yt is so icky now—like digital slime.
that was my last big tech hold-out but i think i’ve been cured.
“When hungry, I eat; when tired, I sleep. Fools laugh at me. The wise understand.”
—Lin-chi I-hsuan (Rinzai Gigen), d. 866 A.D.
i can proudly tell my grandchildren, nestled around me by the hearth: i grew up in a time where in the deodorant market saw it only necessary to sell to the underarm and not the whole body.
i should probably add that an additional part of that “intuitive message” re: 3-5 months timeline for relocation was this, twice:
FIVE EYES BLIND.
FIVE EYES BLIND.
before 2019: migrant ships sink in the ocean
after 2019: U.S. fighter jets & influenzers’ selfie yachts
i am going to move off this topic because it is really not my business—but yesterday i was sitting in a park, reading a Murakami. nearby me sat a circle of undergrads. there was a guy with a bunch of girls — he ignored the group’s conversation and was loudly talking on his phone the whole time — what job suggestions his mother was sending him, how he wants to be married in 5-6 years, how this friend, then this one and this other would be in Israel this summer…like total non-awareness that it is a war region and might be potentially dangerous, just chatting as if it is a regular summer holiday spot. i mean: ok. next day main airport almost gets bombed & a bunch of international airlines won’t fly there for a few days if not a week. people are really living in their bubbles i guess or maybe i must be missing something.
DAYS ARE NOT DAYS UNTIL THE DAY THEY ARE DEEMED AGAIN TO BE DAYS.
Whole speech is good but best part from 5:30:
“The House, in its haste to give away its power to tax, actually passed a rule to prevent a mandatory vote on ending the emergencies. They prevent it because the rule says that DAYS NO LONGER EXIST. They declared that legislative days will not exist despite the legislature continuing to meet each day. The House has essentially ruled that days are not days and they are not to be counted as days until such time as the House again agrees to allow days to be counted as days.”
The assault on language and meaning is REAL. I don’t know if it is a “communist” thing or “fascist” thing or the distortion of legality by drowning justice in a morass of semantics but the struggle to have words mean something is essential to societal function. 1984 theme obv.
i think reddit wins.
as per social media.
"Why did you stop using Nostr"
https://old.reddit.com/r/nostr/comments/1josljh/stop/
> it's an annoying fucking echo chamber of mostly crypto-bros mostly jerking each other off. with a dash of keto pics, and neonazi memes, oh and constant "GM" messages". I think it's hilarious how unaware most of the users on there think they'll "succeed"
yup. you seem fine tho
TEN PLAGUES (APOCALYPSE OF ABRAHAM) *not in catholic bible not for the public*
And he said to me, “Abraham, I shall tell [you] what your heart desired, for you have sought to know the ten plagues which I prepared against the heathen, and I prepared them beforehand after the passing of the twelve hours on earth.
Hear what I tell you, it will be thus.
The first—distress from much violence;
the second—the fiery burning of cities;
the third—destruction of the cattle by pestilence;
the fourth—famine in their native land,
the fifth—destruction in their domains through the ravage of earthquake and sword;
the sixth—hail and increase of snow;
the seventh—wild beasts will be their grave;
the eighth—famine and pestilence will take turns in their destruction;
the ninth—punishment by the sword and flight in distress;
the tenth—thunder and voices, and ravaging earthquakes.
Then I shall sound the trumpet from the sky, and I shall send my chosen one, having in him one measure of all my power, and he will summon my people blamed among the heathen.
And I shall burn with fire those who mocked them ruling over them in this age and I shall commit those who have covered me with mockery to the reproach of the coming age.
Since I have destined them to be food for the fire of hell, and ceaseless soaring in the air of the underground depths, the contents of a worm’s belly.
For those who do justice, who have chosen my will and clearly kept my commandments, will see them. And they will rejoice with joy at the destruction of the abandoned.
can’t automate coffee at starbucks. can’t automate robots at tesla. and we’re supposed to believe in a “dark” technocracy that will be so all powerful with what—automated “warfighters”?! 🙄
“Over the last couple of years, we’ve actually been removing labour from the stores, I think with the hope that equipment could offset the removal of the labour,” Niccol said. “What we’re finding is that wasn’t an accurate assumption with what played out.”
🆘 warning:
basically evening before last got this (intuitive?) msg:
lightfoot/blackfoot/ninja/stealth/all sides/LETHAL/samurai
re: israel. not implying japan or japanese in any way. will happen in 3-5 months. penetration from 3 sides land one side sea all four at the same time. lethal. quiet. not any group they know about or are tracking: not houthi, not iran, not lebanese, not hamas, some other group very light not heavy, completely under the radar literally lightfooted as dancers but incredibly dangerous.
their citizens will be at risk & know it & will want to leave en masse. so: that abt israel 2.0 relocation—they need to have already started negotiations on that yesterday, if kazaks sell some land or wherever but they will need a place for their people to go & they are not well-liked atm globally so their gov’t needs to negotiate a place, pronto.
*end of message*