you might think you have a clever analysis, with this talk of friends. 

the old men will spit in your face.

there are no friends in this world. you're a fool. 

i don't assign much value to friendship in capitalism. it's kind of an impossibility. everybody's just trying to take advantage of you. you can pretend people care about you for as long as it takes to knife you in the back, but you're just opening yourself up to exploitation.

if you have anything of any value, you cannot have real friends in this society. i've tried. it's impossible. i prefer not to delude myself.

but, i'm not the hegemon; i'm an aloof artist. i can't run the world by myself. and i don't want to to.

i'm going to finish what i was doing, which was waiting for items to get here, cataloging asimov books and adding textbooks to the list of books (not just fiction). i was trying to fill holes in the fiction list tht should be closed. i was supposed to get done this fairly quick, then shift to the general clean, but it's taken quite a while (and i slept a good chunk of this week). so, i'm going to push into the general clean next week, which will be an end of month clean and that should hopefully get me finishing up most of the remnant big stuff. i really am almost done. the space is in order, at least - i can clean, i can use it. the cataloging will be something i need to keep doing until it's done, but not done continually until it's done.

bc may find itself with a bit of a rude surprise if it tries to outright block the americans from accessing minerals. that might be the excuse they're looking for.

export taxes are a better idea.

why would they block it?

why wouldn't they tax it?

i am in support of export taxes. i'm opposed to import taxes.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/b-c-premier-calls-for-blocking-critical-mineral-exports-to-u-s-over-lumber-tariffs

i just slept all night. again. that's three solid days of constantly triggering into brutal migraines.

i'm finally more awake, now.

i think.