TFS 28 – Perlenbacher, Carpentry Aspirations, and the Canadian Mushroom Feind

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I talk about the thrifty goodness of Lidl and Aldis, which are right next to each other in my town. I got this premium Lager from Lidl and it’s decent. Frankly, this whole thing is a ramble where I talk about everything from my bookcase making idea to a dude who got loaded on psilocybin and ended up chasing an Oma with a weaponized broom handle.

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The Distance Remained

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What even is poetry?

I suppose it’s for when life is too weedy and wonderful for prose.

We waited a long time there in the brambles, amidst the tobacco smoke, we talked for hours. What were we on about? It didn’t matter. Together was wonderful.

She motioned towards the middle distance. A gesture altogether fitting for our joyous apocalypse.

Read me the story in the stars. That is what her eyes whispered.

I gathered myself. Trying very hard to remember all the echoes.

The distance remained.

Bewildered I sipped some of the coffee chilling steadily with the onset of evening.

I let the cicadas drown the question.

Beyond a billion years of bones nourished the trees that swayed amidst the rose tinged sky.

The South smelled of mildewed lumber and magnolia.

Her…

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TFS 26 – Space Colonization and Emotional Intelligence

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Articles discussed:

http://nautil.us/blog/why-we-should-think-twice-about-colonizing-space

http://nautil.us/issue/51/limits/emotional-intelligence-needs-a-rewrite

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Little Care (Poem)

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Trading tales

Out there

Where all else fails

Little care

She rests her head

On a shoulder

That’s long dead

Yeah she’s growing older

But still in circles

She wheels

The wreck through cycles

Bursts seals dance jigs and reels

Golden red

Sweet neck

Empty head

All hands on deck

To little care

Seaworthy

She’ll just stare

Too wordy

But just you wait

We’ll get there

Better then, yea better late

Silk hair

Paintbrush

Sketch a future

In tears and smiles

My suture

My little care whiles

My time away

Till

Skeletal

I’ve nothing to say

Be a scaffold

For burst roses

A tale that’s told

Forever

Of little care

That’ll never never

She’ll l just stare

Towards the horizon

My all my why

That the future lies on

Yea we’ll never die

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TFS 25 – Down with the Man, Learning Style Myths, and Aquarius Underwater Laboratory

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I kvetch about the bossman putting a squeeze on our hours, take a gander at an article exposing the myths of VARK, and explore the wondrous world of undersea science.

Sources

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-myth-of-learning-styles?utm_source=pocket-newtab

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/technology/diving/aquarius/aquarius.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEALAB

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TFS 23 – Coronavirus Lesion Study in Globalist Economics, Manufacturing, and Trans Frogs

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Lesion studies are when you look at a damaged bit of tissue and match it to an impaired capacity to figure out its function, etc. Right now the economy is damaged by the Coronavirus. Something that let’s us see what the Fed really does, and diagnose the disease of relying on others for our manufacturing needs.

We need to bring manufacturing back so we can solve the hipster epidemic by putting them to work.

Atrazine is real. And it’s pretty much as crazy as Alex Jones.

Sources

https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/why-are-stocks-crashing/

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Great Heart (Poem)

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If you help somebody

It’s an accident

Cause the world is bloody

Never learn from precedent

It pulses and beats

In hollers and heats

Life flows down streets

Aorta greets

Whatever passes ‘long

Takes it through

Circulation washes right or wrong

You were there just there

And so was the moment

Don’t you know where

You paid the rent

You want the credit

That you’re living on

Always try to edit

Just to get along

So what’s it now

When the coronary

Shows we’ve nothing to sow

Kills your last canary

It’s an accident

Yea, you helped somebody

To see the sense in spent

yea it was dirty bloody

Great heart

You

Yea

You

And

That’s a start

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TFS 22 – Coronavirus, Kvass, and Carolina Living

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Note (I repeated a factoid from another YouTuber (CoffeeTalk) “bird flu has 98% or so survival rate) I was unable to confirm this via Google. All I got was survival rate of the virus strains in Korea not of people. I did find a sixty percent mortality rate. That being said I don’t think he’s entirely off the mark because the CDC said the following:
While the risk from Asian H5N1 is low to most people, CDC recommends general precautions.
Sporadic human infections with Asian H5N1 virus have occurred in other countries, primarily in Asia and Africa. Most human infections with Asian H5N1 viruses in other countries have occurred after prolonged and close contact with infected sick or dead birds.
No animal or human infections with Asian H5N1 virus have occurred in the United States.

Video is about Coronavirus news, media coverage, Kvass and beer, Russian memories, and the economy.

(I’m aware the audio doesn’t match. Sorry, I had no time to fix it.)

Sources

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coronavirus-and-blindness-authoritarianism/606922/

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/h5n1-virus.htm
Coffee talk video: