Matter/Pattern

Sometimes the origin of words yields a surprisingly fresh insight into the nature of things. I was curious about the origin of the word "matter" as in "I matter", meaning, "I am important". The more common meaning of "matter", and maybe the "original" meaning is: undifferentiated stuff. Eventually, I guess that concept morphed into various versions of "stuff", for example "the matter at hand", which is maybe how it turned into the concept of "mattering", as in "I matter" as in "I am stuff as well".

The origin of matter is the Latin word mater, which is mother, as in mother earth. I think "mater" and various version of that word go waaaay back into the mysts of time and the theoretical "proto indoeuropean language". 

The origin of "matter" being "mother" leads to the obvious question what's the "pater" derived word that takes on the same role, and that's "pattern".

The concept that the undifferentiated material world is "feminine" and the plan is "masculine" is an old one apparently. One of the symbols of that is the obelisk, like the Washington monument, which is, of course, a dick. One of the associated ancient concepts in agriculture is "the sun" goes into "the earth" and produces the plants in a crop.

Nothing Lasts and "You" Don't Matter

The mind exists in "an information dimension". Other people with a similar model of the mind think there's "one information dimension" and conceptualize it as a place and think the distinction between individual's minds is an illusion. Who knows? Anyway, there's a sort of strange relationship between this dimension and the 3D reality world. They are attached, but distinct. In fact, the concept of a "space" or "dimension" seems entirely off, but there's no other suitable analogy because ironically enough the mind's representations of such a concept revolve around the body's relationship to other objects in 3D reality.

This scenario gives birth to all sorts of human dramas and delusions. The entirety of these delusions is encompassed in the probably apocryphal, too good to be true story of Alexander "the great" meeting the cynic philosopher Diogenes of Sinope, which is in present day Turkey. The two men offer completely different conclusions about how one should live when the temporality of a mind is the most fundamental human fact.

Not only is "I" temporal but the entirety of human endeavor is also. Diogenes decided to live the simplest possible, most "natural" life. Alexander went and killed a bunch of people and "conquered" territory to establish "hellenic civilization", that is to impose the mental model of his bros on as many people as possible to the extent that's ever possible which is "great". The civilization model is basically a shared delusion.

For some odd reason for many people it's a bitter pill to swallow the notion that nothing at all lasts and you don't "matter" even though this is as obvious as the blue sky, stars, or sunrise. In a world of all change, nothing lasts. Even stones eventually turn to dust. Men and women age. Once firm, supple skin turns wrinkly and dry. The entire world of man will be over in the blink of an eye in geological terms. That is all obvious.

The story of Diogenes and Alexander revolves around the "I matter" concept. Ultimately, mattering can be boiled down to "leaving a mark". I think that terminology betrays the origin of the "I matter" concept. The verbal and symbolic reasoning aspect of the mind is an entity of symbol processing and memory. As long as there's "memory" there's an "I". Another aspect of "mattering" is being able to impose one's own internal model of reality on others. A person can insist "I matter the most". This particular idea is expressed by the tombs of pharaohs of Egypt, or those Chinese emperors buried with terracotta armies, or Viking funerals where the bros of the dead dude sacrificed women, pets, horses and the like.

Modern variations on this theme are greatly attenuated and more playful. For example, the grave of Benjamin Orr, a member of the rock band  "The Cars" has a grave site in Thompson, Ohio. Fans put little trinkets to pay homage to his memory. Similarly, Chef Boyardee's grave in All Soul's cemetery in Chardon is honored with cans of spaghetti and meatballs and the like.

 

Another twist on this scenario is people form narratives with a "god" and order of the world related to the god or gods, where the "I" existed before birth, then continues after death but is blessed or punished according to some cosmic rule book and presumably a life score. This is the mind model of probably billions of people. The concept there is one "matters" as part of a gamified, systemic reality. The particular rules of these games are bizarre and utterly arbitrary.

I think the rules various groups invent betrays some genetic underpinning for belief. Like various sects of jews have hyper-legalistic beliefs about their demon lord's systemic game. Other ethnic groups understand the game is not legalistic at all, because of course it's absurd god has a giant set of rulebooks and have more animistic and ironically more comprehensive views of the information dimension/spirit realm.

Japanese Cars and the Tech Industry

I've been working in "tech" for years doing so called embedded software. It's the type of software that runs in an electronic gizmo you might own, like a Roku, or a cable modem, or a stereo, bike computer or whatever. There are countless such items out there in the world, and there's some team of software people making them work.

In the past 10-15 years, I'd say that particular niche of tech, like the rest of tech, "jumped the shark". At some point in the early 2000s, maybe around 2008-10, the task of writing that type of software subtly shifted from creating something new to "integrating" existing components that other people wrote. That same thing happened all through the tech industry.

"Integrating" systems seems much easier than creating things from scratch, but it often doesn't work out like people hope and generally products based on that approach end up being pretty janky and fragile. Tech gizmos "created from scratch" can also be janky, but in my experience, the products built more or less from scratch did not have the "janky" characteristic.

Anyway, I think the "integrated tech junk" problem will get significantly worse over the next few years because of AI generated slop code, which will take the "engineer" job down another notch from being an integrator to being a slopmaster.

I think this is actually a great opportunity in tech similar to the opportunity Japanese car manufacturers had in the 70s and 80s. They focused on reliability and value when the big three in the US were focused on style and marketing. I guess the analogous scenario in tech would be to make software and devices that actually work instead of focusing on AI generated slop, or "natural language" AI interfaces.

NYC Spent $81K Per Homeless Person

Governments are good at wasting money and killing people.

The government of NYC spent $81,000 per homeless person. The obvious reaction to that is, why not just give the homeless people that money so they can live in a home, or smoke it all up as crack, or whatever

There's not really any way to "fix" problems like homelessness because there's no way to fix people. I'm not sure what fraction of the population can actually be helped, but it's pretty small. Dysfunctional people generally can't be "fixed". The people who are otherwise functional, but end up in some acute trouble they can recover from only with help is a very small group indeed.

Those people who are capable of recovering should, obviously, be helped. The people who receive government assistance but can't really recover or ever be productive are actually the basis for an industry that's really lucrative for the people running it.

Anyway, I guess nobody should be shocked at a number like $80K. The really interesting thing to know would be how much do executives and management in the homeless industrial complex make relative to that. I'm sure some of those people are getting into the seven figures in salaries, i.e. a  10x or more multiple of what the average crackhead costs a place like NYC.

Narratives and Mountain Bike Trails

I regularly ride on a couple of mountain bike trails. One is in my woods on my property. The other is in a park that's about a mile from my house. The trail in my back yard is about 0.8 miles. The park trail is about 6 miles. I've ridden dozens of laps on the backyard trail and maybe 10 laps of the park trail.

One of the interesting things that happens with these trails is my brain "automatically" subdivides the trail into a collection of linked segments. I didn't sit down with a piece of paper and draw a map or really even think about it at all, but it's obvious after the fact that there are distinctly different sections all linked together.

There's obvious advantages to thinking about the trails like that. Generally each segment contains a specifically difficult challenge, like a steep hill, or a gnarly set of turns, a narrow bridge, or an obstacle of some kind. It's often helpful to be mentally prepared a second or two ahead of time to get positioned on the bike, or speed up, or slow down in advance.

Also there's an overall distinct "feel" of the section, which is how the sections come to be delineated in the first place, like going up a steep hill is just all out hard, or cruising down a gentle slope is fast and easy, but in that case it's necessary to be attentive to corners to not brake too much and maintain some speed.

Anyway, it's pretty common for the mountain bike sessions to feel like an adventure story. Typically it's about executing each section cleanly and as fast as possible. It's really easy to blow it and have to brake hard or go off a trail or even crash. It's self-rewarding to get through a turn at speed or to go blasting over a narrow wood path that's 30 feet long.

I don't do a similar mental segmentation of a road bike route at all. It often has distinct sections, but they're much longer in terms of both time and distance and generally the focus of the mind is on maintaining some level of effort, rather than trying to stay on the road.

It's fairly easy to see where "meaning" in a story comes from when looking at the MTB trail case. The narrative is associated with physicality on the MTB. The physical effort is similar to emotion in the instance of a story. A piece of music is similar, that is words or the overall flow of the music is linked with physicality through rhythm and the up and down of the pitch and maybe emotional content of the chords and words.

More "Invade Iran" Blather from Trump

The USA is the ultimate "Zionist Occupied Government" 4channers and others raved about for years. It is utterly stupid for the US to try to invade Iran after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq fizzled out with nothing positive to show. I don't think it's even remotely plausible to drop US infantry into Iran in any significant numbers. I'm sure there are plenty of special ops dudes running around in Iran, but that's a lot different than setting up bases, etc... Anyway, draft dodging Trump continues to pretend that invading Iran is an option. It's appalling the US has such trash installed in DC and has for many presidencies.

Billionaires and Cults

I recently watched some videos of Peter Thiel talking about transhumanism and the anti-christ and other "fringe" topics. It makes a ton of sense that rich people are into transhumanism, because death mocks the whole concept of wealth and privilege. It also makes sense that wealthy people are really into "the occult" and secret societies like skull and bones and other similar nonsense all of which is related to the "transhuman" projects because they're all about an "escape" from death.

Think about billionaires of yesteryear, like pharaohs of Egypt. They built elaborate tombs and were surrounded by a bunch of cults and priests that developed funerary rites and guide books of the afterlife basically "to live forever". Nobody today can really imagine some deadass mummy is "alive" or that there is a very particular egpytian spirit world filled with the phantasmagoria their priests came up with while smoking ancient egyptian crack and somehow a pyramid and a room full of their bling setup an apartment in hell. However, some billionaire will listen to a dude like Ray Kurzweil about transhumanism, whose just another version of the same shit and invest in elaborate scammy projects to help move crazy projects forward.

It makes me think the rapid construction of data centers and splooging gazillions into "AI" is more about their cultish beliefs than anything else. It seems entirely plausible that "the wealthy" or ruling class people support an ongoing R&D effort, maybe lasting centuries, that's 20% serious/80% scam. Then there are reactions to that R&D project in entities like the catholic church. They still have "exorcists" and demonologists (you can find videos of priests talking about these subjects at length on youtube).

The concept of "demons", demonic possession and various occult practices seem to all revolve around "the ego's" realization it's alien to the 3D physical reality world, the same way a computer program is alien or in another dimension from the physical computer hardware, really all information is in some separate dimension apart from physical reality though thoroughly attached to it.

Over the years people have come up with various faux operations on "the ego". One concept is a human being can "shed their ego", that is, drop their personal history and become "reborn". I think the overall phenomenon at work in that concept is the personal history is accidental and imposed by others, like parents, the culture, random life experience, etc... and the egomaniacal weirdo wants to be fully self made and "perfect". I think this is also related to the nature of death; the grim reaper is present in the accidental/random nature of experience and circumstances of birth. The egomaniac wants to be free of that.

There's another variation on that theme where the "ego is discarded" and then replaced with a so called "demon". Various secret societies seem to practice this concept. For example some occult jewish groups basically believe in some version of resurrection in this manner, that is, the demon of some dead jew takes up residence in some current day live jew. A prominent example of this is Sabbathi Zevi who beamed down into Leo Frank. Note that this concept is essentially the same idea as being "an officer" of some corporation, which is a faux being.

Unfortunately, the whole population of the west is suckered into these schemes, just like in ancient egypt many generations of average joes spent their life building tombs for dead retard psychos. It's gross. Fuck these people.

Sorry rich bros, you're going to die just like me, a bird, or a bum on the streets. In fact the natural and sometimes rapid death of animals, even when sometimes horrible, seems better in many ways than kicking the bucket in a nursing home or under hospice care or whatever.

Trump Sending in Marines?

There's a rumor that 5,000 US marines might "go into Iran"? I'm not exactly sure what that means. Maybe they are going to try to control the straight of Hormuz or something? It seems entirely implausible the US can perform some type of amphibious landing in Iran, so it's not clear what this rumor even means. Perhaps it is meant to pump oil prices. It is Friday the 13th, so maybe some cult/numerologist retard in the federal government took the auguries and decided it is time indeed to "invade".

Anyway, I guess we won't know until the Baal worshippers in DC and Israel decide to do it. I'm not sure how many marines it would take to wipe out the current Epstein government and reboot the US from the corporate oligarchy run by devil worshipers to something resembling Jeffersonian democracy. 

Failing Volkswagen Screws Workers, Execs Cash In

 This is a very typical story: Volkswagen plans 50,000 job cuts due to plunging profits while board members secure €1.75 million each in bonuses

Even though VW is swirling down the toilet, the executives structured their bonus schemes so they would almost certainly be paid while at the same time they shafted the workforce. This is a pattern that's very common, although once in a great while some CEO bucks the trend and sacrifices for their workers.

Even though blatant cheating and malfeasance is so common these days, it will eventually stir up a hornet's nest especially if times really get tough for the average joe or jane. They will realize the nominal "ruling class" is actually very easy to reach out and touch so to speak.

This is yet another reason why absurdism is the only philosophy that makes any sense. "The system" always runs amok. Eventually the average person realizes everything they were conditioned and trained to believe is a lie that keeps them docile and working for trash.

Mock Cults/Religions

While I was thinking about the question "do cult leaders believe their own bullshit?" the case of mock cults and mock religions came to mind. A couple of good examples of those are Dudeism, which is a faux religion/philosophy based on the movie The Big Lebowski which is maybe related to concepts from Robert Anton Wilson's "Discordianism".

Another related phony religion is "The Church of the Subgenius" which was a big thing when I was in high school and college--the mascot image of that religion was a 1950s looking man with a pipe named "J.R. Bob Dobbs". I'm not even sure how I knew that. It's possible some friends of mine had materials from the parody "religion" in high school. One of the guys who developed the "Church of the Subgenius" is Ivan Stang who was headquartered in Cleveland Heights, Ohio for some time, which is maybe why it was a big thing here. Stickers of J.R. Bob Dobbs were all over the place. I haven't seen one for ages though.

The mock religions are an interesting case because they are created, intentionally, as a parody of mainstream religions and cults. I think they mock the general concept of "belief" in what's often, ultimately a comic book. Or maybe more generally, they are a reiteration of the concept that the symbolic reasoning mind is really an alien to this earth and can actually "know nothing" of substance. This concept is emphasized most strongly, I think, by science, the ultimate rational mind project which basically demolished all "revealed" religions and then led to the bizarre concepts of the 19th century philosophers who gave birth to Nazi and Zionist ideologies which are really just another species of mock religions.

The "judaism" of a guy like Benjamin Netanyahoo or Ben Shapiro is as "serious" as Dudeism or the Church of Scientology. The core of their "belief" is from a Nazi philosopher who preached that "believing really really hard" was the ultimate/best human activity, which is obviously nonsensical.

Another related example of these fake churches is faux music groups like "the KLF" who had a number of huge hit songs in the early 1990s like "3AM Eternal" and that song that's played all the time at basketball games "Dr Who and the Tardis".

This whole subcategory of philosophy or overall approaches to life is really related to what I'd call "the way", and it pops up at the end of empires. A philosopher like Diogenes is a great example of one. I think the overall category could be labeled "absurdism". I'd even lump stoicism in with that category, and count myself as an absurdist. I think the gnostics are another related category; their claim to knowledge is radically subjective.

The absurdists realize that claims on knowledge are mostly false. Not much can be known. Virtually ever single person parading around on the public stage is an absolute fraud and scumbag. Nations and religions are corporations fleecing people and often mass murdering people for profit.

Will the Psycho Jew Mafia Launch a False Flag Attack on the US?

Unfortunately, it seems like a near certainty that the psycho jew mafia will launch a false flag attack on the US and blame it on Iran and the corrupt doofus government and many dumb fuck Americans will go along with it. However, at the same time lots of people in the US are skeptical of such claims by now. Even if it's 25% of the population that's a whole lot. The media is not as capable of bamboozling the masses as they once were. It's probably wishful thinking to imagine the public would say "no" to escalating the retarded war on Iran to a full scale ground invasion, but it could happen. 

Do Cult Leaders Believe Their Own Bullshit?

Back in the 1980s, a famous west-coast cult led by an Indian guy named "Bagwan Sri Rajneesh" broke up under pressure from governments for its nefarious activities. The cult was large and had lots of money and real estate all over the world. The cult leader had a collection of Rolls Royce cars. That aspect of the cult was featured on a 60 Minutes piece about it back in the early 80s. I remember watching it when I was a kid.

One of the persistent questions about cults is do the leaders of a cult believe their own bullshit? In the 60 Minutes piece, Rajneesh came across as a very cynical scammer. Whatever words he said were betrayed by his mannerisms and owning a collection of expensive cars, at least that's what I thought when I was maybe 12 years old or so.

 

The Rajneesh cult was just starting to go down the full crazy trail just like Heaven's Gate, or Jonestown cult or Aum Shinrikyo did by the time the Rajneeshies came under legal pressure. For example, they poisoned the local townspeople near their Oregon cult HQ with salmonella in 1984.

The prevalence of cultish behavior and beliefs is lost on many people. For example, in the image above of Rajneesh in a Rolls includes a bunch of people in "asian" style garb and many people associate cult behavior with things "asiatic" or from "the east". However, there are plenty of jews in cults, or european descended people in western style cults. You can find scenes of mobs of jews worshipping various messiah type figures wearing their particular garb which is just some version of the robes warn by the Rajneeshies.

Here's a picture of Trump visiting the grave of Schneerson, the guy pictured above, who led a large cult that apparently is running the US government now.

One model of the cult leader is they are a cynical scammer who knows the ideas they sell to their believers are all imaginary. That is, if they were to have a discussion with an outsider about their cult's beliefs, they'd acknowledge the cult beliefs are just a bunch of nonsense and stories. Another model of the cult leader type is they are also "committed" to their stories. Often they invent a third party, aka "god" who gave them a "revelation".

I think the second type of cult leader is actually the most common and it's the current model in charge of Israel, or the model of the neocons in the United States, which actually seems based on Germanic romantic philosophy and the overall "anti-rationalist" theme of it.

Is the Trump Admin Dumb Enough to Send Troops into Iran?

Lots of pundits are pointing out an "Iran Invasion" is essentially a suicide mission, or is totally implausible to begin with due to the terrain in Iran: It's extremely rugged, even worse than Afghanistan. Also the Iranians had decades to prepare for such a war, so any attempt to invade would likely turn into a bloody failure regardless of air superiority and technological wonder tools like satellites, etc...

In spite of that, the Trump admin seems to be intimating an invasion is in the offing. This makes me wonder if the purpose of the whole Iran boondoggle is really to "destroy" the US to rush in the next level of jewing the population with crypto-currency and AI tracking of behavior.

Anyway, we'll see what happens. The war doesn't seem to be following the script the US and Israel had hoped for and it keeps getting more dangerous every day.

Kelly Osbourne: Bad Models of Reality

I think I watched at least a few episodes of whatever TV show the Osbourne family was on in the early 2000s, so I was aware of who Kelly Osbourne is when her current day picture started circulating the Internet as a cautionary plastic surgery tale. She currently looks like a ghoul.

I think that's a great example of the vast gulf between the ideas people can have about 3D reality world, including their own body, and the natural order of things. It seems like there's no "good" cosmetic surgery, except for things like repairing injuries. Reshaping a human's face or body to fit some particular notion of beauty seems to almost always produce a trainwreck outcome.

Humans seem to have some built in methods of assessing very slight deviations from the natural distribution of muscle, bone, and skin maybe to help us avoid people with diseases. When a plastic surgeon slices and dices somebody's bones and muscles, it leaves some weird fingerprint of distortion that registers as "diseased" or something similar.

A few months ago I was on a flight to LA and sat behind a woman who had filler injected into her face--mainly her lips. She frequently talked to her husband throughout the flight, and he was across the aisle from her so her face was frequently visible. The filler is supposed to make a person look younger, but it just looks  like swelling, maybe from an insect sting. It must not be possible to replace lost collagen and other elements of the natural youthful skin in a way that accurately mimics it. It looks "off". This naturally draws attention if for no other reason than to figure out the problem the person is having.

Kelly Osbourne's visage is just a great example of the gulf between the natural order of things and the mental model of reality, which in her case is just some opinions she, maybe her family and a plastic surgeon had about what her face should look like.

The US "Secretary of War" Is a Cult Freak

 There's a video from 2019 of the current "Secretary of War" ranting about "building the temple" and all the associated kookery. A bunch of death cults infiltrated the Federal government. Aum Shinrikyo successfully infiltrated the Japanese government and police as well.

Israel Spraying Syrian Farmers' Crops

 There's a video from France 24, a public TV station, showing Israeli crop dusters spraying Syrian farmer's crops. Here's the youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyp9Xfess3Q

War, chaos, death and destruction from a racial supremacist ethnostate that unfortunately seems to completely control the federal government in the US.

US bombed a water plant in Iran

The entire gulf region depends on "man made" water, basically, because there's not nearly enough fresh water to support the millions of people who live there. That's true all through the middle east. Countries like Israel and Saudi Arabia rely on water desalination plants to supply the most basic need for their populations.

Apparently the US just blew up an Iranian desalination plant. I think so far the Iranians haven't done that. They blew up other civilian infrastructure so far, like airports and office buildings. If they decide to start bombing other more basic infrastructure like power plants, substations, and desalination plants life will get miserable for millions of people who live in an untenable environment.

Clash of Cults and a Delusional Public

Apparently one of the commanders in the US military stated that the war in Iran is somehow related to biblical prophesies and armageddon or whatever. Anywhere you look, all around the world you'll see some version of Aum Shinrikyo or some jewish/freemason sex cult like Epstein's little clique or NXIVM, dudes in robes in Bohemian Grove worshipping an Owl, which according to Richard Nixon involved the "gayest shit ever", or weirdness like "Skull and Bones" at Yale where they supposedly have a bunch of skulls and practice rituals of death and rebirth. That group appears to be a mix of hereditary members plus "new" membership. There are some families who had multiple generations of sons go through some cult at Yale.

Kookoo bananas evangelical christians spent millions of dollars breeding a "red heifer" for nutcase jew priests to sacrifice to bring about the construction of the third temple of demonologist king Solomon. One of the former supreme court justices was a member of the cult of Leo Frank. The Mormons followed a conman who peered into gazing stones to write their bible. The British Empire was essentially founded by Francis Bacon who worked with another occultist John Dee who practiced the same thing. They also participated in wife swapping a la Leo Frank.

At the same time, many people try to make sense of the world with rational analysis or game theory or look at resource scarcity or various other natural science-like explanations of world events. These rationalistic explanations are a present-day phenomenon. In the ancient world these cults were more out in the open and priesthoods were in league with the political unit of various places for thousands of years of human history. It seems like that system is still firmly in place.

Ironically the delusion of the public, now, is that it's "leadership" is meritocratic and rational, when they're really a bunch of nepo babies in cults run by magical thinking weirdos and LARPers. One of the interesting aspects of this particular delusion is the average US person is not shown the crazy ravings of "jewish" supremacists in Israel. The jews are presented as rational "western" people in a sea of rabid muslim fanatics. It's not very hard to find footage of some whacked out genocidal maniac jewish politician or priest though raving about prophesies and jewish supremacy.

The dopes in the Gulf region blowing each other up right now live in a desert with a huge population. There's no water there to support the population or to even irrigate crops. However they vie for supremacy over old comic books basically, rather than cooperate to improve their overall situation. It seems likely in this current war that basic infrastructure like water desalination plants will eventually be blown up which might make large regions of the middle east basically unlivable.

US Empire Problems

The US federal government has very little to do with the people of the US, except they were necessary to provide it with a huge credit limit. After the Vietnam War, the US Empire decided to go with an all professional military, and has followed the "technological wonder weapon" approach for years. The people running the empire have very little connection with the average citizen. It seems like their dream is to use technology so only the little clique of people in DC are needed to make any decision so they can carry out whatever psychopathic plan they dream up.

This approach is a side effect of the dreams of jewish supremacy and separatism that seem to plague Israel as well as DC and other places like New York or even Hollywood. The neocons in DC, for example, imagined all they needed in the Iraq war were plans and enough lies to keep the public duped. The US military was able to destroy the Iraq military, but in a few short years following the war, it was clear that the US wasn't really able to control the country, and now several years later, the remaining US presence in Iraq will probably be thrown out.

It's bizarre to me that on the heels of that failure, people in DC are tackling an even bigger opponent in Iran. Their plan seems to be to use US military air supremacy and US taxpayers to keep bombing Iran then try to destabilize the country so it just falls apart like Syria did... then they'll do something else, I guess install a jew in drag as an Iranian as the king of Iran.

In the meantime maybe tens of thousands of people in Iran will die, their property will be destroyed, and their lives will be completely disrupted.

None of that is helpful, useful, or in line with the interests of the average American person. It doesn't really matter that the government of the US is bought and blackmailed by what's basically a jewish death cult. I'm not sure how long that condition is going to last if the entirety of the public starts to despise their phony leadership and this cult. 

Drones--Too Cheap

Footage of drones blowing people or equipment up have been steadily flowing out of Ukraine for years now. There are fields covered with a mat of fiber optic cable from the fiber optic guided ones. In the current war in the middle east, Iran is hitting neighboring countries with relative ease. I read that one of the Iranian drone bombs costs about $50,000 to make. I think that might even be on the high side. One of those can do many millions of dollars of damage against the right commercial, industrial, or military target.

The US had this cost asymmetry problem for several decades of war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. The US, really the Jew Empire military will drop a multi-million dollar weapon on a mud hut. That effectively drains the entire US population of some small amount of life energy every time because we get the bill for all their nonsense. The cost to the population who built the mud hut is very low. It's not hard to build a mud hut.

This cost asymmetry is a pretty major problem for the Jew Empire, which is predominately a financial empire built on trade of oil for funny money. The US probably can't protect the infrastructure of oil rich countries in the Persian Gulf region and maybe can't protect oil trade to Asia from cheap drones. If you look at a terrain map of Iran, you'll see why, or look at a map of Shi'ite muslim population centers you'll see why.

Maple Syrup Season

Every year around late February/early March people in my area of northeast Ohio start maple syrup production from trees on their own property, usually in a shed/building they constructed specifically for that purpose. The number of households or farms that do it every year is surprisingly high. On every somewhat rural road, there is at least one household that has a sugar shack with steam rolling out of the roof during the days.

The sap rising is driven by heat cycling through the night and day. Overnight it's often below freezing, during the day it's often above freezing this time of year, and even when the air temperature is below freezing a tree with southern exposure will probably warm up through the day.

There are several different approaches for collecting the sap and concentrating it into syrup. The typical approach is to boil it, often with wood, especially if someone has a wooded property. However, there are many other more sophisticated/less resource intensive approaches too. Some people freeze dry the sap before boiling, for example. The ice effectively removes much of the water. Some people vacuum dry the sap all the way into syrup. There are also some reverse osmosis methods for producing saps. Presumably each approach has pros/cons.

A few friends of mine and former classmates of mine produce syrup every season. Some do it on small scale, some have an farm scale operation. Some retail the syrup themselves, some sell it through various small shops. There are also people who make the syrup into whiskey or other more processed goods. I think most people do it as a hobby, rather than a serious money making opportunity. However, when you own your property outright and have a low cost of living, even hobby farming activities result in a "profit", maybe of hundreds or low thousands of dollars.