This guy’s a stoner.

I just returned from a conference. AI was 60% of the conversation. Agents were 25%. They are coming. You’ll be able to have plain text conversations with bots that will automate a number of activities. Send out invoices for services you typically use (phone, internet, cable, rent, etc), follow ups when you’re late on payments. Personal assistants who book events and rooms for you. Helper bots that stay focused and help build systems that AI can understand and will have AI protocols built in.

Agents will be taking to agents that talk to other agents. Security will absolutely be an issue. It will be like how a mailing clearing house shares your information to other advertisers and sends you mail.

Wasps tend to be a bit thick. Ask them kindly to get off my plate and sit in the chair. If I want them to buzz off, I typically just ask them “don’t I know you? Of that’s right, in the checkout line at the liquor store the other day” that’ll usually get them going.

But if I want them to stay, I order them a pint.

If the Supreme Court won’t issue a verdict, maybe, just maybe, the people who produce our food will.

It is most certainly the lizard people. They are the worst by far.

Keep fighting the good fight. A lot of folks nowadays have grown disenfranchised with the democratic model because they aren’t seeing their particular flavor of progress. We must continue to guide them away from the sugar high that is dictatorial power and channel their energy into the fruits and veggies that is the democratic process. It can bear fruit if we nurture it.

Wait, this has a name!? It’s better with the coffee creamers that usually come next to the vending machine. Also better if you use Dr. Pepper. Tastes like an ice cream float.

As long as you both consent to it and he is willing to also put in the work it takes to raise a child then what’s the problem?

Malcolm Gladwell just recently had a child in his late 50s/early 60s and so did Peter Sagal of Wait Wait fame. People have kids later in life all the time.

My wife and I had our first child when I was 39 because that’s finally when it happened for us and we had the means to support our kid the way we wanted.

I’m in my mid 40s now and would love another. I still have the energy to swing our kid around and throw her up in the air. Now she’s getting into the ages where she can hike with us, it’s a wonderful journey watching her grow and learn.

One thing I would just ask of you, personally, is just make the commitment to read to your child. Read to them every night. Read to them as much as they want. Read to them even when you’re tired. It’s so important for their development.

You’re up north? I’d be thinking of ways to keep the house insulated, warm and with pipes unfrozen.

Pipewrap. They come in a few different options. The cheap foam works ok, but can be a pain around elbows and expansions. The insulation roll is a bit easier to get done well but takes more time.

Pipe heaters - relatively cheap, somewhere around $20-40. Run it along the pipe and plug it in.

Do you have a well or city water? If a well, make sure that cement encasement is lodged in the ground good and then stuff insulation all in it. Pipe warmer may serve you well here too. If city, then you’re in a bit of an easier situation.

If you have a crawl space, seal the door well. Don’t forget to open the vents in the summer and for sure close them in the winter. If you have a basement, make sure your water barrier is doing its job and get a dehumidifier to prevent mold. Try to get one with a drain tube so you don’t have to empty it all the freaking time like I currently do.

Get one of those foam dohickeys for your outdoor faucets and for the love of all that is unfrozen do not leave your hoses attached in the winter.

Get a preventive maintenance plan on your big ticket items like furnaces boilers and aircons. People neglect these and then end up with an eventual $8k unexpected bill. At least the pms will tell you if you’re close to their expiry so you can prepare. They may also help you prevent mold in your aircon before it becomes a problem.

Get pest control, we do monthly. It’ll help keep out the ants, mice, bats and squirrels.

Get yourself a backup battery that can run a fridge for a day. Or invest in a backup generator.

Figure out what your secondary source of heat will be (e.g wood stove, propane, kerosene.) Make sure you have it stocked. If you burn anything, make sure to get a CO sensor and that your fire alarms are working. Houses are so tightly built nowadays that you’ll need to ensure anything burned has proper ventilation.

Change your air filters every 3 months depending on use. Make sure to clean your fridge air filter every 6 months. If you have a kitchen stove exhaust fan, make sure to clean that up every few months as well.

Invest in some salt and a snow shovel if you don’t already have one. You’ll need it. .

Change out your locks. Who knows who the previous owners gave a key. If your doors have the smart key system, then it’s very easy to do nowadays.

Learn where your electric panel is, make sure you don’t have two or even three elsewhere around the house, sometimes inside, sometimes out.

Don’t be a stranger, talk to your neighbors. They’re your best resource in a pinch

Congrats on owning your own castle. It’s a lot of upkeep but it’s a lot of piece of mind too.

Yes, I do, because we are many and we persevere.

Here we are celebrating Labor Day, the day that celebrates workers rights - overtime pay for working over 40 hours, limiting children from having to work in factories, weekends and time off.

It was a hard fight from serfdom to poor factory conditions to now. We stand on the shoulders of giants.

There’s a growing wisdom gap coming in America. The people who are already well versed in company practices and culture are going to use AI to complete the tasks that they would have otherwise given to assistants and junior resources.

The junior resources are going to struggle to find jobs because they are lacking in the KSAs that schools simply cannot provide training for. And that means when us Gen Xers and later Millenials retire there could be a major gap where we have few people with that inherent knowledge to replace us. And where there’s no work and no hope, you get something akin to what is starting to occur in China right now…or revolt.

My hope is that schools will be rethought and there will be a lot more focus on getting an internship early and for the long term. Something more like apprenticeships, which the blue collar workforce maintained, but it’s something we’ll likely need to bring back to white collar jobs.

This isn’t to say that schools should diminish a well rounded education. I think it’s extremely important for students to take electives outside of their focus for a multitude of reasons, one being that it helps students realize the importance of how others contribute to society.

Apprenticeships can help to fill the knowledge gap, but the white collars that are in the jobs now will also need to be retrained and made comfortable to work with a large influx of apprentices to make this approach a success.

These are the useless kind of you should know facts that I need in my life.

Could hot dogs serve the same purpose in a pinch?

If history serves me correctly, his first name is Uncle and if you follow him everything will be alright.

Huh, maybe DT has been following RFK Jrs recommendations and he really did make America healthy again.

Donkey Show Barbie

The cankles are the front line. It may take some time but I’m optimistic that gravity will win.

I don’t understand humans. Everybody says they wish they could find a partner as loyal as their dog.

…but then you sniff one butt and you get the newspaper.

• Everything Daven Hiskey and Simon Whistler make
• Geographics channel could use some love
• Eric Rosen chess
• Veritasium (popular but well produced and informative)
• Adam Savage’s channel of mythbusters fame
• Montemayor - rarely posts but his WW2 battle breakdowns are so good!

Thanks for this, I had been burying my head in the sand for the last decade and was wondering what was going on.

Yous askin too many questions, bub. Keep askin and ya may just find out.