Nuclear Subsidies for Tech Bros

The feds announced taxpayers will fund 10 nuclear power plants for tech bros. There won't be as many tech bro yacht club members if the AI bubble pops, so it's a "national emergency". This was telegraphed some time ago. I think the most plausible explanation for this nonsense is the central bank parasite wants to use crypto currency and AI as part of the next monetary/slave system.

Nuclear power is the most expensive, longest lead time, etc... form of electricity generation. The fixation on nuclear power is weird. I can imagine the psycho death cult that seems to run all the institutions in the world might want to literally exterminate every living thing with some kind of mass nuclear meltdown or some shit.

None of the current mania makes any sense at all.

People Systematically Buying Older Cars

I recently thought about buying a 1990s Jeep Cherokee. They're a simple 4x4 car with a reliable engine and transmission. The engines and transmissions can be rebuilt, so they're viable "forever" cars. I started scanning different web sites for rust free ones. The prices are ridiculous, but they're all selling. It's about $10k minimum for a decent example. I imagine by the time it's brought up to daily driver level, the all in cost is closer to $20k.

To me that seems insane, but when I look at newer model used truck prices, I see why it's happening. A high mileage, 10+ year old Tacoma is listing for around $20k. It will have similar problems to an even older Jeep and require multiple thousands of repairs, potentially, to bring it to daily driver reliability.

When you compare those vehicles to a new truck, though, the $20k is a significant "savings" versus a new car. The average new car "price" is about $50,000 today. Most people are making a $700+ payment every month--for their entire life!--to go from A to B. The used car is likely to appreciate in price (not value) as the dollar is obliterated while the new car is a guaranteed loss of several tens of thousands of dollars. The used car is still pretty expensive to own and operate but it's probably 50% or less per trip versus a new car. 

The entire society is slowly shifting away from the trash that control the economy and government. I think the managerial/financial economy is in its first stages of failure and replacement. I see first hand, day to day, that it doesn't work. It's a good question why anyone should work for it.

Are They Actually Going to Invade Venezuela?

It seems like DC is trying to conjure up an excuse to invade Venezuela. How bizarre. I never would have guessed such a thing would happen. They're really trying to sell it though. I can't imagine the Trump administration would have any support for it. Much of the "right" in the US is anti-interventionist and anti-empire. There's not that many magatard boomers. Nobody will believe any pretext those liars in the government try to sell.

1930s Neglected Fridge Still Works

Every once in a while I watch videos from YouTuber "Mustie" who does car repair and random stuff repair videos. He just did a video about a Westinghouse fridge from the 30s that still runs, and is still quite usable. It required mainly a cleaning and some minor electrical repairs, even the seals on the fridge were intact after 90 or so years. An old "consumer" product is significantly more durable than a modern version. Generally new products are engineered to be "just good enough" and so they are more prone to fail and the overall system promotes their replacement rather than repair.

The financial and insurance industry in the US steadily turned everything into garbage at least since the federal reserve system started. Fractional reserve debt money is a serious problem for all the nominally "western" countries. It's basically systematized rot and rust because perverse incentives seem to dominate every large institution. The core issue is the accumulation of currency isn't the same as accumulation of wealth or any true good. A related issue is bureaucracy and overhead grow to absorb money like fungus and mildew. Similarly, the population is turning into incompetent retards because the system is predatory and wants prey.

Another side effect of the consumer/corporate system is individual and small business capabilities are higher than ever because of the profusion of material goods. For example, back in the 90s I worked at a company that made plasma and oxy cutting tables... At the time it was a somewhat exotic piece of equipment that was used in what was essentially heavy industry. Today its a ubiquitous consumer level item. There are portable versions that a hobbyist can use to cut precise and elaborate parts with a robot arm.

There's so much stuff out there that it's entirely plausible to never buy any new consumer product, but still live the generic "American" lifestyle by remanufacturing all the consumer goods and maximize value and reliability.

Formula for Future Success

Human life is pretty simple.

A man only need a few things: clean water, food, basic shelter. Everything else is a "want".

The "human system" is embedded in the nature system. The nature system runs on second hand sunshine. Since the sun is distributed fairly evenly over the earth's surface there's a profusion of forms of life. The nature system also runs on opposed forces that create conditions of dynamic equilibrium, so everything in nature runs in cycles.

The human system is mainly a product of the verbal and symbolic mode of consciousness. A thing like a city is a great example of that. The city attempts to expunge the natural system from its footprint and imposes grids and concrete and asphalt.

The further humans or an individual moves from the natural order, the more precarious is their situation. Consider a body builder who pumps huge amounts of roids into his or her system to build muscle for some bizarre fetishistic reason--the muscle man concept exists only in his or her mind. The body which is the epitome of a dynamic equilibrium system, is pushed far out of the natural and balanced scenario to an extreme, so it fails early, or organs fail, or cancers develop, etc... The image of the muscle man kills off the pile of 'roid muscle growth.

A collection of individuals acting the same way ends up with similar results. An attempt to force a region way out of dynamic equilibrium leads to a precarious situation. Relying on far flung infrastructure to deliver water to millions of people who decide to live in a desert climate like Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Israel, etc... is a great example of that. All those cities, and most cities and collections of humans in some corporate endeavor are associated with and endless demand of "wants".

The amount of time and energy that goes into the pursuit of "wants" is staggering. The collective time and energy of everyone in the western world has poured into building a giant garbage pile of consumer products for quite a long time. None of it is durable. In fact, as time goes by consumer products get worse and more wasteful.

It seems plausible that aligning human activity and wants with the natural order would lead to a more durable scenario for an individual. The "problem" in that case is contending with the mass of depraved crazy people in general, and in government in particular. The government and the crazy mass basically wants everyone else to work as slaves to fulfill their wants.

The 401(k) is the best example of that insanity. The mass of people implicitly wants corporate profits to grow so they can live on financial gains, but depend on corporations for jobs and goods. They are a slave that everyone else to be a slave.

Fortunately for the man who wants out, the mass of crazy people won't even see the path toward the natural order life. The natural order life is basically the anti-matter version of the merchant.

A Country Run by Dopes

In my career in tech, I worked on a couple of corporate proposals that I thought were implausible and stupid ideas made up by money men or sales people. 

The first one was to broadcast video from a satellite some company managed to launch, but never use. It was just floating around in space collecting space dust and running out its lifespan as a viable piece of tech junk.

I was puzzled how a company could put together all the resources needed to build and launch a satellite on spec. Back then it was probably many billions of dollars to build and launch a satellite. The company's concept was to broadcast a few channels of videos to cars to keep little kids entertained. Already around 2010 (I think that's roughly when that happened) mobile networks capable of delivering video were rolling out very quickly. Plus you could just install some cheap DVD player in a car to keep kids entertained, so who would subscribe to a service to watch a few broadcast channels of cartoons? Anyway, the satellite lacked sufficient power to transmit such data to mobile terminals with compact antennas, so that project just died.

More recently, I worked on a project to move the control system of a factory to a data center. The entire time I was discussing the project, I thought "why?" Some dummies came up with this model and managed to sell it to a bunch of other dummies that will just do it, even if it makes no sense or isn't viable. To many corporate people "AI" is any computer program or any computerized function. They now think to run any computer program you need an "AI" data center, because it's all AI.

I come back, time and time again to the concept of "elite overproduction" as a way of understanding the current situation in the US. I think a useful associated concept is the "cargo cult". The mass of people running companies and other institutions really don't know what they're doing, so they ritualistically imitate what they think they should be doing.

Trump Nuclear Plants: LoL

The feds are going to finance nuclear power plants to subsidize the shitty tech industry. They're planning to loan "hundreds of billions" which means 3 or 4 nuke plants in about 30 years. I guess we're going with the hyperinflationary collapse with vast resources squandered scenario.