230 oh, er, well...

What's happening today?

Let's see...

While the stated goals and means are completely different, once again, humans protesting have once again shut down traffic.

And then there's this...

So as he's announced in advance, and has been the strategy for several election cycles, here's what's going to happen. 

He's not going to win the popular vote, but he'll declare victory, use lawyers to toss out as many democrat voting ballots as possible, then take whatever state counts are hanging things up to the newly packed 6-3 supreme court.

They say the only way around this is if Joe wins by a landslide.

If he loses, some people think right wing militias will attack blue states. If he wins, some people think Antifa protesters will go to red states to riot. 

Some people think there will be rioting no matter what happens.

Weirdly, many people on the right seem to think dear leader somehow cut our taxes.

They didn't. They cut their own taxes, and acted like they were doing something nice for us, but really they just delayed fucking us until the next election.

I guess they figure people making less than six figures just won't bother to learn what's really going on, and they're probably right.

As PT Barnum once said, "There's an ass for every seat."

Meanwhile, we've lost any national leadership around Covid-19.

Basically, it seems dear leader is operating under the mindset that this virus has miraculously gone away.

And his medical advisors are acting like they will either be fired or have a new boss soon.

He's planning a party tonight, indoors, with 3-400 guests. The invite said something about joining Prospero for a night of fun and games.

Let's put all that shit behind us for a moment.

This would probably do the trick. I've always wanted to ride the Baja 1000. This thing only has 100 miles range, but it looks like a smooth ride in the sand.

Maybe a smoother, more eco choice for some sight-seeing would be this rail bike, available for rent near Sacramento.

Hmmm... What is this garbage?

Oh, er, well...

Now back to the Singularity, for a little history lesson.

What do this photo and the internet have in common? 

They're both based on the idea of "packets."

A couple hundred years ago, someone figured a system for cutting the cost of shipping goods between New York and Europe. Instead of hiring a whole boat, or space on a boat that would sail when all the space was sold, they said, we'll run a bunch of boats in a regular schedule. If you have something you want to ship, put it in a packet, and we'll send it on the next boat. This was called "packet shipping."

This has evolved into the system of pallets and containers that we all recognize as the building blocks of hipster post-apocalyptic architecture...no wait, sorry, I fast forwarded... This evolved into our system of modern day logistics.

Meanwhile, when computer scientists were figuring out the internet, they grabbed onto this idea. What if, when transferring information from one place to another, instead of a dedicated connection (a phone call, or the entire ship), we diced up the info into smaller "packets" and sent them along on whatever boat was convenient? This is the idea behind "packet switching," the basic technology behind every click you make.

It is also the idea behind dropping bombs out of cargo planes, rather than dedicated bomber planes.

Ah, efficiency.

Remember, no matter what happens tonight, the sun will come out tomorrow. 

Unless it doesn't. This is 2020, after all.