I just spent a chunk of my afternoon swearing at my car.
The bluetooth fails to connect so that I can play music.

What is at the root of my anger?

Helplessness?
Powerlessness?
Friction in my ability to drive safely?
Feeling like a sucker because I spent so much to have a nice vehicle that shouldn't have issues like this?

Why not just let it go?

Why live forever?

War is the wrong place for good men - - Amos Burton, The Expanse

When does the transition to "War" occur?

"There is no price for the best victim" - - Chrisjen Avasarala, The Expanse.
Seems like Kyrsten Sinema could use that insight.

Looks like Chris Miller, Acting Sec. of Defense under T*, kept the National Guard from coming to the rescue of the Capitol on January 6th.

Finally figured out how to map COVID data onto a Google Map.
The circles represent the current infections relative to the population in that neighborhood. Basically, this is a concentration map.
High inverse correlation between average income and infection levels.

This explains a lot : https://twitter.com/WhiteHouseCEA/status/1481272709040513024

The James Webb Space Telescope is travelling at 820 mph and is now over 77% of the way to its future home almost a million miles away.
Since its launch on Christmas it has just past 1/2 of the time it will take to complete insertion into the L2 orbit.
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

If "goodness" does not outweigh
"righteousness" in American society, democracy will certainly fail as a governing principle.

The James Webb Space Telescope has cleared some significant hurdles! Now it's moving its primary mirror into place. That's the big, gold mirror that is folded back for the launch.

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/deploymentExplorer.html

Do not confuse Righteousness with Goodness.

We have seen many people acting in a righteous manner that are not doing good things.

Start by asking "Is this something a good person would do?"

If you cannot see the color Blue,
Then you also cannot see Green nor Purple.

Those that can easily see Blue are perplexed by their arguments about color.

You cannot argue with a person that lacks a moral bearing. They cannot see what you see.

interesting table published by the Wall Street Journal:

I could use some coding advice.
I've got a MySQL database and I want to automate the output of CSVs (or JSONs) so that I could use them in a visualization layer.

The SQL (a crosstab) to output is written and works. But, it uses SET commands to build the variables for the filename. The semicolons really scramble up how Python reads in the SQL.

Am I making this too complex?

At a high level, what is a simple sequence to get the output and automate it?

NASA is making more progress with the James Webb Space Telescope today!

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/01/05/secondary-mirror-deployment-confirmed/

>40% of Americans experienced a climate-related disaster last year.

I believe we need hope.

There are solutions to mitigate the effects of climate change, but we need the focus and resources. So, there is hope.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/01/05/climate-disasters-2021-fires

Time to start self-quarantining again.
Our neighborhood now has a COVID infection rate 25X greater than December 1st.