the primary obstacle in dealing properly with iran is how useless and feeble the arabs are.

iran is predictably interpreting restraint as weakness and has begun bombing arab countries to try to extract concessions. they don't even seem to care about standing up for themselves or protecting their people.

it's a consequence of the fact that these aren't countries, they're criminal fiefdoms. saudi arabia is just a criminal entity run by a mob family, it's not a nation state, but it's the closest thing to one. what is a citizen of the united arab emirates even called? a slave?

they're just trying to maximize profit.

i've been pointing out that the us will never get anywhere threatening iran, because they don't give a fuck. iran will never get anywhere bombing the arabs, either, because they're even worse.

the problem with the americans completely withdrawing is that iran potentially gains resources if it succeeds in stealing territory from arab countries, and the arabs don't care about the financial consequences enough to even bother fighting them for it. that then becomes a bigger headache than exists now.

i don't want to see endless go nowhere skirmishes but i agree with netanyahu - regime change is imperative and needs to be done sooner than later. putting this off will not avert the inevitability of a real war, it will solidify it. it's mismanagement on an epic scale.

you can get rid of them now or wait until they're stronger and do it later when they're threatening us more directly. believing otherwise is simply appeasement and repeating the mistake of neville chamberlain. fascist regimes like iran do not coexist peacefully with the countries around them; they need to be destroyed one way or another.

my perception of mice personality and behaviour is essentially solely formed by watched too much fraggle rock as a child.

 in fact, it's probably a pretty accurate description of mouse society. but, when i talk about and think about mice, i'm actually imagining fraggles, every time.

rupaul's first task as secretary of fashion ought to be to give vance a makeover, starting with washing off that hideous pile of shit on his face.

given that trump's cabinet meetings are now going to officially be sausage parties

(detour: google presents the following when i google sausage party, which i did because i wasn't sure if it was currently used slang, and it may not be:

Shrinking and Doming: As heat cooks the patty, water evaporates and the proteins contract, causing the diameter of the sausage patty to shrink and the center to puff up or "dome" (which is why chefs often press a small dimple into the center before cooking so it stays flat). 

indeed.), 

i would suggest that he give a call to his old friend rupaul and install him (which is correct. rupaul is a drag queen. he wouldn't not identify as female. he's a gay man.) as secretary of fashion.

that's what this administration really needs.

out with the gay allusions, in with the really existing gay.

no trace of anything. not the new dodge scat. not a whisker. not a paw print. nothing. not even a squeak.

i didn't hear it yesterday morning, either. instead, i heard it squeaking as it was trying to get back in from behind the steps, after i turned the music on, like a meowing cat maneuvering it's way towards you after you've been gone a day or two. 

it stopped under the landing (in the wall) to squeak hello at me before it went back up into the vents to sing. 

you know what i say about cats, right?

they've been miscategorized. their true phylogenetic, cladistic category is RODENTIA.

but tonight it's the mouse that sounds like the cat.

i don't want a pet. i want it to run free. go outside and get some acorns in ya before it's too late.

or maybe the mouse was just trying to tell me that disintegration is the best album of all time, which is not a completely true statement, although it is up there, certainly.

this is the forecast for nov 13-20th in windsor, on (detroit. mi)

it might get close to 0 for the next few overnights as the "polar air" falls. this is the wimpiest polar vortex in the history of polar vortices. we're not even going to see a frost, let alone a freeze.

but then it's going to rebound back to 15ish with overnights around 10 - in late november. it's been an incremental decrease from summer to fall, but no crash towards winter yet.

i wouldn't get to planting pineapples here yet but if this lasts much longer some serious questions about growing season are going to have to come up, and i'm going to be in favour of tearing down these stupid manufacturing centres and going back to the land instead.

if i'm lucky, the aluminum will act as a faraday cage - which is the scientific term for a tinfoil hat - as well, and keep electrical signals from getting in or out.

it's time consuming but highly recommended if you like it very warm all year round. if this was my mansion instead of the basement in a mansion that i'm renting, and i had it on the top floor instead of the bottom, it would dramatically reduce heating costs.

the heat's been coming on at night and it's certainly chased the mouse out at night, but it will come back if i turn the music on, like some kind of reverse pied piper effect.

i'm not sure where it is. it may have gone into the furnace room, which is where i want it to go, or it might have found a way into the wall underneath the stairs going upstairs. it might have died in the vent.

do mice go out the same way they came in? if so, it might explain why i think it's around the stairs going upstairs.

there is actually food for it to eat upstairs, people that sleep at night and less intense heat. if the first two don't convince it to go, the third probably will, as it probably came down here for the temperature in the first place. the aluminum is keeping the heat in here, without question. i have my little electric heater set to 90 and it's barely even on. i've had my electronic calendar produce readings as high as 34 C/93 F although it's tending to set closer to 31/32 C. the temperature upstairs is now set to 75 F after they asked me to turn it up (it was at 72 F, then 73 F). so, it's 10-15 degree temperature difference, as a result of the aluminum and cardboard on the ceiling.

this is what i wanted, as the heat generated from the basement last year wouldn't stay down here, it would just lift and dissipate immediately.

1) there was a gigantic hole in the gap between the basement and the upstairs. we saw some very cold overnights last year. it was frigid as fuck in the furnace room (where the venting actually is) because the heat just escaped to outside. i filled that with concrete and pink insulation and covered over it with cardboard.

2) there was no insulation on the outside of the unit or between the floors, so none of the heat would stay in here. i've put the cardboard and aluminum up on the floors to address that and keep the heat in.

3) there's no windows on the main floor. windsor has a serious problem with home invasions as a result of the large number of drug addicts on the streets. somebody at some point sealed the windows shut to keep the junkies from breaking in and stealing things. the landlord has indicated he's going to open those up in the spring and it will help them get some air in there.

what was happening is that the heat was rising up from the basement and sitting in the main floor, or going out the hole in the basement, and every time i tried to turn it up to compensate, they'd complain it was too hot. i ended up having to crank the oven because it was the only way to generate a constant heat source, and the landlord ended up putting a lock on the thermostat to stop them from turning it down to 10 C or lower.

now, the opposite thing is happening - the heat being generated downstairs is staying downstairs and they're complaining they're cold. well, it's set way higher than it was before because now they're cold, and i'm not cold - i'm sitting buck naked in tropical 30 degree heat and about to get into a nice hot sauna shower.

mwa ha ha ha ha.

bwaaaaaaaaa ha ha ha ha.

i had a friend when i was a kid that used to incessantly compare me to a bond villain because i always explained my evil plans during parties and it tended to have a habit of being my undoing.

i'm going to take a look around for the mouse before i get in the shower, but i think it's actually out looking for it's best friend, who never came home. what do you do when your best friend doesn't come for the night? you go looking for them, to start. the surviving mouse doesn't necessarily understand that the other mouse is dead or know that i killed it, right? it won't get a call from police or see a report on the news about it. there's nowhere to file a missing mouse report.

i think it's scurrying through the walls in a search and rescue operation, based on my limited observations.

i'm hoping it finds somewhere more conducive to it's existence so i don't have to kill it. whether it was singing out of grief and sadness or because it liked the songs, i will never know and will never unhear, and i may never get over it.

i want to keep 15 on the go at all times and i'm going to be sitting in here building the youtube list so let me get five more in:

antonio carlos jobim - stone flower (1970) $🌎
billy cobham - spectrum (1973) $€
claude debussy - la mer / nocturnes (1905/1900) €
do make say think - winter hymn secret hymn country hymn (2003) 🍁
gustav holst - the planets / ralph vaughn williams - tallis fantasia (1918/1919) €
====
i mother earth - scenery and fish (1996) 🍁
man or astroman? - experiment zero (1996) $
mike oldfield - ommadawn (1975) €
ministry - the mind is a terrible thing to taste (1989) $
my blood valentine - loveless (1991) €
====
pelican - city of echoes (2007) $
pink floyd - the piper at the gates of dawn (1967) €
pink floyd - atom heart mother (1970) €
pink floyd - meddle (1972) €
plateau - iceolator (2002) 🍁
======
sister machine gun - metropolis (1997) $
skinny puppy - cleanse, fold and manipulate (1987) 🍁
sonic youth - sister (1987) $
spiral beach - ball (2007) 🍁
ssris - effeminate godzilla-sized windchimes (2010) 🍁
============
swans - omniscience (1992) $
talking heads - remain in light (1980) $
the black heart procession - 2 (1999) $
the chicago underground - flamethrower (2000) $
the cure - disintegration (1989) €
=========================
the grassy knoll - III (1998) $ <---- current start point
the mars volta - tremulant (2002) $🌎
the mars volta - deloused in the comatorium (2003) $🌎
the mars volta - frances the mute (2005) $🌎
the mars volta - amputechture (2006) $🌎 <---current end point
============
the offspring - ignition (1992) $
the smashing pumpkins - gish (1991) $
the smashing pumpkins - lull cd ep (1991) $
the smashing pumpkins - cherub rock cd single (1993) $
the smashing pumpkins - pisces iscariot (1994) $
================================
the smashing pumpkins - adore (1998) $
quest for fire (2009) 🍁
pelican - australasia (2003) $
hot hot heat - future breeds (2010) 🍁
mike keneally and the metropole orchestra - the universe will provide (2004) $€
========================
i mother earth - dig (1993) 🍁
i mother earth - earth, sky and everything in between (2001) 🍁
coil - musick to play in the dark vol 1 (1999) €
coil - musick to play in the dark vol 2 (2000) €
cevin key - music for cats (1997) 🍁

🍁 cancon
€ europe
$ united states
🦘australia
¥ east asia
🌎 south america (latin american)
✡ jewish
☪ mena
ॐ india

those are just the first ten 15 20 25 30 40 45 cds out of the boxes. i'll be updating in groups of five as they come out and onto the shelves (i have a five disc cd/dvd-a player in the listening room).

(skipping for now, will come back)

music lists for existing cds (rebuilds): chronological: https://deathtokoalas.blogspot.com/p/chronological-music-list.html
labels: https://deathtokoalas.blogspot.com/p/label-list.html
alphabetical: https://deathtokoalas.blogspot.com/p/music-list.html
discogs (first 100): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nNhi2Z4vRr0hEP5OiK-6xxZP1G_b9OBW/view
librarything (first 20): https://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=dgdgkdhldfjlfdhla&collection=1082249&shelf=list&sort=authorunflip&sort=authorunflip
youtube media collections (scroll down): https://www.youtube.com/@dkdghfhjfdhfchlfa

the music web - starting with miles davis - is going to have a new page at the deathtokoalas blog. the point is that i want to use the timeline feature so i'll be taking everything out of lists. i might instead design a new blog for it.

i am extremely disturbed by rfk's continued insistence on trying to turn veterans into drug addicted vegetables. he doesn't seem to support eating vegetables, he just supports trying to turn veterans into them.

if trump wants to get rid of one particularly retarded idiot in his administration, rfk should be his primary target, and i hope there are legal methods in the united states to prevent the dissemination of these dangerous drugs to vulnerable people, already suffering from mental health conditions, which mind altering drugs are going to exacerbate and make worse. 

the cause of the polar vortex is the difference in temperatures between the poles and the equator. the vortex has been unable to form this year due to the difference not ramping up as it usually does when the polar night takes effect, due to the dramatically increased greenhouse effect trapping heat into the upper atmosphere. this inability for the vortex to strengthen has led to some "polar air" falling south, but that "polar air" is not very cold due to the increased greenhouse effect. it is not reducing temperatures here substantively.

the out of date models, which have not been updated to adjust for the reality of an already substantively altered climate, are continuing to rely on out of date science to make projections. they can be expected to consistently be wrong by a factor and that factor will continue to increase until they update it to account for the already warmed planet. in fact, that factor will increase exponentially.

the polar models are not accounting for an increased greenhouse effect being particularly and increasingly strong at the poles. for that reason, they will continue to exaggerate the effect of polar vortex weakening and continue to overshoot cold snaps. the clickbait weather forecasters will not make adjustments and will instead continue to profit off of disseminating mass ignorance.

there is a very short remaining time window for a vortex to form before the sun returns and it will continue to rely on the size of temperature differences between the equator and the poles.  

there was a last minute change n the forecast to suggest the possibility of frost here this weekend, but they revised it back to above freezing at the last second and it doesn't look like the actual reading is going to get much lower than 3 or 4 C.

it's very late in the season here to have avoided even a single frost overnight and the temperature really hasn't even undergone it's yearly crash yet. we have had a few moderately cool dips but we have not seen sustained daytime highs below 15 C yet.

i admit i don't pay much attention to male culture, and especially online. i don't really know what the "manosphere" is.

it sounds pretty gay, though.

is the manosphere the layer of the atmosphere where it's raining men?

if vance does run, he could make history as being the first openly gay / openly perverted candidate for president.

trump should reassign vance to hand out condoms at gay bars.

next five cds:

antonio carlos jobim - stone flower (1970) $🌎
billy cobham - spectrum (1973) $€
claude debussy - la mer / nocturnes (1905/1900) €
do make say think - winter hymn secret hymn country hymn (2003) 🍁
gustav holst - the planets / ralph vaughn williams - tallis fantasia (1918/1919) €
====
i mother earth - scenery and fish (1996) 🍁
man or astroman? - experiment zero (1996) $
mike oldfield - ommadawn (1975) €
ministry - the mind is a terrible thing to taste (1989) $
my blood valentine - loveless (1991) €
====
pelican - city of echoes (2007) $
pink floyd - the piper at the gates of dawn (1967) €
pink floyd - atom heart mother (1970) €
pink floyd - meddle (1972) €
plateau - iceolator (2002) 🍁
======
sister machine gun - metropolis (1997) $
skinny puppy - cleanse, fold and manipulate (1987) 🍁
sonic youth - sister (1987) $
spiral beach - ball (2007) 🍁
ssris - effeminate godzilla-sized windchimes (2010) 🍁
============
swans - omniscience (1992) $
talking heads - remain in light (1980) $
the black heart procession - 2 (1999) $
the chicago underground - flamethrower (2000) $ <---- current start point
the cure - disintegration (1989) €
=========================
the grassy knoll - III (1998) $
the mars volta - tremulant (2002) $
the mars volta - deloused in the comatorium (2003) $ <---current end point
the mars volta - frances the mute (2005) $
the mars volta - amputechture (2006) $
============
the offspring - ignition (1992) $
the smashing pumpkins - gish (1991) $
the smashing pumpkins - lull cd ep (1991) $
the smashing pumpkins - cherub rock cd single (1993) $
the smashing pumpkins - pisces iscariot (1994) $
================================
the smashing pumpkins - adore (1998) $
quest for fire (2009) 🍁
pelican - australsia (2003) $
hot hot heat - future breeds (2010) 🍁
mike keneally and the metropole orchestra - the universe will provide (2004) $€

🍁 cancon
€ europe
$ united states
🦘australia
¥ east asia
🌎 south america (latin american)
✡ jewish
☪ mena
ॐ india

those are just the first ten 15 20 25 30 40 cds out of the boxes. i'll be updating in groups of five as they come out and onto the shelves (i have a five disc cd/dvd player in the listening room).

(skipping for now, will come back)

music lists for existing cds (rebuilds): chronological: https://deathtokoalas.blogspot.com/p/chronological-music-list.html
labels: https://deathtokoalas.blogspot.com/p/label-list.html
alphabetical: https://deathtokoalas.blogspot.com/p/music-list.html
discogs (first 100): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nNhi2Z4vRr0hEP5OiK-6xxZP1G_b9OBW/view
librarything (first 20): https://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=dgdgkdhldfjlfdhla&collection=1082249&shelf=list&sort=authorunflip&sort=authorunflip
youtube media collections (scroll down): https://www.youtube.com/@dkdghfhjfdhfchlfa

the music web - starting with miles davis - is going to have a new page at the deathtokoalas blog. the point is that i want to use the timeline feature so it's likely to lose the scrolling aspect. or i might design a new blog for it.

i haven't heard any squeaking since last night, but i've had the music off. i'm realizing that much of the squeaking is in response to the music, which are the happy squeaks. it legitimately really likes the tunes. maybe it's helping distract it. 

what am i doing besides remnant cleaning and rambling here?

this is my music fan / music review youtube site, the account of which will be connected to the pi:

https://www.youtube.com/user/dkdghfhjfdhfchlfa

you can't open it in it's own tab anymore. don't go facebook on me, youtube. but if you scroll down, there's a section called "media collections".

i'm going to fill these five lists in first, before swinging back to the cataloging. i want to do it that way so i can listen through it on the kitchen chromebook when i'm eating.

the koala oversight committee (not yet on the side) will be updated soon too but i'm waiting until i can order more ram n the new year if i have to. but i might actually have some, too. i just don't want to take it apart until i can order it if i need to.

the cd, tape and vinyl lists will completely fill in over the next few days. i will post them here when they're done.

i actually wonder if this flappy-lipped and ill advised comment from trump might have hurt him at the polls, in terms of depressing evangelical turnout.

https://www.npr.org/2026/11/09/nx-s1-6029320/us-trump-israel-military-aid

ugh.

as mentioned, this is a well documented consequence of climate change. climate science saw this coming decades ago, although it wasn't supposed to happen for years.

further, there is no "battle" between the polar vortex and the warm oceans this time of year. that happens in the spring. at this time of year, the el nino event actually mildly amplified the weakening vortex. 

the weakening vortex means less cold air, not more cold air.

further, the temperatures are warm (at least where i am) due to warm water in the atlantic creating a high pressure system, and not due to el nino.

regarding the forecast, there is little reason to think the vortex is going to restrengthen at this time of year given that we're getting close to the solstice, which is when it starts breaking up. there is still not a large enough temperature difference for the vortex to strengthen.

the vortex may actually reverse a second time and a third time, without strengthening and without creating a concentration of cold air to spill out. that's what we would expect to see on a planet undergoing a runaway greenhouse effect.

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weather/forecasts/polar-vortex-is-on-the-brink-of-a-historic-reversal-what-now-canada

a quarter of the way through the 21st century, and after having successfully resisted it during the 20th century, canada suddenly finds itself a major victim of the fallacy of supply side economics.

the argument that the government and the unions are making is that canada excels at supplying obsolete car components, like the kind in the dodge scat. but the economy is driven by demand and not by supply.

canada will need to adapt to shifts in demand to change how it manufactures car components or the industry will die. 

there appears to be a second mouse in the wall. it was initially very quiet before it started chirping in ways i've never heard before - almost singing. i suspect it was mourning the loss of it's friend, calling for it, and freaking out when it didn't come back.

this is very challenging for me. i'm not an animist, but i think animism is closer to the truth than the garbage adam of eve story. i'm an animist ally, an animist sympathizer. it's a much more intelligent religious position than humanocentric judaism/christianity/islam, that argues humans are different because god made them, and made the rest of the earth to serve us. the latter is a damaging, dangerous, stupid belief that needs to be eradicated in favour of a return to a more holistic concept of coexistence.

i'm not a transmigrationist. i don't believe in souls, let alone in reincarnation. however, it's a much more profoundly scientific observation to recognize that most animals - and all mammals - have minds than it is to just look down on them as dumb and inferior.

i haven't seen any more droppings yet and will react to whether i do. i'm still hoping it just goes back upstairs. but i'd swear that dead spider i found this morning was left to me as an offering, if i didn't know any better. do i really know better?

for all the talk of mouse intelligence, let me point this out - if you think human stupidity is a daunting challenge, consider how much more difficult mouse stupidity must be. 

stupidity seems to be an evolutionary corollary of intelligence.

temporary workers that are here legally should be allowed to apply for citizenship like everybody else. in fact, it should help them in the application process. whether they are granted citizenship or not should depend on whether they meet general qualifications for it.

however, that number should not be appended to the existing numbers, it should be presented as a replacement for other prerogatives, to keep the total number in line with previous targets.

the liberal budget wants to provide a pathway for 200,000 temporary residents to obtain permanent status.

i'm not opposed to that, exactly. canada's immigration system is very different than the american system; these workers have legal protections, that ensure they get minimum wages and minimum benefits. the system could be improved, but the temporary nature of the status is kind of at the root of the problem.

however, i would suggest that the number of new immigrants should consequently be reduced by the amount so that the target remains around 400,000 rather than jumping to over 600,000. that 400,000 is at about replacement (i would still like to see moderate degrowth) and should be a hard limit in which adjustments are made within and not a soft limit that adjustments are made around.

10 years ago, ontario was actually very well positioned to adjust to these upgrades in manufacturing technology, but instead of building on that and leading the way, ford cancelled everything in an attempt to stop time and reverse progress. today, we see the effects of almost ten years of immense mismanagement and incompetence by the ford government - instead of leading the way into the carbon transition, ontario is being left behind by it and yelling and crying and stamping it's feet about it, and the world doesn't give a fuck, it's moving on without us.

that's the choice we made - we voted to stop time, and the clock just kept ticking without us. now we're being cut out for it.

we shouldn't have done that, huh?

there are consequence for behaviours, and ontario will need to suffer for it's mistakes. hopefully, a little bit of pain will get rid of the idiot in queen's park that is directly responsible for the job losses and bring in somebody that wants to plan for the future rather than bring back the past.

doug ford does not speak for anybody except his ass. he's a retard. this is a transparent attempt to blame the issue on clean energy, which is the kind of specious idiocy he's been running on for years.

while it's not likely that roshel is going to make evs at all (they make military hardware), i am not opposed to upgrading canada's manufacturing capacity to modern production methods. 

the industry can adapt or die. doug ford would rather die than adapt, because he's abjectly retarded. 

the old manufacturing models are obsolete and will die. you can die with them or you can adjust. up to you.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/autos/article/ford-letter-to-pm-chinese-ev-kits-must-not-be-assembled-at-brampton-plant/

impeaching pete hegseth will not lead to a shift in executive policy. it's a stupid waste of time.

trump is continuing to put off the inevitable in iran because he's a pussy. that's the simplest way to state the actual truth.

it's looking like he's intending to hold the situation put and wait for the next president to deal with it.

a true blockade of iran will weaken the regime but it won't topple it and it will give the chinese the opportunity to make it very difficult to finish. this has certainly already happened to a very real extent. there will need to be execution in the end.

i remain supportive of the initial plan being floated, which was an overwhelming show of force accompanied with ground support for kurdish forces, but trump cancelled that because the kurds are socialists and he didn't want to replace the fascist government in iran with a socialist government. 

you see a commonality in trump's actions, in that he is constantly looking for ideologically pure solutions that don't exist. i didn't expect that from trump. from a distance, it looks like a man who has no principles and is constantly shifting views to seek power. in truth, it's somebody who is capable of incredible mental gymnastics to enforce what he decides are correctly conservative solutions.

if he was concerned about the outcome of overthrowing the government in iran, he would have done it, but he's more concerned about finding that conservative solution that replaces the existing government with a conservative one, and that has no likelihood of materializing. it worked in venezuela because the government was nominally left-wing and the opposition is very conservative. in iran, conservatives are going to support the theocracy and any opposition is going to be opposed to the fascist government's conservative qualities. rather than deal with reality and compromise, trump is stuck in a mental loop. he can't find the choice he wants so he's refusing to make one.

he's not going to compromise on the deal with canada, either.

in the long run, trump will not be remembered for the deals he negotiated, he will be remembered for his inability to compromise, and the deals he didn't sign as a result of it.

i certainly hope that ms joly avoids making the kind of specious legal threats at stellantis that she made at stelco and that she's cognizant enough of the reality around her to realize that her attacks on stelco were probably a factor in stellantis closing the deal. when governments act in aggressively nationalistic manners, it tends to frighten off foreign investment. ms joly is a symptom rather than a cause but nobody should be surprised if the aggressively nationalistic rhetoric from the carney government leads to more and more divestment. 

the opposition is floating worse rhetoric than the government, but it's the liberal party that created the problem by aggressively campaigning on economic nationalism. well, they made their bed. the country is going to have to walk away from this economic nationalism and embrace of state capitalism, together.

stellantis is actually volunteering to return the funds.

canada should take the money and let stellantis walk away without a fight. don't let the door hit you on your way out. in ten years, once the company has failed to compete against electric vehicle manufacturers, they'll realize that stellantis is a dead weight company making inferior products, but they should have realized that in 2008.

shifts to modern production standards will lead to less pollution and less jobs and that is going to happen whether the government tries to stop it or not. there will be more jobs in the technology backend. 

the money should be reinvested in trying to rebuild the technology sector in ottawa.

canada already makes a lot of high grade military vehicles. it makes sense to make more.

high grade military vehicle production as an infinitely more valuable contribution to the canadian economy than shitty commercial grade suvs that nobody wants and that nobody wants because they suck. there is a future in military vehicles. there is no future in gas guzzling, commercial grade suvs.

i think the sale of the stellantis factory to the military vehicle manufacturer is a net positive.

only a loser would buy a jeep. these are dirty, filthy vehicles with no future in civilized countries. that's why it makes sense for them to move to the american south, where their market is. they aren't going to sell these last-century technology vehicles here in canada.

the military vehicles have a larger market and will result in longer term and more sustainable employment for the region. it will work out better for everybody.

chrysler is eventually going to stop making jeeps altogether and it won't be very long before they do. the united states cannot infinitely resist progress. it will eventually embrace reality and accept the coming carbon shift. there is no future for commercial vehicles like the jeep in the world of the near future. the sale lets the workers get away from a failed product and retool to a more viable one.

this is the kind of change that is happening with carbon transition and that people are going to have to accept. canadians have indicated that they don't quite get it, in their opposition to carbon taxes. they cannot continue to live their lives as they have been. things will have to change.

so, you can put me down as being in support of the sale and in support of the retooling. chrysler makes garbage products. let them move to a garbage market. the focus should be on retooling, evolving and changing, and not on resisting change.

in eulogy, in memorium of the mouse.

as far as i can tell, it just walked right into the trap because mice are almost completely blind.

mice antidepressants.

no shit.

https://nypost.com/2021/09/30/mice-get-sad-seeing-their-fellow-mice-suffer-study/

mice are emotionally complex creatures.

this mouse thought it was my pet, or wanted to be my pet. i had to shoo it off at one point. that's unusual, unless it's rabid. it wasn't afraid of me but instead seemed to seek a relationship with me.

i have no doubt that i was picking up emotion in the squeaks. it's not scientific. i'm sure anyways.

it's dead; i'll move on.

i told the mouse not to come in here.

i said "listen here, mousey mouse mouse. i don't want to be subjected to your incessant sad mouse squeaking. and don't get bossy with me with your assertive squeaks, either. don't you come down here and bitch-squeak at me. i don't want a sad mouse in my wall. there's no food for you in here. if you stay in the walls and eat the bugs and stop squeaking at me then i'll never know you're even there. if you keep running around in here looking for i don't know what - food? a hug? - then i'm going to have to kill you. don't stay here and be a sad mouse. go be a happy mouse somewhere else."

but it didn't listen.

now, it's dead. 

i wish there was another way. i really do. i am not a mouse hater. i don't want to be seen as a destroyer of mice. alas.

so let this be a lesson to you other mousey mouses - get the fuck out of here. leave me alone. there's a snap trap with your fucking name on it, too, if you insist on bothering me. don't push the point. just fuck off.

i'm going to be very certain that there's nothing else in here before i put the carpets down but that's probably it.

the mouse is dead. it landed in a snap trap. they're quick and minimize the process. no hammers required. no bait in the trap. i found the carcass near the side entrance and got it out.

no pictures. still happened.

the squeaking has also ended.

i don't see any legitimate economic purpose in supporting amnesty for adults. i would argue, mostly, that they should be deported.

regarding the kids, it's mostly not their fault, and some kind of humanitarian rather than economic logic may be appropriate.

but if you live far away please don't expect catholic and conservative south texas hispanics to vote for libertarian immigration policies. that makes no economic sense to them. they have the papers; they have preferred status and they want to maintain it. it's not about race and you'll find little to no racial solidarity between mexican nationals and mexican-americans. they will tend to aggressively compete with each other for scarce resources.

they're basically scabs.

the system allows it because the bourgeoisie lobbies for it, then they come up with piles of nonsense to confuse people with.

the solution is not in being mean to immigrants, it's in making sure that the labour code is enforced, which means you have to hire people legally and you have to pay them legal wages with legal benefits and you face consequences if you don't.

middle class americans are the biggest welfare bums on the planet. they don't come close to paying for their own roads, etc. the idea that taxes are being taking from them is hilarious; they are major recipients of tax dollars, not sources of revenue, and that tax revenue comes mostly from corporate taxation.

i was under the impression that essentially everybody understood that nowadays. 

wait.

are there still people that think that illegal immigrants are all on welfare and stealing money from workers? i thought that idea - which was a distraction created by the conservative media - disappeared from the discourse over 30 years ago.

i have not heard anybody say anything like that in decades.

needless to state, the data doesn't support it. to begin with, welfare essentially doesn't exist in the united states anymore and to the extent that it does it's illegal to get any kind of welfare money and be illegal at the same time. i'm certainly not opposed to giving illegal immigrants food stamps and i can't imagine many people would be.

the basis of the rational and working class opposition to undocumented immigration has always been that it gives the managerial class the opportunity to circumvent labour laws, not some kind of frustration about them stealing taxes, or something. poor people don't pay taxes, anywhere. the latter is an upper class viewpoint created as a complete distraction to take attention away from more legitimate concerns about bosses evading rules in the labour code. it's also something that fascist reactionaries like vladimir lenin used to attack legitimate forms of communism with. it's perhaps the most backwards, discredited political position that i'm aware of, to the point that i haven't heard anybody anywhere say anything like it in years and years.

it's a political position that essentially ceased to exist around 1985.

i'm going to do this again, but in short form.

- the polar vortex is caused by the difference in temperature between the northern and mid latitudes. the energy in the vortex is a result of the difference in temperature at the equator v the temperature at the poles (and the earth's spin).

- the polar vortex gets stronger in the winter because the polar night increases that difference. temperatures in the north plunge. temperatures in the south go down a little, but not nearly as much.

- the polar vortex gets weaker in the spring because the return of the sun decreases that difference. temperatures in the south come up, but not nearly as much.

- it follows that a polar vortex cannot weaken due to an increase in temperature in the south leading to higher temperatures in the north, via an energy transfer (that breaks the principles of thermodynamics).

- the extremely weak polar vortex, which is leading to air that was cooled due to the polar night not getting bottled up in the north this year but instead being fed back into the mid latitude climate systems directly without that intensifying process, is the result of a decreased temperature gradient. that is, the reason there's no polar vortex is because the difference in temperature between the poles and the equator is not large enough to produce one.

- but the el nino is legitimately leading to local effects in the south. this should make it easier for the gradient to climb to the point that a vortex forms, not harder! if the vortex can't form in el nino conditions, it can only be because the temperatures at the pole are increasing faster than the el nino.

- we are in solar maximum, and solar maximum has a bigger effect in the higher parts of the atmosphere (the auroras that are visible in the north lead to sudden increases in temperature in the atmosphere), but that's not enough to account for this.

- the cause of the increased temperatures at the poles is the greenhouse effect.

- in fact, models predicted that a strong greenhouse effect would eventually slow down and shut off the polar vortex. there is no polar vortex on venus.

- the jet stream being observed right now does not require an el nino to form. it might happen in el nino conditions. however, it's also a typical late winter jet stream that happens yearly when the polar vortex weakens due to the return of sunlight.

- it follows that el nino may have had a contribution to the amplitude of the jet stream forcing.

- however, the jet stream pattern being seen right now is not the result of el nino, it's the result of the polar vortex being weakened by the greenhouse effect to the point that it may not legitimately form at all this year, which suggests that climate change feedback cycles are operating many decades ahead of schedule.

the canadian north holds a very large amount of methane. if that starts to be emitted out of anybody's control, that's when we get into spiralling effects.

this is not unpredicted. the models projected it, just not on these time scales. this was seen as something that might have started to happen in 100 years.

the polar vortex could come back next year, but the hard bursts of cold air we've seen at the end of recent winters were signs the engine was sputtering and dying and the polar vortex was ceasing to exist. it could come back. or it could not, and that is a major event to take note of and that the weather people are completely misunderstanding, either intentionally under government direction, or accidentally due to incompetence.

see, talarico is actually essentially adopting the existing republican party position on immigration, and openly saying he's likely to vote with republicans on it. if he thought he won due to backlash to immigration, he wouldn't be saying that.

bobby pulido is probably more conservative on the issue than the republican he beat. he calls himself a "blue dog" and does not support libertarian border policies.

the new batch of openly right-wing democrats is also saying they won't support chuck schumer and are presumably looking for somebody more conservative. the house leader may also face a leadership vote, and it won't be a shift to the left. 

in fact, the leftist rump in the house is likely to be completely pushed out of any delusion of power and bernie sanders is likely to end up as an opposition figure. they don't need to tolerate him any more.

the media narrative is not based in reality, but trump is an idiot, and he bases his self-worth on how he thinks people perceive him, so he's the first one to be manipulated by it. it is predictable that if trump moves to a more libertarian border policy that (1) his base will cave even further and (2) socialist-leaning working class democrats that oppose immigration in the region due to the fact that they work under the table, displace jobs and undercut wages by doing so but voted republican in recent cycles because they're also catholics (and won't vote for a woman as president, for example) are just going to bail that much harder. it's going to kill him from both sides.

the reality is that south texas is a working class region with a working class population that has far left, socialist views that are opposed to illegal immigration and has historically voted democrat and that those democrats have historically supported hardline immigration policies. it's not about total number of immigrants, or about what language they speak, or what god they pray to, it's about forcing the bosses to follow the labour code. it makes absolutely no sense to think they suddenly flipped to the democrats because they're all of a sudden in favour of open borders (which these specific democrats are definitely not).

conversely, there was clearly substantive opposition to ice policies in hard blue districts in minnesota that were going to vote 70% democrat anyways.

there is some possibility that trump may have suddenly realized he misunderstood opposition to immigration in texas and had an epiphany that he's not in solidarity with it but in solidarity with the bourgeois interests that benefit from bringing in illegal workers. i mean, that's clearly what is actually true. trump's public position on immigration has never made any sense. there are even rumours that he was a major employer of illegal immigrants, himself. trump clearly thought it was cultural, like you see in the liberal european secularist movements that want to block a return to religion in europe. that would be a minority view in texas, where the class divisions are broadly that the wealthier voters support illegal immigration because they benefit from it and the more working class voters don't because it increases the amount of competition they have for scarce resources in a very brutal market economy. 

somebody like monica de la cruz actually represents the businesses in the region, not the workers. that's why she actually supports amnesty. and it's why she lost to a hardline democrat that doesn't. 

so, did trump just pull his head out of his ass and realize he should be supporting his class interests if he wants to more seriously swing seats in the region, by holding the bourgeois vote in opposition to working class voters, which keep going back to the democrats? if so, it's too little too late, clearly.

and it doesn't change the facts or the data.

that's not what the election was about and not why democrats won seats in the region. the republican backlash, in turns of low voter turnout, has to do with the republicans under trump not being christian enough to justify continued support. republicans have been hypocrites for decades. reagan himself was a hypocrite. the reason it didn't come up in the data is that nobody asked and nobody asked because republican hypocrisy has never caved turnout before; christians have enthusiastically shown up and voted for the hypocrites in high percentages for decades. so why change now?

on some level, it's obviously finally too much.

but i'll direct you back to abortion.

it's not immigration. that makes no sense. at all.

this is an old song but sometimes old songs can have new meanings in current contexts.

it's a relatively rare cd that i found for a song at the house of guitars in rochester, new york. the album version is more readily available.

i actually need to get in the shower for the night, first. i skipped last night because i was doing laundry. i'll get back at this in the morning.

i'm posting this from the studio chromebook.

here is a playlist of the cd collection i'm cataloging, which i will keep updated:

how am i going to do this?

it's kind of an information overload. i have been forced to stop halfway through finishing most of these sites because a bunch of losers keep following me around and won't leave me alone. it's disorienting, but i don't exactly want to start over anywhere, either.

i have moved the tabs over and closed the ones on the email chromebook.

i'm going to start by cleaning up the first dozen or so pages and reorganizing them. there's a link list on the side. that will be updated over the next few days to be in the four groups:

- sites accessed and updated from the tv chromebook

- sites accessed and updated from the email chromebook

- sites accessed and updated from the studio chromebook

- sites accessed and updated from the pi

it's relatively intuitive, but it's also prettty messy. it'll be clear when i'm done if it isn't immediately.

next project, first steps:

bedroom:

speaker tables (with books)

audio and computer equipment on dresser. amazon box now disassembled, with typing pc components out.

shelving in back for books. school work for filing cabinet.

bed:

vent with mesh over it:

studio:

drums:

straps

amps (fender bass with mini marshall, orange and vox), midi guitar converter, yamaha dx100

jx-8p with dm5 drum module and zoom 1010 on top, many guitar effects in middle, mic box and winds box on bottom:

mic stand, table with pod, 88 key controller, tascam 4 track, practice amp, analog reverb device, pi system, mobo box with computer items. shelf in back for cd manufacturing. guitars on table under main table.

organizer with cords, studio chromebook, recording pcs

recording pcs desk

same, shifted

16 track recording interface & 64 bit recording pc

library:

pc components shelf. the boxes are labelled.

books:

cds:

this shoe rack will go to the side door. the empty wall will have another cd shelf (wood).

there are extra carpets and a yoga mat for this space. the yoga mat will go under a stationary bike. the chair is currently extra.

this shelf has items for the work area. both boxes have laptops.

charging area, with the bike out, and the steam mop.

the missing library space. the stationary will go where the mini guitar is. the remaining wall will have a book shelf.

listening room:

from the couch. i want to put a monitor on the wall and install a shelf for the pi. i would need a remote touchscreen.

cassette on bottom; jvc amp, 5-disc dvd-a/hd-cd player on mid shelf  

kefs, pioneer record player, monitor for pi and dvd player (maybe), sennheisers in pouch

i need to cut this:

the carpet was intended for the garage but i'd rather put it in the studio. again, i'm waiting to be sure about rodents. the empty space where the vacuum is will have another shelf for more books.

with the pillowcases:

updated bathroom pics:

there were some bugs coming in from under the toilet and this worked very well in blocking them:

this is some mesh over the vents (temporary until i buy more duct tape)

these are some updated kitchen pics (rough):

i finally cut this shelf:

counter update 1:

second under counter shelf:

counter update 2: 

ghetto hutch:

partial aluminum ceiling update

pots and pans:

these are for avocados, mangos:

kitchen markers and magnet white boards (four):

stove light. i'm waiting for the squeaking above the stove to stop for a while. turning the furnace on seems to have chased it out.

added shelf:

the door to the water closet is mostly sealed and has some various items on it:

same:

added shelf. i may add a few more but i don't need it right now.

added shelves. top is drinks glasses, second down has booze & pot, third has vitamins, fourth is extra tupperware.