See you, space cowboy!

Earth is our home.

Soviet union times

I identify as an AI company ☠️

I wonder how they decided which artist to include in the thumbnail image.

India and Pakistan fighting is normal. If ever they become allies, that’s when you can be absolutely positive that some real shit is going to go down.

Pregnancy

I’ll volunteer, on the Vietnamese side

Did y’all forget about the Zika, Ebola, Bird flu and Swine flus?

This map is accurate, I am Australian and we have sunk back beneath the sea where we belong

India v Paki coming from behind in global flashpoint race to WW3. Its now neck and neck and neck between:

• India V Paki
• Israel V Palestine/Lebanon/Houthi/Iran
• New Syria V Syria (new)
• China V Taiwan
• China V Philippines
• Ukraine V Russia
• US V Houthis/Iran
• America: The Meme V America: The Dream

Australia V the Emus doesn’t even rate anymore.

My congratulations to Trade for winning the trade war.

Some of the earliest websites were shock sites full of gore and horrific porn. The rest were just regular porn and chatroom degeneracy incubators. The internet was a hostile entity from the outset.

All billionaires are shit, but Gates is only an elephants diarrhoea, whereas musk is the sick triceratops’ shitmound from Jurassic Park.

By other means

There needs to be some sort of unblockable self-hosted broadcast system where users can spin up their own cloud hosted instance by entering a username and password and choosing one of hundreds of providers for a small fee, or self hosted instance as quickly and easily as installing a single app on an android phone. These with act just like websites, but with a common protocol and API so they can communicate with each other and with clients with no specific add-on. Then, Turkey or whoever could block Turkish ISPs from fulfilling that request, but anyone else could still access the instance in their client as long as their own instance doesn’t block it.

Hostable on a phone, a windows PC, Linux PC, self-hosted VM, cloud rented VM, whatever. And easily portable from one place to another.

Sure, uptime and reliability would suffer, EG when PC is turned off, but that’s acceptable to gain resilience against ISP, central services like google and Facebook and twitter, and government interference.

I have designed a system to do this, using very reliable existing protocols and programming frameworks, I just don’t have the time or money to invest to make it happen.

I’m reading “Lost In Shangri La”, It’s a true story about an army plane carrying a lot of womens army corps personnel that crashed in the highland valley of Baliem in New Guinea, a place that almost nobody knows exists, inhabbited by uncontacted cannibal tribes, and surrounded by thousands of guerilla-style embedded Japanese troops. The three survivors, two men and one woman suffer horrific injuries and gangrene, and are on the verge of death when the US army parachutes a bunch of paratroopers in to treat the survivors, with no established plan to extract them. The mountains are far too high for helicopter extraction, and there’s nowhere to land a plane in the jungle.

I recently got done reading “The Day I fell From the Sky”, a story about a german teenager who was the sole survivor of a mid air plane explosion who survived her plunge into the jungle and self-rescued over the course of like 2 weeks.

Next up is “Cannibals are Human” by Helen Mcleod, an expedition back into Papua New Guinea. So I guess I’m on a bit of a jungle vibe this month.

Violence is not the answer. Violence is the question. And the answer is “Yes”

The colonies didn’t resort to violence when unfairly taxed, they just offered a tea party.