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Thursday, July 24, 2025

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?



















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.
(Link)



I could pick and choose my hasbara's, I guess.
Not that I'm disputing them but 50-99 is a hell of a huge difference!
And my body prefers something higher usually, and starts complaining at "60" or so.
Coumarin, the topic of a few bombastic internet commercials, is bad in high doses for your liver.
And anyway, didn't they recall cinnamon for having some lead?
Now that conservatives run the CDC I'll prolly hear more propaganda about coumarin.
I'll stick to "Furosemide", TYVM, although the bombastic commercial is interesting (My lymph noids are clogged, sounds about right)
We all know (I thought) that certain vitamins and minerals can be bad for you, if taken too aggressively,
And I personally cannot take the excess soy-oil in most vitamins. 
Still, it's hard not to listen to the hasbara about vitamins.

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...
Really interesting dreams you never wake up from (without an alarm to nag you) are like black-hole commercials on the internet about swollen feet and refrigerated mustard,
and Movie star teasers that don't ever pay off no matter how many pictures you click on.
Read this, watch this video. All tease and no actual advice (unless you pay for some product they're pushing.)
Don't read black-hole commercials, don't dose yourself into dreamy sleep you never wake up from, 
"The wages of thin is death" (I am not using that right but I didn't want to forget it)

The subject of US Steel and Nippon is extremely interesting to fans of how stuff gets spun.
But any quotes are long and full of folderol, and do not reveal the exact details.
The Biggie question I will not answer here is, "what changed their minds?"
("No, really. What changed their minds??")
https://www.cfr.org/article/nippon-u-s-steel-deal-golden-share-and-magic-beans


self-righteous whistleblowers or tattletales?
The Ed Snowden story.
If Trump can dictate damn near anything in the world, why hasn't he pontificated about Assange or Snowden?
(And, how does one translate "tattletale" into any other language?)
"Shyen Ren" is a phonetic pronunciation of "Informer", or so Google says, but then Google says it's just a last name.

(Link)
A guy can wonder til next Tuesday, why AI / Chatxyz is always on the front page, and I'm totally guessing, it's all about the money.
Machines already tell us what to believe.

So the old guy on Google's front page getting very sick from substituting sodium chloride with sodium Bromide, might be a symptom of stuff to come.






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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)












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