Coping Mechanism

A blog about everything by Jack Baty

Monday, April 27, 2026

Monday, April 27, 2026
Hermes 3000 (2010)

Chris Wellons' post, I have officially retired from Emacs, made me a little sad. Not because he's stopped using Emacs, but rather that he was able to stop using Emacs. I've "retired" from Emacs at least a dozen times. I've done it twice in the last two weeks. Never sticks.


Fact-checking RFK Jr.'s claim there's more than one way to calculate a percentage decrease | PBS News

Kennedy said, "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. There's two ways of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

The depressing part of this, other than what the idiotic RFK Jr. said, is that PBS felt the statement needed fact checking. We're so lost.


My dog has surgery this morning to remove a handful of large cysts on her back. It's going to be a day.