and, what to say about the blithering hypocrisy of somebody like joe biden, who is more responsible for these types of deaths than almost anybody else still alive and still working in washington?

not much.

not much at all.

what a surreal joke.

please don't get confused - please don't let them confuse you.

hate the police force and the politicians that enable them, don't hate derek chauvin for doing what he was trained to do.

so, we can lynch derek chauvin if you want, if it makes you feel better.

and, we can lynch the next one.

and the next one.

but, it's a stupid way to approach a complex issue that solves nothing and just entrenches divisions.

and, the bankers are laughing at you for it.

a systemic analysis and a reorganization of the police force, with a specific focus on training, would be far more useful than punishing the automaton for doing what he was taught.

and, what we're seeing in the reaction is a classic, textbook fail on the fake left - they blame a bad actor and seek retribution, rather than acknowledging that the problem is systemic and addressing root causes.

blood lust isn't healthy, especially in context because, as stupid as it was, it was clearly unintentional.

to be clear: he should have been convicted of involuntary manslaughter, yes. he killed a man due to his stupidity. but, the sentence should not be severe, and i would expect it won't be.

so, are you going to televise the execution of derek chauvin?

ok, so i got through the contents of the second drive and ultimately put it away for now as an extraneous backup. i have something like ten snapshots of a 300 gb drive scattered across a dozen different types of media, some local and some not. this is partly why i'm convinced i probably haven't lost anything - it would just be hard to delete everything. and, if i catch them...

i haven't effectively caught them yet, though - i don't have that smoking gun.

but, that means i need to put it all together, now.

the other thing i spent the night doing was a takeout snapshot, and i'll have to consolidate that, as well.

while i still have a few external drives to sort through, that means i've gotten most of what i wanted to pull down off the internet for archiving and have gone through a couple of the external drives. another day or two and i'll be focused strictly on local filing, and then i think it'll pick up a lot.

the russians don't want to fight us. really.

but, we don't give them a fucking choice. we really don't...

the chinese, on the other hand, no doubt already have an invasion plan written.

but, this is how empires always fall, isn't it?

ugh.

ukraine is clearly a failed state. it has no real national identity, and it's reason to exist is rather dubious. so long as it's sitting there, it's going to be a battleground.

if i was in russia, i'd be half tempted to manufacture a polish separatist movement on the other side of the country, just to split the thing in half. they'd be writing off some of the wealthier parts of the country, at least for now, but they'd be destabilizing the poles while they were at it, and that might be a net benefit in the long run.

this methodical cat-and-mouse type game they're playing is very russian - very careful, very chess-like. it's how they do it. it's the long game; they sit and wait for america to make mistakes, then react to them. and, we all know america is prone to making mistakes.

but, what happened in 2014 is evidence that there's a major flaw in this approach, namely that it's vulnerable to a sneak attack. if the americans wanted to, they could undo a decade worth of careful reconstruction in a week, like a bull in a china shop. and, all evidence suggests they very well might.

that said, the russians are expanding at the minute because they've calculated that they can - that biden is weak, or senile, or distracted or maybe even just flat out stupid. but, they're doing this because they think they can get away with it, which is dangerous - because they might be wrong.

there's going to be a hot war there sooner or later if things carry on as they are.

they're at least realizing that they have a chance to move, right now. and, i think they should cause some shit in poland and get some kind of normal boundaries back in order.

...because the idea that germany is going to get it's leibensraum as it expands into eastern europe in the 21st century is absurd. it's not sustainable. and, the sooner we re-establish a normal border between slavs and germans, the less likely it is that a major war develops.

and, it's just a reminder, as i'm compiling a list of minerals to check for, that they already checked me for everything, and it all came back fine.

- my sodium's fine, if a tad lowish (138 mmol/L). i don't eat a lot of processed food.

- i can absorb magnesium, and it's at the high end of normal (.93 mmol/L)

- the phosphates are at the high end of normal (1.42 mmol/L)

- chlorine is in the middle of the range (102 mmol/L)

- potassium is at the high end of normal (4.5 mmol/L)

- calcium is at the high end of normal (2.4 mmol/L)

so, i can clearly absorb everything else.

i should be getting 25-30 mg of iron a day, meaning i should at the least be able to absorb around 1 mg, which should be more than enough. but i'm not. why not?

what's left to check for is:

- good metals: zinc, chromium, molybdenum, copper, nickel, manganese

- selenium & iodine

- bad metals: mercury, arsenic, lead, aluminum, cadmium

i'm curious about zinc. if i come back zinc + iron deficient only, it might suggest too much calcium. 

i also need to check for vitamins a, b1, b2, b3, b5, b6, b7, c, e & k, as well as for choline & betaine.

i need to ask for a reticulocyte count. this, if i understand correctly, should rule out bleeding once and for all.

i need to ask about the shoulder/spleen thing, though. it's still sore.

and, i haven't brought the hepcidin thing up, yet, either.

see, i think this is what's wrong, but i don't know how to test for it...

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/04/a-genetic-cause-for-iron-deficiency/

today's post is the covers disc, inri032.

i can't sell this, but i don't want to pay to have it available, so it's up for $1. but, these are largely only covers or remixes in name, and i consider this an integral part of my lp sequence.

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something that happened in the late 90s, when fans of bands started getting together and talking on the internet, was the phenomena of the unauthorized remix. schemes were hatched all over the internet to create remix records, tribute discs, fan collaborations and whatnot. in hindsight, given what the internet turned into, it was actually a refreshingly productive use of networking. 

different artists have reacted in different ways. i got yelled at by the now deceased singer of god lives underwater for one of these. trent reznor, on the other hand, eventually went so far as to set up a competition (which i didn't take part in, as i'd moved beyond the idea by that point). 

once i'd put a few remixes/recreations together, and received more positive feedback doing it than with any of my own songs, i began to realize that if i could get somebody's attention then i could construct myself a launching pad. it seems like that's what a lot of people were thinking; it didn't work out, but i did end up with a number of remixes. 

unfortunately, i've lost a lot of them. about a third of them ended up on a cd-r i threw together at the end of 1999. a third just sat on my hard drive, and a third disappeared into the internet. i'm putting them all together here under the title of the 1999 release, 'inrimake'. the initial release ended after "the day inri messed the world up"; the last four songs are 'bonus tracks'. i've further split off the first two tracks to a standalone ep, liquify (inri32) (jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/liquify), partially because they never fit here properly and partially because it pares the augmented version down to under 80 minutes. 

now, i should point out that i was very much going for the *abstract* remix sound rather than the club-friendly mix. you can't really dance to these. you're not supposed to. you're supposed to blare them through headphones and trip out into them. 

in terms of my own work, this record very much extends a bridge from the inri period into the deny everything period, to the extent that it arguably realizes the goals of both phases better than either phase does. 

this record may be released physically, one day, should the proper legal issues be resolved. right now, i'm only making it available as an almost-free download. 

recorded sporadically, and without cohesive intent, over '98 and '99. originally compiled in the fall of '99. augmented and minimally altered in january, 2014. released on jan 3, 2014. finalized as lp006 on sept 21, 2017. as always, please use headphones - but note that they are especially mandatory for this recording. 

this release will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (1998, 1999, 2013, 2014, 2017). 

released october 15, 1999 

j - guitars, effects, bass, synths, drum programming, digital wave editing, cool edit synthesis, sampling, sequencers, loops, text-to-speech synthesis, remixes, reconstructions, reinterpretations

so, am i getting vaccinated?

not now, no.

https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/current-covid-vaccines-could-be-ineffective-by-nex

this is essentially a half-hour rant by michael hudson, but it's worth listening to.

my only comment is to remind people that the united states entered world war two to stop the russians from cleaning up, and not to stop the germans from taking over the world. it was a race to berlin.

...and, because he's not just an incompetent clown but also an arrogant one, he will insist he knew better than all of the scientists and all of the reports and all of the evidence, until the day that he dies.

or, at least, until the day he loses an election.