Vertical Farming Crash

 A long piece on the decline in vertical farming. I think my past posts reflect skepticism about it.  I don't think it will work until fusion is a viable source of energy.

What the Hell Is This?

 The fewer posts I put up, the more views I get.  

I will never understand humans. 

I'm Thin-Skinned

 "Thin skin" is a metaphor meaning sensitivity to critical comments/insults, etc.

I'd argue that with age I've become less sensitive to criticism than I used to be, although I'm far from insensitive to criticism.  (I always thought I was successful in not showing it, but now I doubt that.)

But the reality is my aged skin is much more susceptible to cuts and tears than it used to be. In my gardening I often become aware that I'm bleeding, bleeding without ever sensing what happened to break the skin.  

The Pilot Makes the Machine?

 I found this piece on an obscure and unsuccessful (for US)WWII fighter plane to be very interesting.  It seems that while it was a failure in the Pacific for us, it worked for the Finns.

Raises the question of how much was the machine, how much the pilot and their training, and how much the opposing airforce? And to what extent does this illustrate a more general proposition about man/machine/environment?

Watergare II--Disregard of Law

 Nearing the end of the Watergate book, which now recounts the briefing of the House Judiciary Committee by the special prosecutor and his staff, some 7500 pages of evidence.  

According to Graff, two things particularly struck the memebers:

• the misuse of national security to excuse and cover up misdeeds not related to national security (i.e., the attempts to have the CIA convince DOJ to limit its investigation, etc.)
• the lack of regard for the law and constitution.  Nixon never was concerned about what was legal, just what was practical and offered a way to get out of the mess.

I'm particularly struck by the second--it sounds exactly like TFG.  Or maybe not, in his egotism TFG claims superior knowledge of the constitution and the law, which Nixon didn't do. Afterwards Nixon would claim, IIRC, what TFG believes: "when the president does it it's legal".

I'm also struck by Chairman Rodino's concern for bipartisan votes in his committee, much more concern than the Democrats showed in their two impeachments.