The Latest for April 21, 2024

  Prompt the First - Guadalcanal But also: The Pacific (2010)-  last time did Band of Brothers,  Taylor Swift — 1:12:50 in Long Pond sessions - association between Guadalcanal fighting and pandemic trauma. — Epiphany Available on Disney+ And it was in fact released IN 2020 - before vaccines were available, while effectively lockdown was still ongoing. And also - just barely related the Ahwanee was initially commissioned for the Navy in 1943. The official website said the the first men sent were veterans of Okinawa….which was two years later. Turns out the actual men sent there were from the naval hospital in Oakland CA - near San Francisco, that is - and were veterans of…Guadalcanal.   Prompt the Second - Waiting on that Welfare Check   From Bruce Springsteen's The River - Point Blank  The P.J. O'Rourke reference can be found in the "Poverty Policy" chapter of "Parliament of Whores."  I misremembered a couple of items in it, so: It came from a visit to the "loathsome and terrifying" Newark project He refers to the idea of "buying" the apartment as "the current conservative wisdom," and "Jack Kemp-style privatization" Residents would purchase their apartments, no down payment, mortgage payment no more than what they paid for rent. In response to each of his arguments, the lady responds "I'm not going for any of that." The final response calls it not a toilet but "this seven-story sewer in the sky that she lived in" and was, again and finally "I'm not going for any of that."   Prompt the Third  - Ruined Technology Xz exploit inserted in open source code https://twitter.com/nolman/status/1781400531745017966/photo/1 May be notable - perhaps a change in pov https://x.com/ryxcommar/status/1773082844643934543?s=46&t=h3SDrddBzjyl2UOHr9Q3xA That it's becoming a choice (kinda again, kinda) that you ca pay 150K for a junior data engineer, or 200K for a senior, getting much more experience for a nominal increase in salary.