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InMD in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25My read of Cass is he's trying to grope towards a new synthesis of the right of center. From the ess…
InMD in reply to Marchmaine on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Maybe I need to read him more to get that. I read the substack post on the 3 demands that seemed to…
Dark Matter in reply to David TC on Trump’s Most Insidious Scheme (So Far)I put down only facts. I gave no personal evaluation at all. However since you asked: I am strongly…
Marchmaine in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25I think the premise that someone like Cass is working with is that Trump and Musk *aren't* on-board.…
Jaybird in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Musk seems to have flipped from Grey to Red (though who knows how long that will last). Cass is an o…
InMD in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Eh maybe...? I mean admittedly I am not the closest Musk follower but my take on him is that his two…
Dark Matter in reply to Chris on A Grudging Concession About Something Trump DidThe Good: 1) Tariffs on China. 2) What he's done with Israel. 3) Dismantling DEI and understanding i…
Jaybird in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25This isn't exactly the Grey Tribe (though Musk has overlap with them and Thiel is Grey to the bone).…
InMD in reply to Marchmaine on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25The ideas are worth taking seriously but the conceit that Trump (or Vance, or Musk) understand or ar…
David TC in reply to Dark Matter on Trump’s Most Insidious Scheme (So Far)That's a law enforcement agency arresting, for months or years, people who not only have not committ…

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I was fortunate to get a version of the opposite of this not too long ago. At the new doctor’s office a nurse was questioning me about being active and putting into the EMR system. I went through the bike riding, and the occasional fencing, and the ongoing landscape rebuilding that involves moving a fair amount of heavy stuff from here to there (and sometimes back). I whined a bit about being slower and having to knock off sooner from the heavy lifting than I used to. “Honey,” she said, “I see people every day younger than you that have let themselves go to the point they can’t even try things like that. You’re doing terrific.” Put a bounce back in my step :^)Report
I get a distinct autobiographical vibe from all of his comics and this one is no exception. 1875-1930.
Do we know when this one was done? If it was when he was 30ish, I’d know that he had a conversation with an acquaintance and ran with this idea… but if it were done when he were 52…Report