markjgsmith

2024/09/23 #

• All escallation notes from yesterday already posted. Hoping to make a bit of progress on coding now that I fixed the strange heredoc permissions bug. Probably not going to be able to make much progress as another starvation cycle looks to have started.

  So far in today’s escallations:

  • Got woken up by some driveby bloke excedingly jolly shouting. Oddly I think he shouted 'Navalny' at me, but can’t be sure. I was listening to a McCormack episode last night that mentions him a lot.
  • Early morning bicycle lady that sings her head off just drove past, singing her head off, it’s around 510am, I think last time she passed by was about a week ago

  Onwards... #

• One major issue is no matter what you do, whether it took you 5 secs or 5 life times, they will just immediately do an Isreal on you and order you to 'more', while claiming to be Gaza.

  They literally just did it to me now following two days of non stop escallations f-ing everything up for me.

  I can never even get to coding any of my own stuff.

  If you are god then why do you clearly have an infiniti amount of horns growing out of your head? #

• I haven’t been able to get any coding done this morning, despite being continuously handling crap from everyone for hours. Maybe later I guess, though the weather forcast is rain, and I haven’t eaten, and they have cut off water and electricity again. So I guess I have to prepare next weeks newsletter again now. Here I go again.

  Are you sized? #

• Could everyone please stop being vampires do that I can just get 1 thing done? Thank you.

  Note: Being a "kind" vampire is still being a vampire. #

• I cannot even. #

• I just did my best to listen to the latest Search Engine podcast all about Inflation:

  • Is everyone pretending to understand inflation (or just me)?

  It’s a great epidode but I kept getting interupted, do feel like I didn’t fully understand all of it. I did get gifted a tiny sausage pastry breakfast from a very camp man though.

  There are a lot more components to inflation than is generally portraid in the media.

  Ultimately still hungry, still not 100% on inflation, people are still angry at me :(

  Literally just got called a 'liar' by a middle aged woman in the park as I wrote the previous paragraph.

  Update: Still being vampire attacked over and over in broad daylight by people much better fed than me. They are now telling me 'you won'. #

• I thought this podcast about rewilding the earth on a massive scale was great, even if it’s ghe world blatantly taking an opportunity to try and contradict me.

  • A bold plan to rewild the earth at a massive scale | Kristine McDivitt (TED Talks Daily Podcast)

  It’s especially timely given my post yesterday our impending Labour government journey. What a wonderful example of a large vision to make the world a better place.

  Btw, I could do with a bit of rewildibg too. #

• Figured out why my poor old brain confused Keir with Keith. Likely has something to do with the fact that I’ve also been posting about Keith Tear the past few days.

  A strange addition to this is that earlier today in the park a "kind vampire" approached me and kept asking me via the translation app on her phone about 'onions'. What are the chances?

  And since then all sorts of harrassment, people calling me a liar, and making other references to this typo, actual gangs of youths laughing at me and following me into side alleys to verbally harrass me, and it turns out it was the world shitting the bed yet again, and trying to blame me for it.

  The world is non stop constantly Keithing me, and because of that I end up Keithing someone once, and the world goes all defcon1. The mind boggles. Abd of course now I have to appologise to Keith too. Sorry mate.

  Anyway, it’s okay world. #

• Peter McCormack and Allen Farrington on the process of socialising losses [1:43:55]:

  PM: When you socialise the losses, you are in turn socialising gains for the richest in society, because the process of socialising the losses is leading to inflation, which is increasing the price of the assets of the richest people

  AF: Yes

  PM: It’s SO fucked isn’t it?

  AF: It’s pretty bad. I don’t like it.

  It would be interesting to see a comparison with other causes of inflation, so we can see which bad processes are worse.

  Really great episode, so many interesting topics, particularly the bit about folks that think they are making things better but are actually doing the opposite. #