It’s not mine, it’s Nic’s.

A strip of cloth covered in the non furry, hooked plastic side of Velcro.

All the socks would stick to it and be able to be removed from the dry laundry in one glorious lump, for subsequent processing.

In my case I’d just hang the lump from a door and whip off the socks when I needed them.

Data point for evidence of utility: after laundering, my socks are stuck to the exposed Velcro on my shorts.

Microsoft are either incompetent or malevolent. They’re are the only two ways to explain their products.

I imagine they are both, in fact.

My data point being that all the errors resulting from their incompetence just happen to be in their favour (hence the malevolence).

The incompetence is the excuse they use when charged with abusing their market position.

That is true of every large B2C corporation, almost without exception.

As one approaches the age of 60, you do notice the real world and it’s ageist ways.

Effectively, opportunities are cut off for you, or you do it yourself, because of your age.

The ‘do it yourself’ part is interesting. Effectively you anticipate ageism and go out of your way not to be a subject of it, thereby reducing your opportunities.

And yet, it’s still real.

These days, the peak of your perceived powers are around 48 years old. And that number is dropping.

Gone are the days of the old fellas ruling the roost. Unless somehow they’ve institutionalised their power, e.g. in politics.

Using the gender wars as a yardstick, we should start calling out ageism for what it is. Name and shame…

And then start organisations like OFIP, old fellas in IP, to promote our collective equal opportunity rights.

But that’s the thing about getting older; you can’t be fucked and you’re not that stupid. So it’s self propagating.

That is, you don’t want to be perceived to be equivalent to that ageing hipster blonde chick with big glasses and weird lipstick, bemoaning about the opportunities denied her by the patriarchy that have hampered her over-privileged and under-performing work career.

The gender correct (sic) pronoun has always annoyed me because it sounds grammatically incorrect. There’s only one of them, and yet they are plural.

But then I noticed we all do it. When we don’t know the gender of the person we will say “when are they coming?”

So we’re all grammatically incorrect. What English needs is a solution that isn’t plural.

Arguably (and very) the French have a solution. La and Le can be abbreviated to L’.

Noting that she and he, him and her, etc are derived from each other (generally the feminine just has an added ‘s’ or switched out and an ‘i’ for an ‘e’) we could adapt the French solution thusly;

She and He => ‘e or #e

Him and Her => H’ or H#

What is the best way to exploit a mostly uneducated consumer without fear of getting caught?

It seems to me that all you have to do is find an “edge case” and extrapolate to buggery.

For example, someone with very high blood pressure shouldn’t consume excessive salt, and that’s a fact. Well it is if they want to keep living.

However, for the rest of the population it doesn’t matter how much salt they consume.

And yet they have been told to cut back. 99.99% of people believe this without question.

In this case no one profited as far as I could tell. Maybe it was a practice run to see how gullible people really are…

What followed?

Margarine

Cholesterol

Sunblock

Vitamins

Probiotics

Prebiotics

Supplements

Vegetarianism

Veganism

And the list goes on.

The counter argument is similar to the that for gambling. Ya gotta be in it to win it ..

Sure someone profits, but if it gives people hope and doesn’t make them destitute, what harm is being done really?

“Sunscreen usage is climbing, but so are melanoma and skin cancer rates: this, researchers say, is the sunscreen paradox.”

It’s actually worse than it sounds. A study in Canada showed higher skin cancer rates where there was higher sunscreen usage.

You should see them squirming; hiring researchers to follow sunscreen users so they can blame shoddy slip/slop/slap practices on the results, etc.

Having learned the concept of Occam’s Razor as a kid, it would seem to me that the obvious line of research would be to look at the chemical toxicity of sunscreens, especially in UV light, and those of their degradation products.

Avobenzone, octinoxate and oxybenzone: sure these chemicals absorb UV light, but chemically they look pretty nasty and the sort of chemicals that you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy’s skin.

Titanium dioxide, now that’s a known super efficient photocatalyst. Why in the hell would you put that in there? Creating radicals just where you don’t want them.

That’s right, I’m suggesting the solution is the problem. Those UV absorbing chemicals and their degradation products are probably carcinogenic.

Just saying … seems bloody obvious to me.

So Phil sends me a ngram plot showing that the term “conspiracy theory” didn’t exist before 1950 and it’s taken off like a piano out of a window since then.

My view is that there were only conspiracy hypotheses before then. But ngram surprisingly suggests that this blog is the world’s very first use of the term “conspiracy hypothesis”.

You beauty! Little jig, etc.

I’m going to suggest that the post-50’s progenitors of novel social and political explanations didn’t actually think they were hypotheses, which is partly why others labelled them as theories.

It was a case of dishing out left handed compliments to unworthy retards.

There was no doubt in anyone’s mind that these were facts, mate. And being facts, you’re clearly mad, mate.

Actually they are all hypotheses and pretty bad ones at that. Not one of them either (a) stands being tested with prior data, or (b) has any utility in predicting the future.

Your average Conspiracy Theory does surpringly pass the Occam’s Razor test, generally being the simplest of all possible solutions (e.g. It’s the Rockefellers…). “Simple” is the word you’ve got to focus on there. They’re still shit.

But generally they are pretty funny, so that’s something to hang onto.

What these people were doing prior to 1950 remains a mystery. Although I would point out that the most prominent inventions of that decade were: the transistor radio, Sputnik, the flight data recorder, the Breath-a-Lyzer, the barcode, the polio vaccine, and the hovercraft (and of course, now we must add the Conspiracy Theory to that list).

My money’s on the Breath-a-Lyzer as the catalyst of change that switched on the loonies. Of course they would pick the polio vaccine and they would be incorrect as usual, even if they weren’t.

I wonder if you have to pay off good luck with bad karma?

Say you win the Everest multi.

It was a promotion by the NZ tab, a free bet where you choose the finishing position of all 12 horses in the race.

Against the odds, some bloke won it and got $10m at no cost.

One chance in 500 million. That’s 12 factorial if your wondering.

There’s what, 4 million kiwis, so the TAB never thought they’d be paying out. Lol.

He’ll be paying that luck off for the next 5 generations.

So this bearded bloke in overalls was selling “artisan melanzana”. I had to ask..

Italian for eggplant

Organic with visible flaws

Special weirdo small variety

Washed in distilled water

Picked by virgins under a full moon, all genders btw

Packed in tissue paper and carted in reusable old school wooden boxes

Also displayed in said wooden boxes with chalk board pricing reminiscent of the great depression,

And it was fucking expensive…

One security guard to another;

“I hate being six foot four”

“Here’s the deal Maxwell.

I need to bring on 5 people this time period.

You seem like a solid fit.

Your invitation is attached, the password is 3105.

I look forward to hearing back from you Maxwell.

Jesus”

I couldn’t make this shit up…

This is what Google has inexplicably decided that I’m interested in;

How the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs sparked a climate catastrophe

“She knew I struggled” Adrian Edmonson on confiding in wife

Almost 100,000 customers have Centrelink payments paused

BYD Seal logs huge order tally in just two weeks

$20 bottle of South Australian wine named world’s best

Why are there so many grumpy men on cruises?

I didn’t find information on how to plan financially for parenthood so I wrote a book

(The answer is their wives, btw.)

I got halfway through the article thinking it was modern day slow reveal journalism, but no, the bird is actually called the powerful owl, lower case. No shit.

“Powerful owls are expressive and strangely compelling — their powerful ‘woo-hoo’ hoot carries across the night. It’s soulful [and] I love it.”

Not surprisingly there’s hardly any left and yet they’re simultaneously on the brink of becoming the next bin chicken.

The unexpected solution to this unexpected problem is, of course, that we give some academics (specifically, Ms Zvolanek and Dr Parsons) some money to ponder the inexplicable. I’m in.

If I say it loudly enough, and no-one contests it, then not only is it true, it’s a fact mate.

FAAACCCCTTTT!! Cunt.

The billboard screamed;

“3000 Australians an hour face homelessness” [Mission Australia]

3,000x24x365 = 26.2m

That’s 26m Australians a year, which just happens to be our entire population at the minute.

That means, at least once a year each of us faces homelessness for an hour, on average.

I’m on the lookout. I don’t want to miss it this time.

Or could it be the same 3,000 people calling Mission Australia once an hour, every hour, hoping for a different result?

What about the fish?

Wait until a problem gets so big that the only viable solution is a tunnel, which just happens to be privately owned and operated, but substantially publically funded.

That’s this country in a fucknutshell.

The upsetting time is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the equinox.

That’s either Easter, aka Chocolate Sunday, or Halloween, aka Type2 Diabetes Day.

Good names for modern stayers…

Honoured and Humbled,

Shocked and Saddened, and

Fucked if I Know

If you want to track the emasculation of the Australian male you just have to count the immaculately cleaned unibody dual cab utes.

How did mankind even survive before x-rays?

I think I like general anaesthetics more than any recreational drugs. Complete and utter blackout, with virtually no side effects, during or after. What’s not to like?

It turns out I don’t have a carbon footprint.

All sorts of weak-minded Australians have taken it upon themselves to pick a side in the Levant.

The mind boggles.

It would be like your average rugby league fan deciding to care about who wins a Collingwood – Port Adelaide game.

Don’t do it. It doesn’t make sense. And both sets of magpies and their supporters are considered to be cunts for very good reasons.

However, it would be reasonable for NEDS to start constructing a same-year multi on the caper.

The issue with the Australian Constitution is that, written in the context of federalisation, it’s focused on the division of powers between the feds and the states.

It hardly even considers the people it is supposedly “protects”, i e. us.

A good constitution, as any American will tell you, gives the people or a person the legal tools to fight against any government that might have it’s own interests ahead of the people, i.e. all of them.

Possibly that is best argument for the voice. If it had got up, the rest of us could have them clamored for the same rights as the indigenous population.

The only time in life when you have absolutely no concerns is when you’re under general anaesthetic.

No dreams, no consciousness, no concerns, no joy, nothing.

To badky misqoute the French, le petit mort.

I can’t see how you could live your life thus, or whether you’d want to.

Both it does pose an interesting conundrum; the most perfectly amenable goal in life is the reversible absence of life.

Who engineered this pile of dogshit, one wonders?

When it doubt,

Just add water to the bowl

Definition: trumped up first world woke movement enabled by weak minded academics working unwittingly on behalf of property developers wishing to build massive apartment blocks in the nice upper middle class bungalow suburbs of Australia on the basis that the government enabled high house prices of these heritage preserved suburbs excludes the poor.

I’m 50-50 on this one.

Ok, I spent the first 50 years reconciling myself with my existence. Did a pretty shit job too.

Looks like I’ll spend the other 10 to 40 years reconciling myself with my impending lack of existence.

I’d like to think there was this week or so in the middle where, like the eye of the storm, all was calm.

The trouble is I think I blinked and missed it.

Two workers, one Chinese and one Indian, working at Melbourne airport security (terminal 4 – Rex, deathstar, etc).

One says to the other, overheard by me.

“The trouble with this country, too many white people”.

“There are so many issues that still need addressing and it cannot happen now in the most efficient way. One is the high proportion of prisoners who are Aboriginal. The rate at which Aboriginal Australians die in custody is obscenely greater than the white and Asian settler community. Indigenous Australians do not live as long as whites, having an average life span that is eight years shorter. We would have had a federal mechanism for dealing with all that, on good advice from the people themselves.”

Thus whined one Tom Kenneally, when he didn’t get what he wanted.

I suspect the bleeding of the heart has deprived his brain of much needed oxygen.

Otherwise the obvious thought would occur to him; why on earth can’t these issues be addressed without changing the constitution?

In fact, the so called Aboriginal community and leaders could just get together and do something. That would be the same ones that were going to advise parliament.

If needed I’m sure parliament could throw some money their way. Its not as though we need to change the constitution for that to occur. They are the global leaders at giving money away for no expected return.

New fact 1: if your problem du jour requires politicians to be part of the solution, then you’re fucked.

You can’t solve with cuntyness what was created with cuntyness in the first place.

You choose…

The Australian Constitution …

115. States not to coin money

“A State shall not coin money, nor make anything but gold and silver coin a legal tender in payment of debts.”

So the goal here was that the states don’t print money, so they can’t then pay debts by just printing money, which would be inflationary (unless you’re American).

It’s effectively the states handing over the monetary system to feds when they federated.

But that’s not what it says.

In actual fact the states pay their debts by electronic funds transfer, using money raised by all sorts of nefarious means (stamp duties, speeding fines, etc), which is in breach of the constitution.

They can live in breach because no one is offended by it enough to take it to the high court.

If it were taken to the high court, my guess is the judges would ‘interpret’ the intent of the original clause and let things go on as they are.

Which begs the question, why not just interpret the constitution any way you want, for example to allow for the Voice without having to change the thing?

For fuck sakes, they’re just guidelines, mate.

Recently, in a majority ruling in Vanderstock & Anor v State of Victoria, the High Court found the Victorian Zero and Low Emission Vehicle Distance-based charges are invalid under Section 90 of the Constitution as it imposes a duty of excise.

Section 90 apparently says only the Commonwealth Parliament, not the states nor the territories, can “impose duties of customs and excise”.

See, they just make this shit up as they go. A road user charge is deemed an excise by the high court, because they’ve got special interests to protect. Namely their mates in federal parliament and the electric car industry, aka the car industry.

Not a single lay person in the country would have guessed correctly that a distance based road charge was an excise.

If they really wanted to they could have slipped the Voice into section 90 without bothering us at all. After all it was an excise on common sense.

Gambling and advertising are somewhat similar. Both have the intent of extracting all your cash and leaving you with nothing useful.

In one case the carrot is that you might win a lot more cash. In the other the stick is that you will be a loser if you don’t.

Looking at it this way, it’s advertising the wokes need to go after. But that’s getting a little close to the weak-minded bone I guess.

Parents that pay for their kids’ schooling should give their kids the money and let them pay the school, or not.

Being a direct customer changes your attitude towards putting up with shit, and getting your money’s worth.

I’ve decided to vote “maybe”.

I’m sure there’s something in the constitution which preserves my right to be rationally undecided on any specific matter. They can’t force me how to think, right?

The problem of course is that it’s a big exercise in forecasting what will happen if we change the constitution. I’m extremely sceptical about the prognostic capabilities of Australians. For example they collectively lost $9.3b to the pokies last year.

So yeah, nuh, maybe.

“Kellogg’s [have] found that the zipper closures [on ziplock bags] sometimes “do not close properly or food gets caught in the seal,” and that their “current packaging set up just couldn’t cope with the addition of zip locks, as it would make the process much slower and more expensive.”

Diana Twede, professor emeritus from Michigan State University’s school of packaging, confirmed that cereal companies are reluctant to [use ziplock bags] because of the extra costs. So it is not a conspiracy on Big Cereal’s behalf to create a sort of planned obsolescence by making their product get stale (although companies in other industries have certainly been accused of doing so.)

If manufacturing an item becomes more expensive, a cereal company might then pass that cost along to consumers, who in turn might decide to buy a competitor’s product, said David Luttenberger, the global packaging director for market research firm Mintel.

Twede said that if a company decides to take the leap, they have [sic] no competitive advantage against their rivals.”

Proof positive that an oligarchy prevents innovation…

Doesn’t Elon Musk get bad press for his ownership of X?

Of course that’s from the competition, the journalists and publishers, whose profession is at threat from the internet-published opinions of the great unwashed. So we can take that with a grain of salt.

Musk has repeatedly said it’s up to the contributors to put whatever they want on X. He doesn’t want to be responsible for the content. Realistically it isn’t a publisher, it’s a soap box platform or a great big pinboard in the sky.

Too bad for the journalists that it seems most people actually want to be sucked in or titillated by complete bullshit. We’re far better off knowing and accepting that fact.

It works for call centres; we should outsource our military to the Filipinos.

It would be cheaper and probably just as effective. Roughly the same work ethic.

Of course, if the Chinese ever took an unexpected hankering for our landmass they’d have to come through the Philippines anyway, where our outsourced military would be ready and waiting to defend us.

Actual quote…

“If you already own non-stick cookware, consider the following while using [the cookware, I guess] to prevent the release of PFAS:
Cook at medium and low temperatures and use ventilation.
Never cook on high heat, as this may release PFAS into food or the air.
Use wooden cooking utensils to prevent scratching the coating of the cookware, as scratches can promote the release of PFAS.”

Retards … literally.

From my perspective, the issue in the sciences and engineering at universities is the seriously low quality of research that is tolerated, across the board. Don’t be fooled by a few supposed highlights here and there – the average is so bad that the whole sector would be better off dead.

This low quality is due to a number of factors;

1. The sheer volume of prior art behind which your lazy or incompetent researcher can and does hide. They don’t know or don’t bother checking the prior art when they embark on a new research program. Gone are the days when an academic had an encyclopaedic knowledge of their own tight little field.

2. Interdisciplinary efforts resulting in neither fish nor fowl, and a distinct lack of excellence in anything. This linked to problem 1.

3. The gap between invention and discovery. Funding has been pushed academics ever closer to invention, which they are universally bad at relative to the private sector. Discovery in the natural world gets ever harder as the shoulders of giants just gets bigger.

4. A general push for the appearance of results as opposed to actual results. Basically anything a university can market to the public will do, and who cares about the actual merit of the thing? Again this is linked to the sheer volume of info – everyone assumes that no one will ever do a prior art search or come back in a year’s time to see if the pronouncements ever came true.

5. University rankings which are based on research outcomes and then used to create education market opportunities. Has no one realised this is illogical? I once heard a plausible argument as to why better research leads to better education but for the life of me I can’t recall the argument. Its especially untrue for the vocational training that now seems to dominate universities.

6. The tyranny of citations, which must be the dumbest measure of quality ever. How has the sector allowed themselves to be enslaved to something so stupid?

7. Also the academic research leaders don’t do any research at all. They write grants, administer and educate and don’t have time for anything else. The role of organising the research groups is left to people who are themselves still in training; poorly managed in other words, with future leaders being taught by future leaders.

8. The unionisation of the places had lead to a situation where many highly paid academic staff take a permanent holiday after they get tenure.

9. The institutions are run by former academics, whose only claim to management capability is a will not to do any research or education, and to earn more money. Generally they exercise power by centralising all decision making upon their own person, because it feels so good to be constantly in demand. Essentially the pigs are running the farms.

It’s no wonder the sector is struggling for relevance.

My solution is to make all universities “for profit”. Not perfect and a few issues to iron out, but its the only option left.

If you look at the history of this referendum, Labor announced the referendum before they detailed what we were going to be voting for. The voice mate, just the vibe of the thing…

This forced the coalition onto the fence at the beginning. Albo must have known that eventually the coalition would oppose it, because they’re basically cunts who don’t want to give anything away if it might impact what they or their mates have. Plus they harbour old fashioned racists, but so do the other mob.

So, here we are. Without bilateral political support the voice is going down and any political pundit could have predicted this.

If Dutton supported the thing he would have been killed by the nutters in his own party. Now he doesn’t, he’ll lose all the progressive votes that the coalition need to ever get back into power. These being the teals they lost at the last election.

Either way, it’s classic wedge politics at it’s best. Looking at it logically though, Albo threw the indigenous cause under the bus for his own gain.

Nice fellow! I’m sure there’s some sort of justification going on here, like “once we’ve won the next election we’ll do something better with a bigger mandate, like a treaty”. Or something like that.

I’m not a fan. It’s all bad juju and it will end in tears.

What Dutton should have lied is “yes, will back it unilaterally”. Lacking a political goal, Labor probably would have deferred the thing furthermore.

It’s just goes to show that in politics being in power is like moving first in tictactoe. With wedge behaviour you can either win or draw unless you’re completely useless.

The number of times that we change parties just shows how useless they really are, even at their own game.

“At the heart of the mean-spirited, reality-denying “No” campaign is the seed of a dangerous, yet quickly propagated, idea: that intergenerational trauma does not exist.” screamed the author.

The article finished with this pearler of a nonsequeter that would have made Jane Austin proud…

“Lifeline: 13 11 14”

I was going to vote yes but they’re literally making me nauseous.

What worries people isn’t making unusual choices per se. When these weird choices fail, it’s the reputational damage resulting from making such a left field decision that worries most.

You see, in most fields of endeavour we all regress to the mean no matter how smart or trained we are. That is, you can make any choice you want and over time your success rate will be the same as the dumb fucker who lucked into your role, but down the road.

So just quietly the smart ones know that their reputation matters more than anything else. The results, well that’s up to the gods.

So if you see someone eschewing a smart but left field option then you know that they care more about themself than the cause.

Rhymes with Maoist, and it might just be me.

The natural enemy of the Nowist is the political type, either right – the Pastist, or left – the Futurist. Let me explain…

Your Pastist just wants their slaves back, and your Futurist just wants utopia where there aren’t slaves. Of course both want the other completely eradicated, or at least in permanent hell. Nice people…

It’s much easier and nicer just taking things as they are, and not trying to change things. Things will change anyway and you don’t need to be the angry and dissatisfied agent of change.

Besides, in it’s glorious stupidity, the present is bloody funny. Even if it’s not.

I’m not sure what all that’s got to do with hydrotherapy but I do know this: a Nowist sometimes attempts to change the past by shouting at their antagonist, just like your average 5 year old. It never works, and they never learn, because in their hearts they just don’t care.

That’s a shortcut for “expected goals” in football.

Next there will be a xG coin, for sure.

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!”

So I was asked how I was going to vote for the autistic mousetrap known as the Voice.

My response was:

0 stars out of 5 for value for money

1 stars out 5 for potential efficacy for better outcomes for indigenous peoples, whoever they are and however they’re defined

5 stars out of 5 for ameliorating the guilt of the middle classes that will do anything to help the condition of indigenous peoples, except of course hand over any of their income, wealth or privilege

5 stars out of 5 for polarizing and distracting the nation on a mission that has no chance

5 stars out of 5 for bringing together the lunar right and blackface panthers in a hilarious shotgun wedding arrangement

In total, that is 16 out of a possible 25, which puts me as a yes. Whodathought?

But the reason this vote is going down has nothing to do with the issues at hand. The majority simply hate the nanny-state wokes and wets (and their cunty methods) that are promoting it and will not let the unusual chance of returning the favour go by.

Dr. Lozada-Hidalgo said: “We are effectively stretching an atomic scale mesh and observing a higher current through the stretched interatomic spaces in this mesh – this is truly mind-boggling.”

So get this, protons can’t go through the normal holes in Graphene because the holes are too small. You make the holes bigger and, bingo, your academic’s mind is blown.

My PhD supervisor was in the department of theoretical chemistry at Sydney University, which meant when though my PhD was in physical chemistry, that I was officially enrolled in theoretical chemistry. They needed the numbers basically.

This meant that every week I got to go to theoretical chemistry seminars. Although blindingly bored by their gumpf, absent a mobile phone, my brain slowly pieced together their spiel.

Good for actually nothing, they we’re all trying to solve problems which mankind already had adequate solutions to. There were three of four competing schools of approach, and geez weren’t they competitive.

When one accidentally got close to a real life measured value you should have seen the crowing. The politics in academia are vicious because the stakes are so low…

Basically it was a whole field of applied mathematics. The basic equations were unsolvable with current computers, so massive assumptions were made to render the computation feasible.

Train spotting, if your will. My shortcut is better than yours…

If and when we have quantum computers all these mathematical short cut assumptions can be thrown out of the window. Basically 100 years of academic bullshit, tossed.

That’s it, I need to blog again so I don’t drive the scientists mad with the truth. Poor dears.

The Overton Window assumes that, on any specific political issue (that is, an issue that influences the way people vote) that all opinions are spread like a normal gaussian, with the X axis being the degree of agreement or otherwise, when the political matter is posed as a proposition.

Today I would argue that this assumption is broken.

Back when, what kept people in a tight gaussian distribution was that they were mostly using the same sources of information, ie broadcast media, to which they had a level of agreement or disagreement response.

Now the number sources of information have exploded, mainly through the web. So the glue that create the Gaussian, broadcast media, had been displaced. So we have pockets of people all over the curve; it’s multimodal now and not a Gaussian.

Which is why I guess you see perfectly sensible politicians contemplating policies that, on the face of it, would be outside the classical Overton Window.

For example, Albo is pushing the Voice, when clearly it’s not politically smart to do so.

ChatGPT could only get off the ground right now, in an era where political correctness means one rarely hears an argued opinion. What you hear is wordy discourse masquerading as considered content.

And that’s what ChatGPT gives us. It’s like having a politician in your pocket, never directly answering the query as posed and certainly never getting off the fence.

You step into a boat and onto a ship.

Similarly, you login to an app and logon to a mainframe.

I’ve just read an article that highlights how the top earners in the US have slowly gone from tax payers, with the highest tax rate pealking at 90% under FDR, to govt lenders today.

That is, rather than pay tax, they now lend the govt money and get the bond rate as interest.

What an interesting idea. Remove taxation altogether and get everyone mandated to lend some percentage of their income to the govt.

The percentage of income to be lent would be higher for higher income earners, or the interest rate would be higher for lower income earners.

People might stop avoiding paying tax if there was a financial return.

And the govt might need to spend it more carefully if they needed to pay all that interest. Of course they could print the interest but only if they were incentivising enough growth to absorb said printing without causing excessive inflation.

The ‘cherish’ in ‘love and cherish’ just means sex. By contract you’ve just got to keep fucking them. If you don’t then that contract is terminated by one or both parties. Unfortunately the termination clauses are only written down in legislation and case law, so you only find out how fucked you really are after the fact.

In Australia we’ve got autocracy by bureaucracy.

In China they’ve just got autocracy.

And they’ve got bureaucracy – lucky them.

Arguably in both countries it’s rule by law and not the rule of law. That is, are the law makers subject to their own laws? Mostly not, by differing means.

Ultimately, all people that rise to the top of the political system are there for money, power and fame. That’s an a constant everywhere.

Yada

There is no absolute truth of course.

But there is generally agreed truth.

Then there’s selective truth, as practised by conspiracy theorists and all new age post enlightenment bullshit artists. They outright deny any truths that don’t suit them, on no grounds at all, as if they’re denying reality itself. The next minute they’ll proffer a truth of their own and expect all rational to people to agree.

Frankly, it’s worth adding to the DSM.

They think this random approach gifts them a natural advantage over rational people. Sometimes true but I’ve learnt to simply ignore and walk away. It takes away their meager benefit which they don’t deserve.

This is the fundamental truths they learn at private schools;

1. Your gain is someone else’s loss. i.e a mercantile view of the world.

2. How to be high functioning hypocrites.

No 2 is needed to practice winning via no. 1. The hypocrisy is used to promote a fair world, duping others into being little fair bunny rabbits, whilst raping and pillaging. A great double tactic.

3. A total sense of real time amnesia as to the truth and practice of these rules. Utter deniability.

The consequences? A life full of material gains and a dread of the deathbed when it all becomes apparent that the one life was squandered

Synopsis:

“Rose’s paralysis confines her to a wheelchair and limits Sofia’s freedoms. The proprietor of the clinic, Gómez, is charismatic but may be of questionable skill. While Rose undergoes treatment, 25-year-old Sofia becomes obsessed with Ingrid, a seamstress. Later, Sofia visits her father in Athens, from whom she has been estranged, and spends time with his new wife and daughter. Athens seems to be in a state of collapse, and the novel pictures both Greece and Spain in the throes of economic and political turmoil. Sofia is an anthropologist by training, and this informs her perspective on events.”

A must read eh?

A portable version of those insect spray psssst machines, removing the need to slap toxic insect spray on this skin.

Emotions are real?

Yet they exist solely in the minds of people.

And they can have real impact on the physical world and other people.

God is an emotion…

Crypto might not be as obvious as a pyramid scheme but there are some similarities. The people who bought into digital currencies have a keen interest in recruiting others to continue purchasing these currencies. The more people that get involved and buy into crypto, the higher prices will go. That means those at the top, the early buyers, will become even wealthier. In fact, 1,000 people own 40 percent of the entire Bitcoin market. That means relatively very few people are getting rich from Bitcoin.

The only real utility that crypto has is:

1. tax avoidance
2. low cost transfers for payment

Said utility is more than offset by the huge energy bill. So in summary, yes, it’s a pyramid scheme.

What is needed is a low energy cryptocurrency! Here we go:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/computing/software/bitcoin-alternative

Nic reckons we carry around in our brain a ledger of the good and bad that we’ve done.

If the bad gets too out of whack we subconsciously punish ourselves.

Hence karma.

Not only is there nothing noble about the oppressed, but there’s nothing oppressed about the noble.

You can’t, or couldn’t, blame a bloke for trying.

At one end we have hard coercion and rape. At the other we have mild convincing and smiles all around.

In the middle we have soft coercion, or hard convincing, and the possible influence of alcohol and drugs.

It’s this middle ground that will keep the lawyers fed so long as the victims maintain their rage.

Some victims have no choice. They have to act to survive.

Others do it out of fashion.

There’s no obvious solution.

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil nor give false testimony.

In Australia you can’t rape someone any more. What you can do is have sexual intercourse without consent.

Then they spend a long time defining sexual intercourse and consent.

Consent is complex. It’s the vibe of thing that’s left up to the jurors.

For example, coercion implies there was no consent. But it depends on the type of coercion and the state of the victim.

For example, drunkenness in the victim implies coercion. But drunkenness in the perpetrator offers no immunity.

My guess, the pendulum will swing too far the other way and a bunch of blokes will do time for very little

It’s as hard as making bullying illegal. One person’s bullying is another’s water/duck.

Always, Viv uses the subordinating conjunction, sometimes, as a discourse marker, and that’s as far as he gets in his explanation of anything. Cracks me up.

Let’s hope he’s not accused of a crime anytime soon.

‘Vivian, did you assault Ms Higgins?’

‘Sometimes.’

Tom Sharpe
Robert Heinlein
Tom Forsyth

During the Great Depression the mattress industry was hit hard.

By 1962 the Municipal Association of Victoria was calling for stricter enforcement of the Police Offences Act 1958 in relation to the use of fireworks in public places, and in 1963 new regulations were gazetted by the State Government, limiting the size and power of fireworks. A decade later the Public Health Commission recommended a total ban on small fireworks, and while exploding fireworks such as bungers and crackers were banned in 1974, it was not until 1982 that all shop-goods (as opposed to display or novelty) fireworks were banned, as a result of pressure from the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists and the Australian and New Zealand Burns Association.

Reflecting back on things, I think the monolithic blood sucking nanny state started in 1970 something, with the banning of fireworks.

This flash of genius by some evil cunt set the agenda that led Australia into the sterile cul-de-sac that we now fund ourselves in.

At the time, if we had just collectively stood up and said “fuck off, we like fireworks”, things might have turned out very differently.

But they pulled the tearjerker; “every year some kid gets blinded” and we bought it.

Fucking idiots!

There was nothing better than bungers. Variably we blew up post boxes, outdoor dunnies and cats. Oh, glorious days…

Met another one; a distressed ex-spouse that has been left. As usual the demon leaving party has an undiagnosed psychological issue (in this case Narcissism), is a bloke, and (on paper, at least for a little while) had most of the privileges that society can offer.

Why is he a nutter? The story-teller is unwilling to face the fact that:

(a) He didn’t like being with her, but

(b) Had so much empathy that he couldn’t face telling her this, so

(c) Left via the back door, forever blackening his name in the view of her confidants.

Better still, the confidants, being weak minded as they usually are, extrapolate this data point to the whole humanity, or at least half of it. It’s the same sort of heuristic that leads to racism.

Not one of them questioned the story as told (e.g. what did she do, or what did she not do to make the marriage a happy blissful place, even tolerable?). They don’t have the capability to critique, an art form that is being lost.

Basic rule of thumb; distrust a story where the teller is the victim. Or at the very least, use your imagination to see how the stated facts could fit an alternative ethical construct.

The stock price of companies used to be underpinned by their ‘inherent value’ but that has changed for a number of reasons:

1. Complex financial systems has enabled people to make money off all forms of derivatives, many of which are not tied to actual company value. Otherwise known as gambling.
2. All that global productivity has ironically lead to an excess of capital available for gamblers

Put these two factors together and you have a formula for chaos in the markets. God help those poor CEO’s who just want to strategize, plan and report their good efforts. No one seem to cares.

Who cares about dividends when one gamblers gain is another’s loss. Of course all these gamblers think they have a special angle, tools that give them a % edge of the rest.

Query is whether the average return of all players is negative or positive? It depends on the cost of money, which is pretty cheap the the moment since the US has discovered it can make as much money as it likes, without destroying its economy. Surely a short term proposition that!

So the issue isn’t changing the day, it’s the precedent. The Conservatives don’t want the fucking millennials telling them what to do. Fair call too. They aren’t the brightest.

“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

A command based on words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount: “All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.”

The numbers don’t lie, black fellas in our country are hard done by.

The why is interesting. Without understanding the why, nothing can be done.

Rather than changing things so the black fellas can be like us, the answer is probably best achieved by meeting somewhere else.

Can’t see us changing our seriously fucked up lives but. We’re too attached to our fucking stupidity; tax avoidance, houses, cars, private schools, OS holidays and jobs spent staring at monitors.

It’s a competitive grab for the same resources. We are mercantilists pretending we’re not. Our gain is always someone else’s loss. The more that large groups of society are out of the game, the better off we are. Hence the silent racism.

The only solution is that we let go of our shit lives. Black fellas don’t want to be like us. We don’t even want to be like us.

In our screwed up world view, whoever is not like us is disadvantaged. We even convince them of this fact, and make them unhappy in the process.

Do nothing but channel your inner Ghandi. Let go of your crap or your envy or your disdain, whichever applies.

They’re right, men objectify women. Let me explain.

Line 20 blokes up looking a one woman and you’ll get pretty good consensus as to whether she’s hot or not. Objectivity

Line 20 women up looking at one bloke and you’ll get 20 different opinions. Subjectivity.

Case closed.

My view on inflation is that printing money doesn’t lead to inflation unless there is an under-supply, and therefore cash competition for, of staples; bread, milk and accommodation, and the like.

If all that extra cash is directed at discretionary spending items then there is naturally less competition even if the items are in short supply. So no inflationary effect worth worrying about.

So why don’t governments just ensure the staples are ok and print as much money as they want? Hang on….

If I have to pay the price of living in this nanny state then I want the benefits that are promised to go with it.

“In Barack Obama’s America, the federal government will use another $2.4 trillion in borrowing authority to give to Big Labor and government bureaucrats.  Your taxes will go up.  Gay “marriage” will be forced down your throat.  You will lose your guns and rely on bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., to protect you from harm.”

Says it all really…

When they say “traditional” they mean “dispossessed”. But I guess it’s a start.