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Raiders Named Potential Suitor For Saquon Barkley In Free Agency https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_named_potential_suitor_for_saquon_barkley_in_free_agency/s1_17150_40065047

Raiders Named Potential Suitor For Saquon Barkley In Free Agency
The Las Vegas Raiders may lose running back Josh Jacobs, but they could end up replacing him with Saquon Barkley in free agency. According to Tyler Dragon of USA Today, the Raiders are one of a handful of teams that are expected to make a play for Barkley once free agency begins next week. It would be kind of a strange move for Las Vegas, as the Raiders would basically be swapping two similarly skilled halfbacks. Perhaps Jacobs simply does not want to return, or it could be that Las Vegas sees …

Some recent photons from my driveway, a very faint hydrogen gas bridge between two galaxies about 50 million light years away.
At some point in the past the larger galaxy collided with the one at the bottom and basically ripped it apart, dragging some hydrogen gas with it.
This is about 52 hours of exposure time.
#astrophotography

I've been reading Ray Dailo's "Principles for dealing with the changing world order" in which he charts the rise and fall of empires and kingdoms and dynasties.
The main cycle, he reckons is:
1) Winner of a war consolidates power, unites the population (often through oppression)
2) A smart cooperative equitable educated society with meritocracy means good societal progress and wide sharing of the wealth.
3) Long period of peace, building good tech and military and financial systems.
4) Leadership corrupts: Excessive debt, money-printing, inequality, financial ruin, no sense of solidarity, then a natural disaster pushes it over the edge
5) The fall: Escalating rebellions, very bad inequality, internal conflicts
6) Civil war, revolution, eventually a strong leader proves the winner and back to 1.
We in the western civilization are very clearly in the late states of this kind of cycle, and it's frankly terrifying with the weapons we have these days when it comes to a war.
The leadership is too corrupt to try and fix the inequality or invest in that well educated, equitable, cooperative society.
He explicitly agrees with Marx and implicitly with me a lot more than I'd have expected from the rabid capitalist that Ray Dailo is.
It's interesting to hear his emphasis on inequality and how a prosperous society depends upon sharing the gains of prosperity widely. You tend to hear hyper-capitalists mostly emphasizing that capital's gains should go to capital, and Ray is certainly suggesting the opposite here. That if that happens, it corrupts the leadership and ends with cronyism and debt and revolution.
We seem to basically agree what creates good prosperous peaceful civil society, and that capitalism in the Anglican world isn't doing it, and that fucked up corrupt government is why we aren't doing it.
We'd offer fairly different prescriptions though I think.
#reading #books #economics

Went to Alamo Drafthouse at 26 Liberty in Manhattan for #Hampshire College Alumni Reel. Down several flights of stairs in an empty mall in the Wall Street area. A lovely place but so weird.
And why is Pee Wee's bike here? I thought it was at Bicycle Heaven in Pittsburgh.

Bicycle Heaven - Wikipedia

Not sure the word “bachelor” means what Pecker thinks it means. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112321734734683254

Did some late evening #quaxing with the #Brompton and my two red #RadicalDesign Brompton bags. Fridge is now filled again. (The reflective frame stickers are from

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Watching a much more Serious Cyclist evaluate various bicycle chain degreasers, starts out with one of his used chains, "this is a really dirty chain". It's a good video, but, oh my sweet summer child. (I really wish I had a full chain case for my bikes.)

Third day in a row with a migraine with aura … ✨ So annoying. 😒 It also makes working with a computer and especially coding basically impossible, because the aura with the twinkling blind spots always sits right at the center of the visual field and cuts of the beginning of the words I’m trying to read.
And you know what I do then to mitigate it a bit? I increase the font size in the browser. Some people actually do that! 😉

Did some late evening #quaxing with the #Brompton and my two red #RadicalDesign Brompton bags. Fridge is now filled again. (The reflective frame stickers are from

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