Bill Gates and Epstein

More of the "Epstein Files" were released a couple of days ago, I guess. There are some emails between Bill Gates and Epstein that are pretty weird and gross. Supposedly Bill Gates contracted an STD from a Russian girl prostitute then slipped his wife some antibiotics. There's no way to really now if it's true or is just a fabrication.

To me it seemed plausible. Gates and Epstein had some strange relationship over years.

I think there's basically a bunch of cults/mafias that control governments and big institutions. The made men in the cult are all compromised. A great example of that was Denny Hastert, who was speaker of the house in the 90s. He was a child molester, then was promoted to be in congress the the speaker of the house. That implies a large contingent of the republican congress people at the time were similarly controlled.

I think some members of these cults are reluctant and some are enthusiastic participants in it. The weird reports of activities at the "Bohemian Grove" reported over the years are some more info that's spilled out into public over the years.

How to Do Things

Over the past 25-30 years, I've been working "in tech" on various projects at different companies. Several of the companies failed. I could tell, within a matter of weeks of working at these places, that the companies were doomed. My assessments were 100% right over time. I am not really sure off the top  of my head what characteristics of the doomed companies tipped me off.

An individual who knows what he is doing acts a certain way. An individual who doesn't have a clue acts a different way. In the corporate or political context, it involves lying and telling stories and gaslighting people that they aren't working hard enough or whatever. The crux of the problem at the failed companies was they tried to do "too much", that is, they embarked on a big project without really knowing the problems involved. It's like building a house from the roof down.

When people don't know what they're doing that approach seems plausible, because they know certain aspects of the structure of the problem and imagine they can fill in the gaps later because they can hire an expert, or whatever. That doesn't work for fairly obvious reasons.

I briefly worked as a contractor at a company that made radioactive source screening equipment for scrap smelters. That company went from a back of the envelope concept to a full scale system--that didn't work. I got hired "to help out". I started to delve into the code to try to understand it, and started putting together some models of systems that might work but I was let go, because the people running the project thought it only had cosmetic problems and didn't want a mere contractor to work on their "design". A few months later they shut the project down and the company is gone.

Another company I worked at outsourced their core intellectual property and then stupidly agreed to onerous licensing terms. That decision was inexplicable and obvious. Rather than bring the core technology in-house, they hired another contractor to implement the motion controller. At the time, in the late 1990s, there was actually published open-source software for a motion controller system from NIST. The task to make that work was straightforward. A few people, including me, argued to do that. The company declined, then went out of business a few years later.

When I do my own tech projects, I find it's fairly common to run into a gap in my expertise and have to pause. For example, I implemented some drone mapping software a few years ago. It relied on a photographic pattern matching technique that works in open areas, but fails when there are trees. I worked on several algorithms that attempted to work around that issue, but they all failed. In recent years, people came up with brute force algorithms that might potentially work, plus people developed some alternative sensors that work, but they're too expensive for me to try.

Anyway, as an individual, I can keep iterating on projects, or trying things that might have a niche application. Tech companies could do that too, but when they rely on investor money, ironically, they get pushed onto a nonsensical path more often than not. That is, they have to make unrealistic promises and follow that roof-down model. The investors know even less about what they're doing than the managers of these companies. For them it's just a bet that will pay off or not. They rely on a theory that a 1/10 success rate will make up for losses. All that waste chewed up the purchasing power of the dollar.

 

It's pretty fatiguing to be involved with projects that have no chance of success because there's no organic way for engineers to decide what to do. When there's key missing parts, all the work is arbitrary lists of nonsense made by dumb asses.

Anyway, the way to do things is obvious and natural. Get the basics working, delve into the aspects of a project that aren't understood to determine if something is really feasible. All that effort might take a year with key people prototyping the difficult aspects of a problem. At that point, the potential expenses to develop some new tech gizmo or system would actually be known reasonably well.

Child Mutilator Doctor and Psychologist Sued

I'm not sure why, or exactly when the psycho lefty people started pushing the pronoun and gender "transition" insanity. Maybe it was 5 years ago or so. Anyway, when it was going on, I wondered how long it would take for a mangled child to sue their "doctors" and win. A case just happened where a mutilated child sued her psychologist and the doctor that chopped her tits off.

Here's a link

It's really bizarre they ever got this nonsense to get any kind of momentum. The ruling class lefty people in the US are trash.

Failure is Better

When I was a little kid, I wasn't really interested in sports like baseball or football, but I ended up playing a few years of T-ball and little league, because that's what boys did. The first time, and the first pitch I was at bat in little league, where there was actually a pitcher, I smashed the ball into the outfield. It was total blind luck though. After that, I barely ever got on base. I had no idea how to hit a baseball. Since I was a little kid with no experience in anything, maybe 7 years old, I just blindly hacked at the ball. I didn't try to break down the steps or learn any hand-eye coordination. Apparently none of the coaches were great at instructing kids, etc... Anyway, I eventually dropped out of baseball and other team sports.

Maybe by the time I was 13 or 14 I realized I could learn things myself, so to get good at something, all it took was interest. One of my middle school teachers explained the basic steps of juggling for example, and importantly said practice was the main ingredient. I spent a few evenings on it. I still remember the moment when I went from not being able to juggle to juggling 3 balls. Then I realized I could learn and was actually pretty smart, and went on from there.

It is very bad to "succeed" by luck, at least from the point of view of gaining skill and knowledge. There's less than zero information in luck. Luck turns into a self-aggrandizing fantasy for many people. The stock market repeatedly does that to millions of people. The mechanism for it is quite clear. Luck happens. A person has an archetypal model of a "successful investor" like Warren Buffet. They believe they're Warren Buffet. They boldly gamble in the stonk market casino, then lose all their money. They don't understand what "financiers" actually do--they're basically criminals.

The one time lucky Joe Schmoe stonk gambler just replays fantasy movies in their mind's eye about being rich. Maybe some of them seize on "charts" or some similar nonsense and manage to stretch the gambling out for many years instead of losing everything in mere weeks or months.

A lot of the tech industry is built around the concept of "being the next google", so investors will throw millions or billions at some company in the hopes they can buy a whole new market. If some company can grow, even if it's really an implausible business and has no chance of making a profit, at some point it can go public and with some creative accounting and PR, can unload shares on the public and the ground floor investors can chalk up a win. That model is really stupid and is flailing around and failing right now. It was the model of the money printing era of 2000 through a couple of years ago.

Anyway, the lesson I personally learned from doing projects for companies and myself for years and years is "don't do". Almost every endeavor is pretty stupid and a waste of time and effort. When there's an obvious problem to solve that many people need, sure, go ahead and give it a shot. Then if you have a good, efficacious solution, you might "win". If you're trying to do something that's unclear and very complicated, or is a hodgepodge of ideas, no chance. You're wasting your life energy on trash.

There's a much more practical and pragmatic model for the would be engineer or inventor or problem solver. Build your thing--it's pretty cheap to do it these days. Put it on youtube. See what happens. You might even end up collaborating with people on it. You can basically cut out all the corporate overhead people and middlemen people and finance people that way. If you build a better mousetrap, people will actually buy it.

I think "the system" and all its overhead and expenses that will potentially lead to personal riches, just really isn't worth it. We all basically expend our whole lives hoping we can "get rich". The whole system exists to protect a handful of randos who actually do. It's self-defeating dumb-fuck behavior.

Tech Company Collusion?

 Apparently the "AI" bubble soaked up every available hardware component, including GPUs, memory, FPGAs. The company I work for probably won't be able to build new hardware this year. To me it seems likely that the big tech companies, like Microsoft and Amazon just bought all the hardware inventory to force people to use their trash cloud services. They apparently want a "hardware as a service" model---that can't work.

Will the government intervene and launch a RICO case against them? Very unlikely.

It seems like a case of terminal malinvestment.

In prior eras, the tech companies colluded against their workforce to keep wages low.

The Pyramid People Part 2

One of the things that got me thinking about "the pyramid people" is the state of Washington legislature is debating laws that will prevent local jurisdictions from cleaning up homeless camps. It's like they want to compete with other west coast cities to attract crackheads. Wild. I thought that was the ultimate left wing retard move.

I traveled to LA several times over the past couple of years. When I'm there, I stay in a hotel in a "nice" part of that town, then walk to the office about 1 mile away. I like to try to get some exercise while I'm there and that little walk sort of counts. There's about 80,000 homeless, supposedly in LA county. There are several along that walk. Sometimes there are screaming tweakers. Sometimes there's human waste on the sidewalk. Sometimes there are needles laying around. People in etremis are pretty gross. I'm not sure why anyone would encourage that. It's completely demented.

Normal people live in that neighborhood in small, packed together homes that cost $1M. They walk their dogs in the morning, etc... It would be really annoying to constantly deal with the homeless people on top of the traffic, concrete everywhere, etc... All for "nice weather"? Fuck that.

I probably spent almost two months solid now in LA, walking along that sidewalk and so far I saw two birds. One hummingbird on some flowery shrub plant and a raven, I think. That's it. I saw at least 20 homeless people along those sidewalks.

The dystopian sci fi movies of the 80s and early 90s envisioned a future corporate dystopia... In many cases it was a "leftist" critique. Holywood's lefty often jewish writers and directors thought the corporate dystopia of the 2000s would be dominated by "right wing" WASPy white dudes. Nope: Jews, gays, women, not-white people are currently running the dystopia corporate empire thingy. The pyramid system seems very lefty oriented at the moment. I think it just adapts to conditions, though. The white majority countries have a lot of wealth to steal, so they divide and conquer.

The divide and conquer scenario, though, seems to create total dysfunction and overall "wealth" destruction rather than extraction, as far as wealth equates to order and productivity. For example, LA is so inept and corrupt that very few homes in the Palisades have been rebuilt after the fires a year ago. It doesn't seem likely they'll rebuild. The fire department chief was a lesbian--I think that was her main qualification--but was otherwise inept. She was inept or corrupt, so many homes burned down.

LA completely flipped out over COVID, too. I think that was a good litmus test for how many dopes live in an area or work someplace or run some entity. That whole thing was the ultimate Pyramid power play. The guy who is the CEO of Pfizer worked at a company that made drugs for animals and developed a strategy to force mass vaccination of horses in Australia that was identical to the one used on dumb fuck people all over the world. 

Anyway, flaky dopes run institutions in these pyramid people enclaves where religious affiliation, essentially, is more important than skills. That permeates the entirety of the city. During the reformation in Europe, people sorted into protestant and catholic states as time went by. The same thing is apparently happening in the US. The pyramid religion: gayness+woman ideas is slowly taking over megolopolis regions in the US. Their main thing is "belief" in gayness instead of competency.

Now throw in a huge major disaster in LA--the "big one" earthquake... or in Washington state, a Tsunami. In LA, they'll have seminars on pronouns as the city burns to the ground, and academics will talk about competency being a "white privilege" thing or whatever. Loss of some major infrastructure in LA will render regions of that county uninhabitable.

Anyway, it's probably a good time for the non-pyramid regions of the US to attract competent people from the coastal regions in some low key way... if they attract too many people all at once, it tends to favor the pyramid. The state of Tennessee for example, will probably turn into Pyramid territory because Nashville is growing so rapidly. Eventually a bunch of lefty retards will run the government there.

The Pyramid People

This week, there was a big snow storm and cold temperatures across much of the US. In my area, we have maybe 24"-36" accumulated snow on the ground in spots. A bunch of "alerts" kept popping off on my phone with doom porn about snow and cold. It's weird how people have devolved into a panic/effeminate norm in just recent years of just my life. This kind of storm is a pretty common event in Northeast Ohio.

Many people were miffed that some local Sheriffs didn't declare a "snow emergency". In a "snow emergency" you can't even go on the road without getting a traffic citation, so you couldn't go to the grocery store or whatever. The reasoning of the Sheriffs is "we live in a snowy area." The roads were fine really. I'm glad I didn't have to commute in this mess, but I did normal errands through the snowy days. It's really not a big deal.

I think that split between the more practical, pragmatic people and the pyramid people will keep growing. The pyramid zones will be bad places to live.

In northeast Ohio, the winter of 2025-26 has been pretty cold and snowy so far. This winter is a break in a 10-15 year pattern of milder winter temperatures which more panic mongers attributed to "global warmaids". People don't know shit but claim perfect knowledge and foresight about almost any topic.

The long term winter snowfall average is about 110 inches per year, however, it generally doesn't accumulate on the ground the whole winter. The normal pattern is snow accumulates for maybe a couple of weeks starting in late December, then warmer weather and rain melts it, then it snows and accumulates again, then melts a couple more times through January, February, and March. The pattern of snow accumulation and melting varies quite a bit from year to year and also seems to wobble up and down in a decades or maybe centuries long cycle.

Winters from maybe 2010 until the early 2020s were generally milder than winters I grew up with in the 1970s through the early 2000s. I cross country ski, specifically go "skate skiing" in the winter as an alternative to road cycling or mountain biking. It requires well groomed trails--a park employee on a snowmobile drags a roller around to pack the snow, then uses other various implements to keep the trail in nice shape. Good ski conditions require about 18" of snowfall, very cold temperatures, and occasional new snow. A couple of warm days, just in the mid 30s, will destroy the trail. In the 90s through the early 2000s, I would be able to ski many times through a winter. Over these mild winter years, I didn't bother dragging the skis out of storage and waxing them, etc... I probably only went a couple of times over 2020-2024.

Anyway, I'm starting to see "the pyramid people" are almost entirely useless. Their life is all about opinions of scammers and partaking in scammer plans.