The Jester Part 2

[Bernice Ebesugawa]

Manyof today's elected leaders have no better connection with real people (especially outside their borders) than those "divinely ordained" kings did centuries ago. And while I'm fortunate to have a built-in platform, I believe that any traveler can play jester to their own communities. Whether visiting El Salvador (where people don't dream of having two cars in every garage), Denmark (where they pay high taxes with high expectations and are satisfied), or Iran (where many willingly compromised their freedom to be ruled by clerics out of fear that, as they explained to me, "their little girls would be raised to be like Britney Spears"), any traveler can bring back valuable insights. And, just like those truths were needed in the Middle Ages, this understanding is needed in our age.

Set in a fictional, medieval European kingdom, thirteen year-old Tymmon must flee when his court jester father is kidnapped before his eyes by mysterious knights. While hiding in the forest, Tymmon befriends Troff, a dog-like gargoyle enchanted into life. Tymmon becomes a wandering musician, with Troff providing howling accompaniments.

Bursting with jokes, wit, and detail without deflating the suspense, the only disappointment YA readers are likely to express is that there is no sequel. All the same, Mimus is a tremendously satisfying standalone.

A Wizard is not an groundbreaking character, but what LEGO has done with this Series 12 version is nothing short of exceptional. It is a gorgeously crafted and designed character, with a spellbinding amount of thought and detail poured into the end product.

The Dino Tracker is armed to the teeth with an arsenal capable of taking down a Brachiosaurus-sized beast. She has a lime green syringe that also doubles as a tranquiliser dart, fired from her futuristic bow.

The minifigure legs are still flimsy and feel a lot lighter than usual, one of my biggest complaints. Erratic back printing details are also a minor annoyance as is cases of sloppy printing on some parts. Oddly enough, I also noticed the LEGO printing inside both legs, as opposed to Collectible Minifigures usually only having them printed inside one legs. Only a very small percentage of my Series 12 minifigs had LEGO printing in both legs.

1. Jester currently has M4 off during normal startup, and keeps it off throughout the sortie, and this results in other aircraft's IFF not getting friendly returns through their datalink

2. My group is considering implementing IFF codes into our deployments, and part of that is using LotATC to automatically recognize specific codes to display mission type, package number, etc. for specific aircraft/flights and part of the discussion inevitably ended up being that Jester crewed tomcats would just read (00)0000 with no indication of what that aircraft is, are they a friendly, what it's mission type is, or what his package he is a part of.

3. Further development of IFF inside of DCS may call for this at some point, and having Jester be able to set it up now for single human crewed tomcats may make life easier for the future.

4. Switches are already working and have values set to each, just an action to change it from the front seat as a "Jester" pilot would be helpful for multiplayer.

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In order to ease tensions in the family, jesters are rarely emotionally honest with family members. They struggle to identify and express their genuine feelings, as they fear that doing so may cause or contribute to conflict within their family. When they experience negative emotions such as sadness, anger, or anxiety, they tend to cover it up with a smile or a joke. As a result, jesters deny their family members opportunities to experience and resolve conflicts that require genuine emotional expression. Families often need to have difficult conversations in order to healthfully address and resolve simmering tensions.

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A lot of people have no problem with the idea that the future involves grave challenges, but seem less able to imagine that these challenges might bring the curtain down on the familiar political structures of the contemporary world and associated patterns such as its consumer culture. To me, this indicates a problem in the culture of modernism that needs hard work to transcend.

Cecchini explained: We start from an input which is basically CO2 and green hydrogen in the form of paraffin and then we take those paraffin waxes and we basically oxidize them.

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Not on subject but I thought ya would like to know .

Keeping modernity going is keeping massive human population overshoot going at the expense of future carrying capacity. The sooner modernity goes away, the better, if one is concerned about global environmental health.

But modernity going away means a lot of misery unto death whenever it happens, so almost everyone either pushes environmental health to the bottom of the priority list, or, like ecomodernists, engages in fantasies of a rapid change in the operation of modern civilization in order to somehow promote environmental health and still keep the misery at bay.

Land owned by corporations or aristocrats, leased to a) farmers doing industrial monocropping to grow feed for CAFO operations or similar b) highly polluting industries c) some other highly financialised, highly damaging things

The county I live in is undertaking a misguided attempt to force rural landowners to engage in commercial agriculture if they want to keep their agricultural land assessment (very low property tax on ag land, but the use guidlines are pretty strict). Subsistence farms will now be overtly discouraged.

The end result of these factors is that one of the principle uses agricultural land has been smallholdings for people who want to enjoy life in the country. If hobby farmers and subsistence farmers are driven off the land by high property taxes, only wealthy people will be able to live here.

My worry is that the JSO answer is Ecomodenism. Much like lab meat. Tech will save the day.

Renewables will replace fossil fuels, if we just start building them and we can keep all the above and everything else besides.

The court jesters were essentially dependent on royalty for their livelihoods, and JSO members are presumably still dependent on fossil fuels and the spoils of empire (to some extent) for some aspects of their lives.

I know that the Conquistadors were pre-industrial but colonialism was limited then (though still devastating for the Mechica)

The technological advantages that Europeans enjoyed were restricted up until 1776.

I disagree. Local agrarian refugia are the actual change needed, but to exist they must deliberately separate themselves from centers of political power, which exist almost entirely in the halls of urban institutions.

Subsistence agriculture represents a flight from modernity, a disengagement from almost everything that modern urbanites are doing. No matter how cohesive the subsistence community might become, it has little chance of changing public policy, since subsistence agriculture is in direct opposition to the way modern urbanism is organized and supported.

They (the local agrarian refugia) are decentralised by definition, being local and shifting emphasis to bioregional sustainability and resilience (away from centralised profiteering), and yes they embody the change that is needed, and they will be more powerful by being less compromised by the need for fossil fuels, and will have local agrarian forms of energy unique to the respective bioregions.

The result of these traditional leftwing narratives is at best the kind of policy that Joe mentions, which often ironically squeezes the margin of the more sustainable local small farm to the benefit of the less sustainable rich, or at worst a bureaucratic Bolshevik-style horror show.

All protests go the same way , as soon as they start to annoy the powers that be the full weight of the state falls on them , if protests win the powers that be loose , the only protests that win end up like Romania , the powers that be stood against a wall and machine gunned .

Is that really any different to me with my biochar retort, rocket stove and attempts to compost my own turds? All, probably pointless/futile in the face of coming events but give me a calming sense of control/agency.

The social tech of direct democracy through peoples assemblies is, as you say, a lasting legacy from the last nearly decade of largely successful ecological protest. Maybe that is where some hope for an agrarian localism here in the UK is arising from, where as the US, perhaps because of its scale as much as anything else, is less hopeful. I think increasingly that the peculiarities of the bioregions will have some sway in the local agrarian emergence.

I agree re: bioregions being important; the vital context of the material reality of what is possible in a particular place (and the way that context will shift with further climate catastrophe) is part of why it is so difficult to point to One True Way to Fix Everything. Even within the UK, I have to treat things like rainwater collection very differently than someone in, say, Manchester, which gets quite a bit more rain than east London does. On an even smaller scale, each of my five official growing sites has its own microclimate. Seeds sown the same week in each will grow at different rates, face different pest pressures and so on, and I am still learning what does best in each (though variation from year to year is also a factor).

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