Theodore Kaczynski and Dylan Mulvaney

A few months ago I read somewhere that Ted K the Unibomber seriously considered tranny surgery. I was surprised by that. Ted K presents himself as nature boy, and gender mutilation surgery is exactly the opposite of being nature boy. I filed that fact away in my memory and went on about my business.

Recently, I've been watching some reaction video YouTubers. One channel is "Odin's Men". He makes funny videos about the lefty zoo on TikToc and other social media. One of the regular topics he covers is Dylan Mulvaney, a dude who's been working toward gender Frankenstein surgery for the past year or more. He's currently getting chopped up.

I watched about 10 seconds of a gender surgery video. It's nightmare fuel. It's amazing there are doctors who are willing to do it. I doubt they are adequately informing the patients about the outcomes of the surgeries. I think the number of people who would go through with it after learning all about the surgery would be tiny. In a nutshell, they slice the penis in half, drill a larger hole in the pelvis and turn the penis inside out. That's the "vagina" simulation. All kinds of complications arise. It doesn't really even work for some people and their body heals the wound.

Anyway, after hearing crazy Dylan, and other fruitloops ramble about their gender and pronouns I realized they really are like Ted K after all. They're particular forms of idealists.

Ted K saw the world was fucked, blamed it on technology, and sought to come up with a solution to the problem. He wrote a manifesto and publicized it by killing randos who work for the system. I think his analysis of the system is basically correct, but his conclusion is kind of dumb, even though he has a really high IQ, supposedly. There's not really a way to destroy "technology". Sharpened sticks are technology. Rocks are technology. I do agree with his conclusion about tech--it'll cause a mega catastrophe eventually. The system will just destroy itself, it really already is, ironically because it's run by Ted Kaczynski types.

He's an example of a person who's gotten lost, completely and totally in his internal Matrix world. He lost touch with nature and reality in general. He's not nature boy at all. He's a total product of the system, which is a psychopathic, anti-nature thing. I think he wanted to purge that from himself, but he ended up thinking it was an external entity. He lashed out at targets of opportunity in a futile waste of effort and lives.

Dylan and other trannies (aka troons) also get lost in their inner world Matrix after a rejection of 3D reality. They lash out at their own body. They're in some weird co-dependant relationship with freaks like John Mooney, the original quack doctor god of the troon community.

Anyway, there's nothing to do about any of this. People like Dylan and Ted are like the check engine light on the dashboard of the car of civilization.

Neighbor Vaxx Side Effects

We live adjacent to a large park with an extensive trail system. I regularly run into neighbors on the trails and am friends with some of them.

One of my neighbors had a mass growing in her forearm. At first the doctors thought it was a hemotoma--even though she didn't smack her arm on anything. I guess House MD wasn't available that day. The problem persisted though and it became painful. Doctors did a biopsy and found muscle cells were growing out of control. (this is the second hand account I heard from my neighbor, obviously. I didn't hear this from the doctor myself)

The muscle grew (not cancer) and pinched nerves and blood vessels. Anyway, they operated and removed the entire mass.

The doctor told her it might be from her covid vaccine. I was kind of surprised by that speculation by the doctor. I don't know my neighbor well enough to know if she'd embellish the events of her medical drama. Overall, though, she seems pretty honest and frank about her life and things she experiences.

Anyway, I thought it was noteworthy.

China Narrative Again

 Western media is echoing the China covid crisis narrative again. It's bullshit, just like it was in 2020. It seems like they're trying to whip retards in the western world into a frenzy again. Videos of chinese actors spazzing out on gurneys circulated social media back then to get people afraid of the disease. This time, I doubt it will work.

If they try to lockdown anyone again, or try mask mandates, I hope people rise up and just obliterate them with utmost violence. I hope the conspirators in this plot are torn limb from limb.

Really Good Summary of The Political Rot in the USA

Whitney Webb was on the Jimmy Dore show. It was a mind bending interview. I've heard most of the stories she discussed over the past several years, but haven't heard them all stitched together. It's just ridiculous. Basically the mob, especially the jewish mafia has infiltrated the US government and other major institutions and controls dirtbags like Bill Clinton or Bill Gates.

Another "Tabletop Simulation" of a Plandemic

https://twitter.com/backtolife_2023/status/1601850000698671104?s=20&t=R0e6Ejx-AtD1RLUQ4xP5DA

Bill Gates, Johns Hopkins, and the WHO Just Simulated Another Pandemic.They completed a desktop simulation for a new Enterovirus originating near Brazil. The virus has a higher fatality rate than COVID-19 and disproportionately affects children.

Jordon Peterson, Elon Musk and Digital ID

 Jordan Peterson looked like Jerry Seinfeld, especially when he was younger. He probably has similar ancestry. He's currently trying to sell the idea of digital IDs. There was literally a Seinfeld episode about the scheme.

Currently Elon Musk is being setup as a "right winger" who's owning the libs because he bought Twitter, but he's going to push Digital ID too.

Digital ID is the electronic gulag. It's on display in China right now. It was the Covid passport, etc... it's a totalitarian's wet dream.

Jew Zelensky wants to ban the Russian Orthodox Church

 The Ukraine war is stupid in almost every way. It looks like some stupid Jew beef against Russians. Psycho jews think they need "revenge" or whatever for things that happened 1000 years ago? Something like that? Or maybe its just good for the scum in Washington DC and other capitals to have a war so they can put more cash in their pockets. 

Anyway, the Ukraine's dork jew "president" who looks like a midget or maybe a FTM tranny wants to ban the Russian Orthodox church. There are millions of Ukrainians, apparently who are Russian Orthodox.

Here's a story from the Jew york times trying to spin it in a rational way for white liberal retards who vaguely remember it's bad for the state to mess with church and religious beliefs.

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I really don't get this one. Seems like a complete losing proposition all 'round for Ukraine's dopey government.

By the way, I'm not "pro Russian". I think every government is trash. It'd be great if the Russians and Ukrainian people just shook hands and agreed "to hell with them" on their shit governments.

Kanye West: Literal Glow Nigger

Kanye West is going ham over WW2 tropes. It's pretty funny to see.

Most white people are terrified of the WW2 taboos which were setup, apparently by jew priests. It's so crazy to see this shit from a third party perspective. Maybe that's the point? It's hard to say.

Anyway, it is extremely obvious that Kanye is literally a glow nigger, which is Internet slang for a CIA troll. In fact Kanye went on a tour called Glow in the Dark.

Nobody should take what Kanye West says seriously. His dad was a "Black Panther" which was probably a totally phony front group too.

The whole point of the "alt media" seems to be to stir up white liberal retards so they'll back internet censorship and digital ID's so jews don't get offended.

Are EU "Leaders" Really this Dumb?

 There's an article in Politico delving into obvious problems for Europe caused by the Ukraine war (link):

Top European officials are furious with Joe Biden’s administration and now accuse the Americans of making a fortune from the war, while EU countries suffer. 

“The fact is, if you look at it soberly, the country that is most profiting from this war is the U.S. because they are selling more gas and at higher prices, and because they are selling more weapons,” one senior official told POLITICO. 

That was the inevitable outcome from day one. It was obvious to anybody with a brain, even half a brain.

If they're only figuring this out now, they are extremely dumb people. The alternate explanation is it's kabuki theater and europeans are being herded into serf life. The "war" provides cover.

No Hope for Government Run Projects

 It's pretty clear we are all on our own. The future belongs to competent individuals, but it's going to be hell to get there. It will be like sailing an ocean of incompetence and corruption and catastrophic consequences of government ineptitude and corruption.

One great example is provided by failed solar farms..... in gloomy AF England. Basically corporate scammers stole hundreds of millions of monies from taxpayers via dumb ass or corrupt government officials.

You can sit down with a spreadsheet and calculate the cost per kWh for any given solar power system by location. The available data is amazing. It's possible, maybe likely that solar power is not economically viable in England--it's too far north and too cloudy. London is at the same latitude as the southern end of Hudson's Bay in Canada.

Solar is not quite economical at my house, which is cloudy, but I'm at the same latitude as Rome, Italy here in northeast Ohio.

Anyway, the next decade or so is going to be about dumb ass government officials and scammers from the WEF absolutely gutting and wrecking the economy either because they want to kill many people and are waging war on us, or because they're impossibly stupid and incompetent. Doesn't really matter.

There will be no way to reform the governments or get "the right" people in there. The system is thoroughly corrupt. People are trained to believe in money from the asshole of scammer bankers and grifting trash like Sam Bankman-Fried and his family. It's all over.

"Investors" -- Really Suckers

 If you own a small business, or property, or some real tangible thing you can make decisions about, you are potentially an investor. If you own a pizza restaurant for example, you can decide to upgrade your pizza stove because a new one is more efficient, and might save money per pie.

If you buy stock in some corporation, you are not an investor. You are basically buying pokemon cards. Even when you work for a publicly traded company, understand their plans and their technology, you don't have enough information, generally to make informed decisions about the company stock. The upper level management probably does, but 99% of employees don't. Therefore, an outsider who just has access to corporate PR, press releases, and bullshit financial statements has no chance.

Very wealthy "investors" who run spy networks, or who can manipulate markets are like "investors", maybe scammers is a better word for them. They're a different category than the general public.

People do make money on stocks. People also lose money, or barely keep what they have after years. I am very down on schemes like 401(k)'s now, IRA's and really any account at any "financial" institution too.... it's going to turn into a way for the government to systematically steal money no doubt about it.

No Case by Case Detail Needed

In recent days the crypto company FTX went bust. The company was possibly setup as a fraud. It's possibly connected to the democrat party and even Ukraine money laundering. It was reportedly paying social media influencers $50,000 PER MONTH to promote it. It had famous investors and spokespeople like Tom Brady. The principles of the company possibly stole billions of "investor" (aka sucker) money. In just my life time, there have been maybe 10 complete blow out financial collapses going back to the Savings & Loan "crisis" of the 80s. People are loathe to draw any big picture conclusions about finance based on this constant chaos, though. They seem to believe each case is unique.

Even worse, they will imagine that a criminal who is on "their side" politically is somehow OK. Apple, for example, employs Chinese slave labor companies to make products, but they promote gay stuff.

There are historical examples of egregious behavior, like the story of lead in gasoline. Leaded gasoline benefited famous wealthy families like the Rockefeller and DuPont family. Their businesses systematically promoted lead in gasoline with full awareness of its dangers, and attacked critics.

For some reason, people are loathe to draw conclusions about these patterns.

The vaccine story is slowly unfolding along similar lines. There's some evidence that the vaccines cause various dangerous side effects, like heart damage, and maybe even cancer. The companies and government will lie, stonewall, and attack anybody who presents that evidence.

Even if the evidence eventually comes out and is overwhelming, the public won't draw any overall conclusion. It's fucking weird.

Every Contract is a Deal with the Devil

 Kyrie Irving is getting screwed left, right, and center by the NBA and corporations he had endorsements with first because he refused the vaccines, and then because he posted a link to a supposedly "anti-semitic" documentary. The former basketball star Shaq actually showed the same movie "Hebrews to Negroes" in his movie theater chain a few years ago, by the way.

Professional athletes are almost completely borged into the system with complex contracts. They basically become a corporate entity and property that can be monetized and traded. Popular musicians enter into similar agreements with corporations and their management.

Kyrie will probably have to sue the NBA and the team he played for to recover some of his lost pay. It seems unlikely that sharing a link to a movie should allow the NBA to rewrite his contract and basically rob him. It might take multiple years for that to work out in his favor.

Anyway, there's a famous trope in movies and TV shows: the deal with the devil, or the crossroads demon devil. Various musicians, like Bob Dylan, have claimed to be in a blood contract with Satan.

I don't think they're even lying or exaggerating. Every contract is a deal with "the devil".

There's no contracts in the natural world. There's only Natural Law. Every contract and every law is a product of the world of man/world of lies. The mythical world of lies is ruled by the Author of Lies, which is also the god of the Bible. The covenants of whoever wrote the bible are really contracts with the God of this Earth, that is, the devil.

The Gods of the Bible are Demons

Kyrie Irving has been under assault for the past couple of years. First, for being correct about covid and the vaccines, and now for sharing a link to an Amazon prime video about Jewish people's involvement in the slave trade--I didn't watch the movie, so I can't really comment on its particulars.

Jewish people were involved in the slave trade. It's a matter of historical record. The secretary of state of the Confederacy was a jewish guy. I guess it's "anti-semitic" to bring things like that up. The trading companies of the colonial era were at least partly owned by jews and they raped, pillaged, and plundered their way around the globe. Some jewish officers of those companies slaughtered people wholesale to make spice deals.

The Jews that took part in the russian revolution were total maniac mass killers. Did they do that because of their DNA or because of their beliefs? Communism was created and promoted by jews. Communism is vile and has killed around 100M people. Chinese people are still suffering the hangover effect of Marxist bullshit today.

Jews were the censors of the Soviet Union. That's documented by visitors to the early Soviet state. Jews want to censor the media today. 

Were all Jews murderers and thieves? Of course not. Were some. Of course. It's a group that's as diverse in opinions and ideas as any other. But it's also a group with a corporate PR identity that's managed by things like the ADL and the mainstream media. That's been a perpetual double edged sword for jews through the past several centuries to have a tribal identity and set themselves apart from the people they live with.

The Amish have a similar problem. They're not strident about controlling their image--they don't really care as far as I can tell--but by setting themselves apart they've caused a genetic bottleneck that might eventually kill them off in many generations, and that particular problem for them is not as bad as the ones the jewish people have, by the way.

Black people have as much of a claim to being hebrew israelites as Jews by some accounts. Why not? It's all made up nonsense. White people could claim the same nonsense thing. Who wants to be descended from mass murderer psychopaths like Moses? The whole Abrahamic comic book series is based on human sacrifice and mass murder or one on one murder.

Prior competing fanbases and comic book series about gods and heros crapped all over the main characters from the jewish media of the 200-300AD era and regarded their gods as demon lords. The manicheans, for example, thought the god of the bible was evil.

View of Judaism in the Acta Archelai

According to Hegemonius' portrayal of Mani, the evil demiurge who created the world was the Jewish Jehovah. Hegemonius reports that Mani said,

"It is the Prince of Darkness who spoke with Moses, the Jews and their priests. Thus the Christians, the Jews, and the Pagans are involved in the same error when they worship this God. For he leads them astray in the lusts he taught them." He goes on to state: "Now, he who spoke with Moses, the Jews, and the priests he says is the archont of Darkness, and the Christians, Jews, and pagans (ethnic) are one and the same, as they revere the same god. For in his aspirations he seduces them, as he is not the god of truth. And so therefore all those who put their hope in the god who spoke with Moses and the prophets have (this in store for themselves, namely) to be bound with him, because they did not put their hope in the god of truth. For that one spoke with them (only) according to their own aspirations.[114]

Anyway, I hope Kyrie Irving just walks away from the NBA and takes a big part of its audience with him. The black people really should have their own basketball league and their own music industry. Let the jews have a jewish NBA. I'm sure that'll be a big attraction.

A Tale of Two Dogs

 One of my dogs is totally relaxed and chilled out. She has been since I picked her up from the dog warden in 2008. My other dog is more neurotic and fearful in general; she's not terrible about it, but will overreact to novel situations more often than not. For example if we saw some weird animatronic halloween decoration while out walking, the neurotic dog will be afraid, but the chilled dog will actually be able to figure out it's just a manmade object.

I think that's as good a template for understanding what happened with covid as any--fear response and hysteria versus the ability to contextualize novel information.

For some reason, many people, even intelligent people turned to the government and the media for information on covid. That is, they looked for an authority to contextualize a novel situation rather than sus it out on their own.

It seemed like a 90/10 split, maybe 85/15, initially. Some small segment of the population formed their own opinions about covid and the vaccines, but the bulk of people adopted the official story, even though it was wrong time and time again.

Over the course of about 18 months those percentages reversed. Now I think only 20% or less believe the official story, but fell into a sort of passive, null model about covid and the official narrative. That is, they just dropped it rather than conclude they were lied to or scammed.

That makes sense, actually, since fear was the basis for their opinion in the first place. They sought refuge from their fear in the official story. The idea that the government and corporations were actively scamming them is similarly scary, so it's best just to drop it.

Paul Pelosi Story and Jussie Smollett

 I haven't followed the Paul Pelosi story closely, but I know the "official narrative" is a lie. None of it makes sense. In fact it's absurd. It's as stupid and absurd as the Jussie Smollett story.

The partisan democrat media promoted that dumb story heavily from the beginning even though it made no sense. People of the Internet realized it was a hoax, and they were right. It showed how trashy the media is. They're just professional liars.

It's really the same story with covid, too. The media lied and promoted a specific narrative. The Internet was host to a number of narratives that were broadly "correct".

Apple/Foxconn Slave Camp Video

 Holy shit!

Quitting a job in China might involve jumping a razor wire fence and walking 1500 km.

Pelosi Story: Wtf?

 The Paul Pelosi story is weird AF. A person with basic bitch curiosity who reads some of the details will immediately understand that the media is lying like crazy about whatever happened to him. The most likely explanations seem to be: he had a fight with a gay prostitute, or some drug deal went bad or something similar. The details of the case make no sense at all.

It's odd that the media is going to such great lengths to protect the Pelosi family. Why?

The Speaker of the House Denny Hastert was a lifelong pedophile who was taking bribes to pay blackmailers. All that information is out in the public. It seems extremely plausible that the Pelosi family are similarly corrupt and trashy. The US government is a pile of garbage. The people in DC in the government are the worst people in the entire US.

NPR is running interference for the Pelosi family too. They are trying to spin anything that departs from the official narrative as a conspiracy theory; they used to do some news reporting at least. Now I guess they're something like government supported MSNBC.

Why shred whatever ounce of credibility they have left over this weird incident? It makes no sense at all.

Covid Amnesty

 There's a rage bait article (thus I won't post a link) in "The Atlantic" calling for a "covid amnesty", that is, the officials and their minions who made mistake after mistake about covid lockdowns and vaccines should be "forgiven".

I think that's a great summary of the overall situation in the western world.

The loser dipshits in government and corporations want their high paying jobs, fancy titles, and most of all want no risk and all reward. Don't blame them when they get it wrong, or are feckless cowardly trash, just nod and go along and maybe slap them on the back for "trying hard". It doesn't matter when they're wrong about wars, or other big topics either. They're trying their darndest. It doesn't matter if they're incompetent boobs, they should be able to lord over you and collect lots of cash along the way.

The covid insanity showed me most people don't think at all. They lack some organ in their brain that provides a creative spark or something. They form thoughts in the context of what the crowd is doing. They're wired into them like a flock of birds.

It doesn't matter if a person has a 150+ IQ and a PhD. If they lack that organ of discernment they won't know what to do when confronted with a novel situation in life and they'll just go along with the herd. Conversely, a dummy or a person with literal "learning disability" can have that spark of discernment and see clearly. He might not be able to articulate his insight, but can make the right choice when confronted with a novel scenario.

Yes, They Are Trying to Kill Millions

 "Top Democrat" scumbags are calling for nationalizing the energy industry. I doubt they can do it. Europe is already doing that... but probably can't fly here.

The "democrats" are the eurotrash party. They want you to die. The republicans are just losers with no agenda, or are just paid off trash too.

They're Trying to Kill Millions

Global warmaids provides a good cover for genocide in the name of "the science".

All the people you see promoting science as a profession are psycho trash.

Anyway, it's pretty obvious to me "they" are trying to kill millions of people. Who is they? I'm not totally sure. Some people say jews, some people say free masons, it really doesn't matter.

If the government really, out in the open, starts to try to block out sunlight for the sake of global warming, it's time to kill them all. The same thing happened via a volcano in the 500's AD and caused massive crop failures. They can say oops, our bad, it was a mistake and we sprayed too much in the name of halting global warm aids.

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We All Died of Global Warmaids in 2000

 https://apnews.com/article/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0

UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.

Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ″eco- refugees,′ ′ threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP.

He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.

WTF: China?

 China is still cracking down on "covid" apparently. There's a few videos of police detaining large groups of people with machine guns at the ready because someone has a cold.

The Chinese people should reduce their government to atoms. The western world seems like it got over the hysteria. If the governments in the US or Europe tried that nonsense again, I hope people would rise up and obliterate them.

There's all kinds of theories out there about why the chinese government is so retarded and authoritarian, but who really cares. Humans can't put up with that type of abuse and be called human.

Ideology Prison

In the early centuries AD the german peoples were "pagans", then they were converted en masse through force, propaganda, and economic inducements to the jewish religion Christianity. Who knows how many people were murdered during that episode. Hundreds of thousands or millions more were murdered over the subsequent centuries to establish Catholic hegemony.

Ideologies like catholic christianity are typically welded to a political and economic system. Catholicism and feudalism went hand in hand. Doctrines like the "divine right of kings" were the basis for Spanish imperialism.

Communism was just a different version of religion. It replaced orthodox christianity in Russia and the soviet union like catholicism replaced the prior religion. Communism is jewish. The bolshevik leadership was 85% jews by some reports. The commies in Russia engaged in barbaric violence every bit as horrific as the catholic church. It's really very similar--the same kinds of bizarre tortures. The same kind of totalitarian spying and thought control as the catholics.

The only "value" of ideology is political. It shapes peoples minds and behavior. It makes them into a brick of the system. It makes them into a group.

The anti-ideology is individualism and growing the capability of the individual.

Journal Article Calling out Covid Vaccines

 An article was recently published in "The Journal of Insulin Resistance" which calls out the covid vaccines as more harmful than helpful: (link)

Results: In the non-elderly population the “number needed to treat” to prevent a single death runs into the thousands. Re-analysis of randomised controlled trials using the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology suggests a greater risk of serious adverse events from the vaccines than being hospitalised from COVID-19. Pharmacovigilance systems and real-world safety data, coupled with plausible mechanisms of harm, are deeply concerning, especially in relation to cardiovascular safety. Mirroring a potential signal from the Pfizer Phase 3 trial, a significant rise in cardiac arrest calls to ambulances in England was seen in 2021, with similar data emerging from Israel in the 16–39-year-old age group.

Conclusion: It cannot be said that the consent to receive these agents was fully informed, as is required ethically and legally. A pause and reappraisal of global vaccination policies for COVID-19 is long overdue.

The author of the paper originally promoted the covid vaccine, but his father died after taking it, so I guess then he thought he should be skeptical of the claims of pharmaceutical companies.

The US Just Waged War on Germany and the EU

 The USA blew up the nordstream pipeline, ostensibly to "punish" Russia, but it's an act of war on Europe too. Will the Europeans just take it up the ass and pay protection money to the DC mafia? How corrupt is the "leadership" of Europe? If the US government is willing to completely fuck over Europe and wreck its economy what are they willing to do to Americans?

Few People Want the New "Booster"

 Only a small fraction of people have taken the latest booster shots. It took more than two years for the general public to come to their senses. Only a small handful of people are still hysterical freaks about it.

Every Government is Trash

Supposedly Russia is calling up men for their war effort in Ukraine. That conflict doesn't make a lot of sense. Russia has not acted like a country trying to win a war. Why would they call up many more men if they haven't even tried to win?

Why do Europeans Care About Israel?

When I was about 12 years old, I went to a Catholic church event with one of my middle school friends at the time who was catholic. I don't remember much about the event except for a movie we watched about Moses and ancient "Israel". It struck me as odd, even back then, that anybody in that room should care about Jews in the desert.

Why did the Bible become the book of European people? The story doesn't make any sense at all.

The catholic church went around Europe with the medieval kings and force converted people to their brand of religion. The church was a jewish institution. Christianity was a jewish religion. It's very weird that the Kings of europe decided to force feed that to their people.

There's two plausible explanations for it, as far as I can see. One is that Jewish Christianity was useful for the kings and the church was sort of like the MSM of its day. The other is the aristocratic families of 500s Europe were Jews.

Who can really say for sure?

Europeans have been getting brainwashed by jews for centuries. Jews have been too, of course. The modern day european jews have as little to do with Israel as any random european or american person.

It's pretty fucking weird.

The Credit Curse

A few years ago my wife and I watched the old TV show Little House on the Prairie. It was entertaining, but mostly interesting as a time capsule nostalgia trip. The TV shows back in the 70s and 80s often didn't do a great job of translating a story to the visual live action format. Anyway, I remembered a scene from that show recently: Pa Engels often works at the local saw mill. He works when they have to cut boards. He doesn't work there when there's nothing to do.

That's completely different that today's work world. People go to work when there's nothing to do. Sometimes there are off-project chores that are actually valuable, but it's also common that employees end up burning time on make-work activity. This happens because people are more often than not paid from credit. A company averages out all its cash flows via financial activity.

I think this particular aspect of economic life is the result of much frustration and annoyance. It's why people hate work and terms like "wagie" are used. Everyone knows the whole thing is nonsense and bullshit and the system is pretty arbitrary.

The "no credit" world existed in the US, especially prior to the era of the railroads. In the neighborhood where I live, new settlers built a flour mill sometime after 1812--maybe 1815?--and the whole project was "financed" through barter. People worked on the mill based on a promise of future flour or services. That sort of small deal making was eventually replaced with "finance", money and credit. Banks became universal intermediaries.

That also allows the governments to tax transactions, wages, etc... Now there's a big, bloated system to "facilitate" trade. People traded the high friction person to person interaction of 1815 with a giant parasitic system that robs them every single day.

You Must Believe!

Many of the people who support green energy, EVs, or other such causes are essentially cult members. They think their belief is significant, and of course they think critique of their idols is bad and will "halt progress". That is, they think a critic of EVs somehow prevents the batteries from improving. This is the same mental model many people had for covid vaccines. If you believe the vaccine will cure all. If you don't people will still get sick from covid.

The only thing that will influence the efficacy of EVs is battery technology. If the batteries get significantly better and some other engineering problems are solved, EVs will outcompete ICE cars. If the batteries improve, solar energy will outcompete every other form of power generation. 

Right now, they suck. They're right on the boundary of usable, but are still unproven and pretty janky. The EVs are mainly for early adopter, hobbyist minded people. They are usable, but only for a narrow range of cases. Solar is really similar. It's feasible. It works, but it's pretty expensive. Most people don't want to dick around with their car, or their electric service all the time, or at all, the same way they don't want to mess around with their stove or fridge multiple times a day. Most people don't want a potential fire hazard in their house.

The club of fanboys and believers is much larger than the people who actually spend the $100,000 on a car, or tens of thousands on solar power. Some of them believe the outcome of the quest for better batteries will be influenced by their belief. It won't.

Folk Beliefs

 When I was in High School, I learned the story of the Melonheads. A melonhead is a monster that started off as a human child that has a giant swollen head, probably from medical experiments. They are violent and eat human flesh.

It's a story that kids learn around the time they start driving, because parents learned it around the time they started driving. The kid gets their license, hears about the Melonheads then goes and drives to the melonhead road (Wisner Road in Kirtland, Ohio). The area in Kirtland is actually really nice. It's in the winding, steep valley of the Chagrin River. It's a great place to ride a bike.

The Melonheads legend is probably based on a medical condition: hydrocephalus, which enlarges the head and causes pain and brain damage. It's possible there was an unfortunate kid with the condition on Wisner Road, or it's possible the entire story is fabricated from a general understanding of hydrocephalus and set there because it's an interesting neighborhood that can seem spooky in the right conditions. The story also involves a mad scientist who possibly created the children through experiments.

The story is really similar to puppy pregnancy (Rabies legend in India), and also the Vampire legend (based on a condition called porphyria).

The organic folk beliefs and legends are interesting because they often contain factual information. That is, they're factual information in coded form. Like in the Vampire story, vampires hate garlic, which is a weird detail that never made sense to me; people with porphyria can't eat garlic because it has a high quantity of sulfur which causes a painful reaction.

Folk beliefs are often ridiculed because they are childish and simple and exaggerated. People who are sophisticated imagine they have a more complete or nuanced story. The "enlightened" person often thinks their duty is to present their sophisticated nuanced story to the unwashed masses. For example, the modern leftist thinks the masses don't understand trans people and they must be educated. Corporations spend millions of dollars a year on that project for some strange reason.

The folk understanding of trans people is really similar to the melonhead story. It's displayed in old movies and TV shows. We're watching the series Miami Vice (1984) lately. It shows trannies as demented psychos. Silence of the Lambs and the movie Psycho did too. The folk understanding includes some nugget of truth: "avoid people with severe mental problems even if it's not their fault". From the perspective of the average person, involvement with someone who is suffering severe psychological trauma is probably not worth it.

Same Formula Again and Again

It's pretty common for ideology to pose as science. Many people have pointed out that science has turned into a sort of religion; I think it's more like a cult.

The story of David Reimer is tragic and strange. He was injured as a baby by a doctor attempting to circumcise him. Then another doctor John Money convinced his parents to subject the child to a sex change operation, take hormones, and get "therapy" with him. The therapy involved abusing the boy and his twin brother in bizarre ways. David Reimer eventually blew his head off after a lifetime of problems. His twin brother died of an overdose. It's a story that sounds like urban legend, or the plot of a horror movie. In spite of that, the "doctor" received several awards over his life and was celebrated.

The story is actually quite similar in some ways to the huge push for green energy and EVs. There's an idea: maybe battery powered vehicles are better. It seems plausible. For some reason, some tiny group of people decide everyone needs to go all-in on it, even though the vehicles are not even close to a 1:1 replacement. The batteries might not improve much, and if they don't solar and EVs are kind of crap. In spite of that everyone thinks they're "the future".

That story is similar to the covid vaccine story. There's huge insistence that the vaccines worked, but anybody can see they didn't.

In each of these stories "science" = magic. Failure to believe means the magic science won't work, not because it's flawed, but because it's a spell that requires belief.

Trans Ideology is Bullshit Pushed By Psychopaths

Holy shit. I never heard about this story.

David Reimer was injured by a botched surgical procedure on his penis as a baby. He had a twin brother who wasn't injured. His aggrieved parents took the injured boy to psychologist John Money who recommended the boy should undergo a sex change operation and take hormones.

The psychologist performed bizarre "experiments" on the boys, even forcing them to engage in sexual "play". The dude was just a criminal, psychopath. He claimed the "experiment" was a success. It's the basis for the belief in gender fluidity and other current day insanity.

David Reimer eventually blew his head off with a shotgun and his brother died of a drug overdose.

Every poor bastard that gets suckered into cutting their junk off and getting frankensteined into a plastic surgery imitation female or male pays tens of thousands or more for the surgery, plus thousands more for hormones over the rest of their miserable life. Hopefully some of them will avoid the suicide option in the future and obliterate those who scammed them.

Ideology World

What's the real distinction between "left" and "right"?

To me, it's obvious that the leftists of today are a version of Puritans of prior centuries. A leftist brain of today would easily hold Puritanical beliefs back in colonial New England if it had been programmed with those beliefs since birth. That brain today just holds a random mishmash of ideas about gender and pronouns and other things now.

For the puritan, or the leftist, ideology is everything and the real world is nothing. In fact, nature is a threat and it needs to be purified and ordered. For the contemporary lefty that means gender is arbitrary and can be assigned through frankenstein surgery and hormone shots. For the Puritan, it meant almost the opposite thing, any manifestation of nature that didn't square with the Bible and its proclamations needed to be purged. However, the mechanism involved in both cases is the same.

The current day leftist has a specific type of brain. It's very symbol oriented and therefor urban centered. The natural world has to be reformatted to match the inner stick-figure representation of reality. The noise and ambiguity of the natural world is frightening to the lefty. There's a never ending project to go out and name, and label and understand alien things and re-interpret them for the lefty. Media channels like NPR or PBS are constantly producing content along those lines: taming aspects of the natural world or alien cultures and feeding a curated version of it to their leftist audience.

I've thought for years that the political leadership of these people were scammers. I think in general, they're not. People like Klaus Schwab drink their own Koolaid. Jim Jones offed himself in Jonestown. That guy who was leader of "Heaven's Gate" poisoned himself with his crew.

Ultimately, Puritanical society just couldn't keep up with life.

The current day versions of the Puritans, like Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab want to use technology to completely control nature and people, but nature will just flow around them too.

Parasites with Plans

I realized something was wrong with the US federal government back in early 2000s, when the Iraq war started. It was abundantly clear that the Iraq government had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks, and the Colin Powell and other members of the Bush administration were lying to provoke the war. I wasn't sure what was going on, but I knew it was off. In fact, it led to total disaster for Iraq and for the people of the USA. The war cost trillions. The money was basically set on fire, or put into the pockets of corrupt government officials and cronies.

I was glad to see the neocons finally go when Obama was elected, but his administration sucked too, plus they continued most of the plans of the Bush administration, so it was at best no change, and really worse overall. The Biden administration is a continuation of the Obama administration; the war in Ukraine is a result of their plans in 2014.

The EU economy is being purposely destroyed by the "democrats" of Europe. The democrats of the USA are the same people--globalists, whatever you want to call those people.

They really suck. Their plans are stupid sci-fi schemes and they're based on sci-fi.

The western world might be destroyed by a bunch of "plans" and schemes. There seem to be zero pragmatic people in governments, especially in "leftist" governments.

"Biden" plans to jam up the US energy market

The Biden administration is planning to jam up the US energy markets using executive orders and agencies like the EPA. None of that is constitutional, so they'll probably lose. The democrats are just the "Europe" party. They want the US to be Europe.

I am curious how many people will still want to be Europe-like if the EU economy implodes due to energy problems. People in England are supposedly paying $20 for a pint of beer because of utility costs now.

The Financial System Doesn't Control Everything

The EU is about to demonstrate that the financial system doesn't control everything.

The EU is going to throw a bunch of funny money at papering over its energy problems. It's not clear what subsidies are going to accomplish. Industry that can't compete because of high energy prices won't be more competitive because a printing press creates a bunch of euros.

Google: Now a Useless Search Engine

 There are currently protests across Europe over energy prices.

If you search on google, you will barely see a headline.

If you search bing, you'll see plenty of results.

Google is a trash company.

Check it for yourself: "czechoslovakia energy price protest"

EU Countries Going Bust

 The EU is going to bail out energy companies to subsidize rate payers. That won't solve the underlying issue--lack of energy. It will hide the problem for another few days or weeks, maybe, but the game is basically over there. If you're a gambling man, look into ETFs that short the Euro.

People in europe thought they were free and prosperous, but the prosperity is an illusion that's apparently ending now. It's scary times ahead.

A similar thing is happening in slo-mo in the US in places like California. The electric grid isn't maintained, and insufficient capacity has been added over the years to power homes. Really companies couldn't raise rates, plus they had to pretend to be "profitable" to keep "investors" happy so they could pay dividends.

Our whole system is a giant scam and it's crumbling right now.

First Glimpse of the Electronic Gulag Future

In Colorado, some people were unable to turn on their A/C because they installed a "smart thermostat": (link)

For the time ever, Xcel Energy locked the smart thermostats of thousands of Colorado customers on Tuesday because of what it called an energy emergency.

Xcel started a program six years ago, called the AC Rewards program, in which customers get rebates in exchange for allowing Xcel to adjust their thermostat on the hottest summer days to ease strain on the electrical grid. Participating customers need to sign up for the program, and about 22,200 have done that in Colorado.

Corporations love the idea of turning everything into a service with terms and conditions that serve their management the most.

Imagine being stuck with some shitty utility company that just shifted all its profits to managers and shareholders and did no improvements or maintenance. They shift the burden of their garbage service onto the customers, but still charge them full rate. That's the future. Garbage corporations, onerous dumb contractual relationships with them, and all sorts of electronic garbage controlling people. Fuck that.

Sue Corporations that Forced Vaxxes; Sue Facebook, Google, Twitter

The federal government tried to circumvent the constitution via collusion with corporations over the past few years. The Biden administration pressured Facebook and other tech companies to censor speech. The feds colluded with them to violate people's first amendment rights. Those companies should be sued and they probably will be and they will lose too. Hopefully Facebook will go bankrupt as a result.

The Biden administration also used corporations to sell pharmaceuticals for their buddies via employer mandates for vaccines. That's another case of the government trying to dodge the constitution. Hopefully employers who pushed the mandates will be liable for damages for people who experienced vaccine injuries.

Governments and Solar Power

 If batteries were really cheap and reliable, solar would be the primary source of energy throughout the world. It would practically be free. In the USA, a person might spend $20-30k for their lifetime supply of all types of energy. Essentially everyone would be energy self-sufficient. That's a huge change.

What would the government do?

Of course they'd tax and heavily regulate it and lie about it.

Look what they've done with alcohol, tobacco, or various drugs. Those things are essentially "free", but they're heavily taxed and regulated to favor certain producers.

The government is generally incompetent and super corrupt through and through, but people think it's "essential". Hopefully humanity can find a better path forward soon. 

Tesla Owners Starve Themselves as "Protest"

 I think this story sums up the world today: https://electrek.co/2022/08/31/tesla-owners-claim-hunger-strike-elon-musk-attention/

A group of Tesla owners in Norway claims they are going on a hunger strike to get Elon Musk’s attention about a long series of problems they claim to have with their vehicles.

They bought expensive lemon cars to virtue signal, got garbage vehicles and no customer service, then starve themselves to "punish" the company.

It makes sense that a world of weak, feeb, faggy men are lorded over by conmen grifters and cult leaders like Elon Musk.

Better Batteries Would Change the World

 If batteries were 2x better in every regard today, 1/2 the cost, 2x the life, etc... solar would be very cheap. It would replace every other type of electrical power generation and would make EVs actually usable. Diesel and jet fuel and other forms of liquid fuels would probably persist, but the vast bulk of the 13 million barrels of oil per day the US consumes on transportation would be replaced by the sun.

The biggest change would be decentralized generation of power. I think that would lead to decentralized government and everything else too. The obvious parasitism of the government would become glaring at that point. The money system would change too... who needs petrodollars, then?

The EU is Hyperfucked

 Small businesses in the EU can't operate because of high electricity prices. Some businesses like small restaurants and cafes are getting surprise bills of $10,000+ for a month of electricity. Prices have gone up hundreds of percent.

Like I said in prior posts, the main problem is the EU has no energy resources. They imported energy from Russia, because it was cheap, but the EU countries are really vassals of the "western empire" and have to follow it's inane foreign policy.

So EU citizens are going through the shredder for ??? Ukraine? I guess. I hope they fight back, but I doubt they will.

People Want to be Conned

I've been wondering lately, why there's no pragmatism party in the USA or anywhere else. In the US we have the "left" and the "right", democrats and republicans. Ten years ago, the republicans were controlled by the scumbag grifter neocons. They were inept and super corrupt. They stole hundreds of billions of dollars from the people via their failed wars. Americans completely lost faith in that trash. They actually were slowly but surely expelled from power. A handful remain in government, but they no longer are capable of wreaking havoc.

When the neocons lost favor, we got the "left". They're maybe worse. They're every bit as corrupt and inept, but they're also religious zealots pushing "woke" bullshit.

Trump was a sort of pragmatist, or his election showed that's what people really want. I still think he was a fraud and a phony, at least as much as any other politician, but at least he pretended to push the interest of the average American.

Both parties demonstrate to me that people want to be conned. 

Interesting Solar Power Problem

 A solar power system has a weird problem north or south of the equator. In the summer, it will produce a huge surplus of power if it's sized for the winter months. If it's sized for the summer months, it will be very underpowered in winter. Since the panels are getting cheap, the logical strategy is to size it for winter. The chart below shows the daily average power output by month for that system. The average US household consumes about 30 kWh per day. In this case every day is over 30 kWh in the winter months. In the summer it's way over. This system would cost about $40,000. It would be installed on a large barn roof.

For me, to get through the winter with solar power, the system will generally produce a huge surplus of power. In the summer it's approximately 3x what the house needs.

The current "solution" to that problem is: feed it back to the grid... But what happens when everyone has a solar power system? It doesn't make any sense. It makes way more sense to do something useful with it, like make ice, purify water, or something like that.

If everyone has solar power, it really does make sense to have EVs. If the issues with the batteries could be sorted out, it really does make fuel essentially "free".

Cool Website for Solar Info

 There's a really great web site for planning solar projects: https://globalsolaratlas.info/map?c=11.523088,8.4375,3

It also shows the potential for solar power and the cost per region.

For me in Northeast Ohio, a large system with 20 kW of panels would provide sufficient power through the winter to operate independent of the grid essentially. That system is about $40,000. It produces a large surplus through the summer months. If I can figure out a way to monetize the surplus power that doesn't rely on the government/grid deals I'd do it. The system has a large footprint, though.

The same $40,000 system in Berlin, Germany doesn't produce sufficient power three months of the year.

Solar is inherently cheaper in certain places and cost prohibitive in others, obviously.

Green Projects and Tech

I've been looking at job postings for the past 6 months or so. I've been a "tech" worker for 20+ years now. I started doing software work in the relatively green field days of the dot com bubble time.

There's a "new" category of tech, green energy gizmos, like batteries. Anybody can build a fancy battery system. It's a moderate-skill level maker project really. Now, though, oodles of money are flowing into the business. So an electrical engineer or an embedded software engineer can now jump into that industry and start making significantly more than they do in "tech". The job postings I've seen are $50,000 more than equivalent tech embedded engineer jobs.

Tech is going to get squeezed over the next couple of years--it's old. Jobs will go to Asia.

"Green" is going to be interesting. It's really an old school economy situation in the US. Heavy industry. Construction jobs. Factories.

It will be really difficult to compete in the battery, inverter, green gizmo arena though. There's literally no barrier to entry.

A product that strongly caters to DIY'ers might be a good option. Run the business in the gray market and avoid regulatory overhead it might work as long as some of that funny money can still be had from the feds.

The EU is Getting Laid Off From Its Lifestyle

 The EU energy crisis is long in the making. The EU just doesn't have any energy resources. It's currently getting "laid off" from the western lifestyle. It's hard to believe it's happening but it is. The French President Macron basically told people in France that the party is over for them.

Here's a table of Exports per country/region and Energy imports. The units are consistent, but otherwise pretty meaningless. The energy imports are in tons of oil equivalent. The exports are in USD. The ratio of Exports/Energy imports is sort of related to the "efficiency" of the economy at converting oil to Exports. Obviously it's not a real apples to apples comparison from one country to another, the situations are starkly different, but I think the info is still pretty valuable.

Asian countries work and produce goods to pay for energy imports. Europe doesn't. The US is more energy self-sufficient, so it's not really even an issue.

Country/Region	Exports ($)	Energy Imports	Ratio (Exports/Energy)
EU	1100	985	1.116751269
Japan	923	387	2.38501292
China	2723	733	3.714870396
US	2000	80	25

The American "left" who are in positions of power throughout US institutions are oriented toward Europe. Their policies are all about keeping Europe viable. They don't have anything to do with American national interest.

Anyway, the EU is pretty fucked.

Replacing One Heavy Industry with Another

Many believe the "green" energy industry is inherently cleaner than the fossil fuel industry. There's no reason to believe that's the case. It's another form of heavy industry. It will produce waste and pollution too. There's no reason to believe it's inherently moral. That's delusional.

It would be great if fossil fuels could be 100% replaced with solar and batteries, and the panels and batteries could be easily recycled, and the mining and processing operations needed for that industry were clean. So far, though, there isn't even a uniform approach to recycling solar panels. The industry and governments didn't apparently even think about that problem. There's also no uniform process for recycling or scrapping batteries.

If fossil fuels can't really be replaced, it seems like a fools errand to try to shift the economy. The big problem right now is energy storage. Storing oil is cheap and easy. Storing coal is even easier. Storing electrical energy is expensive and resource intensive.

There's a belief that batteries will eventually improve. All the types of battery chemistry have a theoretical limit, and then many real world limits that sometimes make them unusable. Some, for example, have to operate at very high temperatures, others in a very limited temperature range. Some are inherently dangerous and include toxic materials.

That said, there might be a recipe for cheap, effective batteries that aren't toxic or are easy to recycle. The recipe for white LEDs took about 30 years. The first LED was in the early 1960s. The recipe for the blue LED was found in the 1990s and that enabled the white LEDs.

Canada might build a wind powered ammonia plant to store "hydrogen" in the form of ammonia. Today, an oil spill is a problem, in the future an ammonia spill might be a similar or worse problem.

Anyway, all this stuff seems like an attempt to continue living the high life but pretend it's all moral and good and green.

EU Countries Are Energy Poor

Region/Country    Population    Total Energy Production

Canada                  28M              21.88 quadrillion BTU 

USA                      330M            97.78 quadrillion BTU

EU                        440M            24.43 quadrillion BTU

China                    1.4B              123 quadrillion BTU

Israel                     9.21M           0.37 quadrillion BTU

Russia                   144M            61.53 quadrillion BTU

Similar table here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_supply_and_consumption

Also very interesting:

Export minus Import (I think the unit is millions of tons of oil equivalent)

Mid-East         1245

Russia         701

Africa         319

Australia         280

Canada         228

Indonesia 220

Norway         177

United States -80

Korea         -252

India         -347

Japan         -387

China         -733

Europe         -985

How can the EU retain it's prosperity when it has no energy resources?

Green Energy and Climate Policies are About Europe

 I think it's plausible that "green energy" and climate policies are all about:

1. Keeping the EU economies viable with no resources;
2. Preventing the EU from forming an alliance with Russia.

German Green Energy

Germany installed lots of solar power in recent years, but had very high electricity costs, even before the current energy crisis. The cost was about 2x the US average. Much of that cost is taxes, which are used to subsidize renewable energy. Other EU countries follow a similar strategy.

Solar provides about 10% of the electricity demand in Germany. Of course, solar power is only available sometimes, and Germany is far north. Berlin is at the same latitude as Edmonton, Alberta. There's currently no cheap energy storage system.

It's probably feasible to power entire EU countries with "renewables", but it might cost a lot, which also means industry can't compete with lower energy cost countries.

Canada and Germany recently signed a deal for green "hydrogen", really ammonia, from Canadian wind farm ammonia plants. Canada has a large surplus of natural gas, but no LNG facilities.

Some western countries are hobbled by climate policy and green policies. I don't see how it continues.

Huge Escalation in The Russia/Western Empire Conflict

 Somebody tried to assassinate Alexander Dugin, who is one of the big brains in Putin's circle. He's been a propaganda wizard in recent years too. A lot of the concepts that are promoted in the alt-media probably originate with him. The russians are trying to exploit the natural division in the western countries between the people and their super jewey, gay leadership and their bizarre ideology.

Dugin, for example, is one of the people responsible for reviving the Hyperborea myth. That myth has been revived numerous times over recent decades by various people who were tired of the western empire. There's even an "Atlantis versus Hyperborea" meme out there.

Hyperborean Harald Arrives in Atlantis

I think it will be "interesting" to see what happens next in the conflict. An attack on an elite Russian national at home will probably provoke a response. It's been a very long time since the elites were whacking each other. That happened frequently in the middle ages, maybe that will start happening again. That's infinitely preferable to a war obviously.

"Structural Racism" What a Scam

The media and academics put a lot of effort into explaining the plight of poor black people; they somehow suffer because the system is stacked against them. Keep that in mind when watching this video:

What's going to happen in neighborhoods and cities that have chronic crime problems that are caused by black people 99% of the time? They'll get even poorer and worse off. There won't even be stores in those areas, obviously. They will slowly get cut off from basic commercial services.

What's the root cause of that? In bizarro land, shitlibs will say it's white power, racism or some such nonsense. It's bad impulse control. Failure to plan for the future. Lack of concern about consequences and numerous other defects. Is there some magic "systemic" fix for those problems? I doubt it.

Holy Shit! Lake Mead

 

It's probably not a drought so much as chronic overconsumption of the water? I don't know. What happens to Vegas without Lake Mead?

Microgeneration is Expensive

 I've been doing more research on my potential off grid solar power system.

The main issue to contend with here in northeast ohio is the cloudy winter months. Sometimes there is no sun for solar power for days at a time. It's impractical to build a system with enough battery backup to make it through a few days with no sun. The batteries are about $9000 per day of power and only last about 10 years.

A backup generator is required. The options suck, though, and are expensive. We currently have a whole house backup system. It's basically a lawnmower style engine (two cylinder) connected to a generator and some controls. A lawnmower engine doesn't last too long in constant operation, though. Some mowers are worn out after 2,000 hours of use.

The system I sized for my house supposedly will need backup power 200 hours a year. That will consume a $5,000 generator every 7 to 10 years. If it's 10 years, the solar power system is roughly on par or slightly worse than grid power depending on natural gas prices for 200 hours of household power.

In sunny places, the generator would rarely run, so it's still cheaper than grid power.

In theory a "microturbine" system can have a longer operating life, maybe 5x or 10x as long as a piston engine, but those systems are really expensive and inefficient at converting fuel to electricity.

Socialism = End of the Road

 It' pretty clear Europe is going to end up in the socialist electronic gulag is their "energy crisis" persists. The US might get shoved toward that too, but I don't think we'll get it as bad.

Energy shortage will lead to rationing via an electronic system. The "covid" passport was already implemented there.

There will be myriad excuses for it: too many global warmings, monkeypox, energy shortage, whatever, but eventually westerners will get shoved into the electronic gulag if they allow it.

It's possible a political process, e.g. voting, could avert all out conflict over that, but I kind of doubt it will. 

Socialism/the electronic gulag will be an attempt to cement the current social order in place in perpetuity. The "elites" of the day think they're very special, but they're not. Their stupid plans will fail left and right, just like the Iraq War did or the Afghanistan war did, or nuclear power has.

Railroad Unions and Amazon Unions

Railroad unions formed in 1893, the year the rail bubble burst.

It makes sense that Unions would form in an overbuilt, diminishing returns period of an industry.

In the building phase, speculative investment provides funds for wages and everyone can be at least a little optimistic about their personal and professional plans.

Once diminishing returns sets in the management will turn vicious to put as much cash in their own pockets as possible as corporate funds dry up.

It's interesting that unions are forming at "tech" companies like Amazon. They'll gradually form across the industry, plus companies will start systematically shipping formerly high paying jobs like software and hardware developer jobs overseas in earnest. They tried to do it back in the early 2000s, but the overseas workforce wasn't really ready to tackle the projects at the time.

The next "big thing" is green energy, but that's really resource intensive. The tech bro model won't work at all for that endeavor. Inflation is going to be a huge problem. Governments are going to go full central planning mode, especially in Europe, which will exacerbate all the problems and cause political disintegration. 

Retards of China

I had "covid" a little while ago. It was a cold.

China is still panic lockdowning people because of "contact tracing". WTF? It is hard to explain.

The government is either retarded, or pursuing some nefarious agenda. It's impossible to tell which is happening. 

Solar Plus Backup

 In Northeast Ohio, which is one of the cloudiest places in the USA, a residential solar power system is on par with the cost of grid power (if you DIY the system). In maybe 10 years, it will be obviously cheaper if the components keep improving, especially the batteries.

The problem here is there's not enough power in the winter months because it's cloudy, snowy, and the sun is low on the horizon. A natural gas fired generator on site can provide backup power for maybe less than the cost, or roughly the same cost as grid power.

One problem with all this stuff is it's sort of a PITA. If you run a generator frequently, it's loud, plus it requires regular maintenance--at minimum oil, oil filter and air filter changes every 200 or so hours of operation. In the winter months that 200 hour number might happen every month. Eventually the generator will wear out too.

Combined hot water plus backup power makes a lot of sense, because the generator creates so much waste heat. Honda developed a system for that in Japan, but it's really wimpy for some reason. The generator only provides a couple of kWatts at most. A typical US house needs at least 10 kWatts.

It's really pretty weird that it's such a messy pain in the ass job to change oil and an oil filter on most machines, including cars. It would not be so hard to make that process painless and relatively tidy. If it could be done in a way that allows for continuous operation of the engine, that'd be great for a generator system.

Former Prime Minister of UK Calling for Energy Nationalization

 Gordon Brown called for nationalization of the UK energy industry until the "crisis is over".

The French government nationalized the utility company EDF after it bankrupted the company. (The company is suing the government now)

The government can't resolve the problems that lead to high energy prices. It can't do anything but prioritize energy to its favored projects.

People need to restructure the governments and economy for their own purposes rather than get herded into a slave system that suits the government and corporate masters.

Tech Diminishing Returns Era

The railroads in the US went through a growth phase, a consolidation phase, and then they kind of merged with the government in their decline. They're still private industries, but pensions, for example are maintained through the federal government.

The tech industry did roughly the same thing. There was a rapid growth phase during the dot com bubble. When that popped, there was a period of consolidation so now Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc... dominate the industry. Those companies merged with the government to a degree, either as contractors or by implementing policy, e.g. censorship and pushing government propaganda.

The tech industry probably passed the point of diminishing returns a while ago. Does anyone really want or need "5G" networks, except for specific applications? Then would anyone need a 6G network? In some places, it's possible to get fiber to the home and replace a cable modem that "only" provides 200 mbps downloads, but does anyone really use 200 megabits anyway?

Self driving cars are pretty stupid. Drone package delivery is dumber. Some tech schemes are outright dumb scams that make no sense at all, like the "Hyperloop". Things like 3D printed houses attract media attention, and get breathless PR coverage from corrupt shills, but really have limited application.

The government and financial system seem intent on providing credit to the tech industry ad infinitum. That's essentially what the "4th Industrial Revolution" plan is--the Scam of Scams to try to avoid the diminishing/negative return on investment issue the railroads faced.

Railroads and Tech

Peak railroad miles in the USA happened around 1916, but peak railroad probably happened before that. The "rail" bubble expanded during the mid 1800s and burst in 1894 and 25% of railroad miles went into receivership. It's hard to tell exactly when the railroads hit the point of diminishing returns, but it was pretty clear in the 1900s that it was in negative returns territory. The interurban system, for example, in northeast Ohio wasn't profitable. That started in 1900, and several of the companies were bankrupt by the time of WWI.

Peak railroad happened during a time of peak "elite overproduction" which is a concept developed by the historian Peter Turchin. (more detail on his website.) Elite overproduction is a metric that characterizes the excess number of people vying for "elite" slots in society, e.g. 1,000 PhDs in LGBTQ studies vying for 3 jobs per year, or 25,000 new lawyers per year all trying to make millions of dollars a year on 38,000 fatal car crashes. He sees the metric as an indicator of conditions in society that lead to discord.

Lots of economic indicators look good during the periods of "elite overproduction" depicted in the chart, for example, the GDP grew significantly in the Gilded Age (1870-1900) and new technology improved people's capability substantially, e.g. the railroads allowed people to travel more easily, and enabled farmers to expand their markets. However, the new prosperity also created a really top-heavy society compared to prior eras in the form of millionaires, more management and bureaucracy, and more institutional control. I think that's what "elite overproduction" really indicates.

The underlying engine of wealth generation has inherent limits, like the railroads did. They had intrinsic limits, but during the time of growth, nobody knows what those limits are. For example, a speculator might fund the construction of a rail line to nowhere, and a town grows there and the railroad could be profitable, but that might be a rare event.

It makes sense that the peak of railroad corporate activity would happen well into the phase of diminishing and negative returns. That's probably one of the drivers of discord during a time of prosperity. There's an institutional competition for wealth and resources. People as a mass are carrying out projects that have less and less chance of success, and then the corporations start trying to squeeze more wealth from their customers, through consolidation, monopoly, and scams.

It seems like we're in a really similar era. Some metrics look great, but life sucks for a lot of people, and institutions are getting ridiculously top heavy. There are a lot of makework jobs in corporate America that just expand bureaucracy. There are essentially political comissars that work in corporations, now, promoting lefty cultural and political ideas, for example. Corporations are trying to squeeze customers, for example, BMW and Toyota are going to charge customers monthly fees for various vehicle features. There's a scam a minute: cryptocurrencies, various completely fake tech companies and EV companies, etc...

The concepts of the "4th Industrial Revolution" and associated ideas, like "stakeholder capitalism" or ESG are an attempt to grow the tech era elites in perpetuity. In the Gilded Age the US dollar was gold backed. Today, it's debt based. Various federal reserve officials have said there's no limit on the amount of credit/debt they can issue. In their mind the only limit on economic activity is the ability to "plan". Computers seem to provide an avenue for planning ad infinitum. An Internet of Things will provide endless data to feed the computers, etc...

The 4th Industrial Revolution seems like an attempt to avert the diminishing returns problem for the tech industry.

People in Europe Protesting for Energy Price Controls

In Britain, supposedly, people are going to "protest" high energy prices by not paying their bills. In France that resulted in the utility company EDF going bankrupt and being nationalized. Price controls will result in the same scenario through the EU.

People will get free socialist energy good and hard. That is it will be "free" but there won't be any, except for the "elite".

Self Sufficient Future

I went for a long bike ride yesterday through the neighborhood where I grew up. It's in a rural/suburban township that was lightly populated when I was a kid in the 1980s. Back then only a few cul de sac neighborhoods had been developed in the township and the rest of it was old farm fields and scrubby woods, or older growth woods. There were quite a few miles of dirt roads plus chip and tar roads. The main roads were paved and well maintained.

Back in the 1980s, even though the township was even more rural than today, there was hardly any farming activity. I never heard a rooster crow when I was growing up. There were a couple hobby farms, and one horse farm fairly close to my house, but that's about it. Today, though, lots of people have farm animals and gardens. In some neighborhoods every other house has chickens, and a handful of homes have pigs or even cows.

I think in the 1980s, boomer homeowners had a negative view of farming; it was a country bumpkin activity that maybe some of them were trying to leave behind. Today, people are moving toward self sufficiency, because they know the system is failing.

Lefties are terrified about a move toward self sufficient people. The big leftist theme is everyone will live in a city that's lorded over by a parasite political class and controlled by computers. The drone denizens will eat bug paste and own nothing. All the power will go into the hands of political hacks with opinions. There's many YouTube channels that showcase those opinions. People confuse those opinions with "science".

The government currently supports solar power, but that's really a threat to their centralizing plans. It's a pretty straight line from solar powered household to self sufficient homestead, and that's likeliest to succeed in ruralish, exurban places with lots of land. The leftist parasite government is essentially incentivising homesteading.

Solar is Actually Cheaper

I finally did a deep dive analysis of solar power for my house. I did the same thing maybe 10 years ago and concluded it wasn't economical back then. Now it's actually economical, that is, it's cheaper than grid power with some caveats.

The system I "designed" is a whole house, not connected to the electrical grid system. It's pretty expensive ($30k+) but is probably significantly cheaper over 20 years (the system life) than 20 years of grid power. (We pay about $2,500 per year for electricity.) It's $30,000-ish versus $50,000+ for grid power. One of the big unknowns for me right now is how long do the very expensive batteries last. I would use a number of lithium iron phosphate batteries. A 4.8 kWh battery (a typical american home consumes 30 kWh per day) is about $2000 right now! For 30 kWh it's about $14,000 in batteries (7). If the batteries really only last 5 years that's adds a lot to the system cost and it's not economical. If they really last 10 as the manufacturers claim, it's probably economical.

What does the system look like? It's pretty big. It's a 15 kWatt (more or less) system that uses 320 Watt panels. I'd build 3 arrays of panels that are 11 feet by 17 feet! The overall footprint of the panel arrays would be about 40 feet wide by 10 feet deep. I have plenty of land, but I'd actually have to prepare the area for the array, but I have the tools for that already. I'd build a small shed for the batteries and the controller/inverter. The shed has to be heated, insulated and equipped with a fan by the way. I could put all the batteries and controller in the house, but I'd rather keep it separate.

It's significant that it's cost effective where I live, because I'm in one of the worst areas for solar in the lower 48 states. It's very cloudy here (as cloudy as the Pacific Northwest). Everywhere else in the lower 48 is better for solar, so the system would cost less. In short everyone in the US with some property could produce electricity for significantly less money than a utility company can.

Grid Level Solar is Like Grid Level Refrigeration

There are a lot of grid level solar projects. I think those projects are really stupid. In theory it "makes sense" because they can produce power, possibly, for less than other forms of electricity generation plus there are scam government subsidies, etc... that distort the real costs of everything.

However, if it's really true that solar is cheaper than natural gas power, for example, it's even cheaper for residents to build their own system. The centralized production of electricity with solar is based on the current-day scenario that few people have solar power systems of their own. It's like refrigeration back in say 1920 or something. When the first electric power fridges came out, there were probably people providing centralized fridge or ice making services. That still happens in Amish country. Today, though, there's hardly any centralized fridges, because it makes zero sense.

The grid level solar projects are doomed. Wind power is probably double doomed because solar will keep getting cheaper.

Grid Level Solar Seems Stupid

 Solar panels are cheap and are really easy to install. I think a 12 year old with basic handyman skills could successfully setup a solar power system. In many places in the country, whole house solar power is a no-brainer decision. If you own a home in Arizona, New Mexico, Southern California, Florida, etc... it makes sense to install solar today. The power from the system will be at least 50% cheaper than grid power.

I doubt it makes sense to tie residential solar panels to the grid. If every household has solar panels in Phoenix, AZ, for example, who needs the surplus power? It's an extremely expensive way to provide surplus power to the handful of people who don't have their own system in that case. The scenario is the same, there, regardless of scale. For an industrial user, they'd have a bigger system and it will probably still be cheaper for energy than the grid.

The solar farms seem kind of dumb. There's transmission losses, etc... It makes more sense to generate the power on site. For many people, it would make sense to get rid of their inverter in their house and run DC to their electronic gizmos, too.

Where It's All Headed

 The government of Spain is (supposedly) setting limits for public building thermostats. 80F for the A/C and 66F for heating season. The "future" for many people will be electronic control and rationing of everything, so it's "free" in the socialist sense of that word.

There's two paths people can take: more self sufficiency and decentralization or techno-slavery so everything will be "free" (and unavailable), except you.

Solar (panels) is Cheap

One of the common arguments about the "inevitable" green energy future is solar panels are cheap.

They are, but they only provide power when the sun is shining.

Batteries are expensive. Backup for one small house for one day retails at $12,000 now and it lasts 20 years, like the panels. In Arizona, then, solar panels can produce power for one house for 20 years pretty reliably for around $23,000 (DIY) today, it might be cheaper or more expensive in the future. Batteries might get cheaper, or might get significantly more expensive. It's pretty hard to know at the moment. But anyway, $23k/20 = $1150/year. That is quite cheap. In the southwest, Texas, Florida and other sunny states, Solar is a no-brainer. Even if you have to set aside $12,000 for potential emergency repairs over that 20 years, it's still just $1750 a year if you do have to replace a failed battery, or lose the panels in a storm.

In places along the Great Lakes or in the Pacific Northwest it might be $100,000 for equivalent reliability, or about $5k a year. That's expensive. If it's not reliable, is it really worth the fuss?

Storms might destroy panels every so often, maybe once every 50 years in certain areas, or maybe once every 20 years in other places. Also the panels will require infrequent maintenance in sunny areas--dusting or cleaning at minimum every once in a while. It's probably less maintenance than cleaning gutters once a year.

Anyway, in sunny areas, solar makes a lot of sense. Does it make sense to replace natural gas capacity with solar in sunny areas? That's a different question. I don't really know.