Just maybe, the path to universality of religion and atheism is for people to accept that other people believe in what they believe. If everyone thought so, they could trade bullshit. No worries. Just like money.

Hundreds of Chinese companies use their shares as collateral for loans, and are forced to sell when their share price drops below certain levels.

Now how fucked up is that? Death spiral here we come.

Your assets as collateral, with warrants over shares solely as upside. That makes more sense.

Back to bistromathics…

I’ve mused on this before, so this is a refinement of a refinement.

Queries:

1. Why does it seem that the disappearing rump of the broadcast media has deserted any pretence of the rigid application of logic and reasoning?

2. And why have politicians, business types, the general population and others seemingly followed them down this road?

3. Most confusing, why do they all still seem embarrassed enough to add a veneer of rational thinking to their fucked-up self-serving positions?

Maybe I’m over thinking it.

Maybe this is the quickest path to self riches in a complex post-enlightenment world.

This is what happens when the benefits of logic (above all else) get taken for granted by the beneficiaries of the program. Especially when they get the benefits no matter what.

So, rather than be-crying the apparent unfair distribution of wealth, I say double down on it. People need motivation.

It also helps the environment by reducing consumption.

We need to act while they still think they have to pretend to be logical. In the social media era that won’t last long.

Per usual perusal.

You have to fuck a lot of princesses to find a frog.

I have pared back LinkedIn to the bare minimum. I’ve only kept it because I’m raising capital for BT Imaging. Otherwise it would be gone.

Social media is an ego trap. People get that old endorphin hit every time someone likes or looks or whatever. Before they know it, they’re addicted to the shit.

And then there’s two issues:

1. It’s fake life, not real. The Matrix.

2. Enlightenment requires that one starves the ego, not feed it. My rule.

I’m happy right now. I’ve got the world’s best baby, best wife, best life, no social media and freedom. None of that would be possible if I had been a social media junky.

It’s a conundrum, that is for sure.

I support your right to free speech, except when that right is used to reduce the rights of others.

I guess right there is the solution….

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers, except where such seeking, receiving and imparting is intended to deleteriously impact the right to freedom of opinion and expression of others.

Don’t like them much. Folky, needy, conservative, hypocritical, uncritical sheep.

What have I discovered?

Much.

But each time I think I’ve arrived at some enlightened state, the universe come and sits me on my arse as penance for my arrogance.

But yet, as I go from place to place, I now feel wonderfully disconnected from my fellow man. And happy.

I don’t feel the need to tell anyone about the underlying principles that got me here. I know that ego is the worst killer of progress.

I also know that they don’t want to and couldn’t understand, in any case. People in our modern western society are, in my view, thoroughly addicted to their mad and bad ways. An addiction in the sense that they are hooked onto things that are slowly and surely killing them and their souls. They subconsciously know it, and can’t do a bloody thing about it.

There’s nowt that I can say or do about it that would make any difference. Shame that.

A genuine sentence found in an Australian tabloid newspaper..

“Experts on the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), vessel Investigator made the find while mapping the sea floor 400 kilometres east of Tasmania.”

In Sydney, a macchiato is anything in between an espresso and a piccolo latte, inclusive of those limiting cases.

In Brisbane, a double macchiato is a long macchiato. That is, full of extra unwanted water.

A little standardisation is in order.

The people are outraged, according to some journos. And yet others sanguinely note that nowt will change while banks have a profit motive, or the racing industry has a pulse, or the students are allowed to plot.

Indeed who really cares? We only support “values” because they might help protect us one day. Individually most people feel completely free to do what the fuck they want, if they can get away with it.

So they don’t get too surprised if others feel the same.

My point? I can’t remember now. Lol. Who cares?

Let me furnish the interior of my head as I please and I won’t build a house like anyone else’s. Or at all.

This poor bloke’s trying to get a root on the side. He simultaneously motivated and bored, and she’s extracting maximum pain value. They’ve been at it for an hour now; he’s yawning, stretching and grinning madly. I call it the”sunk capital” problem; he can’t quit now…

There’s an ugly frantic feel to Melbourne these days. Like everyone’s desperate to get out of a horrible chilly wind, which they are. It’s noisy, ugly and there’s a feel of desperation to the whole thing. My prediction is that the whole thing will go pear shaped at some point. Like it did in 1890’s.

Various names for the things;

Wheel centre ring locators

Hub rings

Hub centre rings

And the list goes on…

When you use a non standard wheel on your car, it’s likely that the hole in the wheel is much bigger than the hub. Meaning that is hard to get the wheel centred on the hub because the holes for the lugs are much bigger than the lugs themselves. So there’s a lot of slop, play, whatever.

My mechanic alerted me to their absence. A wheel place sent me to another wheel place. The other wheel place refused to add the rings because my front wheels are at least 1mm outside the guard/fenders. Go figure…

So I googled for the hub diameter and emailed the wheel maker and got the wheel hole diameter. Then ordered the hub rings for $10 on eBay, thus saving myself $300.

Quality not equality

Queensland gallery of modern art. Every single gallery inside is shut for updates, but the corridors are still open to the public. Worst building ever; it’s been designed to feel like a series of oversize corridors that lead nowhere.

Truth is, it’s a loss leader for the carpark.