2:00PM Water Cooler 2/27/2024 | bare capitalism

By Lambert Strether of Corrente.

Affected person readers, after an surprising piece of fine information, I broke discipine and took a (solo, Aranet4-metered) liquid lunch, so this Water Cooler is shorter than it ought to be, not less than initially. Sorry. –lambert. Including, my seized-up again is healthier, though not utterly. The private anesthetic helped, although! And including, holy moley, that Boeing story (see beneath Stats). I obtained a little bit wrapped across the axle doing it. However my head is down over the keyboard now!

Chook Music of the Day

Winter Wren, Ferd’s Bathroom, Hamilton, New York, United States. “Lengthy tune sort.”

Politics

“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in reality a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles

The Constitutional Order (Eighth Modification)

“Jeb Bush involves Trump’s protection after $355M fraud judgment: ‘Harm may cascade’” [FOX]. “Former Republican Florida Gov. Jeb Bush got here to the protection of former President Trump in a Wall Avenue Journal op-ed slamming the current New York civil fraud court docket case that ordered the forty fifth president to pay a $354.8 million wonderful plus curiosity. ‘Each American has a proper to be vital of Mr. Trump’s politics—one among us ran in opposition to him in 2016,” reads Bush’s op-ed, titled, “Elon Musk and Donald Trump Circumstances Imperil the Rule of Legislation.’ ‘…However equality earlier than the legislation is treasured, and these rulings characterize a disaster not just for the soundness of our courts, however for the enterprise setting that has allowed the U.S. to prosper,” the opinion piece continued. ‘If these rulings stand, the injury may cascade by way of the economic system, creating worry of arbitrary enforcement in opposition to entrepreneurs who search public workplace or elevate their voices as residents in a method that politicians dislike.’ The column, which was co-authored by Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, railed in opposition to the current monthslong civil fraud trial in opposition to Trump, which resulted in a virtually $355 million wonderful and bars Trump from working his enterprise in New York for 3 years.” • Palantir? Oy. Moving into mattress with Jebbie is one factor, but it surely seems he introduced a buddy….

“Choose Engoron’s retribution” [Washington Examiner]. “A steadily made remark in regards to the trial was that inflating the on-paper worth of actual property is a moderately widespread factor amongst New York Metropolis builders. Engoron appeared to concede that when he wrote, ‘Certainly, the widespread excuse that ‘everyone does it’ is all of the extra purpose to attempt for honesty and transparency and to be vigilant in imposing the principles.’ That gave the impression to be a concession that sure, overvaluing actual property just isn’t a uncommon incidence. It additionally seems to be an inadvertent admission from the choose that the lawsuit was an instance of selective prosecution.” • In some unspecified time in the future, some opinion-haver must undergo Engoron’s idea of the case. All this piety about “the hurt that false statements inflict on {the marketplace}.” Seems like precisely the form of argument the worst form of business-friendly conservative may choose up and run with.

2024

Lower than a yr to go!

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Trump (R): “Fani Willis faces harrowing week amid Trump disqualification bid: What to know” [Washington Examiner]. The headline is a bit overblown, not less than for the fabric it presents. Key abstract: “Trump and the 14 remaining co-defendants are going through a 41-count indictment alleging they operated a felony enterprise to overturn the 2020 election. Willis’s workplace constructed a case that depends on a number of key occasions that allegedly present the previous president’s intention to overturn the election, together with a January 2021 name by which he requested Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to ‘discover’ sufficient votes to offset President Joe Biden’s victory.”

Trump (R): “Abcarian: MAGA Republicans pushing to question President Biden don’t appear to note the egg on their faces” [Los Angeles Times]. “Republicans thought that they had a smoking gun, a declare by a longtime, dependable FBI informant that Biden and his son Hunter had secretly accepted hundreds of thousands of {dollars} from the Ukrainian pure gasoline firm Burisma. Sadly for Planet MAGA — together with Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky, impeachment decision writer Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and your complete lineup of Fox Information hosts, who’ve been frothing on the mouth over this story — it was allegedly all a lie. The smoking gun is popping out to be an exploding cigar. And the informant? Not so dependable in any case. Final month, a federal grand jury indicted Alexander Smirnov, 43, on costs he lied when he informed the FBI that the Bidens had gotten $5 million every from Burisma. Not solely that, in line with particular counsel David Weiss, who’s overseeing the probe into Hunter Biden’s funds, Smirnov was most likely coached to create the story by operatives related to Russian intelligence in an effort to harm President Biden as he faces reelection, almost definitely in opposition to Putin apologist former President Trump.” • So, if I’ve this appropriate, a long-time dependable FBI informant (no one appears to be disputing that half), seems to be a Russian asset? I’m not following this story carefully, as a result of I’m nonetheless boggling at “Smirnov,” however isn’t a little bit odd?

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Trump (R): “Trump’s demographic downside” [Axios]. “If America had been dominated by outdated, white, election-denying Christians who didn’t go to varsity, former President Trump would win the normal election in as huge of a landslide as his sweep of the primary 4 GOP contests…. Those that went to the polls mirrored Trump’s strengths: This was the oldest South Carolina GOP voters this century. (Chuck Todd) 60% of main voters had been white evangelical or born-again Christians. (CNN) That group isn’t remotely sufficiently big to win a presidential election. He would want to draw voters who’re extra numerous, extra educated and consider his first loss was legit. South Carolina exit polls present he didn’t do this. That’s why Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the Senate’s solely Black Republican, stays on Trump’s brief listing for V.P An even bigger downside but: Polls present these skeptics can be even much less more likely to swing his method if he’s convicted of against the law — an actual chance amongst his 4 ongoing instances, insiders inform us. The technique: Trump’s marketing campaign says that within the battleground states the place the election shall be determined, his message will enchantment far past the GOP base that propelled him to the nomination.” • That is the place I’m. There’s a lovely symmetry: Neither Trump’s base nor the Democrat PMC base are highly effective sufficient to win the election or, extra importantly, to control. The “bundle of sticks” metaphor is helpful: Every occasion wants so as to add sticks to its bundle (and neither occasion, oddly, goes after non-voters. You’d assume the Trump workforce would assume that method, however possibly the disciplined professionals of 2024 can’t assume exterior the field just like the randos of 2016 may).

Trump (R): “Donald Trump’s dominating GOP main efficiency doesn’t add up” [Heather Digby Parton, Salon]. “There’s a substantial faction of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters who merely can’t stand Donald Trump. Sure, he’s overwhelmingly fashionable amongst his MAGA base which makes up about three-quarters of the GOP and nearly all of them are blindly dedicated to the person it doesn’t matter what he does. They don’t seem to be simply obsessed with voting for him, they’re ecstatic…. Donald Trump can’t win the final election with simply his hardcore MAGA base. He should broaden his coalition and he’s not getting that achieved. In each state thus far, he has underperformed expectations. Nevada was a really bizarre state of affairs with each a main and a caucus so it’s onerous to discern what the voters was saying there however in Iowa, New Hampshire and S. Carolina, a stable 40% voted in opposition to Trump. It’s a main in order that’s commonplace. However who makes up that 40% is an issue for Trump. He’s utterly misplaced self-identified liberals which isn’t shocking. However moderates have deserted him as properly, together with the GOP-leaning independents. And the continuing shedding of faculty educated and suburban voters has not abated. It doesn’t matter a lot within the MAGA-centric GOP main, however Trump can’t afford to lose these voters within the normal election.” • With a hyperlink to the Axios article above. Parton, in fact, as an excellent Democrat, doesn’t think about interesting to non-voters any greater than good Republicans do.

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Haley (R): “Nikki Haley says she’s a voice for dissatisfied voters: ‘I’m not doing this to be VP’” [USA Today]. “Haley’s not giving up, regardless of dropping each main contest to this point to former President Donald Trump. The previous South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has chosen to proceed standing for the numerous variety of Individuals who aren’t glad with the present front-runners. In South Carolina, she garnered roughly 40% of the vote, as she did in New Hampshire.” For those who assume the social norming amongst Republicans to vote for Trump is as sturdy because the social norming to not masks, then 40% just isn’t a nasty quantity. Extra: “‘I’m a Republican,’ she stated. ‘At this level I don’t understand how you translate that over. The rationale persons are gravitating in direction of me is as a result of the tone on the prime issues and the way you discuss points issues. . They don’t need the division.” That’s attention-grabbing. However I’m unsure Haley has the gravitas to ship that message (any greater than, say, Harris, or Philips). Trump tried the rhetoric on for dimension, briefly. So it’s on the market. Extra: “‘And so I’m making an attempt to carry it to the place we will have an America that doesn’t have that. However that’s by way of the Republican Get together that I do that. So we’ll have to attend and see.’” As Dima would say. Extra: “”m not doing this to be VP. I’m not doing this to be a third-party candidate. I’m not doing this for my political profession. I’m doing it really out of a love of America. And since I’m nervous about my youngsters and everyone else’s youngsters.’” • Once more, Haley lacks the gravitas to make that message stick. And the media wants the hatred, too. Hate means clicks.

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Biden (D): “Biden’s immigration silver lining” [Axios]. “Overseas-born employees now represent almost 19% of the labor power, up from 17.3% when President Biden took workplace. The current surge in unauthorized migrants will result in 1.7 million extra employees in 2024, in line with a current Congressional Finances Workplace evaluation. These new arrivals will assist the U.S. economic system develop by about $7 trillion over the subsequent decade. Greater than 3 million migrants are nonetheless within the nation who had been encountered on the southern border through the Biden presidency. An extra a million arrived through ports of entry by way of new Biden applications counting on the expansive use of parole — a authorized mechanism that permits migrants with out visas to enter the U.S. An extra 3.7 million folks have entered the U.S. by way of different authorized pathways, with the flexibility to work, in line with administration estimates. A few of these new arrivals are captured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which counts an extra 3 million foreign-born employees within the workforce beneath Biden. Don’t count on Biden to race to the rostrum to focus on the hyperlink between elevated immigration and decrease inflation, in line with aides and advisers.” Then once more: “Former President Trump clearly desires to run on the difficulty, arguing that the inflow of low-skilled immigrants into the economic system has damage native-born employees.

‘The largest victims are African-Individuals, Hispanic Individuals, Asian Individuals,’ Trump stated at a rally in South Carolina earlier this month. ‘They’re getting decimated of their hourly wages.’ Wage progress has been the strongest for the underside quarter of employees, in line with the Atlanta Fed’s wage tracker. It’s onerous to argue that immigrants are miserable wages when common hourly earnings are growing and wages are outpacing inflation.” • No, it’s actually not. Do the phrases “much more” imply something do these folks? How about that well-known demand curve?

Biden (D): “Michelle Obama: September Savior or ‘Suicide Mission’?” [The American Conservative]. Effectively price a learn. Greatest model of this argument I’ve seen: “Neglect about docs; anybody who has cared for an growing old father or mother with cognitive decline can see all of the indicators and is aware of what’s coming subsequent. Joe can’t bear in mind phrases, names, or dates, and walks stiffly together with his arms locked. He falls typically. He will get indignant and cusses. It’s all there. Everyone knows what’s being hidden, identical to when Mother refuses her meals or rages somebody is after her cash. It isn’t a pleasing factor to observe, this infantilization of an individual you might have as soon as regarded as much as, however the decline is apparent, and decline is a one-way road. It hurts, it actually does, whether or not it’s Mother or Joe Biden, to observe all of it realizing there’s nothing that may be achieved… It’s one factor to clarify away Mother’s conduct on the dinner-table, one other when addressing nationwide safety…. If Joe is unfit to face trial for his informal misuse of categorized paperwork, then he’s unfit to be president.” And as for Michelle: “Michelle Obama has the recognition and name- and face-recognition to step in on the final minute for a drained placeholder Joe. September is “the final minute,” given the 50 units of legal guidelines governing how a lot time is required so as to add a candidate to the poll and nonetheless make mailing deadlines for absentee votes. Her personal lack of expertise is tempered by Barack’s eight years, and, certainly, a quiet promoting level amongst Dems can be that that is certainly a 3rd time period for some form of Obama administration. With Obama’s recognition and bullet-proofing in opposition to accusations of racism, nobody will fear in any respect about sweeping Kamala Harris apart, maybe with the promise of a pleasant college job to point out no onerous emotions. Superstar endorsements would pour in headlined by Oprah and Taylor Swift and somebody close to resistant to Trump’s private insult fashion of campaigning would take the podium in opposition to him. It might be a detailed election.” • Once more, the most effective model of this argument I’ve seen. I’m unsure Michelle Obama desires this. And no matter The Wizard of Kalorama™ thinks he was placed on this Earth to do, I’d guess it’s not placing his spouse within the White Home. The Clintons, sure. FWIW, I don’t get these vibes from the Obamas.

Biden (D): “Democrats are too frightened of a contested conference” [Financial Times]. “The chances that this coming August we could have the primary Democratic contested conference since 1968 are non-trivial. Had been Joe Biden persuaded both to step down, or suffered some forcing medical occasion, the occasion would haven’t any selection however to show historical past actually does rhyme by discovering a brand new standard-bearer in Chicago…. It’s simple to image the way it may go disastrously…. But I may also image one thing fairly completely different; a profitable contested conference that rivets the nation’s consideration and produces the stuff of Trump’s nightmares — a a lot youthful and extra vibrant rival. Whether or not that may be an unbound and rebooted Kamala Harris, Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, or one of many male governors, is anyone’s guess. It’s price stressing although that know-how would guarantee the method wouldn’t be closed-door. It couldn’t be a sordid deal between occasion bosses. Chicago 2024 can be a democratic train of a special form.” • Completely, yeah, know-how. Bear in mind the Democrat Iowa caucus in 2020? Anyhow, Huge Gretch does have some native clout, and that spook-orchestrated kidnapping stunt means she’s obtained backers somethe place, however… “vibrant”? I dunno. Michiganders?

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MI: “Biden Will Win Michigan Simply. It Could Additionally Present His Weak spot” [The New Republic]. “The Michigan main is Tuesday, and there received’t be a lot drama so far as who the winners, on both aspect, shall be—Joe Biden and Donald Trump are locks. However there’s something brewing on the Democratic aspect that might show to be consequential. It’s not who’s on the poll: Biden is, in fact, sharing it together with Minnesota Congressman Dean Phillips. Marianne Williamson shall be on it as properly as a result of she certified for a poll line earlier than she dropped out of the race. The field to keep watch over is the fourth: ‘uncommitted.’ That is the area that political insiders shall be watching, and it’ll decide the narrative flowing out of Michigan. Proper now, there’s loads of normal concern amongst Democrats about Biden’s age, and within the Nice Lake State particularly, there’s appreciable concern about Biden’s pro-Israel tilt in his dealing with of the Israel-Gaza struggle, and a motion afoot to disclaim him assist over it. If all roads result in an unusually massive ‘uncommitted’ vote, what Democratic insiders are nonetheless now solely whispering—that possibly Biden shouldn’t be the nominee—will solely develop extra audible. The result may sign not solely that some voters are mad about Gaza, however that others merely don’t need Biden due to his age.”

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Bear in mind the pandemic? Good instances:

Close to and expensive to my coronary heart and work: The three rounds of stimulus checks for a household of 4 totaled $11,400—virtually 1/5 of the median household earnings or 1/4 of the Black median household earnings. Wow!

That is large aid in a large disaster. Going huge, quick, and broad was vital.

— Claudia Sahm (@Claudia_Sahm) February 27, 2024

I believe the favored notion is the actual one: Trump provides, and Biden taketh away. The CARES Act “put cash in your pocket.” The American Rescue Plan, for all its laudable goals, didn’t. There’s Bidenomics, proper there. Plus, Joe Biden owes me 600 bucks.

#COVID19

“I’m in earnest — I cannot equivocate — I cannot excuse — I cannot retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison

Assets, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; consists of many counties; Wastewater Scan, consists of drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide knowledge). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Basic Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).

Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To replace any entry, do be happy to contact me on the tackle given with the crops. Please put “COVID” within the topic line. Thanks!

Assets, United States (Native): AK (dashboard); AL (dashboard); AR (dashboard); AZ (dashboard); CA (dashboard; Marin, dashboard; Stanford, wastewater; Oakland, wastewater); CO (dashboard; wastewater); CT (dashboard); DE (dashboard); FL (wastewater); GA (wastewater); HI (dashboard); IA (wastewater stories); ID (dashboard, Boise; dashboard, wastewater, Central Idaho; wastewater, Coeur d’Alene; dashboard, Spokane County); IL (wastewater); IN (dashboard); KS (dashboard; wastewater, Lawrence); KY (dashboard, Louisville); LA (dashboard); MA (wastewater); MD (dashboard); ME (dashboard); MI (wastewater; wastewater); MN (dashboard); MO (wastewater); MS (dashboard); MT (dashboard); NC (dashboard); ND (dashboard; wastewater); NE (dashboard); NH (wastewater); NJ (dashboard); NM (dashboard); NV (dashboard; wastewater, Southern NV); NY (dashboard); OH (dashboard); OK (dashboard); OR (dashboard); PA (dashboard); RI (dashboard); SC (dashboard); SD (dashboard); TN (dashboard); TX (dashboard); UT (wastewater); VA (dashboard); VT (dashboard); WA (dashboard; dashboard); WI (wastewater); WV (wastewater); WY (wastewater).

Assets, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Authorities of Canada).

Assets, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).

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Elite Maleficence

TABLE 1: Every day Covid Charts

LEGEND

1) ★ for charts new right this moment; all others are usually not up to date.

2) For a full-size/full-resolution picture, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Home windows) on the chart thumbnail and “open picture in new tab.”

NOTES

[1] (Biobot) Once more, no backward revisions. The uptick is actual (not less than to Biobot). Notice this anomaly:

Appears like Covid may not be seasonal? Who knew? Hoerger feedback:

[2] (Biobot) Right here, FWIW, is Verily regional knowledge as of February 20. CDC Area 1:

And Area 2:

Verily knowledge, then, exhibits no anomaly. Presumably, Biobot sewersheds and Verily sewersheds don’t overlap.

[3] (CDC Variants) “As of Could 11, genomic surveillance knowledge shall be reported biweekly, based mostly on the provision of optimistic take a look at specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice every week; semiweekly.” Appears like CDC has chosen sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are nothing to fret about. Time will inform.

[4] (ER) Doesn’t assist Biobot knowledge. “Charts and knowledge supplied by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous yr, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.”

[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Not flattening.

[6] (Hospitalization: CDC) Nonetheless down. “Maps, charts, and knowledge supplied by CDC, updates weekly for the earlier MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Division Visits, Check Positivity) and weekly the next Mondays (Hospitalizations) by 8 pm ET†”.

[7] (Walgreens) That’s a giant drop! It might be attention-grabbing to survey this inhabitants usually; these are individuals who, regardless of a tsunami of official propaganda and large peer stress, went and obtained examined anyhow.

[8] (Cleveland) Flattening, in step with Biobot knowledge.

[9] (Vacationers: Posivitity) Down, albeit within the rear view mirror.

[10] (Vacationers: Variants) About time for one thing to problem JN.1. However what’s “different”? One thing to sit up for, I suppose!

Stats Watch

Manufacturing: “United States Sturdy Items Orders” [Trading Economics]. “New orders for manufactured sturdy items in the USA slumped by 6.1% month-over-month in January 2024, greater than market expectations of a 4.5% fall and following a 0.3% lower in December. ”

Manufacturing: “United States Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index” [Trading Economics]. “The composite manufacturing index within the US Fifth District space elevated to -5 in February 2024 from -15 in January.”

Manufacturing: “Boeing Lacking Key Components of Security Tradition: FAA Report” [Aviation International News]. “The panel additional reported that it couldn’t discover a “constant and clear” security reporting channel or course of inside the enterprise unit. It additionally famous that workers don’t perceive the best way to use the completely different reporting programs and which reporting system to make use of and when. The panel expressed concern that the confusion may discourage workers from reporting what they see as security issues. The report concluded that, though Boeing beforehand supplied a roadmap to implement an Group Designation Authorization (ODA) and security administration programs (SMS), the airframer nonetheless hadn’t accomplished the adjustments described within the roadmap.” • For extra on ODA programs, see Leeham Information linked to right here. Key level from Leeham:

The FAA doesn’t have the assets to do all of the certification actions essential to sustain with an increasing aviation trade.

The FAA will get assist utilizing [Organization Designation Authorization (ODA) Unit Members (UMs)] who report back to the FAA] for routine duties permitting the FAA to focus its restricted assets on security vital certification points in addition to new and novel applied sciences. Designees come from non-public trade. They’re specialists within the aviation and medical communities who’re aware of the rules and certification necessities essential to concern a certificates. Particular person Designees can both be an organization worker or a person guide.

Examples of such specialists could be mechanics, docs, engineers, inspectors, and pilots. All designees should go a rigorous screening course of to be permitted to behave within the FAAs capability in a restricted scope. The FAA delegates to permitted people and corporations each job they do. Consider it as a power multiplier in that non-public trade is doing a really important quantity of the FAA’s work.

Now see the FAA Report–

Manufacturing: “Part 103 Group Designation Authorizations (ODA) For Transport Airplanes Knowledgeable Panel Evaluate Board” (PDF) [Federal Aviation Administration]. Stupidly:

Therefore, the display screen dump from web page 36:

Shorter: Boeing workers muscled the UMs (ODA Unit Members) to make manufacturing quotas, wrecking security. Hat tip, all these pencil-necked MBAs in Chicago! This conduct goes to be onerous to weed out, and I very a lot doubt that the [genuflects] Obama-administration lawyer they simply put in command of HR to bust the unions shall be as much as the duty. Attention-grabbing instances for our nationwide champion!

Transportation: “Norfolk Southern is bolstering its board because it seeks to fend off a shareholder-activist group waging a proxy battle in opposition to the freight railroad” [Paul Page, Wall Street Journal]. “The corporate is wanting so as to add former Amtrak and airline government Richard Anderson and former U.S. senator Mary Kathryn “Heidi” Heitkamp to its board of administrators as investor group Ancora Holdings presses its personal effort to overtake Norfolk Southern’s management by way of its roughly $1 billion stake within the service…. Ancora’s slate of latest administrators consists of former Ohio Gov. John Kasich and that it desires to put in former United Parcel Service government Jim Barber and former CSX official Jamie Boychuk within the prime two administration posts. Norfolk Southern warns in its proxy supplies that . That’s a doubtlessly precarious path for the railroad, which faces intense regulatory scrutiny over a poisonous practice derailment early final yr.” • Moar PSR?

In the present day’s Concern & Greed Index: 76 Excessive Greed (earlier shut: 75 Excessive Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 66 (Greed). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Feb 27 at 1:02:13 PM ET.

Rapture Index: Closes unchanged [Rapture Ready]. Document Excessive, October 10, 2016: 189. Present: 187. (Do not forget that bringing on the Rapture is good.) NOTE on #42 Plagues: “The coronavirus pandemic has maxed out this class.” Extra trustworthy than most! • Apparently not involved in regards to the goat sacrificers in any respect?

Information of the Wired

“Botanical gardens can cool metropolis air by a median of 5 °C” [The New Atlas]. A meta-study. Helpful chart:

Contact data for crops: Readers, be happy to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) learn the way to ship me a test in case you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to learn the way to ship me photos of crops. Greens are wonderful! Fungi, lichen, and coral are deemed to be honorary crops! In order for you your deal with to seem as a credit score, please place it initially of your mail in parentheses: (thus). In any other case, I’ll anonymize through the use of your initials. See the earlier Water Cooler (with plant) right here. From Late Introvert:

Readers, I ought to acknowledge this. However I don’t! What’s it? (Appears like a superbly lush and dense backyard, from the background. NOTE Not a criticism however a useful trace for extra pleasurable picture-taking: The topic doesn’t must be within the middle, even when your digicam tries to get you to do this. See the Rule of Thirds for a extra dynamic composition. Like all guidelines, meant to be damaged. However I discovered that every one my images improved as quickly as I began wanting on the complete body.)

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