Sarah A. Hoyt's Blog, page 36

Sorry About this

Amazon is exceptionally buggy today. In fact, the entire internet has been weird since last night. I have fought to put up the promo post for hours, but it does the weirdest things from refusing to let me copy and upload cover images, to refusing to give me associate’s link…. and I’m about to give up.

I will either post it late today or tomorrow afternoon. Sorry.

And I’ve spent so much time on this I can’t write a fun post now, so…. up for discussion: we know LLMs are just LLMs, not r...

The Memes Flow Like Mercy From Heaven

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Uncharted Wilderness

Most of the time we look at a landscape, particularly if we live in it, and we know exactly where the road or the walking path is. We know that if we set off from here, we’ll walk that way, and…

And then there’s snow storms in Colorado, where I lived most of my adult life.

Colorado is not, as most people who know it only from TV think, a place where it snows early in Fall, and it stays covered up till next Spring. That’s more a thing of Ohio or Pennsylvania. I mean, there are places ...

Looney for Money

It is one of the ironies of the world that leftist persons have always been highly money motivated.

Wait, I’m not saying “always” as in history, but “Always” as in my experience with them. Though do you really want to bet that if we dug deeply into the movements behind, say, the Russian revolution or the Cuban leftist take over, we wouldn’t find people frantically stuffing their pockets with the spare valuables? Because I wouldn’t.

In fact, things like the destruction of Venezuela by ...

The Other Side of Midnight

Yesterday I had friends over, for the first time since the elections. Actually, for the first time since we went to Portugal, a month that just melds in my life in illness and anxiety, in a soup of anxiety and grave illness, kind of an encapsulation of the last four years in a very short time.

Anyway, as we were sitting around the table, after a meal slightly hampered by my oven having gone out in our absence (we just got it finally repaired this morning) talking and drinking port wine, t...

Solving Foreign Policy by Ian Bruene

Solving Foreign Policy by Ian Bruene

With a new administration, there are always questions and speculation about the details of its policies. Additionally there is maneuvering by various factions attempting to influence and/or gain position in the incoming administration.

In that spirit, as well as the spirit of the long history of independent proposals for solving weighty political issues (ref. Swift, et all), I wish to propose a solution to the foreign policy difficulties which now p...

In The Eye Of the World

Fellow Americans, the Europeans are exerting their unearned superiority again.

They’re telling the Hi-La-Rious joke of “What borders on complete stupidity? Mexico and Canada.”

It never occurs to them that when a country the size of a continent makes these choices and they disagree it is POSSIBLY their lack of information, their lack of understanding of this utterly foreign country, their ignorance and smug stupidity.

No, it is always that we’ve disappointed them, and they’re very ma...

Then The Winged Memes Arrived!

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These Strange Feelings

Many years ago, a second cousin and his wife immigrated from Portugal to Brazil (I think. I was six years old when the following bit happened, so I don’t remember precisely) not permanently but till they could earn the money to dig themselves out of a hole, and get money to buy a house and start a business.

It took them longer than anticipated, but twenty years later they headed back to Portugal with enough money to pursue their dream.

Apparently he had been homesick the entire 20 year...

Brace, Brace, Brace

*First, yes, yes, I’m going to get back on a reasonable schedule for the blog soonest. Sorry. the pneumonia seems to be past, but it left my asthma ridiculously spun up, which means … still slow. It will improve. And I’ll do some writing on Rhodes in the free giveaway stuff today too. ALMOST functional again. Turns out shock of any kind can worsen autoimmune. even good shock. Who knew?- SAH*

Okay, so at this point you’re looking at the title and the picture and wondering if I had this sc...