hrmmn. perhaps hawaii actually did just vote against the asian pivot.

an anti-war message is always meaningful. but, should a war erupt in the pacific, hawaii is right in the crosshairs. and, clinton's policies in the region are reason for hawaiians to pause.

shit hillary said vol 12

"Creating a free trade zone in North America—the largest free trade zone in the world—would expand U.S. exports, create jobs and ensure that our economy was reaping the benefits, not the burdens, of globalization. Although unpopular with labor unions, expanding trade opportunities was an important administration goal."

j reacts to what the wisconsin results can tell us about the fairness of the election

so, wisconsin. open primary. double-checked.

i had said before that washington would prove it's rigged, but i thought it was a ballot vote and it wasn't. so, that was a rational deduction brought on by faulty initial conditions (i don't want to call it an assumption). we could have a talk about the limits of logic. this is tangential.

what i had said was that he should win washington by a huge amount, but it will be balanced out by the dead people vote in seattle. she'd definitely get jimi. but kurt is white. the value of caucuses is that dead people can't vote in them. i don't want to discriminate against zombies, but i do think that the party should be looking to bring in more caucuses and phase out the primaries.

he won't do nearly as well in wisconsin as he did in washington, zombie vote or not. so, it won't be as clear - i can't say the result will prove tampering with the kind of clarity that a rigged washington primary would have given us. but, you should temper your enthusiasm.

i haven't seen any recent polls. but, if you think he can do as well as he did in minnesota, then you should expect results closer to illinois.

you'd never measure something like this if you weren't vlogging...

but, the consequence of my cycling and ~30 hour days is that i live, on average, about 6 days a week. it's not exact, it's like 6.3 days/week if you divide it out.

of course, i'm using the same amount of time. i'm not dr. who. nor am i a tralfamadorian. i'm not even mick jagger. it's just that i'm splitting those 168 hours into roughly 6 periods rather than roughly 7. and, it turns out it's pretty consistent.

that means i live about 50 less days a year. and about 500 less days a decade. that's more than a year.

if i suppose that i live until i'm 70, i'll have only lived a little more than 60 actual years, if measured in days. so, might i live to be very old?

i'm not convinced that's how it actually works. but, who knows, really.

the dominant factor is the sun. the vortex shrinks in the summer and expands in the winter, reacting to the amount of sunlight hitting the earth. if we were to turn the sun off, the polar vortex would sweep over the earth, and we'd be plunged into a snowball earth scenario. and, if we were to turn the sun up enough then the vortex would disappear altogether. the expansion and contraction of the vortex is strongly correlated with the solar cycles. we're currently in a period of decreased solar activity. this is being counter-acted, however, by warming oceans due to global warming.

(the idea that this is being caused by warming is grasping at straws, and really rather outrageous given how entrenched the understanding of the vortex is. see mike lockwood, and in fact michael mann, for a better explanation of the solar effects.)

www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/polar-vortex-explainer/63115/