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CK -- I believe that we are on the same page. The slow incremental devastation has been orchestrated.

All of the failures in policy and fractures in morality are the deliberate exercise to "bring it all down" albeit, in such a manner as a controlled demolition, much like the self-erasure of Building 7... quite convenient to eliminate a few problems being addressed by the SEC and just "Pull it" -- thank you Mr. Silverstein and Company. The damages are set in such a way as to cause just enough commotion, but not enough for any serious change (real breakage ... not the $3M in damages to the US Capitol during the Great Theater of Insurrection ... followed by the taxpayer-funded $300M costs to prosecute the folks that should have been issued a trespassing fine).

I hold that much of the destruction, although planned and carried out, is also the result of plain old optimization in evolutionary biology. An organism will optimize toward efficiency -- if you can live off of welfare checks without having to lift a finger, they why do so? The mental machinery necessary to exist somewhere near the top of the John Galt spectrum is rare among human individuals. As such, the vast herd will go along with the Experts, behave in the manner of Spectators, go-along-to-get-along.

This is all afforded in the context of a world swimming in cheap, abundant, reliable energy. The EROI tells a different story. The Energy Return On Investment was 100 back in 1910 ... high quality oil was available in abundance near the surface of the Earth, sometimes under pressure -- poke a pipe in the ground then collect the oil into tanker cars and pipelines. It cost the energy extracted from 1 barrel of oil to produce 100 barrels of useful equivalent. Fast forward to 1970, the EROI drops to 30 ... we are going to more remote places to get that oil -- offshore, Prudhoe Bay, etc... By 2010, the ERO was round 10. In order to live in a Civilization of Affluence, where even your ordinary Joe can afford Disneyland, Carnival Cruises, Pet Food Warehouses ... you need an EROI of at least 10. The US Shale revolution occurred with an EROI below 10... but was financed, in large, through debt. You can fake a lot with debt. But you cannot fake energy / resources / reality. A falling EROI means that the Quality of Life must go down, for the majority of the people. This reduction can be a controlled descent, OR, using credit, extract energy from the Earth, in the Now, energy which would have been extracted in the Future. By Living in the Now, with credit financing of Energy production, the slope of the Seneca decay curve is steepened. Of course, TPTB and engineers in the energy companies are aware of this. Most folks will just go along -- they will do their jobs -- and follow orders -- possibly with a shrug and sigh "what can one person do?"

On a personal note -- I will be in Olympia Washington, the Temple of Justice, this June 11, 2026 -- a court hearing regarding whether or not a huge vertical landfill (wind farm) will be constructed near some of my land (40 acres in West Richland, WA). This sprawling monstrosity will stretch for 25 miles, with turbines 671 feet tall ... within the viewshed of 300,000+ residents of the Tri-Cities, Eastern Washington. The proposal is in violation of so many State, County, GMA (Growth Management Act), Yakima Nation (native tribes) policies as to be absurd. It will crater property values. Washington State Politicians and the Administrative State have a nice dream -- By 2050, the State will be Net-Zero. No carbon output from any of the power utilities. Of course, that means that the many thousands of wind turbines and solar panels, already installed, or to be installed in the next few years, must be Completely Replaced (Renewable or Replaceable?) -- by 2050. Also of course, none of these bureaucrats will be around in 25 years. By 2050, unless we can discover some new Star Trek form of energy, which I doubt, the EROI will be so low that the energy necessary to replace all those wind-solar-battery systems will not be available. Instead, those 400,000+ wind turbines, both on land and out at sea, will stand there rotting away, an obscene testament to the psychopathology of politicians, bureaucrats and contractors that are just following orders and getting paid. The future looks dark, dangerous and diabolically ugly.

It's a big club, and we aren't in it. (paraphrasing George Carlin)
We won't ever be invited.
Tar, feathers, and pitchforks used to be the answer to political corruption, but the current cops
are brainwashed to treat the public as the enemy and the politicians as the bosses instead of the
way the constitution intended.

Nicely written, pixelate.

Side note: Writing assembly on a 6809. Been there done that including 6800, 68000 family, 6502, etc. Long ago, but great experience.

I'm not surprised one bit. Here in LIttle Ole Reno we had a fantastic police chief. She's actually a neighbor of mine - just spoke with her a few minutes ago. Very sharp, fit woman. For no f'n reason at all (just some cooked up story) they let her go (early on her contract ...probably not the last of this story) and put the local sheriff over the town. Since that happned...zero police presence on the streets. People are driving on surface streets at 70 mph. Good people will not be tolerated in positions of power. There are several good, recent examples of this in DC now.

Mark Twain started his writing career right near here...

I'd certainly have you on. I'd have several on from our Gulch.

Yeah...I'm seeing that too. Literally...those with a sense of humor are among their elite...

I get it.

Sorry about your brother...

Yeah, sounds about right...

This made me laugh...

OUCH!

Me dino talks back both to towelheaded news that's both audio and in print. Me sez, "They always tell lies!. Just blow them up already!"

BTW, did you guys see how Karen Bass said the "ads against her could cause some crazy person to turn violent against her"...

Ummm... Where were you with the media coverage of Trump and MAGA for the last DECADE... BE-ACH!

BTW. Could you imagine how much better 2020 would have went if they funded Kari Lake the way they funded Cornyn (Or better, Murkowski?).

This is why I hate ALL elected officials.

I am MAGA or bust at this point.
So glad POTUS keeps shoving their nose in their sh!t...

Apparently, they left the "n" out on purpose, because they thought leaving it in... Made it into another "n" word... LOL

Some folks think that we're heading toward a "Star Trek Federation Future." Horse-pucky. I believe that the only thing that will get us out of this malaise of mediocrity is a long, cold, hard winter. By long, I mean at least 20 years of hardship including famine, disease, wide-spread power outages, and a resulting catastrophic drop in population ... it isn't the high population drop, per se, it's the quantity of misfits, miscreants and maladaptive morons that will be purged in terms of their own undoing.

@pixelate I believe this is actually ON TAP. Do you think there is a reason they tried Net Zero? I see EVERYTHING happening today as a step towards starving most people out of existence:
1) We are blocking enough world wide fuel to disrupt Planting and Fertilizing (This will kill people)
2) We saw the WEF go after the #2 food exporter and others
3) We are "suddenly" seeing Alpha Gal (and Ticks and Lyme Disease) spreading like fire. Meanwhile reports of ranchers finding BOXES full of many hundreds of ticks!
4) A near-complete dumbing down of Americans. The average kid in high school can't tell the difference between a "Good Degree" and a "Waste of Money Degree", because they are being told they DESERVE the "College Experience"
(Fact, in University, my GF was in a Sorority. She was an Engineering Student. The ONLY ONE in that Sorority. Her "Big Sister" suggested she change her major so she can attend MORE house events, and Fun Games at the Sorority! About a year later, she dropped out of the Sorority, graduated on time and got a job in Environmental Engineering. We laugh every time we talked about this. (Haven't seen her in Decades, though), but probably still laughing).

So, you see all of this. You look at the PUSH to vaxx everyone, and the amount of tracking. And the WILD Differences in Effects depending on the BATCH (up to 10,000 times differences in side effects and deaths). And you DO NOT SEE that this was testing the ability to see what GENES tolerate Genetic Mutation.

The side conversations about genetically modifying people to NOT be able to eat meat. Make them smaller so they consume less, etc. etc.

Meanwhile, China is playing with the IQ genetics, and trying to make their Super Soldiers and Super Engineers.

FWIW, I wouldn't be surprised after noticing how many WEALTHY/TECHIE people appear to be on the spectrum. That the increase in Autism is our government doing some experiments to make super smart, anti-social controllable geniuses... And ALSO groups of people that will require a LIFETIME of care that will never be productive. That saddens me. But I can't say the probability is ZERO at this point in my life!

It's called the "Whatever" Podcast.

He asks women, who believe they deserve a man who makes 8 figures (10+ Million) per YEAR...

What 77+33 is. And NONE of them can do it in their heads. In some cases... they don't even get close.

It's crazy. A Product of Public Schools and Fatherless homes, IMHO

You are right, and the dumber and lazier we are the easier and more readily accepting of government 1) support, and 2) control we are. That is the plan.

It is time to flatten Iran. Enough of this BS.

Thinking does not occur automatically, certainly not for the majority of the human population. Thinking requires: the wet-ware, cortical tissues, neural connectivity - essentially, the 1.3 kg of gray matter as a basis. Next, you must know how to think, analogy is the operating system sitting on the hardware. How effective vs efficient is that OS and is it optimized for the hardware (wet-ware brain). This takes effort, like learning to play the violin, design a circuit board, build an electronic medical records business, code in 6809 Assembler, etc. And then, you have to make the choice to think -- to take in the material from the world, perceptions, images and words (written, spoken) -- synthesize the inputs with the storehouse of lived experiences, lessons, application of logic (Is this even possible, mathematically, statistically), along with how those inputs meld into your personal working template for mentally navigating through the world.

It doesn't take long -- as many of us have observed -- for the decadence of a world awash in an abundance of cheap, reliable energy to allow sloth to become the normal operating mode among the herd of humanity. Every creature, from the single-celled organism to the zenith of life (thinking of the inventors during the Golden Age / Era) will work to optimize the effort necessary to acquire energy required for survival. The timeframe spans from the instantaneous (living in the Now) to the multi-generational thinkers.

Thinking is hard. So, how about leaving it up to The Experts? Lots of folks have done just that. There is a 97% consensus that Climate Change is real, it is anthropogenic and a crisis. My brain stops and inquires: Is that 97% even possible? Where did that figure come from? How was that survey conducted? And yet we have a myriad of talking heads (State Science Institute grifters) and Gore is still out there peddling his climate religion. We all fondly recall C19 (Covid) and I say fondly in terms of what that phenomena revealed about a great many individuals that we got to know a whole lot better in context of their behavior as directed by The Experts. We have to 'flatten the curve' -- we need to cut down the 'cases' -- And my scientific brain inquires: What is a case? What is this PCR thing and can you really get a positive Covid result from a ham sandwich? What about herd immunity? What is in this vaccine, how was it approved so quickly and why are we finding so many young people suffering from catastrophic medical events within months of taking any form of the Vax? If the USA has the most awesome military and off-the-charts budget, why is the SoH still closed to much of the oil cargo traffic? If Israel can have nukes, why can't Iran?

The term useless eaters and breeders is very real. I even use it in polite company. My kid brother did not make it to 41 years. Died with nothing (zero net worth), a gaggle of offspring (none of them had his name). He liked to drink a bit. He eventually quit (drinking, and everything else); that was the coroner's report back in 2008. It isn't so much that there are so many "leaky vessels" ambulating across the planet; rather, they are incentivized to be leaky.

Some folks think that we're heading toward a "Star Trek Federation Future." Horse-pucky. I believe that the only thing that will get us out of this malaise of mediocrity is a long, cold, hard winter. By long, I mean at least 20 years of hardship including famine, disease, wide-spread power outages, and a resulting catastrophic drop in population ... it isn't the high population drop, per se, it's the quantity of misfits, miscreants and maladaptive morons that will be purged in terms of their own undoing.

Go ahead and write the book (podcast); but write it for yourself, if anyone else finds value it it, that's just a bonus. My preference would be to keep it dark. Rand's novel (AS) was dark and prophetic. The course was mathematically determined and ended in complete collapse. On the bright side, AS provided the beacon for the way out.

If this sham of a global economy were collide with reality and the collapse were to begin in earnest, I would make my way through the chaos and be in my 90s on The Other Side. Cheers to creatively synthesizing our thoughts and actions as we weave through the impending collapse and darkness.

Watch man-on-the-street interviews as persons are asked basic geography questions and the ignorance is stunning. Same seems to apply to basic history questions.

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/30...

The youngsters whom I have worked with have no real sense of humor.

Sarcasm and color commentary go right over their heads.

If you do this I would be interested in being on a show. I recently retired from being a high school math teacher and have many stories that would fit right in.

I absolutley want to hear it! You are asking about being deplatformed. Not really sure what place you would use, but if you do find one, please announce it when you start your podcast.