Nuclear Subsidies for Tech Bros

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

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

None of the current mania makes any sense at all.

People Systematically Buying Older Cars

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

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

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

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

Are They Actually Going to Invade Venezuela?

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

1930s Neglected Fridge Still Works

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

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

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

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

Formula for Future Success

Human life is pretty simple.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Country Run by Dopes

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

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

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

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

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

Trump Nuclear Plants: LoL

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

Billionaire Scammers Don't Give a Shit About Global Warmaids Now

Bill Gates recently dropped the global warming bullshit story because there's not enough power to squander on "AI datacenters". Those clowns are always lying and want free money from taxpayers all the time. I wonder if it will ever be so obvious to all the people in the US that it's open season on them all.

50 Year Mortgages

Rumors that banks will start offering 50 year mortgages on homes are making the rounds. I think it's plausible/likely that will happen, which will drive house prices up even more. The neoliberal economic system is heading for the dustbin. It probably took a decade, maybe even two for the post WW2 system to mostly die off. It will probably take about as long for our current POS economic system to go in the trash.

The demented leadership of the US and really the western world wants to replace it with techocratic central planning and digital currencies, but I don't think that will happen. Who knows what will though.

"Management" and the Mediterranean Slave Culture

For most of my adult life I've been working on "projects" of one kind or another. At work, I do tech projects. At home I do things like garden, or home improvements, or property "improvements". I organized several bicycle races over the years, which is actually a pretty big undertaking. One thing I learned is when there's a lot of "management" involved in a project, it will probably fail because the people couldn't do it in the first place--I only see that happen at corporate jobs. On the flip side, when there's no management required, the project is certain to succeed.

In those projects that were certain to succeed, everyone knew what they were doing. So the "management" involved was making a check list, then the team checked the items off, then the project was done.

The corporate idea that incompetent people can be "managed" to be productive seems like an idea from the never ending slave societies that extended back before the bronze age. This idea is the main idea of the current day neoliberal corporatocracies. I think it's incompatible with the northern european people's DNA. It's a shame they're all wasting their time and energy keeping these shit corporate systems running.

The technocrat society is the ultimate expression of that ancient slave culture. Build huge infrastructure to "manage" every aspect of life... Gross.

OpenAI wants Taxpayer Funding for their Hobby Project

Apparently there's not enough 401(k) and pension money to fund a bunch of GPUs and electricity to run chatbots, so tech industry parasites are asking for taxpayer funding. If they aren't funded to finish their hobby project, "china" might do it.

Unfortunately, I think the feds will throw money at these projects and accelerate dollar devaluation--to build chatbot datacenters.

Unlike the dotcom era, when investors threw money at pets.com, WorldCom and Global Crossing, lots of resources are needed to build out the infrastructure for AI data centers. In the dot com era, stonks could soar on a speculative future business where a company just sucked money up with big, but cheap in resource terms stuff, like selling pet toys online. To do that business, you just needed a few warehouses, a few servers and internet service, and mainly a bunch of employees to run it.

The AI model is society needs to build a bunch of expensive, resource intensive stuff to run a silicon valley bro corporation, mainly to feed some billionaire trash more money. It's utterly retarded. Multiple new power plants are needed just to run some dumb AI models, basically to replace some workers with a data center that's sucking up resources. It's very dumb.

"China" Competition

Recently, the tech industry trotted out the "China" bogeyman as justification for taxpayer funding of datacenters and other tech industry projects.

All the people who shipped jobs to India and China are now worried the US, which they have zero allegiance to and even despise and scorn, will "lose" some mythical race to China. Seems implausible. Also seems that generations of such business people are dumb asses that constantly make bad choices... so why slave away on their behalf?

The US corporation made endless terrible decisions the whole time I've been conscious, mainly because the people who actually run the country are delusional sickos. When the cold war ended, there was a real chance to bring the former Soviet Union into the western "liberal" system, however, the western liberal system ended at roughly the same time and shifted into central planning and endless warfare mode and neocons completely took over US war and economic planning.

The idea that there's some existential threat associated with China "winning" the non-existent AI contest is just some dumb talking point by tech industry grifter scumbags.

The tech industry is just meandering all over the place, not really providing a whole lot of value. A whole lot of the US economy turned into some kind of potemkin village scenario where people go to an office and turn a crank that poops out power point presentations because they work to keep the central banking system running and to help fund billionaire lifestyles rather than solve simple problems of their life or their community.

People frenetically "invest" in these crap corporations and barely even know anything about their home, or the geography of their immediate vicinity or their neighbors, etc...

 

The US Gov't is Full of Psychopathic Trash

Apparently, the Trump administration is plotting a war on Venezuela. I'm not sure what the pretext is. I guess they want oil? Who knows anymore. 

Israel is Full of Psychopath Trash

The Zionists jews are an Aum Shinrikyo style death cult. Footage of torture and rape of Palestinian prisoners by IDF soldiers was leaked by, to her great credit, a member of the IDF Major General Yafit Tomer-Yerushalmi. Then Israeli citizens broke into the prison where it was happening, not to protest the horror of their nation raping and torturing prisoners, but instead to demand it continue!

I'm sure there are good people in Israel in spite of it being the site of endless horrors for thousands of years, however, it's clear the people who run that country are antinomian psychopaths or the most vile weirdos on Earth. The US government should not support Israel. It probably wouldn't if the government of the US wasn't a totally compromised pile of similarly shit people. 

Learned Helplessness and the School System

We recently watched Lethal Weapon (1987). That movie, like many of the TV shows and movies of that era, features saxophone in its theme music. The sax was relatively common in the pop music of that time as well. I ended up playing sax from middle school all the way through college. I only played in college because I had a scholarship. I was pretty much done with it by the end of high school.

The music program in my high school was really good, but I knew I didn't even want to be a professional musician, or even an amateur hobby musician, so it was kind of a waste of my time even though I was relatively good at it. When we were watching Lethal Weapon I had flashbacks to the "Solo and Ensemble" contest that were held every year.

Every year, musicians from local schools would travel to one of the schools in Northeast Ohio and play a solo or an ensemble piece. I did it every year I was in high school. It's not a contest in the sense that one person per category can "win", you just get a grade and maybe a ribbon or medal, I don't really remember the details clearly. I know, though that the best grade is a "1", and maybe the worst is a "4".

Anyway, I was thinking about how that experience was similar to much of the other school related things I did. The students jump through fairly arbitrary hoops and are "judged" by fairly arbitrary groups of adults. It's a great example of "gamified reality" in fact it's training to live in the game-ified reality world. It has nothing to do with real life. I began to understand the difference sometime during the senior year of high school. I went and took scholarship tests, auditions, interviews at various colleges that year... I was mostly done with the phony formalism by then. The absurdity of it all was really starting to sink in.

If you want to be a professional musician, you go out and play and try to get jobs. If you want to be an amateur musician that plays for fun, you just play. Maybe you put it on YouTube if you want an audience. There's nobody "judging" that you got all the notes right and giving you a meaningless grade. Many musicians that made millions of dollars performing really kind of suck from the solo/ensemble contest perspective, or maybe had no formal music training.

The reality of being a musician is the same as being an engineer, or a scientist, or really anything. The idea you need "credentials" is just part of the gamified reality world. Some of the real world training you'd need to be capable in surgery, dentistry, or whatever, would be difficult to obtain outside the institutions that are part of the system currently, but it's not fundamentally different than learning to be a master craftsman at carpentry or metal working or whatever.

The gamified world is 100% arbitrary and not real at all. The vast majority, I'll say almost all the formal training I received from pre-school through college had nothing to do with real life. That sort of training applies to almost every "civilized" person. You're trained to play the game that's run by psychopaths and inbred ruling class weirdos. People have been living that way for thousands of years.

It's noteworthy that the game world imposes on "real life" as much as possible and winnows it down to a minimal percentage of people's time and experience for adults and kids alike. If you were raised in "the real world" solving real world problems instead of being raised "in the game", the game world would be an incomprehensible waste of time and energy. The game participants would be seen as bumbling dopes and utter fools.