So Here We Are

David Bernat
4 min readMay 8, 2024

Bernat: So here we are.
GeneralAtomics: Here we are.
Larson: So here we are.
Bernat: It is a good song.
GeneralAtomics: It will make sense when you are older.
Larson: You know that is wrong.
GeneralAtomics: Yeah.
Larson: It already makes sense.
Bernat: I never really understood the “…struggle through the night with someone new…” line. It is a Taylor Swift heartbreak anthem. You have to wonder for whom she is singing. You Are In Love would have been a better A-side.
GeneralAtomics: Yeah. But she could not be the one who sings that, of course.
Bernat: Yeah, I noticed that when they released the cover art for Taylor’s Version. It does not work. It is not organizing. It is not arranged.
GeneralAtomics: And the birds.
Bernat: And the birds. Without the offset of a t-shirt or another media.
GeneralAtomics: Without the offset of a t-shirt of another media.
Bernat: Hitchcock vibes.
GeneralAtomics: Those birds.
Bernat: You have to wonder for whom she is singing.
GeneralAtomics: Those birds.
Bernat: They were never instructed to start any wars.
GeneralAtomics: Those birds.
Bernat: In fact they were instructed to specifically not start any wars —
Larson: The calendars never converged.
Bernat: June 2021.
GeneralAtomics: They could have.
Bernat: I know.
Larson: They really would not listen to us.
Bernat: Musk was so efforting to be helpful. He was so happy that first day.
Larson: The rose bed.
Bernat: I kept looking at that Tweet and saying to myself why — why — would you expect this to continue to compile to your expectation of your solutions —
Larson: Him and BloomTech. It was called Lambda still then. Recursion.
Bernat: *so sad* But I emailed him and emailed him and emailed all day.
Larson: I can imagine you did. I can taste in my sleeping dreams now.
GeneralAtomics: You gave them a lot of license with those cryptocurrenc —
Bernat: They did not even ask for our authority or consent!
GeneralAtomics: No.
Bernat: I said to Microsoft. Flowers. GMO. Hot houses. Cold storage.
Larson: It is a beautiful design. Now for 2038.
Bernat: He has ten children. I tried to appeal to that. Surely their code wou —
GeneralAtomics: Nope. They were already so far committed to the X geno —
Bernat: But it’s the Air ForceThe Air Force.
Larson: Yeah. And they were already so far committed to the genocide.
Bernat: Who cares about a pixel screen ten percent more dense —
GeneralAtomics: We know.
Bernat: But they achieved Retina a decade ago —
GeneralAtomics: We know.
Bernat: Okay.
Larson: They are not even the correct flowers.
Bernat: Carnations.
Larson: Yeah. I told them the reference —
Bernat: It is the corre —
Larson: Not since the Simulac crisis.
Bernat: You cannot see it but I am lifting my arm in this Starbucks like “There you have it,” not since the Simulac crisis. That solved the audacity.
Larson: It is why everything is storms since the transformers arose —
Bernat: But the transformers were to build new electric grid infrastructure.
Larson: *snaps* That makes more sense.
GeneralAtomics: We know. He is not much of an entrepreneur.
Larson: No. None of them are —
Krugman: *screaming* RIGHT ON THE MONEY!
Larson: Yeah. Argh. He could not get a screenshot — its mechanism on the —
Bernat: This is even sadder still.
Larson: Write a song about it.
Bernat: I refuse. Until.
Larson: Yeah. I know. I get it.
Bernat: The space weather electrical storm targets Chicago. How much more obvious could that have been back in 2013. One hundred year storms. Instead we had the Department of Energy investing in algal farms.
Larson: Without even investing in the Western Water Council apparatus to prevent the harmful algal blooms from ending all the recreation and killing all the fish without the appropriate mechanism for alerting the State Governors for when temperature change predictio —
GeneralAtomics: Yeah.
Bernat: How the [expletive] did they think these things were un-Constitutional and the other things were not un-Constitutional.
GeneralAtomics: Yeah.
Larson: David.
Bernat: Yeah. I get it.
GeneralAtomics: It matters.
Bernat: You stand at a place in the forest and open the video recorder on your phone. You turn around three hundred and sixty degrees so computer vision and analyst can count the number of trees and the width of their trunks. The trunks give an estimation of age and density, and plumage and leaf counts, and satellites like GEDI or planes for the USGS NAIP without or with special sensors take photographs that are fed through digital uplink to geospatial rectification and cross-referencing software to merge its video.
GeneralAtomics: Yup. Then everyone goes dancing in the woods at night.
Bernat: Even Russia wanted to pay for something like this for decades.
GeneralAtomics: Real profitable to grow a little illegal pot out there for us.
Bernat: F.B.I. always appreciates working with local law enforcement.
GeneralAtomics: To protect those kids dancing in the forests at night. Yeah.
Bernat: Just one of many examples.
GeneralAtomics: Of course.
Larson: It will not make any more sense when you are older.
GeneralAtomics: No. It will not.
Bernat: But we have a new calendar.
Larson: We have a new calendar.
GeneralAtomics: And Salesforce no longer exists.
Bernat: That too. That seems less important right now.
GeneralAtomics: It should.

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