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Second, it’s probably possible to use financial engineering to bypass the debt limit. The most famous proposal calls for minting a platinum coin with a face value of, say, $1 trillion, depositing that coin with the Federal Reserve and spending out of the bank account thus created. Believe it or not, this would almost certainly be legal.

I noticed the paragraph above in this article about the debt limit.

A few things came to mind:

  1. WTF?!
  2. It’s amazing the systems and institutions we rely on have such weird foundational stuff as could be dreamed up as a story.
  3. How come Hollywood hasn’t made a heist move about this already?!

My recent Flickr account stats show huge spikes that go way back in time, so basically 1 or 2 retrievals on a lot of old photos. I feel like someone is scraping, and I wonder if it’s for AI learning.

Yesterday at Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge.

A black and white photo of wetlands with lots of ground vegetation and trees without leaves. There are hills in the distance and a dramatic cloudy sky above.

Yard at sunrise on a summer morning.

Black and white photo of a small plant in front of a white lattice fence. The ground is covered with wood mulch and pine cones.

Black and white photo of grapevine leaves hanging down in front of a white lattice fence and a garden bed.

An up close black and white photo of a small plant in front of a white lattice fence.

Film: Ilford HP5 Plus 400
Camera: Voigtländer Bessa R2a

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Looking up from under a tree with a giant trunk, and many big branches going skywards all lit by the warm light of sunset

#ThickTrunkTuesday

It gets mossy around here.

A muddy lane blocked off by a barrier that says Firelane 8 with a number of mossy tree trunks visible on the side of its path.

A moss covered tree trunk in the foreground and many other mossy trees behind in damp woods.

#mosstodon

Really enjoying having a functional window in my home office for the first time in almost six years! And it’s nice to have it be a double hung so that I can open the top sash a bit to let in fresh air, and my feet don’t get cold in two minutes like they do with the bottom sash.

A tree with white bark and no leaves, standing in a house yard, is lit by the golden light of the setting Sun.

Thinking of summer aka It’s summer somewhere.

On a clear summer day a woman trims a hedge in a yard with lots of greenery and a wooden pergola behind her.

Film: Kodak Ultramax (ISO 400)
Camera: Voigtländer Bessa R2a

Happy New Year! 🥳