Canada, the exemplar for South African apartheid, ever true to form.

The nuns at my orphanage in Beirut told my parents I was a newborn; in fact, my mother wanted to keep me—she didn’t relinquish for a month until absolutely forced to. Timelining, my date of birth is likely 3 or 4 weeks earlier. My family refers to my “observed birthday” now, which sits fine with me.

I hear that. I remember when my Faculty Assoc. was debating investing their strike fund in the market. My anti-usury and labor-vs-capital contradiction arguments fell on deaf ears; glad I am no longer there to see the aftermath….these efforts to leverage all govt capital are really the death knell…

This Ponzi scheme is like a industrial machine on overdrive that yes, has to give. Also since COVID China has pretty much rescued Western capitalism multiple times (ironically). Now the Global South is ready to move on when it falls apart in the North. It won’t be pretty at all. But inevitable, yes.

No worries! “Basiita” means simple in Arabic. They are all 2-color stranded colorwork in vertical stripes, with a corrugated-rib brim+purls along the decrease spine. Very easy to introduced motifs/emblems within that striped field. More recent beanies are a bit more complex, especially in the brim.

Thank you! I am pretty proud of that one! 🌞 🧶

…to me" which I think left him a bit flummoxed. Some of us remember the Internet bubble meltdown, which was the point I traded in my useless "Interactive Telecommunications" masters degree and returned to print publishing and analog everything. Hindsight and all that. | 4/5 | #AI #StockMarket

…added, "those equations were already all bullshit anyway, just like the market itself as an economic indicator is bullshit" to which he agreed. He thanked me for taking an interest in his work and I was like, "I'm a Marxist; political economy is like cotton candy… | 3/5 | #Marxism #AI #StockMarket

…administrations the Fed has been directly telling them that their job is to "keep the market up". So we are dealing with the bubble but also excess evaluation which as he said and I quote "has absolutely no connection to any reasonable economic equation". I… | 2/5 | #Marxism #AI #StockMarket

It’s the quintessential immigrant metaphor. When baited, “Why does everyone want to come to America?” I answer: "A battleship blows up smaller ships around it; survivors swim to the main vessel + there are asked their opinion. They dare not condemn the action/actor that caused their displacement….”🥚

As we say in Lebanon, "may it sink into the sea".

Has always depressed me, no more so than when I put the clues together and realized it was likely 3 weeks earlier....more in this reply to a ? about the heinous Gotcha Day.

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It always boggled my mind working at ECUAD (I finally resigned last year) the war of attrition that the province waged against higher education and especially public education. Union complicity and a neo liberal–minded professoriat further defined that “frog in a slowly boiling pot” feeling there.

God in heaven. In the 00s I had a web site devoted to adoption criminals; I just did a search on my 🖥️ and yes, “Adoption Breastfeeding” was one of the categories. Some of the web sites are still up. How loathsome. Quoting myself: "Is there no limit to the demented behavior of adoptive parents?” 🥚