Anastasis

Upper pressure line from pump to bracket. New on right, concours 67 gt350 line. Its a bit long for the application, but will figure it out.

Better. Close. Just need to run the return line and we should be in business.

Trade "secrets" are a real thing. There is value in the lessons learned, the little tweaks and tricks that get a job done and done right. There is also a lot of very basic incompetence among some trades and some jobs if you want done right, you got to dig in. I also smell like power steering fluid right now.

Weird book review tbh.

Well that’s goddamned interesting.

Rigoni on the bench. Coincidence?

Yeah. But how many cardiologists do you have?

hell yeah that looks good.

Surf and surf.

Made a big ass pot of lentils, onions, and rice and we have just a "bit" of leftovers. Savory, so thought it might fry up nice as a pancake. Fried mujadra pancake with runny eggs. Put a little green salsa on top of the lentil cake before the egg went on.

God damned right, I would too.

Yes, like watching Matt Miller at the podium showing us all how the US-led rules-based order works.

Fun little game of guess who said it, a Nazi, an Imperial Japanese, or an Israeli. "We must create a situation whereby killing a [ethnicity] is like killing a rat, where [ethnicity] are dirt, and thereby showing that we and not they are the power to be reckoned with in [country]" "They aren’t human beings and not human animals, they’re subhuman and that’s how they should be treated." "Exterminating the roaches... exterminating the rats...Share this beauty." "We have no solution, you shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this process leads." "Erase the memory of them. Erase them, their families, mothers and children. These animals can no longer live"

You mean, kinda like the Children of the Light?

Here’s some news.

Not a comment on the credibility of the methods or findings, but just traditional disclosures FYI for the readers: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy is an academic think tank that was founded by AIPAC.

You've seen the record before after we traded the heart and soul of the team right?

Apparently sex trafficking and butt fucking.

I don't think that anyone is arguing the former, unless I missed it. But certainly the latter, particularly team sports, can play a strong role is developing social experience, risk feedback, leadership traits and experiential insights into social dynamics.

I don't think that younger children free range now near as much as they did when I was growing up. I think that some are doing argument to absurdity here when they are discussing his work. Some of Haidt's formulations are certainly to blame for that. He appears to have a habit of glossing over and begging the question. But I do think that there is some merit in what he is saying and the themes. I don't think any reasonable person, and certainly no reasonable parent, denies that we have a critical mental health issue on our hands. It's good to be debating and looking for some answers and potential solutions. Anyways, wrt to independent play....from the Atlantic article linked. One crucial aspect of play is physical risk taking. Children and adolescents must take risks and fail—often—in environments in which failure is not very costly. This is how they extend their abilities, overcome their fears, learn to estimate risk, and learn to cooperate in order to take on larger challenges later. The ever-present possibility of getting hurt while running around, exploring, play-fighting, or getting into a real conflict with another group adds an element of thrill, and thrilling play appears to be the most effective kind for overcoming childhood anxieties and building social, emotional, and physical competence. The desire for risk and thrill increases in the teen years, when failure might carry more serious consequences. Children of all ages need to choose the risk they are ready for at a given moment. Young people who are deprived of opportunities for risk taking and independent exploration will, on average, develop into more anxious and risk-averse adults. Human childhood and adolescence evolved outdoors, in a physical world full of dangers and opportunities. Its central activities––play, exploration, and intense socializing––were largely unsupervised by adults, allowing children to make their own choices, resolve their own conflicts, and take care of one another. Shared adventures and shared adversity bound young people together into strong friendship clusters within which they mastered the social dynamics of small groups, which prepared them to master bigger challenges and larger groups later on. And then we changed childhood. The changes started slowly in the late 1970s and ’80s, before the arrival of the internet, as many parents in the U.S. grew fearful that their children would be harmed or abducted if left unsupervised. Such crimes have always been extremely rare, but they loomed larger in parents’ minds thanks in part to rising levels of street crime combined with the arrival of cable TV, which enabled round-the-clock coverage of missing-children cases. A general decline in social capital––the degree to which people knew and trusted their neighbors and institutions––exacerbated parental fears. Meanwhile, rising competition for college admissions encouraged more intensive forms of parenting. In the 1990s, American parents began pulling their children indoors or insisting that afternoons be spent in adult-run enrichment activities. Free play, independent exploration, and teen-hangout time declined. In recent decades, seeing unchaperoned children outdoors has become so novel that when one is spotted in the wild, some adults feel it is their duty to call the police. In 2015, the Pew Research Center found that parents, on average, believed that children should be at least 10 years old to play unsupervised in front of their house, and that kids should be 14 before being allowed to go unsupervised to a public park. Most of these same parents had enjoyed joyous and unsupervised outdoor play by the age of 7 or 8. But overprotection is only part of the story. The transition away from a more independent childhood was facilitated by steady improvements in digital technology, which made it easier and more inviting for young people to spend a lot more time at home, indoors, and alone in their rooms. Eventually, tech companies got access to children 24/7. They developed exciting virtual activities, engineered for “engagement,” that are nothing like the real-world experiences young brains evolved to expect.

This series of posts cracked me up. The armybrat positioning in particular.

If there is a criticism to make here, I think that his distinctions based on sex are somewhat superficial. Boys are very vulnerable to social comparison, in different ways of course than girls, but in some ways very similar. He moves past this too quickly.

Here is the context.

hmmm, propofol.