Trip to Cambridge, Maskachusetts wrap-up (Part II)

The second (or 11th) part of a report on my April/May 2026 pack-up-patch-up-and-sell-the-condo sojourn among the world’s most intelligent humans. (Part I)

Cambridge is populated by Scientists who closed kids’ schools for 18 months and locked themselves in their crummy apartments for 2-3 years so as to deny a respiratory virus the opportunity to spread and mutate. These same people now voluntarily cram themselves, without masks, into coffee shops that are (1) more crowded than my 100%-full JetBlue flight, and (2) entirely lacking in modern ventilation.

All is not lost, however, because the Scientists do wear their masks at Whole Foods (the employees were about 50% masked):

Having Instacart deliver, thus sidestepping the respiratory virus risk entirely, is apparently not an option. CVS carefully protects precious Dawn and Windex from respiratory viruses by putting them behind locked glass cabinets:

Various retail businesses also protect their workers, and by extension all of us, from ICE and Donald Trump:

The walk home from shopping, with winds gusting over 20 knots, is made safer via outdoor masking:

The brilliance of our AI overlords was on display. I borrowed the neighbor’s ancient Mini and asked Google Maps for directions from U-Haul in Somerville to a car wash. The Tensor Processing Units decided that it would be smarter to instead walk to the car wash rather than bringing the car to the car wash:

Here’s the passenger footwell of a car owner who has lectured me for decades regarding my inadequate level of passion for protecting our environment:

Environmentalist/Hater isn’t the only useful way to categorize people. At Harvard Book Store, one learns that Americans can be neatly divided into racist/anti-racist and fascist/anti-fascist:

At Harvard, we learn that there is also a useful division into Genocidal/Not-Genocidal:

(The advocates for Arabs who call themselves “Palestinians” meet at a cafe named for Luxor, Egypt, thus reminding people that many of the Arabs who were living in the modern state of Israel in 1948 were themselves recent economic migrants from Egypt. For example, Layla Almasri is an athlete who represents the purported country of “Palestine” in the Olympics. She calls herself “Palestinian” despite having been born in Colorado. Her last name, according to ChatGPT: “Almasri / Al-Masri in Arabic is usually المصري (al-Maṣrī), meaning “the Egyptian” or “from Egypt.””)

Related, from the Harvard Book Store’s featured book table in the front:

(Americans won’t read poetry in English, but there is a market for poetry translated from Arabic?)

Aside from observing Islam, what’s going on with spiritual life in Cambridge? The First Church reminds visitors that the church has stolen some land and refuses to either give it back or pay rent to the rightful owners:

What have they placed on this stolen land? Signs that say Jesus is their “center” just above the sacred Trans-enhanced Rainbow Flag that, presumably, Jesus designed.

Kids in the day care that runs on church property learn about the importance of the Rainbow:

The Church says that they want to maximize the number of low-skill immigrants to the U.S. and obstruct ICE’s deportations. Example:

The church also has an entire page devoted to their purported passion for helping African-Americans, the very people who are most harmed by low-skill immigration, according to Harvard economists working nearby:

Black Americans who are descendants of slaves will receive a lot of kind words from this church and will also receive lower wages because of competition from low-skill immigrants whom the church brings to Maskachusetts (though maybe the immigrants will figure out that being on welfare in Massachusetts provides a higher spending power than working at the median wage (Table 4) and, thus, won’t compete for jobs).

A couple of the books left behind by AirBnBers (there was also plenty of masks stuffed into various corners):

At Logan Airport, the world’s smartest humans couldn’t handle the challenge of getting paper towels into the trash:

Floridians, despite being afflicted with low intelligence (according to the smart/full-masked-in-2026 residents of Maskachusetts), are consistently able to master this skill, as evidenced by the cleaner bathrooms at PBI, FLL, and MCO. Speaking of PBI (soon to be “DJT”?), here’s the view during the approach (Singer Island in the foreground, famously home to the MacArthur Foundation’s donor (the MacArthur Foundation set up our development).

Once inside the airport, we see the masked Bostonians waiting for the jet’s return to the Land of Science: