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Agriculture Egypt Engineering Saudi Arabia TechnoBLOTT The New Crescent

The New Crescent Faces an Engineering Challenge

New Crescent series                                  Next in the series We continue our series on The New Crescent – a Utopian agricultural community that resettles Palestine refuges in a peaceful, prosperous setting. We try to answer some basic questions: How much land? How much water? How much electricity? In our Utopia, Egypt has provided a […]

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Collapse of Democracy/Civilization/etc. Current Events The Criminal Justice System

Code Subway! Code Subway!

Sometimes superheroes do wear caps… and carry sub sandwiches!

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Collapse of Democracy/Civilization/etc. Curated Absurdity Elder G Late Stage Capitalism

A Spat with Elder G

All relationships go through ups and downs. Yesterday, we were trying to create an image of Satan kicking tRump out of hell. “We have standards!” screams the Devil. Elder G balked at creating an image where Satan was literally giving him the boot. WLBOTT: G, I’m concerned that political censorship has crept into chatGPT’s standards. […]

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Agriculture Animal Kingdom Shameless Product Placement

Farm to Fork – WLBOTT Style

Farm-to-Fork Olive Oil Tasting Tour Okay, here’s a really questionable idea – an olive oil tasting tour, similar to a wine tasting tour. The tour visits 18 local family-owned olive oil producers. Each tourist tastes about a forth cup olive oil at each stop. What do you think? The Enabler, Elder G I think that’s […]

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Curated Absurdity Fine Arts The land, the people, the culture

The WLBOTT Museum of Finer-Than-Average Arts

Because ‘fine’ is a matter of opinion. With our recent interest in olive oil production, confused Elder JimZim has donated $3.141 million dollars to the establishement of the WLBOTT Museum of Finer-Than-Average Arts. Features: This museum could easily become a cultural beacon – or at least the world’s most earnest center for misplaced artistic enthusiasm. […]

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Agriculture Egypt Oh, Grow Up! Those Crazy Kids!

The New Crescent: Olives (part 2)

New Crescent series                                  Next in the series Let’s get back to our Olive Orchard for The New Crescent. Time to take a practical look at the olive orchard project. Assumptions Orchard size 100 acres orchard size Trees per acre 300 high-density but not super-high Establishment (cost per acre) $5,000 initial planting, irrigation, […]

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Curated Absurdity Meaning of Life Music The Criminal Justice System

Jalapeño / Freddie

Let’s say you had a buddy who began to see images of Freddie Mercury everywhere – on toast, on tortillas, in bird formations, in the vapors of the early morning dew. What would be your response? To attempt to gently guide him back to reality? To lovingly suggest therapy? To intervene with his loved ones? […]

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Health, Beauty and Medicine

Home Remedies

At WLBOTT, we consider our employees to be our most important asset[1]. That’s why instead of the newfangled medical insurance, we offer our employees solutions that have been available for thousands of years: Home Remedies! [1] No implied warranty or commitment of any kind. And not true. Elder JimZim The genesis for this blott is […]

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Book Club Gods, Goddesses, and Mythical Heros Lasting Love Scholarship/Erudition

Major and Minor Daisies

In the WLBOTT canon, there are three major Daisies and a plethora of minor Daisies. The three major Daisies are [A peripherally related flower is found in Kurt Vonnegut’s short story “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”, which features anti-gerasone, a substance made from mud and dandelions that prevents aging. The world gets even more crowded […]

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Book Club Scholarship/Erudition

A We Bit of Confusion

Elder DZ was excitedly describing a book he had liberated from the UCSB book swap, called We. This book swap is a regular feature amongst institutions of academic freedom. They are sometimes referred to as: When in serious pursuit of free knowledge, Elder DZ often brings his Druid entourage, his retinue, his emotional support chickens, […]