[Raising of Chicago](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago)
Highlights from the article
> During the 1850s and 1860s, engineers carried out a piecemeal raising of the grade of central Chicago to lift the city out of its low-lying swampy ground. Buildings and sidewalks were physically raised on jackscrews.
> In January 1858, the first masonry building in Chicago to be thus raised—a four-story, 70-foot-long (21 m), 750-ton (680 metric tons) brick structure situated at the north-east corner of Randolph Street and Dearborn Street—was lifted on two hundred jackscrews to its new grade, which was 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) higher than the old one, “without the slightest injury to the building.”
More "late nineteenth century" engineering that "shithole" engineering.
The video is coming from the other side. Amateur pianists are hearing it everywhere too, and saying "I've got to join in and play it myself."
The video is saying don't. But not because it is over played. Rather, an amateur ends up keeping their hand spread, trying to get the arpeggios up to speed, and that causes a strain injury + other good reasons.
The original vision was that getting the Government to act involved agreement between the legislature and the executive. First Congress had to pass a law granting the executive authority. Then the executive had to act. This was intended to result in a government less bossy and intrusive than that of George III.
She is in the legislature. That means that she gets to pass a law saying that the executive *must* tell the American people what is going on. After that, she gets to wait patiently for the executive to enforce the law.
If you use a search engine, you can reach the [deepest depths of hell](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Triceratops-Bottoms-Dinosaur-Erotica-Faust/dp/B0BNTVYKP1).
An important trick that war pigs use to ensure that wars never stop is to draw the borders badly at the end of a war.
So the Franco-Prussian war ends with [Alsace–Lorraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace%E2%80%93Lorraine) stolen from France and given to Germany with an eye to starting the 1914-1918 war.
At the end of the 1914-1918 war, Poland gets given German territory, to make sure of a future war between Poland and German that might expland. This time, the trick works rather too well.
At the end of the Cold War in 1991, there was the chance to draw the new international boundaries of Ukraine sensibly. Disregard the Bolshevik administrative boundaries that had lots of ethnic Russians in the Bolshevik Socialist Soviet Republic. Those boundaries were so crazy that Crimea was part of "Ukraine". But no, we had to have the boundaries too far East, ready to trigger WWIII
I've been thinking about capitalism and the difference between recourse mortgages and non-recourse mortgages. What would a recourse economy look like? Pondering the alternative, a non-recourse economy, I find a [justification of Capitalism](https://saidit.net/s/whatever/comments/6i8w/the_mine_owners_do_not_find_the_gold_they_do_not/). It is capital that lets us live in a non-recourse economy, and we are determined to have a non-recourse economy.
The spaceship stuff is redoing Apollo 11. Do 1969 things but with modern technology to make it a lot cheaper. The key is using control theory to land and reuse rockets. That is actually working.
"Nothing ever changes"? Mostly true, but cheaper spaceships is a real change.
> I have a friend who works in meteorology, and the two longest serving people in their company got let go because AI can automatically write the scripts for weather, which was their job for the last 40 years.
But contrast the shipping forecast with the weather forecast at the end of a news program. The shipping forecast has a rigid format. Fishermen in their boats copy it down on a sheet of paper. Their lives depend on it. It is plain and conveys information with decoration
The weather forecast is inconsistently phrased and dragged out with chit-chat. BBC Radio 4 covers a large enough country that it gives different forecasts for different regions. One listens, never quite sure when one's own region with be reached, as the pointless quips and banter wastes ones time. Those scripts subtract value.
I don't mind the script writers losing their jobs. I'm annoyed that they are being replaced with AI. Why automate value subtraction?
At 26'52" we are told about "...China pumping out more exports than ever before, while importing next to nothing."
But I'm not hearing about the Yuan soaring in value. What is balancing the books? Are the Chinese buying Euro and Dollar bonds while American and Eurozone governments get deeper and deeper into China's debt?
Sometimes rubato is mandatory. Bar ten has *poco rit.*, abbreviating *poco ritardando*. Then bar eleven has *a tempo*. You would be expected to linger romantically over the repeated E flats at the start of bar ten, before getting crisply back to business for bar eleven.
But what of bar six? Chopin marks *cresc.* Koczalski slows down instead of getting louder. But how is bar six supposed to go? It has those off-beat accents; I never know what to do with them. I'll try it Koczalski's way. Slowing down to stretch the beat and make the accents conspicuously off the beat works for me :-)
The case of Islam supports what you say. Muslim's have a notion of *shirk*, of people manipulating Islam to mold it to their own desires. Islam condemns *shirk* and expects the faithful to fight it.
This does give a certain amount of stability, but it also leads to splits and vicious infighting as rival leaders install conflicting programs in their human followers.
Jesus is supposed to return. That works great in the early days. Convert today, tomorrow may be too late. Convert this week, next week may be too late. Convert this year, next year may be too late.
The trouble is that Christianity has a soft "sell buy" date. As the years tick by the urgency fades, and that drags down faith. I'm reading about Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Harrison. Some pious folk were expecting Jesus to return in 1660. Really? The issue is that if you read history, and then more history, you soon realize that there is an awful lot of it, and one thousand six hundred and sixty years is a mind bogglingly long time. Living in 1653 and expecting Jesus to return in 1660 is possible, but only by being ignorant, and not really grasping what a long time has slipped by. The issue is worse in 2024.
I'm not seeing how Christianity can revive to have the vigor that it had when people anxiously expected His return.
happytoes 7 points 5 months ago
[Raising of Chicago](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago)
Highlights from the article
> During the 1850s and 1860s, engineers carried out a piecemeal raising of the grade of central Chicago to lift the city out of its low-lying swampy ground. Buildings and sidewalks were physically raised on jackscrews.
> In January 1858, the first masonry building in Chicago to be thus raised—a four-story, 70-foot-long (21 m), 750-ton (680 metric tons) brick structure situated at the north-east corner of Randolph Street and Dearborn Street—was lifted on two hundred jackscrews to its new grade, which was 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) higher than the old one, “without the slightest injury to the building.”
More "late nineteenth century" engineering that "shithole" engineering.
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happytoes 2 points 5 months ago
Interesting link. Interesting? No, terrifying :-(
Excerpt starts at seven minutes forty seconds
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happytoes 3 points 5 months ago
Rudyard Kipling in 1911
https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/hum100/female.html
Line 45-48
So it cames that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer
With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her
Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands
To some God of Abstract Justice -- which no woman understands.
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happytoes 1 point 6 months ago
The video is coming from the other side. Amateur pianists are hearing it everywhere too, and saying "I've got to join in and play it myself."
The video is saying don't. But not because it is over played. Rather, an amateur ends up keeping their hand spread, trying to get the arpeggios up to speed, and that causes a strain injury + other good reasons.
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happytoes 0 points 6 months ago
The original vision was that getting the Government to act involved agreement between the legislature and the executive. First Congress had to pass a law granting the executive authority. Then the executive had to act. This was intended to result in a government less bossy and intrusive than that of George III.
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happytoes 1 point 6 months ago
She is in the legislature. That means that she gets to pass a law saying that the executive *must* tell the American people what is going on. After that, she gets to wait patiently for the executive to enforce the law.
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happytoes 3 points 6 months ago
If you use a search engine, you can reach the [deepest depths of hell](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Triceratops-Bottoms-Dinosaur-Erotica-Faust/dp/B0BNTVYKP1).
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happytoes 0 points 6 months ago
An important trick that war pigs use to ensure that wars never stop is to draw the borders badly at the end of a war.
So the Franco-Prussian war ends with [Alsace–Lorraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace%E2%80%93Lorraine) stolen from France and given to Germany with an eye to starting the 1914-1918 war.
At the end of the 1914-1918 war, Poland gets given German territory, to make sure of a future war between Poland and German that might expland. This time, the trick works rather too well.
At the end of the Cold War in 1991, there was the chance to draw the new international boundaries of Ukraine sensibly. Disregard the Bolshevik administrative boundaries that had lots of ethnic Russians in the Bolshevik Socialist Soviet Republic. Those boundaries were so crazy that Crimea was part of "Ukraine". But no, we had to have the boundaries too far East, ready to trigger WWIII
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happytoes 0 points 6 months ago
I've been thinking about capitalism and the difference between recourse mortgages and non-recourse mortgages. What would a recourse economy look like? Pondering the alternative, a non-recourse economy, I find a [justification of Capitalism](https://saidit.net/s/whatever/comments/6i8w/the_mine_owners_do_not_find_the_gold_they_do_not/). It is capital that lets us live in a non-recourse economy, and we are determined to have a non-recourse economy.
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happytoes 0 points 6 months ago
[Sickle cell crisis](https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/sickle-cell-crisis)
Main way that a sickle cell crisis can kill [Acute chest syndrome](https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23290-acute-chest-syndrome)
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happytoes 1 point 6 months ago
The spaceship stuff is redoing Apollo 11. Do 1969 things but with modern technology to make it a lot cheaper. The key is using control theory to land and reuse rockets. That is actually working.
"Nothing ever changes"? Mostly true, but cheaper spaceships is a real change.
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happytoes 1 point 6 months ago
Only 482 words. Shorter than your talents merit.
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happytoes 1 point 6 months ago
I noticed this comment
> I have a friend who works in meteorology, and the two longest serving people in their company got let go because AI can automatically write the scripts for weather, which was their job for the last 40 years.
But contrast the shipping forecast with the weather forecast at the end of a news program. The shipping forecast has a rigid format. Fishermen in their boats copy it down on a sheet of paper. Their lives depend on it. It is plain and conveys information with decoration
The weather forecast is inconsistently phrased and dragged out with chit-chat. BBC Radio 4 covers a large enough country that it gives different forecasts for different regions. One listens, never quite sure when one's own region with be reached, as the pointless quips and banter wastes ones time. Those scripts subtract value.
I don't mind the script writers losing their jobs. I'm annoyed that they are being replaced with AI. Why automate value subtraction?
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happytoes 0 points 7 months ago
Tausk's suicide might be due to the toxicity of Freud's theories. I navigated to the page on Paul Federn (1871-1950) and found
> In fact he bequeathed it to me before he took his own life to avoid the agonies of dying from cancer.
Notice that Federn was 79 years old when he said "Oi! Death, you're late!" Seems reasonable to me.
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happytoes 0 points 7 months ago
At 26'52" we are told about "...China pumping out more exports than ever before, while importing next to nothing."
But I'm not hearing about the Yuan soaring in value. What is balancing the books? Are the Chinese buying Euro and Dollar bonds while American and Eurozone governments get deeper and deeper into China's debt?
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happytoes 0 points 7 months ago
I blundered across this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4AB6H5hflA
I had no idea what it was about. But it turns out that it was based on real life
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2024/10/29/who-is-luce-the-anime-mascot-of-the-catholic-church-explained/
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happytoes 0 points 7 months ago
I disagree. To get the joke, you need to recognise [the rover](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory-curiosity-rover-msl/)
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happytoes 2 points 7 months ago
The 13th gives and the 16th takes away.
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happytoes 0 points 7 months ago
What is the value of a drug that drags out the process of dying of a dread disease? It is negative; the manufacturer should pay you to take it.
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happytoes 0 points 8 months ago
Sometimes rubato is mandatory. Bar ten has *poco rit.*, abbreviating *poco ritardando*. Then bar eleven has *a tempo*. You would be expected to linger romantically over the repeated E flats at the start of bar ten, before getting crisply back to business for bar eleven.
But what of bar six? Chopin marks *cresc.* Koczalski slows down instead of getting louder. But how is bar six supposed to go? It has those off-beat accents; I never know what to do with them. I'll try it Koczalski's way. Slowing down to stretch the beat and make the accents conspicuously off the beat works for me :-)
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happytoes 1 point 8 months ago
Are you a mole? You are supposed to stay on the surface!
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happytoes 2 points 8 months ago
The case of Islam supports what you say. Muslim's have a notion of *shirk*, of people manipulating Islam to mold it to their own desires. Islam condemns *shirk* and expects the faithful to fight it.
This does give a certain amount of stability, but it also leads to splits and vicious infighting as rival leaders install conflicting programs in their human followers.
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happytoes 3 points 8 months ago
Jesus is supposed to return. That works great in the early days. Convert today, tomorrow may be too late. Convert this week, next week may be too late. Convert this year, next year may be too late.
The trouble is that Christianity has a soft "sell buy" date. As the years tick by the urgency fades, and that drags down faith. I'm reading about Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Harrison. Some pious folk were expecting Jesus to return in 1660. Really? The issue is that if you read history, and then more history, you soon realize that there is an awful lot of it, and one thousand six hundred and sixty years is a mind bogglingly long time. Living in 1653 and expecting Jesus to return in 1660 is possible, but only by being ignorant, and not really grasping what a long time has slipped by. The issue is worse in 2024.
I'm not seeing how Christianity can revive to have the vigor that it had when people anxiously expected His return.
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happytoes 0 points 8 months ago
Another video has popped up in my feed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpQQZQN0sXQ
Watch Market Collapse! Why Did Secondary Market Prices Fall So Much?
This time it is luxury watches. The vibe I'm getting is that rich people aren't so rich any more. Weird!
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happytoes 0 points 8 months ago
They export surplus young men, which lets them take over the world.
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