"This was the voice of moderation until 13 Sept, 2025"
An open thread. Georgia is a brand of canned coffee sold in Asia, originally a Coca-Cola and Nescafe collaboration, but then, Coca-Cola took over the brand. Anyway, it seemed apropos. Another thing, we had a bizarre spike in visits two weeks ago. Here is the jump and two days on either side. 2023-08-09 314 2023-08-10 … Read more
by liberal japonicus I'm not sure about this, but I seem to recall a couple of years ago a spate of articles about dealing with climate change through geoengineering, but with the current weather problems around the world, I'm not seeing them. I can adduce several possible reasons, listed in order of likelihood: I'm not … Read more
by JanieM Taking off from lj’s thread, I confess to some bemusement at the worry people express these days over children’s screen time. It’s not like screen time is new; we watched TV all the time when I was a kid. I could sit here all day listing the sitcoms and cartoons and TV dramas … Read more
by liberal japonicus What's a old fart to do? Facebook slides into irrelevance, Instagram is a bridge too far, and Tik-tok might as well be from another Galaxy (not to mention X/Twitter), I end up going to Youtube. I use it to show things to students and it is possible to curate lists of videos, … Read more
by JanieM I could note the reality of details like the utility pole, the shed, and the float thingie that's sitting under a tree in the middle distance, but the feeling that the picture gives me is quite different from that reality. In my imagination, every time I look at it I think of a … Read more