Beaver [he/him]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • We had the family Christmas this last weekend, and Baby Beaver was soooo excited to play with her cousins. She’s an early walker, and so is able to follow them all around the house.

    We got her a small chair and table to eat at, so that she can practice sitting down and eating with us. I’m usually sitting on the floor with her and eating too (just so I can keep her in her chair). Our daycare uses this method, so we want to stay consistent.

    Bad sleep regressions this week. She’s been such a good sleeper that it’s tough to know what to do. Teething - maybe? Separation anxiety - maybe? Hungry - definitely, she’s been eager for a bottle at around 2am. She’s in the process of self-weening, usually rejecting the last bit of milk in her bottles, but then she doesn’t want eat enough regular food to satisfy herself overnight. Oh well, I expected the weaning process to be kind of complicated.














  • In the end, true global-scale power comes from a foundation of competent organized human effort. That requires lots and lots of valuable things like actual inter-personal trust between people, a confidence in government, a drive for knowledge and learning, widespread literacy, the ability to make useful spreadsheets… you know, those countless “soft wussy things” that the Hard Men of this moment don’t value. On every front, people in power in the USA are working tirelessly to tear down the foundational human ability of it’s people.

    What’s interesting about the recent Venezuelan kidnapping operation is that we see on full display the value of multi-spectrum cultivation of human capability. The US military has a strong esprit-du-corps and a culture of desk jockeys and nerds doing support work, combined with political will and physical capital, that allows it to do shit. But even it is being dragged down by the industrial collapse, unable to modernize or re-arm (the US’s inability to match Russia’s artillery shell output is one damning data point).