Midweek Memes
The Foxes Guarding the Henhouse
I can actually imagine a more stupid and dangerous way of making decisions: to not only have people in power pay no price for being wrong, but to actively reward them for it. Starting wars and turning them into never ending quagmires is too profitable for those entrenched interests running the show. It doesn’t matter how many people suffer globally from food shortages, fuel shortages or inflation, much less have their homes destroyed or are outright killed. Perhaps the puppets in power will be replaced in some charade called elections with others who will continue the endless wars, the biosurveillance, the human trafficking and the immiseration of the many for the benefit of the few.
The game is very simple as they can create as many tokens as they want to. The point is to make sure that you must use their tokens to buy every necessity in life. Shortages must be manufactured to keep the scam going and a police surveillance state must be set up to enforce compliance with it. It’s preferred that you run out of tokens before the end of the month with as many extracted by them as possible.
To get more tokens than that you usually have to do some pretty bad things
The preference is for that enforcement to be automated via AI and compliance nodes that render tokens unusable for anyone deemed not compliant with the digital ledger.
But hey, bombs are profitable for them too:
Beyond the atrocious scale of these data centers, the AI still has some quirks to work out.
This seems like how we do negotiations anymore:
The CDC released provisional 2025 live births data which showed a 1% drop from 2024 to an all time low in US births. This was led by a stark 8% drop in teen births (15-19) with only women over 40 showing a slight increase. I suppose on the plus side 90% of women weren’t rendered infertile from the Covid jabs, but when is anybody going to go to jail for any of this?
Now I have no idea if this would be Trump assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ dinner was a staged event or not. On the one hand there are a lot of people upset at Trump, and belief that POTUS is a murderous pedophile is shared by a significant percentage of the population. On the other hand the event seemed to be practically unguarded and they’re already pushing to fund the White House ballroom over it.
And why is it always some nutty lone wolf with vague but non-incriminating ideas and no institutional funding whatsoever? If the SLPC can fund their opposition you have to wonder how many Fed assets are on their payroll. I’m sure there are plenty of out of work actors willing to make a deal.
Two months in and the Iran War continues. The tokenized digital ledger is being written in to replace the US dollar as reserve currency. Privately owned and answerable to no one.
This image of an IDF soldier smashing the face of Jesus on a statue in Southern Lebanon seemed to draw more outrage than the actual killing of Christians…
I thought this picture of Ka at the Church was, er, interesting…
Iran has been claiming that they are now getting rain following years of drought which they think was caused by US radar and weather modification systems.
It would not be the first time that the US government has used weather warfare to try to achieve objectives. Although this basic explanation of Operation Popeye during Vietnam sounds correct, the labels are laughably off for the countries: Laos is listed twice (One of them is the only correct map label), Thailand is labelled as Cambodia, Cambodia is labelled as the Ho Chi Ming Trail, Vietnam is labelled as Laos (the second one) and North Vietnam is actually in the South China Sea. Now is that map on account of AI hallucinating or is that simply a byproduct of what I’ll stereotype as a standard American geography education?
Where we are in Thailand at this point we want the rain to come: now that the ground has been laid on the land we want to build on heavy rainfall is necessary to drop it into a harder surface. There has been some rainfall here which the cows must greatly appreciate as grass is finally growing. Our neighbor said he bought this cow for 7500 baht (about $220). She’s not for meat or even for milk but rather he wants her manure to fertilize the ground as she eats the vegetation. That is one way around the fertilizer crisis:
We have been staying in the town as it were with my first husband’s adoptive mother. It’s very peaceful here.
Almost too peaceful. Where’s the wars and the constant outrage cycle of news? I went to a city council meeting in this small town nearby That Phanom. As best I could tell from Ka’s translations and my own understanding the two most important things going on here are a concert next month and a festival at the local Buddhist Temple. Have they really not been blackmailed into selling their souls?
For the love of money…
I picked "other" on the survey. I'd say it's feasible to have a staged event also involving a legit "liberal" nutcase who might or might not have been aware he was set up to fail.
Kurt Vonnegut was publishing his novels in the 1960s and 1970s. His older brother Bernard is cited as the discoverer of "silver iodide" or AgI (not Artificial General Intelligence). In 1946, the year after the Dresden massacre and the "atomic bombings" of Japan, Bernard Vonnegut discovers a compound that could be used offensively (Popeye) and defensively. If you can weaponize the clouds, you can protect the motherland from air raids. Perhaps.
Befitting of a fiction writer like Kurt Vonnegut is the crazed fear of "Nuclear Holocaust" or the destruction of the planet, an idea that so many boomers and gen-xers are so traumatized with, and which Kurt helped popularize. I've read that his books were short of mandatory reading in high schools across America.
Fun thing: Kurt tried to dispel the myth that Americans were the main perpetrators of the Dresden bombings. It was the British who did it. The modern nazi sympathizers sometimes mention the Dresden episode, but they never mention Vonnegut, who they hate. He was indeed a clown, one of the best ever. «Mother Night» is his best psychotic novel. Great read for those who like fiction, but horrible for those who love polemics and geopolitics. It's a play within a play that only happens in the mind of a depressed playwright who is reading the news in search for inspiration and can only come up with boring short stories that don't sell, so he ends up writing a spy erotic-thriller novel instead, with continuous reference to Zionism.
I think it's terrible to try to mind kontrol people with fear. Or to participate in that industry. Journalists are horrible people, because of that.