Welcome to the Digital ID Dystopia

All Signs Point To They're Testing

I see what you’re doing there. I know Covid is over in the sense of stirring up the requisite amount of fear. And also wait? Did the miracle vaccines and masks and lockdowns do anything?

Problem. Reaction. Solution. Of course if you have to create a problem in order to push your solution, that’s okay. A lot of people will end up dead on both sides of it, and that’s what you really want anyways, right?

Sri Lanka has collapsed, and as they did in Ukraine, they are pushing digital ID rations on desperate people. It seems like an odd time, of course, but they are testing the system all around. The framework from Covid passes is all still there and getting built up by the day. All they need to do is manufacture a crisis. What better way than by limiting emissions of naturally occurring gases in the atmosphere in order to collapse the food system? I mean really if we all have enough food an everything is going well, what do we need elites for?

Dutch Farmers were protesting over this too. We’re all farmers now, or at least what might soon be hungry people.

We're All Sri Lankan Farmers Now

Back in 2020 I got to be hailed as a hero of sorts for delivering food to people in Las Vegas huddled around their screens in fear. I used those smartphone apps to do it. Now mind you, the premise of delivering food is pretty simple, which is probably why it has long appealed to me as a backup side gig. What does my potential buyer want here? What is their unmet need? They probably are hungry, thus wanting food, and their unmet need is having something that they want to eat. What do they want or expect from the seller? I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that they want their food fresh, fast and attractive.

This job takes zero IQ points as far as what the buyer is looking for. If you happen to like driving and have a lot of experience, an unnamed prerequisite, I think, and are in an area that you know, whether it be Las Vegas or Toledo or Tel Aviv, the job can be done on autopilot.   

I delivered pizzas for several years in the pre smartphone era so I can tell you a lot about the pros and cons. On the plus side delivery apps democratized and deregulated restaurant offerings. You didn’t need to be a large and popular pizza shop with three or four delivery drivers in house to allow in door delivery to be offered anymore. It also doesn’t matter if you live two or three miles from whatever restaurant, as long as you are willing to pay the delivery fees. Do you have a craving for Kimchi from the Westside restaurant 10 miles away that you love? Have at it! It’ll cost you and might take awhile, but you should have figured that out already. As an aside my best tips tended to be on those types of orders.

Who am I to judge cravings? While pregnant with my second daughter in Thailand I developed an inexplicable desire for both hummus and green olives, leaving my husband Oh to drive all over Phuket Town looking for them. The hummus was really lousy and overpriced, by the way, leading me to come up with my own in Thailand recipe later. The green olives from Central Festival were acceptable and I bought several cans which I snacked on nonstop. I get it.

The downside of all of those smartphone delivery apps tends to be in any attempt by them to exert top down control on what I see on the ground. The more they did so, the more stupid it got. Grubhub was the best for me at the time, as they allowed me to change the order of deliveries, see the address in advance and contact the person, always needed me to agree to a new delivery (opt in) before accepting it, and also showed potential tips in advance.

Both Postmates (now part of Uber) and UberEATS had policies that were really stupid. I mentioned some of those to Sage Hana a week ago:

I delivered food for Postmates, UberEATS and the like for some years. I shut down the GPS on Postmates but UberEATS would NOT LET ME. I would guess that a substantial problem came up on about 1 out of every 10 orders due to some automated system problem. For example I couldn't take a delivery out of order, so if there was a substantial delay on the first order everybody behind them would have to wait while their food was getting cold anyways. If the dropoff point was different than what was in the system (say because they were at work) it would not let me mark the order as complete since the GPS said I wasn't in the right place. One regular customer lived right up against the 515 freeway the GPS would always tell me to park on the interstate and scale a 40 foot concrete wall to make the delivery. That stupid thing was always telling me to drive through concrete barriers or construction zones or accident sites. Usually it didn't want to tell me their address just where to go so I often had to text the person. It worked right about 9 times out of 10. But scale out 1 out of 10 problems on something as large as an international border crossing, say and you're going to see a lot of starving people.

I’ll give you one example of how this played out it in the real world. In 2020 during the height of lockdown lunacy several popular restaurants nearby me were drive thru only, whether they were allowed to open or not. Two in my area like this that I commonly got called to were Weinersnitchel and Raising Cane’s. Both had limited locations in Las Vegas and some folks were into that stuff.

The problem was that the wait in the drive thru was usually 15 to 20 minutes and was sometimes 30 to 45 minutes. Now Postmates had a weird policy that if I already was at a restaurant, they could automatically add a new order from the same restaurant, because I was already there, right? Even worse they would add that new order based on geographic location, so even if the new order was closer by ½ mile, that was the order I was supposed to take first.

I can think of several dozen times this specific ridiculous policy came up to cause problems for me. How this played out in the real word is one day during lockdown lunacy in April of 2020 I was in the drive thru at Wienersnitchel and after waiting 45 minutes had finally gotten my order for the customer. Hooray! As I was driving out after this ridiculous wait a new order beeped on my screen that I would have never accepted had I been given a choice. An order from Wienersnitchel to sit in the 45 minute drive thru again.

Even worse this new order was geographically closer than the old order, so thus it had been given higher status. It was going in a slightly different direction than the delivery I now had in my car. I could do a quick calculation in my head that the first order I had gotten, late already but piping hot at least, would not arrive for at least another hour based on this BS. This second order automatically added for my convenience or something was an order that I would have never taken had I been given a choice.

I immediately tried to contact Postmates about it, but that went through to an automated email system that gave me no timely response. Then I wanted to contact the original customer, the first customer, whose order was now sitting hot in my car, to find out their address. I could not contact them because Postmates had scrubbed their details once the “first” (new, closer) order came in. I would have to wait in the 45 minute drive thru again, and get the second order and deliver it, before I could see again where the first order was going.

Now I had another issue which was that I had something that I was supposed to be doing in an hour or so. Something that required me to get off their delivery system in an hour or so but was now quite impossible with another 45 minute drive thru wait plus another 45 minutes of delivery, and sorry for the first person’s food being so darned cold and late, by the way.

So of course I requested to be taken off delivery status. The problem was they needed to know why, and I needed to go off of all deliveries. So the piping hot food in my car be damned! I had a flat tire or something! I guess that food was for me now. I have to admit that in 2020 I got a lot of free food. I also burned a lot of carbon waiting in drive thrus.

Long story short this is what happens every time some dipshit decides that they know better about a situation and institutes a top down policy. Think about it if you have to go across an international border. You have your passport, right?

Can that dumb passport be lost, stolen, or damaged? Of course it can, as can also happen to your smartphone. Can that dumb passport also be hacked, unavailable due to lack of power, unavailable due to lack of internet access, or unavailable because the web server is down? The more complex and automated the system is, the greater the problems. Even if things go right nine times out of ten, scale that out for a minute.

And all of that is assuming good intentions. Here’s something I saw posted on the Defender a few days ago:

“Catherine Austin Fitts brought it home with this hypothetical, with some embellishments: Let's say you want to go buy some pizza and a beer, but cash no longer exists and you must use your digital wallet...
1. New Covid restrictions mean your digital wallet is turned off outside a five-mile range.
2. New "green" policies also turn off your digital wallet outside five miles.
3. New "green" policies demand that your pizza no longer has real cheese or meat.
4. New Monkeypox restrictions turn your car off within a two mile range.
5. Your car is not charged anyway.
6. You lapsed your mandatory donation to the DNC, therefore your digital wallet is under review.
7. Your recent post on Defender bumped your social credit score below 5.0, the limit for an active digital wallet. (It was lowered earlier in the day by your misuse of pronouns).”

It’s a new technology but is based on the old idea that has gotten a lot of people killed over the last few centuries. Some dipshit in power thinks they have a great (evil) idea about growing food, say, and thinking they know better than the peasants on the ground, institutes a top down policy that leads to mass deprivation. Some of them are trying to cement their legacy, some are just trying to enrich themselves. Some at the very top might even recognize that peace and prosperity is an existential threat to them, and that the many of us can quickly overwhelm the few of them. So they need problems and probably less people too!

Look at that beautiful, productive banana tree. Hey I’ve got a great idea! Let’s dig up all that stuff that wants to grow here and try to grow genetically modified soybeans instead! We’ll get rich selling the seeds, and the water and the fertilizer, and we can export that shit to rich countries, starving the farmers and leading to health problems in those places that are eating our chemical and preservative laden crap!

With Climate Change it is hard to say what is really going on. It could be a created crisis by them. I watched this fun video a few days ago from my adopted town.

It could be geoengineering, or the Grand Solar minimum, or perhaps the climate is just always changing. What i am sure of is that the solutions proposed will kill a lot more. But if we were all fat and happy, what would we need those dipshits in power for?

I wanted something less alarmist from Las Vegas. Enter my favorite permabull, Gregory Mannarino! Come on Greg, they aren’t really trying to collapse shit and kill everyone, right? Greg?

Greg?

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