Last night I put our older Botswana Boy down for bed. He's 6 now. I'm about to turn off the light and go downstairs when he goes "Where did people come from." I assumed this was a question about where babies come from but no he wanted to know about the origins of the human species on Earth.

Oh shit oh no, I'm on the spot. I have to explain human evolution and genetics to a 6 year old. This is not gonna go well. I think I got it mostly right but I also probably said some wildly wrong shit that he'll repeat to his kindergarten teacher. I probably should have outsourced this to Claude but my phone wasn't handy and tbh I always forget to use AI when it's most needed.

I'm getting news updates saying Shia got himself arrested for fighting. Hard to believe he'd get up to something like that.

Not gonna lie, I expected a little more craziness in an article about how he's "terrorizing the city" but still. I love this guy, he's a total menace wherever he goes!

Back from my vacation to Nevis. (Amazing place. Great people. More on that later.)

Catching up on the truly important news happenings out there, such as Shia Laboeuf terrorizing New Orleans' bars lol
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-ne...

Is it about humanity's hubris? Interesting. But the parable is literally about language isn't it? Like the actual text mentions that humanity fucked around and all got on the same language? Or did I just make that part up?

I should have paid attention in CCD!

Who's with me? Let's dare the antichrist to try some shit. I wish he would!

What's the point of the bible thing about the Tower of Babel? Never really gave it much tought. It's in the old testament, right? I think?

Ok so it gets interpreted as this like warning to humanity about not adopting a single common language, right? Why would that be so scary? Ok so if you speak like Aramhaic or Hebrew in 200 bc Levant I get why you'd make up this whole parable about not wiping out local languages. You're threatened by Latin, Greek and Persian. You're trying to preserve your local culture and identity.

But that's not how modern Christians interpret this I don't think. I bet if you ask them about the Tower of Babel they would tell this is why we should blow up the UN and the globalists must die lol. I gotta be honest, I don't think it would be all that bad if the whole planet got on one language. There would still be like local pidgin dialects to give you that local perspective and flavor. You'd still have Seasoning on your English. No one is gonna force the Scottish or Hawaiians to speak totally normal ass English. Impossible.

But it would be pretty cool if everyone was mutually intelligible. China for example. What are they talking about over there? We have no idea. Also I don't just assume the Babel Language of Earth would have to be English. I think Esperanto could be a fun choice. Spanish could work, it's got way fewer irregular pronunciations.

Let's do it. Let's build the Tower of Babel.

I know someone who years ago took in a borderline homeless vagabond artist type dude. Let him crash on her couch for a few days, and while she was out one day he left a sink running and flooded not only her apartment but the very popular at the time bar below it. The bar had to be closed for like a week to clean up the mess.

Oopsy!

Bitcoin in a free fall today apparently. (I don't follow the markets closely I just see lots of chatter about it online. Me personally? I'm a well known Vanguard index fund true believer so no need to follow the day to day ups and downs!)

Maybe we were right all along to just ignore Bens when he dropped a $100 million idea in our laps! Gonna keep telling myself that lol