Yup.

Yup. Good guess.

Big thumbs up to regular exercise. It helps more than any meds. “Motion is the best lotion”, the doctors always say to me.

On the other hand, since this is a retirement community, with so many exercise options, new arrival always do the same thing. They think they are 18 and do all the sports they did as a kid. Their next stop is the orthopedic surgeon to put things back together again. So don’t over do it. I think half the people on my street have had a shoulder, hip or knee replaced.

That is the beauty of the ebike. You can adjust the torque setting and preserve your knees, while still getting some exercise. When you get tired, you use the throttle to get home. One nice thing about the Villages, tons of places to bike.

Not really an option any more, use to do that a lot, when I first retired.

I’m on some really expensive meds that require refrigeration. They don’t travel well. Plus all the medical equipment I have to haul around with me.

I make one trip a year now up to NJ in the summer, to visit my brother then spend a couple of months there. Come October or so he comes down here and bring Harley the wonder dog with him. It’s a GSP and just such a happy destructive puppy.

I am fine; everyone else seems fucked.

That seems like a good way to summarize things.

I try to help people as the situation arises. My nephew, my brother, some of my neighbors. Always good to lend a hand, makes me feel better. There were a lot more opportunities to help during covid. Not so much now.

The problem becomes there is less and less stamina every day. Don’t get me wrong, I’m getting by, no where near having to go into assisted living. But I don’t think I could do any kind of organized volunteer work. On the good days I do long bike rides, on the bad day I just want to sleep.

Really I should be doing my rehab exercises for the arthritis in my back right now. After a while maintaining an aging body is like owning a late model car. I spend a good part of the day just trying to keep it running.

already happening

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/iran-war-strands-food-aid-for-worlds-hungriest-un-warns

How about and environmental and economic collapse caused by ai, while fighting WW3, leaving us helpless to combat the next pandemic.

Because the project was started thousands of years ago, and then just kept going on autopilot. If that species still exists their priorities would have changed, and they would already have thousands of years worth of data. They let it run because they couldn’t be bothered to turn it off.

In Mick Wests own words: "Mysteries remain. What the pilots who reported engaging a giant flying Tic-Tac saw is still unidentified, as are the objects in several other incidents. The causes of ghostly or rapidly moving radar returns are likewise, in many cases, unknown — although since the system is classified, if it’s a system glitch or inadequacy, then the Pentagon isn’t going to tell us.

We’ll also continue to have no good answer for many photos and videos, simply because the object shown is too far away for whatever camera is being used. But “unidentified” means just that. It does not mean advanced technology."

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mick-west-are-ufos-here/id1169885840?i=1000524224097

Their deaths aren’t that big a surprise. Look at human history and pre history. It’s always the same story, poor sanitation, environmental degradation, corruption and climate.

Look how people responded to covid.

I strongly recommend two books by Jared Diamond, Guns Germs and steel, and Collapse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns%2C_Germs%2C_and_Steel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse:_How_Societies_Choose_to_Fail_or_Succeed

Really what happened is he restarted the war and almost lost a destroyer. Also Iran still says they aren’t talking to the USA. It’s just another pump and dump for the stock market.

That is so fucking funny. An ai generated piece of slop, pulls numbers out of its ass and decided only 1/3 of Americans are having existential crisis. Life has reached a level of absurdity that it reminds me of the 1985 movie Brazil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)

Just remember, used sporting goods stores are a great place to find reasonably priced body armor for use during the food riots.