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It will be an interesting year.
We know that the age of peak performance for humans varies, depending upon the activity. Peak performance for an athlete tends to come between ages 20 and 30, while peak performance for a person writing academic papers seems to come between ages 40 and 50 years. By the time people are 80 years old, they have a strong suspicion that health and other aspects of performance will deteriorate in the next 20 years.
Economies, in physics terms, are similar to human beings. Both are dissipative structures. They require energy of the appropriate kinds to keep their systems growing and operating normally. For humans, the main source of this energy is food. For an economy, it is a mixture of energy that the economy is specifically adapted to. Today’s economy requires a certain mixture of energy directly from the sun, plus energy from fossil fuels, burned biomass, and nuclear energy. Electricity is a carrier of energy from different sources. It needs to be available at the right time of day and the right time of year to allow today’s economy to continue.
Most people don’t realize that economies grow and eventually collapse. For example, we know that the Roman Empire started its growth in 625 BCE and reached its peak extent in 211 CE. It declined somewhat between 211 CE and 456 CE, when it finally collapsed after several invasions. The growth and collapse of economies is very much expected because of their nature as dissipative structures.
In 2024, the world economy is acting more and more like an 80-year-old man than like a young vigorous economy. Perhaps the economy can continue for quite a few more years, but it increasingly looks like it is in danger of falling apart, or of succumbing as a result of what might be regarded as minor problems.
Trying to predict precisely what will happen in the year 2024 is difficult, but in this post, I will examine some of the things that are going wrong in this increasingly creaky old economy.
[1] Too many parts of the world economy are changing from growth to shrinkage.
The blue circles can illustrate many different things:
- The total goods and services produced by the economy;
- The quantity of energy required to produce the total goods and service produced by the economy;
- The total population that is supported by these goods and services (which will generally be rising or falling, too);
- Goods and services per person (which tend to rise during periods of growth and fall in a shrinking economy);
- And, strangely enough, the ability of the economy to maintain complexity. Without enough energy, structures such as governments tend to fail.
As the economy moves away from growth, toward shrinkage, major changes can be expected.
[2] In a growing economy, repaying debt with interest is very easy. In a shrinking economy, repaying debt with interest becomes close to impossible.
If an economy is growing, there will likely be an increasing number of jobs available over time, and they will pay relatively more. If a person loses his/her job, it is not very difficult to get a position that will pay as much or more. Paying back a loan on a house or an automobile tends to be easy.
A corresponding situation occurs for businesses. If the business can count on an increasing number of customers, overhead becomes easier and easier to cover with a growing consumer base.
The reverse is obviously true in a shrinking economy. Jobs may be available if a person loses his/her current job, but the jobs don’t pay very well. Businesses may face periods with suddenly lower demand, as in 2020. There is a sudden need to reduce overhead, such as payments for office space, if the space is no longer being utilized by employees.
Clearly, if interest rates rise, it becomes increasingly difficult for borrowers of all kinds to repay debt with interest. Raising interest rates is thus a way to intentionally slow the economy. If the economy is growing too quickly (like a 20-year-old sprinter), then such a change makes sense. But if the economy is behaving like an 80-year-old, hobbling along on a walking stick, it becomes likely the economy will figuratively fall and become severely injured. This is the danger of raising interest rates when the world economy is having difficulty growing at an adequate rate.
[3] The physics of the system dictates that as the system shifts in the direction of shrinkage, the wealth of the system is increasingly distributed toward the rich and very powerful, and away from those of modest means.
Physicist Francois Roddier writes about this issue in his book, The Thermodynamics of Evolution. He likens energy (and the goods and services produced using this energy) as being like energy applied to water. When energy levels are low, the less wealthy members of the economy tend to be squeezed out, just as (low energy) frozen water turns to ice. The reduced amount of energy available (and goods and services produced using this energy) increasingly bubbles up to the small number of economic participants at the top of the economic hierarchy. This issue tends to make the already rich even richer.
In some sense, the self-organizing economy seems to preserve as much of the economy as it can, when energy supplies are inadequate. The wealthy seem to be important for keeping the whole system operating, so the physics tends to favor them.
Inflation, in general, is a problem, especially for people with limited income. Higher interest rates also take a big “bite” out of spendable income. This problem is greatest for low income people. The benefit of higher interest rates, and of capital gains, tends to go to high income people.
High food prices especially affect the poor because, even in good times, food tends to be a high share of their income. For example, in a poor country, if food costs amount to 50% of a person’s income when food prices are moderate, a 20% increase in food prices will lead to food prices costing 60% of income. Such a situation quickly becomes intolerable because there is not enough income left for other essential goods.
The figure above shows that between 1990 and 2022, the share of total wealth held by the top 1% of US citizens rose from 23% to 32%. This means that other citizens were increasingly squeezed out of the benefits of the growing economy.
[4] With their newfound power (arising from the growing concentration of wealth), the wealthy are tempted to exert increasing control over the economic system.
The fact that the world economy was likely to reach annual limits of fossil fuel extraction about now has been known for a very long time. I have referred to a 1957 speech by US Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover pointing out this bottleneck many times. Wealthy individuals have known about this bottleneck for a very long time. They have been asking themselves, “How can we increasingly benefit from this change?”
Clearly, reducing the population growth rate has been one of the goals of some of these wealthy individuals. With fewer people to share the resources available, everyone will benefit.
But the wealthy can also see that hiding the energy bottleneck would be of huge benefit in keeping the current system operating as usual. These individuals, through the World Economic Forum and other organizations, have pushed for zero global warming emissions. They have tried to reframe the problem of inadequate inexpensive-to-produce fossil fuels as a problem of too large a quantity of fossil fuels for the system to handle. In their view, we can decide to transition away from fossil fuels without significantly adverse impacts.
By hiding the energy bottleneck, companies selling vehicles can claim they will be useful for many years. Educational systems can claim that we are well on our way to finding substitutes for fossil fuels, and that there will be good jobs available in the new systems. With the bottleneck problem hidden, politicians do not have to present citizens with a very concerning and intractable issue. Since a happily-ever-after narrative is desired by all, it is easy for the wealthy (and politicians who want to be reelected) to influence the major news outlets to present only this view to readers.
[5] Major cracks in the economy are likely to start showing soon. The energy bottleneck is already pulling the economy down, even if major news media are reluctant to discuss the problem.
The problem displays itself in several different ways:
(a) The economy has moved toward two widely differing views regarding today’s energy situation.
The narrative presented in the press is that we have an excessive amount of fossil fuels. In this view, any shortage of fossil fuels (or any other resource) would be quickly accompanied by rising prices. These rising prices would allow an increasing quantity of these materials to be extracted, quickly solving the problem. But the real story, for anyone who examines the details, is quite different. Affordability becomes very important, holding prices down. History shows that nearly every civilization has collapsed. Populations tend to grow but the resources supporting the economies don’t grow quickly enough. Rising prices don’t fix the problem!
People who work with fossil fuels know how essential they are for our current civilization. The story about intermittent wind and solar substituting for fossil fuels sounds very far-fetched if a person thinks about the need for heat in the winter and the difficulties associated with long-term storage of electricity. The two widely differing narratives surrounding our energy future sound like they could have come from the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
(b) Repaying debt with interest gets to be an increasing problem.
Strange as it may seem, added debt can temporarily act as a placeholder for additional energy. Debt is a promise for goods and services that will be made with future energy. This placeholder can allow capital goods, such as factories, to be made which allow more goods and services to be made in the future. This placeholder can also be used as the basis for money to pay workers, so that they can afford to purchase more goods.
At some point, the debt becomes too much for the system to sustain. We are seeing some of this in China, where there have been debt defaults in the real estate market. In the US, the commercial real estate market is experiencing high vacancy rates. There is increasing concern that, in many places, commercial real estate can only be sold at a huge loss. In this situation, the holders of debt are likely to sustain massive losses.
(c) Political parties start differing widely on whether to increase government debt.
The more conservative parties do not want to keep adding more debt, but the more liberal parties insist that there is no other way out: If there isn’t enough energy of the right kind, the added debt can perhaps be used to fund projects in the renewable energy sector that will create the illusion of progress toward an adequate supply of energy of the right kind at the right price. The added debt can also be used to continue the many social programs promised to citizens and to provide support for activities such as the war in Ukraine.
So far, adding debt has worked for the US because the US dollar is the world’s reserve currency and because the US has tended to keep its target interest rates high, encouraging other countries to invest in US securities. If other countries try to add substantially more debt, their currencies will tend to fall, leading to inflation.
The US may soon also run into an inflation problem because of added debt. This happens because it is possible to “print money,” but it is not possible to print goods and services made with inexpensive energy products. For example, the temptation is to bail out failing banks and pension plans with added debt. To the extent that this debt gets back into the money supply, but there aren’t added goods to match, the result is likely to be inflation in the prices of the goods and services that are available.
(d) Broken supply lines are another sign of an economy reaching limits.
When there aren’t quite enough goods and services to go around, some would-be buyers of goods have to be left out.
In the last three years, all of us have experienced at least some problems with empty shelves in stores and the unavailability of needed parts for repairs. Many kinds of drugs are in short supply around the world. Heavy industry has been encountering problems, as well. In 2022, Upstream Online wrote, “Drill pipe shortages causing headaches for US producers [of oil and natural gas].”
If we are reaching the limit of inexpensive fossil fuel available for extraction, an increasing number of these problems can be expected. These supply line problems tend to raise costs in a different way than “regular” inflation. Often, a more expensive product must be substituted, or a higher cost workaround is needed. For example, a person may need to use a rental vehicle while his current vehicle is being repaired because of unavailable replacement parts.
(e) Conflicts arise when there are not enough goods and services to go around.
Part of the conflict comes from wage and wealth disparity. For example, an increasing number of people are finding reasonably-priced housing impossible to find. The combination of high interest rates and high housing prices tends to make home-buying a luxury, available only to the rich. An increasing share of young people are also finding automobiles too expensive to afford. One way “not-enough-goods-and-services-to-go-around” manifests itself is by many people not being able to afford the products in question.
There is often a belief that a more equitable distribution of income would solve the problem. But, if the economy cannot build more cars or homes because of energy shortages, this doesn’t fix the problem. Providing more money to the poor would instead cause inflation in the price of the goods that are available.
Another way this conflict manifests itself is in conflicts among countries. Countries selling fossil fuels, such as Russia, would like higher fossil fuel prices, so that the standards of living of their own people can be higher. However, if fossil-fuel-importing countries, such as those in Europe, are forced to pay higher prices for the fossil fuel they use, it becomes difficult for companies in these countries to manufacture goods profitably. Also, the higher fossil fuel prices make the cost of growing food higher. Customers often cannot afford higher food prices.
In the case of the fight between Israel and Gaza, at least part of the conflict relates to the natural gas field that Israel is developing, but which arguably belongs to Gaza. If Israel can develop this resource, it may be able to keep its own economy expanding for a while longer. The people of Gaza will remain very poor.
(f) Manufacturing around the world seems to be reducing in quantity. It definitely is not rising to keep up with population growth.
The big shortfall today is in goods, rather than in services. This is what a person would expect if an energy problem is giving rise to the problems we are currently experiencing.
The organization S&P Global Market Intelligence puts out an index called the Purchasing Managers Index, for 15 countries, including a global average. The manufacturing portion of this index is in contraction on a worldwide basis, as of the latest data available. The extent of this manufacturing contraction is especially significant for the US, the European countries included, for Japan, and for Australia. The countries that are not in contraction are India, Russia, and China.
If manufacturing is in contraction, we would expect more broken supply lines in the months and years ahead.
[6] How will all this turn out, in 2024 and long term?
I don’t think we know. Things are likely to get worse economically, but we don’t know how much worse. We know that an elderly person can easily succumb to some illness. In the same way, we know that if the economy has enough weak points, a major collapse might occur, even without a huge decline in energy availability.
At the same time, the economy seems to have a lot of resilience. Leaders of the US, and perhaps of other countries, as well, seem likely to take the route of adding increasing amounts of debt, to bail themselves out of whatever problems arise. If banks get into trouble, some new funding facility will be developed. If Social Security or private pensions need more funding, it will likely be provided by more government debt. This leads me to suspect that in the US, at least, there is likely to be a higher risk of hyperinflation (lots of money but very little to buy) rather than deflation (very little money, but also very little to buy).
The Universe came into being, apparently out of nothing. The Universe has grown and continues to grow. Eric Chaisson, in his 2001 book, Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature, shows that the trend in the Universe has been toward ever greater complexity.
Together, it appears that the Universe, itself, acts like a dissipative structure. Self-organization leads the Universe to grow and become more complex, as long as it has adequate energy. The question becomes, “Where is the expanding energy supply for the Universe as a whole coming from? Can the expanding energy supply continue indefinitely, or until whatever force started it, chooses to stop it?”
It seems to me that there is something from outside pushing the whole Universe along. Economists talk about “an invisible hand.” People from a religious background might say that there is a God who created the Universe, and is continuing to create it every day, through involvement in the things that take place on Earth, including the strange happenings in 2020.
If I am correct that there is an outside force influencing the economy today, perhaps Earth’s problems are temporary. One possibility is that eventually a new type of energy solution will be found. There is also the possibility that, at some point, whatever force started the Universe may cause the operation of the Universe to cease. A replacement (which we can think of as heaven) might be provided instead.
The popular narrative tends to see ourselves as having a great deal of power to manage problems with our current economy, but I don’t think that we have very much power to influence the system we find ourselves embedded in. The economic system behaves on its own, based on market forces, just a child grows up, matures, and eventually dies. The system within which we live is very much guided by what we call self-organization, which is outside our power to control.
Listening to this … https://www.audible.com/pd/Global-Crisis-Audiobook/B0BN2XKWXB
Over the course of a few decades in the 17th century the klimate changed dramatically resulting in epic starvation war etc….
I thought the klimate never changed rapidly?????
Any GWers care to explain what caused the change?
And here we have another embedded agent from the PR Team…
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/do-you-see-them/comments#comment-48285216
Let me drop another taunt in there… since she refuses to answer any questions
Fast Eddy
15 hrs ago
hahaha… so did you stop 6 billion+ from wrecking their immune systems?
Have you overturned the DOD?
Right…
Winning!
Keep on entertaining the A-Vaxxers… and accomplishing ZERO.
Just maybe that’s why you are here… to entertain… and to ensure nobody takes any legit action to overturn the plan?
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Sasha Latypova
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did you stop the oil from running out Eddy? Ha. haha. very much haha.
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Fast Eddy
14 hrs ago
Why don’t you exist when I search the years 2000 – 2019?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Sasha+Latypova&df=2000-01-01..2018-01-01&ia=web
You are a hot shot pharma player right? Surely there should be some search results…
You only emerge on the scene after Covid arrived….
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Fast Eddy
14 hrs ago
That is not possible.
I notice that after I left you with details of that situation – you did not dispute a single fact from this https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=220
Conventional Oil Sources peaked in 2008 and the Shale binge has now spoiled US reserves, top investor warns Financial Times.
Preface. Conventional crude oil production may have already peaked in 2008 at 69.5million barrels per day (mb/d) according to Europe’s International Energy Agency (IEA 2018 p45). The U.S. Energy Information Agency shows global peak crude oil production at a later date in 2018 at 82.9mb/d (EIA 2020) because they included tight oil, oil sands, and deep-sea oil. Though it will take several years of lower oil production to be sure the peak occurred. Regardless, world production has been on a plateau since 2005.
What’s saved the world from oil decline was unconventional tight “fracked” oil, which accounted for 63% of total U.S. crude oil production in 2019 and 83% of global oil growth from 2009 to 2019. So it’s a big deal if we’ve reached the peak of fracked oil, because that is also the peak of both conventional and unconventional oil and the decline of all oil in the future.
Some key points from this Financial Times article: https://energyskeptic.com/2021/the-end-of-fracked-shale-oil/
Go for it.
Nah… go back to entertaining the Anti Vaxxers with your rubbish.
The entire advanced tech was NEVER to be intended to be enjoyed by 8 billion people, most of them not too relevant for Civilization.
Minimize all consumption to about 95% of the world’s pop, only allow enough consumption for those who might be considered ‘essential’, and concentrate everything to the top and we will get to Type I Civ.
Maybe time for the US to mind its own problems. Interesting challenge, one should not pick too many fights at one time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwtN9uLcrc
A photo of one of the leaders shows a handsome, fit man; it seems as though the US forces have picked up a few pounds, see our staff commanders in videos. There is the usual video of jets taking off from a carrier, one wonders how the first female pilot shot down will do in such an environment.
One small country with relative primitive weapons has disrupted world commerce.
By the way, this aforementioned leader seems to be inviting the British and US to come on land and meet in battle. Life is changing.
Dennis L.
“Maybe time for the US to mind its own problems. Interesting challenge, one should not pick too many fights at one time.”
But the United States is in the business of spreading chaos, violence, destruction and war around the world. It seems they are putting their $1T defense budget to use. If they can’t use their war toys then they risk not having that $1T budget.
I think we need to change that, don’t know how but spreading misery is not a good way to live life. The fabric of the universe seems to be just in the long term.
I don’t think it will go on, and the ending will be painful; but it too will pass.
Dennis L.
The US has built the most powerful military in human history on the back of fossil fuels.
There are those who question that, the US has not gone peer to peer since WWII and then Russia did most of the dying.
A proxy has gone up against Russia with US military backing, it is not going well for the proxy.
View Nam was not a success, Afghanistan did not go well.
There could be considerable concern for Israel’s continued existence, the Patriot anti missile system does not seem to work very well and it takes two $2m missiles to take out one incoming. That is an easy one to beat, overload it and run out of Patriots; they are too expensive, war is economics.
Somewhere our culture became a narrative based on consumerism and consumerism was based on people being able to purchase who they wanted to be. This was the case in education, a woman’s looks, eg surgery, and even the beer one drank.
We lost the church, now at my CC the students have to take morals on line and pay for the lessons. The ten commands for Christians and Jews worked fairly well, can’t speak to other religions. Additionally, it socialized people and people were encouraged to follow norms, not make it up as you go. The Catholic Church even encouraged women to have children, imagine that; now we import them and assume they will become part of our tribe.
We are biology, we are the apex of the known universe and that is a pretty big place. We will not be allowed to fail, but we could get spanked pretty good.
Dennis L.
Of course this is all so that Americans can continue to live large as long as possible…
Not sure why anyone is complaining… when they can abandon the spoils of war and move to Somalia
Sabine has some recent thoughts on climate change. Here we are somewhat indifferent.
Given we soon can move pollution of all kinds including exogenous energy off earth, seems like a good idea not to tempt fate; this spaceship we have, earth, is very well designed and quite beautiful. Put the trash out and send to Jupiter.
Dennis L.
Put the trash out and send to Jupiter.
dennis—you castigated me earlier for mockery
norm, I am referring to industrial pollution.
It is easy to sound like a crazy, but polluting our planet does not seem like a good idea on this scale; it is the only planet we have and the only one we will most likely ever have.
Most here think I am nutz, but if Starship works well, move all the manufacturing off planet, use solar energy in space and import only finished products, generate all terrestrial energy from solar and make H, use it for storage and transport. This way there is only the energy from the sun which given hx is variable enough.
It can be a wonderful life for almost all, the degrees will be different, but it is still a good life.
The other crazy economy is the war economy which is basically make and break, rinse and repeat to generate GDP. That is so 1930s.
Dennis L.
in the 1930s dennis, oil eroei was 100 to 1
now its less than 20 to 1
theres your difference—but we still live in a oil based economy
(Coronavirus, Ralph Baric, Vaccine, Fauci)
“In this 2007 Conference, Ralph Baric explained how a coronavirus is created in a lab.
The purpouse is to create the relative vaccine.
The same researcher is implicated with Fauci and others in the creation of the SARS-CoV-2 that caused COVID-19.”
https://t.me/PaoloBellavite/7936
https://www.youtube.com/live/F1iwN2wI8m0?si=o2JhHs26CurMgU5w
Student,
Probable explanation, or “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
Dennis L.
AI needs BIG Energy..
Artificial intelligence is taking over the world, not literally, or rather, not yet anyway. However, the use of AI and machine learning is having a butterfly effect. Besides all the standard implications of AI taking jobs and concerns about the responsible use of it, AI is also putting a strain on the power infrastructure around the United States. With this, companies are looking to keep their fossil fuel power generators online a little longer to support the demand.
A recent Bloomberg report details a small patch of northern Virginia, which has been called “data center alley,” which has seen explosive growth in the era of artificial intelligence. This growth has significantly strained the local power grid, leading the power company to temporarily suspend new data center connections in 2022. Of course, this problem has continued, but not without its share of curious solutions, such as the consideration of allowing data centers to run diesel generators during power shortages
Sam Altman: Age of AI will require an ‘energy breakthrough’
Speaking at Davos, OpenAI’s CEO spoke of a vague AI future made possible only by currently unavailable resources.
Open AI CEO Sam Altman believes long-awaited nuclear fusion may be the silver bullet needed to solve artificial intelligence’s glutinous energy appetite and pave the way for an AI revolution. When that revolution does arrive, however, it might not seem quite as shocking as he once claimed.
Altman touched on AI’s growing demands earlier this week while speaking at a Bloomberg event outside of the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The CEO said powerful new AI models would likely require even more energy consumption than previously imagined. Solving that energy deficit, he suggested, will require a “breakthrough” in nuclear fusion.
BY MACK DEGEURIN | PUBLISHED JAN 18, 2024 2:09 PM EST
It’s nice to dream of Starships…
It all boils down to and is dependent on fossil fuels. That much they will never admit because while their plans for the planet revolves around one resource and that is oil.
Just look at the stress placed on the power grid during the crypto currency craze. The demands for enrgy will be magnitudes higher for oil because non fossil fuel energy is too intermittent and unreliable.
AI requires a lot of fossil fuels; making EVs and batteries for EVs requires a lot of continuous electricity. The “West” has seen its electricity use stagnate for a very long time, as all electricity consumption growth has moved to lower-income countries depending primarily upon coal for electricity.
I am afraid that ramping up electricity consumption in the West is a dream. I am afraid “peak electricity” may not be too far away, either.
Put the computers in space, use solar electricity, send only information back to earth.
This is basically a ramp up of Musk and his internet satellites, $1B of electricity, made in space, beamed back to earth as information.
Basically this also solves the nuclear fusion issue, it already works and is “up there.”
Next problem please.
Dennis L.
Sure Dennis, problem solved..all YOU need to do is implement and make it work first…next problem…where to get the materials to make it in the first place without fossil fuels base?
This ain’t Star Trek TV…Scotty can’t put together a makeshift modification to tie in grid…
He thinks his god Musk can move planets at is will. No way to convince a true believer.
good idea dennis
next time youre hungry, just ”dial a meal”–its a brand new service
”dial a meal” just instantly sends back information on what your meal lookslike, smells like and taste like, calories and so on
no actual meal of course—just information
great for weight watchers i believe
Norm,
electricity in space makes possible food production on earth, less terrestrial energy used, less exogenous energy changing our climate. If we go to a H economy, with terrestrial solar, there is no pollution, there is no CO2 problem as H burned produces water.
It is substitution and it is availability of materials which are currently scarce in industrial quantities.
Sabine, has her own podcast, claims to be a PhD in theoretical physics, seems to be leaning on climate change being real.
Here we see it as a diversion, but there is a finite chance CC is real, then what? This is our only spaceship, we can make and use machines in space, we can selectively import from space what we want.
This beats the alternative and with Starship it is almost off the shelf technology.
Food is biology, earth is optimized for biology, keep biology on earth including man him/herself.
Dennis L.
dennis–as a retired dentist…your intellect is not in question
in retirement though you seem to have taken a degree in utter codswallop
norm,
Time will tell, thanks for the compliment in the first paragraph, had to search for the second, I take no insult.
There may be other alternatives and I would welcome anything which works.
If some of the videos are correct, they are already manufacturing multiple Starships.
To date I have heard no rebuttal that Musk has found a non intermittent source and use for electricity from solar and transformed it into information. That is a physics theory, energy and information are one in the same.
If the space internet works, that is curtains for a great deal of installed internet base, and with cellphone coverage if and when that works, a great number of cell towers and associated electrical supply are history.
Again, these two are using solar energy to directly replace terrestrial energy. Pretty amazing.
Dennis L.
dennis
have you stolen keith’s hat?
there are no starships—as someone said to you earlier—this isnt startrek
YES!!! Space and solar
Not enough to go around…so let’s make more and let them all in too..
WESTLAKE, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A family of five adults and 13 children, including several toddlers, has been living on the streets of Westlake since September while struggling to find temporary housing.
One of the children, a young girl, skipped rope on a sidewalk on Thursday, evoking the simple innocence of youth as ABC7 interviewed her family members. That sidewalk has been their home for the past several months.
Ana Madrid said there are 18 people living in the small makeshift encampment, which is covered by a tarp. The family members, who are from Honduras, live in a small tent on Alvarado Street near MacArthur Park.
Madrid said the sidewalk is where they spent Christmas, New Year’s Eve and days in the rain.
Her husband, Jorge Luis Garcia, said his children have not been able to go to school because other children have attacked him outside.
Madrid said the family has spoken with Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, but because the family is so large it has been difficult placing them somewhere.
Madrid said they were told they have to be patient. But they have been waiting for three months, she said.
Somebody needs to get fixed…regardless what the Pope proclaims
Latins believe in large families and typically, the poorer they are the bigger the family becomes as the parents depend on their kids to support them as they get older.
Hey, wait a minute! That sounds a lot like our debt based system? 🧐
Was at a local park and noticed a large family sitting around a bench with suitcases and children frolicking around.
Many apartments nearby and may have been homeless waiting. Homelessness here in South Florida seems to be not only in the nightly news but out in your face
a brick is a block of embodied energy—just like any other commodity
if you cant afford it–you are homeless
Something is wrong with this, a group like that should not have problems making it, Amish do it all the time.
Dennis L.
Maybe you can give them some land in Minnesota to farm?
After all they probably were forced off their land in Honduras by an Agribizz multinational …
Have them move back to Honduras, whereever. Why give up, there are more of them, when push comes to shove, it is what men do, they shove. Take back what is theirs. This is biology.
You build, you make better. The Amish, without diesel recently purchased 90 acres for >$1M, they did it, it has been done, it can be done. Something works, copy it. Yes, I know the Amish are passive, they are purchasing land, that is not passive.
Dennis L.
Oh, move back? Seems you are unaware of what’s going on down there, my friend.
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/10/994065661/why-people-are-fleeing-honduras-for-the-u-s-all-thats-left-here-is-misery
I’m a farmer — corn, coffee, beans. But I can’t make enough to feed my family,” Enrique said. “We have droughts and then we have floods. And there’s the lawlessness. Maras [gangs] extort the smallest businesses. We’re headed to Houston, asking God to guide us and protect us.”
The surge of migrants has created a crisis for the Biden administration and has prompted a scramble for solutions to cure deep social ills in Central America. President Biden has named Vice President Harris as the point person to address the waves of Central Americans showing up at the U.S. border.
Last week, Harris told the Washington Conference on the Americas that the administration intends to focus on addressing catastrophes in the region — hurricane damage, the coronavirus pandemic, drought and food insecurity — as well as the “root causes” of migration, such as corruption, violence, poverty, joblessness and the lack of climate adaptation. The White House plans to spend $4 billion over four years in the region.
Yep, nothing about Agribizz…imagine that!
Perhaps the US has the ability to deal with the root cause of the problem.
I am not aware of what is going on there, don’t have master solutions but when things are not working, perhaps try something different.
Corruption does not work, it leads to loss of trust which seems essential for a just society.
The US breads corruption in places like that…big profits to be made and cheap labor coming into the states to boot..
Win win…
I’ll have time for this once we stop torturing animals in horrific experiments — till then who gives f789s about human suffering…
Well I just had another conversation with an “AI bot” and if these things start taking over help centers, phone centers, or routine business operations, we are going to have a real abortion of an economy going forward. I mean, even before oil runs out.
ivan,
I use copilot all the time for a course on microprocessor programming. It is very helpful and well cross referenced.
Dennis L.
Proper culture
FE the civil war is about to begin here how is NZ doing?
‘Our country is so very unhappy, miserable and very envious to the point of hatred. It doesn’t seem to work and trying to be something you are not does not work.’
This comment, a little earlier by Big D L, applies perfectly to NZ.
The civil war is well under way here but most of the crackers here don’t see it.
We are a fully race based country; your skin colour determines access to beaches, fisheries, medicine (they can have it) parliament, education, law etc etc. Rates can be evaded, legal action forgone and access to funding is all privileged.
If you learn a peculiar language here whilst working for the govt then you get a pay rise.
Boat ramp access has just been denied for a fishing competition that is decades old because the locals can’t enter due to not having boats etc. A job usually come first but not for these units. The police stand around and condone this, as they did during covid when various tribes decided to erect road blocks to their fiefdom (rohe).
This is a people who had no written language; they are now using great skill to create a serfdom of the non-indigenous.
Hopefully they are all safely and effectively protected from the C germ.
The weather in QT has been frigid for summer – low teens most of the time — windy.
There was a dusting of snow on the mountains the other day.
Can’t wait to get the f789 out of here
The experts predicted a long hot summer here; droughts, fires, heatstroke. They even presented the TV news forecast with the currently de rigueur new ‘climate change red’ map shadings.
Reality; very wet summer, water tanks never been so full, grass as green as it ever has been and flooding more of a risk than burning.
Lets see the experts have been running;
– health system; broken
-legal system; corrupt
-financial system; bankrupt
-education system; idiocracy
-roading; disaster
-political science; hahahahaha
etc
etc
FAIL ARMY
We are biology, it will be sorted out.
Dennis L.
Sho’ enuf, so true.
‘Your skin colour determines access …’ on the nail Last Call. Well put.
No it’s not. That is all fake/orchestrated
“… the civil war is about to begin here…”
but it hasn’t yet, and might not for a very long time.
meanwhile 2024 has begun here, with amazing awesome fantastic glorious wonderful BAU.
if this is the pre civil war period, it’s great.
😎
ED,
Good, can you imagine LeBron with a machine gun in his hands.
🙂
What I’d enjoy doing .. before we go extinct … is taking the child of one of these scientists… and conducting these experiments on them….
I really would. And I’d make them watch…. then I’d bring in 10 criminals from a Super Max… and let them rape the scientists … then skin them alive.
I am not joking.
DEATH TO ALL HUMANS
While there is no suggestion any of the footage shows illegal activity, it gives an eerie glimpse into what goes on at the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Lab (RML), which has come under scrutiny in recent months.
Last year, this website revealed that RML in Montana had been experimenting with SARS-like viruses a year before the Covid pandemic, and while that research has stopped, current projects involving other deadly pathogens with the potential to spark a new pandemic are still being carried out at the lab.
These include injecting pigs with Ebola and infecting monkeys with Covid-19 and studying how they react to Hemorrhagic Fever, which involves vomiting blood, internal bleeding, bleeding in the brain and from the eyes, nose and mouth.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13008119/montana-lab-scientists-experimenting-dangerous-pathogens.html
Has the ASPCA turned a blind eye to animal cruelty or has Tony Fauci and Big Pharma paid them to look the other way? I am in agreement with your terms of punishment.
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/do-you-see-them/comments?
hahaha… they see themselves as Che… or Ho… or whatever hahaha… f789ing clowns
Fast Eddy
just now
Freedom Fighters? Is this what revolution has come to — clattering away on Substack accomplishing nothing.
How about picking up a weapon and actually fighting?
Nah… nobody wants to walk the walk. Nobody wants to be shot by the anti terrorist squads or dumped into a Super Max.
Carry on entertaining the Anti Vaxxers
Freedom does not exist.
There are so many inconvenience “things/events” that no one wants to even discuss because there are no answers.
1. Slaves built the Great Pyramid, Great Wall of China, etc. Slaves need food. Lots of food. Little food, too much work, slaves dies. Nothing gets done. 1,000 slaves need a lot of food, water and shelter? Do the “ancient civilization” get the people and food? Pyramids as told by “experts” were built by hundreds of thousands of slaves. Huh?
2. War – ancient civilization has a lot of wars. Many young and able bodied people dies. Left the old people at the village? Who farms? The village will not sustain. Wher do they find so many “fit” young people to fight wars when food is already scarce.
3. War – requires a lot of resources like food. Subsistence farming has that much food? Don’t fool yourself (go and use critical thinking, not just reading/hearing from “experts”), subsistence farming have very low yield. Permaculture is a modern day fairy tale with support from fossil fuel.
4. War – Battle of Waterloo. It is said that French has 70,000 soldiers. Where do they get the food and water? If one soldier eats 1kg of food per day, that is 70 tonnes per day. So where do they get the food? transport them? how? Got it from the land they pass through? Is it like going to the supermarket? Grab the food from local inhabitants? Is it like food available anytime even in winter? 70 tonnes per day from land that you just conquered?
5. War – 70,000 soldiers. If the distance between 2 walking soldiers is 1m (that is a very tight formation), with 4 person abreast, that is 70,000/4 = 17.5km long the line. Do they even have roads that can accommodate 4 person abreast? Let us cut down to 10,000 soldiers. It is 2.5km long. With the canons, horses (horses also require food), etc, how long is the line? Do they have freeways like in USA?
6. Agriculture – have you seen subsistence farming in action? With no fossil fuel input other than a few draft animals? Manure only ? It is an extremely tough life and food security is non-existence. So, how can they even supply to wars? The academic papers stating that agriculture is good in ancient days have too many assumptions. Go and visit some third world countries and come back and tell me how it can be done properly. It cannot.
7. The great genetic bottleneck that experts say happened 75,000 years ago during the explosion of Toba supervolcano. Cold volcanic winter, very little food, poisonous air and yet 30,000 early humans spread across the whole world manage to survive the very harsh conditions, find mates, procreate, take care of the young until adulthood and then prosper? Hunter gathers doing that in volcanic winter? Some “experts” say it is only 3,000-10,000 humans. Put these 10,000 people on a place the size of Britain (not the whole world mind you), see how they can find each other, procreate and prosper. It is as preposterous as “safe and effective”
8. Shoes are so important for humans to walk around. a small cut and it will be bad and one will die from bacteria infection. So for the last millions of years, humans have no problems with that at all? Don’t compare to animals like monkeys, they don’t travel widely (supposedly humans walked out of Africa)
There is no need to argue with me. There is no need to cite any academic papers (remember that academics support “safe and effective”). Just sit down and do some critical thinking. Yes, it is just too inconvenient that they seem to make a lot of sense? So, what really happened in the past?
Chngtg: I think about the points you raise on OFW. I’m not sure I really understand what you & others mean by being in a simulation. But I can say, after a lifetime of reading, that many things we’ve been told make no sense. Your point today about food is very well taken. Having an interest in food & a farm background, I have started to wonder how some of the massive “slave projects” were actually carried out. It takes so, so much food to feed a family of laborers. Thanks for the thoughtful questions.
agriculture produced “surplus energy” in food calories.
after that, humans could build useless stuff like pyramids.
send to my GMail. chngtg if you are interested to talk offline
Reality isn’t real. I will keep the indicators to myself so that the simulation doesn’t fix them, though.
🤗
7. it’s obvious that in a “volcanic winter” the surviving tribes were in the equatorial regions, where it was warm enough for their survival, otherwise we wouldn’t be here discussing them.
Slaves worked till death. When they perished a new batch was thrown in. Life was quite cheap.
2,000 years before Waterloo, the Qin forces destroyed the Zhao forces at the battle of Changping and buried 400,000 troops after beheading them, as attested by the mountain of bones unearthed at Gaoping, Shanxi province, believed to be where the battle took place.
1. Slaves built the pyramids. Slaves need food just like any other human being. If you mean that slaves can’t be fed, then neither can other humans, so humans can’t exist. If I understand your logic, then we don’t exist. By the way, how is it that cathedrals were ever built?
2. Wars happen when there’s too little for too many people, so it is and always has been a regulatory mechanism. After a war, those who remain can once again benefit from the surplus.
3. see point 2. war is a way of getting rid of useless eaters.
4. 70,000 soldiers is not a lot. the population of France was 30 million around 1830. 30 million people can support an army of 70,000 soldiers. the population of Paris alone was over 500,000.
5. Armies don’t march or ride at the same time. They occupy a territory and move in different directions according to their needs. Only in major battles do they move at the same time.
6. Farming without fossil fuels has been around for thousands of years. My grandparents didn’t know what a tractor was until 1950-1960. What are you getting at?
7. a few thousand people don’t need to be spread over several thousand square kilometers. They build villages and trade.
8. many people are still living without shoes. And yes, they are still alive.
No academic paper needed here. Your so-called “critical thinking” is just a disastrous inability to understand that what you don’t know can exist.
I may add that shoes are not unnecessary in most regions. That’s why they were invented so long ago….
Thierry, when you are ready, we talk. Simply constructing excuse for all the points do not help. You are not using your brain.
You are correct, nasty infections come from the feet ..posted a video of these horrible grubs in the soles of folks in Africa that are very painful.
Also,saw a program about the Pyramids…in one segment they show gave an example of the workers pleading for food (onions believe it or not was one stable), with the central government in turmoil and not responding…Needless to say, the project was found abandoned…no food, no slaves or workers.
I read a book by a Norwegian explorer in 1880 who went to the pacific northwest Canada to get artifacts from the Indians for the Berlin museum. He was flabbergasted that he could not walk barefoot in the snow like the locals. And the Indians had a great laugh at his inability.
Thank you,
Dennis L.
as i understand it, slaves didnt build the pyramids
i was a job creations scheme, to gain favour with the gods.
the climate delivered colossal amounts of surplus energy which was converted into muscle power
fossil fuel does the same for us–we just use the surpluses in other ways—skyscrapers etc—comes down to the same thing, pretty much
https://thegreattaking.com/read-online-or-download
Who hasn’t read The Great Taking yet? You need to read it. Its only a few pages and explains how the system has been gradually changed so that you have no actual direct ownership of your investments any more. Within, the mechanism of how the capture of most assets will occur is described. This is very 2024 oriented.
Do read the prologue so that you know who Webb is.
All these books, videos, etc always missed the very big picture…. we have not enough energy to go around. None of the 15-min cities, CDBC, etc are even relevant
Thats very definitely the theme of OFW. The Great Taking is congruent with the same.
EXACTLY!!!
These Great Resets and other fables are thrown out there to ensure the MOREONS don’t work out that we are running out of cheap energy – and being exterminated.
It’s working
I haven’t read the book, but I have listened to this video by David Webb.
https://www.brighteon.com/f0e58a84-9790-48d9-8f5d-7c94ac918874
I know that David Webb is saying that the financial instruments you think you have in your account may be pledged through derivatives or other means to someone else, and that person will have priority, because of the way the laws are written.
In my view, if we are losing fossil fuels, it is fairly clear that assets of any kind (other than things that will directly help you prepare your own food, water and fuel) will have very little value in the future.
What we mostly need is commodities, like food and water, and fuel for cooking food and heating water. If working the land can give you these things, then it has value. The workers who are able to produce food and water should be the first to be paid, indirectly with what is available, if they are to continue working . That will leave very little for the rest of us.
Even if we think we have gold or silver coins to buy things, they will only have value if the essential commodities are available to buy. If there are fewer and fewer essential commodities each year, there will be inflation, even in there is no problem with someone else having claim for the same securities.
Programs like Social Security are bidding for these same commodities. No matter how much the government attempts to pay retirees, it will be hard for them to secure enough of the commodities that are in short supply (and the finished goods, like clothes, that they make) to make the program actually work. There is a “not enough to go around” problem.
I havent watched this interview (yet), but I have done a couple others. They are informational, however he saves a couple of the knockout punches for the book. In it, he takes you through the the arrangements between the various the three and four initial named organisations, and then delivers the goods.
Its worth a read. Its not long. The price is free.
As Gail said, it’s not important. If there is not enough food or energy then financial assets are no use to whoever owns them.
The fact that Webb does not discuss severe cheap energy depletion .. means he is not worth even a minute of my time. Even typing this response has wasted 15 seconds of my valuable time that could be spent mocking norm
Plus this is not relevant to BAU, so the mighty US will do nothing.
But Webb does see one of the mechanisms involved. There probably will be many others.
one of the immutable laws of life eddy
those who can’t devote their time to mocking those who can.
(add relevant subject, as applicable)
not much these days about grooming and your one time best friend Tommy—now why is that, I wonder?
Yes, norm, it may be called envy.
We are human, but better to work on your own house.
Dennis L.
and what do you suggest that i am envious of dennis?
feel free to comment—i am interested
i have friends richer than me—and poorer—more intelligent, and less so….doesnt seem to matter.
i couldnt wish for better health—a 25 yr old body maybe would be nice, but unlikely. the one i have does pretty well. it still does most of what i need it to do.
disagreeing with your daft notions doesnt invoke envy of the intellect that harbours them, neither does it mock them.
…i prefer my own daft notions….i mock myself in that respect sometimes.
Big SCHAD here
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f05afa6-026e-41dd-bbcc-30aefbba09b4_1000x563.jpeg
Genoveva Casanova (47), a well-known Mexican socialite, has recently faced health problems. In July 2023, Casanova was hospitalized due to a pulmonary thromboembolism that caused a pulmonary infarction, a stroke and damage to one of the ventricles of the heart. This medical situation has become a cause of concern for her family and friends. The socialite has kept a low profile, moving between various destinations such as San Sebastian, London and Andorra.
Daily SCHAD https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/ryne-sandburg-has-metastatic-prostate
https://wolfstreet.com/2024/01/27/us-debt-to-gdp-ratio-worsens-further-despite-solid-economic-growth-as-government-debt-balloons-at-a-scary-pace/
SOOOO Weeeeeeee
It will continue until it stops (Being There 2.0)
Bollocks. Once it threatens BAU the mighty US will solve this problem overnight, like in Afghanistan.
What can it be? https://t.me/EdwardDowdReal/585
Absence rates of workers is way up, staring in 2020 and increasing from there.
And not slowing down. This aligns nicely for The Great Taking.
Was playing this, then I remembered that Gail enjoys square-dancing.
Carl Orff – Carmina Burana. Tanz (Dance).
Very nice music! Thanks!
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez is most famous for 100 years of solitude, but earlier in his career he also wrote the Funeral of Mama Grande (sometimes translated as “Big Mama”).
It takes in the same place the 100 Years take place. Mama Grande has outlived everyone in the Buendia family. She completely controls the town ; the mayor, the police chief, the priest, the school principal, you name it, they are all her relatives.
After ruling the town for 92 years she dies. Her funeral is the biggest in the area, and it is assured that her clan will continue to rule the town after her death.
Such system NEVER collapses. End of more, they will just do with less. It is a failsafe system which will outlive peak oil, whatever, and even at Type I Civ one of their distant relatives will continue such arrangement.
Maybe kul, but it is biology, not money. Biology can get money.
We are biology, a man needs a wife for children, he needs to be very successful and he needs a talented and beautiful wife as beauty is not really skin deep, it many times reflects genetics.
I see it in my circle, or at least some circles, dance for example. It is a very expensive hobby and competitions are very expensive. The women are mostly beautiful even with the passage of time and they can move very well, they are healthy. It is not unusual for a competitor as an amateur to spend $200k in lessons and fees as well as travel and lodging expenses for her pro in a year, in some cases more depending on the teacher. Donnie Burns was $1K per lesson I am told, plus a private plane from wherever he was. Gowns are multiple thousands and multiple gowns are de rigueur . The entry fee is not money, it is beauty, talent and choosing a very good mate on the part of the women. At this level the women are very smart, and very choosey. They can give incredible children which is the real wealth of which you seek and speak. That is not for sale and a cheap woman is not cheap, she is a rental.
Watched a beautiful, petite dancer this weekend, she from Fl, her pro from NY, dance teacher, good enough to be on Broadway, he is not a star. Chatted with a woman who has cut down to five – six competitions a year, husband has real money, she shows the years, but beautiful hair, attractive skin and well shaped body and face. What she has cannot be purchased and it is real wealth. It is the true gift she gives her children. Hard work on the part of the children will not beat that. Rich people are mostly smart kul, wealth is not luck.
Chose your parents wisely, it is a gift of a lifetime.
Dennis L.
you are quite right Dennis
a truly beautiful woman never loses her beauty—but it cannot be precisely defined,
in the same sense, true beauty itself cannot be defined–it’s far more than looks.
I beg to differ https://twitter.com/JebraFaushay/status/1742625397395656808
Perhaps Madonna isn’t such a beautiful woman.
Understatement of the month. There will be degenerates in Moscow of course, but nothing like you can see in urban areas throughout the US. So this move of mine has been a bit of fresh air. And she was a degenerate one generation before the rest.
Agree, a narrative with substantial cash flow but no wealth.
Dennis L.
Some men eventually come to understand the true nature of women….
Most sadly, never do….
“Beauty” is a trap…….
norm had to step away from his computer… he got too excited watching that clip
eddy
it’s been several years since i opened any link you’ve posted on ofw
cro
ultimately a woman must seek out the means by which she reproduces
to do that she must seek out the male who provides the best options.
her looks are part of that, and so are his
Perhaps many times Cro, but I have seen it work and it works very well indeed.
Mostly like the universe, it does not work and the 20% gives the results which do work.
Dennis L.
Madonna died in 1999.
Collapse comes when the population outgrows the resource base. For example, if Mama Grande has too many children and grandchildren for the area to support, there will be a problem. Or if the resources get too depleted–too many trees needed for fuel cut down, or soil quality falls too low (for example, too much salt from irrigation, too much nutrient depletion).
Renewal can be possible later on.
Of course, now we are dependent on fossil fuels, as well. Without enough of them, some aspects of our current civilization have to disappear.
Paragraph 1: Of course, collapse is part of birth in our universe, need a lump of iron, blow up a star
Paragraph 2: Renewal takes place before our eyes, somehow the universe keeps expanding
Paragraph 3: All things seem to have phases, fossil fuels got us this far, we will adapt.
Elon’s internet has already adapted, solar electricity, move information not stuff. Soon Starship will enable manufacturing in space, humans will probably be of minimal use, too harsh, but machines seem to do well, Voyager comes to mind.
Dennis L.
Masks symbolize Mental Illness https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/27/natural-masking-as-a-way-of-life/
An essay on mask wearing.
For some perhaps, but a great joy is in making things work, seeing everyone do a bit better than alone.
In the US there is a difference between a Washington and the current crop. What helps is the 80/20, all one needs is an occasional Washington.
Dennis L.
This is how it will end https://t.me/leaklive/17879
“24/1/2024. Workers are almost killed when the crane wires break while carrying a heavy load.
‘That was fun! Shall we do it again?'”
A very big “Oops!”
NZ update https://t.me/leaklive/17876
Probably got away with trinkets.
The real takers are in the Green Party; stealing the future of everyone.
Shoplifting was her response to stress, if we believe this Leader of the Green part’s excuse.
She’s in the Green Party .. and lifting designer trinkets… hahahahaha…
Now that she’s out I hear she’s parked herself Out Back a Dumpster … to earn money to pay for designer trinkets…
norm?????
Not too shabby looking (yet) I reckon some time behind the dumpster will change that in a hurry.
But for sure there’s some narcissistic blemishes in that facial expression of hers.
And I reckon actions speak louder than sanctimonious hypocrisy and blame shifting.
100% narcissist!
come on man …. just because she’s Green … doesn’t mean she can’t have LV Bags… Jimmy Choo shoes and hopefully some day a private jet…
If she could just control her urges she could have moved up the ladder in the Green Party and thieved tax $$$ and she’d have had all this on the legit.
My guess is she wants to be what she is not. I have a post about beauty if it stays. We are hierarchal, and I suspect that comes from biology; it cannot be beaten no matter how many ribbons given, etc.
As some of you know, I think women are trying to make something which cannot be made; it is making much unhappiness and unrest. No ideas how that is fixed.
A brief summary: I have seen and at times associate with understated, extreme wealth and the people seem happy; I also associate with CC teachers who are married to cosmetologists, and they too are happy. But, the twain do not meet and are very different except there seems to be a happiness in having children go forth into the future.
Our country is so very unhappy, miserable and very envious to the point of hatred. It doesn’t seem to work and trying to be something you are not does not work.
Dennis L.
I reckon beauty die hard if it’s mired in sensibility. I beleive it is called character and charm. Perhaps a dab of kindness and compassion.
Yes, it is an extremely rare commodity among men and women these days.
Women crave validation from attention. Do you reckon she wanted that designer jank because of their intrinsics, or perhaps the imaginary boost in status and prestige they’d provide?
She obviously got on asocial media to project those statuses, presiges and successes. You know, being the Alpha Annabelle primate flinging turds, cheaps and nastiness, to the lesser fortunate Beta Beatrices, as unwitting victims a few levels down the plumes.
Yes, women get validation from children, that’s how the female mind is wired up. First from men, then from children and society in general.
The narcisissts can’t have enough of it and take to asocial media to lick it up. There’s nothing more revealing than the facial expression of a narcissist getting the ego strokes and licking it up.
🤣👉😛
And of course asocial media is the great magnifier of the narcissistic tendencies we all carry.
I reckon it is all good, because you see, within temptation is the truth of a defunct and derelict species scheduled for extinction.
That’s the demise of the Hyper Tryhard Attaboi trying to plactate a Hyper Wasterel MOARon.
How about embracing how it is to be a Rapacious Primate heavily engaged in the Monkey Business of BAU? Yes, take a good loooooong look in the mirror and observe the Hyper Tryhard Attaboi male, or is it perhaps the Hyper Wasterel MOARon female.
Yes indeed, lick up the truth and then let’s chant together:
YOLO!!1122!!
M.O.A.R.
Hypers gonna hyper!!1
Tryhards gonna tryhard11!!!
MOARons gonna moaron11!!!1
All retch and no vomit in perpetuity!11
The eternal recurrence of the Hyper!!!!
Amen! 🙏
🤣👍👍
sheesh kow
sometimes i would like to know what you are burbling on about–just out of curiousity.
then again—maybe not.
Yep, neither you, nor I would appreciate the agression toward me you’d feel as I’d pick you apart and make it seem trivial.
Moar questions?
Hallelujah
The Persian Pilferer can’t afford the things she steals even though she is on a six-figure salary.
With hyperinflation many people who were well-to-do are stealing to get by.
She needs to do a chin scribble and then she will be exempt from prosecution under sad corrupt new zealand’s indigenous rights.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e0/b9/53/e0b95339ee301a7cec88770fd9a1dd5f.png
Normal behaviour in sad corrupt new zealand.
Shoppers are so used to seeing this they just carry on about their business.
I see that Huawei has come up with a fully google incompatible Harmony cell phone operating system. Several expats here have the previous version, compatible with android. The Harmony cell phones are more expensive than a regular Android.
Using the name “Harmony” gives people the idea that they are compatible with lots of things. People are supposed to go by the sound of the name, not by how little the phone can really do.
I think you have to pay more for software that keeps you ‘safe’ from google.
A bit like a gated community to keep the riff raff and assorted liars away.
Isn’t Huawei just the CCP version of Google? “No Spy” “Don’t be Evil”
Stay behind the great firewall of China, in other words.
Yes, you get to choose who will spy on you. It is the same with whatsapp vs telegram, or vpns by now.
I’ve just bought one of these, second hand, about four years old, USD200. It’s harmony 3.0 to upgrade my dying Blackberry Z10s which have been marvellous g00g-free workhorses for the past five years.
After a month I’m making a lot of progress – found someone to help me get the keyboard out of chinese and into English a week ago, and yesterday worked out how to access the file system to extract photos with a USB connection. It has an excellent camera.
Hoping to be sufficiently competent to put in a simcard soon … and then I can retire my three Z10s. I blew up the sound system in one of them, though expect to continue using another of them as a music pod for bath and garden music.
Harmony was Super Snatch’s stage name — before she got all obese and wrinkly and was forced Out Back the Dumpster to ply her vile trade servicing hobos and NOFs who stink of stale beer and urine
Honore de Balzac wrote Cousin Bette. Bette, a middle aged single woman, was always angry that her cousin had married a wealthy, though womanizing, nobleman and to add the insult her cousin’s daughter stole her lover.
Bette plots revenge, and in the end does manage to destroy the nobleman’s family, with the latter not really knowing what had hit them.
Today’s global turmoil is the brainchild of Mohammed bin Salman, who realized Saudi Arabia is NOT on the map of the future, and others who thought the same way such as Vladimir Putin.
They decided to destroy it all, and launched the greatest peasant rebellion of all time which appears to be succeeding.
Complacency by the military industrial complex, who still think this is 1980, led to this disaster which appears to be hard to recover from.
instead of Agenda 2030 which would have consolidated everything into the winners’ hands and bring a Type I Civ, we will see complete anarchy.
As Civilization advances, it is inevitable that a winner take all, leaving nothing to anyone else society is inevitable.
Everything goes to the top,almost nothing for the employees who are given just enough to live on and nothing whatsoever for those not deemed to be contributing to civilization.
Unbelievable riches and luxury for today’s winners, and nothing for the rest. A world the human civilization almost reached in 1913.
Only the winners and the investor class will enjoy such fruits of human advances. Nothing for the rest.
The winners would like to have all, but at some point this has to break down. I don’t know when that might be. Once the resources get short enough, it certainly must break down.
The experience in India, Philippines and various Latin American countries, where class is eternal and there are few social mobility, shows it will NOT break down for a long time. If resource bases get smaller, the worse jobs go to distant relatives of the town’s boss, displacing the rest. The problem of incest would be solved by allying with a neighboring town of similar circumstances, like French queens all coming from the MEdici family and then Habsburgs after that, in a smaller scale.
kul,
You need a group, and running a group is a hell of a job. A boss makes things work, there is never enough, the goal is for all to better together than apart.
Living today is not that hard; living in 1945 and landing in Europe or the Pacific for a vacation was hard, damn hard. Being conned into becoming a base to attack the largest country by land mass is tough and dumb, really dumb.
Land is a poor investment, it doesn’t return dirt; at best it increases with inflation. I am not nearly as conversant as you with the landed classes, but I seem to recall the “gentry” being tour guides of their estates as there was no money.
Knowledge and a good group is wealth, it will grow be it Amish or a certain group which historically wins all the Nobel prizes. The trick with this group is don’t get stuck with dirt everyone wants and no one can make a buck with the stuff.
If you want wealth, you need time and faith there will be a tomorrow. Bet on doom and gloom and miss out on everything.
LTG only predicts the top of earth bound minerals, it has no idea of what happens next, that from Dennis Meadows sitting next to me in DC some years back.
Luxury is good health and healthy children one of which will be a good connection with the fabric of the universe. Even “God” doesn’t get everything right every time, the Amish seem to make this work and get Sunday’s off to boot. We have gone from incredible music in beautiful structures, cathedrals to naked, tattooed artists making noise on a stage in a drug induced stupor as it is the only way one can tolerate that stuff. The narrative convinces us it is cool and gets people to pay for it to boot. Marketing, always marketing and a narrative.
Dennis L.
Demographics:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/student-loan-boycotts-can-t-stand-here-s-how-we-make-them-pay-up/ar-BB1hluT6?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=73d4e785e176441d823ab57956f6f5e4&ei=24
If a product is sold which is clearly defective and does not meet advertised promises, aren’t there class action lawsuits? I don’t know law.
Our children have had their futures sold for worthless educations; irony of irony as women now make up the majority of college students, if the loans are comparable, they will pay more.
SS and employment taxes are a huge transfer of wealth from the young to the old, the young have no stake in our future.
As all of you know, I have an undergraduate degree and some graduate credits in mathematics from the UW Madison, I am damn proud I made it through but, I have never used any of it in real life. I went to a trade school, and it gave me a life.
I am now seeing that at the CC I am out. The teachers care about the students and they are getting a good education with jobs at the end, real jobs that can support a family, marry a cosmetologist who will always have a part time job and it is a life.
We need more hands on reality in our education. There is something about touching stuff which makes it real. Hands on is also more equitable if you want to go there. We need people who can build, I doubt we need more advanced specialists in medicine.
Also, we could stop destroying the joints of our young having them play in high school what in my day would have been college ball.
We need reality, the youth are rebelling and one way is to just say “NO!” I won’t pay, and I won’t work to pay and I will not serve my country in order to lose a limb; recall, I have been there, I saw what came back from Viet Nam, less than went over.
We are losing our youth, we are losing our future, the universe is indifferent, it wanted biology and made incredible efforts to make a spaceship which supports biology. Biology will be fine, some of the current crazy ideas will wither as the proponents age, and that old age may not be that pleasant without the help of the young.
Dennis L.
If a few people get a college education, they can be the leaders and can get quite high pay. If a large share of the population gets a college education, the system doesn’t work well any more. The cost is too high for the benefit obtained.
Making today’s young people pay for an idea that basically didn’t work further disadvantages them. There is more wage disparity now, not less. Fox would like to make certain that all of the people pay back their loans. I expect that some of these people did not even complete the college programs they were aiming for.
Colleges have greatly expanded their costs in recent years, thanks to loans available to pay unreasonably high tuition and fees. They add football fields, layers of administrators, and the requirement that faculty write academic papers. It is the colleges and universities that have benefited from these loans, not the students. In some sense, they should be paying for the shortfall in collections on these loans.
Yup, ” In some sense, they should be paying for the shortfall in collections on these loans.”
What I see work is a CC, a degree in a technical field and a wife as a cosmetology student, part time job with tips. You need to be useful, to make something, do something. A welder makes things, the cosmetologist helps the wives feel good about themselves. This is not the case if you are absolutely brilliant, and that means not 99 percentile, but the 99 percentile of the 99th percentile. Throw in good looks and an ability to give a narrative and all is well.
Dennis L.
Another thing that can go wrong….
A Tesla owner says he’s done driving his Model 3 after the car stopped randomly in the middle of a highway Grace Kay Jan 27, 2024, 4:31 AM ET
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-model-3-stopped-working-shut-down-while-driving-complaint-2024-1?amp
Tesla owner said his Model 3 stopped working in the middle of a highway.
A Tesla service center said the incident was the result of an issue with a connector to the battery.
Tesla repaired the EV under warranty, but the owner said he no longer feels safe with the car.
Owner James Hanna said his Model 3 lurched to a stop without warning in the middle of a highway. “The entire car locked up and I was unable to turn the wheel or even get it back into gear,” Hanna wrote in a complaint to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that was viewed by Business Insider. “I even tried to put on the hazards but the car just completely died.”
Hanna, who had owned the Tesla for just over a year when the incident occurred in September, said that the vehicle had been at 60% battery and had nearly 27,000 miles on it. He said he was driving down an interstate in North Carolina on his way to pick up his son from school when the car went haywire.
The Tesla owner told Business Insider the car beeped for a few seconds but not long enough for him to pull to the side of the road before it came to a complete stop. Hanna said he’d been driving about 40 miles per hour.
“I had a panic attack,” Hanna told BI. “I didn’t know what was going on. I was trying to figure out what to do — how to get power, or get it started again — and the whole time I’m worried about someone slamming into the back of me.”
Hanna said that when he stepped out of the car, he was no longer able to get back into the vehicle because the battery that powered the doors was no longer working. From there, he called the police and a tow truck.
Maybe the Tesla should come with ejector seats like in an old James Bond movie
Truck tires? They carry weight, probably people wouldn’t like the ride.
Dennis L.
Teslas are modern day le.pers of the highway system; stay wary, stay clear, stay safe.
They make great BBQs when the batteries catch fire.
Spreading the story so others can avoid the problem would seem to be something that could be done.
Internal combustion engines work. They are tried and true. Even hybrids seem to work. But the all electric version still needs a lot of work. It is doubtful that the idea will ever work. A whole supply chain, including abundant recharging stations, and electricity to power the supply chains, is needed to make the electric cars work. It is pretty much impossible to see how such a supply chain can be built.
Agree, keep it simple. If you want to splurge, hire a nice car with a driver, what happens in the back seat stays in the back seat.
Dennis L.
Come on..what more can go wrong?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/01/27/electric-cars-acceleration-powerful-crash-more/
Experts and car manufacturers have blamed the disparity on a lack of specialist mechanics and the high cost of replacing EV batteries or other components when they are damaged.
But Mr Shuker said the higher frequency of claims was a result of the higher power of EVs versus their internal combustion engine counterparts, which was catching some drivers off guard.
EVs tend to accelerate much faster than petrol cars because their batteries allow them to generate torque almost instantly.
A little bump on the corner of an internal combustion engine vehicle would result in a repaired bumper… There is a risk with electric vehicles that you ripple the battery and the whole battery needs to be replaced.”
A lack of trained mechanics in garages and a shortage of parts for the cars, which are more complex to repair, was also driving maintenance costs higher, he said.
Meanwhile, some insurers have warned that engineers are reluctant to guarantee the safety of damaged batteries, even after repairs, due to concerns that even a hairline crack that is not detected could lead to an explosion for which they will be liable.
Data from insurance broker Howden revealed this week that the cost of insuring an electric car has increased to more than twice as much as cover for a petrol one.
A typical EV now costs £1,344 to insure, compared to £676 for an internal combustion engine (ICE) car, it said.
Insurers insist they support the rollout of EVs but that prices are “outside of their control” and are based on data that shows EV are more costly and time-consuming to repair.
Why was this not thought out…Ellon must have driven a golf cart
I remember raising some of these issues years ago, way back in my Oil Drum days. Also the issue of fast depreciation. This was one of the issues that raised conflict between me and other writers at The Oil Drum. There was so much interest in finding a “solution” that practically no one wanted to consider the downsides, and the many issues that would raise true costs.
Boris Johnson has always enjoyed playing the clown. Now he’s is channeling Kitchener.
He wants the TikTok generation to join up and do some national service.
Remember when he was at death’s door from COVID-19?
I doubted he was really that ill at the time. But does anyone today truly believe that his performance was anything other than an act, and a part of the softening up campaign to get the public believing in a deadly pandemic.
https://rumble.com/v49l8fu-boris-johnson-young-people-should-join-the-army.html
Strange world we live in!
We live in a world where we have or are being governed by absolute total clowns like Zelensky, Bojo and Joe Bidet. Norm sees them as heroes, that’s why he votes.
rodster
if you stayed clear of your pit of conclusion—and think independently—–
you would realise the governments function only at the level of energy available to the nation as a whole.
during the era of the “American Dream”—1945/1970, the USA was in a state of energy surplus—broadlt speaking, it didnt matter what governments did, the energy surplus available meant that most people could live comfortable lives. (many didnt of course)
thats what the don keeps promising—MAGA, not knowing what created maga.
his followers dont know.
You dont either—that much is obvious.
they have no more idea about what to do in the face of our looming crisis than i do—and certainly no more than you.
imagining that somewhere, someone does know what to do only serves to demonstrate your naivety on the subject,—offering criticism from the baseline of ignorance. (as is usual)
I am under no illusions about politicians, though a few mean well, few succeed.
we are now in a state of negative energy (better understood–as it must be explained to you—as living beyond our means.)
but do try to have your own thoughts.—parrotts are new very impressive.
new==not
“they have no more idea about what to do in the face of our looming crisis than i do—and certainly no more than you.
imagining that somewhere, someone does know what to do only serves to demonstrate your naivety on the subject,”
Excuse me Mr Padgett, but I know.
Accept it and hope your kids are in the lucky few that make it(I’d take that every day and die happily to make it so, as I’m sure you would). Nothing else we can do, so no need for all those people freaking out about it.
I doubt either of us would obtain a single vote running on that platform admittedly, but seeing as you are the superior public speaker, I nominate you to stand.
its g/grandkids i worry about—they will see the next century—what d’you think the view will be like?
in any event—nothing i can do about it, and they wouldnt take the slightest notice if i tried.–even when they are a bit older—by which time i will probably have shuffled off this mortal coil.
The view? Maybe a well known Hieronymus Bosch painting, at least for a time.
Like your optimism that they will see the next century. That’s a good place to start, rather than the usual, we’re all doomed and why not, as some certainty will see it. I’d hope it’s all calmed down by then and they live a simple, relatively peaceful life with a far better grasp of nature, life and death. They’ll definitely not be burdened with the mental illness of the present hyper needy individuality(those 3 words should never be together, hence mental illness).
The young will do as they must and one good point, no TV, so infinitely more sane and accepting of what little they have. Good luck to yours.
norm worries about his grand kids… yet he drove them to be injected with Juice of Rat…. (cuz norm thought that would protect himself from covid)
Selfish NOF
Yes it is down per copilot on a per capita basis.
1970 .044 bpd production, 2023 .038 bpd production.
so .006/.044 is ,13.6% decline give or take. linear per year, 13.6/53 years .25% decline per year, not exponential which would be less.
Current solar energy production per capita in 2023 is about 480kWh which is .295 bpd if copilot is correct.
Looks like a net gain to me.
Collect Pt in space, manufacture fuel cells in space pollution free, convert sunlight to electricity, electricity to H and no net heat gain to planet. Problem solved with almost existing technology and Spaceship looks set to work and Musk keeps making it bigger.
No decrease in living standards, politically correct and we save our precious spaceship which would be impossible to duplicate in other than say 5B years give or take. At that point the sun becomes a problem and now Houston, we have a real problem.
From my point of view, the world is one big fight for resources which we can’t use due to global warming. Move all this manufacturing to space, stop digging up the earth and save our spaceship.
Your mileage may vary.
Dennis L.
“The President in particular is very much a figurehead — he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
What could be more diverse than a two headed and three armed President?
Dead on. And he draws attention away for… The Elders. They have all the power
As is this https://www.huffpost.com/entry/watch-the-deep-state-hidi_b_4848282
many ofw inmates won’t be familiar with the uk comedian Benny Hill
that picture of Bozza is a perfect take on Benny Hill saluting
“many ofw inmates won’t be familiar with the uk comedian Benny Hill”
You mean “will be”, of course.
In 1976 Benny Hill went to a New York restaurant with a friend. Eventually he was recognised, and everyone in the restaurant rose to their feet and clapped and cheered. Amazing to think that our parochial little Benny enjoyed such fame around the world. Even Michael Jackson and the aged Charlie Chaplin were fans of his.
no zemi
i meant wont be
he was well known, but not at the totally international level
dont be pedantic
You’re the one who’s being pedantic, lassie. And I never wrote at the “TOTALLY” international level.
Your trouble is that you think you know everything and never check the evidence. From Wikipedia: “The Benny Hill Show was also exported to many countries around the world.”
Back in the 1990s, I was astonished to see a documentary about Norman Wisdom visiting Albania, where he was hugely popular. And no, I was never a fan of Norman Wisdom. Nor of “Mr Bean”, about whom my German friends used to rave to me in the 1990s.
So my advice to you, Norman, is: look, listen, learn! Get it? Got it? GOOD!
norm = NOF
The folks in his village laugh at him too
I bet you didn’t know that norm appeared on Benny Hill’s show a number of times
Gosh! Our Norman played the hapless “little Jackie”, and all those years ago too! Amazing.
And now norm plays Jackie for Fast Eddy…
Come here norm … let me slap you on your bald pate. NOF
-Science Magazine cover story
WATER BATTERIES
Pumped storage hydropower plants can bank energy for times when wind and solar power fall short
“The machines that turn Tennessee’s Raccoon Mountain into one of the world’s largest energy storage devices—in effect, a battery that can power a medium-size city—are hidden in a cathedral-size cavern deep inside the mountain. But what enables the mountain to store all that energy is plain in an aerial photo. The summit plateau is occupied by a large lake that hangs high above the Tennessee River, so close it looks like it might fall in.
Almost half a century ago, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the region’s federally owned electric utility, built the lake and blasted out the cavern as well as a 329-meter-tall shaft that links the two. “It was quite an effort to drill down into this mountain, because of the amount of rock that’s here,” senior manager Holli Hess says dryly. The cavern holds a candy-colored powerhouse, filled with cherry-red electrical ducts and vents and beams in a pale grape. Four giant cylinders, painted bright green and yellow, are the key machines: Each one houses a turbine that becomes a pump when it spins the other way, and a generator that is also an electric motor.
At night, when demand for electricity is low but TVA’s nuclear reactors are still humming, TVA banks the excess, storing it as gravitational potential energy in the summit lake. The pumps draw water from the Tennessee and shoot it straight up the 10-meter-wide shaft at a rate that would fill an Olympic pool in less than 6 seconds. During the day, when demand for electricity peaks, water drains back down the shaft and spins the turbines, generating 1700 megawatts of electricity—the output of a large power plant, enough to power 1 million homes. The lake stores enough water and thus enough energy to do that for 20 hours.
WHEN TVA BUILT Raccoon Mountain in the 1970s, the case for pumped storage was simpler. At the time the agency was also building nuclear reactors, which are designed to run 24/7. Raccoon Mountain could pump at night when electricity was cheap and regenerate during the day when it was expensive. The economic benefit of such “energy arbitrage” was clear and drove the construction of many other pumped storage plants.
Today, with the growth of wind and solar power, the rationale has shifted. Grid operators increasingly need storage to meet their central challenge: balancing electricity supply against fluctuating demand every minute, day, and season. They do that now mostly by adjusting power generation at fossil fuel plants, which can be turned on and off as needed. Wind and solar aren’t “dispatchable” that way; indeed their capricious ebbs and flows aggravate the balancing problem. But stored energy can help match renewable power to demand and allow coal and gas plants to be retired.
https://www.science.org/content/article/how-giant-water-batteries-could-make-green-power-reliable?utm_source=sfmc
” But stored energy can help match renewable power to demand and allow coal and gas plants to be retired.”
People don’t realize how little the stored energy does to balance supply. Our big issue with electricity is a “wrong time of year” problem with electricity, not a “wrong time of day” problem. Pumped storage can help a bit with “wrong time of day,” but it cannot help with “wrong time of year.” It is necessary to keep the fossil fuel system going (including pretty much full staff) to handle the wrong time of year problem.
I use to live in a community on Raccoon Mountain. It’s a great Mountain Bike destination in the SouthEast. Raccoon mountain is an idilic location, but for similar solutions to work you need a mountain, a deep river flowing at the base, and excess power that you can use to pump thousands of tons of water into the lake. The lake at the top is very large and gets filled at night by pumping the water out of the river. During the day the water flows down into the tunnels through huge turbines which generate the electricity. There is a tourist center by the lake. If you ever happen to be in Chattanooga you should check it out. Very scenic and not too many people go there.
theres a similar one at Dinorwic in North Wales UK—just give a few hours boost on demand—its a battery
I don’t live too far from Chattanooga. If we ever get up there at a time when the weather is reasonable, it would be a good place to stop.
Smell the coffee .
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/18/tata-steel-to-shut-down-port-talbot-blast-furnaces-3000-jobs-at-risk
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/second-largest-us-aluminum-plant-132613439.html
These links tell two sad stories. In the first, the only blast furnaces to make steel from “scratch” are being shut down in the UK. The reason is no doubt the lack of cheap materials to keep them operating.
The second link is about yet another aluminum smelting operation (one in Southwest Missouri) being shut down, because electricity prices are too high to make aluminum profitably. The article says,
“The United States had 23 operating plants in 1998. It now has five, including Magnitude 7, with many of the lost smelters dismantled and sites reclaimed.”
Both the UK and US have to depend on imports of many things. These imports may not continue.
When green fantasies hit the brick wall of reality .
https://www.euractiv.com/section/electricity/news/germanys-dream-of-building-a-fleet-of-hydrogen-fired-power-plants-is-faltering/
The proposed hydrogen backup is way too expensive. This section tells why.
I had opined on his election that he would not last an year with his agenda of reforms . There are no volunteers for starvation .
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/01/24/not-one-step-back-national-general-strike-in-argentina-against-mileis-attacks-on-workers/
Fortunately he is not necessary for BAU, otherwise the US wrath would descend on Argentina. Printers would print dollars, each as good as the previous one, the mighty US industrial machine would produce 100,000 shells a day, the diverse military would roll through the land without getting a hair out of place, and Argentina would go the way of Vietnam or Afghanistan.
there aren’t many volunteers for any renunciation these end days
So right up front – and the Fed has been talking about this, though no one listens: The “core services” PCE price index has gotten stuck at 3.5% over the past six months annualized, and accelerated to 4.0% month-to-month annualized in December, with housing inflation stuck at about 6.7% over the past six months annualized, and with other core services components still red-hot.
The core services PCE price index rose by 0.33% in December from November, the second acceleration in a row, according to data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis today. This amounts to an increase of 4.0% annualized (blue).
The six-month moving average, which irons out the huge ups and downs of the month-to-month data, accelerated to 3.5%, and has been in this range since August, after the sharp deceleration in early 2023 (red).
https://wolfstreet.com/2024/01/26/on-the-surface-pce-inflation-is-encouraging-but-beneath-it-core-services-accelerated-housing-stuck-at-5-7-for-six-months/
Excellent! They should be RAISING rates… but they can’t cuz that kills the economy…
Lowering them significantly brings raging inflation
hahahaha…
They. Are. Trapped.
This is 2019… but with no ammo left other than The Pathogen.
Sooooo WEEeeeeeeeeee……
Everyone really would like lower rates. They have already built them into stock prices.
ravi has written previously how financial market prices which inc commodities, interest rates, currencies and stock prices are run whereever the big financial institutions send them, for whatever reason, usually greed.
If true, the financial pages all become as fake as the “news”
Look at bitcoin …
personal criteria: liquidity and safety. Principal risks considered: counterparty solvency and rehypothecation
philosophic perspective: wealth equals inducement to evil and attachment causes suffering
maya
Pavlov’s Human
https://slotmachinebasics.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Why-Do-Some-Slot-Machines-Have-Handles1.jpg
kulm, this one is for you:
We are living our last days of relative freedom, since pretty soon, perhaps as early as 2025, all speech online that does not parrot the official one will be labeled as infodemic (no kidding, it’s a WHO’s concept now) and deleted as harmfull to mental health.
Let’s enjoy these last moments of free speech to shout things that will soon be completely verboten. For example: SCAMDEMIC SCAMDEMIC SCAMDEMIC SCAMDEMIC SCAMDEMIC SCAMDEMIC SCAMDEMIC SCAMDEMIC SCAMDEMIC SCAMDEMIC SCAMDEMIC SCAMDEMIC SCAMDEMIC SCAMDEMIC SCAMDEMIC .
Yep. EU resolution to list ‘hate speech’ as a crime.
https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-votes-on-resolution-to-list-hate-speech-as-a-crime
Oh my… the Vaxxed Zombies have arrived https://t.me/leaklive/17843 https://t.me/leaklive/17847
Payback for the crimes against humanity committed by Britain? hahaha f789em https://t.me/leaklive/17851
absolutely fake https://t.me/leaklive/17855
Ten states send troops in support of Texas.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/governor-greg-abbott-tucker-we-are-prepared-conflict/
fake – orchestrated
A false dialectic could make space for an authoritarian solution. Or maybe Abbott grew some cojones.
Not feeling it with (Zionist) Abbott.
so in 2025 is going to be globalists down, zionists up. Who said that america is a uniparty system? They tried with de sanctis first but he was too obvious. Now the “heroic” Abbot will give the US a closed border and a war with Iran I guess. The globalists were not getting anywhere anyway.
Yeah, they didn’t seem to think that the theater of signing US state bills in a foreign country, twice, might annoy anyone.
Patent election fraud pushes us into (digital) voter ID. Border nonsense will make people cry for the same.
A national digital photographic ID is RFK Jr’s proposed solution to the issues you mention.
Now this is really funny …. watch as laughter turns to horror as she flips over the convulsing body https://t.me/leaklive/17840
I guess if YOLO … why not
NASA Delays Moon Missions Over Technical, Safety Problems
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/nasa-delays-moon-missions-over-technical-safety-problems/7436469.html
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apolloland.html
Of course they have far better computers and other technology back the … they went twice per year back in the day -right????
right????
We do know that NASA binned all the engineering plans… they must regret that now … right????
How surprising!
Clearly it is not important for BAU, otherwise they would go to Jupiter.
Here’s the thing…
Because so many believe this landed on the moon…
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2b/07/e6/2b07e6acd2c53c3a5f8a911121015059.jpg
Explains why people believe just about anything that runs on bbccnn….
If they cannot work out that the pc of sh it … depicted in that image… could never land on the moon … then how in the f789 are they supposed to work out all the other far more complex fakes that cnnbbc presents to them on a daily basis.
It’s hopeless…
They are so f789ing dummmb…
The only reason I bother with this is to taunt them… cuz they think they are so intelligent… it’s fun running the MOREONS around in circles and getting them all worked up
Hey MOREONS – how do you charge those batteries borrowed from you portable drill on Mars in -60C … hahahahahahahahahahhaha
Nobody seems to wanna discuss this … but ya’ll still think the helicopter flitted about on Mars donchya’ll …
My gawd… the scale of imb.ecility is epic
Well, either way…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At3xiYtITHo&pp=ygUPbWFycyBoZWxpY29wdGVy
There is no helicopter on Mars.
norm – do you agree?
When you (if you) return from getting the latest booster… please let us know your thoughts
Has anyone checked on keith? I assume given his advanced age and general weirdness … that he lives on his own … he could have SADS on us …. and his carcass is rotting away as maggots feast on him.
As FE’s Fan Base knows – HE’s been shooting many many rabbits — he has noticed hundreds of maggots crawling on the dead bodies within a few days… HE thought of inviting some Green Grooopies over to gather them up and fry them…
Not many rabbits left on the Goat Ranch… haven’t shot any for a few days now. So much for living off of rabbits when BAU ends…
From Veritasium…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhsZUZmJvaM
In a nutshell, we know in space that heat will build up over infrared venting. On Mars there is a thin atmosphere, so that will help with cooling.
To get around this, two things were needed. CO2 insulation and the batteries must never deplete. Apparently, Aerogel was too heavy, so they used a gas. Most of the charge is used to keep the batteries warm overnight.
Im not saying this proves anything, but it is an answer to the question.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nasas-next-mars-rover-will-carry-a-tiny-helicopter
Covers it in text form.
When faced with being ridiculous … they just make stuff up to try to explain it away.
Obviously this explanation is ridiculous. Anyone who believes this is mentally ill.
hahaha
https://static.tweaktown.com/news/9/5/95809_6515_nasa-officially-announces-its-mars-helicopter-ingenuity-has-died_full.png
Along the same lines, this is where the movie Apollo 13 got it wrong. The film showed the crew nearly freezing to death… but, the opposite should have been happening. Heat builds up in objects in space until an equilibrium is met with infrared radiation.
F.E believes that Laser reflectors magically appeared on the moon!
Time, date and mission number!
Otherwise B/S!
‘I am mentally ill and re-tarded. I am mentally ill and re-tarded. I am mentally ill and re-tarded. I am mentally ill and re-tarded. I am mentally ill and re-tarded. I am mentally ill and re-tarded. I am mentally ill and re-tarded.’
Well you probably are too.
But more than anything you are unbearably petty.
And boring.
And repetitive.
Truth gets tiring… for MOREONS.
I know that.
F.E believes that Laser reflectors magically appeared on the moon!
Time, date and mission number!
Otherwise B/S!
Search for: MIT bounce lasers moon 1962
I did that…
Lasers are brilliant. They can cut things. They can annoy cats. And they can really perk up any sci-fi films with a space bent. But perhaps their greatest quality is their ability to bounce off things. And the finest day in the long and exciting history of lasers bouncing off things occurred in 1962 when a team of earnest young men in slacks from MIT managed to bounce a laser off the moon.
https://www.history.co.uk/this-day-in-history/09-may/mit-successfully-bounce-laser-off-the-moon
I’m not sure what was so special about bouncing a laser off the moon. Doesn’t light bounce off most matter that it comes in contact with it?
Lasers are a special kind of light but they are just that.
I remember them making a big deal about it because the laser back and forth was supposed to allow them to calculate a precise distance between moon and earth. Here’s our friend Tom (“Do the Math”) Murphy on the subject:
https://tmurphy.physics.ucsd.edu/apollo/basics.html
Just skimmed this quickly.. maybe someone else can share what’s happened to these experiments since 2006.
FE, WP is not working for me to put this in the right place.
The mars rover uses 10.6 pounds of plutonium dioxide to make 110 Watts of power continuously.
One of the most interesting things about Ingenuity is that the helicopter will be completely self-reliant for its own energy production, storage, and management as soon as Perseverance drops it onto the Martian surface.
There are three components to its energy system 1) a solar panel providing an energy source, 2) a Lithium-ion battery pack for its energy store, and 3) control electronics to manage all of the energy in the system and the energy within the battery pack.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-deep-dive-its-6-pack-damien-frost/
hahahahahha… sorry wrong again…
Don’t forget Mars is 38% earth gravity but only 1% earth atmosphere … blade speed needs to be 38x as fast to generate sufficient lift or else the blades need to be 38x oversize.
The pictures of Mars’ surface look almost identical to an extremely arid area on on Earth. Given Mars’ decidedly different geological configuration, I was expecting more bizarre looking rocks.
Despite Mars’ much thinner atmosphere it seems that it’s thick enough to block out the stars during the day. And it’s atmosphere seems to be reddish, just like its surface. Must be a lot of Martian dust in the atmosphere, to tint the sky red.
Actually, it’s rust. Rust that’s fine like talcum powder..
BTW – how do you know that this was not just made up by NASA?
Considering the entire mission was imaginary … how hard would that be to do?
Why do you need to deploy solar panels if…
https://kenkremer.blogspot.com/2018/11/nasas-insight-lander-deploys-solar.html
Logic is a thing….
https://kenkremer.blogspot.com/2018/11/nasas-insight-lander-deploys-solar.html
FE, if you look at the picture closely, there are tubings, etc. It does not seem capable of withstanding the acceleration during take off from earth, the journey there and landing. It looks extremely flimsy.
Odd that nobody wants to explain how they charged the helicopter batteries in -60C +++ temps on Mars.
norm .. why don’t you try
Solar power and batteries work on Mars because they have to….Once the profit motive is removed, renewable energy really works.
The entire world would be zero carbon if the renewable energy industry didn’t have to worry about making money. That’s why why the world needs Comm democratic socialism to make the cost solar panels and wind turbines reasonable. Greed and profit makes everything super-expensive.
Profit allows the taxes that are needed to pay for roads and the many things other things that governments provide, including schools.
As long at the US (and other countries) can continue to add debt to pay for renewable energy that really isn’t profitable, citizens can be deluded that it will really work on a larger scale. This is nonsense.
Some people talk about the economy operating on “surplus energy.” I think it operates on energy that is cheap enough to produce that those producing it can sell it at a profit because indirectly it allows other companies to grow. This profit from energy can be taxed to help keep the whole system operating. Traditionally, oil companies have been a bit source of taxes for governments. This is especially the case in oil exporting countries.
Here we have mental illness on display.
New tires every 7,000 miles? Electric cars save gas but tire wear shocks some Florida drivers Miami Herald
BY ASHLEY MIZNAZI UPDATED JANUARY 24, 2024 1:58 PM
https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/climate-change/article284533695.html
It was love at first sight when Neil Semel saw the electric Mercedes EQS 450+ at a Pompano Beach dealership. The sedan was the perfect sleek black color his wife wanted, had only 2,200 miles and they both liked the idea of getting away from gasoline.
“I’ve always driven combustion engines and I thought it was time to try to save the planet,” Semel said.
But after less than 5,000 miles of driving around his Boca Raton neighborhood, Semel was shocked to find some essential — and very expensive — parts were already wearing out. The tires.
“If somebody looked at me and said, Mr. Semel, you are going to love this car but in about 7,000 miles you will have to pay 1,400 or 1,500 dollars to replace the tires, I wouldn’t have bought the car,” Semel said.
For many drivers of EVs in Florida — the nation’s second largest market for electrical vehicles — premature tire wear has become an unexpected black mark on vehicles promoted as a green climate-friendly option to gas-gulping cars.
At EV Garage Miami, a Sweetwater repair shop that services 90 percent electric vehicles, lead technician Jonathan Sanchez said tires are the most frequent thing customers come in about — no matter what model or make of EV they’re driving. Tire mileage can vary widely of course, but he said he frequently changes EV tires at just 8,000 to 10,000 miles — a fourth or even fifth of typical tire wear on a gas-burning car.
But you are saving the planet…it gonna cost money
The heavy EVs wear out the roads faster, too. They should be charged more per mile for taxes for road upkeep than internal combustion engines.
4 times as much damage to the roads per vehicle.
Wow!
“I’ve always driven combustion engines and I thought it was time to try to save the planet,” Semel said.
Hmmm…. seems Florida’s electricity – the stuff this f789ing re tard uses to charge his pc of sh it… comes mostly from fossil fuels..
https://i2.wp.com/www.cfrpc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/electricity_generation_chart.png
Most humans are so stooopid when they are told ‘EVs save the planet’ they don’t question it … if they have $$$ they will do what they are told and buy an EV… haha…
I do enjoy it when they get a fat surprise such as replacing tyres every few months… hahaha….
Or they get stranded out of power in the middle of nowhere hahaha
And best of all when it’s too cold to charge the battery hahaha (cept on Mars of course – batteries work fine there)
And there are the massive repair bills cuz the mechanics can’t easily identify the problem cuz it’s all wiring stuff and they spent many hours trying to work out what is wrong hahahaah
Oh and ya – they pay almost double for the EV version of the real car hahaha
Saving the World!!!!
The thing is … WOM spreads fast… so these realities are intruding on the delusion … when the big bills start piling up they go off EVs and tell everyone … cept the Full Blown Green Grooopies who will no matter how deep the black vortex goes … will never complain…
I absolutely LOVE this sh*t.
Not as good as a Vaxxer dropping with an injury (nothing is as good as that) but this is a close second
SCHHHHHAAAAAD!!! (over an out)
https://nzdsos.com/2024/01/24/who-will-speak-up-for-our-young-people/
https://nzdsos.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-24-at-4.14.14%E2%80%AFPM-1536×906.png
Lots of deaths of young people in New Zealand have taken place suspiciously close to vaccination.
Not overly impressed by the quality of that data – doesn’t feel quite right.
Hahaha… doesn’t feel quite right?
Oh ya… well I know of two 30ish people in our ice hockey league who have vax damage — one has myocarditis – one has lung clots…
I know of at least a dozen other people who have vax injuries who are 25-40… including 3 instructors at the local gym (there would be 12-15 instructors there… all very fit)
What doesn’t feel right — are you suggesting the numbers are far too low????
I am with you brother
eBay is slashing 1,000 roles – 9% of its full-time workforce – as big tech firm bloodbath continues into 2024: Staff will be sacked by zoom TODAY
eBay says headcount and expenses have ‘outpaced the growth of our business’
eCommerce job cuts come amid wider trend of tech layoffs since the pandemic
It comes amid a much wider trend of tech layoffs in the US as customers scale back spending on services and advertising, and providers grapple with inflationary pressure.
Google-parent Alphabet on Friday became the latest tech giant to announce layoffs, saying it will cut 12,000 employees, or about 6 percent of its workforce.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13000469/eBay-slashing-1-000-roles-9-time-workforce-big-tech-firm-bloodbath-continues-2024-Staff-sacked-zoom-TODAY.html
There is a site that gives updated tech layoffs by company that is linked to in this report.
https://layoffs.fyi
It says
“89 tech companies w/ layoffs ∙ 24499 employees laid off ∙ in 2024”
There are graphs, as well.
The data includes non-US lay offs. It looks like layoffs are just beginning to pick up.
Lots of finance layoffs too… hopefully BAU breaks soon.
It sure is a resilient beast
Guess:
Per TM tech would seem to be a discretionary item; almost nothing is made with tech other than say Intel. Google is a search engine with advertising from what I know.
Was at a dance competition in the Cities last evening, guest only. Seemed to me attendance was down, no print programs for sale, and booths had no buyers to speak of.
Dennis L.
Notice on Substack… not a single author identifies oil as the driver of the Extermination.
Naked Emperor is the only one who connects this to oil and the economy… but he does not go far enough and predict extermination as the end game.
What this means is the A-Vaxxers go round and round in circles… oblivious to the fundamental problem.
Huge success for the PR Team… they just keep feeding the A Vaxxers all sorts of nonsense – Great Reset… $$$ — evil — 5G —some stupid stones that mention a cull to 500k… on and on and on — anything but the real story.
This is the goal — confuse the MOREONS… excite them by dumping manure on the highways… etc… keep them away from the truth.
Similarly the financial experts are clueless to this problem so they invent reasons why inflation continues to surge or they predict that it will fall back to normal levels – but when it doesn’t they are befuddled… because they refuse to see that the cause is the end of cheap energy.
There aren’t a whole lot of us who identify inadequate oil per capita as being the driver of the huge problems we are having now. These problems include governments telling us untrue narratives and a shift toward higher death rates in at least some countries. Perhaps those of us who are telling this story have been at it for quite a while, before Substack became popular.
I cannot believe how any human with an IQ above 100 can’t figure this shit out.
We are not talking esoteric metaphysics,…this is common sense and open source for crying out loud.
Its real easy to utterly despise humans when they can’t even figure basics.
I am really hoping Trudeau up here starts pulling real draconian nonsense now that he is being actively mocked by even MSN.
Maybe if Nut-light Canuks get real hungry and real cold we will see full on fireworks.
Civil war in Canukistan would seem ironic given the texas/fed thing down south.
Lets rock
Believe it.
Many on OFW believe this landed on the moon
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2b/07/e6/2b07e6acd2c53c3a5f8a911121015059.jpg
Many believe that a helicopter with a battery borrowed from a ordinary household drill was able to charge in -60C and fly around on Mars…
Rule of thumb… most people believe whatever cnnbbc tells them — no questions asked.
Even “smart” people (especially smart people?) are used to outsourcing thought processes, because if we were challenged to revisit every ‘truism’ day in and day out we would end up paralysed and unable to go forward.
I can “know” all this stuff, but it does nothing but hinder me in my everyday life.
Anyone keen to discuss how the Mars helicopter batteries (same tech as used on a lithium battery used in a power drill) we charged in temps well of -60C or worse
This is a topic of great interest to me… because it proves that the Mars mission was fake…
Anyone want to engage??? Am I missing anything?
Anyone want to engage???
F.E . believes that Laser reflectors magically appeared on the moon!
Time, date and mission number!
Otherwise B/S!
Well done. The first step is acknowledging the problem… Would you like help with your mental illness?
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2b/07/e6/2b07e6acd2c53c3a5f8a911121015059.jpg
F.E . believes that Laser reflectors magically appeared on the moon!
Time, date and mission number!
Otherwise B/S!
He thinks that, if this was necessary for BAU, the mighty USA would have placed reflectors on the Moon. They would have put the mighty, diverse NASA on the problem and pronto! The US is the mightiest something in human history. Biden also said so.
bush senior also said the american way of life was non negotiable
at the time, he meant it
the don is saying the same thing—folks still believe it.
Postkey, please forgive my playing Devil’s avocado, but how do you know that there are laser reflectors on the moon?
Have you seen these reflectors with your own eyes?
Have you personally bounced any laser beams off them and received anything back?
And if you can prove that the reflectors do exist, how can you prove they were installed by the Apollo crews as opposed to being put in place by unmanned missions?
Are you relying on the veracity of NASA and its associates—the same sources who you are relying on to tell you the truth about the moon landings?
This is your chance to hit one out of the stadium and trounce FE’s Moon Faker theory definitively.
He knows cuz mentally ill people invent stuff…. like imaginary friends
The tech has been lost…
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2b/07/e6/2b07e6acd2c53c3a5f8a911121015059.jpg
https://tritorch.com/degradation/!!!VariousNurseWhistleblowersTheyAreKillingPeopleWithTheShot.mp4
The link has a whole lot of different issues discussed.
The first one I saw was