What happens when you stop paying your military? The military often will launch a coup or simply see its combat effectiveness collapse. The government shutdown is a disaster.
I beat my drum about shrinking the federal government, but shutting it down arbitrarily including the parts we very much need is idiotic.
How is this even the mechanism we ended up with for situations in which we don’t pass spending bills?… read more “The government shutdown is a disaster”
I have read thousands of sci fi and fantasy books now and have been running out of good ones to read, so I asked AI for recommendations based on other books I liked. Gemini recommended I read Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio. I bought the book for $10.
I tried reading it and got about 11% in and just could not go further it was so poorly written.… read more “Book Review: Empire of Silence”
I keep a daily log of things that are important to me in Google sheets and have done so for many years.
I was curious about how my weight has changed over the years, so I looked it up:
I do not like where that trend is going.… read more “My weight”