Taomeow

Interesting. Sort of dovetails with my assessment -- this late in the state capitalism's day very little is random. Both in economy and in politics. Even when things are falling apart, it's not a random process, it's controlled demolition -- except perhaps for the margin of randomness always present in everything. A narrow one presently and getting narrower by leaps and bounds. Well, that's not their job description. One wall street nerd I knew quite closely for the longest time started out with a rather brilliant "pure" scientist's mind but didn't find any jobs in demand that would reward that with an actual ability to pay the bills. And then this lifestyle meticulously and inevitably extinguishes the drive to do anything other than make money, along with much else. Add to this insider trading and the unholy alliances politicians make with high tech venues toward personal enrichment and we get what we get -- technology we didn't ask for that solves nothing whatsoever on the level of anyone's personal life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.

If you are stuck in traffic, make the Kali Mudra, point it at the cars in front of you and proclaim, solemnly, Om Tat Sat! In 9 cases out of 10, the traffic will start dispersing.

Yeah, don't know about the poles -- been hearing talk about them flipping any minute now for the past 20 years so to me it's like flipping a coin... or not flipping it. Who knows. As for daylight saving time, I like what a Native American chief said about it (quoting from memory): brilliant science -- take a blanket, cut a piece of it on one end, sew it onto the other end, and voila -- you now have a longer blanket. People with small children and dogs are particularly 'excited' every time we switch the clocks... and us bazi readers hate it for an additional reason -- every time you do someone's chart you have to go check if DST was in effect that year, that month, that day at that location... ugh. It's different from year to year, country to country... and in the US, a couple of states don't switch and neither do some territories, but there's no guarantee they never did in the past when someone was born, so, still extra work even if it's a Zonie's* chart. *Zonies are people who come on vacation to San Diego from Arizona. A local phenomenon.

Not just wearing them, having the Sun's production line reliably supply them. Circa 1968 the Sun entered a flat maximum reaching into the 1970s, i.e. instead of the erratic flares we all know and hate today, we got a sustained stream of energizing photons consistently nourishing yang creativity on which physics as we know it depends. Contrast it with the biggest flare ever recorded, out of the blue in 2001... That was in April and we all know what happened in September of that year. It's been like that since the 1970s -- the Sun transmitting some Morse code, which no one really bothers to try deciphering.