December 5, 2021

Yesteryear
One year ago today: December 5, 2020, they’ll scream loudest.
Five years ago today: December 5, 2016, Peace River Park.
Nine years ago today: December 5, 2012, yes, I’ve teletyped.
Random years ago today: December 5, 2005, praying for a meltdown.

           Today is technically a kind of starting point, in that this marks the point after which government protection for people who have not been paying their rent or mortgage lose. The timing is my own calculation but I would have expected it to be big news. It isn’t, and what’s more, I do not feel sorry for the majority of people who will lose. Not ony were they living a credit-based lifestyle which forces up prices for the rest of us, they were often the first to comply with illegal government edicts. By coincidence, I began receiving e-mails about dealing with the estimated foreclosure surge of some 15,000 houses per week. I had not thoough about that, instead I was hoping for the long-awaited plunge in house prices.

           Here is the fate the old Taurus just avoided for now. Being sold to a curbside junk dealer. Instead, I may attempt to replace that frost plug myself, since I’m guessing I’ll be back in Tennessee sooner than planned at this juncture. Things tend to slow down too much when I’m not around and this cannot become a location where I let that go.

           South Africa, the good part I mean, has announced a series of treatment drugs and therapies to treat people with COVID vaccine maladies. We should be seeing some fun legislation out of California,as the armed gangs have discovered Beverly Hills houses have more goodies than the ghettos. Hey, no mercy, these California liberals invited these people in and decriminalized most crimes. Let them get what they deserve. I got no use for idiots. Or how about the media saying the reason the unvaxxed Amish aren’t dying wholesale is due to them all having mutant genes?
           I’m keen on the news this morning because I was near the computer the whole time. I’m trying some of the instructions given with that recent webinar. It is time-consuming. So, if the Amish are okay not vaccinated, how come COVID is breaking out on cruise ships where everybody is jabbed. I think the only people left who believe a thing about COVID are pathetic social rejects. Who don’t realize it because they only hang around with each other.

           Taking breaks only to walk the dogs and a shopping trip, I was back to being myself in college. Eight cups of coffee, copious notes, and information overload. The Reb had that church service out near Lebanon, Ididn’t make it. But she now has a steady gig there, although some object to calling it that. Hey, I still call the choir loft the stage and the congregation the audience.
           Rumble is going public and I’m tempted to speculate. I’m not their greatest fan because the site suffers the same content shortcomings as most youTube video. Five minutes of info stretched into at least twenty minutes of junk footage. But it is a step toward shorter single-topic broadcasts and a direct threat to Big Tech. It takes a truly stupid mass of nobodies to let platforms like eFAG to succeed in the first place. But operators like Twitter are beginning to show signs of cracking.

Picture of the day.
Appleford railway bridge.
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           Finally, a use for 3D printers. This is a suicide pod. Invented by an Australian, it is used at present in Switzerland, where euthenasia is legal. It came to the forefront becauseof the ruling that the clients mustbe fully vaccinated. Upon a button push by the occupant, the chamber fills with oxygen death occurs in around 30 seconds. I have no clue how they intend to regulate who uses these things. Some 1300 people already have. Hmmm, the pods look re-usable, Hillary.

           Half a day later, I think I am making headway and can safely say the drop-out rate in this business must be 90% the first week. It is a well-thought out system, but suffers heavily from the COIK syndrome, term that is as rare as the real programmers who use it. “Clear Only If Known” means directions that can’t be followed without already knowing what they are talking about. Lawyers are bad for this, but not as bad as people who write computer instruction manuals. The on-line people are the worst. They love to tell you to click on a button that does not even appear.

           In that beautiful realm where you are rich enough to do anything, Amazon is thumbing their noses at the fake supply chain crisis. They just build their own containers, ship them to small ports up the coast, and truck them down to their distribution centers. I’m no fan of Amazon but I would cheer if they put these supply-chain bastards out of business for trying to pull a fast one. The USA reacts very rapidly to changes in supply and demand, so no use telling me this nationwide crises that arise out of thin air are anything but bullshit.

           After another long study session, parts of the process are becoming clearer, and those are not the aspects that appeal to newcomers. One is the two-fold whammy of getting organized and staying organized. And this is not to imply they take the same effort each. I notice when anything requires tracking by relational software, think of this as the process lawyers use called “diarizing”, though it may have a common term. Every piece of information is linked to a single case number.
           The problem with this system is it quickly becomes like a crossword puzzle where you don’t know how many pieces there are, so the people who do the entry try to make the pieces fit. Nonetheless, I have extensive experience keeping such records and I predict that is about to come in super-handy. It’s amusing to me how such simple relational database systems are just now making their way into the marketplace. That’s software like Highrish HQ and Bitrix24, these are database for dummies compared to what I’ve been using for years. And I still favor linked spreadsheets for a lot of it.

           This time, there is a need to share the information in real time. Maybe I’ll find something useful on-line. As always I will devote time to keeping the data secure by splitting up the information and putting a tight lock on the links that amalgamate it. I looked at several examples on-line but all suffered badly from e-mail style screen clutter and bad report design. I’ll likely just pick the features that get the work done.
           There is an aspect of the venture that I regard as cold-blooded, but not in the sense of sinister. It is not skip-tracing that I frown upon, but the use of public records for other than the purpose for which they are collected. (But if the info was given willingly, that opens a door.) I’ve said it before, people should pay their bills. But if they do not, it isn’t the business of the DMV, voter registration, the phone company, or Google. I would also require anybody who acts on such public records to reveal where they got it to the party being traced. All databases should be required once per year to tell each person who is on file. All records should be destroyed when their original purpose is fulfilled. And so on.
           On the other hand, people who give out private information are stupid and deserve any consequences. I don’t need any of the data to harm anyone, I’m just saying their stupidity has allowed the evolution of the entire surveillance industry. I draw a distinction between the creation of such a system and what happens once such a system is already there. I could find anybody anywhere long before the Internet arrived.

ADDENDUM
           That’s interesting. People who live in pro-Trump districts are three times more likely to die from carona virus.

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