Please use the comments section to talk about whatever you want. I'm moderating all the comments these days and I'm pretty strict about comments needing to follow from the post, but the sunrise photo posts are not intended to establish a topic. No need to address the beauty/dullness of a particular sunrise. These photos are part of what is a ritual for me, getting out to experience the sunrise. I'm happy if you enjoy the photographs and completely uninterested in your nonenjoyment of them.
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Sunrises and sunsets are always a plus to the people spinning on this sphere. One for the hope of the new day tomorrow and one for the closure of the day now done.
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Put bluntly, there is a strongly held belief at Althouse Blog that Althouse simply does not care what the blogosphere thinks about her photographs...
The situation in Afghanistan is a complete custerfluck. Apparently nobody gamed out the possibilties--or alternatively the people who did were ignored.
That the collapse is so sudden as to require the re-insertion of combat troops is another indication that our professional diplomats and flag officers are clueless.
NPR just reported that the plan of withdrawal from Afghanistan "took root" in the Trump
administration. Clueless.
And we pay for all this cluelessness!
Lovely photos, BTW.
I always enjoy the pictures but especially so when there's something novel in them. The "near" clouds -- can't think of a better way to describe them -- with the 6:03 illumination is a novel something.
So, be happy.
Why is R. Kelly still in jail? All the famous blacks are out but him. As far as I recall, nobody even testified against him. If there's any racism, still lingering, this is it. Straight up.
I'm considering pushing back my get-out-of-bed time because the sunrise is after 6 AM now. Getting up in the pitch-dark is a challenge on some days.
Read a great read this morning via Tim Ferris about Remembering to Remember. https://mckenna.academy/viewfromthefarside?id=9
The author makes some great points about how science that is very relevant to our current crisis:
But science is often blind to its limitations, sometimes displaying a certain arrogance, an unspoken assumption that if we just keep applying the scientific method long enough, eventually Truth will emerge. Of course this is not the case (vide infra). Science is very good at studying and explaining tiny slices of reality in great detail. It is not so good at explaining the whole of existence from the cosmic perspective, or even fitting all the pieces together. Hence there is no room for arrogance in science, but it is far too prevalent, and it is a threat to true understanding.
After making this excellent point the author goes on to make the same exact mistake he just called out. It reminded me a lot of Sam Harris, who I really like and think is a very smart person, but if you bring up Donald Trump he seems to lose all his fine reasoning skills and becomes totally illogical.
Here is where the author goes totally off the rails:
Except that now, human activity, deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels, is pushing these limits to the breaking point. We need only open the newspaper or turn on the news to see that we are already approaching these limits
Sorry, not very concise so might not meet your comment approval requirements, but thought you might find all that interesting.
Our church joined another for Vacation Bible School last week. One day the children made T-shirts of their own design. A girl from our church put bright rainbow colors on her shirt, with the words underneath: TURST JESUS. She laughed about it afterward, "No one told me it was spelled wrong!" We've been enjoying variations on Turst Jesus all week. "Turst in the Lord with all your heart." (Prov 3:5) and so on. But now it's tempting to take a sunrise photo and add the words 'Turst Jesus' at the bottom. It would be inspirational and quirky.
I've been able to post things I can't post on reddit. Thank you Althouse. You know the saying "I think therefore I am"? Post-internet I would change that to "I post, therefore I am".
I had the power knocked out in Tuesday's storm and since then I've been sitting at home by candlelight or lantern light, or watching sunsets or wandering about the North Shore looking for ice, electric outlets and gluten-free foods. I looked at Althouse but wouldn't post because it would take too long and use up battery. I became very sympathetic to the Afghani people, driven from their homes by bombs and wandering about also. Not that I was suffering the way they are but, in both cases, our routines of living suddenly had no anchor in reality. No cooking, no laundry. When it's dark, the day is over. I used to wonder, will I be the last person to have power restored. Somebody will be - who? And, as I looked at the news, quickly, I'd think "the Taliban is taking power in Afghanistan faster than WE Energy is restoring power to Milwaukee." Who will finish first? I'd bet on the Taliban because they had a plan whereas WE Energy leaders probably had diverse thoughts on how to organize. Maybe had to finish CRT training, to make sure the branches were lifted off in a woke way.
(To be fair, the WE Energy teams on the ground have been working round the clock in all this heat. They looked worn whenever I saw them.)
My son’s friends in the 82nd are going back to cover the withdrawal. His brigade in the 101st is now on tap for deployment. In a recent domestic change of command, he had to account for every HUMVEE, MRAP, NVG, M4, and grenade to have the inventory signed off. Apparently, no one is going to get signatures from the Taliban for all the equipment (including drones) that no one had a plan to destroy. But muh CRT…
The Taliban has seized several hundred U.S. drones including a large cache of hellfire missiles. There is a real chance that the 3,000 U.S. Marines Biden has deployed to rescue Americans trapped in Kabul may face attacks from advanced U.S. drone technology.
Far Side has floating heads too.
Your pics remind me of way back when McNeil Lehrer went from a half hour to an hour and for a while they put up landscape pics between segments, creating visual interludes. It's a very restful palate cleanser between topics. I think letting the mind shift gears here and there gives your text more impact. It's also been a treat over the years seeing your pics get better and better, and I don't think it's just you getting new iPhones from time to time.
Just a day ago, one of the most-commented Althouse blog posts was this one, concerning black vaccine resistance versus white vaccine resistance.
In several comments, I noted that in the black population, vaccine "resistance" was lower, but their "failure to get vaccinated" was indeed concerning. And that meanwhile, real vaccine "resistance" was a very concerning factor among Trump-supporting whites.
Now comes a new survey backing that up.
"I've long maintained that the single biggest factor determining how a given state or county's rate of their residents getting vaccinated isn't about household income, whether they live in a rural or urban area, the population density or their education level, though these are all certainly factors. It's not even race or ethnicity, though there's certainly significant racial inequalities which play into it.
"No, the single biggest factor appears to be partisanship...and more specifically, whether or not someone voted for Donald Trump for President in 2020."
The Daily Mail (UK) reports that 63 new cases of Coronavirus occurred since Obama's 44X60 Tent Party last Saturday.
Somehow, with no U.S. media outlet reporting otherwise, the Trump rally held indoors at the Arizona Theatre in Phoenix with 5,000 attendees wearing no masks, was not a cause for the increase in new Covid cases in Maricopa County from 1,177 on July 25 to 1,849 on August 1. The count of new cases on August 13 was 2079 - so the beat goes on without mask and vaccination requirements imposed.
We all remember Trump urging his supporters not to take his vaccine...
I got your study right here...
"Americans with PhDs are the most reluctant to get vaccinated against COVID, study finds"
https://salten.cz/2021/08/14/americans-with-phds-are-the-most-reluctant-to-get-vaccinated-against-covid-study-finds/
1. A majority of Floridians voted for Trump.
2. 90% of Floridians ages 65 - 74 and 84% ages 75 - 84 have received at least one dose of Covid vaccine.
How does your survey explain that fact?
I hope the more advanced weaponry captured by the Taliban is capable of being remotely deactivated. Even certain consumer-grade electric cars (Tesla) can be updated remotely over Wi-Fi.
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