August Retrospective and September Plans

Happy #HivePowerUpDay! It's time yet again to stake some Hive Power, and as usual, I'll also mark the occasion by looking back at my previous month of posts. If you can stake at least 10 HP before midnight according to UTC, @hivebuzz will issue you a personal badge. The more you stake, the bigger the bee you can earn!

Including last month's retrospective, I managed ten posts in August. I had a long lull toward the middle of the month where "real life" got in the way, but I'm back on track after being derailed! Let's have a look at the rest of my recent content.

• Societal Collapse Illustrated with Pickup Trucks, another shared video about how we seem to have crossed another threshold from technological advancement to regression.
• Draw, Mill, and Wheel: A Deck Experiment, a post about a Magic: The Gathering Commander deck. @generikat used this one to win at our last game night.
• Cool Creator Spotlight: Practical Engineering, another entry in my irregular series where I share neat stuff I find online. This one is about civil engineering from design considerations to disaster analysis.
• Eight Years! Yup. I've been here for a while now.
• Walz is Wrong on Every Level, especially free speech. It's just a short rant, not a deep dive.
• Drawing on a Budget: A Deck Experiment, the deck I used to good effect until @generikat comboed off with that other one I mentioned previously.
• Cool Creator Spotlight: Hyce, another content creator I found, this time about railroading. He even runs antique steam locomotives at a museum!
• Outrage and Fearmongering Masquerading as Rationality, a longer rant about the political zeitgeist and the tendency toward emotional emptiness overwhelming rational discourse.
• The Dao versus the Politician, wherein I try to present a much more coherent argument using current economic concerns as a way to focus on the destructive effects of coercion in general.

I feel like this swings a lot between bitter complaints and completely irrelevant fluff, but the latter helps me cope with the former.

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September looks like more irregular posting on whatever pops into my mind. I've given up on trying to make grand plans for big events. If they happen, they happen. I survived a nasty head cold. No, I didn't bother to get a COVID test. Right now I'm nursing a sore shoulder on top of all the inner turmoil and lingering external family drama that have been upsetting my summer. Whee.