UPDATE: The statue of slave trader Robert Milligan has now been removed from West India Quay.
It’s a sad truth that much of our wealth was derived from the slave trade – but this does not have to be celebrated in our public spaces. #BlackLivesMatterpic.twitter.com/ca98capgnQ
How interesting. Tell us more about the horrors of the Arab-Muslim slave trade and how black slaves were treated. I’m all ears…. https://t.co/oVipmrSvze
I have to say— I thought there was at least one or two things that the Democrats wouldn’t stoop to for the black vote, but there is a apparently nothing.
Dressing in African garb and getting on their knees for a photo op because it’s Monday, & only 4 months to November. pic.twitter.com/ZbEjor2R89
This is being circulated by NHS staff, who are getting rightly seriously annoyed at the repeated mass breaking of social distancing rules. pic.twitter.com/pMM297kQo9
In 1986 #RikMayall read George's Marvelous Medicine on Jackanory. It's full of his trademark explosive kinetic energy, his expressions and mannerisms spoke directly to every child who was lucky enough to watch it. It's nothing short of genius. pic.twitter.com/dEWW1tOPXH
…So we were especially pleased to receive a missive from Text US resident and BFF, Cade Fon Apollyon, last night…
Is this all a set up? Huge pallet of bricks just sitting outside of a Dallas court house. No construction in the area. @TheJusticeDept should find video of who made delivery, and when. #FalseFlagpic.twitter.com/6h5RWBbpgU
Some wars are kinda funny. At the start anyway. But at some point, shit is likely gonna get real. Not all boogeymen are created equally. Some are phantoms and shadows, others are quite real.
^Punched Out: The Rise and Fall of Derek Boogaard [Full Version] | The New York Times^
There will be survivors. They’ll crawl out of the rubble, piece their lives together and try to make sense of it all.
^Hockey Fight: wives reveal the cost of concussions – The Fifth Estate^
You may be wondering what war has to do with hockey. Does sport or even gaming have anything to do with war? Actually, I have no idea what you may be wondering. I only know what I am wondering, and what I am wondering about is the nature of conflict, and when/where/how it manifests. Who are those at odds, why are they at odds, and how does this evolve into war(s) which will further descend into battle(s) and combat. There appear to be many wars and many fronts. Maybe the term “war” has been inaccurately applied. Would be a good diversionary tactic. Draw attention away from the real fighting. Dangerous tho. Two fronts. That primary front is gonna have to fall.
^The Prodigy – Funky Shit Perplex Version^
No idea how many of those links you may have actually explored, but all of them are quite interesting, and they’re all related in some way, shape or form. Some links are stretchy, sure. But they are related. What really tied it all together for me was the story on the Hells Angels MC/Rock Machine MC and their war in Quebec, and a Canadian cop named Benoit Roberge.
Not only was he apparently playing both sides, he got 8 years, was granted day-parole after 2 years, and full parole a year after that. Now, I dunno if you’ve seen the video of George Floyd being murdered face-down on the pavement, but I can’t help but wonder what’s gonna happen if these cops aren’t charged with a crime. They were suspended, then shorty after that they were fired, but as of this moment, they’ve not been charged with any crime(s). And not only will they need to be charged, they’ll need to be convicted.
Q: What happened to guilty until proven innocent?
A: OOPS!!! What I meant to ask, was what happened to innocent until proven guilty?
They’ve not even been charged, let alone tried, so how can we possibly jump straight to a conviction.
Slippery. Very, very slippery this slope is.
All kinds of grey
^Nitzer Ebb – Once You Say (Celluloide Mix)^
Someone is about to show us the way. Heard a term last night called ‘T&Trace’. It appears to be shorthand for ‘Track And Trace’…some new Facebook something. Today, I hear that Twitter has started to label some or all of Donald Trump’s Twitter account Tweets as “misinformation”. That says to me that someone is getting ready to show us the way. Take us by our tiny unwashed hands, and guide us to the promised land. Not before the bank forecloses on our current residence(s) of course.
Hey, that reminds me, I know that many if not most people only own one house/one home. Some of us own zero houses/homes. Heard last night tho’ that Johnny Depp owns 14 houses? Like, personal residences I guess? His money and he can do whatever in the fuck he wants with it, but it’s strange for me to think of owning 14 houses. I guess maybe it’s possible that he rents some of them out, but to whom I wonder. The one home under discussion was a $2.9 million dollar horse farm in Kentucky? Who the fuck has the money to rent such a place, and why would anyone with that kind of bread be renting instead of buying?
Strange world
But yeah, someone is about to show us the way. President Trump appears to have the FCC looking into social media companies and their practices.
^Planetary Assault Systems – Haiku^
What in the fuck is a service company doing in the editorial business anyway? Twitter is a service. A communications service like AT&T or Western Union or Verizon. AT&T ain’t in the business of censoring my calls. They provide a service with some stipulations, if I violate the terms I am subject to my service being terminated, and if they violate the terms…well, they either make it right or are big enough to pretty much avoid any major trouble from am insignificant worm like me. Any violations by any party may be subject to further investigation by some government entity. But it’s unlikely that AT&T is gonna monitor and potentially censor or edit my calls.
What I’m trying to figure out is why Twitter is not breaking out from under the umbrella and adding some additional service. Twit Tour or TwitterSJW or Twit Sewer or something like that. You see only stuff that makes you happy. Wait…users already have the ability to create their own echo chambers. Why this extra layer? And why this extra layer within the existing architecture? Are they trying to circumvent moderation of accounts and pruning of accounts entirely by slapping accounts with some scarlet letter? Could also be that maybe Twitter is outgrowing their existing architecture, and this is a workaround. Maybe Twitter is wanting to sell? That said, I’m wondering if that last update to the Twitter TOS maybe had something in there that I didn’t fully understand at the time.
Twitgress
^White Pony – Falling^
I do know this, it would be funny as fuck if Twitter management is trying to influence the upcoming election. The so-called Russian election scandal in 2016 wasn’t sketchy enough, so, fuckit…let’s go whole hog.
Q: Is it possible that Twitter creates their own bot accounts, spam accounts, and/or scam accounts?
A: Like, via 3rd parties? Pays people to “hack” or otherwise exploit their own service?
Nah…unpossible. Why on God’s green Earth would someone bankroll a phantom army to exploit their own service.
A: I can think of some reasons
Relevance is relevant, and there’s nothing better than being relevant, even if you have to make yourself appear relevant via sketchy means.
Has a Julian Assange or maybe a fight club ring to it
Not to mention, why would someone expend the resources to attack someone who is already under attack? Especially if you are operating under the assumption that you are the one doing the attacking. Yeah, like Russia thinks they are doing the attacking, but in fact Twitter is actually attacking themselves. Kinda hard to get a punch in on someone who is already getting mobbed.
Pretty sure it’s impossible to pop a balloon that is not inflated. What’s that? You wanna know what I’m talking about?
I just got a question from the Whatever However Hotline, and the question centered around humility and how one achieves it. Supposedly, we all of us have a something called “the ego”, and we seem to accept this as being true.
We have an ego, end of story
By the same token, we all of us have the capacity to have humility, yet not everyone actually has humility. Occurred to me that a good way to pump some humility into someone is by inflating the ego, then popping that motherfucker. Of course, you could also inflate the ego then let the air out gently. Guess it all depends on your motives and maybe your immediate needs. If you want someone with stiff knees to bow, yeah, you maybe wanna humble them. But if you want someone to have some humility, maybe the slow-release is the ticket.
You're driving the bus, you figure it out
Hope this either answers your question or gets you pointed in the correct direction.
^REZZ – Diluted Brains^
Sitting and watching a movie with a friend, and I get a notification on my phone from YouTube. I’m subscribed to this person’s channel and have been for years, but, I don’t recall ever clicking that “notifications” bell thingie. That said…erm…sometimes I’m really not sure what to do. Not sure what to make of things. Is there anything to be done here? Or is there some course that needs to run?
^TAUNT SATAN IN THREE EASY STEPS…^
I’ve been following her on YouTube for years, and I’m honestly not sure what to make of that. I guess she/her channel got demonetized by YouTube, she started making some damnoddvids, and I was left a bit befuddled. They’ve only gotten more strange, but I can kinda empathize because I’ve ridden that razor of being a complete castaway for some time now. Some of her vids from way back helped me through some tough times, now it appears she’s up shit’s creek without a paddle, and I’ve no idea how to help. Can I help? Should I help? Plus, I’m a dude, so most people will likely think I just want to help her out so I can get into her pants/knickers.
Q: Why would I want to be in her pants, when it appears even she doesn’t want to be in them?
A: ? substitute “pants” with “shoes” if you're having trouble with the analogy ?
Good luck lady. Hope you find your feet ❤
^deadmau5 – Polaris^
Your health is a matter of public record. Your health is a matter of state concern. Your health is not your own business. You got an ailment, malady, condition or defect?
We wanna know about it
You wanna get out and gallivant around, you best be healthy. There will be no sickies out mingling with all the vaccinated people. The compliant might become ill thanks to your non-inoculated and diseased self. Wrapped up in your own self-interest(s). Pathetic. You are a pathetic citizen.
“Do you think if I weren’t a State Rep that he would have forced me? How is this any way to be treated?”
Treated? How is that any way to be treated? Are you under the impression that you are to receive special treatment or get special privileges because you’re an elected official? Because you tout yourself as Chairwoman of Higher Education and because you claim to represent 115,000 Ohioans?
I’d guess you’re not just and only a State Representative, you’re also a US Citizen, an Ohio resident, Butler County resident, appear to be a woman, potentially human, maybe a gun owner or firearms enthusiast, a wage-earner, taxpayer…in short, you wear a lot of hats. Lots of hats means more rules, not less. Methinks your view of the layer cake may be a bit askew. But, “resent” is 2/3rds of “represent” so I guess maybe a healthy dose of resentment for what you were is required in order to become what you want to be.
^Tears For Fears – My Girls (Animal Collective Cover)^
Something else that has me scratching my head is…wait, this appears to have happened on May 27th of 2020. Did the Ohio Statehouse just reopen or something? This lockdown nonsense has been going on for months. Are you telling me that all this time, security at the Ohio Statehouse has not been upgraded/augmented to ensure that suspected COVID-19 infected people are given the boot off-premises? Temperatures haven’t been taken until now, and no one has been kicked off state property for being a threat to security?
Just checked the Ohio Legislative Calendar and went all the way back to January. While it would appear that some sessions have been canceled, it also appears that the place has been open for business through this whole thing. Maybe she’s been playing hooky from the legislative sessions, and this was her first day back to work in months. The only other thing that I can think of is that maybe she’s up for reelection in November. Let’s check that out.
Yep…her term as State Representative of District 53 expires 31 December 2020 when the 133rd Ohio General Assembly adjourns. She’s only been in office for 4 years, and Ohio term limits say she can be in that position for up to 8 years. She’s gotta be running, which means she’s campaigning. Let’s dig some more.
DOH! She’s trying to upgrade from State Rep to State Senator. Ohio has 33 Senate districts, looks like she was trying to take the 4th Senate district, but lost in the GOP primaries to some dude named Lang.
Ouch
Not only will she not be moving to State Senate, looks like she’s out of a job entirely.
That “Butler County lawmaker” stigma is gonna hang around for a while. The ass in the chair may have changed, but that legacy of an asshole in the Ohio’s 53rd district is gonna live on for a while. On the upside, I hear there’s no such thing as bad press. Anything you can do to draw attention to a particular somewhere? Good all around. Especially for those occupying spaces where no one is looking.
— Michele Fioretti (@FiorettiMichele) May 29, 2020
…and the Petri dish ran away with the soon.
^Pixies.- The happening (subtitulada en español)^
I just saw something that reminded me Halloween is only 5 months away.
So much to do, and so little time
^Planet Jazz- Monster ??!^
If you’re looking for definitives, you came to the wrong place sister. The only definitive you’re gonna find here, is that there is definitely nothing to be found here. So yeah, 1 definitive, beyond that is all grey.
^Knife Party ‘Resistance’^
X: Where’ve you been?
Cade: You talking to me?
0: “Where’ve” is not something you see every day.
Cade: No it isn’t. Was just thinking that I can’t recall the last time I used “where’ve” in a sentence.
X: Where’ve you been?
Cade: This is about SoPi, isn’t it.
X: Maybe.
Cade: I forgot about it.
Z: That didn’t stop you from wandering off past SoPi-Z tho, did it?
Cade: You saw that did ya?
Z: …
Cade: Yeah I know that I have a few languishing, but at the same time, I’m getting close to the end.
X: This is about Victor.
Cade: I know. Had a lot of thoughts, wanted to write…
X: And completely forgot about SoPi-V in the process.
Cade: Did indeed forget.
Z: That didn’t stop you from wandering off past SoPi-Z tho, did it.
Cade: Is there an echo in here?
X: Zed. I wanna know about zed.
Cade: Having a tough time deciding when and where to use the Omega character in SoPi-V.
X: And if.
Cade: Correct, and if.
X: Why would you mix and match the Z/Zed character with the Omega character?
Cade: Good question. I don’t really know if Omega is representative of Z/Zed in this instance.
A: Are you changing any other characters?
Cade: No.
A: So why would you change Zulu to Omega.
Cade: Welp, my thought was that maybe 0/Zero could be better represented if I used Omega instead of Zed.
X: Flow.
Cade: Correct.
0: I’m gonna change the subject real quick. Do you really think it possible to create a verbal message in time, and postmark that message for delivery thousands of years in the future?
Cade: I don’t see why not. If we can transmit a message electronically and estimate how long it should take that message to travel a certain distance, I don’t see why a message couldn’t be sent from way back in the past to arrive in the now.
0: And you realize that we are talking about an audible message, right?
Cade: Welp, this idea isn’t a new one to me. But that thing about blackbodies the other day, plus some discussions with a certain someone about how events which are seemingly impossible to predict may in fact be predictable?
X: The short being, this is the first time you’ve given serious consideration as to how to explain to another how communications over time might be possible.
Cade: Correct. I’ve given the matter a lot of thought, it makes sense, just never expected anyone would want to hear about it.
X: And now, someone wants to hear about it.
Cade: They asked a question, it took me aback, I don’t know if they actually want me to go off on a tangent about how I see how this may be possible.
X: Relies too much on some risky leaps of faith.
Cade: Sorta. I would imagine the primary question is likely to be “what is the source?”
X: Bingo.
Cade: We make a lot of assumptions predicated on our own current abilities.
T: I think you may wanna explain that one a bit further if you can.
0: Try not to hurt yourself.
Cade: Noted.
X: Source.
Cade: Source and sources. What interested me was the potential delaying types of mechanisms.
X: Blackbodies.
Cade: Correct. A capacitor of sorts. A timing mechanism.
Z: Like…The Synchros?
Cade: The Synchros Of Time, yes.
Z: And what are those, prey tell.
Cade: Um…can we get back on track?
0: You were on track?
B: DOH!
T: Woah nelly.
X: BOOYA!
Cade: lolz…touché.
X: You were just looking up Interferometry. Do you even know why?
Cade: In order to send a message from a time to a time, you’re likely going to have to have some pretty accurate cosmological clocks.
A: Have you considered the length of the message being encoded with an iterative, and then placing that message in a stasis?
Cade: That’s what I was just thinking. If the dimensions of a blackbody were known, the message could be angled in such a way that its trajectory would basically keep it in a (for the most part) steady state for a certain period of time.
A: And what about the space the blackbody itself occupies and it’s proximity to the target/message recipient?
0: Not to mention that you’re going to have to take decay into consideration.
Cade: Maybe that’s a property of a blackbody which has not been taken into consideration.
X: Conservation of energy?
Cade: Perhaps.
X: You’re basically describing coiling an audible message like a clock-spring within a blackbody or some other space, and that message will remain within that space for a specified time, at which point it will leave that space along a certain trajectory for delivery.
Cade: You said it, but yeah I was thinking it.
X: And no decay.
Cade: Potentially. With the right calcs, perhaps keeping the string in unoccupied space might limit or even prevent decay or any kind of degredation to the message.
Z: Would need to be some awful stable particles and energy.
Cade: I’m not trying to make things more difficult than they need be, but surely the vectors themselves could potentially be utilized to reinforce some kind of referential integrity.
A: You’re attempting to avoid another layer.
Cade: Conservation of energy doesn’t make much sense if your throwing several megawatts behind the transmission source just so that a coupla hundred watts make it through.
Z: You’re lost.
Cade: I am lost. We’re discussing what equates to farting into a jar, closing the lid, then burying it in the sand for a thousand years so someone can eventually dig it up, open the jar, and smell the fart.
0: lolz…um, don’t you think that “speaking into a jar” might have been a better analogy than “farting into a jar”?
Cade: You’re probably correct. But we are talking about audible messages here.
X: Audible messages over time.
Cade: Supposedly, not much energy in those.
A: Depending of course, upon who you ask.
Cade: I don’t think Science puts much stock in “intent” nor “intentions”.
X: What about opportunistic relaying.
Cade: Now we’ve got arrays.
X: We need to get the message through.
Cade: So much of this seems to be based more upon unpredictability than predictability.
Z: You’ve absolutely no faith in absolutes.
Cade: Hey, I’m a product of my environment.
X: SoPi-V. May I make a suggestion?
Cade: Lay off Omega…noted
X: Three in one.
Cade: Four, actually. But who’s counting.
Z: …
So yeah, when I started writing this earlier today, it never crossed my mind that I would come up with a visual representation of some concepts about messaging over, time from a time to a time, and SoPi-V would be hatched.
Wanna see?
^Jay Lumen & Gary Beck – Strange Fruit (Original Mix)^
Straight up lied to you. Not gonna reveal SoPi-V for a while.
1. It’s incomplete, and I need to spend some time completing it;
2. This thing is already 9 pages long;
3. Prolly best that I do not reveal SoPi-V until some stories I’m working on are complete;
4. I got hit by a twist or two with respect to that blackbody shiz.
So yeah, didn’t really lie to you, it’s just not ready yet.
^Bow Wow Wow – I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish^
It’s creeping deep into Friday afternoon on 29 May, and I’m guessing that one or more of those cops who murdered George Floyd have been charged…
3rd Degree murder? Yeah, that is some straight up bullshit. Law enforcement personnel are trained in the right way to keep someone restrained, he knew what he was doing was wrong. #RAISETHEDEGREE
Usually gonna be difficult have a cop charged, tried convicted of 1st degree murder, and especially an on-duty cop acting in the line of duty. The District Attorney is likely only to go for what they think they can win. Because if you think Minneapolis is burning now, and these guys don’t get convicted, one of the Twin Cities is likely to become an only child…rapidly. Gotta take what you can get.
So I hear anyway
^Pete Lazonby – Sacred Cycles – Quivver Remix^
Hey…forgot…your weekend…have a good one.
Fuck the so shall de-stance sing…Go outside and touch someone. Get permission first tho’.
Sew shall de-stance sting.
It's the name of the game
^The Crystal Method – Name of the Game (Hybrid’s Blackout in LA Mix)^
Transport Police Chief, Chief Superintendent Eddie Wylie, visited his family home in Yorkshire twice, from his flat in Glasgow. Between the 21st March – 13th May.
Because of Neil Ferguson and his lockdown, families have been torn apart, loved ones have been separated, and people can’t even attend funerals. And yet Ferguson broke the lockdown to carry on his affair. This is why people are angry, says Brendan O’Neillhttps://t.co/V77KcJoQmB
Happy VE Anniversary day, Dear Reader. The subtitle of this post doesn’t relate to the time it took for the Yanks to finally pitch in on WW2, but rather for the time it has taken for a missive to arrive from the Okie Text US Devil, Cade Fon Apollyon…
*No, but I’m sure he’ll tell us why, Clicky…*
… But wait no longer, Dear Reader, for a missive arrived today and, well, I’ll meet you at the bottom ‘cos I’m just gonna dive straight in to it…
*******
Sup Ladies? 😛
I broke two fasts, in as many days, and I’m ready for love.
FAST 1: Deodorant
Yes indeedy. I’ve broken an almost decade long fast on the personal ownership and self-application of deodorants and antiperspirants. Had to get out in public two days ago, I was sweating profusely, so I decided to go ahead and give each armpit a swashing of evil chemicals so as not to stink. Stinky people are dirty, and dirty people are gross, so yeah…I am no longer stinky, dirty nor gross. HOORAY!
FAST 2: Chairs
I just cleaned up my desk chair and sat in it for the first time since around August/September of 2019. Since it’s now May of 2020, that means that I have not sat in a chair for right around 8/9 months. Why would I intentionally not sit in a chair for a long period of time? Welp, why don’t you come over here, plop yourself down on my lap, and I’ll tell you all about it.
HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO
Up with the Mexicans!
Down with the French!
^Some things Cosmic^
Not bullshitting you. I really have gone for almost 10 years without wearing deodorant nor antiperspirant.
My Lymphatic System goes right fucking by there, and I just don’t think it a good idea to be incessantly pouring chemicals down that well.
Changing the heating/cooling dynamics of my pits? There? Yeah, also doesn’t seem like the best of ideas. I get the feeling my body needs to be able to regulate its temperature without me throwing impassible roadblocks in its path.
I may be wrong
^Pink Martini (with singer Storm Large) – “Până când nu te iubeam”^
Some of you ladies carve that area up with a blade, and THEN slather that goop on.
/shudder
I stopped shaving because I got sick and tired of my face feeling so tight all the time. All that carving and micro-scarring has to do some serious damage over time. You also eventually develop this icky-looking yellow skin, and if you don’t get out in the sun much, you look like you’ve got these weird yellow patches all over your face. I assume this is a reason those on television or film have to put all that makeup on.
Hey…you wanna shave? Shave. I’ve no problem with it. I can say tho, that when I stopped using hygiene products, stopped showering daily, was more conservative about soap(s) usage, and stopped shaving/stopped using aftershaves and colognes? Some weird things started going on with my epidermis. Lots of of those Fibromyalgia types of pains have subsided, the Carpal Tunnel is better, my hands aren’t folding in on themselves, my feet, calves and shins cramp less, my skin doesn’t feel like it’s trying to tear all the time, and my skin no longer hurts to the touch. Not that anyone is touching me.
'cept me...har
And yes, I likely don’t smell like you think I should smell. But how am I supposed to smell? Like, I know what society thinks I should (or should not) smell like. But, what does my body think on the subject. Only one way to find out.
^BSOD – AllPassing Lane^
Yesterday was the 50 anniversary of Kent State.
Q: Can Kent State be considered as being a school shooting? Perhaps even one of the first school shootings?
A: ?!!!¿
Like, by today’s standards. You know…active shooter, complete lunatic, absolute evil, beyond help or hope, should either be murdered outright or thrown in jail forever, all that jazz.
^Missing Persons – Destination Unknown – TV Mania Remix^
When you die, you typically start to smell pretty bad.
Am I dead?
^Active Child – Subtle (Feat. Mikky Ekko)^
The dead have a smell. Dead things have a smell. Death? No. I don’t think “death” has a smell. I always hear people say “the smell of death”, but all that exists in such a scenario is the living + the dead. Death, is nowhere to be found. Just thinking that death prolly smells different for everyone. For some it smells like hospital chemicals, for others it may smell like the dashboard of a car, still others may smell gunpowder. And yes, I know what dead things smell like. A nauseating “sweet” smell, and nothing else smells like that. But death? I wonder if death itself is maybe an aggregate of varied smells. Or maybe death smells like nothing.
Q: Does it matter what death smells like?
A: To you? Yeah, it's likely to matter what death smells like.
“Death” prolly smells quite a bit different smell than “the dead” tho.
Which…speaking of…supposedly with this nCoV-2019 Coronavirus thingie, your sense of smell is gone completely. I guess that would mean that death (for those who die from it) smells like…nothing?
^Pretend We’re Dead^
What percentage of Internet users are scammers? It is the question that first greeted my brain as I woke this morning. Each day, what percentage of Internet users are accessing the Internet solely to utilize it as a pathway to take advantage of someone else for their own personal gain. It is a question I know I cannot answer. But I do wonder if this could be a measure of “the amount evil in the world”.
The type of entity doesn’t matter either. Loads of both “legal” and “illegal” scammers. Would prolly need to first determine which usages result in a monetary transaction, and of those further define which transactions involved a transfer or goods. Prolly be smart to take services into account as well. I know that I’m rambling here, but it occurs to me that governments appear to be positioning themselves to levy some taxes on both the Internet itself, as well as any and all transactions of any and all types.
Loads of countries seem to be re-isolating themselves, and the only reason to do that is tax revenues. The biggie in this being, that space itself is about to be domained. Yeah, outer-space. Space is gonna be annexed, and satellites are likely going to start requiring visas. Will be interesting to see how the motion(s) of the planet are taken into consideration. What was “your space” a few minutes ago may in fact belong to someone else now.
Life itself prolly has a few miles on it. Supposedly, it slogs from the not so great realms of pond-scum, to better, to worse, to better, to worse, etc.. Death is in there somewhere, and yet, here we are. I mean me? I pretty much just got here. But something got me here, there was a lot of life surrounding me when I got here, and it’s pretty safe to assume there will be a lot of life surrounding me when I leave. ‘Tis a weird thought to ponder tho…how old is life. How long, in the universal scheme, has life existed? Maybe you can chew on it a bit and come up with an answer.
Just keep in mind that carbon, and when it may/may not exist, is gonna be kinda important.
^Ween – Transdermal Celebration [HD]^
Speaking of carbon, me and a certain someone were watching something recently about energy, and they kept ranting about biofuels. Biofuels this, biofuels that, and all as if burning turkey fat or methanol or decaying plant matter or whatever is some new huge something because it falls under the catchphrase of “biofuel”. It occurred to me…
‘WTF is this “biofuel” nonsense?!? COAL IS BIOFUEL!!! PETROLEUM IS BIOFUEL!!! NATURAL GAS IS BIOFUEL. Coal is burnt trees, petroleum is decayed biomass, and natural gas is produced by decaying biomass. THAT’S WHY THEY ARE CALLED FOSSIL FUELS!!! What in the hell are they on about?’
Only thing I could come up with is that there is some shift to rebrand “fuels” so as to get people more comfortable with the hypocrisy of their insatiable appetites for electricity via “eating” dead stuff. And yeah, this is about electricity. No one calls it electricity anymore tho, it’s “energy”.
^The Pixies – Dead (Paul Hammond Remix)^
Have not been writing much. Plenty of people polluting the social spheres with their nutty conjectures and ya’ll don’t need me adding to the pile. It did occur to me a time or two that a lot of information being released seems quite…planned. But that’s a problem when you’ve got systems that are attempting to intentionally mislead you. Well, maybe not always mislead, but certainly test. You see one story here, another story there, you add the facts, 2 + 2 = 4, and…
BOOM! Mystery = SOLD! Next?
Think of it like this, when you are being educated/schooled by your betters…
Q1: Who makes the test(s)?
A1: ?¿?
Q2: Who takes the test(s)?
A2: ¿?¿
I figure it works pretty much the same way in politics, government, media, business, you name it. We are trained to think in certain ways, and that’s how we think. “They” put the numbers in front of you, and “you” have to figure out the correct answer(s). You get a cookie for finding the answer they want you to find. Or you suffer social humiliation for getting the wrong answer. You’re likely to be socially shunned for questioning the question or maybe disputing the answer. They, know. You, don’t. You want the answers, they have them, gotta play to play. And no, that’s not a typo.
^The Bloody Beetroots – Warp 1.9 (ft. Steve Aoki) [HQ] | Dim Mak Records^
Ya gotta grow up at some point. Stop relying so much on being told, and find your own feet. Hew your own path. Be wrong. Get bruised. Get scrapes. Get scars. Get lost. Be completely flummoxed by your own limitations and stupidity. Find your own way to…
better
That’s what we all want to do, methinks. Stretch our own selves out, and reel our own selves in. Acquire our own unique skill sets for handling/dealing with adversity according to our own unique situation. I dunno…
maybe I'm wrong
^Satisfaction^
You think it possible that maybe when its apparent that all the carbon is gonna be gone from this planet, life will no longer be possible? Gotta be a curve there somewhere. Especially in the “reproductive life” schema. Immortality? Not so much. Grab what carbon you need in order to manifest your own existence, and done. But reproductive life? Gotta be some curves there as to whether reproductive lifeforms can both manifest and sustain that manifestation for a certain period in order to make the manifestation worthwhile. Carbon doesn’t exactly grow on trees you know.
Digress
What I’m thinking here is sheet music. The song of life goes on for as long as there are notes on the page to sustain the song. “The notes”, in this case, are the dits and dahs of Carbon. Or maybe like the holes in a piano roll for player pianos.
Everything becomes nonviable at some point. Maybe some of these die-offs and/or extinction events aren’t always due to some cataclysmic secondary something. Maybe something becomes unsustainable and dies off for no other reason than the species’ long-term survivability becomes an eventual impossibility along a specific timeline.
Things dying off for no apparent reason. Man, that would leave some damn deep rabbit holes for some to chase. They could likely even find the reason(s), and not even know it because they’re looking in the wrong place(s). What a cruel world this is. Or, can be.
/me shrugs
^I Stay Away^
If you look at the above image kinda off-center? The center takes on some odd properties. Does for me anyway.
^Siouxsie And The Banshees – Peek A Boo (12″ Silver Dollar Mix) 1988^
I cannot save the world. What I can do, is save worlds. Or at least, attempt to. When and if needed of course.
^Eyes Without A Face^
Ever seen those cycling ads? Like, advertisements which cycle. Scrolling screens at sports venues, segmented billboards, video billboards, electronic marquees, etc.. One minute a sign advertising hamburgers, the next minute an attorney’s office, then motor oil, then maybe a casino. Welp, I was watching this video below, and at the bottom of the screen, there is an almost incessantly scrolling text advertising a lot of racing venues and also plugging membership at this racinboys dot com website.
As I watched the cars go round the track, thinking about the fact that most race cars are little more than rolling billboards advertising some something, it got me pondering whether the models which exist for repetitive exposure are effective advertising. You likely travel the same routes to and from work. To and from school. To and from church or the market.
Q: Is the entirety of our society designed to maximize advertising effectiveness?
A: !¿!
More that that, are civic planners intentionally designing cities so as to provide for places to advertise? Constructing revenue streams into the infrastructure? Location, location, location? What am I talking about, of course they are.
^RBN Crashes and Flips 2016^
Just thinking a bit about all of the things that we bring into our lives, and how that stuff gets there. How things get into our homes. This lockdown thingie is a good time to think about such things. No telling what you may learn about you and the life you’ve carved out for yourself.
^Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) – 1984^
Advertising loops, revenue streams, and cycles.
Q: Are thinking about such things worthy of one’s time?
A: ?ó¿ó?
My time is unworthy.
^Van Halen – Hot For Teacher (Official Music Video)^
That document sitting in a museum in Washington D.C. surrounded by bullet-proof glass doesn’t give me anything. It provides for suggestions as to how parties should treat one another, and we can either adhere to these suggestions, or not. People can choose to respect another’s “rights”, or not. Of course, times change, dynamics change, and how we behave and what laws we respect is also likely to change.
If times are tough, charity is lean, and you are starving to death, you may just have to turn to a life of crime in order to eat/survive. You may turn out to be so successful at this “life of crime” that you eat like a king and are rolling in money. This is likely to breed some contempt in your fellow citizens. They may form task-forces and even make some laws so they can take everything you own from you, and they may even want to take possession of your life.
All legally, of course
^Highasakite – Golden Ticket^
Law is a framework, and not much more. You can legislate crap until Christ comes back, but its unlikely to change need(s) nor desire(s). Not without sending someone through the entire process, and such an experience is equally as likely to be destructive as it us to be constructive. Apologies for rambling, but it’s mysterious to me why law is viewed by some as some absolutist something that it is not. There’s much more to “law” than just and only “the law(s)”.
Are there those who wish to do away with the judiciary? Is that what’s going on? Some people want Legislative and Executive branches only? Do this, or else. Everyone behaves exactly the same way. Obey and be rewarded, disobey and be punished.
Q: Ever noticed that when the accuser becomes the accused, their view of things changes completely?
A: ???
I wonder what’s up with that.
^Van Halen – Hot For Teacher – Drum Cover by Josh Gallagher^
Blur. Everything is blurry. Not fuzzy, blurry. Not clear blurry either…unclear. Almost as if there is stuff in my head that shouldn’t be there. Or maybe just a lot of stuff in there that I don’t quite understand as of yet. Ever since that third week in December of last year, things have been just downright strange. Hell, maybe I’ve reached some level of clarity in and amongst all this spiritual nonsense, and I’m just too stupid to realize it. Maybe it’s just that my focus has changed.
/me shrugs
^Zedd – Clarity ft. Foxes (Official Music Video)^
You douchebags prolly think that I’m a pretentious prick, but I’m really not.
‘Educate yourself! You shitheads need to educate yourself and know just how non-pretentious I am.’
I haven’t heard that one in a while…educate yourself.
“Educate yourself.” What a scam that was.
Educate Yourself means consume, and know
But you must consume only certain things and arrive at similar conclusions in order to be acceptable.
Consume...and know
Didn’t that happen in a garden once and everything went haywire afterwords?
Maybe that’s a main theme in the Eden story and we missed it…
advertising and consumerism
^Tonight We Riot (LAUNCH TRAILER)│ Means Interactive^
I just saw that trailer above and was thinking about what a great time in history to have such a game in the pipeline to where you can release it in the big middle of a global crisis.
^Early Eyes – “Clarity”^
Anyone else seeing this global crisis? Where’d you see it and how? The news?
So…you yourself didn’t actually see it. Just trying to get you primed for the upcoming “crisis actor” stuff that is likely to become prevalent in the very near future. It may seem odd, but much of the goings on seems to include a large contingency of media outlets battling eachother. This Coronavirus thing simply provided an opportunity for them to launch their attacks. Seek the crown, if you will. The Internet will suffer. Much of it is likely gonna wind up looking just like television.
‘Passive mentoring. This mentoring takes place during serendipitous encounters or conversations. One person makes comments or performs actions that teach another.’
“Serendipitous”, eh? Very interesting indeed. Is it really serendipity tho if you are planning all along to mentor certain people you see? I mean, yeah, it may be “chance” to bump into someone you know, but you’re already entangled with this person and you already appear to have this individual on a mental watchlist of some kind.
Not really much chance nor serendipity going on there
Or at least, you’re incorrectly measuring the time of the serendipitous event. Meaning, the point on your graph isn’t big enough to accurately measure when “the serendipitous event” actually started. Just seems to me that you are manufacturing opportunity in order to take advantage of these opportunities. Like hooking a fish, but letting it run for a while. Leaving it on the hook, but not reeling it in, keep pressure on the line, and make the fish tire itself out. Does make reeling it in much easier. They practically reel themselves in. All you have to do is…keep the pressure on.
AH-HA! So you are watchlisting people. A big reason to watchlist people is going to be to cover your own ass. Last thing in the world a religious rising star needs is some higher-up in the church coming to you one day and saying…
”Hey, you remember so-and-so? Welp, they’re strung out on meth, covered in tattoos, and singing evil rock songs for some band.”
I mean, how embarrassing would that be? You’re suddenly a shitty shepherd with stray sheep running mad. What in the fuckyou been teaching these people anyway?
Digress-alltheway
^HEART “BARRACUDA” (COVER) by Brooke C & Moriah Formica^
What I’m looking for is passive mentions. Like, someone intentionally drops hints here and there for the name of some upcoming something, while referencing this something in a different context, and all of this so that later encounters with this something will have a strange ring to it.
Like for example, a production company has a new television show coming out called “All The While”. This production company pays people to intentionally work “all the while” into any and every conversation they can irrespective of context. Almost like a reverse segue. Or maybe just a different kind of segue/different approach to a segue.
‘Discussions of the passive mention reassignment of grammatical relations and loss of prominence of the agent, but they do not seem to allow for semantic differences. In defining the antipassive, on the other hand, it seems necessary to operate both with the feature of low prominence and that of low affectedness of the patient if one wants to preserve the unity of the category. If we do not object to this and, in defining voice grams, accept semantic differences (in terms of degrees of agentivity), we could indeed, as suggested by the term ‘potential passive’, regard the facilitative as a subtype of the passive.’
Woah nelly…that’s a mouthful. And it also sounds as if that’s exactly the type of stuff I’m thinking of. But Google Books is showing that this particular book was published this year (in 2020 sometime)?
The author appears to be a linguist, if you scroll up and read the Acknowledgement it appears they are hip-deep in some deep pockets, and reading the Preface seems harmless enough. But what about this nonsense on Page 173 about passive mention reassignments, agents, antipassives, patients, voice grams, agentivities and potential passives? What is all that crap, and also what do they mean in this particular context?
^Metallica – Enter Sandman (Joel Fletcher & Reece Low Bootleg)^
Let’s us look some shit up and see what the experts’ consensus is…
Things would be sooOOOooo fucking much easier if I knew everything.
BTW, it would appear that a “voice gram” and an “n-gram” are the same thing(s).
I may be wrong on that
^Juvenile – Back That Thang Up ft. Mannie Fresh, Lil Wayne^
Having your mind blown likely has less to do with your mind, and more to do with your being. Maybe “mind-blowing events” are equally shaking the pillars of heart, mind, spirit and soul, but we in our time are too hung-up on mind and brain so we miss those other parts which are also being challenged.
We wanna rationalize and reason, and the rest of the whole will fall into line, yeah? But why do we want to rationalize and reason? Why is our focus there? Oh, that’s right…if we can rationalize, we can explain, and if we can explain, we can relate. If we can relate? We can be part of the heard. We aren’t left out alone in the cold trying to understand some seemingly incomprehensible and totally irrational something, and others aren’t shunning us for being some inexplicable something who thinks they’ve been subjected to some extraordinary something which no one else seems to be able to relate to. They didn’t have the experience…
you did
Sucks to be outcast. Isolated and lost and stuck with a coupla itches you can’t scratch.
Itch 1: Understanding the mind-blowing event.
Itch 2: Returning to the fold.
With that in mind, they say you can never go home again. Welp, I’m thinking that maybe you can, but things are likely to be different. But why wouldn’t it be? You’re different, right?
^Phillip Phillips – Home^
Oh my. Things are going bananas down there. Will likely get even more bananas before anyone can break out the cigars.
^Ex-U.S. soldier allegedly confesses to failed coup against Venezuela’s Maduro^
Who in the FUCK is Elsa Martinelli, and why am I not married to her?
Fingers crossed, Dear Reader, Underdog Anthology XI: Tales of Loch Doon will be published this weekend. I hope so because I have a review of sorts lined up for when it’s finally ready to be read.
“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert”. - J Robert Oppenheimer.
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