If Humans Were Rational

Not a pretty Friday on Wall Street — and not much prettier in the headlines. When Trump fires a shot across Xi’s bow and Beijing answers it reminds the world how the U.S. “forced Japan’s hand.”

Before WWII, traders tended to duck first and think later.

Friday was a duck (or ostrich)day. Markets closed the week bruised, nervous, and about as graceful as a bar fight at closing time.

But step back a minute. All this noise — wars, tariffs, inflation, political food-fights — is really about one thing: our addiction to growth. The global system only works when we feed it more: more debt, more consumption, more stress.

Which is why this weekend’s Peoplenomics report asks the heretical question: If humans were rational, what industries would we shut down?

We’ve got a list — and it’s not short. From high-fructose corn syrup to glyphosate, from the ad industry’s hypnosis to warehouses full of unused junk, we’ve built entire economies around irrationality.

The good news? There are sane replacements: soil restoration, cognitive-health design, local energy loops, and a tax-deductible gift economy that rewards generosity instead of hoarding.

If that sounds radical, remember: so did “personal computers” once upon a time.

Rational redesign isn’t destruction — it’s evolution without denial. So after this week’s market mess, maybe a little rational thinking is overdue. Full report — plus a defense of AI against the latest media panic — is up and waiting for you. Bring coffee.

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  2. Comms

    Worked 12 states in 30 minutes including Texas + B.C. at Pacificon yesterday on 14.250 Special Event Station W1AW/6. I’ll trying calling you this morning when I arrive on same frequency +- around 0800 hrs Pacific Time.

    Your East Bay Buddy

    73’s

  3. More BIG financial FRAUD came out of the woodwork over the last several days.

    First it was the multiple hypothecation of vehicle loans from the used car end of the auto market, a fraud that has left a few banks short a few Billion, now it is “First Brands” an auto parts manufacturer under who’s tutelage a couple of billion more in bankers cash has disappeared.

    These are typical end of economic cycle dynamics that tend to show up near the end of any long term economic up cycle. Of course everyone here is well aware of the multi-year commercial real estate collapse which is now about 1/2 way through it’s actual losses becoming “recognized” losses (several more years of those losses flowing into the banking and finance system as they are finally “recognized”).

    More BIG rats (fraud) will be coming out of the woodwork as the economy deteriorates and finally goes into an actual recession. Human Nature never changes …. getting easy money via Fraud is always going to tempt some enterprising aggressive person, or group of people.

  4. Somehow escaped from my own natural tendencies yesterday..close call indeed. The “Discipline” saved the day for this wild eyed gambler, thank goodness.

    One of the main rules I follow in my trading adventures is “Never Let a Winning Trade Turn Into a Losing Trade”.
    So I spent the better part of yesterday AM taking prophets in Gold and Silver miners= Call Options. The 10/17 Exp. left over QQQ Puts position grew in value accordingly, as PM options exposure grew thru beginning of month. By late morning the market was turning on me, and available prophets started to fade and ultimately disapear.

    Thankfully the orange gollum of greatness, TACO , opened his big fat pie hole again, out spewed market crushing blather..100 % tariff on Chyknees goods.
    One has to wonders.. if that will apply to all the TONS of FENTY chemicals pouring into CONUS everyday from Chynah ? And who Pays Drug dealing Buyer, or Chemical Selling Chyknees ?

    Anywhos, that ought to be enough tariff tax receipts to close the gaping budget holes, no?

    * first EQ in Drake Passage area ever. Seems when Ure home planet is stuck tween 2 Gas giants, Ure planet tends to get buffeted by massive energetic “farts” – these nasty gases push and pull the planets’ plates, grinding em together like 2 Bulldogs in a duffle bag fighting over a pork chop. Yep historic pattern to it – look it up “stuck tween 2 gas giants” .

    • Ahem… SECOND earthquake in Drake Passage in recent history. Did you miss the first one last month??

    • “first EQ in Drake Passage area ever”

      Not even close. “The historical record of seismic activity in the Drake Passage reveals a pattern of earthquakes that underscores the region’s geological volatility. Over the years, numerous significant earthquakes have been documented, with magnitudes ranging from moderate to severe. These seismic events have not only impacted the marine environment but have also posed risks to vessels operating in the area.

      One notable earthquake occurred in 1960, when a massive 9.5 magnitude quake struck off the coast of Chile, generating tsunamis that affected coastal regions across the Pacific Ocean, including areas near the Drake Passage.”

      I think your Ring Current may be leaking…………

    • it’s such a beautiful demonstration of true american free market capitalism that trump can make markets jump up and down with a social media post, almost like he has the entire economy under his reign. i can guarantee the insiders are beyond reproach and not personally profiting from it. gotta love american capitalism!

  5. ” it’s evolution without denial”

    The system is de-evolutionary. America started with limited laws, common ‘live free or die’ goals, neighbor freely helping neighbor, a gold standard, the founders all looked like each other.

    – Joe Biden undergoing radiation therapy as cancer care enters new phase
    – Trump MRI reveals derangement syndrome

      • More 4D –

        “President Trump got his COVID booster shot Friday night while Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America’s most famous anti-vaxxer and the HHS Secretary, restricts Americans’ access to the vaccine he hates.”

  6. Separately – PEACE!

    Which American contractors are getting the juicy rebuilding contracts?

    Security will be yuge!

    “Approximately 80% of buildings in the Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed as a result of the war that began in October 2023.”

    That’s a lot of concrete.

  7. Was it Nancy? “… Papa Nobel’s Dandy Dirt and Rock Removal …”
    Too funny. Explosive remarks.
    Egor

  8. (Turn the storage business into a distributed circular economy — rent a locker, get matched with someone who needs what you’re storing.)

    ok.. like a basement or storage shed.. just space to fill with stuff you might need later on..if you rent a storage locker..the idea is sound for a short term move.. but long term.. its just better to give it away then buy new…

    (Civilian corps for Earth triage. Imagine fresh food in every home!)

    this one fits right in with my fifty plus year rant of greenscaping cities replacing the lost crop land..what it doesn’t support is the business model of big buck billies pockets..its why stores will throw out merchandise rather than give it to shelters to distribute them to the needy that can’t afford them but need them.shoes are a big one..you buy a pair of pants and take them home try them on and they are the wrong size.. so you return them..the store refunds your cost and then they toss them out..now Amazon has a good idea..they sell returned merchandise by the pallet..the last time I had heard it was something like fifty bucks a pallet..but you have to buy a whole semi trailer full.. a guy I knew had forty burial urns on one pallet..you never know what your getting.. I got my griddle that sells for somewhere around four hundred for twenty dollars.. from a local retailer..cost money to keep it on the shelf..stores will cut the cords off of appliances then when they change shelves or get the new style..out goes the unit… ( that’s why I have three AEDS here.. gotta support big buck billies pockets so every few years they change the case ..and put in countdown chips.. we drink a lot of coffee..the coffee maker we have has a countdown chip in it after so many pots the reshaping light comes on but doesn’t go off and it suits down..so far the company just sends us a new coffeemaker every four months..)
    auto industries now don’t have parts for cars ten years old or older.. I had to have my steering fixed..the dealer can’t buy parts and since it NASA wheelchair adaption..parts are not available..I had to find a machinest to make the parts..or toss the vehicle away..the s ad me with the kids pickup..they just took it in and said the mechanic can’t get a part none available in junk yards either the pickup is toast.. to the dump..

    (Suppose we flipped philanthropy inside out. Instead of working, hoarding, and then donating wealth after death )

    sadly..you acquire save this king oh I will get a savings then let little billy have it and Sarah loo… but that doesn’t usually happen That way unless your richer than midas…it goes to the state if the healthcare industry has got taken it all prior.. my mother left a few grand in a bank but to get it would cost almost as much then it would have to be given to the government..
    the ones that get the money are the healthcare industry and insurance industry the pharmaceutical industry..average yearly cost per person at an assisted living is hundred grand plus medical transportation and personal needs.. at a home it’s way over a quarter mil and rising plus the other expenses.. the insurance industry takes in trillions and is by far one of the best stock options for a good return..the same with pharmaceutical industry..

    • Pharmaceutical Industry IS modern day equivalent of The MAFIA, Cosa Nostra, Kosher Nostra. They make outrageous amounts of money, they hurt/harm/destroy/murder a percentage of the population every day. Insiders with revolving doors to FDA/CDC/NIH.

      Pharm = ORGANIZED CRIME .

      Kill the BEAST, before it KILLS us all.

      • Not really …The Neighborhoods controlled by the maffia..are the safest neighborhoods to go shopping in..follow the rules they set and have a good time.. my father told me a story about so Capone and his men.. the depression years.. food scarcity.. the truck came around once a week the members dropped off a box of food to all the homes with children.. he made sure kids all got a snack and a glass of fresh milk every day at school and a hot meal..no one wanted him arrested.. the difference is the pharmaceutical companies rape the public with medication costs tens of thousands of percent higher to the neighborhood that pays taxes that are given to them as research grants to develope..the medical industry is so badly broken because we have an insurance industry that rapes the public over premiums in trillions of dollars to refuse to pay or making the requirements so high that the average person won’t ever meet it. … medical institutions regularly turn away or discourage someone from getting help because of money that they don’t have.. I was visiting with a person from another country.. their oncologist asked them to get checked..but they don’t have the six figure number to give.. for them to move back to their country to get the medical procedures done is not favorable because they would basically be put in just as big of a political nightmare.. the dammed if you do dammed if you don’t.. either way they lose.

  9. re: triple twenties
    feat: “Street Fighting Man”

    Folks,
    Apparently top-flight darts players have walk on theme music blaring to get their fanbase in the stands revved up for action.

    Speaking of the carded player cull by the PDC (Professional Darts Corporation) last January, the “CBC” weighed in four days ago on the controversial CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) ostrich cull at an Edge land, BC farm beside Lower Arrow Lake. The farm proprieters appear to have raised a six figure amount on social media in a bid to save their troop. It seems the farmers don’t own the birds. Farm creditors state the birds are heading to slaughter if they get their way. Believe it or not, ostriches are “not considered pets” by creditors as the following “CBC” link informs:

    https://www.cbc.ca/1.7650546

    According to “Wikipedia”, water levels of the present-day Arrow Lakes have been impacted by hydroelectric dam development. However a Hudson Bay Archive mention from 1826 suggests an origin of the lakes’ name. A hole in “Arrow Rock” contained a number of native Indian-fired arrows “before a war excursion”.

    I was recently super-early at the airport prior to a before daybreak flight. Suffering price sticker shock at my $7 small tea and unbuttered croissant in hand, a moving object crossed my frame of view in the empty terminal. With tape barring its superstructure perhaps to discourage joyriders, an AI driverless floor cleaner squeegeed it’s way back and forth. While one might be tempted to toss obstruction in the path of progress, an abundance of caution would avoid allegations of anti-social behavior. I don’t know if the machine in question is manufactured by Buffalo-Springfield.

    • as long as the “AI driverless floor cleaner squeegeed it’s way back and forth” is using Genuine Callahan Brake parts made in Sandusky, Ohio and not china.

  10. “just space to fill with stuff you might need later on”

    People are addicted to buying. Once a kitchen countertop is full of gadgets they don’t stop. But who am I to say?

    Look to $AMZN Prime days. The people who complain about buying from China are likely their biggest customers. And I saw porches around here w/boxes stacked w/the latest must have deals.

    “There are 180.1 million Amazon Prime users in the U.S.”

    These ATMs will eventually wind-up in a landfill. But dogs need fun.

    “TD Bank is introducing “Automated Treat Machines” (ATMs) that dispense free dog snacks in select branches along the East Coast. These machines, designed to give dogs a fun experience, use motion detectors to dispense treats when a dog approaches and feature dog-centric content on their screens.”

    https://www.nj.com/news/2025/10/td-bank-to-add-atms-filled-with-dog-treats-at-2-nj-branches-month.html

    • (“People are addicted to buying. Once a kitchen countertop is full of gadgets they don’t stop. But who am I to say?”)

      I have to totally agree.. and I am one.. my wife fringes every time there’s a new gotta have kitchen gadget…trust me I got them.. I am going to use my George foreman meat cooker to make pressed sandwhiches.. the kids got me a smokeless indoor grill that is fun to use.. I set up the mr. steak table to put the small camping grill on it..the wife asked..what’s that.. ( when I accidentally made termite with my old rusty favorite grill and had the fire from he’ll with it… I decided rather than buy another big one I would just use the small Smokey hollow.. what she was seeing was the two smokers on it and the wood fired pizza oven..I do love that small Smokey hollow grill. With just us here there’s plenty of room. what I don’t have.. and want ..well I do have a pasta press which is a dough sheeter.. But being totally serious.. it would be nice to have but definitely not needed.. its the same when I built things out of wood.. most commonly called..tool slut….everyone has one.. the one thing you admire and love so you get one or two ..my wife says I’m a pack rat..I simply bring up her sewing stuff..
      oh..the Yuzu Coconut wine has aged.. wow.. nice…speaking of which I have to sterilize and bottle it..definitely nice..now that its aged I can’t see it going over ice cream..like the gran daughters friend from the Philippine said..very nice not as coconut tasting like it was..

  11. In preparing for the possibility of a full blown NBC operating environment, I’m not sure that counting on digital anything is particularly smart. I have all sorts of computer security. I have two or three levels of E1 surge protection protecting electronics. I have back-up electronics in excessively shielded enclosures. I keep the network connections to my UPS locked down. I have solar panels which can be impressed into temporary service.
    But none of this is foolproof. And there is no guarantee that the financial institutions I do business with have anyone with a clue watching the store. Same with the comm outfits. I am thinking my Utility Co-Op may have updated their relaying in recent years, but that is no guarantee in a larger grid-down scenario. And there is no guarantee that I will live past the first ammo magazine and the first firefight when the increasingly nearby urban horde moves in looking to mimic their Walking Dead training videos, and I can’t run and hide. My only hope would be for the raiders to be going further out looking for less heavily defended ‘hoods.
    Best to maintain credible 19th century style back-ups for at least a quarter or two, with non-refrigerated supplies. Trying to raise enough food to live off of without power, fuel or resupply indefinitely is a pipe dream.

    • (“In preparing for the possibility of a full blown NBC operating environment, I’m not sure that counting on digital anything is particularly smart.”)

      I just had a conversation with someone about this..a few minutes ago.. I had gotten home from work and my wife said.. say your professor friend stopped by..so I called him and he sent some photos.. today we talked and he explained what the photos are and what’s going on.. crazy stuff.. somebody’s thinking this is a possibility..

      • LOOB- Has been a possibility since the fifties. Now, our economy is so much more brittle than in the day of paper ledger books and carbon forms. I would be interested to hear what the academics are getting antsy about. There was once a guy who claimed one crazy old man would light the fuse that kills a quarter of us outright. And every time we put an octogenarian in the hot seat, we edge a little closer.
        Meanwhile:

        https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/crypto-carnage-trump-tariff-tape-bomb-triggers-largest-liquidation-event-history

        According to ZH, Mr. T clubbed the token holders “like baby seals”. I wonder if BCP has a bump on the old noggin. Might get another on Monday.

        I pulled the trigger on an electric Bike today. It is a mid-length cargo model with 27.5″ wheels. Motor is a Bosch mid cargo model. Should be in in a week or so. Exactly the same tires as on my current normally-aspirated bike. New models just came out; only difference is a new paint job and new controller. The new bike motor, battery and mechanicals are identical to the previous model. I picked up the old model with the old paint and old controller for 37.5% off. It came in just under my upper budgeted pain tolerance. It should be able to pull a single wheel trailer to market and back. I will have local repair shop support.
        No other big ticket acquisitions planned. I did buy a Primaloft Active jacket half off for Prime Day, but otherwise kept my checkbook in my pocket. There are a lot of things I would pick up if the right deal came along, but I’m not pushing those acquisitions. I need to throw out stuff more than I need to spend money. Speaking from my moral superiority perch, I don’t have any rental storage. And I only have to move a couple of boxes to get to the back of the garage. OK, maybe I have to move a couple of stacks of boxes, but they aren’t tall stacks.

        • Off the wall question, and I am pleading ignorance…Is there a way to Charge Ure bikes batteries with a portable solar array type thingamabob?

          Also how easy is it to modify the e-bike..thinking attachable outrigger with 3rd wheel for cross-country Railway travel, and curved tow bar off of back seat area for hooking mini-railway trailer up to?

          As for lumps on the head – just another easy day –

          Also thinking bout a stabilizer bar mounted on handlebars for resting front facing Gun on..kinda of modern John Wayne..with one hand holding reins and the other “one handing” a Winchester repeater.

          Hmmmm – 4 or 5 hardened e-bikes traveling together ala a disapora out of a East/West Coast hot zones.. https://youtu.be/zmns9tJywqY?

        • Lance- Any of the portable power stations like a Bluetti or even a Jackery can be connected to a portable solar panel and used to charge an electric bike. The issue is weight and volume of the equipment.
          I am thinking more in terms of a car replacement for getting to market when there aren’t so many cars on the road. It will allow me to go places on the bicycle I can’t get to right now, with less pain. The e-bikes have been popular with townies for quite some time. Getting use out of them in suburban settings is more of a challenge on heavily trafficked back roads.
          There are a lot of railroad beds which have been converted to walking and cycling paths. I would try one of those before messing with a live railroad. Not as romantic as it sounds.
          Bicycles are not a particularly stable platform for shooting off of. I would not try that. Shooting from anything on the road will not play well with the game warden, and open display of weapons is an invitation for a firefight, which you won’t survive.
          That sounds like one of those Walking Dead kinda deals. We are a long way from that sort of scenario. Well, at least 6 months at any given time.

      • What is “the” possibility? An NBC environment?

        I guess we need to ask Zuck in Hawaii?

        Hand tools. A trip back to the 1800’s? (I am being optimistic).

        No matter how I game it, it’s not good. Just sayin’

    • “But none of this is foolproof. And there is no guarantee that the financial institutions I do business with have anyone with a clue watching the store.”

      Understand, the fatal flaw with digi-currencies is they require two ends of a connection, AND THE CONNECTION IN-BETWEEN:

      Say you have your stuff on a thumbdrive, you have computer connectivity and power in an EMP-proof cage. You’re good.

      In order to complete a transaction, the other guy has to also have a hardened setup.

      But so does every network node between you and him. How’s yer appetite? One single order of fries with a Cisco anywhere along the route and no-mo-money. And if’fn you’ve never used :tracert you probably don’t know that Internet comms don’t travel in a straight line.

      Comcast is the 800 pound gorilla. CONUS comms travel on Comcast fiber, and through either Chicago or Dallas, regardless the ISP or carrier. Got satcomms? Doesn’t matter. Like cellphone, it doesn’t have to touch wire, but it has to touch landlines, and landlines, even glass ones, pass through (powered) routers, switches. and amps.

      As y’all know, greenbacks go away too, except for the physical cash money you have on hand (and even that goes away as soon as the first person in town doubts its veracity as a placeholder of value.)

      Once a single router or switch goes away from an EMP, your children’s children’s children, unto the 777th generation, will never see it replaced. That guy or gal with the Xfinity, AT&T, or whatever hat, has a family and within a maximum of one shift is going to be a lot more worried about feeding themselves and their family, than applying aux-power and tracing a network fault. They’re going to be especially concerned and preoccupied when they discover they’re on foot because the pulse has taken out their ride…

  12. Stay Frosty (to borrow from another here)

    Several breaking points were violated Friday. Those who play the Dark Side (to borrow from another here), time is your friend. It’s expensive but is worth what it costs. Any position, long or short (or, blush, doing nothing?) would expose to less risk if “laddered” vs. an All or Nuttin’ strategy (as if).

    What was Friday? The Longs had totally killed the Shorts. The short side, once adequate pain has been applied, must “buy to close” so become purchasers of the very position against which they were short. Once the last Short is killed buying mojo fades. It was ever the same. Friday was a bad print, closing at LOD on most Indexes. Next week should prove, uhm, interesting?

    Bear-on-the-boat : a lifetime was spent showing charts with “channel” lines, up, bad, hard to call. There are truisms in life. Cycles are it’s own thing. Channels display potential _and_ risk. When at the top of any major channel was it worth “getting small” ??? Yep. Every time.

    None of the above ^ or anything ever is advice. Consult Pros.

    Egor ~ /) /) ~~

  13. AI is here to stay and the detractors really don’t understand that the purpose of AI, even for the AI founders and developers…is to enhance us. For instance, I’m wired to compete, so when AI gives me an answer I feel I should’ve known, it lights a fire in me—I go to work and study harder, to close the gap, to grow faster. It’s less a replacement and more a mirror that shows me where to level up. Used passively, for the lazy folks out there, AI makes us dependent; used deliberately, it makes us exceptional. My goal and our goal as humans isn’t to surrender curiosity but to expand it—to grow exponentially alongside the technology. As I often remind myself, “AI won’t outthink us—it will challenge us to think better.” That’s the real opportunity: to let technology stretch the limits of what our own minds can do.

    • read an interesting oped the other day about it. the summary ‘AI won’t put the lawyer, broker or writer out of business. Lawyers, brokers and writers that use AI will put lawyers, brokers and writers out of business who don’t use AI.’

  14. If humans were rational,the NYSE would be closed on both Columbus Day and on Veterans Day as both are at least as important as the Memphis Messiah on whose birthday the market is sealed tightly.

  15. interesting anomally occured last night. My Beautiful woman and i were watching the Mariners and Tigers play off game last night.

    at the start of the 13 inning, we heard thunder outside. then the thunder started sounding like Artillary explosions. this went on for about a half hour. we also heard what apeared as rapid fire gun shots. then a long 10 minute pause than a Train Whistle.

    now, I live way out in the woods. never heard that out here before. nobody in the house has ever heard that way out here before. we have dont live by any train tracks. so it was interesting to say the least.

    we did look out the window, no lightning flashes and no lights from explosions. just the sounds were pressent. the sounds of thunder, then artillary, rapid gun fire for a while, a pause, more artillary with rapid gun fire a pause then thunder then a pause… then a loud train whistle.

    Congrats to the Big Dumper and The Mariners moving on to play the TorontoTeam formerly known as twitter.

    as you noted on here George in the financial sector, The Former Seattle Pilots are neck and neck with the Chicago Cubs (baby bears) and will settle the matter in a final game today at 5pm today. i hope seattle pilots uhem brewers spank those baby bears.

    just an FYI:

    I Win with God within.

    we dedicate todays song to the fight beetween the Brewers of Beers and the Babies of Bears on the Economic Front and In the Field of Dreams.

    que: ~ God is Great, Beer is good and People are Crazy ~

    https://youtu.be/PKpQRjj_WbU?si=oTmp1cIBw3ulEQzu

    • It is rare but atmospheric tunneling can occur that carries sound for tens of miles … even up to a hundred+ miles … all inside a narrow tunnel that skips over the people below it or on either side of it from being able to hear the sound.

      What is more surprising is the same thing can happen with visible objects. The best reports being ships being seen very distinctively as if they are 3 to 5 miles away when they were actually 100 or more miles away. Science knows that atmospheric visual tunneling happens but has had a hard time explaining it.

      You may well have experienced a situation that involved atmospheric acoustical tunneling which carried those sounds from up to 200 miles away, though most events are for much shorter distances

  16. I’ve lost track of all the warnings to China … only to result in a 90 day pause, and the next great deal is soon to be signed … I’m sure “the art of the deal” continues on, until it ends … and ends badly … just my guess … back to college football …. and who says the economy is hurting … look at all those colleges stadiums full to the max (its party time), and they are not the upper 1% … just saying, seems good times being had by all ….. until that gig ends

  17. “When Trump fires a shot across Xi’s bow and Beijing answers it reminds the world how the U.S. “forced Japan’s hand.”

    Ya gots that a little bit bassackwards, Tex.

    China shot first, they’re shooting often, and (are you sure you want to use that metaphor?) it is THEY who are forcing our hand by withholding both product and raw material.

    We can have all the Chinese stuff we desire, but you’d better not object when they put the ChiComCams in your yard and require you to use Huawei phones, computers, and Internet, to the exclusion of everything else. Don’t forget to maintain your score, or your ChiComCar won’t allow you to leave home and your ChiComCard won’t allow you to purchase anything.

    You’re going to be pained and inconvenienced.

    As are we all.

    You can have some now, and be done with it, or you can have a “Red Dawn” amount, later, and know your progeny will live like that forever.

    Your call…

    • “one step ahead of the future. maintain that, and you can never lose.

      you can go down that road, but you have been down that road, so many times. so many times. you always go down that road. we are creatures of habbit. we find a sence of saftey and security in the familiarty of the enviroment. even if it is painful, it is familiar and we find comfort in that.

      or you can take a left when you always go right. or a right where you always take a left. in doing so, a whole new scene will emerge. a whole new world will materialize before your very eyes. Everything will be different, even you. because you are as much a new creation to the new enviroment as the new enviroment is new to you. it is there, you will see. if you dont like the movie you are watching, change the channel. you have the power to do so, perhapse you would like a romantic commedy or an adventure movie. ahhh yes, an adventure movie.”

      a Hopi Elders last words to me. he was a True Jedi.

  19. Yum – echos of WWII

    Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia in ‘highly exceptional’ move

    The Dutch government has taken control of Nexperia, a Chinese-owned semiconductor maker based in the Netherlands, in an extraordinary move to ensure a sufficient supply of its chips remains available in Europe amid rising global trade tensions.

    • Never underestimate the Netherlanders. Lived there for 2 years on a secondment to KSEPL (Royal Shell Exploration and Production Laboratory) in Rijswijk – best years of my life as an Australian geologist in Europe. We worked together on analysing core samples that underpinned the development of huge gas and condensate reserves offshore Western Australia. Amazingly resilient, warm and welcoming – unlike their image abroad where they can be seen as arrogant and aloof. Cultural differences are a dance if you care to learn the steps.

      • Today’s Dutch bear little resemblance to the ones you experienced. Run a quick search for the Netherlands farm protests. I don’t know what kind of stick the States General got up their collective backside and I haven’t followed along to see whether it’s been exorcised, but they essentially did the Myanmar thing and outlawed the production of food. Dutch farmers did not approve. The Parlement has been doing some really hinky, un-Dutchlike things lately…

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