Pylimitics

Simplicity rearranged

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  • Edges of vision 3

    part 3 Roger was suddenly sure that whoever was pranking him must be hidden nearby, maybe even filming him. He jerked upright and looked around. But no, how would anyone have known when he was going to open the garage? He hadn’t done that in years, and he’d just had the idea out of the Continue reading

  • About prepping

    “Prepping” is a trendy meme, and it seems to usually means preparing a backpack with stuff you’ll need when you leave the city or town and go live a life of brave, individual survivalism in the woods. That is delusional; a fantasy that comes from watching too many movies. A lot of aspects of our Continue reading

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  • Edges of vision 2

    Part 2 Roger’s days had become unremembered fogs of simple chores (the house was at least clean and neat) and reading. Every month he ventured out less often, only when he ran out of something he couldn’t find a substitute for. He exchanged pleasantries with the supermarket clerks, and nodded in a friendly way to Continue reading

  • Edges of vision

    Part 1 It was a comfortable house, if not modern or luxurious. They made do with air conditioning units precariously mounted in the windows during the hot humidity of New England summer, and the vintage oil burning furnace still managed to keep it livable in the winter. Roger wasn’t sure when the house had been Continue reading

  • Tattoos?

    I need to first establish that I do not have any tattoos, and I do not anticipate ever wanting to get one. I entirely lack whatever it is that motivates people to get tattoos. Nevertheless I respect it quite a lot. It strikes me as a very human thing, and in a way a sort Continue reading

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  • Dithering

    I’ve heard the name Ezra Klein, but I can’t say I ever read anything he wrote, and I definitely never listened to his podcast before. I’m not much of a podcast listener. But I did listen to his recent conversation with Te-Nehisi Coates. The occasion of their conversation was a disagreement. Klein had written something Continue reading

  • Symiliptic report sember 28

    In my previous report from here in the sixth republic I mentioned the advantages we have in having additional data unknown to any of the previous republics. We have another advantage as well. The first republic was informed by the thinkers and philosophers available to them, from antiquity up to Hobbes, Rousseau, and Locke. In Continue reading

  • Oh Those Economists 🙄

    “…not being dead is presumably an important part of the quality of life.“ No comment. Continue reading

  • Promises, promises

    The latest from the Orange Baby is this announcement from Friday, September 26: Starting October 1st, 2025, we will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any branded or patented Pharmaceutical Product, unless a Company IS BUILDING their Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plant in America. “IS BUILDING” will be defined as, “breaking ground” and/or “under construction.” There will, Continue reading

  • Just sayin’…

    Have you noticed that gun advocates almost always fall back on the claim that carrying guns makes society safer? They actually say this with a straight face. The US has more guns in the hands of more people than any other society. And US citizens are much more likely to be shot and killed than Continue reading

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I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate Bossypaws. I shouldn’t be surprised, but she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.

Check out my other blog, Techlimitics, where I’m grappling with the nature of simplicity.

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