I was supposed to be going to get medical stuff done today; where’s my ride? Call. Um. I have you scheduled for Friday. I think I told you all that Friday is the one day I kind of wanted to avoid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nothing further overnight, so I guess it’ll be whenever they squeeze me in. It’s fine, though I kindasorta was looking forward to this cheap thing on Thursday night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The short bus trips can wait until something like that afternoon; I’ll leave them in place and see what happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Didn’t have card prompts for today, so revisiting this<\/a> from 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Things with the online censorship (and editorializing because only the government can censor) before the COVID craziness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The instincts were there, then. Should I have been more disturbed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n From the article I linked in the 2018 piece, “‘Today’s tools seem almost\u00a0built<\/em>\u00a0for Russian disinformation techniques,’ Warner opines. And the ones to come, he assures us, will be even worse.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you, Senator Nextel. Hunter Biden’s laptop had all the hallmarks of it, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, what else? The Flock Off stories are circulating with abandon, now. There was something on CBS News last night, and TheFP had this<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I suppose I understand the recalcitrance, but parts of this really are tailing off into Crazytown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You know how you avoid the license plate readers? Become a Sovereign Citizen, and get yourself one of these puppies<\/a>. Or just stick to public transportation. Or take taxis where you pay cash<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. If none of those works for you, you should be fine, too, when autonomous vehicles (think Waymo) are running all over the place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Wait, you don’t like those, either. I’m going to guess it’s for the same concrete, fundamental<\/em>, reasons you dislike the cameras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Technology advances regardless of your concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I seem to have lost my capacity for worrying about things that are impossible to control. Yes, some of it is because of my declining stills, and physical abilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *fuzzy memories of NASCAR not allowing electronic ignition because there was worry it could be used for traction control*<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah, modern cars use highly-inspected Electronic Control Units. And fuel injection started being permitted in 2012. (And that should tell you how little interest I have in NASCAR…) Could I even run a timing light? Could I set ignition points? How about change the jets in a carburetor? I mean, I have vague memories about how to do these things; I earned the Automotive Maintenance Merit Badge<\/a>, after all. But why would I do those things today<\/span><\/em><\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Technology progresses no matter how much you might resist it. Your resistance can be a SawzAll and and a can of spray paint for the cameras, or a man with a gun enforcing a law, but it’s not going to work. Sorry to break that to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s enough for this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was supposed to be going to get medical stuff done today; where’s my ride? Call. Um. I have you scheduled for Friday. I think I told you all that Friday is the one day I kind of wanted to avoid. Nothing further overnight, so I guess it’ll be whenever they squeeze me in. It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6217"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6383,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217\/revisions\/6383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}