Nicely written, pixelate.

Side note: Writing assembly on a 6809. Been there done that including 6800, 68000 family, 6502, etc. Long ago, but great experience.

I'm not surprised one bit. Here in LIttle Ole Reno we had a fantastic police chief. She's actually a neighbor of mine - just spoke with her a few minutes ago. Very sharp, fit woman. For no f'n reason at all (just some cooked up story) they let her go (early on her contract ...probably not the last of this story) and put the local sheriff over the town. Since that happned...zero police presence on the streets. People are driving on surface streets at 70 mph. Good people will not be tolerated in positions of power. There are several good, recent examples of this in DC now.

Mark Twain started his writing career right near here...

I'd certainly have you on. I'd have several on from our Gulch.

Yeah...I'm seeing that too. Literally...those with a sense of humor are among their elite...

I get it.

Sorry about your brother...

Yeah, sounds about right...

This made me laugh...

OUCH!

Me dino talks back both to towelheaded news that's both audio and in print. Me sez, "They always tell lies!. Just blow them up already!"

BTW, did you guys see how Karen Bass said the "ads against her could cause some crazy person to turn violent against her"...

Ummm... Where were you with the media coverage of Trump and MAGA for the last DECADE... BE-ACH!

BTW. Could you imagine how much better 2020 would have went if they funded Kari Lake the way they funded Cornyn (Or better, Murkowski?).

This is why I hate ALL elected officials.

I am MAGA or bust at this point.
So glad POTUS keeps shoving their nose in their sh!t...

Apparently, they left the "n" out on purpose, because they thought leaving it in... Made it into another "n" word... LOL

Some folks think that we're heading toward a "Star Trek Federation Future." Horse-pucky. I believe that the only thing that will get us out of this malaise of mediocrity is a long, cold, hard winter. By long, I mean at least 20 years of hardship including famine, disease, wide-spread power outages, and a resulting catastrophic drop in population ... it isn't the high population drop, per se, it's the quantity of misfits, miscreants and maladaptive morons that will be purged in terms of their own undoing.

@pixelate I believe this is actually ON TAP. Do you think there is a reason they tried Net Zero? I see EVERYTHING happening today as a step towards starving most people out of existence:
1) We are blocking enough world wide fuel to disrupt Planting and Fertilizing (This will kill people)
2) We saw the WEF go after the #2 food exporter and others
3) We are "suddenly" seeing Alpha Gal (and Ticks and Lyme Disease) spreading like fire. Meanwhile reports of ranchers finding BOXES full of many hundreds of ticks!
4) A near-complete dumbing down of Americans. The average kid in high school can't tell the difference between a "Good Degree" and a "Waste of Money Degree", because they are being told they DESERVE the "College Experience"
(Fact, in University, my GF was in a Sorority. She was an Engineering Student. The ONLY ONE in that Sorority. Her "Big Sister" suggested she change her major so she can attend MORE house events, and Fun Games at the Sorority! About a year later, she dropped out of the Sorority, graduated on time and got a job in Environmental Engineering. We laugh every time we talked about this. (Haven't seen her in Decades, though), but probably still laughing).

So, you see all of this. You look at the PUSH to vaxx everyone, and the amount of tracking. And the WILD Differences in Effects depending on the BATCH (up to 10,000 times differences in side effects and deaths). And you DO NOT SEE that this was testing the ability to see what GENES tolerate Genetic Mutation.

The side conversations about genetically modifying people to NOT be able to eat meat. Make them smaller so they consume less, etc. etc.

Meanwhile, China is playing with the IQ genetics, and trying to make their Super Soldiers and Super Engineers.

FWIW, I wouldn't be surprised after noticing how many WEALTHY/TECHIE people appear to be on the spectrum. That the increase in Autism is our government doing some experiments to make super smart, anti-social controllable geniuses... And ALSO groups of people that will require a LIFETIME of care that will never be productive. That saddens me. But I can't say the probability is ZERO at this point in my life!

It's called the "Whatever" Podcast.

He asks women, who believe they deserve a man who makes 8 figures (10+ Million) per YEAR...

What 77+33 is. And NONE of them can do it in their heads. In some cases... they don't even get close.

It's crazy. A Product of Public Schools and Fatherless homes, IMHO

You are right, and the dumber and lazier we are the easier and more readily accepting of government 1) support, and 2) control we are. That is the plan.

It is time to flatten Iran. Enough of this BS.

Thinking does not occur automatically, certainly not for the majority of the human population. Thinking requires: the wet-ware, cortical tissues, neural connectivity - essentially, the 1.3 kg of gray matter as a basis. Next, you must know how to think, analogy is the operating system sitting on the hardware. How effective vs efficient is that OS and is it optimized for the hardware (wet-ware brain). This takes effort, like learning to play the violin, design a circuit board, build an electronic medical records business, code in 6809 Assembler, etc. And then, you have to make the choice to think -- to take in the material from the world, perceptions, images and words (written, spoken) -- synthesize the inputs with the storehouse of lived experiences, lessons, application of logic (Is this even possible, mathematically, statistically), along with how those inputs meld into your personal working template for mentally navigating through the world.

It doesn't take long -- as many of us have observed -- for the decadence of a world awash in an abundance of cheap, reliable energy to allow sloth to become the normal operating mode among the herd of humanity. Every creature, from the single-celled organism to the zenith of life (thinking of the inventors during the Golden Age / Era) will work to optimize the effort necessary to acquire energy required for survival. The timeframe spans from the instantaneous (living in the Now) to the multi-generational thinkers.

Thinking is hard. So, how about leaving it up to The Experts? Lots of folks have done just that. There is a 97% consensus that Climate Change is real, it is anthropogenic and a crisis. My brain stops and inquires: Is that 97% even possible? Where did that figure come from? How was that survey conducted? And yet we have a myriad of talking heads (State Science Institute grifters) and Gore is still out there peddling his climate religion. We all fondly recall C19 (Covid) and I say fondly in terms of what that phenomena revealed about a great many individuals that we got to know a whole lot better in context of their behavior as directed by The Experts. We have to 'flatten the curve' -- we need to cut down the 'cases' -- And my scientific brain inquires: What is a case? What is this PCR thing and can you really get a positive Covid result from a ham sandwich? What about herd immunity? What is in this vaccine, how was it approved so quickly and why are we finding so many young people suffering from catastrophic medical events within months of taking any form of the Vax? If the USA has the most awesome military and off-the-charts budget, why is the SoH still closed to much of the oil cargo traffic? If Israel can have nukes, why can't Iran?

The term useless eaters and breeders is very real. I even use it in polite company. My kid brother did not make it to 41 years. Died with nothing (zero net worth), a gaggle of offspring (none of them had his name). He liked to drink a bit. He eventually quit (drinking, and everything else); that was the coroner's report back in 2008. It isn't so much that there are so many "leaky vessels" ambulating across the planet; rather, they are incentivized to be leaky.

Some folks think that we're heading toward a "Star Trek Federation Future." Horse-pucky. I believe that the only thing that will get us out of this malaise of mediocrity is a long, cold, hard winter. By long, I mean at least 20 years of hardship including famine, disease, wide-spread power outages, and a resulting catastrophic drop in population ... it isn't the high population drop, per se, it's the quantity of misfits, miscreants and maladaptive morons that will be purged in terms of their own undoing.

Go ahead and write the book (podcast); but write it for yourself, if anyone else finds value it it, that's just a bonus. My preference would be to keep it dark. Rand's novel (AS) was dark and prophetic. The course was mathematically determined and ended in complete collapse. On the bright side, AS provided the beacon for the way out.

If this sham of a global economy were collide with reality and the collapse were to begin in earnest, I would make my way through the chaos and be in my 90s on The Other Side. Cheers to creatively synthesizing our thoughts and actions as we weave through the impending collapse and darkness.

Watch man-on-the-street interviews as persons are asked basic geography questions and the ignorance is stunning. Same seems to apply to basic history questions.

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/30...

The youngsters whom I have worked with have no real sense of humor.

Sarcasm and color commentary go right over their heads.

If you do this I would be interested in being on a show. I recently retired from being a high school math teacher and have many stories that would fit right in.

I absolutley want to hear it! You are asking about being deplatformed. Not really sure what place you would use, but if you do find one, please announce it when you start your podcast.

Right on target, as always!
Thanks, Carl!

Abaco, you're right on track, but I don't know about the "becoming" part. We've always been there. George Carlin, the greatest philosopher of the 20th century, said, in 1990,
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
I have a line that I use frequently to test the intelligence of supermarket cashiers, who hold up my milk carton and ask, "Do you want this in a bag?"
I reply, "Gawd, no, if you take it out of that carton and put it in a bag, it'll be all over the place."
99% of them just stare at me with a blank expression.