I just watched a detailed three part BBC documentary called “Putin and the West”.

Basically it’s a hatchet job on Vlad the lessor, made by his enemies.

Little effort was spared to create the impression that no effort was spared to make this advertorial appear completely unbiased.

What I got out of it is that they’re all mad; politicians, dictators and their collective advisors and servants. The lot of them. Except just maybe Zelensky (or he’s simply the best actor).

There’s a lot of speculation as to why Putin doesn’t share the values of the West, and what his values actually are.

One thing for sure, he doesn’t mind collateral damage whereas his Western counterparts go to great lengths to pretend that they abhor collateral damage.

And yet they collectively start wars that have much collateral damage. They do this and then claim three ameliorating factors;

1. They don’t know why the other bastards are so unreasonable

2. All their allies are also unreasonable and not one of them can act unilaterally, unless it suits them to do so

3. They’re way too dumb to be able to predict what the other fucker will do in response to whatever is their fucktard action de jour.

Actually are they that dumb? Mankind has solved much harder problems when there’s a quid in it. For example, we can design and build Landrovers, poker machines and catflaps.

Coming to my conclusion, these problems aren’t anticipated and presolved because there’s a quid in chaos and war.

Sometimes that quid is power, sometimes fame, and sometimes just a quid.

At the core the issue is whatever those Freudian-style mummy and daddy issues are that drive people into these leadership roles.

To fix it, we need good AI to weed the fuckers out before they even get going. There’s no point trying to fix them because my guess is that they’re beyond repair by 8 years of age.

I’ve noticed that a lot of people get sad or nostalgic when they get on a plane.

Previously I’ve always put this down to the effect of leaving home, but…

Noting that the cabin pressurization puts me to sleep, I’m wondering if it’s not the applied pressure that allows the mood swings?

If it were then maybe pressurization and depressurization could be applied to the treatment of depression. Aka diving chamber.

They’re the same word after all (depression), and maybe the solution has been staring us in the face all the time.

Query, do deep sea divers suffer more or less depression than the average population?

You’d have thought by now that LEGO would have been killed by 3D printers.

The power of nostalgia or the uselessness of software engineers?

My money’s on the latter.

Some journo reckons that Australians simply don’t want to stretch their brains to political issues, rather they want to focus on real estate, YouTube, and beer.

Hence if there is political accord (between all the parties) on a matter they just go along with it. Otherwise they push the panic button on that horrible day when they are forced to vote, at the threat of fine.

In the distant past that means there must have been some accord on the issue of compulsory voting. You see, those Australians, they got done over on that day by the people with serious psychological disorders that go into politics. Fuckwits to a woman, that insist on both changing things against popular request, and telling people what to do say and do and think.

Like voting for example…

I’ve calculated the exact age when, for the first time, I had forgotten more than I knew. It’s pi years of course, which in my case occurred on 4th August 1967, which just happens to be the National Chocolate Chip Cookie day in the US. You might notice it’s an irrational number (so did it actually happen?), but then so is this post.

The problem with democracy, it seems to me, is that to get what they want a lot of people spend a lot of time telling other people what to do or say or think. Technically, it’s called a second order cluster fuck, and my good nature is the natural victim thereof.

If ya was an incel, the obvious solution would be to advertise yourself as a qualified photographer/gopher/porter. We used to call them handbags.

These Romans, they export tranquility whilst they import money.

MF-

Possibly a type of screw thread or a subtractive anachronism that associates as an initialism, or both. Certainly has an unwarranted gender bias. But hey, who’s making up the rules here?

“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and forestall.”

Bullshit, we never did have.

“He will end by destroying the earth.”

That bit’s true, always was. We’ve just been working up to the means.

The water in the Seine is so clean we’re going to start allowing people to swim in it.

We’re rebuilding the Notre Dame using mediaeval tools and materials.

Femtech: a growth industry

Special Report 2023

“This is just the beginning for Femtech. For years, women’s health issues have taken a back seat, with a lack of research leading to a limited understanding of how women’s bodies work and a failure to develop treatments, procedures and solutions aimed specifically at women and the illnesses and health needs they have. The coming years will see this sector continue to thrive and we are excited to be part of it.”

I think the “they” gives it away…

It’s pretty obvious really; before the industrial revolution the only sustainable form of government was the pyramidic dictatorship.

Das Capital was only permitted by the rape of the planet because it required us peons to transition from units of labour to units of consumption.

There was, at the start, like in any new market a little competition for dominant business model for global consumption. But that’s been long sorted.

Now we’re looking at the end of the party and we’ll drift back to the dictatorships.

A mate’s mate’s cousin’s brother reckons he’s shown that liberal values of equality and freedom are fundamentally incompatible with capitalism.

What he means is that capitalism doesn’t often let nostalgia get in the way of a devious plan.

Assuming that most human plans end in disaster, which they do if you wait long enough, I’m wondering what the average half life is between opportunism and despair?

So Qantas has been sprung selling cheap tickets for flights that don’t exist. When the customers find out the flights are cancelled, they don’t get their money back just a voucher.

They want to fine Qantas hundreds of millions, but that’s just punishing the shareholders who had nothing to do with it.

They should instead force the board to resign for lack of prudential oversight.

That would get all the other boards to take notice. “Don’t touch my sinecure!”