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umbrarchist

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  1. How many times has Trump violated the Constitution that the military swore to defend? Dereliction of Duty! .
  2. The incompetent handling of this Global Warming crap will affect the planet for more than 1000 years. The next critical issue is methane from the tundra not sea level rise. .
  3. I selected a deadline for the US military to take him out. That was March 1st 2025. Since they failed they are now guilty of "Dereliction of Duty". So I need a new deadline. I am not sure AmeriKKKa can survive a year of this so I pick Jan 2, 2026. . I don't know how this thing started centering my text.
  4. How many "Ghost Cities" have been built in the United States? .
  5. I do not really care about the government of China. The economic situation that they have created with their real estate overbuilding and the banks may help wreck the government. .
  6. I am shocked! Not everyone is blocking me on BlueSky. https://chevan.info/depreciation-rules-transfer-wealth-up/
  7. Russia is Crumbling internally in its failure to deal with Ukraine. China has internal economic problems because of their insanely corrupt real estate bubble. Supposedly Xi just fell from power so their internal politics may not be in order. This could have been a good time for the US if we did not have a brainless fool in power. .
  8. It is understandable. At some level in his pea brain it has to gall him to be reminded of better men than himself. 🤣 Did this happen on Juneteenth?
  9. The Laws of Physics work the way they work regardless of people caring or believing. If PO is happening that means unnecessary manufacturing and shipping resulting in more CO2. So talking about sustainability without addressing planned obsolescence is nonsense. The times they been a'changin'. Johnny Harris Economics 1950s
  10. How much have Americans lost on the depreciation of automobiles since Sputnik because auto makers produce useless variations in cars? There is a concept called a Bathtub Curve. It graphs the durability and reliability of some device. The potential buyer does not need to know how the device works. But producing lots of unreliable junk increases GDP for our glorious economists.
  11. We can all live without fine cuisine. How much technology can most Black Americans live without today? And many companies are deliberately making garbage so it impacts economics. I never saw the word benchmark when I was at IBM. I had to write my own. Boy was I in for a surprise. .
  12. The momentum of history is a bitch! I would have been opposing the Zionist on what was happening in Gaza long before this. Someone on BlueSky was calling me anti-Semitic for using the term ZioNAZI. But I have no idea of the actual state of Iran's nuclear program. Contradictory bullshit from people with axes to grind. But the Stable Genius in the White House will no doubt handle things properly with his usual competence. .
  13. I pay more attention to books than movies and many are "just entertainment". But movies can be more than entertainment also. I do not consider "The Matrix" to be Just Entertainment. I have thought "Should I watch Black Panther just so I can talk to other people about it and probably disagree?" Black Americans lack of interest in understanding technology bugs me. Just watching clips of the movie demonstrates that, for that society to work a lot of Black people not in the forefront would Have to Know Technology. But that does not seem to matter to the audience. .
  14. I still haven't seen Black Panther. I have avoided what I call Comic Book Movies for decades. And I like technological realism in my science fiction.
  15. I just found this: "Curiouser & Curiouser", said Alice So this thread is from Trump's first term and he had not been allowed to go totally crazy. Now we got a whole nother level of crazy and the Racism is Off the Leash. It is difficult to for me to understand why I find this shit so funny. Planned Obsolescence with economists ignoring depreciation is just high technology slavery to me and the slave masters are too dumb to figure it out.
  16. As opposed to Pope Paul! .
  17. I guess we have different concepts of "innovative".
  18. Apparently we have been observing different things. https://rubryka.com/en/article/war-tech-in-ukraine/ The problem is that science/technology creates a positive feedback loop. Technology made it possible for Whites to steal vast amounts of land. That land contained resources that might have been useless at the time but could be extremely useful decades later when some unknown technology was developed. In 1960 the LASER was called "a solution looking for a problem". The technology does not care!
  19. Pope Ball It's the End of the World!!! 🤣😂🤣 .
  20. I just discovered a YouTube channel that I have never seen before. It is one year old, so not brand new but relatively new. I noticed this because I remember the first time I encountered mention of VANADIUM. I was in my twenties in a store specializing in tools and I was buying a set of tools for my first car. I thought it was a cool sounding name. The first mass commercial use for Vanadium was the Ford Model-T. This fits into my fixation on technology. It is not White people who matter in history. It is the people who had relatively advanced technology when everybody else didn't. On this planet they happened to be White. Look at what Ukrainians are doing to Russians with technology. With some outside assistance but they seem to be doing some innovating. But Vanadium, 1905! .
  21. Poor Baby! How can anybody be so egotistically moronic? Then the Repugnacans go along with so much of his crap. I am in the country and it is still laughable. 🤣😂🤣
  22. Anonymous emailers and on what charge? Asking the military a question? And they could be sent to all US military bases.
  23. A strong protest! Curioser & Curiouser but not Surprising! Minnesota Assassination MAGA Trump MAGA All of these No King protests everywhere and no word about violence yet. One guy in Minnesota & Two Deaths! Is ICE on the case? Maybe it was an immigrant. Must be, Only immigrants do that. Any MAGA Immigrants loose in Minnesota? .
  24. Happy Obama Appreciation Day! DJT is an insanely stupid liar saying things that no one with two working brain cells would believe. I wonder what would happen if we bombarded the Pentagon with e-mails asking a question: At what point does the US military doing nothing about a "Domestic Enemy" constitute: "Dereliction of Duty"? .
  25. Daemon & Freedom by Daniel Suarez https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel) Forgot to mention that. Different from Two Faces of Tomorrow in that rather than being an emergent AI it is a deliberate creation with a specific objective in mind. Somewhat reminiscent of Ready Player One but more serious with deep social implications. I consider it to be a single story across two books rather than the second book being a sequel.

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