Notices by Earthshine (earthshine@hackers.town)

@thegibson “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

I never would have thought that J.R.R. Tolkien of all people would be the one to write the soliloquy of our generation.

This one cuts deep:
The modern condition is mostly trying to do things on your own that people have historically achieved with a large support network and wondering why you're tired all the time.

Last one for now... from 1700 mile trip up the coast to Seattle one thanksgiving weekend, stopped by mt shasta on the way back to get some pictures of the VFR.

@thegibson It never does affect the fat cats. They always get their golden parachutes, while everyone else, from the employees and members, to the taxpayers, subsidize their losses.

Since around the turn of the century, the USA has been really going for bust on allowing companies and banks to take risky bets, and then letting them off the hook when they inevitably fail.

Externalizing costs has always been a core feature of western capitalism, but it's basically been a free-for-all ever since reaganomics reached its final form and the post-9/11 bailouts proved once and for all that *not* taking huge risks with other people's money was a business liability in a landscape where all the other businesses that did do it would get bailed out when they fail. Instead of jail time, the executives just get a slap on the wrist and cash out.