hendrix didn't write this, and there are other versions of it, but it's mostly known as a hendrix tune. i actually wasn't sure if dylan wrote it, and he didn't (although he performed it later, maybe to invert all along the watchtower, which he did write)
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
empirical studies are crystal clear that sending troops to patrol streets will not reduce violent crime, but may reduce property crime and theft.
in fact, portland has one of the worst property crime rates in the country, probably due to the drug problem in the region. that's actually true.
but, there's better ways to deal with the complications of drug addiction than a policed state.
i am again moving into a basement. this will be my third basement in windsor. my basement stays have been lengthy - 08-2013-12-2017, 10-2018-04-2025 - while my two apartment stays have both been less than a year.
this basement is about $200 more than the previous basement (when i left). it's smaller than the first one, but bigger than the second one.
however, i didn't have my rent increased for five+ years in the previous space. how much would i be paying if i paid the rent increases?
750*1.025^7 = ~$900. it would be a little less than that, probably around $850.
however, i'm getting an extra $200/month from the cdb, which balances that out.
in the previous basement, i had around $400-600 left for groceries and disposable income together, after paying bills. it fluctuated, but generally went up. now, i'm going to have $700/month to start, and that's going to go up.
so, this has taken a while to sort itself out, but in comparison to the previous basement i was in from 2018-2025, i'm going to end up with a bigger space and with more money in my pocket per month, and also with more in the bank to start with. my material conditions have consequently evened out.
because i'm even steven. things always work out for me
now, i just need compensation for the wrongful eviction, and i'm working on it.
i don't want to mislead you or mischaracterize this. this has sucked. i've had years of my life stolen. but i came out in the same place, in the end.
what's next after this?
i have a hearing with my previous landlords on nov 4th, about me suing them. i need to update the new evidence, serve it and file it. i'm asking for upwards of $20,000 in damages for smoking and illegal entry. the new evidence includes drug tests and also the key i found in my mailbox, here. i don't know if they'll let me file it or not, but it demonstrates the point - somebody has been getting in my apartment, and somebody has been drugging me.
my appeals of their eviction order are now scheduled to go forward in the spring. i'm asking for a reversal of the costs orders and damages relating to the wrongful eviction, including the costs of staying in a hotel. that's going to be another $5,000-$10,000.
they got their house. fine. but the court should order them to pay me for it.
what am i going to do with all of this money? i have an asset limit of $40,000 on odsp, and need to be careful i'm not shooting myself in the foot, but a $20,000 downpayment would be enough to buy a $150,000-200,000 house, which exist in windsor, and which will reduce my rent/mortgage payments to well under $1000, which is the cost of the new lease. these are small bungalows or two story houses, mostly downtown. i don't need a big fancy house; i'm concerned about minimizing labour, not about maximizing wealth. this is a minimization problem for me, not a maximization problem. i have to live in capitalism, but i don't want to participate in it. further, i'll get that back when i turn 65, and no longer have an asset limit.
the reality is that nobody wants these houses, at this point. they're too expensive to rent. the bourgeois don't want them, and the students and poor can't afford them. that's the underside of capitalism i moved here to take advantage of, and which trudeau's immigration policies had taken away from me, by opening up a market for things nobody else wants.
that could work itself out by the summer, if all goes according to plan.
if i have this money and i move in the summer, it will be my last move. i'm not interested in climbing ladders. i don't care about the neighbours. this will ensure that nobody can take the house away from me again, and ensure nobody can move disgusting losers that do drugs into it. it's the end of this process.
i'll have to determine in the end if i can afford to stay there past the age of 65 on government retirement pensions, or if it is more logical to sell the house and move into a house for retirees, which have reduced rents.
so, that's the plan.
the new place is about $200 cheaper, and i'll soon be about $200 better off, per month. i've also gained a few thousand dollars in my account. i don't foresee any fights with the landlord, and the space should be a lot less smoky.
i think that i should be stable there for a while, enough to let me get back to work very quickly, as soon as i'm able to set the space back up.
i'm officially moving again over the next few days.
it's not very far. i feel like my fucking parents, who used to move across the street every six months.
the place is smaller, but it's laid out better. i haven't had the opportunity to maximize the space here, but it has two 150 square foot rooms (bedroom, living room), two 50 square foot hallways, an awkwardly 100 square foot kitchen with lots of counter space and fridge & stove on the side walls, and a bathroom. this place is around 600 square feet, but i'm wasting a lot of it, and i can't find a way to save it. the living room is 50 square feet too small and the bedroom is 50 square feet too big, and the 100-150 square feet of hall space isn't helpful. i needed to move. if i had more time to look, i would have skipped this space; it's 600 square feet, but i'm only using 350-400 of it.
the place i'm moving to is around 450-500 square feet, but it's laid out in a way that's more useful to me. the hallway is at the bottom of the stairs, so i have a natural place for my bicycles, away from the main living area. the bedroom is smaller, so i'm not wasting the space in it. there's a separate laundry room, where i can put the sewing table. the kitchen is smaller but more usable. there's a second entrance that i can use for studio space, which opens up a large living room. it's just a way better layout, for me. most people would find it awkward, but it's going to be arranged to look like it's twice as big, whereas this place feels half as big.
it's a little rough. that's fine. i don't care. i'll fix it.
so, i will be moving the rest of the week and hope to be done with this by monday.
Monday, September 29, 2025
tony blair was one of the people involved in the good friday agreement, and he was around during oslo. it's not so crazy.
you might ask the obvious question: why not ask bill clinton, then? i suppose there might be some political issues with that.
if it fails, it will be a great punchline, but if it works it'll look pretty smart, from a distance.
i was thinking maybe the turks might be the most reasonable party to lead an international un peacekeeping mission, not donald trump & tony blair, but this is more or less what i've been saying for years. actually. in fact.
i will say that deprogramming and denazifying the palestinians is going to be very hard. nobody is thinking this, but the truth is that new labour psychology just might be our best hope to debrainwash them.
i'm not a christian.
i'm a very strict atheist - an evangelical atheist, even. i very strongly believe there's no god and want to spread the good news about it, which is that you're free. like, really free. there's no greater expression of freedom than godlessness.
i kind of like pagans, though; not in a literal, religious sense, but in a cultural, indigenous sense. i think that rejecting semitic religion and reembracing indigenous religion is a prerequisite to saving the planet; not in the sense of taking it literally, but in the sense of changing the culture. further, i hold to the general intellectual consensus that buddhism is the most advanced and mature religion out there, and the one to take half-seriously if you want to learn something and live better.
i support this in principle, but this is unconstitutional. it's just going to get torn down.
the problem is that the federal government is decriminalizing drug use, and that it's largely following the direction of the courts, and this is in fact largely correct. if you own your body, you have the right to abuse it any way you want, including pumping it full of poison. and, really, if you can afford it and aren't bothering anybody, who has the right to tell you to stop? nobody does.
the problem is when you can't afford it, and resort to crime to pay for it, and when you are bothering somebody, like taking over streets and yards. so, you need to criminalize those activities, and then arrest people and charge them for it, and then you need to strengthen those sentences. then you need to give the addicts treatment as a way out of jail, in terms of bargaining with them. that's how you get them into treatment, you tell them the other option is they go to jail, and then you follow through and send them to jail if that's their preference.
you're never going to convince the supreme court that this is legal, not even with an oakes test.
i think the ostriches should be quarantined and tested one by one.
those that test positive for the virus should in fact unfortunately be destroyed. but those that test negative should be allowed to live.
i don't understand why this is difficult. imagine killing all the old people at an old folks home when one person gets covid. it's fear-based, not science based. these tests should get results nowadays within minutes. it's not the dark ages; this isn't the plague.
the best way to ensure that the government has enough funds to provide services like canada post is to increase taxes on the middle class, who have received too many tax breaks for far too long. the fact that the government is talking about eliminating mail delivery - a key purpose of government for centuries - is reflective of it's shrinking tax revenues, due to decades of right-wing government mismanagement, which has led to structural deficits that are going to collapse the functioning of society if not corrected.
the way the news is describing canada post is incoherent.
- canada post is not a private corporation. it cannot become insolvent.
- mail delivery is not a product, it's a service
- canada post does not have shareholders. it's mandate is not to run a profit.
- there is no consequence of canada post running at a loss other than that it's not being sufficiently funded.
the simplest, easiest solution is for the bank of canada to print the money required to eliminate canada post's debt. it's that simple.
however, if this service requires greater government funding in the future, then government should simply fund it.
Sunday, September 28, 2025
it's time for another repost.
it's near the end of the month, and i'm rather annoyed. i've seen a handful of places i could have moved to by now, but nobody wants to sign.
i'm going to send out mass emails that are just blunt - you want a good tenant? want to stop looking? well, you have a few more days before oct 1st. i have the money. i can sign and move now. like, what's the problem?
i know that the problem in some cases is that the owner is muslim, and in other cases that my income source is odsp. it's widespread discrimination on one of two considerations - gender identity or source of income. but, launching hrto applications is going to take years, and i need to be able to prove the case. i might be able to make the case against one very big company, but it's not clear that it's worth my time.
further, regarding the issues of muslims not wanting to rent to me because i'm trans (and i have several examples of this), i'd actually rather we get the issues out before hand, so i don't get trapped in it. the last thing i want to do is move into a situation where i have to deal with conservative muslims, and then fight with them for months or years. i'm doing the opposite; i'm sussing this out and going beyond it, by actually actively asking them if women dressing immodestly, or eating pork or drinking alcohol is going to upset them, because i don't want to live there if it does.
i really should have moved by now. i've seen enough places. there have been more than enough places i would move to. but i have not yet succeeded in finding a landlord that would rent to me, and it's about 85% discrimination underlying it. i can really not see good reasons not to rent to me in any of these applications, but they want to tell me my income is too low (despite me doing the math for them, showing it isn't, once you take out debt and cars, mostly, which i'm not paying for) or they just don't respond further once they realize i'm trans.
the discrimination against trans and disabled people are both rampant, especially amongst muslim landlords, which represent a substantive number of the low income rentals in this region. they'd be wise to be careful about what they say to me, but i'd largely rather avoid them, anyways.
the thing is that i don't want to make assumptions about people. i'm trying to get a showing in a basement owned by an arab guy, and he even told me to reschedule because he was busy praying, but he doesn't want to enforce his views on me, and is even trying to help the current tenant out, who is apparently a destructive alcoholic. i know discrimination when i see it, but i can't reverse it by making assumptions; i need to ask. it's mostly been a waste of time, but i can't make that assumption ahead of time. nine out of ten arabs might be viciously transphobic, but that one that isn't, even if they're religious, might be the best landlord in the city.
i ate a lot of nachos this week to use up the limes and tomatoes and even gained a little weight, although i pooped a lot of it out today, too. it'll pass with the coffee. the last two tomatoes were used for tomato sandwiches, and i now have three limes left. i also have no more food bank side meals, except about 30 cans of soup and two packages of frozen peas that i forgot about. it's possible that i could eat these soups with the garden salads, when i get there.
i need to get through the dried goods as much as i can first, which means alternating through quinoa (lentils) and pasta for the next several meals. there's still several bags of lentils and i believe five packages of spaghetti left.
the next step after this will be to cycle back to eat the food i skipped, which includes a lot of fruit and salad meals. i'm going to want to combine the fruit & ice cream meals for a week or two of straight fruit meals to catch up on that. i'm also going to want to eat caesar salads every day for a week or two in order to build up the kale stalks, then use the kale stalks to eat garden salads every day for two weeks. after i get through this month or two of fruit bowls and salads, i will have finally caught up. i might add the chicken in the freezer to the caesar salads, but i'm also getting close enough to the point of complete detox where i'll want to bring the bison back in to the pasta. soon.
i don't know when i'm moving yet but i do know that i'll hit all three food banks in the days after i sign the lease, and it might be for the last time.
- june 16th: doubled up salsa with chick peas, cheese, spices and vitamins.
- june 17th: onion soup bacon poutine
- june 18th: basic doritos nachos and french onon soup with bacon
- june 19th: doubled up salsa reprise
- june 20th: caesar salad without subs
- june 21st: 2nd onion soup poutine with onion soup and last chance salad
- june 22rd: 3rd onion soup poutine with onion soup with beets
- june 23rd: caesar salad without subs
- june 24th: caesar salad without subs
- june 25th: bacon and eggs without subs, no salsa
- june 26th: bacon and eggs without subs, no salsa
- june 27th: ad hoc pad thai
- june 28th: broccoli soup
- june 29th: fridge-clearing meal (oranges & garlic bread)
- june 30th: kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise
- july 1st: kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise
- july 2nd: kd + chick peas + fridge clearing exercise
- july 3rd: 10 packages of instant oatmeal, in 5 installments. spaghetti-os + spices & vitamins (cumin, cayenne, pepper, oregano, paprika, sunflower seed, hemp seed, nutritional yeast, frank's).
- july 4th: a can of stew and a can of corn, plus spices & vitamins.
- july 5th: a package of jasmine rice i had put aside as a quinoa sub (it probably isn't), with a can of peas and a can of tomato soup, plus spices and vitamins.
- july 6th: a can of beans cooked in a can of vegetable soup, plus spices and vitamins.
- july 7th: two cans of chicken noodle soup, plus spices and vitamins. tim's xl double-double coffee in morning. two builders protein mini bars in evening. 7-11 coffee with jalapeno taquito late at night.
- july 8th: food bank junk food eat through - two bags of "real vegetable chips" (one big, one small), a bag of goldfish crackers, one mini crispy crunch, some strawberry licorice, prime energy drink, two tim horton's donuts, little ceasar's pepperoni pizza with unlabelled chocolate milk product.
- july 9th: another prime energy drink with another unlabelled chocolate milk product, unlabelled food bank ginger bread (two loaves)
- july 10th: pasta with minor subs (1), third energy drink, sour cream n cheddar chips
- july 11th: sour cream 'n' bacon, sour cream 'n' onion chips
- july 12th: more licorice, pasta with minor subs (2)
- july 13th: jalapeno cheddar chips, pasta with minor subs (3)
- july 14th: 10 baby cookies, pasta with minor subs (4)
- july 15th: i ate most of the 14th pasta on the 15th and followed it with the remaining baby cookies (which are actually french butter cookies, not baby cookies. they look like baby cookies). i did not make pasta for the 15th.
- july 16th:. pasta with minor subs (5)
- july 17th: pasta with minor subs (6)
- july 18th (on the 19th): pasta with minor subs (7)
- july 19th (on the 20th): cereal (one bowl of vector and all bran with paprika, flax, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds and soy, as per my normal diet and one bowl of instant oatmeal with a little real milk and an apple)
- july 20th (on the 21st): pasta with minor subs (8)
- july 21st (on the 22nd): pasta with minor subs (9)
- july 22nd: cereal day 2 in cycle 2 (final cycle 2 cereal day): one bowl of vector and all bran with paprika, flax, nutritional yeast, hemp seeds and soy, as per my normal diet and one bowl of instant oatmeal with a little real milk and two apples, one in the oatmeal and one standalone.
- july 23rd: cereal day 1 in cycle 3
- july 24: pasta with minor subs (10)
- july 25: cereal day 2 in cycle 3, same as 22 and 23, with the addition of 6 mini apple sauce containers.
- july 26: pasta with minor subs (11)
- july 27th - guac with white rice and canned corn. two pieces of white bread with plum better.
- july 28th: pasta with minor subs (12)
- july 29th: guac with white rice and canned corn. two pieces of white toast with olive oil margarine, and then two pieces of white bread with plum butter after. four more pieces of white bread, with plum butter and strawberry jam.
- july 30th: pasta with minor subs (13), including fried chicken for salami.
- july 31st: a larger piece of fried chicken alone. pasta with minor subs (14), including a mix of buffalo and chicken for salami. six pieces of white bread for peanut butter and strawberry jam.
- aug 1st: four pieces of white bread and the rest of the peanut butter. quinoa without subs (on aug 3rd).
- aug 2nd: four marshmallows, two bananas and a chocolate bar. quinoa without subs (on aug 3rd).
- aug 3rd: pasta with minor subs (15), including the buffalo/chicken mix for salami (on aug 4th). two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 4th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (on aug 5th)
- aug 5th: pasta with minor subs (16), including the buffalo/chicken mix for salami. two pieces of toasted italian bread. (on aug 6th)
- aug 6th: guac with yellow pepper, homemade hot sauce and canned corn (on aug 7th).
- aug 7th: monterrey jack tuna salad melt with bowl of cilantro lime monterrey jack rice (on aug 8th).
- aug 8th: pasta with minor subs (17), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (on aug 9th). . two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 9th: guac with yellow pepper, homemade hot sauce and canned corn wth cilantro lime monterrey jack rice (on aug 10th).
- aug 10th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (on aug 11th)
- aug 11th: pasta with minor subs (18), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (early on aug 12th). two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 12th: bacon and eggs (no salsa) (at midnight on aug 13th)
- aug 13th: pasta with minor subs (19), homemade hot sauce and bacon for salami (early on aug 14th). . two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 14th: potatoes with gravy, cheese, sour cream, bacon and dill (early on aug 15th). no av.
- aug 15th: onion soup + side salad (as posted) (late on aug 15th). no av.
- aug 16th: potatoes with gravy, cheese, sour cream, bacon and dill (early on aug 17th). no av.
- aug 17th: onion soup (mid day on aug 17th) and side salad (as posted) with two pieces of toast (early on aug 18th). no av.
- aug 18th: pasta with minor subs (20), including bacon for salami (early on aug 19th). no av. no juice. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 19th: pasta with minor subs (21), including orange/lime for pineapple and bacon for salami (early on aug 20th). no av. no juice. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 20th & 21st: cereal day 1 & 2 from cycle 4 together in one big bowl. (mid-day on aug 20th)
- aug 22nd: pasta with minor subs (22), including orange/lime for pineapple and chicken for salami (early on aug 21st). no av. no juice. no broc. no hot sauce. two pieces of toasted italian bread.
- aug 23rd: pasta with minor subs (23), including orange/lime for pineapple and chicken for salami (early on aug 22nd). no av. no juice. no broc. no red pepper. no hot sauce. i had the rest of the italian bread, and four extra pieces of brown bread with cheddar cheese, on the morning of aug 23rd and otherwise didn't eat on the 23rd. this is the bread for use with cycle 7, eaten early.
- aug 24th: pasta with minor subs (24) (early on the 24th). this was the last of the penne and shifted the pasta source to a box of kd, for now. no av. no juice. no broc. no red pepper. no hot sauce. no pineapple. no salami. no caesar. no dill. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. one xl tim's double double.
- aug 25th: (early on the 25th) is going to be a tomato sandwich one from cycle 2 and an instant meal chicken "sidekick". no av, as it's not ripe yet.
- aug 26th: pasta with minor subs (25). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. no av. no broc (forgot).
- aug 27th: second tomato sandwich meal from cycle 2 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles.
- aug 28th: pasta with minor subs (26). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. two avs.
- aug 29th: doubled up salsa with kidney beans, cheese, spices and vitamins. cycle 2 salsa. four avs. juice. 50 g broccoli.
- aug 30th: pasta with minor subs (27). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. two avs.
- aug 31st: first cycle 3 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa and a can of side baked beans. two avs. last extra juice.
- sept 1st: pasta with minor subs (28). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. two pieces of toasted brown bread with margarine. two avs. not eaten until morning of sept 2nd.
- sept 2nd: first tomato sandwich meal from cycle 3 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles. extra av in chinese noodles.
- sept 3rd: pasta with minor subs (29). pasta source is a box of kd. bacon subbed for salami. no bread. two avs.
- sept 4: doubled up salsa with kidney beans, cheese, spices and vitamins. cycle 3 salsa. four avs.
- sept 5th: pasta with minor subs (30). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. two avs (avs caight up).
- sept 6nd: second tomato sandwich meal from cycle 3 with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles. 1/2 red pepper in chinese noodles from catchup. jello with catchup pineapple and one lime, one orange.
- sept 7th: pasta with minor subs (31). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
- sept 8th: second cycle 3 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa.
- sept 9th: pasta with minor subs (32). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
- sept 10th: doubled up salsa with cheese, spices and vitamins. cycle 4 salsa.
- sept 11th: green beans that were intended for the 10th (eaten on the 12th), with mushroom soup and bacon. first skipped pasta. later, first cycle 4 guac with red pepper (eaten on 13th).
- sept 12th: canned corn that was intended for the 11th (eaten on the 13th) with bacon. 2nd skipped pasta. first tomato sandwich from cycle 4 (eaten on 13th) with a package of (cooked) chinese noodles (eaten on 13th). 1/2 red pepper in chinese noodles from catchup, last catchup. last chinese noodles.
- sept 13th: pasta with minor subs (33). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. first skipped. (eaten early on 15th)
- sept 14th: pasta with minor subs (34). pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. second skipped. (eaten early on the 16th)
- sept 15th: first cycle 2 nachos (eaten late on the 16th). third skipped pasta.
- sept 16th: second cycle 2 nachos (eaten late on the 17th). fourth skipped pasta.
- sept 17th: first cycle 3 nachos (eaten early on the 19th). fifth skipped pasta.
- sept 18th: second cycle 3 nachos (eaten late on the 19th). sixth skipped pasta.
- sept 19th: second tomato sandwich from cycle 4 & poutine with canned potatoes (eaten early on 21st). seventh skipped pasta.
- sept 20th: second cycle 4 guac & canned cream corn with bacon meal, eaten on 21st and 22nd. eighth skipped pasta.
- sept 21st: two for 1 bk whoppers (no lettuce, extra pickles) with added monterrey jack (melted), franks and caesar, with four of those cheesy jalapeno things and two apple turnovers. eaten late on the 23rd. ninth skipped pasta.
- sept 22nd: first cycle 4 nachos (eaten during day on 24th). tenth skipped pasta.
- sept 23rd: second cycle 4 nachos (eaten early on 25th). eleventh skipped pasta.
- sept 24th: first tomato sandwich from cycle 5 (eaten late on 25th). twelfth skipped pasta.
- sept 25th: second tomato sandwich from cycle 5 (eaten early on 26th). thirteenth skipped pasta.
- sept 26: pasta with minor subs (35). third cycle 9 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. third skipped.
- sept 27th: pasta with minor subs (36). fourth cycle 9 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. fourth skipped.
- sept 28th: first cycle 4 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa. eaten early on 29th. soy saved to be eaten with two pieces of toast with cheese, eaten midday on the 30th.
- sept 29th: pasta with minor subs (37). first cycle 10 pasta. eaten early on the 1st. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. fifth skipped. two pieces of toast with cheese, eaten midday on the 2nd.
- sept 30th: pasta with minor subs (38). second cycle 10 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. sixth skipped. eaten late on the 2nd. three pieces of toast with cheese, eaten late on the 3rd.
- oct 1st: second cycle 4 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa. eaten on 5th or 6th.
- oct 2nd: pasta with minor subs (39). third cycle 10 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. seventh skipped,
- oct 3rd: pasta with minor subs (40). fourth cycle 10 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. eighth skipped.
- oct 4th: 7-11 pizza with taquito and two glasses of orange juice. eaten early on 4th,
- oct 4th: 1st cycle 5 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa.
- oct 5h: pasta with minor subs (41). first cycle 11 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. ninth skipped.
- oct 6th: pasta with minor subs (42). second cycle 11 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. tenth skipped.
- oct 7th: second cycle 5 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa.
- oct 8th: pasta with minor subs (43). third cycle 11 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. eleventh skipped,
- oct 9th: pasta with minor subs (44). fourth cycle 11 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. twelfth skipped.
- oct 10th: 1st cycle 6 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa.
- oct 11th: pasta with minor subs (45). first cycle 12 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami. thirteenth skipped.
- oct 12th: pasta with minor subs (46). second cycle 12 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
- oct 13th: second cycle 6 quinoa, with lentils subbed for quinoa.
- oct 14th: pasta with minor subs (47). third cycle 12 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
- oct 15th: pasta with minor subs (48). fourth cycle 12 pasta. pasta source is spaghetti. bacon subbed for salami.
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- then stop to catch up
- might even be out of both lentils and pasta (it'll be close)
- eat fruit/ice cream together as meal instead of half meals
- run through caesar salads to build up kale stalks
- run through garden salads
- one more food bank run downtown before i move, when i know
- might go back to schedule in nov or dec. waiting for cdb.
well, yeah. this is what happens next.
by putting bombs in eastern europe, you open up a political fight over every single slavic, baltic and finno-ugric speaking country, as the russians need to pull them all out of nato in order to dismantle the bombs.
expect this everywhere - poland, romania, bulgaria, finland, etc.
there's nothing else they can do. they can't bomb the places out, they can only launch soft coups via election interference to alter or manipulate policy.
what did you expect?
...and for the italians, particularly, to be aggressively trying to enforce the existence of an imaginary palestinian state, by even going so far as to send naval vessels to the coast, is an extension of the genocidal roman policy of changing the name from judaea to filistinia (named after the philistines, who were not arabs, but greeks). it was the emperor hadrian, who in 135 ce, changed the name of judaea to filistinia as punishment for bar kokhba revolt. this was an intentional, conscious act of genocide by the romans, with the intent to eliminate the jews from the map, and consequently from history, and it followed a long policy of completely erasing the carthaginians and phoenecians, who were in truth the real ancient hebrews, before cyrus brought this different population into the region, worshiping what is essentially an indo-european sky god, with deeply zoroastrian themes. the only trace of semitic cultural themes in hebrew religion is the condemnation and rejection of them, which is not the case in arab religion.
does prime minister madonna know any of this at all?
what i actually want to hear from the arabs, and this would demonstrate a level of cultural and historical maturity that is almost entirely lacking in the arab world, is an acknowledgement that the arab conquest and colonization of jerusalem was a historical wrong that needs to be righted, and that the arabs actually owe the jews reparations for their 1000 year occupation of israel.
the mythical solomon was of course a jew, but the arabs put a lot of emphasis on this particular story.
using the myth of the judgement of solomon to determine that the rightful owner of jerusalem is the jews, as though jew-rusalem wasn't evidence enough, is consequently very much hoisting the palestinians by their own petard.
walmart needs to understand that it oversees a circular flow of paper money. as they are frequently a major employer in the areas they exist, the wages they distribute come back to them either directly or via multiplier effects. for walmart to eliminate wage slave employees would force them to close many of their stores, where the walmart is the centre of the local economy.
that's less true of any specific fast food restaurant or other low wage business, but is in aggregate. the walmart is not unique but is special, as it generates aggregate effects.
it's been summer here all the way through september. that's normal nowadays.
in recent years, in southern ontario, meteorological fall starts on oct 1st - maybe. summer generally starts may 1st.
what tends to happen is that the weather just utterly crashes in the first or second week of october and then that's it, summer's over. it's not a slow ramp down; it comes in the form of a thunderstorm, and a wind barrage and five to ten days of highs in the mid to low teens. it's a sudden ten degree crash. it might recover a little for a week or two, but those 20+ degree days in late october don't feel like summer, they feel like warm fall days.
this year, it's been summer all the way through september, with highs in the late 20s and even early 30s. it still feels like july, here. we're still getting convection sunshowers, which in this part of the world are unheard of outside of late july and early august.
we had a cold snap in late may and early june, which sucked, so the last sub 20 degree day here was later than normal, june 4th. it's been 20+ degrees here every single day since june 5th. that's the psychological boundary between summer and not summer, in canada.
we should be ready for this to crash in mid october, but the long term is not projecting it, and i'm not feeling it. we should expect 7-10 days of 20+ degree weather in november in southern ontario nowadays, but it has always followed a cold snap in october or early november. if we get all the way to nov 1st, or even nov 15th, without a single fall day, that's going to be a serious indicator of very real climate change here, and it will make it hard for winter to take hold.
it would be nice to actually grow more fruit here. the entire greenhouse economy here switched to marijuana production after 2015; you can smell the giant grow-op just walking around leamington. it's kind of not very sustainable, and kind of looks pretty stupid, in hindsight. we used to grow tomatoes and strawberries and peaches. now we just grow drugs.
Saturday, September 27, 2025
Carney said the recognition was prompted by the current Israeli government's "avowed policy" of preventing a Palestinian state from ever being established.
canada, britain, france, portugal and spain are all on the path to becoming third world countries. i guess it was long overdue for us to start acting like one.
it might be helpful for white people to realize that the west has this entire generation of immigrant young people that just woke up in 1963.
for them, it's the sexual revolution all over again, and the debates they are having are the debates our grandparents or greatgrandparents had, and that white people aren't interested in and don't want to relive.
i went to see an apartment the other day and an arab guy that was probably half my age practically told me to cover up, like he was a 120 year old. in fact, the old arab tell the trans girl to cover up trick has now happened to me twice this month.
so, i mean, what do i do? do i pity him? do i laugh at him?
they're going to be slowing us down over the next 20 years, and we're going to have to wait for them to catch up.
there's an old movie called pleasantville. go watch it.
Friday, September 26, 2025
the media is trying to argue that the charges that trump faced were legitimate and the charges comey is facing are illegitimate. but, from what i can see, comey is more likely be convicted of perjury, in the end. i might argue they are probably both political attacks and neither is/was really justified, but we judge the value of a court case by it's outcome and it looks like it's comey that's going to jail.
this isn't an acceptable way to use the system, but the democrats need to take responsibility for starting the fight. it's hard to fault trump for defending himself.
Thursday, September 25, 2025
i don't think that moving to community mailboxes is going to result in saving money in the long run. if i have a piece of mail that i want to get somewhere, and i know it's going to a box at the end of the street that might get checked once a week, i'm going to fed ex it instead. for canada post to be the only delivery option that doesn't get your package to the door is just going to make it uncompetitive.
i have a better idea: ban flyers, or make them five times as expensive to deliver.
mark carney simply isn't qualified to do parliamentary work, and he probably was doing very little work in parliament, and would continue to do very little work while in parliament. he has no legal education and no experience as a politician. this work was being done by other people around him, and he likely had minimal influence into it.
what mark carney is qualified to do is a part of the political system that has no basis in democracy, but is required for it to function, so long as we live in capitalism, which is fundamentally incompatible with democracy, and that is to talk to autocratic leaders in the business world and sign backroom deals in smoke filled rooms. this behaviour is not democratic, but it is capitalist, and is the foundation of our political/economic system.
as such, i actually think that carney would have been better used as a foreign minister or as a diplomat than as a prime minister. if the choices are that he can sit in the house of commons and watch his staffers do the work for him or go out and talk to people and try to generate investment, he should do the latter.
i don't like any of this, but it's real life.
what they should do is buy the produce that the farmers can't sell at market prices and then donate it to low-income americans, use it in lunch programs at school, etc.
they could potentially get better vegetables for their low income kids than ketchup.
i think i mentioned something like that in terms of policy in canada, but we haven't seen it yet. i guess we had to wait for the americans to do it first, so we could copy them after.
this is anecdotal, but there's every reason to believe it's honest:
marijuana use amongst retired seniors has skyrocketed in canada over the last ten years. well, i mean, what else do you have to do? you'd might as well just get baked and watch cartoons.
- strokes
- heart attacks
- lung disease
- cancer
- reduced cognitive functions
that's real life, and it's going to be an epidemic here, which is fine if you want them to just fucking die and go away already.
all of the old people are smoking drugs nowadays, which is going to lead to severely reduced life expectancy. they're all going to die of cancer.
this is only bad news if you're a banker. for the rest of the country, the fact that decreased population growth will open up job opportunities, reduce housing costs, ease up social services and potentially even result in deflation is the best thing we've heard since 2006.
i would be happy to sell the three northern territories to the americans if they really want the expensive burden of defending them, but we don't really have the right to do that and the indigenous groups, who certainly could not defend themselves at all, want to be canadian. i don't want to tell them otherwise.
but i want them to be self-reliant and to be able to defend themselves, and that should be the government policy, not aggressive expansion and further colonization via unending population growth.
in order for canada to maintain a society in which government can efficiently provide services based on taxation (the scandinavian model), it's population should not exceed 35 million and should be concentrated in tightly connected urban regions, not spread out over a large distance that requires expensive defense spending. the current population of canada is about 42 million, and we are suffering from the results of overpopulation as a result of it.
the government's policy should be population decline over the next ten years via essentially zero immigration, to reduce the population back to the 30-35 million range. once there, we should be seeking to maintain the population through encouragement of small families.
it is only through restricting population growth that canada can maintain the social services that canadians consider a part of their social and national identity, in contrast to the market capitalism than runs rampant in the united states.
neither side of the arab-israel bitchfest (i'm not calling it a conflict anymore, i'm hereby officially referring to it strictly as bitching) wants a divided jerusalem. the west keeps insisting on this idea. nobody wants this outcome.
in fact, there's a story in the bible about that.
the mythological israeli king solomon is dealing with a conflict over custody of a child. this appears to be a myth that is part of a genre of semitic stories, that have to do with an attempt by the authorities to end child sacrifice (another is the one where a schizophrenic named abraham thinks god told him to kill his child, and then goes into a mental breakdown over it, the moral of which is to stop sacrificing your kids to god), which the romans, greeks and persians all documented as a serious problem in the region, in the late bronze and early iron ages, something that has been upheld by archaeology, and is probably at the root of what later became blood libel, and which we still see in western news in the digital age, in terms of a constant attempt to make jews look like they eat and torture children. anyways, the story goes that they can't figure out who should have custody, so it is suggested that the child be cut in half and split equally amongst the two sides. one side shrugs it off and says whatever, and the other says "no, don't cut my child in half, you psychotic jew. give it to the other person.". solomon, who all evidence suggests never actually existed, decides the real parent is the one that won't cut the child in half, but would give it to the other instead.
while i don't think there's much wisdom in this story, it's worth thinking about.
a divided jerusalem is not a solution to the bitchfest, it's the cause of the bitchfest. the bitchfest will not end until the city is united.
this is the google ai response, which couldn't be more clear:
when the google ai bot is that clear, what more evidence do you need?
just don't take escalators. i know you might be tired, or drunk, or crippled, or old, but it doesn't matter, just tough it out. try as hard as you can. there's no down side, always take the stairs.
just.
don't.
take.
escalators.
i'd like to make a health announcement tying escalators to obesity, and request the fda put warning signs at the front of all escalators indicating that escalator use is strongly correlated with obesity.
i know that the health experts want to wait for more clear conclusions, but i can't wait.
just don't take escalators. ever. always take the stairs. there's no down side. just don't do it.
production decisions should be made by centralized state bodies to ensure that resources are used in the most efficient ways possible, not left up to entrepreneurs in the free market, who might decide to waste resources on manufacturing stickers to pay economic rent. an efficiently run society would neither manufacture stickers nor pay rent at all.
there's nothing that gets under my skin more than pretentious losers that call themselves "entrepreneurs". it is a term that is only used by worthless, intolerable, insufferable people.
is this helpful economic activity? selling colour books and stickers? why don't you call them what they are, which is buskers.
i would have more respect for the busker than the entrepreneur, and would choose the term busker over the term entrepreneur if given the choice. the busker is an artist, they are real and they have an air of blood and sweat and toil. the entrepreneur does no work of their own but pays others to work for them via bank loans on collateral from their inheritance, and uses the surplus value to buy fancy shoes made by six year olds at gun point.
the busker asks for little, and deserves respect for it; the entrepreneur demands respect, and deserves only contempt in return.
but, from the state's perspective, this is juvenile. just build them the goddamned house. don't make them give you a fucking sticker for it. it's a waste of time and a waste of resources, all so they can show they are a part of the elect. as a society, we need to grow up and move on past the childishness of entrepreneurialism.
canada should be placing trade sanctions on indonesia for it's enforcement of sharia law and it's brutal oppression of minority groups.
further, agreements signed with indonesia have minimal value in terms of enforcement, because it doesn't have a functioning judiciary.
worse, the indonesians are not an acceptable military partner.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
they had the 2 for 1 whopper thing going, so i did my biyearly burger king run and had it with a big glass of orange/grapefruit juice for the shot of heme, and i woke up with a stomach ache and a splitting headache. i hope i at least absorbed some iron. whoppers are apparently far better for actual iron content than other fast food burgers. i don't know how much i actually got, but there's apparently roughly 10 gm of iron per whopper, so, given that i don't menstruate, and that i rarely eat chunks of meat like this, 20 mg at one time is a lot.
i added monterrey jack to the burger side of the burger and microwaved half o it for 30 seconds before adding frank's and caesars and then putting the other half back on (not microwaved).
i feel ok, it's just a dull throbbing headache, so let me try some tylenol with caffeine.
hope i don't get autism.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Monday, September 22, 2025
leftists don't like hierarchy. we don't organize in groups with chains of command or leaders. we might vote for bourgeois left political groups as lesser evils, but we usually don't, and they don't represent us. we spontaneously come together when a call goes out around specific issues and then dissipate like gaseous molecules when necessary. if we choose to live together, which we usually don't because we all actually hate each other, we do so in non-hierarchical groups without leaders or structures. we mostly prefer to exist in solitary autonomous zones we create for ourselves.
that's what makes us leftist.
...and the bourgeois entities don't understand it. they think we have leaders barking out orders and chains of command, because it's the only thing they can understand. then, they try to get rid of us to save democracy, which means totalitarian autocracy.
i say let don coyote search for the leaders of antifa. it's fitting. let him search every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse, doghouse and windmill in america for the leader of antifa, because we all know who it is - it's the one armed man.
it's not as though american decline started with donald trump. the seeds of american decline began with eisenhower, were planted with nixon and hit it's peak of backwardsness under reagan. america has been aimlessly drifting like a hopeless opiate addict since the end of the cold war.
go find literature and popular media from the 1920s. the widespread public rejection of faith in this period in favour of empirical science is really refreshing.
then the depression happened, and world war two allowed for a temporary economic revival, but it's been nothing but a deep embrace of conservatism (including the hippies, who were about as paleo-right as you can get) and widespread social decline for america ever since.
why does everything on this blog always reduce to jessica's severe, utter hatred of christianity and other religious people?
it's not merely a question of "you fucking take care of them, then". it's the severely autistic people themselves that have to live through a condition of being unable to speak, or having to wear diapers into adulthood, or being stuck in perpetual pain. there's no way to attach dignity or meaning to this, and if your god insists on it then your god is a piece of shit that should be tied to a cross and set on fire and burned until it dies.
if we can eliminate that suffering before it starts, we should do that.
the life of a severely autistic person is horrendous. it's torturous; and it's a severe burden on others, as well.
christians that want to run their mouths off about individuality and uniqueness and god's plan in relation to the lives lived by the severely autistic are utter pieces of shit that deserve a fucking punch in the face, and that's not an autism joke either.
eugenics was not invented in germany. it's as american as apple pie.
hitler himself based his sterilization laws on american precedents, and pointed to american eugenicists like henry ford as inspirational heroes.
the basic premise of eugenics - to improve the human race using science - is laudable, even if the experience with it 100 years ago freaked a lot of people out. if we can find genetic diseases like tay-sachs and eliminate them, we should do that. autism isn't quite like that as the mutations are largely de novo, but we could identify the types of mutations that lead to extreme retardation and implement abortion as a humane alternative to raising severely retarded children. that type of eugenics is the utilization of science for public policy, which is truly progressive, and something we should be embarrassed about abandoning, as a society, in favour of empty conservatism and trite christian platitudes that help nobody.
the problem with eugenics as it was practiced was that it was wrong. genetic superiority is today understood to be maximized via the highest levels of variation, not by minimizing variation and enforcing conformity. there is no correlation between eye colour and intelligence. etc. the eugenics movement happened before watson & crick; they didn't even know what dna was at all!
our far superior understanding of dna should help us more effectively improve humanity via science, and that's the kind of politics i want to support, not some right-wing bullshit about being afraid to "play god".
there is no such thing as god; it's a stupid, facile idea for the intellectually feeble. we have the science. let's use it, but let's do it correctly.
it should at this stage be up to the mothers, but i would strongly support using dna testing to find extreme cases of autism before they develop, and abortion as a legal solution, when it is positively identified, with high probability to total certainty. we are not far from that.
giving kids b9 supplements is probably harmless, so long as it's not excessive.
however, i am absolutely certain that autism is not a vitamin deficiency and that cases of autism that are "cured" by administering any vitamin are in truth misdiagnosis, which brings up another issue - the over-diagnosis and misdiagnosis of autism in place of issues like child abuse and malnutrition.
Sunday, September 21, 2025
i think mark carney's language and direction likely reflects his background out of government. how many educators have you heard run their mouths off about efficiencies in government from the top of their ivory towers, only to come down to government, step foot in the real world and realize they had no idea what they were talking about? i think that's really what's going on here. you saw this with elon musk recently, who assumed cutting "government waste" would be easy enough for a toddler (or somebody with the mentality of one) to do with no effort, and walked away a discredited disgrace. mark carney is going to learn that there's not so much "red tape" and "inefficiency" to cut after all, with the exception of the salaries of mps, and of backroom deals handing out government contracts to staffing agencies. the single most effective thing that government could do to reduce waste would be stop hiring third party staffing agencies, but they won't do that, and, in fact, a large component of their buy canada policy is going to be increase that. the right option is to stop cutting taxes to win elections, and the right solution at the end of this is going to be to reverse recent tax cuts, which should not have been done. the upside is that carney seems to be a fast learner. let's hope he learns and adjusts quickly to reality, and leaves the elite speak of "cutting red tape" behind in the ivory tower he's abandoned for the real world.
i've been clear that israel should accelerate annexation in an attempt to get it over with, as it is inevitable. there are two paths: we can drag this on while pretending there's some alternative, or we can get on with it and get it over with. i choose the latter.
a few notes about that plan forwards:
1) that may, in some cases, involve using eminent domain to seize palestinian occupied lands and, in those cases, the current owners should be compensated
2) palestinians living in an israeli state need to be able to vote and have equal rights in a single state.
3) while there has been some arab admixture, and more african admixture due to centuries of the arab slave trade, the palestinian population is fundamentally hebrew in ancestry. the israeli state should make a distinct attempt to have the self-identifying and deeply colonized palestinian population better understand the roots of it's own origins, with a goal to convert large amounts of them back to judaism. the process of deislamifying the hebrew/palestinian population and converting them back to judaism should be properly called decolonizing the region.
egypt is the country that should actually be responsible for the wellbeing of gazans, not israel. however, they have rejected that responsibility for decades.
today, when the gazans are purportedly starving and need to escape, what does egypt do?
it sends tanks to the border to shoot palestinians trying to flee into egypt.
what canada, the uk and australia have just done is demonstrate their irrelevance to the region, and to global diplomacy, more broadly.
no serious government would be talking about palestinian statehood in 2025; it's an unserious position, and it renders the government making it an unserious actor.
we have just made ridiculous fools of ourselves.
it is not even a question of it might backfire. it's not feasible.
there is no possibility - a 0% probability - of a palestinian state ever existing. it exists only in the realm of imagination, and mostly in the imagination of anti-semitic westerners.
the only thing that will ever exist is a terrorist movement, and that terrorist movement needs to be stomped out with violence, like all other terrorist movements.
the canadian government had indicated that the palestinians would need to carry out a series of steps before canada would recognize it. the palestinians failed to carry out these steps, and the government recognized them anyways.
i do not recognize any terrorist state of palestine, and i condemn my government for doing so.
i would expect that the corporation will pass the cost on to their employees, and i'd advise doing so in the form of interest bearing loans that can be paid off after a certain amount of labour has been accrued, thereby requiring applicants to go into debt in order to enter the country, and to pay their debt off when they get there, like a student loan program.
i'd like to see canada adopt a similar program, and to adjust the temporary foreign worker program so that it requires applicants to pay a smaller fee, and then pay that fee off via their wages. at every level, working in canada should be seen as a privilege that you should be taxed for, and not as some kind of right.
trump seemed to have a lot of interest in the jfk shooting, which everybody knows was ordered by lyndon johnson.
i've been trying to figure out why they went after kimmel with such bluntness, and why people listened, and it appears to be because he got too close to suggesting it was an inside job. i don't think kimmel said that, or meant to say that, or accidentally implied that. he just got too close to it.
it's not clear to me why trump would be so interested in this guy. i legitimately had never heard of him. he doesn't seem to have been much more than a popular internet troll, with a collection of terrible opinions.
my best guess is that this was a psy-op of some kind, and that's why we're seeing what we're seeing. trump wanted a maga martyr for future generatons, like jfk. this is the guy they picked.
you're not supposed to say that. at all, ever, no matter what, and if you try to with any kind of an audience, you're going to get a knock on your door.
birth defects are necessary and healthy, from a population genetics perspective.
if we got rid of all of the birth defects, we'd stagnate, we'd stop evolving. you don't want that.
if you want to be an autism advocate, there's two ways to do this:
1) the most humane choice in many cases is abortion.
2) in cases where the autistic child is not so retarded as to be able to live a life, they need lifelong support, and state resources to provide it to them.
it may be possible in the near future to determine if a gestating child is autistic via a dna test. it would not be conclusive today, but you could catch a lot of it. that research should be funded.
the genetic mutations that cause autism don't happen during development in the womb, they are already present at conception. rather, the existence of the mutations before development starts guide the development of the foetus to a defective outcome. that is the correct language - autism is a birth defect.
birth defects are not all bad. some birth defects are beneficial; that is how evolution works. autism is not likely to be an evolutionarily beneficial birth defect.
while some evidence may exist that tylenol use generates epigenetic expression in developing foetuses, although i'm skeptical of this, this could not be the cause of the autism, as the autism is in the child's genome and already exists at that stage in development. this is the mistake that the christian right and other pseudoscientific doofuses can't get their heads around. how could their god make autistic children? they must have some disease that can be cured, in order to allow god's creation to exist as intended.
this shouldn't need to be debunked in 2025.
if you insist on maintaining the mental illness of faith in god deep into the 21st century, you're going to have to face the fact that god made the kid autistic.
i haven't seen any research suggesting that tylenol use may create the defective sperms or ova that produce defective embryos that lead to the birth defect that is autistic children. it's possible. i doubt it.
there is very good research tying this birth defect to air pollution, specifically from car exhaust and from smoking cigarettes and marijuana.
Saturday, September 20, 2025
my thermostat says 29. the outside temperature is 18 and seems extremely cold. i'm shivering inside, and have a chill.
it's a good sign. it suggests my testosterone is back where it should be, at trace levels, and i just need to wash off the remaining dirt.
these extremely sick people need to go to jail for the rest of their lives. they have to this point evaded charges, but i'm hoping my landlord can trace the origin of the key, and that it provides a suspect for police to follow up on.
it's relatively clear that somebody was in here last week or the week before to drug some of my food, i think my soy milk. it wasn't enough to generate effects that would bother me when i'm sleeping or when i wake up - i am waking up limp or at worse not even 10% erect or 10 second erections but needing intensely to urinate - but it had some effect on my body, which has taken roughly two weeks to max out. i think it reached it's peak the last few days.
i had to cancel appointments last night and this morning because i have scabs all over my face and look utterly disgusting, but it is washing off, and i don't think it's getting worse.
it's just a process of actually cleaning it off. it's just dirt, it's just filth, and it washes off like any other filth and dirt. the problem is that that process is extremely time consuming and can require repeated applications of various types of soap over and over again.
i spent all night last night scraping, slept briefly, spent all day scraping slept all day and started back on it tonight. i'm going to guess i might be presentable by tomorrow or monday.
i have changed my locks. only i have the keys. so i'm prioritizing cleaning myself up first, under the assumption that this won't happen again.
the most annoying thing is that the inside smoking has largely stopped, as soon as i signed the consent agreement. i need to leave by oct 31st. i think the worst smokers are leaving by sept 30th. there was a pothead smoking joints outside my window that has left.
i'm not sure i can get anybody to agree, but if i can chase the potheads out of here, could i resign here for nov 1st?
it's the biggest, cheapest place i'm going to find. it's just that i can't live in the filth of my neighbours' fucking smoke.
conan/carrey/pacino would be the rasputin-like secret advisor to the boy-king donald trump, chosen due to the sage wisdom demonstrated during the white house press correspondence dinners. unbeknownst to the world, trump would be secretly reliant on conan for direction, which conan would abuse to eliminate his talk show rivals, in his return to late night. conan-carrey-pacino-rasputin would himself be secretly under the tutelage of arnold schwarzeneggar.
they should call it the return of conan.
due to recent events, i am officially downgrading trump's ambitions from stalinism to oriental despotism.
he's like one of those assyrian tyrants that left a list of his accomplishments on some stone tablets, as an exercise in self-promotion, and self-aggrandizement.
there's not enough thought in this for it to be stalinist.
Friday, September 19, 2025
my intestinal tract is imploding on me. have you ever looked down and realized that you just cleared all the way to your duodenum, as the excretion is so perfectly long and well formed that it seems like it just came out of a butcher shop, as some exquisite brand of gourmet sausage?
unfortunately, that never lasts.
what follows is always a faucet of liquid acid, leaving you in search of a spray fountain of baking soda. that would be an interesting product - just a toilet seat shaped container of bicarbonate that you would sit in during strategic and opportune moments, as a sense of relief. i'd call on tums to manufacture this.
i've been having nachos recently, you see.
so, i was thinking about this as my insides were seeping out of my ass - is eminent domain actually a cost effective solution to the housing crisis? hear me out.
we don't build subsidized housing any more because the government doesn't think it's cost effective. i don't think that's actually correct; i think if you do the math, you'll find that's not the case. however, the state insists on trying to to incentivize private builders into building new homes, which leaves what's left for low income tenants. the government then gives money directly to social assistance recipients, with the assumption that they can find below market housing, which they increasingly can't. this doesn't work precisely because social assistance recipients have precisely no market power.
if the state stepped in and just seized older buildings, giving existing tenants a period of six months to a year to move somewhere else and compensating them fairly for it, it would likely save a lot of money in construction of social housing, and spur private development to build by increasing demand for new apartments, condos or small houses.
it's actually a pretty good idea.
trump has developed a pattern of accusing black people of mortgage fraud.
this is a kind of racism that is so anachronistic that you might not even recognize or realize it. i guess it's a reflection of his age. you don't hear about this type of racism much anymore.
i wonder if the national guard have also been targeting black people driving through specific neighbourhoods.
somebody asked me if i spoke hindi today. of course not.
when i was a kid, i thought learning french was inefficient and stupid and a pointless waste of time. why do we need two words for everything? what a waste of perfectly good synapses.
it's easy for me to talk about english as a lingua france because i speak it, right? maybe it's not fair to everybody.
i think a good compromise would be for everybody to learn reconstructed proto-indo-european as the common lingua franca. that way, everybody has to learn the common lingua franca, and it's relevant to almost everybody.
Thursday, September 18, 2025
well, here it is.
the last cardiacs album?
this is like a write your own fantasy cardiacs album, where a collection of hardcore cardiacs fans got to finish the demos left by the late tim smith, who almost unbelievably died of two successive cardiac arrests, after having spent a long period of time in a severely diminished state.
as it's a cardiacs album completed by cardiacs fans, it is in some ways an over the top parody of what cardiacs were, inverted into what tim left for completion.
take it for what it is.
but i suspect they had so much fun, they might do it some more.
call william d drake.
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