markjgsmith

2024/05/25 #

• So many podcasts for this week's newsletter, I might have to cut down the list a bit. 8/14 are on bitcoin, crypto and money.

  It always feels like there are too many of those, but the reality is that the most interesting podcasts are coming from that part of the tech scene at the minute. It makes sense though because money is basically involved in every aspect of life, so they have a very big landscape. Web development is much more specialised, and also not the easiest thing to communicate with just audio.

  No title for this week's issue. Some slightly malicious or at the very least mischievous motorbike people offered ne some small food thing last night, but it was wrapped in a trick question. People can be so mean sometimes, even when you are starving abd thirsty. I didn't fall for it though, that exact trick question has been used on me many times before. So I got a tiny dinner.

  Maybe I'll turn that into the issue title. It's so hard to ignore the bad in the world. That episode will occupy ny brain for days now. What a waste of resources. The world of course thinks it's all my fault. But is it really? #

• A bloke in a car just slowly drove up to me while I was quietly sitting, preparing this week's newsletter on my mobile device, rolled down the window of the passenger seat, which was closest to me. I looked up because clearly he was attenpting to attract my attention, took one of my ear plugs out so I could hear him, and with a sickening smurk on his face, he simply said 'No!'. He then smiled with glee, closed the automtic passenger side window, and slowly drove off.

  This is the sort of shit I'm up against every single day, even as I'm being starved and thirsted, by malicious assholes proporting to be good samaritans. This is the world on another war path. It happens in every location I go to.

  Lots of red items left in all the locations I've been to in the past 24 hours. Go figure. It's never ending. I don't know why this happens, who is directing it, only that it happens non stop. I can appreciate how bizare it must sound, but I'm literally just describing exactly what's happening. #

• So I'm sitting here adding some links to the linkblog after finishing writing this week's newsletter. A public bus drives past, stops to pickup a person waiting for the bus. The bus conductor simply shouts 'No!' out the window in my general direction as they drive off.

  Hard not to see the world as a crazy war path machine when this sort if thing happens constantly.

  Why are you on the war path again world? Is it because you are starving and thirsting me again? Or are you unhappy about sonething else that you are no doubt doibg to me?

  I'm sorry that everything is my fault again world. I am also hungry and thirsty and trapped in your trap. #

• I'm not sure if it's a trend or not yet, I've only just noticed this potential pattern. Whenever they are starving or thirsting me, or they are about to start doing either of those two horrible and cruel activities, there is a massive increase in the number of random people that shout 'lie!' at me.

  For added context, yesterday a person who struck up a conversation with me, said it to me when I refused to tell him my name, and wouldn't make up a nick name for myself. It wasn't something that was part of the conversation that we could discuss, just a sort of order he issued in between things he was saying.

  He turned out to be rather a strange person. Kept asking very detailed and probing questions about me and all my posessions. I'm very glad I didn't tell him my name or indeed make up s nick name. Pretty sure that would have been used against me in some way.

  Another bit of context, yesterday morning an old lady that keeps appearing at the minute, has been for the past couple of weeks, sat down right near me. As she passed by to sit down, really angrily shouted 'Lie!' at me.

  And the final bit of context. As I was typing away on my device earlier, three young women sat near me, pretty much exactly were the old woman had sat. They eventually finished their conversation, which was I presume in vietnamese. The stood up and as they were waiting for a break in the traffic to cross, one turned towards me and shouted, you guessed it, 'Lie!'.

  And so it goes when you are being starved and thirsted while trapped in Vietnam. #

• In addition to the multitude of war paths, the world has gone on a bit of a blocking spree today. It's like some sort of race condition tsunani. I prepared the newsletter well in advance, everything looking great, and the world has done it's best to block pretty much everything since then.

  Consequently I've missed the usual publish time, and to be honest that makes me sad. All this effort, ruinned so that a-holes can be winners of their stupid little harrassments abd mind games.

  Let's see if the world will allow me to publish by the end of the day. I'm not that hopefull because I'm already being starved and thirsted, and world is still unhappy. #

• I mentioned in last week's newsketter that most of the ameneties necessary to remain alive had been systematically and calculatedly cut off. I occurred to me just now that I didn't write an update of the situation.

  For those wondering what the situation is with water access, electricity access, drinking water access and food access, essentially they are being turned on, then turned back off to coincide with periods where I am being starved and thirsted.

  Right now they are for all intents and purposes turned off. It's been almost 2 days since my last neal, nearly a day since normal quantities of water to drink.

  They are almost quite literally dangling the ameneties on the ebd of a string in a sadistic starvation and thirst campaign. #