Most high and most lowTo be fair, the cat is usually the problemThis month I've been observing Ramadan, which means praying five times a day. As I prostrate, the dog comes to sniff my face and then the cat pounces on the dog and then they're all over the place. They're annoying but it also tells me something. To humble ...
Same shit, different day (January 20, 2017)At some point, an America President will shut down the southern border, ban social media, and openly wage genocide and/or start World War III. And it won't be Trump that starts it. Biden has already done Trump's homework. Biden has already laid the legislative groundwork for a President shutting down the border and banning ...
Starting with the worst, 'Israel'Two flags, one gunThe White Empire hides behind myriad flags, but these are false flags. Any country with imperial troops on its soil is not an independent country. Any country beholden to imperial coin is not an independent country. This sadly encompasses most countries in this dollarized, militarized world, but some countries more than most. Historically, ...
What the colonizer snitch George Orwell got rightGeorge Orwell in the colonial police, third from left, top I thinkWhen I see atrocity after atrocity committed against the people of Gaza I think of the future we live in. It's as George Orwell described in 1984, “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human ...
The illusion of the economyA Buddha statue in Bangkok (Via)I keep thinking of a verse from the Dhammapada, “Viewing the non-essential as the essential and the essential as the non-essential they—nourished on false thinking—do not arrive at the essential.” I think about this because it seems to describe the world around me. As the Dhammapada continues, “Who is always gathering ...
The central illusion of our timesThe circle of lifeNatural life is full of circles. One creature's death in another creature's dinner. One creature's shit is another creature's manna. One creature's waste is another creature's energy. Everything must die, but in digestion as much as reproduction, everything is reborn again and again. Each death is a line with a beginning and ...
The Death of the Buddha (Parinirvana)The Death of the Buddha (Parinirvana). “This panel shows the Buddha surrounded by lay and monastic mourners expressing their grief. These reactions are contrasted with the calm of the monk Subhadra, seated facing the Buddha’s corpse, who alone comprehends the true meaning of the Buddha’s death.” (Via) I go to see my dying grandmother, through ...
The public starvation of Palestine'Israelis' on a Deathright tourWhat do you say about the unspeakable? About people looking for flour being fired upon? About an entire population being starved to death? About every hospital, school, and refugee camp attacked or completely destroyed? What numbers, words, or images can you recite, to make it all stop? Why must we even debate ...
One setting which breaks (fixes) YouTubeDave shutting down HAL in 2001I was messing about and I changed one setting that both breaks and fixes YouTube. If you turn off Watch History (buried in myactivity.google.com, under Data & Privacy), the algorithm just stops working. It breaks the user experience so much that the Home page just goes blank. A blissful nothing. ...
Couldn't happen to worse peopleThe real NATO mottoNobody deserves it more, but you have to feel bad for Europeans. They're colonized by America and they don't even know it. Europeans are told to blame Russia, China, immigrants and to love the Americans actually fleecing them. America is literally occupying, bombing, and deindustrializing Europe, and taxing the suckers 2% for the ...
The forbidden apple vs. Apple IncorporatedThe original Apple logo, which is both amazing and wildly impractical. ViaThe story of the apple appears at the beginning and the end. In the beginning, the apple was a bad thing, a symbol of man's fall. At the end, however, AAPL symbolizes the highest valuation. What capitalist society values most. In these fallen days, ...
People coming to do your dishes is not a crisisEric Fischl, A Visit To / A Visit From / The Island, 1983People coming to your declining country to pick your food and take care of your grandparents is not a 'crisis'. Migrants are just the most regular victims trotted out into the Cable-TV Colosseum, so American citizens can vote piously thumbs ...
When machines start eating their own vomitThe second gilded shrine of Tutankhamen, viaEver since I learned the word 'ouroboros' (a snake eating its own tail) I see the creature everywhere. When all the cars pull into a junction and block each other. When Disney releases another remake. When AI learns from 'Search Engine Optimized' content to make more SEO content, ...
Lord Kalki, the final avatar of Vishnu, artwork from ArtNIndiaIt's sacrilege in the modern world, but every major religion looks forward to the end of this world. In Hinduism, this is the Kali Yuga (the worst yuga), which Kalki ends by the sword. In the Abrahamic faiths, the Day of Judgement is kinda the point of it all. The Buddha's ...
It's just grossShaun Doyle and Mally Mallinson, Homo Tesco Metro, 2015GDP is literally a garbage metric. The vast majority of consumer goods get binned within a year, 'durable' goods within years, and everything is garbage within evolutionary time. Everything we produce has some 'value' which gets written down as GDP, but, historically, this is just dead people's feelings about undead ...
Keeping the 10 precepts, and failingToday is Poya. A full moon day. Poya is a public holiday in Sri Lanka and you can do nothing, but you're supposed to do a very specific sort of nothing. For a day at least, Buddhists are supposed to try and be Buddhist. So I've been trying. Going To TempleThe Buddha's path is clearly ...
I can't. ViaThe people in Gaza are being starved to death. It's just a medieval siege with modern machinery. It's barbarism via bureaucracy. It's not just 'Israel', it's the entire White Empire, America and all its bitches. They've cut off funds for the UNRWA that delivers food, while delivering even more bombs to the people literally bombing food supplies. The ...
It can't all be killerCat on drugsIt's hot as a furnace in Colombo and my house smells like fish. We bought the cheap fish for the cat and it actually stinks. The cat got his nuts snipped today. Today he's wandering around, stoned out of his gourd. The kids are home and they want to play. I've been playing so ...
Inflation is because we're actually running out of 'supply', and demand more than everBehold how the Horseman of Famine carries scales. Food is available, it's just too expensive. Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen, probably c. 1496/1498When I took intro economics—which, in hindsight, was akin to a Hitler youth rally—they showed us supply and demand curves. If there was less of ...
My daughter was yelling at the maids, which is the one thing she cannot do. My wife said she must get that from her, but my wife never yells at the maids. I was confused. Then I thought about it, and it's true. My wife must be yelling at the maids inside her head, and my daughter just can't control ...
