There are now 60 comments on this thread (edit: make that 61), so please disregard that comment below about the #48.....it is just foolish memory of times past where something bad happened, but just cause it happened once don't mean it will again - so I disavow the #48 and the spell it has had over me - the spell is broken. And let me tell you - if you need somebody know hot to break a spell, then get a hold of me.
Here is a fair question to ask - tis a fair question.
I read recently that in China a rail infrastructure improvement project of considerable significance and scale was implemented over many years and the cost was around 100 billion US $ and now the rails are there for the sake of the community. Now consider this - about the same amount of funds have been pissed away in the "*kraine effort" and I ask you this good citizen - is that money well spent?
Seems to me the Chinese and the Russian got their heads on straight and they have invested in infrastructure and meanwhile in the us of a money gets pissed away day after day for what? A war for the sake of DC and the complex there of ignominy? Fuck that- eff DC and the military industrial media complex of evil that resides there - just telling it like it is...sad to day, but evident.
We are going to get our "balls busted" if some common sense does not overcome the delusional ones in the place fixing to be drained.
Big changes are on the way - you can count on it. Flux overwhelming and operating systems changing too frequently mean simply - big changes are on the way. You can bank on it and eff the central bankers.
BK
Not like it is some contest, but is it not obvious that funds spent on infrastructure return dividends of real value whereas dimwit aristocrats in the West think all the peasants are cattle just love wasting things and basically killing others - seems to me some comuppance is in order. Tis more than obvious - tis evident and the time is NOW.
It is most likely premature to type this, but I think I can say conclusively that this post here at "SubStack" (as I like to type it) has turned into something there is no way I could have imagined beforehand....sometimes when then happens, I can't help but wonder - what next?
Hells-bells if I know, but the peppers are coming along nicely and that matters to me.
The number 48 - that is the number of comments as I type this before I click the "Post" button. The #48 - it spooks me in a way and I've said this before - that number and its opposite - 84. So, I ask you - I ask you kind reader - how you think I feel when I find out there is going to be a total eclipse on 4824 in Buffalo, NY. How you think this makes me feel?
So, even on a local level rail makes more sense and really - why hasn't this been learned.
Flying planes is disrespectful to mother nature - you think your time is so valuable?
The energy it takes to fly a plane over the Atlantic is considerable - how do you think this energy compares against the energy it takes to move a load via rail from NYC to New Orleans?
My guess is for about 20 times less energy you could move 10 times more mass via rail (with respect to the "product" being delivered) versus flying a plane the same distance. It is a no-brainer for those of us with humility about the future and a desire for modicum knowing too much flux is fatal for all of us.
So, if you really care about energy consumption, maybe you ought consider the value of rail travel and perhaps it might occur to you that it would be wise to invest in rail infrastructure - for the sake of the community of course - the ones who own the transport where they reside.
I've learned you are an agent, you refute your own name, you may not understand about the mountain in bolivia called cerra rico, and here you are chatting me up.
Welcome to the place I guess, but if you think you are going to an "agent" here, you might soon realize - this place is not like others. It is different.
As for transportation - it ought be owned equally by all those who reside where the transporting is happening - and seriously - think about that - the possibilities it opens up for better times.
I made a joke about me, that I think if I had an agent or knew someone in the industry I would do a lot better. The people who live next to the railroad should own it? Oh that is a good one! You ARE creative. Let's get real. What is "agent"? It is a person who has a place in the publishing industry, coming in between author and publisher. Just wanted to get clarity on that. And here I am on Substack, thinking it amounts to something. And why am I chatting with you? I don't know.
Hey jacob silverman - I truly don't mean to start this conversation up again, but it seems to me you may have not understood a fundamental concept I have regarding transportation. The ownership of it is collective amongst the citizens where the transportation is occurring - it has nothing to do with where you live because all citizens get to share in the benefit of the transportation equally. If you give it serious consideration - it is fair that if there is much transportation passing through your local community - and the benefits of said transportation result in profits for those moving the goods - well the folks who live there where the transportation occurs deserve a bit of the profit. Simple as that.
With that said, the value of property near the rail corridors in the us of a is fixing to go up I reckon - so if nothing else.....you read that here.
~~~~
and seriously just to take this to another level - if you think it makes sense for the local citizens to gets a percentage for the transportation that occurs through where they reside, does it not make sense that the local folks would think likewise and that then for the sake of Mutual benefit - safety would improve. Because safety improves when work is fulfilling and if you get "piece of the pie" being you live somewhere where transportation is important, then you obviously want the transportation to be safe in the local community - could be a win-win.
Contrast that with agents everywhere thinking they can spook us.
"the ownership of it is collective amongst the citizens where the transportation is occurring ..." Well that sounds stupid. The people next to the airport should own the airlines?
yes, ownership of capitalism is collective. That is what I write about. I am an independent "economist," okay? They already own it because of capitalism. If there is a truly viable, functioning capitalism, then there are jobs opportunities and that includes a share of the money the train company is making, yes.
OK. I am in Florida by the way, and using either a not very good laptop or it is a not very good web. Don't know which but I probably need to get a better laptop. I am 67 years old and not in great health. You do not take being joked around with. I find you a bit less fun than I would have hoped, so feel free to make friends elsewhere. I do not find you completely fair. Just my opinion, now.
Be friends with whoever you want to be friends with and maybe one day we will be friends, but just now I don't need an agent whether you are one or not - the fact of the matter is you are typing this at the place where I am the "Author" - so I think that matters and I hope you do as well.
OK, whimsical or not, lets try to run the numbers - shall we?
With rail there is much mass that can be transported and the time will not be the quickest but the journey can still be relatively quick enough and truly much better than flying in a plane. What rail lacks is the ability to move smaller goods after they get to the hub, so let the trucks and the automobiles take care of that. But with that said if you want my opinion, in Charlotte, NC the place I reside if they just decided to close down Providence road to auto traffic and then turned that into a rail corridor, once it was constructed, and oh my how much less the cost would be versus other rail possibilities, then it would relieve traffic in a positive way and might convince me to keep living in this place that frankly loses its appeal day after day of traffic jams.
You know Isabelle Allende? I was doing some rare reading (I never finish anything much because as an Autistic person I am fascinated by a few pages and after that it gets difficult to keep going) in a novel about a prominent S.F. Chinese family or rather there was a character who was raised in S. F.'s chinatown or whatever it was. And somebody had methodically bought up places on the railroad line that we then being constructed and that was her way of making her fortune in life. Simply and obvious but no one else did it.
I think I have heard of the name Isabelle Allende....that name flows nicely. I think she was fine in body. In fact, holy-moly, I think I saw her earlier today walking on the road with an umbrella up - she saw me and my wife walking the dogs together and I said "good morning" to her.
Here is another way to say it in code if you want to think about it - zodsnr;;r S;;rmfr
you know about the mountain don't you - twas made of silver - and in bolivia - my grandpappy - an Irish fella - studied colorado school of mines was the supervisor at a silver mine in mejico so if you think this is a dream, I think you have come to the wrong place.
yeah ok of you say it agent man isabelle, but who is the silver man and do you know about the mountain in bolivia - if not, then your bs may be soon to come to an end!
that's true. I feel I have "so much t'ings to say," as Bob Marley once did sing. But when you put the "code" down it is not what you need for the sake of communication and it takes huge dedication and work. Even when I feel like "Wow, I just did it!" then later I read it and --- nuthin'.
You know what I wonder sometimes P&S - where did all the funds go for those equities invested in Russia and held by "Van Eck" - why I reckon they have gone to India perhaps. Either way, I invested fair and square, and there is going to be hell to pay if the fiscal systems become evidently unfair for the everyday peasants and regular folk just trying to get by.
Hell to pay - and hell have no fury like Lady Libra when the scales are not balanced and she knows that is her reason to exist.
It evaporated Ken, like the fate of all the other illusory wealth the Banksters have created out of nothing since WW2 (Bretton Woods). Here it is in pictures LOL:
I think you are correct - it evaporated, but I think it is not forgotten and there is basically going to be hell to pay if the bankers don't get a clue.
I'm thinking in South Africa you might be in the thick of it during the heat of the moment. I'm sure if it happens that way, it was a moment meant to be and you will be prepared.
So, the conference there, the BRICS conference, I think it is in about a month or two and rumor I heard is the "gold standard" is gonna be a topic of discourse - but if you want my opinion - don't leave silver off the table - silver is important. Either way, the discourse will have to do with transition away from fiat to currency backed by something physical - I think that just makes good sense.
It bugs me that the energy balance around transportation seems real easy to solve, but maybe it is not a coincidence that India and Russia recently came to terms on the new Railroad Infrastructure deal. 6.6 billion or some such in US $ but maybe it ought be reported in other currency.
It should be reported in local currencies Ken but as BOOM explains the US dollar is supreme across the world and likely to be so for our lifetimes I guess.
US Dollars residing on the Balance Sheets of Tax Haven Banks are not reflected in the Central Banks' Foreign Exchange Reserves. The EU and the Euro are constructed by the US Intelligence apparatus -- so the Euro is a US Dollar proxy.
If you add US Dollars to Euros and also include US Dollars in Tax Haven Bank Ledgers -- there is MASSIVE US Dollar Dominance globally. It is the most available and convenient currency to conduct trade and capital settlements and has MASSIVE Liquidity.
No other currency comes close. We are living in a US Dollar Empire. It is not going away in a hurry. The only viable alternative is the Chinese Yuan ..... and it is less than 3% of Central Bank Foreign Exchange Reserves (currently 2.6%). The US Dollar is the Oxygen of the global financial system.
The "oxygen" of the us dollar is rapidly diminishing being fiat is based upon nothing but good faith and good faith demands good governance - without that - all faith is lost.
But it's backed by the full faith and credit of a global economy commanding 25% of global GDP - plus the military with almost a 1,000 bases worldwide, Ken, where the US has 10x resources employed measured by the next in-line nation. That's powerful credit IMHO!
That sounds like a setup statement but being this is my SubStack, I'll respond. 25% of global GDP is just one fourth of it and there are the other 3/4ths to consider. The military has gone all woke, seems sort of mentally broke - can't win a thing lately and gets all mixed up too much and really seems so wasteful because it is - and it don't take an engineer to conclude that this is more than obvious.
The bases ought just be give back to the folks who live there and the troops can come home and get some rest, R&R, and maybe some time off before they figure out a way to contribute that has more benefit locally.
Credit when matched against debt fair might have value, but credit when the debt is so out of whack is worthless. What DC is is a coup caught swampland of central bankers who own the debt of the place they stole and we want it back and we will get it back cause it is WAR!
Yes Ken - the military might will always win in the end but what is left is just devastation - WW2 is a good example. The the Banksters can make a killing building everything up again - and so it goes around. Except it didn't work in Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Ukraine - a trail of losses.
LOL - I am an old soldier, Ken and understand how the eviscerated mind over the years can become encrusted. But I do think BOOM is right about the US dollar. It's a virtual fortress and will take a lot to bring it down IMHO.
LOL - BOOM is a medical doctor, Ken and has a doctor's mind, far away from you and I. I do try to show him the peasant way, but it would never compute! He is VERY clever though and saved my life at Covid time.
There are now 60 comments on this thread (edit: make that 61), so please disregard that comment below about the #48.....it is just foolish memory of times past where something bad happened, but just cause it happened once don't mean it will again - so I disavow the #48 and the spell it has had over me - the spell is broken. And let me tell you - if you need somebody know hot to break a spell, then get a hold of me.
Ken
Peace
Here is a fair question to ask - tis a fair question.
I read recently that in China a rail infrastructure improvement project of considerable significance and scale was implemented over many years and the cost was around 100 billion US $ and now the rails are there for the sake of the community. Now consider this - about the same amount of funds have been pissed away in the "*kraine effort" and I ask you this good citizen - is that money well spent?
Seems to me the Chinese and the Russian got their heads on straight and they have invested in infrastructure and meanwhile in the us of a money gets pissed away day after day for what? A war for the sake of DC and the complex there of ignominy? Fuck that- eff DC and the military industrial media complex of evil that resides there - just telling it like it is...sad to day, but evident.
We are going to get our "balls busted" if some common sense does not overcome the delusional ones in the place fixing to be drained.
Big changes are on the way - you can count on it. Flux overwhelming and operating systems changing too frequently mean simply - big changes are on the way. You can bank on it and eff the central bankers.
BK
Not like it is some contest, but is it not obvious that funds spent on infrastructure return dividends of real value whereas dimwit aristocrats in the West think all the peasants are cattle just love wasting things and basically killing others - seems to me some comuppance is in order. Tis more than obvious - tis evident and the time is NOW.
BK
It is most likely premature to type this, but I think I can say conclusively that this post here at "SubStack" (as I like to type it) has turned into something there is no way I could have imagined beforehand....sometimes when then happens, I can't help but wonder - what next?
Hells-bells if I know, but the peppers are coming along nicely and that matters to me.
Ken
The number 48 - that is the number of comments as I type this before I click the "Post" button. The #48 - it spooks me in a way and I've said this before - that number and its opposite - 84. So, I ask you - I ask you kind reader - how you think I feel when I find out there is going to be a total eclipse on 4824 in Buffalo, NY. How you think this makes me feel?
So, even on a local level rail makes more sense and really - why hasn't this been learned.
Flying planes is disrespectful to mother nature - you think your time is so valuable?
The energy it takes to fly a plane over the Atlantic is considerable - how do you think this energy compares against the energy it takes to move a load via rail from NYC to New Orleans?
My guess is for about 20 times less energy you could move 10 times more mass via rail (with respect to the "product" being delivered) versus flying a plane the same distance. It is a no-brainer for those of us with humility about the future and a desire for modicum knowing too much flux is fatal for all of us.
So, if you really care about energy consumption, maybe you ought consider the value of rail travel and perhaps it might occur to you that it would be wise to invest in rail infrastructure - for the sake of the community of course - the ones who own the transport where they reside.
"why hasn't this been learned."
- -
When was the last time anybody learned anything?
jacob - I just posted something at your place.
You looking for an agent?
OK - maybe if the price is right.
I'm a consultant - I work for money.
$ is fiat - I prefer silver!
I've learned you are an agent, you refute your own name, you may not understand about the mountain in bolivia called cerra rico, and here you are chatting me up.
Welcome to the place I guess, but if you think you are going to an "agent" here, you might soon realize - this place is not like others. It is different.
As for transportation - it ought be owned equally by all those who reside where the transporting is happening - and seriously - think about that - the possibilities it opens up for better times.
So you think I have "a lot of nerve"?
I made a joke about me, that I think if I had an agent or knew someone in the industry I would do a lot better. The people who live next to the railroad should own it? Oh that is a good one! You ARE creative. Let's get real. What is "agent"? It is a person who has a place in the publishing industry, coming in between author and publisher. Just wanted to get clarity on that. And here I am on Substack, thinking it amounts to something. And why am I chatting with you? I don't know.
Hey jacob silverman - I truly don't mean to start this conversation up again, but it seems to me you may have not understood a fundamental concept I have regarding transportation. The ownership of it is collective amongst the citizens where the transportation is occurring - it has nothing to do with where you live because all citizens get to share in the benefit of the transportation equally. If you give it serious consideration - it is fair that if there is much transportation passing through your local community - and the benefits of said transportation result in profits for those moving the goods - well the folks who live there where the transportation occurs deserve a bit of the profit. Simple as that.
With that said, the value of property near the rail corridors in the us of a is fixing to go up I reckon - so if nothing else.....you read that here.
~~~~
and seriously just to take this to another level - if you think it makes sense for the local citizens to gets a percentage for the transportation that occurs through where they reside, does it not make sense that the local folks would think likewise and that then for the sake of Mutual benefit - safety would improve. Because safety improves when work is fulfilling and if you get "piece of the pie" being you live somewhere where transportation is important, then you obviously want the transportation to be safe in the local community - could be a win-win.
Contrast that with agents everywhere thinking they can spook us.
"the ownership of it is collective amongst the citizens where the transportation is occurring ..." Well that sounds stupid. The people next to the airport should own the airlines?
You ain't going to get my goat jacob and if you don't understand then no skin off my back.
See you later - or see you around.
Post to your hearts content - just don't think you own the place.
yes, ownership of capitalism is collective. That is what I write about. I am an independent "economist," okay? They already own it because of capitalism. If there is a truly viable, functioning capitalism, then there are jobs opportunities and that includes a share of the money the train company is making, yes.
Well consider this - we are chatting here at my place.
OK. I am in Florida by the way, and using either a not very good laptop or it is a not very good web. Don't know which but I probably need to get a better laptop. I am 67 years old and not in great health. You do not take being joked around with. I find you a bit less fun than I would have hoped, so feel free to make friends elsewhere. I do not find you completely fair. Just my opinion, now.
Be friends with whoever you want to be friends with and maybe one day we will be friends, but just now I don't need an agent whether you are one or not - the fact of the matter is you are typing this at the place where I am the "Author" - so I think that matters and I hope you do as well.
Well remember this - your opinion shared above was shared here at the place I call my own SubStack - so that makes a difference does it not.
I've learned much about you jacob in the little time we have known each other - funny how folks meet sometimes.
OK, whimsical or not, lets try to run the numbers - shall we?
With rail there is much mass that can be transported and the time will not be the quickest but the journey can still be relatively quick enough and truly much better than flying in a plane. What rail lacks is the ability to move smaller goods after they get to the hub, so let the trucks and the automobiles take care of that. But with that said if you want my opinion, in Charlotte, NC the place I reside if they just decided to close down Providence road to auto traffic and then turned that into a rail corridor, once it was constructed, and oh my how much less the cost would be versus other rail possibilities, then it would relieve traffic in a positive way and might convince me to keep living in this place that frankly loses its appeal day after day of traffic jams.
I'm Isabelle. You have my name already! It is jacob's Newsletter. small 'j', large 'N'
I remember an Isabelle from awhile ago - she was fine...but I'm not so sure you are who you say - are you an "agent"?
You know Isabelle Allende? I was doing some rare reading (I never finish anything much because as an Autistic person I am fascinated by a few pages and after that it gets difficult to keep going) in a novel about a prominent S.F. Chinese family or rather there was a character who was raised in S. F.'s chinatown or whatever it was. And somebody had methodically bought up places on the railroad line that we then being constructed and that was her way of making her fortune in life. Simply and obvious but no one else did it.
I think I have heard of the name Isabelle Allende....that name flows nicely. I think she was fine in body. In fact, holy-moly, I think I saw her earlier today walking on the road with an umbrella up - she saw me and my wife walking the dogs together and I said "good morning" to her.
Here is another way to say it in code if you want to think about it - zodsnr;;r S;;rmfr
hey, I keep trying to "be a writer" and THIS is what comes of it! zodsnr;;r S;;rmfr! I always keep telling everybody: I need an AGENT. An AGENT!
I didn't even know this discourse was happening in this venue - suggest I might need an agent - you got somebody to suggest?
Know that when I say "I'm all ears" sometimes I"m just curious what you suggest.
no, I meant me. Did I say "you"? If I said "you" I was talking to myself and I meant me
you know about the mountain don't you - twas made of silver - and in bolivia - my grandpappy - an Irish fella - studied colorado school of mines was the supervisor at a silver mine in mejico so if you think this is a dream, I think you have come to the wrong place.
yeah ok of you say it agent man isabelle, but who is the silver man and do you know about the mountain in bolivia - if not, then your bs may be soon to come to an end!
I play to win.
If it be that I need to learn
then defeat me
and I will
It is easy to make the code - not so easy to read!
Nice meeting you.
My name is Ken.
that's true. I feel I have "so much t'ings to say," as Bob Marley once did sing. But when you put the "code" down it is not what you need for the sake of communication and it takes huge dedication and work. Even when I feel like "Wow, I just did it!" then later I read it and --- nuthin'.
If you want to be an agent send a proposal in a letter in the mail honest.
After that - who knows what happens next - but otherwise, odds are I don't need no agent at all....who knows what the future holds. Not I.
Are you saying you want me to be your agent? You seem a little wacky.
Blessings Ken
AP
You know what I wonder sometimes P&S - where did all the funds go for those equities invested in Russia and held by "Van Eck" - why I reckon they have gone to India perhaps. Either way, I invested fair and square, and there is going to be hell to pay if the fiscal systems become evidently unfair for the everyday peasants and regular folk just trying to get by.
Hell to pay - and hell have no fury like Lady Libra when the scales are not balanced and she knows that is her reason to exist.
It evaporated Ken, like the fate of all the other illusory wealth the Banksters have created out of nothing since WW2 (Bretton Woods). Here it is in pictures LOL:
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
And a fun skit about economics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_3T-Af57Pg
Have a great evening - I'm off to bed now after a very productive day and thus a happy bunny :-)
I think you are correct - it evaporated, but I think it is not forgotten and there is basically going to be hell to pay if the bankers don't get a clue.
My prayer, Ken is for THEM to hang from the highest tree but I fear I shall miss it - my sons might have the privilege though.
I'm thinking in South Africa you might be in the thick of it during the heat of the moment. I'm sure if it happens that way, it was a moment meant to be and you will be prepared.
So, the conference there, the BRICS conference, I think it is in about a month or two and rumor I heard is the "gold standard" is gonna be a topic of discourse - but if you want my opinion - don't leave silver off the table - silver is important. Either way, the discourse will have to do with transition away from fiat to currency backed by something physical - I think that just makes good sense.
With Respect,
Ken
It does make good sense Ken - and fear not, as a yachtsman I am always prepared for the unexpected which at sea is always!
Blessings
AP
It bugs me that the energy balance around transportation seems real easy to solve, but maybe it is not a coincidence that India and Russia recently came to terms on the new Railroad Infrastructure deal. 6.6 billion or some such in US $ but maybe it ought be reported in other currency.
It should be reported in local currencies Ken but as BOOM explains the US dollar is supreme across the world and likely to be so for our lifetimes I guess.
US Dollars residing on the Balance Sheets of Tax Haven Banks are not reflected in the Central Banks' Foreign Exchange Reserves. The EU and the Euro are constructed by the US Intelligence apparatus -- so the Euro is a US Dollar proxy.
If you add US Dollars to Euros and also include US Dollars in Tax Haven Bank Ledgers -- there is MASSIVE US Dollar Dominance globally. It is the most available and convenient currency to conduct trade and capital settlements and has MASSIVE Liquidity.
No other currency comes close. We are living in a US Dollar Empire. It is not going away in a hurry. The only viable alternative is the Chinese Yuan ..... and it is less than 3% of Central Bank Foreign Exchange Reserves (currently 2.6%). The US Dollar is the Oxygen of the global financial system.
Blessings
AP
The "oxygen" of the us dollar is rapidly diminishing being fiat is based upon nothing but good faith and good faith demands good governance - without that - all faith is lost.
But it's backed by the full faith and credit of a global economy commanding 25% of global GDP - plus the military with almost a 1,000 bases worldwide, Ken, where the US has 10x resources employed measured by the next in-line nation. That's powerful credit IMHO!
That sounds like a setup statement but being this is my SubStack, I'll respond. 25% of global GDP is just one fourth of it and there are the other 3/4ths to consider. The military has gone all woke, seems sort of mentally broke - can't win a thing lately and gets all mixed up too much and really seems so wasteful because it is - and it don't take an engineer to conclude that this is more than obvious.
The bases ought just be give back to the folks who live there and the troops can come home and get some rest, R&R, and maybe some time off before they figure out a way to contribute that has more benefit locally.
Credit when matched against debt fair might have value, but credit when the debt is so out of whack is worthless. What DC is is a coup caught swampland of central bankers who own the debt of the place they stole and we want it back and we will get it back cause it is WAR!
Yes Ken - the military might will always win in the end but what is left is just devastation - WW2 is a good example. The the Banksters can make a killing building everything up again - and so it goes around. Except it didn't work in Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Ukraine - a trail of losses.
https://www.infoplease.com/history/us/major-military-operations-since-world-war-ii
Just like BOOM seems to have been wrong about small "nukes" it seems to me he is wrong about the us $.
It forms from a bias called - old age.
LOL - I am an old soldier, Ken and understand how the eviscerated mind over the years can become encrusted. But I do think BOOM is right about the US dollar. It's a virtual fortress and will take a lot to bring it down IMHO.
https://www.lombardodier.com/contents/corporate-news/investment-insights/2022/may/how-long-will-the-us-dollars-str.html
But this is beyond my pay grade Ken, so I rely on BOOM - he gets it right most times in my experience and I have worked with him for 10 years now.
One thing I don't think BOOM understands is the will of the peasant folks.
Amongst the peasant folks are minds such as mine and many others and we are most indignant. I'm not kidding around.
So BOOM needs to get a clue.
Will you give to him for me?
The choice is yours.
I know what side I am on.
Ken
LOL - BOOM is a medical doctor, Ken and has a doctor's mind, far away from you and I. I do try to show him the peasant way, but it would never compute! He is VERY clever though and saved my life at Covid time.