Optical Speculation

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Software mirrors psychology, as we figure it.  And important consideration when trying not just to sort out what the ChartPack hints at, but a whole field of research in and of itself.

You see, we don’t get much training in how to use the components of mind:  There’s a graphics layer, a data table view…all kinds of delicious ways to slice and dice human thinking.

Which we will dabble a toe in today.  Because whether you’re looking at the change of “war tempo,” the sudden furious rise in markets, or just the general way forward for humans, the answers are all defined by wetware and software between the ears.

The morning nootropic stack, coffee, and some interesting speculation, then…

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46 thoughts on “Optical Speculation”

  1. Picking up on yesterday’s thread regarding the western US snowpack, and solar cycle theories:

    https://solargsm.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zharkova_iau335_paper1.pdf

    The proposed mechanism for the cycle is reduction in sunspots. My reading is that hasn’t really been seen in the latest solar cycle. And yet, snowpack is building in the mountains again. Perhaps some other undiscovered mechanism is in play? Reduced heating in the core from exotic particle flux reduction ?
    The best apolitical theories for the current round of global warning point the finger at undersea vulcanism in the Pacific rim. If that is reduced significantly, then cooling will occur, CO2 and sunspots be d@mned.

    • I am binge watching a television series right now.. ancient patterns..
      on GAiA anyway.. they had one on the K wave.. and the study of the cyclical patterns of the earth and economy.. Wow.. now this show was done before any of the war drama came up.. and it all blends in with the solar cycles as well.. when the show was done he predicted war in 2020 would have a chance to start.. and that by the solar cycles that there would be struggles in 2014 etc..
      and by the K-Season graph.. it to aligns with the solar cycles as well.. at the time he gave his lectures on this.. we were just entering into the K season of fall..
      Now by the alignment of the solar and earth cycles.. we are entering into the K-wave seaon of winter.. along with the climate changes associated with the solar cycles.. really interesting show.. a series of lectures .. and has my attention..
      https://financeandfury.com.au/what-can-a-kondratieff-wave-and-what-can-it-tell-us-about-the-economy-over-the-long-term/

      https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2948/milankovitch-orbital-cycles-and-their-role-in-earths-climate/

      http://www.oa.uj.edu.pl/A.Michalec/history.html

      • Nikolai D. Kondratieff ended up in a concentration camp in Siberia and was shot by a firing squad in 1938., after Josef Stalin didn’t like the fact that the U.S. capitalist system would recover from it’s depression according to Kondratieff Wave theory.

      • Two EXACT K waves cycles (near dead center of the middle of window that is only 3 weeks wide as I measure “K'” waves) separated the actual conflict of Russia against Germany in WW1 (actual combat) and it’s invasion of Ukraine (actual combat).

        AMAZING … hard to believe it is coicindence.

        fwiw “I” am a HUGE believer in Cycles Theory, but imo the “K” wave is only one of several major cycles at work.

  2. Garland makes surprise visit to Ukraine for the
    “United for Justice Conference”

    https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/03/garland-surprise-visit-ukraine-00085449

    Remember when corporations were avoiding San Francisco because of the unsafe conditions? And Garland, Yellen and even Biden just fly into Ukraine during a (war?) as if it’s no big deal. They must be channeling Bob Hope or some shit. – Wonder when they’ll do a surprise visit to Syria for OUR Troops there? Hmmm

    See that Biden had some cancer removed from his chest?

    https://www.npr.org/2023/03/03/1161049252/biden-skin-cancer

    I thought it was Putin who was dying of cancer just about a month or so ago. Well, that’s what everybody was saying, anyway. Kind of ironic, ain’t it?

    And gee, just like that … sudden death just disappeared. Imagine that. Wow, that train derailment sure took center stage, huh?

    I hear Biden is suppose to visit East Palestine.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-visit-east-palestine-point-after-toxic-train/story?id=97587626

    Gotta tell ya, the more time that goes by, the angrier those Ohio folks are getting … and rightfully so. – Ukraine probably is “safer” at this point.

    Rumor has it, Mexico is going to start flying spy balloons over the US. They’ll be disguised as Piñatas just to make it fun. (Just kidding) Lol !!

  3. George
    You might check out the Solar observations and commentary on Solar / Earth interactions at the SuspiciousObservers channel on YouTube.
    The focus of this site is the effects of solar weather on the Earth.
    Commentary on catastrophic solar impacts on the Earth has been mentioned.
    According to the Dames map of the U.S. for safe places against solar Armageddon there are virtually none. I saw a copy of the map at a convention.
    Very scary topic!

    • check out GAIA…Missing links.. dam interesting .. show.. and the show I am presently watching is covering the exact subject matter that you brought up..
      I love Gaia and curiosity stream.. I opted to get the stuff so my little mini me could listen to shows that he is interested in.. (bugs and reptiles LOL and no it isn’t about politicians LOL)

      https://www.gaia.com/series/missing-links

  4. Mr G,

    “Tell me why, I dont like Mondays
    Tell me why…..https://youtu.be/FcZW0GFLSdw

    “there are no reasons.. I wanna shot the whole day down..cause there are no reasons, what reasons do you need?”

    I was there on the options trading floor – Black Monday(1987), blood was running ankle deep that day, and for several days afterwards as those that got “blownout” had to unwind all their left over positions (shooting ducks in a barrel) as those that were “blown out” turned their ID badges upside down – so we would “give em a break”…SURE.

    No likey setup going into Monday, am short and will remain that way – selective stock picking = Puts & Put spreads…so far so good. Yes you can put on bearish Call spreads as well, selling ITM Calls and Buying OTM Calls..beware the Leverage in Crash times..its exponentially painful if wrong.

    ? electrical/emf/engineering question, and dont call me Shirley, Im serious – What sort of emf’s and or radiation is an EV driver subjected to during the course of 1 weeks commute to and from work..say 30 mins each way, 1 hour exposure a day, five days a week?
    Since EV owners are Sitting In the midst of electrical magnetic fields – both Brain and “Bits” being lightly roasted each and everyday? More or less than iphone radiation?
    Any ideas, info, care to speculate? Already have concluded EV’s are mathematically-ROI fubar. It just dont compute 4 moi – cost more energy to make than they will ever save..EVER.

    Thanks to the BIG “bankers”, we are in the midst (victims) of global warfare on 4-5 levels.. yet still amazed at news of Russian stealth Su-57 setting world record with 400 km missile kill of ukonazi jet. Yowza!

    yeah – no likey nothing bout current global situation, it just dont feel right in the midst of ALL this “crazy” NRG that is just pouring into planet at same time BIG ass planets are moving to nu Houses.

    woot woot – LETS GO BANDICOOT!

  5. I think EVs are a passing fad, and will peter out to a very low but on-going minor position for special applications only..

    The numbers — grid capacity, battery replacement cost, nasty original mining problems (slavery), weight of the vee-HIC-le, danger to responders in a crash, etc — just don’t compute.

    It’s Fashion, not Science. (..and Political Fashion at that!)

    Other means will make EVs unnecessary and even inferior — all life cycle and operational factors considered.

    In two or three years, we won’t even be talking about EVs any more.

    • Science says if crash avoidance was not a factor and 60 MPH was max speed limit, 2,000 four door cars would be dandy. but no, we have to be protected from ourselves…

    • “Other means will make EVs unnecessary.”
      .
      What ‘other means’., would that be ? I agree that there will have to be a major break-through in battery design/construction/capacity for EV’s to evolve., but as of right now I do not see any viable ‘other means’.

      • “The poor will have their feet, the middle class will have bicycles, and the rich will have cars and airplanes.” Yuval Noah Harari quote from his 2017 book “Sapiens”

        What I found most hilarious is his belief the hunter gatherers built Gobekli Tepe. And most amazing is he’s an atheist.

        Todays ponder: Does an unhatched chick concern itself with the limited resource it has within its shell? This is not my original though it may carry some comfort depending on the individual’s beliefs. It is from one of the podcast I am currently hooked on by Daniel Schmachtenberger at https://www.thegreatsimplification.com

        Collapse happens one person (family) at a time at this stage. May your garden grow and keep you well.

        Feedback tells me we won’t be nuking the oil fields to keep it out enemy hands if we (USA) can’t use the oil.. The plan to do so was in the ‘40s and in effect till the Kennedy administration.

      • My venture into this arena involved a turbine powerplant. Steam could also be viable. Neither technology relies principally on solar panels or batteries.

        The Sun produces a number of different kinds of energy, of which “light” is only one.

        Electricity has a number of efficiency issues. It has to be manufactured, converted into a usable format, stored, and finally utilized. At each step is a significant loss of potential. Additionally, both solar cells and storage media degrade over time and conversion technology may also, if it is not manufactured in such a manner as to be robust, over time.

      • Other Means=Gasoline!~ Abundance. Invest b4 you go dark. Cant get required minerals by solar/wind power= then EV cannot work.
        Check Iran Lithium discovery. Invest?

    • I don’t know if they are a fad or not.. they won’t last long.. the electric car was sabotaged by the industry because it only had a few moving parts.. the whole business model was to have multiple moving parts.. for repair work done.. oil changes etc.. I like them.. but I don’t think it should be the ultimate and only option.. like energy.. except for nuclear I say we should support and use all forms of energy.. small wind.. I am not a supporter of large wind.. with what the president had printed up they could have distributed a ten kw solar panel grid tie unit and back up unit to every single american household and still had money left over to repair the whole infrastructure.. place solar towers throughout the country.. unfortunately you would have a difficult time to discover what they used any of that money for besides war..
      unfortunately it was a massive endeavor and a failed rebuild america plan that never was.. with the printing presses working at the speed of light.. a snow job on the american citizens to do what.. who knows.. from what I have read there wasn’t any oversight on any of it.. congress was to busy taking the time off for their busy schedules of doing nothing at all..
      https://youtu.be/_TplMuwy5Q0

    • “I think EVs are a passing fad, and will peter out to a very low but on-going minor position for special applications only..”

      I tend to agree. EVs are an important experiment, and unless we start using dilithium crystals, solar-powered vehicles are probably the future of surface travel, but solar cells need to improve by several orders of magnitude — same as they did 50 years ago when I started playing with the concept of a solar-powered vehicle. The numbers weren’t there then, they’re not here now.

      Some years back I drove from WPAFB to Phoenix, but I drove straight from Dayton to Albuquerque with two 5-minute stops and a “pause” at a McDonalds and a BK after getting fuel — 26+ hours straight. ‘Twas a 31 hour drive and if I’d had an “off-driver” and not needed that NM nap, would’ve driven 31 hours straight. EVs can’t do that. Solar vehicles might, someday, but they will require either a much more advanced type of battery, or a non-electric motor…

  6. There was something about not opening doors or windows during the three days of darkness. Noxious air? “Don’t open them for any reason.”

    Anybody else remember the specifics?

    • According to one interpretation.., during these “Three Days” all of hell will be freed upon the earth. So, I don’t think that noxious air will be the problem.

      • heck.. I thought the job of releasing hell upon the earth was what the Moron was doing.. who better than for the puppeteers having someone with observations that is showing painfully obvious symptoms that he is suffering from some form of dementia.. would someone Please hand that guy a pile of towels to fold.. give him something that will result in some positive action..

  7. Just ordered a case of AA and a case of D cell batteries. Found the coppertops leak now, so I won’t use them again. Trying Eveready Golds. The Kirkland brand from Costco were the worst leakers ever. So I will have at least three days of flashlights, and some low power radios available. Maybe some massive ‘church candles’ will be next, but I’m very wary of open flames. Historic buildings in the local village burned to the ground a couple years back because some flower child had candles in her apt. and fell asleep. She escaped… but was hounded out of town by the local population after that..

      • Ouch! Punny. The village is all wooden structures, some elevated wooden sidewalks that date back to plantation days. The structure was a large historic stage theatre, and the attached restaurant next door. There were several apartments on the upper floor of the theatre, and that’s where the fire started. Theatre was over 100 years old, and everyone in town was miffed at losing it. And everyone knew who she was. She couldn’t show face in town.

    • 7-8 day church candles IN those large THICK glass tubes.

      I keep a couple around in case of EXTENDED power failures though I have many regular batteries and many rechargables. Need to get a couple more now that I think about it.

      As for the keeping windows closed … I think it was a KEEP ALL LIGHT OUT, don’t even look outside”, dynamic … which indicates to me excessive ultraviolent, infared, or xray band, sun’s rays coming through (as if our protective ozone layer was stripped away). As to how or why that ozone protective layer would be stripped away, or xray band rays (which our sun does NOT produce a lot of) would be hitting … got some darts?

      • OH … as for leaking battries: Agree “Coppertops” are about the worse anymore. Chinese production does NOT agree with them. Eveready’s have gone to “leak” too in my experience.

        So far not a single Kodak branded battery has ever leaked on me (hard to find), ditto Sanyo. Store branded Tractor Supply Store batteries so far have been OK, but I assume that they regularly change suppliers for the cheapest price so while the bunch I got may be OK the next bunch may be crap. Current crop of Sam’s Club store branded batteries in my bin and in stuff have not had a leak, but again past performance is no indication of future performance.

        Overall I have CEASED to keep batteries INSIDE of almost everything except for a couple of flashlights. If I need something to use THEN I will put batteries in it. Damn coppertops ruins a bunch of stuff!! errrr!!

        For rechargables this article from the NY Times is THE BEST review I ever read – unlike most reviews they didn’t get paid by any of the companies. Based on this review I bought a LOT of TENERGY rechargable batteries along with their companion smart charger and a case to keep them in (turn the ones needing to be recharged upside down). Happy with them so far (I have some solar rechargers too in case of power failure)

        https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-rechargeable-batteries/

        • I have three sets of the HiQuick c cell batteries.. I have had them over ten years.. still going strong .. I have motion detector ceiling lights.. so if someone gets up at night to use the facilities.. you don’t have to turn on a light and wake everyone up.. I bought the hiquick batteries and have never regretted it.. great battery..

    • I have had great luck in using the Harbor freight brand of battery..

      https://www.harborfreight.com/home/electrical/batteries/aa-alkaline-batteries-24-pack-61271.html

      this is what I gave away for xmas a couple years ago.. great unit.. because of my low vision.. I don’t venture out at night.. I can’t see this thing not only lights up the path but the whole block..
      the batteries.. are wonderful the chage in them lasts for a long time to.. I got two or three days in between charging.. I usually get a few of these on hand

    • Try Panasonic Eneloop NiMH rechargeables.

      Energizer Holdings owns both Eveready and Energizer. They also now own Ray-O-Vac and the batteries all come out of the same factory in North Carolina. For a brief period of time, while Matsushita and Berkshire were creating/updating facilities, the Energizer factory in NC manufactured Duracell and Panasonic Li-Ion batteries as well as the lithium Energizers. Duracell comes out of Tennessee and SC now. Additionally all three “American brands” are manufactured in China and one of ’em has a factory in Indonesia or the Philippines.

      Most Panasonic batteries are American-made now, and they’re building a second EV battery factory in Kansas, to try and break Samsung’s grip for Tesla cells.

      Kirkland batteries are wholly-made by Duracell…

    • Kirkland are ok to.. I buy them as well.. a little more expensive than the ones from harbor freight but a decent battery.. they last a little bit longer than the harbor freight battery to.. cost wise.. which is the better deal.. harbor freight battery is.. it is a third of the cost of the kirkland

  9. “Other means” could be liquid fuels of several types, some biologically originated, or small-scale on-board nuclear of both the direct generation and turbine methods, or “better” electrical, or even much cleaner internal combustion burning (if that’s THE critical and ONLY problem offering offense). Even high-speed flywheel or compressed air have been proposed. (I think those are much too problematic.)

    OR, perhaps somebody could soon invent a real “Mister Fusion” generator for the flux capacitor bank.

    …and then there are the technologies nobody has thought of yet. This is innovation, which is rarely well-anticipated. If I could invent one, then I’d be the rich guy.

    Giant rubber bands?

      • 20-25% of Hawaii Island electricity comes from geothermal at our volcano. Hawaiian Electric has ongoing research to perfect undersea cables that can withstand high voltage transmission at ocean depths of 13,000 ft. The dream is to wire the entire island chain to the volcano. But so far no success with the cables. It’s a deep channel between Hawaii island and Maui.

    • I don’t think nuclear will be viable for any motor vehicle smaller than a large, purpose-built locomotive, for the foreseeable future. Toyota and Mazda have both built experimental flywheel cars (Toyota and Mercedes have built capacitor-discharge vehicles in addition to the work they did with both Wankels and turbines). I haven’t heard anything about them in over 20 years, so I’m guessing they couldn’t make it work outside a lab.

      The flywheel (or rubber bands, ‘cuz it’s two different implementations of the same idea) has to be “wound up.” The winding-up takes the sum total of the energy required to move the vehicle from A to B, along a frictional path while overcoming the inertia of rest and wind resistance, PLUS the amount of wind resistance and bearing friction on the flywheel itself.

  10. “My consigliere worries about the frontal attack on Free Speech, but more to the point suggests it tells us a great deal about DeSantis. And it’s not good.”

    What if DeSantis didn’t put this out because he wanted an actual piece of legislation? What if he put it out just to up his name recognition? He’s gotten a billion dollars worth of free publicity out of it.

    Frankly, I’m much more concerned that he’s skipping CPAC to go hang with the Club of Rom… er, I mean Club for Growth, when people like Ted Cruz managed to attend both. Club for Growth is fiscally conservative, but socially, not always so much. They control a lot of GOP money, but ideologically they’re almost like a half-way house for reforming neocons. Based on the facts he founded the Freedom Caucus when he was a Congressman, and wrote the Navy Seal training manual when he was in the Navy, I’m pretty sure that DeSantis is a gen-u-wine conservative. I also suspect he’ll run as #2 on the Ticket, unless Trump gets arrested + convicted, or assassinated (which I have heard, is back on the table. The people who hate the U.S. and want to destroy it, are really scared out of their minds that DJT will put himself back in the White House and tear down their commie playhouse…)

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