Neanderpundit

M Alger gave me grief and subsequently “Ignored” me on facebook because I called him on “unintended consequences”. He maintains, they aren’t. Well, that’s horsecrap of the deepest, just because people aren’t prescient, and nobody pays attention to what they’re doing. It might certainly well be that the criminal- er, ruling classes understand and plot against us, and we can certainly see evidence of that without looking to hard- but for people like that to be in charge in the first place, requires legitimate and demonstrable acts of unintended consequence. I’m in a different factory every day, all over the damned country (Though more local than I used to be) and I am here to tell you, and you can take this as gospel truth: People are dumbasses. Even if you tell them of the consequences of their actions, they will do so anyway, and in the main, you really don’t know. Feel free to pipe up if you’ve never done anything you later thought, well, that was particularly stupid because X happened, and I fully didn’t expect that. I’ll wait.

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sleeping with the window open, are a favorite of mine. Waking to the dawn chorus and watching the light from the window grow in intensity.

Of course the wife sleeps through, she can hit snooze on the alarm clock as many times as it takes to fall back to sleep. I feel sorry for people who do not wake to hear this, and I am often amazed when people don’t know what the dawn chorus is.