The Bad News

Pastor Adam Fannin of Law of Liberty church had a good description of the news. He calls it the “bad news” because there is nothing good in it. Source: https://youtu.be/VmcIYcEbLVk.

Politieke Identiteit versus Links-Rechts

Op Reddit kwam er een grappige en interessante tekst voorbij over politieke voorkeuren. De tekst is helaas weggehaald door een admin. Ik heb geen idee waarom. Hierbij de tekst:

Ik heb een openbaring gehad na het lezen van de 47e discussie deze week over "is deze uitspraak nou links of rechts?". Het kwartje viel: politiek is een spectrum. En door iedereen in twee vakjes te proppen (links/rechts) pleeg je eigenlijk symbolisch geweld. Ja, echt. Het is polariserend, reducerend en ronduit gewelddadig tegenover de nuance van de menselijke politieke identiteit.

Denk er eens over na:

Stel je voor dat je iemand vraagt "ben je links of rechts?" en je accepteert geen ander antwoord. Dat is problematisch. Iemand moet zich ook als andere politieke voorkeur kunnen identificeren. Maaar als iemand zegt "een beetje van allebei, hangt af van het onderwerp" krijg je meteen oogrollen en "Nou, in ieder geval zit je niet in mijn kamp jij fascist/zuurlinks".

^Dat is binair denken, en binair denken is gewelddadig.

Daarom stel ik voor dat we nieuwe etiquette gaan toepassen:

Vraag altijd naar iemands politieke voornaamswoorden. Bijvoorbeeld: "Hoi, voordat we discussiëren over belastingen, wat zijn jouw politieke pronouns? Ik identificeer mij als sociaaldemocraat/anarchokapitalistisch/centristisch." Stop met het gebruik van de termen "links" en "rechts". Die termen zijn erfgoed van de Franse Revolutie (letterlijk waar mensen zaten in een zaaltje in 1789) en ze dwingen iedereen in een tweedimensionaal assenstelsel terwijl de realiteit minstens 7-dimensionaal is. Het is net zoiets als iemands hele persoonlijkheid samenvatten als "aardig" of "stom". Respectloos. Het politieke spectrum in de praktijk Hier een paar echte politieke identiteiten die we eindelijk kunnen erkennen zonder geweld te plegen:

• Libertarisch-links : wil gratis jonko's en gratis zorg, maar geen overheid die je verplicht te vaccineren of een helm te dragen.

• Autoritarisch-centrum : vindt dat de overheid alles moet regelen, maar dan wel precies in het midden.

• Eco-fascist : gelooft dat we de planeet moeten redden door iedereen te verplichten in een hutje te wonen, onder toezicht van een sterke leider met een groene/rode pet.

• Techno-anarcho-monarchist : wil een koning die alleen via AI regeert en daarna de staat afschaft.

• Apolitiek (geen voorkeur, dank u): "Ik volg politiek niet, ik heb het te druk met mijn hobby's." - dit is veruit de meest onderdrukte politieke identiteit van allemaal. De meeste mensen worden uit deze voorkeur weggepest. Hierdoor moeten ze meningen napraten die ze zelf niet hebben wat grote persoonlijkheidsproblematiek kan veroorzaken Kortom: de volgende keer dat iemand zegt "jij bent links/rechts", antwoord dan kalm:

"Sorry, maar door mij zo te labelen pleeg je geweld tegen mijn politieke identiteit. Ik identificeer mij als gematigd radicaal met neoliberale trekjes op economisch vlak en conservatieve op sociaal vlak, met een vleugje protectionisme. Mijn polinouns zijn hervorming/consensus."

Laten we een veilige ruimte creëren waarin iedereen zich politiek gezien kan word!

Wat zijn júllie politieke pronouns? Laat het weten. Heb je wel eens iemand weggezet als links/rechts? Ga in gesprek met je huisarts en hij/zij zal onze folder met je delen

/s (voor de zekerheid)

The Norway Spiral

On December 9, 2009, a spiral appeared into the sky in Norway,

The official explanation is that a Baluva missle test had failed. They say that the missile went into a spin. This theory makes no sense. How would a rocket spin around to create this and especially that blue trail going towards the circles?

More likely is that it was created by EISCAT, a powerful High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) facility located where the blue beam emanates from.

Toward User Sovereignty

An interesting blog post talks about how system are getting too big and that it could be countered by,

• local-level decisions, that is, moving decisions locally instead of centrally,

• allow us to have exit rights, that is, to opt-out of a system,

• have contestable architecture, that is, to have auditable governance,

• simplicity and intuitive, that is, to keep the system as simple as possible.

Bondi Beach 9⧸11

At Bondi Beach, 12 people have been reported dead due to an alledged terrorist attack. While the BBC at the time of writing are still unsure whether it is a terrorist attack or not: "More than two dozen others were injured in the attack, which police say they are treating as a terrorist incident." (archive).

Meanwhile, Wikipedia apparently has better sources than the BBC because they write "On 14 December 2025, a terrorist mass shooting occurred at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, during a large Hanukkah celebration hosted by the Chabad of Bondi." More surprisingly, Wikipedia within less than 24 hours after the attack seems to have already completed the story.

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Is Frederick T Gates related to Bill Gates?

Given the funny ending, I'll repost a interesting Answers.com answer to the question whether Frederick T. Gates is related to Bill Gates. This was published 11 years ago (2014):

To the unpaid Snopes intern/Gates family PR slave above me : Frederick Taylor Gates just happened to be present in the Greater Seattle area in 1891, THE SAME YEAR Bill Gates Grandfather was born, the supposed furniture store owner. What are the odds of that? Get out your Snopes calculator. Furthermore there are ZERO public explanations as to why Bill Gates has III for a Suffix, and his father II, when there are clearly TWO additional preceding William Henry Gates in succession prior to his Bill's father, NOT ONE. This is significant because Bill Gates should be IV, and his father III, yet they are not numbered correctly. This is a huge red flag and puts the focus on the supposed existence of this fourth William Henry Gates that precedes Bill Gates' Grandfather. The completely unexplained "error" in their numerical suffixes, combined with the fact that Bill Gates' dad has changed his name twice, first "changing" it from William Henry Gates II (supposedly this is what he was born as), to William Henry Gates Jr (which is what is on his military records - meaning MOST LIKELY what he was actually born as), to later William Henry Gates Sr, and there is more than a reasonable suspicion that the original William Henry Gates (Bill's supposed Great Grandfather) doesn't exist. In addition, the various reasons for the two name changes are awkwardly inserted into his Bios, Wiki, Obits, Interviews, etc. It's constantly added as an anecdote, in a very forced way, yet none of these excuses for his twice changed Suffix explain why there are FOUR William Henry Gates in succession, NOT THREE, yet Bill Gates is numbered as III. Again, when considering the clealy "misnumbered" suffixes, combined with Bill's dad's multiple Suffix changes and forced explanations being inserted in numerous places unsolicited, this would lead to a more than reasonable suspicion that the first William Henry Gates (Bill's Great Grandpa) DOESNT EXIST. And what an odd coincidence that Frederick Taylor Gates is present in the Seattle area when this supposed original William Henry Gates is supposedly witnessing the birth of Bill's Grandpa... What are the odds that Frederick Taylor Gates is there in the Seattle area when Bill's Grandfather is being born???? Especially given the fact that as the original questioner correctly stated, Frederick Taylor Gates was from an East Coast family?? It is Highly Likely that Frederick Taylor Gates, John D Rockefeller's main advisor, creator of of the wicked Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research that carried out secret vaccination experiments on the US Army (headed up by his son (Dr Frederick L Gates) that created the Bacterial Pneumonia outbreak known as the "Spanish Flu" that killed hundreds of millions of people, is in fact BILL GATE'S GRRAT GRANDFATHER.

To all of those covering up and obscuring this connection, just know that you are participating in evil beyond your wildest dreams and if you care about goodness even in the slightest, you should stop now. You either have no idea what you are talking about, are deliberately lying, or are too stupid and/or lazy to research the Rockefeller/Gates history of Medical Experimentation. You have no idea what you are involved in defending/obscuring and would be advised to cease your activities.

China's CO₂ Emissions Per Capita Has Already Surpassed the EU

According to Our World in Data, China's CO₂ emissions per capita have already passed those of people in the European Union and the UK, and will surpass those of the US and Canada roughly around 2028:

The Dutch Nitrogen Regulation Makes No Sense

The Dutch Raad van State in 2019 has argued that a nitrogen deposition of 5.09 mol per acre per year is damaging De Heide (Heath) too much. This is the same as putting down about one one grain of fertilizer the size of a sugar grain per two square meters per week.

How ridiculous this may sound, this verdict has blocked thousands of farmers and builders from expanding their business or homes, and even caused many farms to close down. Furthermore, many farmers in the Netherlands, which have often been farmers for many generations, are not sure whether they will be allowed to continue farming.

Yuval Noah Harari on Science and Truth

Harari in his own words:

Truth was never the highest priority of human society. It was the highest priority of some individuals, but never of society as a whole because society as a whole does not function on the basis of truth. And if you take two of the most powerful institutions of humankind, let's think about science and the scientific community, and let's think about religion and churches and so forth. I think none of them has truth as their chief value. As individuals yes, but as institutions know, I think the chief value of science is power and the chief value of religion is order, is organization. Religion is all about having order in society and science is mainly about gaining power. Gaining power over the world. They use truth to some extent on the way to achieving power or to achieving order, but this is not their highest moral.

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Google Shenanigans

For years it has been a common theme among programmers that Google's search results have changed for the worse. It feels like the suggestions are becoming less and less applicable over time. Today, I spotted one of the worst cases that I have seen so far when searching for a documentary called "Flatten the Curve Flat Earth" (2022). This documentary is about flattening the curve of the earth and has nothing to do with medicine.

However, Google automatically interprets it as a kind of medical statement:

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