Feb 17

Good Cop

Bill Gates roasted for saying rich countries should eat ‘100% synthetic beef.’

Well, he’s not yet pushing the “eat bugs and live in the pod” narrative, but I think he’s supposed to be the mild face of that movement. The good cop. Other billionaires who are the designated bad cops will excecute the pincer movement from the other side.

Is it a formal conspiracy? Mainly, I want you to understand why that question doesn’t matter. Focusing too much on explicit intent rather than de facto outcomes means that you look at what people “really” mean to do, at what’s in their hearts, which is less than irrelevant. Who gives a rip what’s in their hearts, what they “really believe?”

What happens in the world is what matters, and formal conspiracy or not, these are the people who’d gladly have you subjugated and contained so they could stay as rich as possible. We’ve seen it with lockdowns of late and we’ll be witnessing much more of that in the very near future.

Feb 17

Regula

This is because many of those Texas natural gas plants are are poorly-regulated and don’t have to comply with the typical regs that they be able to operate below certain temps. Minnesota, which also relies on natural gas, does not have power outages when the temperature gets below freezing. (Hint: it’s well-regulated there.)

Feb 17

LARP

That’s what I’ve found with most of these people too. It’s just cosplay. None of them have the right tools or know how to do anything useful. Neither do I, mostly, but I don’t pretend to be a survivalist.

Feb 17

The Worsening

Welcome to what it’s like to live in a failed state! It is only going to get worse.

Feb 16

Base Belonged

Oh no. That means a close friend of mine would’ve been only five years old when this meme hit. She might not even have heard of it.

I think today I shall grace her with its, uh, majesty. Yeah, majesty. That’s it.

Feb 16

Monitoring

The Commodore 1702 monitor did. I used that monitor for many years, from roughly 1985-1992. The RCA jacks are on the lower right in this photo:

But they’re right, most monitors did not have front RCA jacks. That 1702 was a great monitor — so much better than using a TV. At the time, I loved it.

Feb 16

Flavors of Lockdown

What are we going to call the forever lockdown people? The problem is that there are going to be two classes of them: those who remain ever-afraid of the virus, who will only leave their homes very infrequently for years, and who are acting out of genuine fear (warranted or not).

And the other class will be the plutes/politicos pushing lockdown agit-prop at more normal people who aren’t actually afraid but who attempt to follow societal rules and social norms — and of course these plutes/politicos won’t actually be following these rules themselves, but will be spouting this nonsense because it makes them vastly richer.

Those who are truly embracing the pod lifestyle could be called “lockdown lifers” while the plute lockdown plotters could be called the “lockdown looters.” Best I can come up with right now.