Aging unfortunately catches up to all of us but it is now time for granmpa to give up his keys to the US economy.

Uh oh.

I think I have just figured out how they can simultaneously cut government spending on social security and eliminate taxes on social security....

Worth always checking. The great circle route would be north of the path in the original post. But plans fly routes for lots of reasons including traffic and weather.

David Duvenaud wrote a post on X that I found incredibly persuasive about the risks -
gradual-disempowerment.ai

Was Uncle Gabby not available for Secretary of Defense?

It wasn't Ashley St Clair - it was Augustus St Cloud.

I hear his voice reading this tweet so clearly. Also saying "Eat the pennies Quiz Boy!"

Not really commenting on the level of irony in my original post, but also not *not commenting on it.

The bluesky battle with the robots -

I added the market capitalizations of the health insurance companies to the well circulated chart of CEO salaries. More than the CEO salaries, this shows the value that has been extracted from health care costs -

Was that the plan for Mir? It looks longer - more like a dragonfly. I don't recall it being that complicated. This image is from wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir

Canada represents about 40lbs of the seized fentanyl compared to over 16000 lbs at the southern border.
(from the same source).