December 12, 2025

Yesteryear
One year ago today: December 12, 2024, almost in Ruskin.
Five years ago today: December 12, 2020, they’ve a funny idea.
Nine years ago today: December 12, 2016, the twin qualities.
Random years ago today: December 12, 1996, on meandering.

           57°F inside the hallway, she’s another chiller. Unless that improves, let’s see what we can get into just sitting right here with the coffee. Mind you, I’m down to 15 cups [in reserve], kind of the critical level. Some of the recovered video clips are making it into the January 2000 blog posts. Check it out if you’d like to see my “family” on the banks of the mighty Orinoco. (Yes, the lack of audio is a safe-for-work feature.) Wow, the big banks are taking a real swipe at silver prices. And places in rural Georgia and Alabama are posting twice the national average of population increases.

           This is neat, the banks are desperately trying to smother the soaring price of silver with mountains of certificates. It must be paper because if it was real silver, the shortage would be instantly noticed. A dozen headlines declaring that silver drops after “historic rally”. Yeah right, it takes two weeks to inch upwards and falls $2.50 in one hour this morning. I’d like to see some banks fail over this one. Here is 20 oz I sold today, and things have definitely changed. See addendum.

           Unable to rally, I stayed inside, mostly reading. The downtown streets are blocked for the Xmas parades later tonight. Says here that Tampon Tim says the billion-dollar Somali heist is the fault of White men, that the non-Whites are just taking compensation for past wrongs. On that, I’m grabbing my bass to play “Some Kinda Wonderful” by Grand Funk.
           Then I studied the story of the Pandora. That’s the ship sent to hunt down the Bounty mutineers. A group of the sailors who did not directly participate had stayed ashore in Tahiti. The Admiralty was more concerned about the cost of the Bounty to the British taxpayer. So they declared the group to be pirates and chained them in a cage.

           It says here 23,746 people in Canada this year have died waiting in line for medical treatment. Taylor Swift handed out bonuses to her tour employees averaging around $108,000 each. But the number is a secret, so don’t tell anyone I figured it out. The New York Times said seniors got bilked for $982 million last year to on-line tech support scams. I have two conflicting opinions on that one.
           Not a fan of A.I. got me looking at a system called KaBLE. It is claimed to distinguish a major flaw in the way LLM (large language models) operate. The chatbots use millions of recorded files to compose the “next word” in their replies so that responses are coherent. (That process is itself a telling criticism of such "intelligence". KaBLE claims ability to distinguish between what people know and what they believe. I could not follow the material but I gather when applied, the accuracy of A.I. responses drops from over 90% to below 15%. You’ll have to look that up on your own, I say, I could not follow the material.

Picture of the day.
Ship below the horizon.
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           This picture tells a mini-tale from the trailer court. These are the rolls of coins that normall are used for anti-dormancy deposits. (To prevent any rarely used accounts from going dormant.) Shown here is $57 that has now been co-opted for the crisis that my old bones tell me is coming. I’m clueless about the mechanics of the recording industry, but I know the path to big sales has little to do with talent. It’s a machine that is greased by money. Most of the hit music you hear is not the best, nor the most gifted musicians. It is the people who paid up, also known as bribery.

           Why is this silver a factor? Because it represents a turning point. All the money up to now has been prime investment capital, something most people never achieve in their lives. If I lose it, I also lose the money I could have made with it, known as the “opportunity cost”. And that could be a way of saying that is the only real money you will ever make in your life. The silver [sale] is digging into base money, its loss would represent real structural damage.

           I drove downtown to for this transaction and listened to more of the now-destested audiobook. This story is plainly a backlash at the declining believability of holocaust claims. Like Eva Clarke who testified under oath that she listened to the Auschwitz guards bragging about the Jewish girls they raped each day. She made this claim for 80 years until a challenge proved she could not speak German.
           I listened to the Xmas parade, just a block from here, but you know, I didn’t go. I’ve already seen the same floats in all their parades and it is only 58°F out there. True, I never know which parade will be my last, but the same can be said of my quiet evening right here, too lazy to cook so I’m eating salami sandwiches. All but one of my catheter wounds has healed. That one, inside my right elbow, has become a collapsed vein two inches long. I’ll give it till morning to improve.

ADDENDUM
           Here are the States that still use black & white photos on their ID cards.

Alaska
Colorado
Georgia
Indiana
Kentucky
Maryland
New York
Ohio
Vermont
Virginia
Wisconsin

           Soon, you will not be able to buy and sell without a record of your identity. What a pity we now have three generations of Americans who have never know what it is like to have the freedom of anonymity. It’s easy to see the logistics how the system slowly slipped in layer after layer of little laws. Now, if you sell some silver, it is on record down at the Sheriff’s office. Over half the population brainwashed into thinking that is normal.
           It’s the old story, if you aren’t up to something, why would you object to the police keeping files on you? The same reason they won’t let me look at those files. They are up to something.
           Here’s what to know about silver dealing today. All Florida dealers are required to log your ID into the software provided by the police. The spot price when I walked in was $62 per ounce, I know that is optimistic and the bar charge is $3 per ounce. How close did I get to $59? Not very. I netted $54 per ounce. Talking to the buyer, he explained in the last two weeks, he had bought over a million dollars in his little shop. That is, there is an over-supply from the buyer’s point of view.
           If the sale is over an arbitrary limit, which I took to be $3,000, they issue a check with a five-day delay.

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