Because thinking about the world is fun…
- No Yips for Donald
Why does Donald Trump keep referring to the yips, as in “I don’t have the yips about boots on the ground?” Is he worried he might be getting yippy? Or is it just because he loves golf? - Bottom Lines
Without a sewage system a city, or a vessel is…in the shit? Wellington’s sewage situation is anything but rosy. As is the plight of the USS Ford, bobbing of the coast of Iran with barely a head to piss in. - AI and social cohesion
As we hand more person-person tasks off to AI in the name of efficiency, what will the resultant trajectories be for human societies? What weight of human interactions are essential to maintaining social bonds? - Limits to Everything
There are limits to everything, including life, and energy and materials on a finite planet. This week we helped our cat die and I wondered about the sanity of the government’s LNG plant plans. - What is a mukbang?
People like videos way more than words…you could ask why I’m writing a blog rather than vlogging. But do you know what a mukbang is?

One thought on “Thoughts in Uncertain Times”
The way you connect different topics like oil prices and government policies really made me think about how these interconnected forces shape the way we live. It’s easy to forget that even the smallest decision, like a font change in diplomatic documents, can have larger consequences.