Day: February 22, 2025, 5:10 PM
Decline
The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled.
The US will be a much, much poorer and worse country after this four years. This was not inevitable; it will be a direct result of actions by President Musk and and his lackey Trump.
I have trouble understanding why they are doing this other than the urge to destroy, as these actions will harm even Musk in the end. It seems just utterly pointless. The only hypothesis I can posit is that China and Russia are promising them enough that diminishing the US is worth it to them.
But I have no insight other than that.
Neuropsy
Latest smart book I’m reading: Neuroscience of Clinical Psychiatry: The Pathophysiology of Behavior and Mental Illness by Edmund S. Higgins, M.D. and Mark S. George, M.D.
It’s not actually as hard as I thought it’d be because I have a good baseline for this topic, so I’m gonna slot another one in there. Not sure what yet.
GRII
Great Recession II: Immiseration Boogaloo inbound.
Do prepare, if you can. Try to have a deep emergency fund. Secure another income stream. Determine if you live in a non-recourse state or not if the worst happens.
But it’s comin’, y’all.
Smarts
Why, exactly, other than propaganda do people think using a terrible small smartphone is more convenient? Is it just that they find a real computer difficult to use?
I’ve never found a single thing on a phone easier or faster if I had a real computer at hand. It’s all much slower. And yes, I can use one competently.
MRE
What’s the payload here? https://t.co/7buqgnnVl4
— David Hambling (@David_Hambling) February 22, 2025
Payload is probably a cardboard Russian seven-day MRE box with a tarp or something wrapped around it to weatherproof it. It’s the right size and shape and the logistics of getting those to the front line with ground vehicles now is nearly impossible with all the Ukrainian drones.
Pure Foul
About the Ukraine war, it’s an extremely evil tenet of a lot of modern left belief that defending your home is an undesirable and in fact immoral thing to do if a genocidal invader comes knocking.
That just letting the plunderers do whatever they like “saves lives.”
That’s never true. But the same idiotic views can be seen in the lefty stance on what deranged vagrants should be allowed: free-for-all assaults and setting people on fire if it makes them feel better. I think they see it as restorative justice or some such nonsense.
If anyone invades my home — country or house — the only thing I’ll be sad about after I shoot them in the face is that they got blood on my carpet. And if they get blood in the dirt, I don’t care. It makes good fertilizer.
Any other way of thinking is someone who cares more about appeasing Putin-like people than they do about being a free person in the world. And I want to have nothing to do with those quislings at all because they’d sell me out the very moment it becomes convenient.
All to still be killed themselves after they stop being a useful idiot.
Weather Migration
What The States Would Look Like If They Were Resized By Population.
Not shown here, but there has been a long trend of people moving away from states with shitty weather (too cold) to those with more salubrious weather. Enabled, of course, by air conditioning becoming cheap and widely available.
HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls.
The Key to a Stronger Economy? It’s Housing, Stupid.
Why Trump’s Clean Energy Rollbacks Could Derail a Factory Boom. Terrible idea. Like most of Trump’s.
Ukraine Is Just a Pawn in a Russian Reset.
Europe Is Becoming an Afterthought for the World.
Massive WWII B-29 Bomber Base Fully Reclaimed For Future Pacific Fight.
China’s homegrown tech boosts global surveillance, social controls.
Meta approves plan for bigger executive bonuses following 5% layoffs.
Trump and Elon’s ‘Pointless Bloodbath’ at the FAA Is Even Worse Than You Think. Weakening state capacity to promote Chines and Russian goals.
the real, tangible danger that comes from infantilizing adults in their 20s. Funny how many idiot leftists harm themselves more than anyone else with their insane beliefs about how relationships “should” be.