My thoughts are covered with moss,

in words as old as myself.

Why in a blue moon should I

assign them all to my shelf?

They’re as real as Jabberwock

and twice as long in the tooth.

Like, who’s your elder anyway?

Tell me that, young’un. Forsooth!

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SAD:

Sorry, I’m sad about our space efforts. I agree it’s a waste and dangerous, too:  letting our primal competitiveness loose on life in other galaxies:   The Superbowl isn’t enough competition for us?  News item: Blue Origin had been edged out in bids for previous contracts, and Friday’s announcement represented a key milestone for the company.

Blue Origin will build a 16-metre (52-foot) tall lander in coordination with defence contractors Lockheed Martin and Boeing, as well as spacecraft software firm Draper and the robotics company Astrobotic. Those companies lost to SpaceX in their 2021 bid, which Blue Origin unsuccessfully tried to have overturned in court.

“Honored to be on this journey with @NASA to land astronauts on the Moon — this time to stay,” Bezos, the billionaire founder of  Blue Origin and Amazon.com, said in a post on Twitter following the announcement

Soon I may have to share a little dictionary with identifying info about the latest space activity by the US, Japan, China, etc., etc. And all the gnats overhead.

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ON THE HOME FRONT:

A Little Down?   Who? Me? Never happen. But speaking of gnats,  Just trying to get rid of the gnats in all my house plant’s soil, and frustrated because with no cell phone (on purpose) I can’t communicate with the funny square blog guys.
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MY BOO BOO: Earlier I posted that the world population was shrinking, but that was my own faulty translation of the fact that fertility rates are shrinking. (And after the Supreme Court’s abortion decision,  production rates  should pick up again.) In fact, It seems an enigma to me that while many conservatives are concerned that our “civilization” may be shrinking, they are willing and/or anxious to cut humanity curricula at many universities.  Remember Socrates, Plato, Aristotle…Michaelangelo?  Keeping our “civilization” from shrinking may be why some sources are quite unhappy that a large number of folks are avoiding marriage.  It feels like conservatives want folks to get married to maintain our status quo in the world, despite the new distrust and insecurity of a large portion of the country.  And who is it hinting except  Clarence Thomas that we should ban birth prevention?  Let the poor sacrifice their agency  so the top 1% can stay on top and be “civilized?”  (Maybe Yale and Harvard can still carry the humanities?)  Oh I sound bitter, don’t I?  And I thought I was a cupcake!