They should just skip the whole walk around the park and just give their supporters brown shirts, arm bands and some kind of blunt force weapon (with no restrictions) … and to keep them motivated in the evenings, get them to parade around with torches at night

Sounds like Trump got what he wanted and just wanted to move on to the next one

All I want to do is write a simple document. Many people have already written plenty of software to do just that … I don’t need it to do anything else.

Any company that wants to engineer anything else beyond that is just trying to justify to everyone why they would want to install a 90hp outboard motor on a little goldfish.

I’m up in Canada and when I look at these headlines every day … it just affirms my belief that America is a failed democracy. Everyone keeps calling it a democracy but it’s only a name or description at this point because it certainly doesn’t function like one any more.

I’m in no special place either … we are on our way downhill up here as well. We’re not at the same level as the US but we are on our way there. The whole first world system is slowly morphing into some sort of weird Corporatocracy.

It’s not just the fact that a president makes these stupid proclamations …

It’s that the whole American government, or at least a good portion of it, just goes along with it and allows it all to happen and normalize it all. Their leader is there because there is an entire community of professionals, academics, supporters, wealthy leaders, officials, bureaucrats and politicians all want him to be there. Trump isn’t some god king that magically is able to do or say all this … he’s there because enough people who are in control want him there.

The orange menace is just the very tip of just how stupid America and American politics have become

The article I read at the time mentioned that this was the average bare minimum … like a single unemployed parent doing their best to raise and keep a child alive and fed until they were 18.

The cost is higher if there are two parents paying for expenses … and even higher if the parents have any bit of wealth

20 years ago I read an article that stuck with me ever since … it detailed at the time that on average, whether you can afford it or not, it costs about $200,000 to raise a child to the age of 18.

So selling the kid would cut the parents losses over the 18 year period

I think this is our great filter … the filter that won’t allow us to explore the universe beyond our planet. We’ll send up probes and robots into space but we’ll be too busy fighting the handful of men down here who want to try to rule the planet. And those handful of men will keep our world as miserable as possible in order to keep them wealthy and as powerful as possible. Once that group of men dies off, another group of men will take their place endlessly. And it will be that perpetual small group of men that will keep us confined to our current state of evolution and keep us all down on this planet.

As Carl Sagan put it in ‘A Pale Blue Dot’ …

“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.”

Good … all social media should be heavily regulated and controlled everywhere. Social media has become as integrated and influential in our lives like newspapers and television and radio once were … they heavily regulated those media in the past, they should do the same for all social media everywhere now.

Right now, its basically just the wild west and governments are always playing catch up or just blindly being controlled by the corporations behind all social media

Download your copies of wikipedia as much and as often as you can in the next few years … it’s all either going to get diluted, debased, dumbed down or sections of it deleted as time goes on. The private sector and private enterprises have been wanting to get rid of it for years. The only way we can really protect it is if we all get our own current copy that has currently not been too affected too much.

It is and it isn’t … the whole system can be explained away as just runaway greed and organized chaos … but there is a large portion of it that exists just out of the sheer will and faith of a majority of people. Much of the wealth that exists doesn’t truly exist, it’s just promises stacked on promises stacked on promises backed by the faith of everyone that those promises are legitimate, even though they all know that none of if can ever possibly be repaid. It’s a faith based system.

The real religion in America is the financial system

Everyone prays to it and holds complete and total faith in it … their faith in that system is the only thing that makes it all possible and functional. They have legions of priests, brotherhoods, churches of finance, cathedrals of corporations and basilicas of banking and entire congregations of millions of followers who all pray to this system each and every day. As long as they all believe and hold faith in this system, it stays alive and continues to grow, even as it eats up all their lives and everything they own.

And the ending is also tied to their faith.

As soon as enough of them stop believing in it … the whole thing will come crashing down.

So keep praying to your church of finance America … it’s the only thing keeping it alive.

The dumb part is not that this orange idiot wanted to do all this.

The dumb part is that there is a large team, a huge organization, an entire community of people and professionals that enabled him to do all this and make it all possible. Everyone keeps pointing fingers at the deranged mango clown show, but people seldom think about the production crew that keep him in power and enable everything he wants to do, no matter how stupid it is.

If you ask the fourth American, they’d probably say that US democracy had already failed quite a while ago. If you want evidence if democracy has failed in America, just look at the clown show in its current leadership and have a cursory look at what they are doing and keep doing right now.

It’s probably the greatest democracy break in modern history because it’s obviously broken, yet like a cowboy running the dog and pony show with the carriage on fire, no one really wants to admit that anything is wrong with this picture or do much about it.

The fact that more and more sources are saying that ‘it might fail’, ‘it’s approaching failure’ or ‘in danger of failing’ … is probably a sign that it has already failed.

quickly asked for an AI summary of the site and it returned:

DailyAdda (dailyadda.com) is an Indian news aggregation platform

Key Features of the Platform

• Short-Form Summaries: It mimics popular “quick-read” news formats by condensing complex articles into brief, 60–120 word bullet points or recaps.

• Multilingual Support: The platform distributes news in English, Hindi, and Bengali.

• Beyond Mainstream News: In addition to current events, politics, and sports, it frequently aggregates local job alerts, government examination notices, local transit/metro updates, and regional weather.

Behind the Scenes

• Developer/Publisher: The app and platform are managed by an Indian developer named Arnab Chakraborty, operating under the entity CC Group & Co.

lol … psychopaths and sociopaths with a never ending thirst for profit are surprised that infinite growth no matter how much you want to believe in it can not sustain itself are surprised when their money can’t magically grow any more.

It was a small smouldering fire on the kitchen stove before Trump … now the entire kitchen is on fire … but everyone is sitting in the living room trying to ignore the smoke that’s filling up the rest of the house.

When you negotiate with lying egomaniacal assholes who never say the same thing twice … what do you expect is going to happen?

Almost made it years ago … I’m a recovered alcoholic and one of my recovery options was to be admitted into a facility but I wasn’t that far gone yet so I was able to go through lighter treatment services and go through the 12 step program instead … that was over 30 years ago and these days I feel like I’m edging towards losing my sanity again every day.

I only made the comparison of social media to a mental hospital because just about every day I see more and more deluded realities than ever before. At one end, I have my younger relatives (under 30 years of age) living some kind of weird online life that they try to emulate like a k-pop reality show, a soap opera or a comedy show with a laugh track (meanwhile their real life situation is anything but) … and at the other end, I have older relatives (over 50 years of age) who only ever want to be angry, afraid or semi or fully racist or fascist (when in real life their lives are good peaceful and they would never be openly racist or fascist, or show any support for it!). People keep telling me that maybe it’s just the quality of people I am around … but I look into other social media feeds with family who live in the cities down south, the rural areas, the northern remote areas or the busy suburban areas and its almost all universally the same. And I know a variety of people … poor trailer trash types, northern poor people, native families living on reserves … as well as middle class white people living in cities, upwardly mobile professionals, teachers, office workers, government workers, a few medical doctors and nurses and even a couple of millionaires who live in the city.

I should also clarify that these observations are all about corporately owned social media … and yes I know that they are heavily influenced and managed to be like this … but still, it feels so overwhelming that at one point, it does feel like being trapped in some kind of institution. Sure I can leave but all or most of my family and friends are in there. Most of the people I know are not technically savvy or interested and they just prefer being on FB, IG or TikTok or even X … and whenever I do see them there, I feel like I’m visiting the FB Ward or the TikTok Ward of a giant facility full of deluded people.

says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year

… which means, it already happened a year or two ago and it is much, much worse than anyone can imagine