with a number of 2nd generation Indians, often in the late 20s to mid 30s age range, born in the US to previously naturalized immigrant couples. And within an hour of meeting a new Indian team member, each person’s family caste history was questioned, established, and ranked (not so subtly, sometimes).
Certainly feels this way right now.
As some have said, we’re quarantined.
Anybody remember that in the original Battlestar Galactica, the planet said to be the origin of humanity, Kobol (or something like that) was in the middle of a giant cosmic void? What did Glen A Larson know and when did he know it?
Or we’re trapped in Trump’s brain.
I’m not sure what kind of message will be sent by NATO countries buying products from US military industrial contractors. That NATO political elites are gullible?
A major practical problem with this plan is that the things they are likely to buy from the US MIC are useless in an actual war, and in any case can only be obtained in tiny numbers that will be wiped out in the first few days of any conflict. And of course the delivery times are likely to be measured in years.
A huge problem for MICs these days is that it’s far from obvious what to manufacture and sell. Traditional armaments have recently turned out to be useless in a war against a peer power. At best they are a waste of money and time, and at worst they render your own military into sitting ducks. Long development cycle weapons, such as aircraft carriers and aircraft, are much preferred by the MICs, but the war will be long over before such weapons can be fielded.
Far better to avoid wars!
I’ve been waiting for someone more expert than me to pipe up about the targeting-boats-in-the Caribbean story, but since nobody has, I’ll have a go.
Simply put, these acts cannot be “war crimes” because there is no war. (And anyway “war” is not a term that’s used any more.) Nor can they be violations of the laws of arms conflict because there is no armed conflict. Journalists who write about “war crimes” are implicitly accepting Trumps ridiculous assertion that there is an “armed conflict” between the narcotics gangs and the US. But that’s not how it works. Unlike “war” which was a declaration of hostilities by one state against another, an “armed conflict” is an objectively verifiable state of affairs. It’s normally defined as”resort to armed force between States or protracted armed violence between governmental authorities and organized armed groups or between such groups within a State.” Thus, it’s something you demonstrate by reference to length and intensity of fighting. You can’t just declare it exists.
So the actual question is which law does apply. Some aspect of the law of the sea? Something to do with the law on stopping and searching?
So, piracy? Terrorism? Seem a lot worse than “war crimes,” which at least has a dignity of “war” in the background. This gets “better and better.”
I vote for state-sponsored terrorism. It seems to fit the facts best.
Time to bring back “Letters of Marque?” Perfect for “Blackwater Marine” to handle, for a fee.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque
felony murder?
Sounds about right, but if the military performs the murders on the basis of orders by the President and/or the Secretary for War, it may be a war crime even if war has not been declared. An uprovoked invasion is the worst war crime and an attack on a boat at sea is declaration of war and a war crime. Anybody remember the Gulf of Tonkin gave LBJ the opportunity to exercise his right to retaliate on behalf of the US and signatories to the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty on the basis of what was efectively a non-existent event, ie a fiction, taking the Congress with him apart from two farseeing senators who knew LBJ only too well?
I did point out that we have no “war crimes” any more because we have no declarations of war, and in any case you couldn’t declare war on a criminal syndicate. What you are talking about here are violations of international law by states, not acts by individuals. If there is no armed conflict, then the use of force by the military is governed by the civil law, and the military and its command chain can be charged with criminal offences, as happened to the British in Northern Ireland.
“Scope and Impact of the AUMF”
“-The AUMF allows the President to determine who to target and what actions to take, extending beyond just al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
-It has been used to authorize military operations in at least 22 countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, and Yemen.
-The AUMF does not require targets to be state actors, allowing for actions against non-state actors as well.”
Hence, Rubio’s recent baseless designation of fictitious entities as “narco-terrorists”, e.g., the “Train from Aragua”, “cartoons of the Suns” …
A feature of the propaganda model used to “manufacture consent“ for illegal WARs of aggression are unchallenged presuppositions embedded in the sophistic rhetorical narrative, e.g., Its presupposed that there is a structured, organized, and logical deliberation process for determining the existence of and membership in, “narco-cartels” that are ultra-organized and can be pigeonholed as “terrorist” …the word “terrorist” being a key ingredient in the “justifications” sausage factory…
Some experts have piped up (ohchr.org), if not exactly on this here site.
It appears that these are “unlawful killings” that violate international human rights law and international maritime law. And if so, they also violate US military law.
The same experts (ohchr.org) also state that by “closing” (at least Russian carriers just kept flying in and out) Venezuelan airspace USA is violating both Chicago Convention and UN Charter.
Rules trump laws, I guess.
They are homicides, by a state actor. If Iran did it, they’d call it terror.
One of the parties loudly claims, via its commander in chief, that they are at war with the other guys, and that it’s the reason why they are bombing them. Shouldn’t that count for something?
No, because as I explained an armed conflict is an objective state of affairs, like the temperature. You can’t just claim one exists.
Not really, because laws of physics and man-made laws are not the same thing, by any stretch of the imagination. First ones apply all the time, on everyone and everything equally, whether anyone wants it or not. Second ones are arbitrary in essence, enforced selectively, and infinitely malleable (which often counts as a feature not a bug). One can just claim anything.
Armed conflict is a subjective state of affairs that can be, and often is, interpret as one sees fit. USians like to interpret temperature differently too, but one can easily convert from degrees Fahrenheit.
Ask Saint Obama.
Classify by decree, e.g.., “Narco”, conflate by decree, e.g., “narco-terrorist” and repurpose the AUMF. All this with a shamefully derelict congress that should have reclaimed the authority to declare war long ago.
I like the ring of Narco Rubio, which sums up a great deal about the man and his two offices.
If it’s permissible to extra-judicially murder people on the high seas, why not also within the US? Is this a trial balloon? Manufacture the consent to do it elsewhere, then transition by degrees to bring it closer to home?
Layperson here, but these strikes have seemed to me to be most simply put as: murder. Which I said at the outset.
Nick Turse at the Intercept today. He quotes Abraham Lincolns 1863 Lieber Code:
Entire Chain of Command Could Be Held Liable for Killing Boat Strike Survivors, Sources Say
I said the same about Obama’s drone strikes years ago.
The two major normative factors here are murder/killing and no due process.
I assume the drone regime and introduction of such an idiotic thing as lawless warriors in the aftermath of 9/11 to legalize extrajudicial killings provided the basis for this mindset.
If it is a wedding congregation in Afghanistan wiped out by a drone, a taxi driver abducted in Morocco and tortured or alleged narcos killed by missiles in the Carribean – it all comes down to the same illegal pattern.
I am all in for exactness and understanding the legalities. But we need to be careful not providing this criminal behaviour with legal pretext by delving into the minutiae and overlooking the forest for the tree.
I have seen this happening in German texts about international law and Gaza. Compartmentalization and the separation of fields of expertise blurs the big obvious case of a historic war crime in this latter case. And eventually it´s simply being abused to hide from responsibility. There its obviously never done to understand the true nature of the Gaza matter. Because everyone already knows what is going on. It´s not difficult.
Eventually, whether the boats blown up is a war crime or something else is – possibly – secondary?
I was actually saying precisely that there is no legal pretext because there is no armed conflict, and therefore no conflict-related justification can be claimed, as Trump has tried to do. These’re not trivial issues.
Yes.
“MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce” could be rephrased as “MIT study finds 11.69% of U.S. employees are working in bullshit jobs.” Which is probably a misunderestimation.
Not sure AI is better than Juran’s organization evolution fad.
“Can” is a vague word demand under what definitions a job “can” be replaced by an “usable” AI.
As Lefty says replace BS with BS.
Limited sample: MIT no different than any other college trying to get pubs….
I have to wonder if it was 11% of the tenured MIT profs that could be fired?
A weakness of extant AI is it ignores epistemology by grabbing on to post Manhattan project math theory.
Modeling nuke explosions was for prediction, they could only test once due to resource restraints and rapid collapse in Tokyo. If you underlay those models to IT for business decisions you have to give the decider “close”.
As we used to joke in SAC “close only counts in horseshoes and h bombs.
A company doing good data can’t afford AI.
The Skripals are back in the news. Putin ‘morally responsible’ for Dawn Sturgess’s novichok death, inquiry finds, Guardian.
Headline says it all. There is zero pushback on the narrative.
I still feel sorry for the cat. That death is a perfect metaphor for how dysfunctional the Organs of State Security are. They couldn’t even be arsed to worry about a poor dumb animal. If that is so, why should we expect anything better for the “potential terrorists” among us?
We are seeing Hannah Arendt’s “Banality of Evil” on display.
285| Hezbollah In A Cauldron. Syria Turned To Gaza. Putin Gives Stern Warning To EU. Dying Empire
Vanessa Beeley, paints a grim picture of West Asia/ ME on
Jamarl Thomas Pod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL7FpK7V8OA
Inside Israel’s shadow campaign to win over American media
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-noa-tishby/?
Shadow campaign my foot! The US press has been pro-Irael for a very long time. No special effort is required to get positive reports on Israel, even positive spin on its worst deeds. Connor Echols does not appear to understand that FARA vis-a-vis Israel supporters in the US was a battle long lost.
Editors at Responsible Statecraft published his piece, why? Puzzling!
RE: “Who should pay?”
“Zillow’s climate risk reversal…”
Wondering “who should pay” in today’s u.s. seems unrealistic and more than a little wishful. I believe we already know who will pay — private parties without clout will pay, lenders without clout will pay, and the Populace will pay to compensate corporate interest and the wealthy. “Should” has nothing to do with the matter in today’s u.s.
The concerns raised in the Zillow link ignore too much of the way things work in the u.s. Individuals need shelter. They are consumers, prey, in today’s ‘markets’. The risks to corporate interests consolidating real estate to assert monopoly pricing for rents are calculated for the short term. The larger risks due to climate change can be passed on to corporate stock or bond holders. Lethal risks when realized may be lethal to a fictitious corporate individual and perhaps a few well-compensated executives, and of course legions of the corporate minions.
It appears that climate change is occurring much more rapidly than anticipated in the carefully ‘tuned’ models the IPCC uses. Climate risks are greatly underestimated. I recently purchased a home. I checked the reported climate risks before giving too much consideration to any listing. When I was looking there were First Street climate estimates and a recent update to the FEMA maps of flooding risk for the area I where I was looking. I regarded both as at best estimates of the potential risk of finding a lender and being able to maintain insurance on the home I purchased. I know who will pay if my home floods. I will. I inherited a sum of cash sufficient to purchase a modest home in an area not expected to flood, at least according to First Street and the updated FEMA maps.
The complete lack of homes I could afford in an area that might be safe from flooding over the next few decades presented a problem I ran into in searching for a home. Older homes were built where and when climate risks were very different. Newer homes tend to be built near already developed towns and cities which were located at a time of different risks and different reasons for locating a community. Housing is overpriced without considering climate risks. Add in some optimistic risk estimates based on recent trends magnifies the overpricing. Assessing the actual climate risks would be catastrophic to the much inflated u.s. housing markets.
Suspect arrested in the 2021 Capitol pipe bomb case – https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/suspect-arrested-january-2021-d-133704186.html
I’m sure Kash Patel will give us nothing but the straight dope about all of it, just as soon as he finds a jacket that fits.
It’s starting to look like Kash is on the way out at the FBI.
From the 2 Due Dissidence guys. utube. ~28+ minutes.
Includes the jacket incident. / ;)
HILARIOUS Report Details Kash Patel’s FBI in DISARRAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvbXvoRqbsE
Judge Napolitano and Alastair Crooke on China. utube, ~31+ minutes.
Alastair Crooke : How Beijing Sees the World’s Hotspots .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_HAHITxdrI
So Crooke after one week in China is an expert? Help me.
He is so wrong on deflation I don’t know where to begin.
Piers Morgan (OK, I know some history), two segments, first with John Mearsheimer and then Alan Dershowitz. The former is on solid footing and the latter is squirming (after the Epstein emails, schadenfreude?).
I lament that the kind Jewish folks I know and count as friends could be tarred by the crimes of Israel (if only from the MAGA crowd against the Israel first crowd, a point but not the whole point, as they are not so much against genocide but influence), I don’t yet know how to resolve this. We must reconcile this and hold Israeli accountable. Keep your mouse handy to throw off the ads (oft a usual procedure).
“He Did Everything To SMEAR” Epstein’s Mearsheimer Plot Revealed in Leaks | With Alan Dershowitz
Except the twisting of the plot in the headline. My apologies. I watched it in its entirety. AD was penetrated.
The superpower that the elites seem to have is their shamelessness. The wonderful ‘Conspiracy Theory’ of the elites being Reptilians from Zeta Reticuli is a perfect metaphor for the sociopaths who want to exploit the rest of us. Cold, calculating and essentially inhuman, they blight our world. Those of us who know shame must make common cause.
Be safe, stay warm.
Pentagon Watchdog Finds Hegseth’s Use of Signal Posed Risk to US Personnel Military.com
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(magazine)
I understand that the “original” “Signal” came over to America paperclipped to a set of V-2 plans. Both seem to have prospered.
re: German censorship & Lowenthal lecture & Velazquez Covid lecture
Lowenthal was mentioned here by flora I believe.
Taibbi had him mentioned too recently.
This is an English-speaking lecture in Berlin where Lowenthal spoke for 70 minutes.
He says his experience with Asian countries helped him in analyzing censorship here:
The German Censorship Network – Press Conference in Berlin
Germany is a censorship hotspot, as an international research group discovered during a detailed investigation. I attended the presentation of the project in Brussels and Berlin.
29.11.25
https://www.velazquez.press/p/das-deutsche-zensurnetzwerk-pressekonferenz
Below this long video which is accompanied by some text by German investigative journalist Aya Velazquez (who recently has been debanked I believe, probably due to her work about Covid policies) – her 15 min. lecture on that same evening about censorship during Covid.
An AI dub in English is available (I hate it. But what can I do).
Occupation of Alcatraz, 11-29-1969
2 min. original silent film footage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1md5YYKl-9g
Someone I care deeply for effective died yesterday, around 4 pm eastern time. When my father got COVID in July, I feared the worst. We know that it is a vascular disease. With a family history of heart disease, a legacy I likely inherited, he had his first and only heart attack 30 years ago, at 45. At the time, I thought I might have mine as well at 45.
I can’t trade places with him; but I suppose I might join him soon enough.
Instead, he had a second heart attack, serious enough that he likely died at the scene. On the scene highway patrol engaged CPR for 30 minutes. With the traffic and construction on I40, it took far too long for the ambulance to arrive. He crashed multiple times on the way to the hospital. The loss of blood flow for so long killed his colon outright.
He’d had imaging testing on his coronary arteries as recently as 18 months ago, and the only area of concern was the original region from his minor heart attack, where his heart healed and had no scar tissue. He had only a single stent from this time period. From the cath lab, we learned that all these arteries were 70% blocked. This just wasn’t the case 18 months ago.
While I don’t think COVID did this in 5 months, I think given the vascular nature of the disease, it certainly could have been a trigger.
If this was 100 years ago, it would all be over. Instead he’s been kept alive on a series of many different machines, but there is no brain stem activity, and it’s likely that he died at the scene.
It’s peaceful here, in the ER room now, the techs only stop in occasionally, and in the corner on the floor it is relatively warm. My mother and sister left earlier. When my father’s sister flies in tomorrow, that will be the end.
I am deeply proud to be his son. My father was always kind, loving, thoughtful, conscientious. In his career as a general agent for life, health, and variable annuity, he genuinely enjoyed getting to know his clients. He had many that were with him even until the end. He insured mostly small businesses, and every time annual enrollment came around, he furnished clients with a thorough analysis of the best benefits plans for employees. He always focused on the best benefits, at the best price, and always tried to get small business customers the best deal that he could. He never focused on commissions or personal gain.
He was always even-keeled. He never angered, or complained. He always had kind words. He worked tirelessly to provide for my mother, sister, and I. He loved to sail, to fish, and woodworking. In his later years, he began playing chess online. As a family we enjoyed the Friday pizzas that he made, a kind of family ritual.
I realize I have no right to even post this, and I wasn’t planning on writing a eulogy; I’m just sitting here on the floor and that’s where I’m at.
He is survived by his loving wife, son, daughter, and sister.
Godspeed to us all.
May his passing be gentle and his memory be a blessing. I am so sorry.
I am terribly sorry.
You are his legacy. He did well. Grieve as long as you need to. Letting go can be very hard. Those who don’t understand can be pitied.
Stay safe, in all meanings of the word.
I am so, so sorry for your loss. My dad died 46 years ago aged 59, and not a day passes without me thinking about him and imagining what his advice to me might be when I face any problem.
I am sorry to hear that Jason.
My condolences for your loss.
This may be off base too but I have come to think of this site and it’s commenters as a family of sorts. One that I have and every day learn so much from. Though we may not know about the very personal details of each other because we hide behind our pseudonyms, I like to think that we send best wishes and appreciation for each other even when there may be disagreements in our thinking.
When one of us experiences a huge loss, I like to think we all feel for each other.
Sending good thoughts that you and yours find peace and I am sure your Father is very proud of you.
I am sorry for your loss, he sounds like a wonderful father. I learned from the passing of my father, whom I miss terribly, is that you carry on with his words and wisdom – more so as you age. Look forward to his visits in your dreams.
So sorry to hear about your loss, Jason. At least you can say is that he will live on in the memories of yourself and the rest of his family. If you ever feel the need, perhaps it would be an idea to get together with your family and put together a biography of your father which includes those memories and stories that you must all have. My condolences.
I am so so sorry for your loss. It sounds like he was a wonderful man.
Thank you so much.
My mother and sister are regular readers and they’ll appreciate your kind words.
Sorry for your loss, Jason. It is maddening that as far as my limited view from the bleachers can tell, there is not much “curiosity” out there on the long-term effects of COVID. The funding spigot is probably turned off if not welded shut for those researchers who ask such annoying questions!
Peace and prayers for you.