The Exigent Duality
Food for Eating and Thought - 11:34 CST, 12/05/23 (Sniper)
In Europe, they are purging cars which are incompatible with their ideological goals-- regrettably, coming soon to a United States near you, no doubt; or, at least, the attempt will be made, and hopefully thwarted. Meanwhile in the US of A, they are purging people from the military who are incompatible with their ideological goals.

I find their language funny: they object to people discussing "unlawful" means of overthrowing the government. You mean, versus lawful means of overthrowing the government? It reminds me of when the State set up "free speech zones". Kind of defeats the spirit, eh?

In other news, Microsoft is apparently rolling out an update to Winbloze 11 which adds a bunch of integrated "AI" features. Can you imagine the telemetry data they are going to collect once this strain becomes the dominant one, once it has infected the PCs of a billion or more people? Meanwhile, Winbloze 12 is going to be exclusively "AI" and subscription-based. I'm getting closer and closer to just giving my gaming PC to the wife.

Another thing which could use a strong reactionary movement is this. It reminds me of that ~1994 Philippe Kahn quote from "The Computer Chronicles", where Kahn mused "Maybe we can design software so that every time the user clicks on a user interface element such as a button, they get billed." The push is a combination of greed, and the "need" for control.

On a different subject, check out the 48:22 mark in this video, and watch the trio of teacher interviews. Seems like I've been offering the "excuse the cringe, focus on the substance" disclaimer, but it is required here.

Sadly, I was at an event very recently where high school kids in my local area cycled through at a podium, reading a few short sentences each. Out of eight kids, seven of them could only read at a snail's pace, constantly needing to pause right in the middle of words, trying to sound them out. One gal couldn't pronounce the word "separated"-- she took several tries, and eventually just moved on. This, by the by, is in a white rural area, not the inner city. So the problems aren't just isolated to certain zones or demographics.

It isn't the kids' fault, and I feel sad for them-- they are borderline functionally illiterate. It's all according to the designs of the psychopathic power mongers at the very top. The people in power today-- the heads of State, corporations, NGOs, etc.-- are not present to improve humanity, offer valuable products and services, or enrich the culture: they are there to transfer as much wealth from the plebes to themselves as possible.

Finally, people are apparently surprised by the low price of the shopping trip here. But I'm not: I vividly remember going grocery shopping with my parents every week throughout the entire 80s and most of the 90s-- my mother would have a heaping cart of stuff, and the total would be around 65 USD. We ate a lot of meat back then as well, so it wasn't just cheap boxed junk food. Today, I think an equivalent grocery trip would be close to 200 USD.