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Let's mark this day as the start of this century's great depression.

The bank bailout bill -- aka 'the septic bank bill -- has failed and the DOW dropped 778 points today. Undoubtably, not the big crash yet to happen. The credit markets are frozen. As Paul Krugman states...the gears on wallstreet are full of sand.

You might not have been affected yet. You will. Let's hear some personal stories on what folks are doing to prepare. Have you stocked the pantry yet? Do you have a contingency plan should you lose your job? Supposedly the run on banks has started. Have you moved your savings out of the bank? What are doing about about your investments--your 401k, pension, etc.

Maybe you'll say, 'I ain't got nothing, so I got nothing to lose'. Truth is, unless you're homeless, with everything you own in the shopping cart you're pushing, well, that ain't exactly true. Maybe the reality of the situation hasn't hit yet. It will soon.

Welcome to the next great depression. So, what's your contingency plan?

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You guys talking about toilets this weekend ... some global synchronicity going down here ... my previous home (still mortgaged to me because I couldn't sell it) has tenants in it & they phoned on Sunday to say the sewerage drainage system had packed up. All the plumbers they called said 'Yes well unfortunately in these old houses we end up replacing the whole line' .... but this time I am going to have them lay it on top of the ground. Guess what - homeowners insurance has a specific exclusion clause for 'concealed pipes'. Wtf!
Yep. When the bus went through our building the landlord's insurance didn't cover the sewage pipe that was broken because the coverage stops at ground level.

A new Great Depression will be arriving around 2030. The U.S. economy will likely tip into recession during the first quarter of 2023.(link deleted)   

Are you a robot?  Machine or human.   

Abstract Nonsense

Academic questions 

To educate young spiders
She took me all apart.
My ghost came back to haunt her.
I saw her eat my heart.

Abstract nonsense is a term used by mathematicians to describe abstract methods related to category theory and homological algebra.  Abstract nonsense may refer to a proof that relies on category-theoretic methods, or even to the study of category theory itself.  On Monday, 48,000 academic workers at the University of California system began an indefinite strike, spanning across the most populous state in the US. Postdoctoral and academic researchers, tutors, graduate student instructors and assistants are demanding increased wages and benefits to catch up with skyrocketing housing and other living expenses.  The strike has shut down online and in-person lectures, grading, research, and other university operations.

The majority of professors have canceled lectures, while adjuncts, faculty, and undergraduate students have joined the picket lines in solidarity… for the union makes us strong. Meanwhile, 196 Teachers and staff at California public charter school group bring their employer to the bargaining table following 2 year effort to unionize. And what does that tell you? Maybe this: the Indians got an offer they could not refuse. We buy your house- give you good money- and then you can still live in it. What could be better? Wanna talk racism?  Sexism?  How about Gravitomagnetism- with a capital g to make it look important.  Legitimate.  Formal and rigorous.  Zero point energy is not popular but it is coming to a universe near you. 

Once I loved a spider
When I was born a fly,
A velvet-footed spider
With a gown of rainbow-dye.

You can’t miss it weather (sic) you want to or not.  You really have no choice.  But you have owners.  They own you.  Sorry if that hurts our feelings… and capital Truth stuck to the sheets along with buttflakes cookie crumbs and cat hair.  Went out with the laundry.  Bye.  Turning out the wicked messenger is not going to stop what’s coming.  Flushing the toilet does not make shit disappear.  Seems like it does- but you know the deal.  It is not magic.  It’s not even a good illusion- like a rainbow.  It’s shit.  Deal with it.  Now comes Henry back from the future- which is not difficult because he lives in the past.  All he has is a ghost ship that knows how to sail itself… similar to Henry’s Shoshone pony back in 1863.  There was a battle then.  About something.  

The… system has always tried to squeeze every ounce… for the least amount of money      

She drove me to her parlor
Above her winding stair.

“It’s all about trying to make these institutions more in line with what the state’s priorities are,

Looking so forward to moving out of this state...

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