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W@sCr1s
@wascr1us.bsky.social
90s Memories of the McLaughlin Group and early Crossfire.

00's Livejournal.

10's FB and Reddit (and WOW, World of Tanks, Civilization).

20's Twitter (Deleted), Reddit (Deleted), Threads (Deleted), Bluesky.
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
July 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Maybe they have an agenda.
May 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I remember a Scientific American article from decades ago that showed how Public Investment in the Human Genome Project generated many times it's value in follow-up Private Investment. Looking it up, here we go:
April 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
As in, let's find out who actually is signing off on this stuff...
April 16, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The payoff is continuing after-hours...

This is Russian-style Economics.
April 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I tried to log in, but when you log in using your local username / PW it tells you that you have to have a login.gov username. Registering a new login.gov username is broken and leads to this error.
April 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This is what heepened when I've just now tried to log in to SSA.gov. I was told that to continue I needed to create a login.gov acct, and that process ended here.
April 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Wow! That "Liberation" speech must have been something...
April 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Joseph Campbell - The Net of Indra
March 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
It's done. Facebook is Deleted.
March 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
March 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Well, THIS is an ominous headline.

What he means by the "Economy" is "Government," and what he means by "Privatized" is that "they" will OWN it.
March 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Another relevant quote from Civ VII:
February 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
February 22, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Civilization VII Civilopedia makes the following clarification under "Migrants."

Thank you! People need to know this.
February 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Playing Civilization VII and this quote comes out of nowhere in an audio narration.
February 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The MSI Center that supposedly manages this laptop has spelled "Programming" wrong.
February 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Sound Familiar?
February 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Ran across this nice takedown of Newt Gingrich in Season 1 of Law and Order SVU (1999/2000).

I was entertained.
February 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
February 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I was thinking this guy...
February 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I had a flash of an image in my mind of Canada opening up the old "Golden Book Encyclopedia" that I remember from my childhood, and using the handy State Maps to decide what US Products they were going to Tax in order to target the right parts of the US.
February 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
January 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM