who died (and)?

 

I don't know the exact phrase, but anyone pontificating
about anything and the way it should be, 
might get someone else to say 
"who died and made YOU the authority?"

And so it was, many years ago, that a writer wrote stuff, and over time, became the absolute authority on Angels, or the organizational management structure of Christian heaven.

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (that's his name, don't wear it out) 
Has angels and sub angels and minion-angels. 

Google wants to give credit to older texts, and they're right, Pseudo didn't just fall asleep one day and dream all this stuff up.

But it's cute.
Prolly wrong, but cute.

BEEEcause (eg and ibid)

Ahhhh, see?

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I learned a new word today, (only I forgot it again)
"Hasbára" (I think)
It has to do with explaining stuff, but then it gets all specific and the generic meaning is lost.
Diplomacy?
Propaganda?
I guess it depends on who is saying it.
Here are two A1C diabetes charts.
One is very rigid, disapproving of my sugar.
Another is happy with it.

7.0 is good.

7.0 is NOT good.

I could pick and choose my hasbara's, I guess.
Plus the meter or the program ignores when my sugar goes low, saying it never happened.
I don't know what to make of that...

Rereading the first chart, um, well it starts out saying "Normal" so it might be targeted at people who don't think they have diabetes at all.
(insert wilford Brimley here)

It's a meme?

The second chart might be doable if you micromanaged doses like you were carefully doing a chemistry experiment, (think "Titration") but you might not get much done.

There's a 3-hour stacking rule I just learned 10 seconds ago...you live with your dose, whatever it was, for a minimum of three hours, before you start messing around with an added-on dose.
My body seems to maximize that rule; it's like some very slow-moving river.
But....
A guy wonders if the big-chunk dose a person gets every six hours, could be broken down into smaller doses?
Google thinks so, with all the standard disclaimers.
I'm not doubting it, I'm just doubtful of the workability...
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Anyway, 

Being topical

Variations on this riddle are spread out on the internet, mostly as chat-filler.

It only makes sense if one of them dies and stops aging, but that is not the answer they want.
They want a nice, neat, variable-ridden algebraic solution.

I cannot even come close to an answer, it's like there's a large sign in my head,
"TRICK QUESTION" (think, "Twilight Zone")

If you are twice as old as your friend (and they don't die,) as you age, they age.
What's the point?
Math is meaningless and we're all going to die.

Click me to read
(and abandon all hope)

In my defense

 I don't write very well, stop bugging me about it.

Here:

THIS article was written by a professional, and I had a hard time understanding it.

Did they prove that you can superheat gold, or

Did they prove that you can measure temperature with X-Rays,

???

Instruments measuring temperature (from a distance?) are called "Pyrometers" usually.

So maybe they invented an X-Ray Pyrometer, A Laser that could kill stuff from far away
(I added that part)

So the very vague article (in my opinion) could have been written better.
What were they trying to prove, That X-Ray Lasers have peaceful purposes??

("Laser? What Laser? We're measuring the temperature of gaseous anomalies and faraway stars")

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The relatively conservative method I've adopted of only dosing my insulin at certain times of the day
(6AM, 12N, 6PM, 12M) would seem to be a nice idea but my body seems to anticipate this,
and adjusts my sugar to exactly 100 or lower,
at those times, and I don't dose.
An hour later it jumps to 265 (just an example.)
This would be fine if I kept a log, like so many people do,
but my log-less method is less stressful.
(What if I double-dosed because I forgot a log-entry??)
I'll erase this paragraph or write more about it, soon.

My kingdom for a decent title

 people write better than me, most times. 
They use more colorful adjectives designed to sway your opinion.
And so this is less of a blog entry and more of a question:
What pissed them off??

(or maybe) https://www.npr.org/2025/05/21/nx-s1-5389638/trump-executive-actions-american-history-culture

The bombastic article below says lotsa stuff but it is very pissed about NPR and the claim of "Systemic Racism" which the article says is a biggie lie. 
(I'd have to reread it to get a good quote, but the one about the whore is good enough for now)

(Link)

If you gloss over huge chunks of text like me,
You might miss the good parts about the "Heritage Foundation" and what they want.
We're subject to their script.
"Tyranny," indeed

 
(taking notes) George Soros, "Tides Foundation

Apparently incantations in speeches matter.

(We aren't supposed to enjoy msnbc, "The nation" magazine either)
But "Soros" piqued my interest.
Who??

Rothschild redux?

(Huge Chunk of text you should at least gloss over)

Define "Lobbying", like some razor-edged sword.
Want Zillions? Conform. 

Having said all that, I doubt they care about all the Anglophilia, kid's shows, I think instead public TV must have pissed off someone with their news.

another chunk, but this one's easier to read

I see this going one of two ways. 
They'll either feel liberated from the shackles of government oversight,
and rant full-bore on the injustices done (pick an injustice)

Or, they'll be super-meek and start being more propagandistic and loyal to their masters.
zillions are at stake!

These guys love to talk, and talk much better than me.

"elite Evil Cabals," delicious adjectives.

I'm revisiting this. Zoom-in, zoom out, Zoom in, zoom out, store up tasty adjectives.

Columbia University, presumably a bunch of really smart people, decided to pay

sixteen(?) milllllllion, instead of endure the withering adjectives.
(And mean teachers not getting their pay? But that's just guessing)
Pay, they'll go away, thinks Columbia (but they don't go away. Sometimes they come back)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/columbia-university-funding-trump-demands

Said it first, better too.

I'm still stuck on hackneyed words like "glorious" which usually refers to war.
I'd never think up "cabal" or "progressive" to frame a quote.

The one book I know of (and that's because they made us read it)
that uses adjectives adroitly is "1984",
but I can't remember any specific passages anymore.
(I really should read more exemplary propaganda, I guess)

PS were most Columbia graduates republicans? I wouldn't know, but it could be a good question, I suppose. Yama-yama-blah-BLAH (they could talk up a storm, anyway)

Disorganized

 1st train: Avocados, tariffs (both are heard to spell) &^% (forget) tariffs, they are too high anyway.
Upper crust and restaurants will buy them, regardless.
(Or maybe they'll have a huge ad-campaign for US grown produce, IDK)

2nd Train: republican who shot some democrats,
Google: will he be pardoned?
Reddit: No, because (snarky-snarky) (etc) the charges are state charges, not federal.

"Federal Charges"

It's confusing.

Reddit (quora, whoever) says the midwest pays less for avocados.

'k, I'm starting to disbelieve reddit....

This went nowhere and said nothing and brings back bad memories of my english class, so it's toast unless I dress it up real quick.

I'm very disorganized (euphemism meaning "messy,") and I can't keep track of my Lipton Tea boxes.
They were there, now they're not.
My rant today is about how, several years ago, Lipton decided to ditch envelopes for their tea and put 25 or so bags crowded together in foil wrapping. Now if a lone bag falls out of the box, it is totally unprotected and tastes dusty.
If you insist on envelopes, you have to buy Lipton "Organic" at ridiculous prices.
 But only today, just now, did I find that Lipton makes "Yellow Label" tea, which is imitating 
"Red Label" tea, which is not as good as "Gold Label" tea (these are all from different brands)
Fucket, tariffs will make ALL tea more expensive.

More topical, better blog (I read it, and I don't know the message it was trying to convey)

It's better, she's an influencer I suppose, but I hate her style of writing.
 ("It's a transcript," say the voices)
I don't think she thinks something, based on her headline, but she could be talking in code or being snarky.
The video the text came from talks a lot and says a lot, I guess...

Trump isn't pretending to be outrageous and evil, he really is (outrageous, anyway)

People's minds (quoting my own and not the blog) tend to wonder about the REAL reason for yo-yo tariffs.
My mind keeps drifting towards the solid-gold telephone given to the Cuban President by an american phone company in "the Godfather," but that's just how my mind works.

Details, details

That, and wondering what "Emoluments" means, as in,

"how many 'emoluments' does trump want,  to lower his threatened tariffs? 
Google blanches at my sticking two concepts (emoluments and tariffs) together.
*I* think it's related. A billionaire couldn't care less about the price of avocados. 
Once again, I quote a much better blog. 

Anyway...

bloggy stuff

https://www.reddit.com/r/cookingforbeginners/comments/12r8y41/how_do_you_store_a_block_of_cheese/

This might be too mundane a subject for your tastes...
Anyway to save the environment, plastic vegetable bags are lots thinner and they don't really keep stuff fresh.
I thought maybe I'd buy a cheese box, but then there's all that air in the box. My preferred method of wrapping in a bread bag or an old veggie bag kind of works, except I get hard discolored cheese.
Wrapping in the original wrapper (They never invented "Resealable" for cheese)
barely works, and some zip-loc bags I have are too small.
I...
Just...
Thought...
Maybe this was a simple thing, but it isn't. 
The bags should be discarded after one (or two) uses, and the cheese-box should get washed,
But then the expensive stuff will taste like soap.
I'm so depressed.
"Buy yada, buy blah" bigger baggies, cellophane wrap, an actual cheese box ($15.00???!!!)

Eat like a pig until the cheese is gone.
I don't know.
I used to have fresh cheese...I blame the veggie bags.

hoity-toity plastic bags,
(quelle prétentieux)

https://www.ice.edu/blog/understanding-pdo-designation-cheese-and-why-it-matters Rich people and their cheeses.
Severely condensing and paraphrasing:

 uhm, to protect their business and prevent upstarts 

(cads, bounders, arrivistes, and social climbers,) 

They made a biggie club that sues anyone not in their location trying to make their product. 

So, cheese and wine.

Stuff that is already expensive using these means, can actually get hurt by tariffs (they say) because people could just buy cheaper stuff.
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/20/trumps-war-on-parmigiano-reggiano/

My memories of pretentious cheeses only go as far as malls at Christmas when they cut up incredibly expensive cheese to give away as samples, 

hoping you'll think of the less fortunate and buy many cheese gifts. 

In a section of one of the links I linked to, it says that they will apparently have tailgate parties at Biggie football games to convert neophytes.
I've got this great article on Olive Oil, if you're interested.

next to the Himalayan salt and the cocotte and the "Grotto"

I started drifting off wondering what people think is worth $100 (+tax, shipping and VAT),
and I started to look at *whiskey* but that's wrong, I should be looking at free-range brown-organic cheese.

Let's just get that outta tha way, $100++ a pint

Cheese from Donkeys made in faraway countries is super expensive, 

you'd prolly want a "Grotto" for it.

Kilogram=upper-crust for two pounds and an extra ounce or two.

So be grateful (apparently) that our domestically produced cheese from American Cows is only $15 (Tillamook)

And the war, the weather, supply chains, Obama....

cheese box+ parchment+ a bag, $$$$$

soggy, dry, WTF are you selling? 
(I'll totally for-sure guess the guy feeding that AI quote sells something)

Basic ordinary  run-of-mill cheese in the US will soften like a wilted flower at room temp, even well wrapped, and It will taste and look different.
But to quote the Upper Crusty anyway:

"Cheese Grotto", OMG

Let's get frugal and get cloches instead(?)

After robbing the refrigerator of the little cold it has by opening the damn door, 
putting the cheese back quickly usually involves form-fitting bags.
And we're not talking french-cheese either, just waxy supermarket cheese.
I just looked for bags. 
Mention "Cheese" and the price goes up dramatically.
"zip lock" is overpriced.
A plain unadorned plastic bag might be nice. 
I'll keep looking.

Headline II ("better blogs")

(His name should have been "Armando" with an accent exactly like "Lucanis" in Veilguard, but, please continue)

(Link)

(Link)

If I ranted on about computers before disk drives and modems, 

You'd have something snarky to say.

"Life wouldn't be the same without air" or something.
Anyway, eventually people could afford disk drives and nice shiny modems,
to use "Chat rooms" on Compuserve/Genie/AOL, download pretty pictures too.

$4.99 per hour.
20 hours a week, for a month.

I don't pretend to have much more to say here,
except it was a nice blog (the very first link,)
like an episode of "Twilight zone"

 

or some drawn-out Star-trek Holodeck episode.

The command-line-interface and the associated arcane commands, couldn't hold a candle to GUI and chatting to bots.
The other stuff you can do (streaming movies) doesn't really sell, does it?
We could've rented USB thumb-drives, or been all old school and used VCR's.

Evildoers everywhere have a new toy to hack.....

("push the big red button.
"Push it!!
"You know you want to")

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When the apocalypse happens, what will run?
It is written, "DOS 6.22," and I think the game "Quake 1.0" would distract you from shivering in your little bunker, hmm

headline

 

This incredibly complicated and politically touchy subject is too vast to cut-paste quotes.
In fact, I'll prolly erase it.

But some notes from the web:

(um)

Red Hair? Neanderthal.
"East Asian"? More neanderthal DNA (this statement conflicts with most other statements)
Depressed Type 2 Diabetic? Short and stocky? Neanderthal.

You gotta wonder (ignoring the vast minutia available)
WHY they'd stick DNA into a mouse, (are we breeding superheroes?)
WHY the large nose and biggie midface of stereotypical Neanderthals has nothing to do with asian faces.
Maybe "Neanderthal" is too generic, like "White People" etc.

hey,hey,Hey!! (How YOU doin'?)

East-asian (I need to brush up on my Geography.)

Once many years ago I Complimented Connie Chung's Face, and was told that she came from a certain area of China (I forgot WHICH area), as if it were a bad thing.
In other words, upper-crusty people differentiate. "Fancy" vs "Jungle" (they said it, I didn't)

Most links direct themselves to US prejudice, as if the rest of the world had evolved, so um,
O and the AI corrected itself and removed pejoratives like "jungle," So I looked it up:

The NPR comment said it best, and I don't have to buy a geography book....
Chinese. for example, vs Filipinos, for example.

The wikipedia link (in the reddit quote) points to "South Asians" so I am only referring to the reddit-*comment*, not the text referring to Wiki.

After reading this a bit, You get the feeling (I get the feeling, and yes, this is an opinion)
that "Europe" consigned Huge areas to "Asia" or to "the east" (far and middle), and they go on about "colonialism" but I personally think it made it easier on geography teachers.

Nyah

The entire subject was dropped when I was a student, although they did do a small chapter on how american Indians made TeePees.
So it is (Must be, for I have no bombastic quote to back it up)
That there were differences in "Neanderthals", beach ones vs ghetto ones.

OG vs Woke
(link)

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One note maybe: The people worrying about this stuff, and the videogame, worry about skull-shapes.
At least one link I'll try to quote says, neanderthal brains were bigger.
But The phrenologists tried to prove the shape of foreheads (especially in europeans) was superior.
The game (Bioshock-Infinite.)
The quote(s)?

More social

OK This is a train-of-thought from another blog, but any time a knowledgeable article uses words like "Pseudoscientific" and other deprecatory adjectives, it is coloring facts with opinions.
Calling them out (like I just did) looks also like an opinion (it isn't.)
Thorny issue.
It cannot be overstated (yes, it can) that dry facts from a story are better than adjective-filled rants passing for news.

If a neanderthal went to harvard, would they have been smarter, or more used to weather?
IDK if evolving takes everything into account: Really attractive vs plain?
They couldn't exactly discuss movies over coffee.

 

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