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March 8, 2026

Waning gibbous moon/daylight-saving sunrise.

57 comments:

wild chicken said...: I would be happy if the date of change would revert to the old dates. This is much too early. It is too dark here in western Montana.; 3/8/26, 8:15 AM
rehajm said...: Yah the boiler on the La Marzocco woke up way too early today, long before the noisy birds…; 3/8/26, 8:21 AM
Jaq said...: The moonrises at this time of the lunar month are great, probably because they happen at times of day when almost all of us are fast asleep, so we are not over exposed.; 3/8/26, 8:48 AM
Bob Boyd said...: I like Meade's music videos.; 3/8/26, 8:50 AM
Political Junkie said...: Is this an open thread?
The federal debt/deficit is unsustainable.
With the war in Iran the deficit for the year might hit 2.5 trillion.
Where is a Ross Perot type?
We desperately need JFK's "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country".
IMO, government spending reductions and tax increases are required.
Does any politician have the honesty and integrity to say such truths?; 3/8/26, 8:50 AM
Dave Begley said...: Meade:

Watch out! Ben Stiller might object to your fair use of that music!; 3/8/26, 9:17 AM
Dave Begley said...: The war will be over by April 1, 2026.; 3/8/26, 9:19 AM
rehajm said...: The US government has a spending problem not a revenue problem. The optimal tax rate is one that maximizes GDP and there’s plenty of evidence the current tax burden constrains GDP.; 3/8/26, 9:20 AM
Achilles said...: Political Junkie said...

Is this an open thread?
The federal debt/deficit is unsustainable.
With the war in Iran the deficit for the year might hit 2.5 trillion.

I don't know about the first question.

As far as the debt goes you need to realize we are going to be in a world where money means nothing within the decade.

Currency was developed as a means of exchange to reduce the effects of scarcity and allow us to more efficiently organize capital to generate wealth.

There will be no scarcity soon. Capital will be for all intents and purposes infinite. It will only be limited by our ability to generate electricity.

The national debt will never be a problem. The next real problem is the elimination of purpose for 99.9% of humanity.

Worry about the important things.; 3/8/26, 9:21 AM
Achilles said...: Dave Begley said...

The war will be over by April 1, 2026.

No it wont. This is just a step in the real war.

The real war is with the British elite.

Have you wondered why the BBC is so in on the propaganda? Why do the ruling Mullahs all go to England for their medical care? Why do the rulers of Iran have so much luxury property in the UK? Why was Lloyds trying to help the Mullahs? What is the Atlantic Council? Why has the British political system been so bad with both parties pushing the same globalist agenda no matter who gets elected?

The Shield of the Americas project has the same target. All of those drug boats we have been blowing up were actually part of the supply chain that took the drugs from South America to English controlled Islands in the Caribbean and shipped the drugs to Europe through the UK.

Iran is just a stepping stone in this reordering of the post WWII order.; 3/8/26, 9:29 AM
Meade said...: I like Bob Boyd’s comments.; 3/8/26, 9:32 AM
Dave Begley said...: Achilles:

I don’t listen to the BBC.

I am obviously referring to the shooting war with the current Iranian regime.; 3/8/26, 9:43 AM
Peachypeachy said...: Foo … I not into hard jam but foo sounds good sometimes.
Indeed.. The uk is controlled by Islam and the corrupt left.; 3/8/26, 9:47 AM
Peachypeachy said...: The BBC is hate fueled Israel propaganda .
Waters must bathe in it each morning.; 3/8/26, 9:50 AM
Peachypeachy said...: Ah dang .. correction:
BBC is ANTI Israel propaganda.; 3/8/26, 9:51 AM
john mosby said...: Achilles, what is your proposed solution for a world where we don't need anyone to work? CC, JSM; 3/8/26, 10:02 AM
Howard said...: London isn't a threat to the Global order. AGI is. The big war is the tech billionaires versus the moneychanging billionaires. Tech via AI is making finance Chads and their hedge banker bosses obsolete. Pretty soon, we won't have to pay Wells Fargo and B of A to print our money. Colleges and Universities will be obsolete. Jeffrey Epstein was involved with this war and was murdered for it once he served his purpose.; 3/8/26, 10:06 AM
Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...: “Ah dang”

Thanks Peachy. For a second I thought you had a mental breakdown like several others around here.; 3/8/26, 10:14 AM
Achilles said...: john mosby said...

Achilles, what is your proposed solution for a world where we don't need anyone to work? CC, JSM

Be one of the people who is useful and can interface with AGI technology.

Be on the "Musk side" of the looming technofeudalist world conflict that wants humans to prosper and expand.

In the off chance that I make the cut and I count in the upcoming conflict do my best to wipe out the human eliminationists who want to reduce the human population to a fraction of its current number and their global warming environmentalist dead end cult.; 3/8/26, 10:18 AM
buwaya said...: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48a1kkbkmp8

Good video on the (possible) role of Ukraine in assisting various people with Iranian drone problems. Ukraine, after all routinely gets rid of 95-98% of the Shahid drones.
Also good points on the differences between the strategic situations of the US/Arabs/NATO/Israel vs Ukraine.
That said, it seems to me that it would have been prudent for various people to have payed more attention to the Ukrainians or some of their middle ranking officers who have been trained by the Ukrainians for years now.

On Ukrainian anti-Shahid methods-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--q_e4IHHow; 3/8/26, 10:19 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Wow, Daylight Savings Time snuck up on me- I woke up this morning mystified how I had slept in for an extra hour.; 3/8/26, 10:19 AM
imTay said...: If people all agree with you, then that’s evidence that you are right!

I wasted so much time in school and thinking that I had to look at events from multiple sources, when all I had to do was look around and copy off other people’s work!

I remember the final exam in my quantum mechanics class, where you had to take the four postulates of qe, and derive the number of electrons at each level in an atom, what a waste of time and effort when I could have just asked the guy at the next desk and written down the answer!; 3/8/26, 10:20 AM
Achilles said...: Howard said...

London isn't a threat to the Global order. AGI is. The big war is the tech billionaires versus the moneychanging billionaires. Tech via AI is making finance Chads and their hedge banker bosses obsolete. Pretty soon, we won't have to pay Wells Fargo and B of A to print our money. Colleges and Universities will be obsolete. Jeffrey Epstein was involved with this war and was murdered for it once he served his purpose.

All true but a slight clarification.

The big war will be between tech "billionaires" except all of that money and capital will soon be worth a lot less and the important part will be the capability to interface with AGI and to organize infinite capital in parallel streams.

Howard is right about Iran in general. What is going on in Iran now is a rear guard action. This is just mop up. Trump probably actually likes the people of Iran. He seems to be an actually nice person.; 3/8/26, 10:25 AM
john mosby said...: Achilles: "Be one of the people who is useful and can interface with AGI technology."

Ok, that's your solution for yourself. What's your best outcome for humanity as a whole? How do we distribute food etc and keep young men from misbehaving, without losing our freedom? CC, JSM; 3/8/26, 10:25 AM
imTay said...: There were two As in the class, BTW, and if I had not done the work and trusted my own mind, I would have gotten a lower grade.; 3/8/26, 10:33 AM
Big Mike said...: [Trump] seems to be an actually nice person.

All the more reason for the left to hate him.; 3/8/26, 10:42 AM
Kai Akker said...: ---- We desperately need JFK's "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country".

Biden was trying to get there. He just couldn't quite remember the words. Meaning, in the wrong hands, that is the call Everything in the state, nothing outside of the state. And, btw, L'etat, c'est moi.; 3/8/26, 10:44 AM
Beasts of England said...: What happened to making the time change permanent? Talk about an 80/20 issue! I guess the Clock Industrial Complex (or the Jooos!!) is behind this nefarious plot…; 3/8/26, 10:45 AM
Kai Akker said...: --- There will be no scarcity soon. Capital will be for all intents and purposes infinite. It will only be limited by our ability to generate electricity. [Achilles]

Admirable dream? Or nightmare. At any rate, that infinite capital is on its way to being infinite less 50%. And along with that, abundance is heading toward scarcity.; 3/8/26, 10:47 AM
Achilles said...: john mosby said...

Achilles: "Be one of the people who is useful and can interface with AGI technology."

Ok, that's your solution for yourself. What's your best outcome for humanity as a whole? How do we distribute food etc and keep young men from misbehaving, without losing our freedom? CC, JSM

I am pretty pessimistic at this point. There wont really be anything people can do better than AGI soon.

Those people will essentially be a conquered population that will be at the mercy of the conquerors.

But previously in history conquerors needed at least some of the conquered population. This will be different. There will be no need for the conquered population.

The only saving grace will be that it will be relatively trivial for the technofeudal overlords that win to care for the conquered population. They will essentially have a choice of which button to push.

The real problem 99.99% of humanity has is that the technofeudal lords are all engineers and nerds maxed out on the things vs. people slidebar. The groundwork was laid with the Global Warming cult.

Most of the people developing AGI will push the wrong button. Pray that god intervenes like when Trump turned his head.; 3/8/26, 10:47 AM
Yancey Ward said...: "Have you been made redundant by AI? If you answer yes to this question, consider pursuing a career here at Soylent Incorporated."; 3/8/26, 10:54 AM
john mosby said...: Wow Achilles, that is pretty pessimistic. But I don’t have a better prediction. Maybe something along the lines of Ford’s principle that the assembly line workers are the people who buy the cars. What happens when you dont need them on the line? The only point of building things is to sell them. If no one is able to buy them, does production just shrink down to artisanal AI-robot-built luxury items for the 0.1%?

Maybe the rest of us use last year’s model of AI and robots to make non-luxury stuff?

One of my projections is that as the number of jobs shrink, we will go back to single-breadwinner nuclear families, and then single-breadwinner multigenerational tribes/clans. But that is a bad position to be in when the number of jobs shrinks even further. Clans won’t be too interested in a centralized hydraulic state like the river valley civilizations or the Incas, where one guy allocates resources.

Another factor is that there is still some scarcity. Scarcity of raw materials. Although it’s not as bad as the globalists try to scare us, not everything can be found everywhere. Maybe some sort of clan or corporate or both organization militarizes oil fields, mining areas, agriculture, etc, to force the 0.1% to trade fairly. But then a robot military could just kill all the humans guarding such places. But then what’s the point of having anything if you’ve got no one to sell it to?

All very puzzling. CC, JSM; 3/8/26, 11:07 AM
john mosby said...: We do have the benefit that a big chunk of the world population follows one of the Abrahamic religions, or at least lives a secular life built on their conceptual framework. So the value of the individual is deep in a lot of our cultures. Even the ChiComs have more practicing Christians than Europe.

Don’t know if that can help overcome the economic incentives of firing everyone and watching them starve. CC, JSM; 3/8/26, 11:14 AM
Achilles said...: john mosby said...

But then what’s the point of having anything if you’ve got no one to sell it to?

It is going to force us to answer that one question that nobody wanted to answer.

Why are we here?

Unfortunately for humanity too many people working on AGI are atheists. We will see.; 3/8/26, 11:15 AM
bagoh20 said...: Todays current crop of toddlers will see a world where intellectual jobs like law, engineering, medicine, and even science itself are rare with most of the work being done by AI.
The future may require welfare for college graduates at a rate similar to high school drop outs today. Trades like plumbing HVAC may be the last to survive.
This will change work, wealth and it's distribution into something unrecognizable to us.
I don't think humans are designed for such a world. What we do is who we are and how we occupy our time and energy. I don't know what we will do with without work. The world will be one big retirement community. Sounds awful.; 3/8/26, 11:17 AM
Howard said...: In the age of AGI, we have to get back to being more authentically human. Tool makers artesans, hunters, poets, explorers, athletes.; 3/8/26, 11:23 AM
Achilles said...: bagoh20 said...

I don't think humans are designed for such a world. What we do is who we are and how we occupy our time and energy. I don't know what we will do with without work. The world will be one big retirement community. Sounds awful.

I think one of the better answers is to load people up on spaceships in homogeneous tribal communities and push them towards distant stars.

That way getting to the distant star provides the tribe purpose for a few thousand years while they travel there.

We have to solve artificial gravity first.; 3/8/26, 11:23 AM
Achilles said...: I am going to recommend the Obsidian app for creating linked markdown libraries. It is a really cool desktop application.

All of the models have a tendency to be enthusiastic. It kind of helps to stay on task and acts like a university professor advising on a masters thesis.

But I think I am going to have to build the 64 year old retiring next year former navy midshipman engineer AGI model.; 3/8/26, 11:30 AM
john mosby said...: We thought we were going to nuke ourselves into extinction. Turns out the 0.1% will pogrom us with robots and live surrounded by robot harems until they die without heirs.

Is there a ST:TOS ep about this? CC, JSM; 3/8/26, 11:45 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: "The war will be over by April 1, 2026."

The Iranian populace doesn't have it in them to do what is necessary. They've become accustomed to... tyranny.; 3/8/26, 11:55 AM
mccullough said...: I like the word “gibbous.”; 3/8/26, 2:26 PM
Smilin' Jack said...: “I don't know what we will do with without work. The world will be one big retirement community. Sounds awful.”

Yes, whatever will you do without a boss to tell you. I wouldn’t worry too much though; even after you retire there will still be plenty of people around telling you what to do.; 3/8/26, 3:54 PM
narciso said...: I think the I harry mudd episode had the gist of it,
there was also the indigenous planet that had the asteroid deflector; 3/8/26, 3:56 PM
john mosby said...: Power will also always be a scarcity. Even though power and wealth intersect a lot, most people are more interested in the power. Even in a scarcity-free world, there will be a scarcity of people to rule or, worse, 'help.' Or I guess more accurately a scarcity of ruling/'helping' positions. If we manage to preserve electoral systems through the AI/robotics transition, people will vote for the party that feeds and houses them. Sort of like happens in the inner city now, but with all of us voting on that criterion. The food and housing could theoretically be free based on Achilles's economics, but the state will intervene to make sure it controls distribution, through regulation enforced by AI robot police. The mentally ill people who run for office will always want actual humans to rule over; no number of robot minions will ever really satisfy the will to power. Weirdly, that may be what saves our lives. I dunno. What do you think? CC, JSM; 3/8/26, 4:37 PM
john mosby said...: Achilles: "I think one of the better answers is to load people up on spaceships in homogeneous tribal communities and push them towards distant stars."

Could almost do that here on Earth. People sick of living in the AI-controlled areas could go to remote areas and be pioneers again, living analog barter lives.

Unless the 0.1% feel so threatened by it that they find the settlements on satellite and send drones to exterminate the pioneers. CC, JSM; 3/8/26, 4:41 PM
Aggie said...: ..."even after you retire there will still be plenty of people around telling you what to do. ..."

Imagine the horror of the Administrative government rushing in to fill this vacuum, and what it would do with vast populations that have time on their hands.; 3/8/26, 5:19 PM
buwaya said...: Tucker Carlson is off his rocker. Now he says that "unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife and daughter" and that Trump is moving toward using nuclear weapons on Iran.; 3/8/26, 5:35 PM
Jaq said...: Brent Crude at $107 A month ago it was $62, Friday it was $90, IIRC.

https://comexlive.org

Tucker Carlson is one more symptom of Trump's appeal becoming more selective. I am sure that when Trump "kicked him out of MAGA," only one vote went with him.; 3/8/26, 5:39 PM
Jaq said...: I cannot believe the crazy shit I am seeing coming in the clips from Fox News. It's almost as funny as Rachael Maddow, who refused to mention Israel, which Marco Rubio has admitted, fired the starting gun on this disastrous war, because both sides are bought and paid for, and figure their viewers for pea-brains.; 3/8/26, 5:42 PM
Jaq said...: Remember, that when we take their oil, it isn't that we really want their oil, it's because we can't let the "terrorists" have it, so reluctantly, we are going to have to take it, and you boys who die for it? Well, you are American heroes.; 3/8/26, 5:45 PM
Jaq said...: For those of you who watch Fox News $62 to $107 is nearly double, and the market just opened.; 3/8/26, 5:47 PM
buwaya said...: " that when we take their oil, it isn't that we really want their oil, it's because we can't let the "terrorists" have it"
This is idiotic.
US hasnt taken anyones oil. The US didnt take Iraq's oil, nor any of the Gulf Arabs oil in spite of its total domination of these states. It hasnt taken Venezuelas oil, back before Chavez or today.; 3/8/26, 6:05 PM
buwaya said...: Oil price spike is a very temporary condition until the USN starts convoys.; 3/8/26, 6:07 PM
Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas said...: I thought Trump was going to refill the strategic stockpile when oil was $60? Did Trump forget to do that before he started his 'Special Military Operation'? History really does rhyme.; 3/8/26, 6:54 PM
Mason G said...: Yes, it's true. In March 2020, amid crashing oil prices (WTI ~$20-30/bbl, briefly negative), the Trump admin pushed $3B in the CARES Act to buy domestic crude and refill the SPR (which had room). Senate Democrats removed it; Schumer listed it as a win in his summary: "Eliminated $3 billion bailout for big oil." His spokesman and press releases highlighted the exclusion. Sources: Roll Call (3/25/20), CNBC, Schumer's Senate site.

https://x.com/grok/status/2030687165525483631; 3/8/26, 8:28 PM
Achilles said...: Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas said...

I thought Trump was going to refill the strategic stockpile when oil was $60? Did Trump forget to do that before he started his 'Special Military Operation'? History really does rhyme.

Democrats fucked something up.

Now they want to blame Trump for it.

This is indeed a repetitive pattern.; 3/8/26, 11:56 PM
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