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Markets Sucking Badly, Problematic Partisans, ATR: Pearls and Woo

AI’s assessment of today’s column should be a hint: “This is good Ure copy with too much freight on one flatbed.”  But it’s the flatbed we have, so we’ll blow by the weigh stations.

Although we had some signs in the market Friday that the downside was maybe about to level out, we also cautioned that Cash was our plan.  Simple reason?  NEVER argue with a free-falling safe.

The problem – explained in the Peoplenomics ChartPack Saturday – is that (in theory) we’re supposed to be investors – not gamblers.

This concept – widely touted by all financial shills – tries to convince the unwary that while there may be some risk in a given position, it is less risky than simple speculation.

Yet, over the course of nearly 60 years, running down loose ends of news off and on, when cornered, few shills can actually give you a hard number where that borderline is.

Out here in the Piney Woods of East Texas, the dividing line between “investment” and a “speculation” is pretty simple: an investment has earnings, cash flow, useful output, or some durable reason to be worth more later.

A speculation mostly depends on somebody else showing up willing to pay more than you did.

Not to kick Bitcoin or the whole crypto-con. BTC overnight managed a bounce off $66,000.  We figure people who are still in crypto aren’t aware that Q-bits (as in quantum computing) are coming. Soon the myth of security will be universal toast.

On the range: One idea (of investing) is buying a milk cow because she calves, gives milk, and throws off value over time. The other is buying a rodeo ticket and hoping your bet on a rider doesn’t get thrown. Nothing wrong with speculation as long as you call it by its right name. Trouble starts when people dress up a wager in a necktie and pretend it’s prudence.  You know, like the financial shills do with some regularity.

The old rule of thumb is easy to remember: If it pays you while you wait, it may be an investment. If you only profit by selling it to the next fellow, it’s probably a speculation. We applied this and diligently missed a fortune in AI graphics makers. Win some, lose some. But we sleep well.

No One’s Safe

Early Dow Futures were down several hundred more points and our Aggregate Index looks like it has jumped off the high dive, leaving the audience to wonder whether there’s a pool — or concrete — at the bottom. See for yourself:

Eyeballing Europe, notice it was down a percent and a half early. So, an S&P down 60-100 may be arriving.  What I can’t tell you is whether the CPI report this week – due Wednesday before the GovDown II shenanigans – will be a “buy the news” event.  Oil prices don’t think so.

Problematic Partisan People

The Second Epistle of Monday is about how to “read the news.”  It’s easy, too.  Once you figure out that there are two kinds of people in the world.  About two-thirds are “dividers” (partisans backing one cause or belief) while the rest are “synthesizers” who see how it all fits into whole cloth. That last third of humanity is where hope for the future lives.

The question came up because a reader, Kevin, was asking in the Comments section if there was a genuinely non-partisan source for news about the Iran War.  Good luck with that.

Obviously, when we parse news from one side — the ‘real estate development group that recently claimed title to Gaza’ side — it runs very pro-war. On the other side, coverage from parts of the antiwar left and from Russian media often treats the war as an outrage and leans more sympathetically toward Tehran.

We were very pleased with this morning’s email from the Institute for the Study of War which summed up late-weekend developments this way:

“Iran’s Assembly of Experts selected former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, as the next Supreme Leader on March 8. Mojtaba’s selection as the Supreme Leader represents a victory for hardline factions over more pragmatic figures within the regime. Mojtaba is a hardline cleric who will likely pursue similar domestic and foreign policies to those of his father. Mojtaba fought in the Iran-Iraq War and developed important relationships while serving in the Habib Ibn Mazahir Battalion under the 27th Mohammad Rasoul Allah Division.”

The problem is little words (like “hardline”) which sneak into even this intelligent summary.  Hardline could mean “Unwilling to negotiate” or “unwilling to submit” or “surrender.”

Partisanship is Extensible

Although liberals and conservatives each claim to be more holy than the other, partisanship and division make up the bulk of everyday news.  Like this story: Device thrown near NYC Mayor Mamdani home “explosive”: NYPD

Still, in the field of grassroots economics there are “synthesizers” and “unifiers.” Take The Economic Fractalist whose work I deeply respect.  His blog, by the way, is looking for crash devaluations sooner than later thanks to the War.

The difference between us is technique.  He focuses on The Lammert Cycle arising from his study of price fractals over time.  This compares with our Peoplenomics work focused more generally on the socio-economic rhyming process.

Think of it this way: Our Aggregate Index is like snow poles along a mountain pass in the middle of (the present likely transition into economic longwave) Winter. TEF’s work is more “snow suit on, making measurements and putting out flags between snow poles.”

As you can quickly understand, we are not competing – we are simply offering different ways of getting across the same mountain range in adverse weather.  Neither one of us is hard selling any particular belief. We do such work as a sort of “old souls doing community service.”

Markets “Face UPS” This Week

No, not the brown trucks, or the box that keeps the router up when power fails.

We’re talking UGLY POLICY SELLING.

Go back up to the Aggregate chart.  See where the Futures are pointing?  Down to the 200 Day Moving Average. (200 DMA).  Splat warning.

As Peoplenomics readers know, we “hit the silk” and sliced long-side bets once under the 85-day moving average.  Now, those Big Investment Policy Boards will face similar decisions when the 200 DMA smacks – becoming quite possible this week.

Remember our old adage: Crashes don’t happen from TOPS.  But friend, we ain’t at a top so keep the old adage collection open to Monday’s Epistle here.

Meanwhile, Back into Rhymes

Assuming you remember the Guthrie case – when it first popped as our candidate to replay the Lindbergh baby kidnapping of 1932 – we said might stretch out several years – like the Hauptman trial did on the back-end of Lindbergh.

Every so often, we glance at the clock and here’s where we are: Nancy Guthrie disappearance: Day 36 latest updates. Since that came out late last night, we’re now 37-days into it.  And? A Body Found in Phoenix Not Connected to Nancy Guthrie: Sheriff.

Story of the Day?

As the fuse burns on WW III, if you REALLY want one thing to focus on, make it Oil.  As in:

Around the Ranch: Pearls and Woo

Peoplenomics this week has two papers coming on how human memory works.  Actually, though, two versions of the same paper. The short one is my SSRN paper, the other is a 50-odd page monograph.  You will enjoy The Four Track Human very much, I’m sure.

And that’s what leads to the overnight insight into “How Humans Make Pearls.”  As it turns out, we share an interesting (though offset) biological response with our bivalve distant cousins.  Pop one of them open, insert a piece of sand and wait a few years.  Come back and you may have a pearl.

Turns out in the Four Track Memory Model, there’s something similar.  The “sand” is unresolved issues from earlier in life that fester (pearl-like) over time.  If they are “good pearls” they drive us in the direction of learning and higher spiritual growth.  If not?  The “black pearls” (with a nod to Depp, et al) may metastasize in many forms: heart disease, dementias, and cancers.

I won’t bore you with the research or the topology except to say it’s damned interesting and answers a great deal.

Now the Big Woo

Years back, I wrote my first novel, DreamOver, about a secret agent type who had interesting experiences in dream realms.

Ever since writing that, I have been working on ways Elaine and I might be able to “hook up” in dreams. Because it would make the afterlife adventure far more grand – to have someone along with you who was also with you on another level of the simulation (called Life).

Last night – I was asleep – and saw Elaine in a dream.  I asked her a question in the dream. She answered!

Now the weird part:  She didn’t answer in the dream – she woke up with a start and answered in the waking state!

Since I was asleep, her answering woke me up.  “What did you say dear?” as I ripped off my CPAP mask.

“You asked me a question and I was answering you.”

“Yes, but you were answering “over here” AWAKE – not in the dream where I was asking.”

“But I heard you plain as day – you must have asked me in your sleep.”

So I put my CPAP mask back on – the one that had been firmly in place while I was dreaming.

“Can you hear me now?  Can you understand me?”

“What did you say, I can’t understand you with your mask on.”

“I had it on when I was asleep asking you in the dream….”

Now, think about that very carefully.  I’m kinda slow-witted, but to me, that’s breakthrough potential.

The rest of my day? It will be spent on the great ponder. If I was masked and unintelligible in waking audio, yet she still perceived and answered the question I was asking in dream-state, then what exactly carried the signal?

Well, that and taking the trash out because Monday is garbage day.

Write when we all wake up,

George@Ure.net

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  1. “Last night – I was asleep – and saw Elaine in a dream. I asked her a question in the dream. She answered!

    Now the weird part: She didn’t answer in the dream – she woke up with a start and answered in the waking state!”

    Sounds like something from an episode of One Step Beyond!

  2. Did you order one yet?

    Nuclear War Underground Bunkers

    Hal Turner: Back to the ongoing Iran conflict, Social Media Pundit Paul Joseph Watson made a posting to the Social Media Platform “X” revealing that a US Cabinet-Level Secretary made a text message inquiry to Ron Hubbard, whose company builds Armageddon-proof, underground nuclear Bunkers, inquiring “When will my Bunker be ready?”

    https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/wti-101-17-brent-crude-106-06-barrel-dow-jones-down-and-all-other-stock-markets-down-l-us-cabinet-secretary-texts-armageddon-bunker-builder-when-will-my-bunker-be-finished?catid=17&Itemid=101

    • Another report of the Peace President’s cabinet installing bunkers:
      https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-cabinet-members-allegedly-buying-nuclear-bunkers

      Immanentizing the eschaton seems to be becoming policy:
      https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/conscientious-objector-group-phone-ringing-hook-huge-mobilization-underway

      I’m not convinced Stu is right about the current admin, but there are aspects of his take on the situation that are plausible.

      Suicide nation:
      https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/martyrdom-maps-munitions-jim-rickards-most-surprising-iran-takes

      Where is the adult supervision?

      • Never forget: As much as we appreciate Zerohedge, the real Tyler Durden, the one from whom the Zerohedge blogger took his name, was “The Narrator” in “The Fight Club.” The Zerohedge Tyler started out doing Hal Turneresque conspiracy theory.

        I’m pretty sure this: “Hubbard revealed that two senior Trump Cabinet members are new customers.” didn’t happen. Hubbard has a policy of strict confidentiality. He has been known to blindfold his crew before busing or ‘coptering them to site. Atlas has been on 20/20, 60 Minutes, and about a hundred times on cable news. Mentioning his clientele, even to a London gossip rag, is probably more “creative journalism” on their part than breach of confidentiality on his. They sell a thousand times more storm shelters to people like you and me than they do, EOTW bunkers. ‘Thing is, tornado shelters ain’t sexy.

        CCW is a socialist nonprofit, formed to dissuade Americans from going off to war to fight the fascists in WW-II. After the third provable lie, I stopped reading. Tyler should be ashamed for believing he’s prominent enough that no one would start fact-checking every statement in one of his essays.

        Jim Richards actually has some points. I question their relevance, because we’re not (at least to this point) fighting a 20th Century war, but most are valid. However, “Iran has a united population; reports of internal protests are greatly exaggerated, especially after the ayatollah ordered the killing of 5,000 protestors just weeks ago.”

        The Ayatollah had put 97,000 civvies to death this year, before the IRGC went nuts and ordered ~20,000 murdered in each of the two days before we started bombing. That’s a lot of rapes, to physically defile the soon-to-be-executed, so they can never get to Heaven.

        Iran’s “united population” is solidly AGAINST the ruling cabal, but also in mortal fear for their lives.

        “Adult supervision” would be putting a couple million M-16s in (not ours, not the Israeli, but) Iranian hands and letting those people spank the IRGC, Basij, and Faraja…

  5. Be careful of the connects. It can frighten. Early 90s girlfriend and I after couple hours highway driving were in silence. Word purdue lunged out of my mouth. Her response was Chalk-face as she admitted she was recollecting in thoughts in that moment of ex at Purdue Uni she attended years before. Made a couple more great years but I thinks mistrust was installed. Still miss her.

    • Good point. Maybe the scary part isn’t the connection — maybe it’s finding out the fences between minds aren’t where we thought they were. Appreciate the story and the caution.

      • Get this type of thing alot. After action reports always ask why I didnt “read” or “hear something important? Dont work like that for me, it is a automatic thing, a knowing kinda sort of.

        I can with intent get an idea what someone is thinking, but it is a very uncomfortable thing to do, without asking first. Almost like my other self does all the leg work, and then my Mind gets an internal needs to know report. Its the signals from one or the other Kids’ that can momentarily set me back, same with my lil Mom, and she is as nasty as they come, did I mention NASTY ?
        94 in hospice and still nasty.

        – thankfully still in the “Wilderness” Belize, where nary a Hypersonic World Breaking Nuke is targeted, USA ?

        Rutrow -https://www.youtube.com/shorts/N9RtkBw6-sA?feature=share

        • re: “Uncut Gems”, 2019
          feat: $1.00; “In God We Trust”

          tbs,
          If it helps, the name “Woo” evokes sentiments of peace and good fortune in China. (By the way, your William F. Buckley reference shows on publicized Skull and Bones rosters from Yale.)

          Please accept my apologies again that I fell for that “X” post calling a Tel Aviv Diamond District missile strike current when it actually happened last June. One imagines high society breathed a collective sigh of relief this weekend when the Chinese ex-wife and Yale alumna of the News Corp head birthday celebrant, Ms. Wen’ge (“Cultural Revolution”), did not make an appearance to give a grilling on bourgeois behavior and porterhouse steaks priced on the menu at $280 for two (gratuity not included).

          Thankfully today’s building address of interest, 25 W. 45th St., N.Y. offers a Mexican grill-themed dining establishment whose public reviews describe a casual yet classy ambiance. The 1913 constructed edifice in New York’s Diamond District boasts recent January 2026 notice of its successful sale in bankruptcy to its lender for $45.1 million. Current public tax assessor’s market value for 2025/26 reads as $58 million. The figure was $64 million in 2023/24.

          In 1927, “Time” co-founder and Yale Skull and Bones alumnus Briton Hadden edited the magazine in the 25 W. 45th St. building. His houseguest and fellow journalist, Thomas J.C. Martyn, received financing from Mrs. Hadden – whose father was a Skull and Bones Yale graduate – and Martyn’s first issue of “Newsweek” rolled off the presses in February, 1933. The following “Newsweek” link details thoughts on a possible visit by King Charles III to the USA next month given recent events in West Asia (Not to mention the shambles of a White House Ballroom still under construction, and who’s the project manager!):

          https://www.newsweek.com/king-charles-visit-us-iran-war-donald-trump-keir-starmer-11646336

          Readers are informed in the fine print that story production received help from AI assistant “Martyn”. It is named after the “Newsweek” founder. Apparently the name Martyn is Gaelic, by way of Latin’s Martinus, the Roman war god.

          One could imagine if one knew a Scottish Baron, perhaps terresterial ‘loaves and fishes’ moments could ensue on Polymarket in exchange for $1.00’s. (This is not investment advice.)

  6. In the current Iran war, I believe that water security may be as strategically decisive as oil, and in some scenarios water alone could determine the outcome.

    1. Iran was already approaching a severe water crisis before the war

    Iran was already entering one of the worst water shortages in its modern history.

    Key indicators:
       •   Reservoirs supplying major cities have dropped to below ~5% capacity in some regions. ?
       •   Renewable water resources have declined more than 30% in the past two decades. ?
       •   Parts of the country have experienced rainfall deficits of up to 85% in some seasons. ?
       •   Tehran and other large cities are approaching a potential “Day Zero” scenario where water systems fail. ?

    The crisis stems from several interacting factors:
       •   multi-year drought
       •   groundwater over-pumping
       •   agricultural overuse (?90% of water goes to agriculture) ?
       •   dam mismanagement and aquifer depletion
       •   rapid population growth in arid regions

    Some analysts have described Iran as nearing “water bankruptcy.” ?

    2. War dramatically magnifies the vulnerability

    Once a country is near ecological limits, infrastructure disruption can push it over the edge.

    Modern water systems depend on several fragile elements:
    1. Electricity
          •   Pumps, treatment plants, and pipelines need power.
          •   Bombing energy infrastructure immediately affects water supply.
    2. Dams and pipelines
          •   Easily targeted and difficult to repair quickly.
    3. Desalination
          •   Important across the Gulf and increasingly used in Iran.

    While lack of oil may cause an inflationary inconvenience and stress to the free world, lack of water is a matter of life and death in other parts. Sand and oil is plentiful in this area . Water is not.

    • re: The Three Battles of Al-Faw
      feat: Water Marches

      There may not have been this much smoke around the Camp Victory, Baghdad complex since an insider fuel heist of 2007-08 as seen in the following 2009 FBI press release web link:

      https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/washingtondc/press-releases/2009/wfo072409.htm

      The complex also houses late President Saddam’s Al-Faw (ar: “Water”) Palace. He named it so following his defeat of Iraqi forces in the strategic Al-Faw Peninsula and oil conduit to the waters of the Persian Gulf.

  7. George,

    Andy made a reference to his late and definitely awesome grandfather, who put three raw eggs in a beer and added tomato juice. Tomato juice in a beer was called red beer, and that was a popular drink with the gold miners in southwest Montana one hundred fifty years ago, one way to get vitamin C in the diet.

    • Here’s another one “them old boys” knew, Nancy: Pine needle tea is an exceptionally high source of Vitamin C—containing 4-5 times more than oranges—along with Vitamin A, acting as a potent immune booster and antioxidant, particularly during winter. It has a mild, citrusy flavor and can be made by steeping fresh white pine needles.
      Then you drink the shellac solvent and…(eveything comes out shiny in the end?) LOL – Must be Monday!

      • The pine needle tea is what we used for those afflicted with COVID. Worked miracles for them. Can’t have too much!

        • https://www.growforagecookferment.com/conifer-needle-tea/

          Please be careful, no Yew or:
          Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) are not recommended to be used internally by pregnant women, as there is a chance that they could cause miscarriage if taken in large doses.

          That said, ponderosa pine has been used medicinally by Indigenous Americans for hundreds of years.

          Norfolk Island pine (Araucaria heterophylla) is another possibly mildly toxic conifer tree (it is definitely toxic to pets), but it is not actually a true pine.

      • I’ll PASS on the shiny part, but pine needle tea sounds worth remembering. I wonder if pinon pine needles would work – they’re quite common here.

        • I made and drank a cup made from Loblolly Pine this afternoon. My wife squeezes and freezes lemon juice in ice cube trays, so I added a lemon cube and some honey to the tea. Quite tasty!

  8. ya … the old Monday sell off hard DOWN … followed by a hard jam UP (at least for now) ……. me thinks this pattern is 3 Monday’s in a row now, but who’s counting …. classic … good luck all

    “it all doesn’t matter”

    • very astute observation . they run the sheetshow on options as well . oz is a sewer of corrupt weekly options

  9. “the downside was maybe about to level out”

    Iran nuking someone is being priced in and it isn’t going to happen. Iran busting caps in their neighbors doesn’t make a lot of sense either and Iran is running out of ballastics. Soon an American approved Supreme Leader will be installed and the world will live happily ever after.

    • what world are you living in? Iran is only bombing U.S. bases in adjoining states and those supporting Israel and U.S. Once the U.S. departs the scene and it becomes a one on one battle, we should all worry about Israel pulling the Samson lever. Then we are all doomed. The U.S. has not won a war in a generation and they are not about to submit Iran. Anyone who thinks ground troops in Iran is a lunatic. Look at the logistics of supplying an army in such diverse terrain when your closest bases are effectively closed. Iran is not running out of ballistics, they have not yet released the real heavy artillery. Think Russian Oreshnik a hypersonic weapon with no defense. Should we be concerned about the number of Shia followers in the U.S. or sleeper cells that are ready to cause havoc on America shores. One cannot report the situation in Israel without risking 5 years in jail. Doesn’t sound like their winning. This was a serious blunder by the “Peace President”.

  10. keep core positions and work em over . pretty simple actually G .. these fellas got nothing except lies and robots .. its walking , its quacking ,it looks like one .. it is one duck alright

  11. NASDAQ bounced off it’s 200D MA.., slowly going back up.
    All the stock indexes., world wide, have reversed course and are now positive.
    West Texas Tea is over $95 a barrel
    “The Fed” rate path just got scrambled – due to the war with Iraq and oil surging.
    Natural Gas is actually going down – surprise.
    Tel Aviv Stock Exchange – jumped 6% on news of the U.S. & Israeli strikes on Iraq to a record high. This week the exchange is slowly loosing points -now down 11% from the high – but still up over 14% for the month.
    Silver jumped this morning – up over 3% [ buy the tip ?]
    Stock Melt Down probability is now over 35% – Melt Up is less then 5%
    Since the war broke out – the Dollar has risen 2% [ Still a global safe haven.]

    • Concur, old friend. A bump tomorrow to one of the higher lines – 100, 85, 50 or even 35 and some short insurance mmight be in order. But to each their own. (Though feel free to move to a different table.)

      • ” ..,feel free to move to a different table.”
        – I said that once to a cop – who was being a total ass to everyone.., he actually got up and left.
        .
        Tomorrow should prove interesting.

        Why do we have so many strategic log-range bombers sitting on the tarmac – ready to go?
        – Trump trying to bluff his way out of the war? Not too sure you can bluff Iraq right now.., they are working very hard to remain solvent. And if he does order a massive bombing campaign?

  12. “The question came up because a reader, Kevin, was asking in the Comments section if there was a genuinely non-partisan source for news about the Iran War. ”

    No.

    The first casualty of war is always truth. This is because any accurate information is an intel gift to the enemy and in most armies, will get you shot for treason.

    I have a half-dozen or so sources who are in Iran. Only one is in a position to see “the big picture,” which means anything which comes from this person is no-better-than second-hand. Comms from Iran to anywhere else are also very spotty, so by the time I hear something, it may be several days old. The best source for information from the U.S. side is the SecDef and Joint Chiefs. President Trump does not tolerate liars amongst his associates, even though he himself is, shall we say, prone to exaggeration. If Hegseth is asked a question, he will either answer it honestly, evade and not answer, or say he can’t (because of national security.) Most questions fall under this third category.

    The only way to do better is probably to get a ringside seat atop the Burj Khalifa tower, with a big telescope…

    • Everyone has sources.

      My sources can be found in local hookah lounges and at gas station counters. Ask them where they’re from and they don’t say Jordon, Egypt or Saudi Arabia. They name their hometowns in those countries.

      JC above has a source for bunkers, Hal. Hal had sources that the U.S..gov was searching for boxes of radiation a few years back.

      The magic of the Internet. Everyone has sources.

  13. The rain held all night, local flooding limits travel. On the other hand the morning has brought bright sun, and there are cockatoos, magpies, doves, and our first crow feeding on the bread scraps and bird seed we set out on our dirt just outside the front door. With days of rain now likely over today will be a walk to the shops, a visit to the float on the moat to check for leaks, and celebrate how everything exists only in a form of change.
    I’m expanding the morning exercise, stretching, and qigong every day with definite goals to increase reps to certain levels to celebrate the eightieth coming late July. Goals are good even if only necessary to be ready for the next moat exploration coming as soon as the winds turn favorable.
    Fast is fun.
    Stiks

    • Thank you “Stiks” for your personal observation. As one who reached that major milestone, maybe millstone, of 80 years of age last month, I found it personlly (sic) uplifting. Want to make you aware, as well as others, who leave personal messages, they travel far and wide thoughout the Urban Survival community

  14. “Sailing, sailing, over the bounding main;
    For many a stormy wind shall blow, ere Jack comes home again.”

    as the Greek ship sails through the strait of troubled waters
    headline reads,,,
    Greek-Operated Oil Tanker Defied Iranian Threats and Crossed the Strait of Hormuz Carrying a Million Barrels of Saudi Crude Oil
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/greek-operated-oil-tanker-defied-iranian-threats-crossed/

    peanut farmer cost me more in gas money than this war will,,, AND
    I had to buy a cb radio as I was a daily hiway driver back then selling groceries to institutions and cafes, etc,, 55mph sucked in my sparcely populated area

  15. the war is over !!! happy days !!! psycho !! skitsos !! dopamine !! .. le freak that great disco band chic , bouncing around NYSE .. frosty it up boys .. trumpy had enough

  17. Very cool George. Very cool.

    got to work this morning had one tire down on my wagon at 10psi. Got out the compresser and filled it up to 110 psi. Industry Standard

    shortly after i got rollin, I saw that road block today you pointed out, took an alternate route and avoided the entire mess.

    Good thing I went 10 to 110 first thing.

    All in All, Finished the day with a Big Smile on my face. I will be on the look out for those other items you mentioned.

    I Win with God within

  18. MAKING HISTORY
    @TerraPower’s Natrium advanced reactor project in Kemmerer, Wyoming, just received a construction permit from the @NRCgov
    .
    It’s the first commercial non-light-water power reactor construction permit to be approved by the NRC.

    https://x.com/GovNuclear/status/2031128900328165809?s=20

    For the first time in its 52-year history, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the construction of a nuclear reactor based on core coolant technology invented AFTER 1960.

    • Of course, China is currently building 39 nuclear reactors, so we’z still a bitty bit behind…

  19. About that Woo–Psychic connections while asleep;
    George, you and your readers may be interested in a story I heard about this at work several years ago. It’s an easy method to test psychic connections while asleep, and maybe develop skills needed to do it at will. Yet it is so outrageous that I doubt anyone who gets the nerve to try it would be willing to report the results–

    A guy I used to work with took me aside to ask for advice;
    He was single, not dating, not ‘getting any,’ and from time to time found himself wanking it while thinking of one or another girl he liked, usually after going to sleep.
    One night while engaged in this activity, he suddenly saw the girl of his attentions in his dream state, wanking herself while thinking of him! They saw each other, embraced in the dream state, and … well… brought things to an enthusiastic finish.
    She had previously been friendly at work, seemed to like him, was not herself dating, but they had not approached each other for any social activities.
    The next day at work, she seemed embarrassed when she saw him, and avoided him the rest of the day.
    “I think we both know we entered each others’ dreams,” he said. “When I looked at her, I knew that she knew, and she knew that I knew, but we couldn’t talk about it. How would we even begin to bring this up?”
    –“Yeah. Invite her out for coffee, and try to date her in public places, with less than the usual amount of touchy-feely,” I said. “If you are dating in a year, and things are going really well, then _maybe_ you could get around to talking about that. Or maybe not. This sort of thing is way outside the list of stuff that most people can talk about. If you like her, get to know her some other way. Talking about this will scare her off, and scare all her friends away from you too.”

    So… To test this woo, you’d have to find a mixed group of (probably) young folks. They would have to have met each other or have seen each others’ pictures. Get them to agree to the experiment, and then set a date and time for all of them to wank away separately, in different houses/apts while focusing on whichever member of the opposite sex meets their fancy. See if any of them saw each other. It would be especially interesting if they sorted themselves into male-female pairs where each member of the pair was focused on the other (vs random pairings). Such an outcome would be objective evidence that such psychic connections are possible.

    Not sure how anyone would organize such an activity– or if it’s been done already– but IMHO if it works, this might be an effective (though possibly humiliating) way to train people to make direct psychic connections at will. Once trained, it might be possible to learn to do it without the wanking…

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