Hi guys. Um, please don't ever make the "owner" email of your domain an address *on* that domain, because if it ever expires you won't be able to get emails to renew/fix it because it will be expired.

Yes. Look. It's obvious, but clearly it *happens* or I wouldn't be writing this and watching my work email all evening. (I didn't do it. But it Was Done.)

Be safe out there admins

The only sane response to an insane world is to be insane yourself.

Thats life in the second quarter of the 21st century of the common era for you. War, genocide, neo-liberal / late stage capitalism, mass extinction, global heating, climate catastrophes, fascists, bigots... The list goes on and on.

If that doesn't make you depressed and anxious there is something wrong in your head.

Was browsing #Canadian #tool store #LeeValleyTools online today and happened to notice something that is either a neat #EasterEgg or a foreboding sign of utter hopelessness.

#Catch22
#Canada
#lol

The impulse to be able to continue to exploit fossil fuels by geo engineering is gaining momentum outside of democratic control.
#catch22
A Mysterious Startup Is Developing a New Form of Solar Geoengineering | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/a-mysterious-startup-is-developing-a-new-form-of-solar-geoengineering/

With Rebecca Solnit's post on Tesla stock dropping far was a comment. They guy said Musk has 15% of Tesla, 401k institutional investors own lots for people's retirement:
> Things look bad for Milo what with everybody accusing him of treachery and things like that until he opens his books. There’s a reasonable profit for everybody. You see, everybody shares because everybody is a member of Milo’s syndicate. Even the enemy.
1961 #StudsTerkel on #Catch22 #MiloMinderbinder
#uspol

Today, signing into the Wi-Fi network in Walmart required receiving a 6-digit code through email for "security". Receiving this email before it expires after 15 minutes requires a cellular subscription. If they're requiring guest Wi-Fi users to already have cellular data, why even offer guest Wi-Fi?

How it started vs. how it's going #atlassian #jira #catch22

" ... the chaplain was ready now to capitulate to despair entirely but was restrained by the memory of his wife, whom he loved and missed so pathetically with such sensual and exalted ardor, and by the lifelong trust he had placed in the wisdom and justice of an immortal, omnipotent, omniscient, humane, universal, anthropomorphic, English-speaking, Anglo-Saxon, pro-American God, which had begun to waver.
So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to the riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven? Where the devil was heaven? Was it up? Down? There was no up or down in a finite but expanding universe in which even the vast, burning, dazzling, majestic sun was in a state of progressive decay that would eventually destroy the earth too. There were no miracles; prayers went unanswered, and misfortune tramped with equal brutality on the virtuous and the corrupt; and the chaplain, who had conscience and character, would have yielded to reason and relinquished his belief in the God of his fathers—would truly have resigned both his calling and his commission and taken his chances as a private in the infantry or field artillery, ..."

-- #JosephHeller, Catch-22

Hey, Yossarian! It's your lucky day! Major Sanderson changed his mind and says you're insane!

#PrankABookCharacter

#HashTagGames
#Catch22

@johncarlosbaez
NSF actually required investigators to highlight outreach to diverse audiences in their grant applications. ( #catch22 )

‘You put so much stock in winning wars,’ the grubby iniquitous old man scoffed. ‘The real trick lies in losing wars, in knowing which wars can be lost. Italy has been losing wars for centuries, and just see how splendidly we’ve done nonetheless. France wins wars and is in a continual state of crisis. Germany loses and prospers. Look at our own recent history. ..."

-- Joseph Heller, Catch-22

‘... Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements? Why in the world did He ever create pain?’

-- Joseph #Heller, Catch-22

"Across the country, hospitals are dispensing medications to patients in labor, only to report them to child welfare authorities when they or their newborns test positive for those very same substances on subsequent #drug tests". #Catch22 #pregnancy https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/12/11/pregnant-hospital-drug-test-medicine/76804299007/

@StillIRise1963
Most nations won't allow you in if you're not #vaccinated.

So attempting to get vaccinated in another country is a #Catch22