I have often wondered: could it be that there was a time when advertising shifted from being benign to becoming parasitic on society; and that corporate social media is an enhancement of that same mechanism first harnessed by newspapers, then radio, then television; where media outlets draw so much of people’s attention away from their own lives and into unproductive, passive, low-grade entertainment that overall societal productivity declines so dramatically that the very customers who would consume the products and services being peddled are no longer able to afford them; thereby leaving medicine as the primary and terminal product, because it is not paid for by the consumer themselves but directly through money printing via subsidized and socialized medical care? View quoted note →

I am excited to test out my cold weather gear tomorrow night in -40 wind-chill. Any guess how long I will be able to stand outside without moving?

The conditions are unfavorable. Beans were consumed. Today is a good day to let ’em fly.

A lawyer asks a farmer, “If I ask you a question and you get it right, I’ll give you one BCash. If you ask me a question and I can’t answer it, I’ll give you one Bitcoin.” The farmer agrees. The lawyer asks his question. The farmer gets it wrong and pays one BCash. Then the farmer asks, “What’s BCash good for?” The lawyer thinks for a long time. Then he gives the farmer one Bitcoin. The lawyer says, “So what’s the answer?” The farmer hands him one BCash.

A man’s walking down the sidewalk and almost steps on Monero. He jumps back and says, “Whoa!” He looks at it. “Looks like Monero.” He smells it. “Smells like Monero.” He touches it. “Still warm.” He tastes it. “Yep. Good thing I didn’t step in it.”

A lawyer asks a farmer, “If I ask you a question and you get it right, I’ll give you five dollars. If you ask me a question and I can’t answer it, I’ll give you fifty.” The farmer agrees. The lawyer asks his question. The farmer gets it wrong and pays five dollars. Then the farmer asks, “What goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four?” The lawyer thinks for a long time, then gives the farmer fifty dollars. The lawyer says, “What was the answer?” The farmer gives him five dollars.

The Navy detained a Cuban tanker in the Gulf of America. Said its engines were stressing a protected whale. Whale was relocated to a costal windmill farm.

Tell me if you've heard this one, it was my grandma's favorite: A man walks along the sidewalk. He almost steps on a pile of dogshit and says "whough!" practically toppling over. He looks and says "Hmmm, that looks like dogshit!" Then he gets down and smells it. "It sure smells like dogshit." He feels it with his pinkey finger. "Its warm like fresh dogshit." Then he puts his finger in his mouth. "Hmm, it tastes just like dogshit. Good thing I didn't step in it!"

Lies wouldn't have any appeal of they weren't mixed with truths. * Identify the lack of connective tissue between an offered problem and the proposed solution. * Ask whether there are alternative explanations and dismiss those only systematically, but choose not out of preference * Consider the source, reject credentials as credibility, is your source also deceived? * Accept that one can never know some truths without the offender, when too powerful, admitting a transgression and they never will. * If it looks like a duck, it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck: It IS a duck, even when they say it is a goose. * If an individual, assume innocence. If an institution, assume guilt.

Government: "If you make yourself my slave, then I will respect you."

Why is AI output "slop"? It is because we can sense authorship. Even behind the dryest corporate policy documents, we can sense someone, or a committee, was behind the words. As soon as we sense it was written by AI, we immediately reject it as valueless. Will we condition the next generation to obey the AI through AI driven education? Will they obey it, even if they are forced to? I suspect our dreams of sitting back and doing everything for free with AI will quickly turn into a nightmare of a world of trash.

I had a great time this weekend being trained by SERE instructors

God is spoiling me

Biden's last 6 months in office were perhaps the best period of presidency in America's history... because he was dead.

I'm considering making a follow-pack of fags - people that irritate me.