@logicalelegance @alison @akkana I was surprised how selective the Monarchs are for specific types of milkweed.

Last summer we almost always had a few Monarchs fluttering around our gardens.

I planted at least two kinds of California native milkweeds. The Monarchs clearly preferred the variety with the long thin leaves. (So I gathered seeds from those plants and will be starting them soon in my greenhouse.)

The Mediterranean milkweeds have nicer looking flowers - that's the variety that is planted all around the Santa Cruz city hall.

@alison @akkana @logicalelegance I am planting ever more California native milkweeds.

Last year we had many Monarch caterpillars - that ate and effectively killed their host milkweeds. I never saw a chrysalis.

@kentenmakto @csolisr @gdinwiddie You ask a really good question.

The peace of Westphalia - circa 1645 - established the idea of sovereign nations with geographic boundaries. That has been the norm until roughly 1945 with the rise of multi-national corporations and even more since the rise of the Internet and corporations such as ICANN.

Basically geographic borders to countries are fading and eroding. The powers are not vanishing, they are just flowing into different hands, often private hands that are not accountable via Constitutions or even national laws.

Some governments are increasing aware of this diminishment of their authority and ability to protect their citizens or to exert control.

As in the old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times" - we do live in interesting times.

@gdinwiddie It bothered me, and still bothers me, that SCOTUS has gone into hyper originalist mode in which the history or the US is measured by practices of the thirteen colonies.

SCOTUS and others tend to forget that the vast geographic, and population, bulk of the US is on lands obtained from France, Spain, Mexico, Russia, and the Dole Pineapple company (and others).

My own place, like many places, was originally held by aboriginal groups, then Spain, then Mexico. English was certainly not the first language here, and it is barely the dominant language spoken here now

(Same for laws - SCOTUS in the Heller case kinda overlooked the firearms practices and laws that held in that vast part of the US that is not part of the thirteen colonies.)

@SteveBellovin @lauren @aka_pugs On the other coast - at UCLA, mid 1970s - I think it was Mark Kampe, Carl Switzky, and I who submitted a bid to port Unix to UCLA's differential analyzer.

Of course it was impossible, but the administration didn't seem to get the joke.

I am quite unclear what signed or unsigned integers would be on that machine, much less how they would overflow.

@briankrebs A couple of thoughts:

1. Other countries may, and I think probably, will impose similar requirements on US people trying to enter those counties. In other words, the US would approach becoming a closed kingdom, like N. Korea.

2. Just wait until someone remembers Little Bobby Tables (image below).

3. The data will leak (or more likely, be sold.)

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/exploits_of_a_mom.png