Whirrlaway
@mpzrd.bsky.social
Oregon Coast reply guy born the month Japan surrendered, a lot of things have changed since then. Failed family guy w/computer jobs. My hope is for the deep future more than anything I see around here but working and hoping for a soft landing.
I'm visualizing central kitchens
January 15, 2026 at 4:50 AM
I'm visualizing central kitchens
"is there anybody else around here you don't like?"
January 14, 2026 at 6:58 PM
"is there anybody else around here you don't like?"
to be sure the rest of us have a tendency to behave likewise but I do hope we control it better
January 14, 2026 at 6:21 PM
to be sure the rest of us have a tendency to behave likewise but I do hope we control it better
Don't believe Clinton needed a svengali to score with girls, unlike for example Dershowitz
January 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Don't believe Clinton needed a svengali to score with girls, unlike for example Dershowitz
... and it hasn't been all about one-sided misogyny.
that's my experience with the Boomers anyway. Must admit I really have no idea what the kids are doing these days, I am old.
that's my experience with the Boomers anyway. Must admit I really have no idea what the kids are doing these days, I am old.
January 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
... and it hasn't been all about one-sided misogyny.
that's my experience with the Boomers anyway. Must admit I really have no idea what the kids are doing these days, I am old.
that's my experience with the Boomers anyway. Must admit I really have no idea what the kids are doing these days, I am old.
but our emotional life hasn't caught up.
in particular there hasn't been enough movement towards equilibrating sex roles, so woman as Mother is essential same as man as Provider/Defender. Over my lifetime we seem to have been going the wrong way, emphasizing Feminism vs The Patriarchy and ...
in particular there hasn't been enough movement towards equilibrating sex roles, so woman as Mother is essential same as man as Provider/Defender. Over my lifetime we seem to have been going the wrong way, emphasizing Feminism vs The Patriarchy and ...
January 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
but our emotional life hasn't caught up.
in particular there hasn't been enough movement towards equilibrating sex roles, so woman as Mother is essential same as man as Provider/Defender. Over my lifetime we seem to have been going the wrong way, emphasizing Feminism vs The Patriarchy and ...
in particular there hasn't been enough movement towards equilibrating sex roles, so woman as Mother is essential same as man as Provider/Defender. Over my lifetime we seem to have been going the wrong way, emphasizing Feminism vs The Patriarchy and ...
(was it like that in the Paleolithic? who knows?)
during my lifetime it has become possible for a woman to NOT bear children if she chooses and participate in society in any way a man could, and gross reduction in infant mortality meant there is no species need for every woman to max production.
during my lifetime it has become possible for a woman to NOT bear children if she chooses and participate in society in any way a man could, and gross reduction in infant mortality meant there is no species need for every woman to max production.
January 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
(was it like that in the Paleolithic? who knows?)
during my lifetime it has become possible for a woman to NOT bear children if she chooses and participate in society in any way a man could, and gross reduction in infant mortality meant there is no species need for every woman to max production.
during my lifetime it has become possible for a woman to NOT bear children if she chooses and participate in society in any way a man could, and gross reduction in infant mortality meant there is no species need for every woman to max production.
men as well as women feel the urge to recreate images of themselves, but as it is women who "bear" the weight of the matter. Human civilization has adjusted itself to accommodate the fact of women's particular vulnerability, extra risk of death, et all by skewing sex roles in the well-known way.
January 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
men as well as women feel the urge to recreate images of themselves, but as it is women who "bear" the weight of the matter. Human civilization has adjusted itself to accommodate the fact of women's particular vulnerability, extra risk of death, et all by skewing sex roles in the well-known way.
The species needs babies to continue, and the species has been very successful although babies are very expensive. It follows that basic Darwinianism suggests that people/animals would feel a strong impulse to have/care for babies or else we would have died out long since.
January 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
The species needs babies to continue, and the species has been very successful although babies are very expensive. It follows that basic Darwinianism suggests that people/animals would feel a strong impulse to have/care for babies or else we would have died out long since.
unity is the only thing they've got going for them. They are very flexible on principles/action plans
January 12, 2026 at 10:11 PM
unity is the only thing they've got going for them. They are very flexible on principles/action plans
absolute power corrupts absolutely
January 12, 2026 at 9:29 PM
absolute power corrupts absolutely
a state line runs down the middle of that river. People live in Vancouver [Washington] because they don't want to be in Portland. No brief for her particularly but lots of voters in Wa and Ore are non- or even anti-urban.
January 12, 2026 at 6:02 PM
a state line runs down the middle of that river. People live in Vancouver [Washington] because they don't want to be in Portland. No brief for her particularly but lots of voters in Wa and Ore are non- or even anti-urban.
he appears to be fading away into the Black like the hungry ghost he is so that's nice
January 11, 2026 at 5:45 PM
he appears to be fading away into the Black like the hungry ghost he is so that's nice
whereas actually it's the left's fault for LETTING them do it
January 11, 2026 at 12:18 AM
whereas actually it's the left's fault for LETTING them do it
the liberal Boomers in Congress certainly have been passive this past cycle or two. Naomi isn't all wrong but it's kinda twisted
January 10, 2026 at 8:01 PM
the liberal Boomers in Congress certainly have been passive this past cycle or two. Naomi isn't all wrong but it's kinda twisted
"says a bunch of stupid stuff that nobody understands that makes me feel funny and get mad"
January 10, 2026 at 7:09 PM
"says a bunch of stupid stuff that nobody understands that makes me feel funny and get mad"
as an Old personally, young folks don't get it very well but I am amazed that punchy as he is he still manages to answer the bell, in the sense that he's standing up in the middle of the ring waving his hands around. By rights he should be retired to a chair in the piazza like the end of Godfather 3
January 10, 2026 at 7:01 PM
as an Old personally, young folks don't get it very well but I am amazed that punchy as he is he still manages to answer the bell, in the sense that he's standing up in the middle of the ring waving his hands around. By rights he should be retired to a chair in the piazza like the end of Godfather 3
Hannity is using his grandpa voice
January 10, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Hannity is using his grandpa voice
same problem as the state-federal politics that make it increasingly impossible to do orderly business at either level.
January 10, 2026 at 2:54 AM
same problem as the state-federal politics that make it increasingly impossible to do orderly business at either level.
Reposted by Whirrlaway
#EconSky
Shocking to me that since Trump came to power again the willingness of a market based on contract law to collectively yawn for more than a year now about contract abrogation and outright theft by the global hegemon.
The ground beneath their feet is giving way, to quote Schumpeter.
Shocking to me that since Trump came to power again the willingness of a market based on contract law to collectively yawn for more than a year now about contract abrogation and outright theft by the global hegemon.
The ground beneath their feet is giving way, to quote Schumpeter.
January 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM
#EconSky
Shocking to me that since Trump came to power again the willingness of a market based on contract law to collectively yawn for more than a year now about contract abrogation and outright theft by the global hegemon.
The ground beneath their feet is giving way, to quote Schumpeter.
Shocking to me that since Trump came to power again the willingness of a market based on contract law to collectively yawn for more than a year now about contract abrogation and outright theft by the global hegemon.
The ground beneath their feet is giving way, to quote Schumpeter.