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Cake day: December 29th, 2023

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  • It been all over since the guy[shrub] who lied us into two 20 year wars & brought us the Patriot act, got re elected
    Haliburton won, the DoD who can’t pass an audit continues to have an open checkbook & ever increasing budget

    Then we moved to Hope & Change, that turned out to be great for banks & insurance companies

    Every cycle is portrayed as vitally important with a platform of
    We Suck Less
    The Donor Class calls the tune

    Allowing money to overtly be speech removed the pretense of representation for the rest of us
    The expectations have changed
    Avoiding the appearance of impropriety
    Degraded to Maintain Plausible Deniability
    Eroded to
    Prove it in a Rigged Court of Law Beyond any Conceivable Doubt no Matter How Absurd

    Enabling all this is a solid 1/3rd of the population that have reduced empathy
    Energized by the various corporate media that have been consolidated into unanimous support for our not so benevolent overlords


  • “German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, says that “carbon capture and storage” (CCS) can be done safely in the saltwater and limestone pores at 600 to 1,200 meters below the seabed. “It will either dissolve as carbonic acid or bind with the limestone,” she says. Injection sites in the North Sea are the German government’s main solution for so-called “unavoidable emissions,” like those from the cement and other industries”

    Basically another subsidy harvesting scheme
    There isn’t even the expectation that the co2 will stay in porous limestone, but instead end up making the oceans more acidic, which is already a problem with elevated atmospheric co2 levels

    A crisis of excess consumption & growth can’t be solved, by growing in a slightly different way







  • What’s a mouse?
    I use a trackpad
    The lenovo version of trackpad on my thinkpad has buttons on the top & bottom along with trackpoint that works when nothing else will…
    I even have a usb keyboard with a trackpad

    I bought a gaming mouse [not logitech] to set up a distro that wouldn’t install by trackpad for $12 once the install finished, it sits on a shelf

    A forever mouse is a solution in search of a problem

    The customer base of people who use mice is shrinking, most people use their phones or pads a majority of the time




  • I lived this from the factory floor in the central valley of california from 1980-2010
    In my experience safety was driven by workmens comp insurance companies. The would be a clip board conga line a couple of times a year made up of representatives of our company & insurance company people, checking to see if their “suggestions” had been implemented & new threats [to the bottom line] identified
    Anyone who had a moderate to serious injuries were fired with the expectation the injured would sue the [insurance] company, requiring a lawyer who got a percentage of the award
    A fun bit of outsourcing that generates billable hours for the guild of lawyers & shifts responsibility back to the victim

    As time went on the monthly mandatory safety meetings became the perfect time for all of us to sign off on liability for normal operations

    I found the suggestion box to be a powerful tool
    Careful wording can force managers to answer difficult questions in front of all the other managers :D

    The primary dysfunction is corporate personhood, more than all the rights of a human, none of the responsibilities beyond the bottom line
    Socialize the costs
    Privatize the profits

    Money as speech has always been the case
    Having an impactful political opinion has always required one to have excess resources, what rules there might have been eroded by the guild reinterpreting founders intent







  • An important point:
    "The higher level is: What do we do with these big corporations? One is we’ve got to subordinate them constitutionally. So corporations should never have equal rights with real people. Now they’re connecting with AI. You want a deadly cocktail? Connect artificial persons called corporations with AI.
    Founders intent was for corporations to be temporary
    https://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-accountability-history-corporations-us/

    We have a system designed for 1% of the present population
    We have a system designed for information moving at the speed of horse
    Founders intent was a representative for 30,000 citizens, presently a representative for 700,000 citizens
    We have a system that is completely over whelmed by the number & complexity of decisions to be made
    We need more channels for informed feedback
    Having a meaningful political opinion has

    I lived in California in 2000 & voted for Ralph, knowing Gore had Cali in the bag