Oh, they are for sure beautiful. And the red ones (and yellow) aren't that poisonous, they only contain stuff that causes anticholinergic effects, ie, delusions and hallucinations, but most likely won't kill you, and their effect is greater if you gently toast them.

But unless you want to see people who aren't there and other such things, best to avoid the whole family, and they all have white gills. The pure white ones have a poison in them that takes 3 days for the liver to metabolise, at which point you drop dead of liver failure.

So be careful, never eat anything you aren't 110% confident is a species you know to be edible. Most of them are! Most are just not very tasty anyhow.

Mine are increasing every day, but more than a few scumbags amongst them. I've twice now auto-followed a substantial chunk of new ones and then regretted it with some of the most retarded normie propaganda regurgitation that made me want to vomit.

Finally remembered, thanks to youtube just finishing playing something, then the "next up" suggestions page appears and reminds me:

Again, Deus Ex.

But not exactly how it was relevant, per se. I still have not regained my grasp on the idea, almost had it.

damn link for picture not what it should be. Poopy.

Holy crap!

I just got done writing some documentation for my current task on Indranet, and was last in the middle of a section of Apocalypse where it is talking about the potential for a Carrington Event, ie, the first occurrance of another massive stellar/solar radiation/ion storm.

The Carrington Event was a solar flare on a level of energy that has not happened since we crisscrossed the planet with electrical wires. At the time, there was the early stages of telegraphy, electricity had not yet fully lit everyone's houses at night yet, and the telegraphy systems were fused, blown out, and caught fire. Auroras were seen far further south than normal.

Some may be aware of the likely danger posed by what many independent researchers have found both in people's blood and in the "medicines" - a magnetic- and electricity-reactive material called graphene, tiny fragments of sheets of carbon, that line up in response to stimulation from radio signals of various kinds, at small scales (notably, milimetre waves).

A Carrington Event probably will cause these contaminants to resonate, and capture energy and bathe said people in all kinds of stellar radiation and massively amplify the lethality of it, where it would not have been deadly without it.

Likewise, radio-containing and metallic, electronic devices that are wired into the brain are going to get very very hot and radiation will be received and resonated by them, again, this will be short wavelengths, microwave band, from 2cm down to millimetres.

These are also the frequencies of radio waves that are most resonant with iron, ie, in our blood, if you do a little research on microwave chemistry, you can make a furnace capable of casting steel using a modified domestic microwave oven, or any number of lower melting point metals like silver, gold, copper, etc.

Now, maybe this was my thought, maybe not, but with the clear mischief going on in Hawaii at the moment, and many saying that this is a land grab, I'm gonna speculate that this might be one of the places that are expected to be safe from such an event.

Note that while there is no direct relation to a possible strike or airburst from meteor/ites, a Carrington Event will most likely brick every single satellite in the sky, and every single one of them will then have its orbit decay and reenter the earth.

As discussed in several of Jello Biafra's songs, a great deal of satellites up in the sky contain a little plug of uranium and a small nuclear reactor. Yes, the bigger ones, obviously. It will necessarily result in a huge amount of uranium vapor filling the atmosphere and emitting gamma/alpha/beta/etc particles and killing and mutating. Assuming that the solar wind doesn't also carry a large amount of radioisotopes with it as well.

It's a little saddening, to think of how this is going to result in a massive loss of technology, the great majority of electronic devices being unshielded from this kind of radiation and in addition, them being massive fire dangers especially devices that contain lithium batteries.

They aren't pushing us to use these batteries for nothing. It's because when they are ignited, they don't stop burning, Lithium metal reacts with everything, water, air, nitrogen, at sufficient temperature, and it is impossible to extinguish, it has to literally just be contained and any flammable materials that can be moved away from its heat, to stop them also catching fire.

I'm not a believer in the Rapture, but I sure hope some of my ancestors are gonna show up and be like:

https://imgflip.com/i/7vyhpu

The historical man who is most readily connected to the stories of Jesus in the bible is called

Simon bar Kokhba

As all you rebellious plebs probably secretly suspected, he was one of the most successful populist leaders around that time who kicked off some very troublesome attacks by the early christians.

To me, jesus was all about the whipping of the money changers who were abusing the faithful, the illegitimacy of the government - render unto caesar, and the "bring a sword" - ie, defend yourself. Like saying to day, "don't bring a knife to a gun fight".

Just digging into more of the prophecy stuff (about 1/3 into the book) where it mentions a haven of the remnant:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+20%3A9-10&version=KJV

> 9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

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> 10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

"the camp of saints". So it is talking about a gathering of good people. Then it mentions "the beloved city". The name "David" means beloved of the jews. No idea what the original greek text said here. But I strongly suspect that it will be obvious to the people there when the gathering takes place. And it says *camp* not city (or citadel), and that attempts to attack it will be repelled by an energy weapon high above in orbit, is my surmise (there is several references to spacecraft in Revelation).

The interesting thing in this is El Salvador literally means "the savior" and the capital city is called "San Salvador" which is "Saint Savior".

But wherever it is, I think it's going to be known soon.

The second, 20:10, makes a reference to the lake of fire. As regards to the Atlantean myths, there is good reason to believe this refers to a volcano, and specifically, the main one on the Canary Islands, Teneriffe, was referred to by the ancient greeks as "Tartarus" which is their word for the lake of fire, now commonly called Hell. Either that refers literally to this location.

I have no idea yet what this could concretely be, if it is indeed coming very soon, but it seems to me that it might not be somewhere that is expected, and it may not be somewhere that you would have thought would be safe if there was another little barrage from the Taurids or any other debris heading our way. (and I've always found it weird how much they hype the whole "deflect the asteroid with a nuke" ideas being talked up at NASA and by others).

I'm not a christian in the sense that I reject most of the catholic canon about Jesus, the birth, the death, the trinity, and it pleased me to read that there was a man, who led a rebellion against Rome, who was very successful, a demagogue, who raised great support to kneecap the empire. To me the important parts about Jesus were always the parts about rejecting human authority, and the rest seems like, and concretely resembles ancient pagan rituals.

#biblestr

At last I am up to some of the things I was looking forward to reading about in The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya - the near future.

The reports of conversations with seeming visitors from off world, Eduard Meier, a swiss farmer, relates things he claimed he was told by this visitor, Semjase, who said she was from a planet called Erra (this is the name http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/amgg/listofdeities/erra/index.html from mesopotamian mythology).

The first mention after introducing this story in the book of dates is of Semjase saying that in 2028, by the reckoning of her people (descendants from Atlantis) was the beginning of the epoch that is called the "Age of Aquarius", the previous 2000 years, the period of the precession of the sun backwards against the stars as it rotates was the age of Pisces, and the emblem of this being Jesus, whose associations with fish are dense, the symbol of a truncated vesica pisces being one of the logos used my modern pentecostal christians.

2028 is also the time of the setting of the story in the last episode of the Deus Ex game universe, in which during 2027 a hacker attacks a vulnerable circuit contained in all of the cybernetic implants of people, who by this time (5 years from now) are getting into having not just prosthetic replacements, but enhancements, that prove very popular and become mandatory for industrial workers, who then can perform tasks that normally require a lot of expensive equipment.

I dunno about the concrete story of Deus Ex, that being, the simple physical augmentations, but I think it's fair to say that Neuralink is within a couple of years of becoming a common implant in people, and like the augmentations in this fictional world of Deus Ex, will be very widespread, indeed, I can imagine Musk collaborating with the fancy media manipulation operation that did the 2020-22 hoax to drive people towards accepting experimental gene therapies, to promoting the idea that this implant is required "Fuer ihre zicherheit" naturlich.

As long before described in William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy, the idea of neural jacks having a back channel that allows specially constructed signals, called "ICE" to fire messages into the brain directly, that cause the cessation of the autonomic nervous system's function. Coma, and if not remediated, death. Literally stopping breathing and pulse.

Imagine, the chip that sits behind the wire probes that are inserted into parts of the brain to create an electrical contact, this chip, will undoubtedly be patented, and secret, just like the jabs contents, and it doesn't take a computer network security genius to understand that the full design and capabilities of such an opaque blob of tech, software and hardware, is inherently liable to be acquired by malicious actors.

A disaster on the scale of the Aug Incident described in `Deus Ex: Mankind Divided` would not need to necessarily be a physical one, with synthetic muscle systems with superhuman strength suddenly moving without volition or purpose, it would be enough to either send a kill signal like Gibson's ICE, or better still, a brainwashing program that poisons people's ability to make sense of the world and causes them to behave in ways that are alien to them, causing great harm.

Either way, it only takes a little chip and a few wires and a massive campaign to push people to get it installed, for their safety, and the safety of everyone else.

2027. Mass cybernetic disaster. Seems like a likely outcome from all the things I see going on in the world right now.

Just as an aside, my father, who is minor pedophile and religious nutter, told me about 10 years ago that all the research and cross correlation (you should have seen his documents, you know the "Always sunny in Philadelphia" actor in front of the conspiracy theory board... yeah, his documents looked like John Nash's hidden office as depicted in A Beautiful Mind... He said that the trouble would start in 2024, which is also consistent with the 3.5 years later, 2028.

My dad is nuts, and I'm far past giving a damn about him, just that of course it impacts on my sense of myself. But I think he pretty much decoded it. There's no way that he would have drawn any of his data towards his conclusion from such "new age" stories.

Definitely a good reason to get an airsoft gun to knock these things off their perches and expose them. Or just shoo the actual bird.

haha... too long for Solaris lol

Haven't tasted one yet, but we may have found a rather good bargain on some fantastic marbly rib-eye beef steaks today, gonna be trying one out grilled over charcoal and hickory or whatever the smoking wood chunks are, nice prep with salt and pepper and a couple hours rest before going on the bbq.

I hope they do taste as good as they look...

...ah yes, ok, there is two forms of the encode.

and yes, also, the types and naming don't conform with how it would be done as an interface.

But this thing is such a small library, maybe I should just fork it, and eliminate the variants and make them all `val interface{}`...

Anyone familiar with the LND codebase and the TLV encoding library in it would probably be vaguely familiar with the following two functions:

func ReadVarInt(r io.Reader, buf *[8]byte) (uint64, error)

func WriteVarInt(w io.Writer, val uint64, buf *[8]byte) error

found here:

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/tlv/varint.go

Note how this is the same function signatures as these also:

func EUint64T(w io.Writer, val uint64, buf *[8]byte) error

func DUint8(r io.Reader, val interface{}, buf *[8]byte, l uint64) error

oh, look at that. This first one above is different. The others are not though:

func EBytes32(w io.Writer, val interface{}, _ *[8]byte) error

func DBytes32(r io.Reader, val interface{}, _ *[8]byte, l uint64) error

Definitely should be an interface. WTH @roasbeef (he's not here???)

oh, it's a 20 year cycle, conjunction to conjunction, so it was 20 cycles per Bethelhem star close conjunction.

So every 10 years it is going between opposition and conjunction, creating the polarity that seems to correlate to the "decades" that have been a big part of the discourse the last 100 years, I think the 20th century was when this became a thing, with the decade of the balkans wars, followed by WW1, followed by the roaring 20s, followed by the crash and the fascist 30s, that led to the war, almost 10 years exactly after the crash of the 20s, to the start of WW2. And then another conjunction cycle to 1969, and then again to 1989, and then to 2009, and next is 2029.

Now, does anyone remember what happened in 1969 and what happened in 2009?

Precisely two cycles of Saturn/Jupiter. Also, 1989 was a pretty big year too, I seem to recall 1987 had a huge market crash, 86 was Chernobyl and Challenger... oof, those were some times alright.

I remember the "bethlehem star" conjunction of jupiter and saturn in 2020. I was making a big deal about it because it was one of the 400 year cycle markers that you can look back over history as a demarcation point between epochs of empires.

The roman empire almost collapsed in the 400 years after the 0AD jupiter/saturn conjunction, and in the last century was the "conversion" of Constantine and the birth of the "Holy Roman Empire" and the catholic church and the council of Nicaea who selected the books that became the modern bible.

I did not know until just now reading Apocalypse that it was also the solstice. Maybe I did, but it's not glued in my memory so much as the fact it was one of the super close conjunctions that only happen every 400 years, which is 10 cycles of conjunction, square, opposition, square, repeat, ie 40 year cycle.

This is a special celestial event which directly connects to the modern notion of decade epochs of social change that gives us "boomer" and "gen x" and "millennial" and all that stuff, and it's also related to another popular notion of the "fourth turning".

Anyway, just more nuggets as I read through The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya. I do remember specifically that I read in several places that this event was the end of an imperial epoch, which the founding of the USA was its debut, but actually it really is marked with the founding of the first international central bank in, Paris, I think it was.

But it being also falling within the orb (3' of arc) of a summer solstice is very unique. Consider, the meaning of it in old, atlantean invented zodiac angles:

Jupiter is Zeus or Atlas, Saturn is aka Chronos and is probably also Satan and similar demonic forms, since this ancient king was a cannibal and child sacrifice guy. At the same time as the sun is opposite, Saturn is overtaken by Jupiter, potentially marking the end of the era dominated by the seed of Chronos, and to resume the path of the remnant of Atlas going forward.

I know this is "woo woo astrology" related but yeah I do recall something to the effect that because of the sheer size of the objects that were in opposite sides in a line with us in the middle, this would have to be one of the most gravitationally active conjunction/opposition alignments in history, literally all 3 of the gas giant and large of our solar system.

We are in for surprises going forward, but for sure, this kind of conjunction is precisely the sort of thing that can rouse clouds of metorites into a change of direction, and that can be a very big deal for us here if it gets close enough to starburst, or impact in large numbers.

Yeah but I couldn't sleep until 3am and then napped 5-9 and here I am again, hoping today I can stop my day before 10pm tonight, after 3 days sleepless until 3.

Gonna try turning off all my electronics. I think the winky LEDs make my sleep shit.

haha, I couldn't make sense of that map until I figured out it is rotated, and that body of water is the Alboran Sea, behind the Strait of Gibraltar, downwards is westish.

This isn't an extreme example but images of especially human bodies decorated with this kind of geometric perforations triggers a phobia in some people. I had a nightmare once that involved little pyramid segments being somehow carved out of my flesh, I forget, maybe it was on my face or something, *shudder*, idk what it is, it's just bizarre how it makes my skin crawl.

I was told when I was little that mushrooms with white gills are usually poisonous. Most of the Amanita family have this feature, and also this dense fringing membranes, though not as full on as the stem on this one. Many of those species are symbiotes with the roots of pine trees, notably Muscaria likes Pinus Radiata, you can find the red and white spotty shrooms in most plantation pine forests across the world.

Beautiful photo though, I love fungi, my favourite family of the tree of life <3

I was following them for years on Facebook, until facebook started injecting "sponsored" "posts" into every 5th item in my feed, I was done. That was 2018.