HIPPYVALLEY

You might have to wait until December for that.

You haven’t had enough?

Or swine flu was going to destroy humanity a few years ago.

They will ruin their economies and compromise the mental health of the population.

Gorgeous day! We may not have the ocean near us but we find our spots to cool off in WNE.

GFS looks pretty seasonable the next 10 days. Maybe a few days in the low 80's later in the period.

It’ll be tough to get the snow to stick to pavement.

Overcast now but was mostly sunny until about an hour ago. High of 74° before the clouds moved in.

Sounds like Newark.

Read minds think alike!

Yeah, that’s a good one. Noam Chomsky’s “Turning the Tide” is a good look at US Central American policies. Brutal. I am old enough to remember Iran-Contra scandal. they were plenty of people in the United States defending Reagan, Ollie North and Casper “the friendly defender” Weinberger. It was bad enough that the US was illegally selling arms to Iran and then using the money to illegally sell arms to the Nicaraguan contras. However, the planes flying the illegal weapons out of Arkansas into Central America were also returning loaded with cocaine to sell on the streets of the US and creating the crack epidemic. Bush family was widely implicated as having ties to the illegal cocaine imports and Clinton was Governor of Arkansas at the time. Fun stuff.

In the 60’s and 70’s the CIA classified cooperative farms, unions and public libraries warning signs of socialism spreading in Central America. The specter of the “communist threat” has been used as fear porn for decades in the US and most of the sheep bought into it hook line and sinker. It paved the way for the US installing brutal dictatorships in much of Central America. I’m sure that shit is all sanitized in the “approved” high school history books.

yikes, consumer prices jumped 5% in May alone. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/10/cpi-may-2021.html

Buying a little bitcoin on the dip this morning worked out for me.

Clouds on Saturday and today kept us from getting to 90 but I guess there’s still time this afternoon.

86/68. We sweat.

That’s a good point, can you imagine the fear porn, media feeding frenzy that would catalyze in 2021?

Yeah, NW MA has been porked so far wrt rain.

I did say “getting towards the heart of summer“ peak sun certainly

The question is will it be sustained or short burst? That period is getting towards the heart of summer so heat is not surprising.

The cell over the Hadley Amherst area just won’t quit. I waited for about 20 minutes then I just turned around and went back to Northampton where it’s blue skies. Route 9 in Hadley was starting to flood out.

Absolute monsoon in Hadley right now.

Yeah, this morning was the most unpleasant morning so far. We bottomed out at 70.

A massive, crippling cyberattack is only a matter of time at this point. Imagine the panic if people all of a sudden couldn’t use credit cards or access their money with ATMs.