when washington sends aircraft carriers to the middle east, it isn't to dissuade an israeli attack, it's to prevent an attack on israel. nobody imagines that anybody beside iran would be a serious threat to attack israel, and the only way that the americans would feel the need to protect the superior israeli army from the inferior iranian one is if there is a credible threat of russian involvement. it opens the question: was oct 7th really an attempt by the russians to distract the americans from ukraine?

the israelis just randomly bomb syria and the russians do not like it. if the russians felt a need to respond, would it look like a sneak attack by hamas?

the situation is messy, but the truth is that iran is a russian protectorate and is in many ways treated by moscow like a former ssr. a greater russian sphere includes iran. that aligns hamas pretty squarely with moscow, nowadays, which provides the pentagon with a good reason to seek it's destruction.

the russians must have at least known what was going on and the american response indicates legitimate concern about a potential russian distraction tactic. they did this once before.

it's a different analysis, but you'll note that america's immediate response was to send war ships to israel, and that's exceedingly curious.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/us/politics/us-iran-airstrikes.html

deductive evidence that my hair actually was cut in august and/or september

i fully acknowledge that the claim that somebody was entering my unit to drug me and cut my hair, like i'm a pet or a doll, comes off as entirely insane and would be almost impossible to prove without direct video evidence. i do not want you to know if there is or is not currently a camera installed in the basement. there might be, but i don't want you to know where it is, if there is one. do you want to chance it?

i'll skip the biochem analysis, but it would be essentially impossible to catch evidence of testosterone drugging in my system, due to the amount of suppressors and the amount of estrogen i take, in conjunction with my inability to produce it endogenously. however, my hair length is more easily measured with an actual ruler.

something i could actually do was begin to routinely measure my hair length and then calculate how fast it grows, which would allow me to present a calculation as to how long it should be by calculating how much should have grown since april. by my calculation, my hair grows at roughly an inch per month, meaning it should be roughly 7 inches long. that would indicate that a bit more than an inch was cut from the back and a bit more than two was cut from the front. that is consistent with my observations.

it is an extremely unsettling feeling of deep violation to wake up in the morning and look at yourself in the mirror and realize that your hair was cut and/or styled when you were asleep, to fit the apparent tastes of some unclear entity that you are aware of the existence of but do not at all understand, except to be certain that you do not like it and do not consent to it. if some entity wants my hair to be short for some unclear reason, i am certainly not interested in interacting further with that entity on any level. i had to convince myself i wasn't losing my mind, but i have a lot of confidence in my intellect and my ability to present an argument. this is, at this point, a convincing argument.

i currently remember that i cut my hair on march 24, 2023; that date will fade with time, but i currently recall that i scraped it all off with a venus leg razor in a fit of frustration, and while loudly sobbing, because there was no other solution to undo the embarrassing condition of chia-pet-head. i was and remain traumatized by this, but it is growing back.

i will not add the contents of my blog to this essay, but it was noted by myself at several points between april and august that my hair was growing at a rate of an inch/month, as i waited for it to reach a specific length before i dyed it red. i did note that i was approaching 4 inches at the end of july, which was about on schedule. then, over august and september, i mysteriously noticed my hair growth begin to reverse itself and on several occasions woke up to what appeared to be clear cuts in my hair. was i losing my mind?

it was near the end of september that i decided i was not losing my mind and had to start to generate evidence of the situation to hold the guilty party accountable, in both criminal and civil contexts. i started taking note of my hair length, measured at the same place, every five days, using the same ruler. these are my measurements:

now, i'm not plotting error bars and i'm aware of the value of any criticism of my methods but it nonetheless demonstrates that my hair is once again growing at a rate of an inch/month, albeit in spurts and not modeled well by a continuous function. april 1 ---> nov 1 inclusive is seven months, which is seven inches. yet, my hair is 1-2 inches shorter than that, which is a substantive percentage given that t remains short.

if my hair was growing at a rate of an inch/month over april, may, june and july and is once again growing at that rate over october after i've barricaded the door shut, why would it experience actual negative growth in august and september, other than due to being cut? the fact that i'm certain i woke up and observed it was cut also clarifies the likelihood of that event. if a rough concept of error is introduced, it is clear that my hair was cut by a cumulative amount of ~1.5 inches on at least one, and i believe probably at least two, occasions.

to state the obvious, nobody is permitted to cut my hair when i am asleep, and not for any reason at all. the behaviour has currently stopped. it must cease permanently.