New trick from the dream scripter
Occasionally my dream scripter will pick up the incoming audio from the OTR episode currently playing, and transpose the scene into an entirely new place. This time the scripter added another type of transposition.

The episode deals with an escaped fugitive who carjacked a local cop, traded clothes and wallets, and handcuffed the cop. The FBI dudes have found the cop and criminal in an abandoned house, where the FBI dudes are trying to untangle who's who.

When listening in waketime, I have a standard mental setting for the abandoned house and standard images of the characters. Tonight the dream scripter transposed the scene into a greasy-spoon truck stop cafe. The deputy and criminal were sitting opposite each other in a Formica booth. New element: The criminal was a deer, complete with antlers. This didn't seem unusual or salient.

Where did the deer come from? I might have seen this headline at RealClearScience during the 1.5 seconds RCS gives you before slapping the paywall notice across the screen.



Subliminal reading can slip into dream mode without hitting consciousness.

Labels: Bemusement

  ¶ 4:56 AM

  PPB
Via UncommonDescent,

It is estimated that marine plants produce between 70 and 80 percent of the oxygen in the atmosphere. Nearly all marine plants are single celled, photosynthetic algae. Yup, that’s right, good ol’ scum on the pond…green gak…..slip slimein’ away. Even marine seaweed is many times colonial algae. They are a bunch of single cells trying to look like a big plant, but they are really individuals.

We need marine algae a whole lot more than they need us. Think about it, 70 percent to 80 percent of all the oxygen we breathe comes from algae!

If a major part of the oxygen comes from algae, they are also consuming a major part of CO2.

Simple conclusion: Environmental laws should encourage more algae.

As fucking always, environmental genocidists are doing the exact opposite. I've been bitching endlessly about the ENVIRONMENTAL destruction caused by the monstrous city dysgovernment of Spokane. Over the last decade they've wasted $200 million building swamps and flood generators inside the city. We need swamps and floods to prevent the city sewers from emitting a few PARTS PER BILLION of phosphorus. Why do we need to eliminate PPB of phosphorus? Because phosphorus might possibly encourage algae blooms downstream in the river and lakes.

The whole murder plot failed the last time we had a heavy rain. Despite the floodmakers and swamps, the city sewer system still had to open the valves and let untreated sewage into the river for a while.

So now we've wasted $200 million that could have gone into police and schools. We have more mosquitos and floods than before. We've PERHAPS decreased the algae in lakes, which INCREASES CO2 in the atmosphere; but the whole fucking setup fails exactly when it's intended to work, so in fact we probably haven't changed the CO2 at all, which doesn't matter any fucking way because CO2 is a consequence of internal warming, not a cause of anything except plant growth.

Crazy beyond crazy beyond crazy beyond crazy beyond crazy. Immeasurably bonkers, hyperinfinitely evil.

Labels: Carbon Cult, Incalculably wicked

  ¶ 2:10 AM

  Why do we skip half the measure?
Watching online coverage of latest LA quake.

Random metrology thought.

Duration is a major part of the intensity of a quake. Why does the Richter scale only include intensity and not duration? Each wiggle does more damage to structures, and a longer duration builds up resonances that multiply the effect.

The same is true of windstorms, rainstorms and snowstorms.

We measure [duration X intensity] for rain and snow. We don't count drops per minute. We record total drops from the storm.

For wind and quakes we skip duration.

Labels: Metrology

  ¶ 12:44 AM

  Another non-mystery
Via Eurekalert, another "baffling" survey that isn't baffling at all. Like the lost wallet survey, it's just self-interest.

"We had expected people to be attracted to principled, politically active business leaders but we were surprised to find that graduates did not necessarily need to share their opinions to find them appealing," said Andrew Crane, Professor of Business and Society at the University of Bath School of Management, one of the three authors of the study.

"If we take an issue like gun control, people are much more likely to want to work for a company when the CEO stands up for greater gun control, regardless of whether the jobseekers themselves are pro- or anti-gun control. We see exactly the same effect for other issues like same-sex marriage and immigration. Employees want their CEOs to take the more liberal, humanistic stand whatever their own position might be. It seems CEO principles are counting for more and more in today's jobs market," Crane said.

Young jobseekers have grown up in a world of SHARE VALUE economics. They never experienced real profit-based capitalism. They understand that the only measure of success for a company is ABJECT SUBMISSION TO SOROS. ("Humanistic" = SOROS.) They want to work for a successful company so they can grab a piece of Satan's hellish money, even if their own meaningless opinions are not yet fully aligned with Satan. Don't worry, Satan will phaselock you.

Labels: Answered better than asked, Sorosia

  ¶ 5:09 AM

  Worth noticing
I'm completely ignorant and dumb about military strategy, so I don't bother thinking or talking about it. Nevertheless, when I bump into a strategic fact that isn't normally mentioned, I can see the logic.

From Ilargi, who is dumb about some things but smart about strategy:

But while you weren’t looking some things changed, irreversibly so. The US and Europe are no longer the undisputed and overwhelming global military power they once were. Russia has become a target they cannot even consider attacking anymore, because their armies, assembled in NATO, wouldn’t stand a chance.

Not usually mentioned.

A large proportion of our soldiers and expensive weapons are placed in dozens of bases surrounding Russia, in a classic multi-front attack formation. Not just Europe, but several of the central Asian Stans. All of them are within easy range of Russian tactical missiles. If we started bombing from any of those locations, Russia could instantly take out all of our forward bases. Now that Russia has hypersonic missiles and we don't, the instantly becomes even more certain.
  ¶ 12:10 AM

  Why I don't own a gun
Speaking of hardwired responses to fireworks....

Some big booms are happening in the neighborhood right now. My hardwired response is not to crawl under the bed. My hardwired response is to KILL THE FUCKING ASSHOLE.

If I owned a gun I would go out and find the asshole and KILL THE ASSHOLE. Civilization would gain hugely from the deletion of a noisy asshole, but I would end up in prison for an unnecessary act of justice.

Nature takes care of assholes pretty well.

So I don't own a gun.

Incidentally, the Darwin Awards website has come back to life after several years of dormancy. Good reading.

Labels: From rights to duties, NOT Emersonian justice

  ¶ 11:10 PM

  Not quite as obvious as it looks
Lots of online articles today about dogs and cats versus fireworks.


For instance:

That’s because dogs, like humans, are hardwired to be afraid of sudden, loud noises. It is what keeps them safe. Some dogs, though, take that fear to the extreme with panting, howling, pacing, whining, hiding, trembling and even self-injury or escape. And, unlike humans, they don’t know that the fanfare on the Fourth is not a threat. Dogs hear the fireworks and process it as if their world is under siege.

LIteral hardwiring is unquestionably true. Major sections of the auditory system are devoted to analyzing and switching sudden noises, pre-empting regular audio programming, breaking sleep, and motivating big movements in muscles and viscera.

The thunder response makes sense for mammals who live in areas with frequent thunderstorms. Humans developed first in warm wet places, so the connection is easy. But canines developed in cold places. Dogs and wolves know what snow is, and generally enjoy snow. Lightning is rare in snowy places. By the usual model of "evolution", the thunder response should have faded out of the genome.

Later thought: Why do canines enjoy snow? I'd think snow would be a threat to survival. Obviously I'm wrong and Nature is right, but why?

Labels: Asked and badly answered

  ¶ 10:59 AM

  Meta-delousing a yak
Not quite a full yakshave, so I'll call it delousing a yak.



Previous item about NYC was amplified if not inspired by my current bit of work.

The NYC publisher who had handled my courseware was LBOd by JPMorgan and stopped carrying the entire speech and hearing subject area. So the text author went back to the small family-owned publisher who had started this series back in 1996. The small outfit is vastly easier to deal with. No corporate imperatives, no editing based on interdepartmental rivalries or Share Value. They simply want the best possible product.

A proper Natural Law purpose. More life, more value, more beauty. I've been working harder and happier in harmony with this purpose.

But the NYC publisher, typically Insatiable, isn't satisfied. Even though the contract clearly turned over all rights to the new publisher, they aren't bound by contracts. NYC is never bound by laws and contracts. They "may" want to reserve rights to some illustrations made by their in-house artists in 2012.

These "may reserve" images are fortunately a small fraction of the total, about 70 out of 1200. But I still have to find replacements. Some of them replaced earlier images done by the original (and now current) publisher. Some were new topics. I found the earlier images and moved them back into the courseware, with adjusted labels and pointers, and now I'm making new 3D images and animations for the non-equivalent new topics. My 3D is significantly clearer than the 2012 sketches, and probably should have been done ANYWAY.

Yesterday I made a pretty decent animation for the process of concussion (coup and contrecoup) replacing an unclear image in the "may reserve" set. When I started to move it into the courseware setup, I realized that the facing text page says nothing about concussions! This somehow made it through several years of proofreading. In fact there's nothing at all about concussions in the underlying hardcopy text. This must have been a 'sidebar' idea that was rejected at some point.

Now that I've added value and clarity, I'm not going to waste the work. Concussion is an important and relevant topic. I'll write an accompanying page and insert it.

AND THEN: When I started writing this blog post, I wanted to modify the yak-shaving image to show Polistra picking a bug with tweezers. BUT: it turns out that I had somehow deleted the month in my archives that contains the Poser files for the yak pic. So I just reused the shaving pic.

Just as before, the shave generates a metashave.
  ¶ 7:52 AM

  Sabertooth vs Carver
A nice comparison of the old inorganic bigotry about life versus the new FACTUAL approach focusing on PURPOSE.

Two headlines at Eurekalert:



The 'case against consciousness' violates a basic rule of philosophy. You simply can't say that anyone or anything else is conscious or unconscious. The only partly valid external measure is REM sleep indicating dreams.

As usual in Savannah Sabertooth "evolutionary" shit, the article focuses on energy expenditure:

"The biggest danger of anthropomorphizing plants in research is that it undermines the objectivity of the researcher," Taiz says. "What we've seen is that plants and animals evolved very different life strategies. The brain is very expensive organ, and there's absolutely no advantage to the plant to have a highly developed nervous system."

You don't need philosophy to OBSERVE that life doesn't give a fuck about energy efficiency. Most OBSERVABLE behaviors of living creatures are PRECISELY CONTRARY to energy efficiency. Energy isn't the point. Creating ORDER inside the boundaries of the organism is the point, and life constantly wastes HUGE amounts of energy to create ORDER and PURPOSE.

= = = = =

The article on homing behavior by stem cells doesn't start with any assumptions. These researchers simply OBSERVED what living cells ACTUALLY DO.

"We know that some bacterial cells contain properties that enable them to detect and 'home' to diseased tissue. For example, the oral bacteria found in our mouths can occasionally cause strep throat. If it enters the blood stream it can 'home' to damaged tissue in the heart causing infective endocarditis. Our aim was to replicate the homing ability of bacteria cells and apply it to stem cells."

Unsurprisingly, the bacteria are SEEKING A GOAL. They are working toward a PURPOSE. You don't need philosophy or anthropomorphizing to OBSERVE this. It's right there on the surface if you just LOOK ABOUT YOU and TAKE HOLD OF THE THINGS THAT ARE HERE and TALK TO THEM and LET THEM TALK TO YOU.

In simple terms, the first researchers are observing nothing but their own bigotries and delusions. The second researchers are observing reality.

LIFE IS PURPOSE.

= = = = =

Semi-relevant: This moment among the old dogs at the Senior Dogs Gathering Room illustrates order defending order. Lolli starts tearing up a pillow. The other dogs yell at her to stop, and then try to tell the humans about it. "Teacher! Teacher! Lolli is tearing things up again!" There's no energy efficiency in either of these actions. Tearing up a pillow is wasted effort, and snitching on the culprit is wasted effort. If you focus on energy you can't tell the difference. If you focus on order you know what's happening.

Labels: Carver

  ¶ 1:53 AM

  Thanks Ralph 132, Barreto Principle edition
Via ZH, an appropriate item for alleged so-called quote "independence" unquote day.

A man that wound up staying at the hotel for a year rent free under an obscure legal loophole is sparring with the owners of the hotel after, in June 2018, he stayed at the hotel for one night and then asked for a six-month lease under an obscure section of the city's rent stabilization laws.

Now, he claims to run "Mickey Barreto Missions" out of the address, has been demanding rent from two restaurant tenants, has tried to take over hotel operations and has attempted to get the building's bank accounts transferred to him. He even summoned the fire department at one point because of a nonexistent gas leak, trying to get the building evacuated.

The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, who owns the hotel, fears that "Barreto could take out a lien or mortgage on the building" or sell it to an innocent third party.

The article slides right past The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity without saying what it really is. Checking: Is that the Moonies? Yup.

In other words, the building is already "owned" by a totally fraudulent religious organization who used "legal" loopholes to gain control. The current totally fraudulent religious organization is trying to reject an EQUALLY FRAUDULENT claim by another totally fraudulent religious organization.

NYC. Fraud piled on evil piled on fraud piled on evil for FOUR HUNDRED YEARS. Evil infecting and infesting and EXTERMINATING the honest and normal and godly parts of the world for FOUR HUNDRED YEARS.

No exorcism is possible.


= = = = = START FUCKING REPRINT:

Polistra thinks it's time for a new Manhattan Project. Or rather a Project Manhattan. A vast secret enterprise designing a method to project NYC out of the universe.



Push it out of the earth, accelerate it beyond the solar system, guide it to the nearest black hole where it can be handed to some other universe.

Since the very start, NYC has been the enemy of civilization, the enemy of Natural Law, the enemy of the universe. NYC has been the center of destruction aimed against Deplorables of all eras. The Insatiables of NYC have switched ethnicity over the centuries. First Dutch, then English, then Jewish, now transitioning to Hindu. Always trader types, always exterminating the non-traders, the building and fixing and praying people. The 1776 revolution broke down natural Parliamentary rule and common law, replacing them by insane theories. Madman Lincoln's war burned down half the country and slaughtered 20% of its people to raise the share value of railroad stocks. 1929 and 2008, among many other bubbles, exterminated the skills and lives of farmers and mechanics.

Every time the non-traders had a chance for security and peace and prosperity, NYC's Insatiables came along and smashed everything.

Revenge is precisely 400 years overdue. Project Manhattan!


= = = = = END FUCKING REPRINT.

Thanks, Ralph!

Labels: Emersonian justice

  ¶ 12:02 AM

  Rendo acquires Poser
Though I use Poser every day ... more precisely every HOUR of every day ... for both work and play, I hadn't paid attention to the various online forums in many months. Too busy working in Poser. Today, from sheer boredom, I checked the Renderosity forum and found a truly surprising bit of news. Renderosity has ACQUIRED Poser from its latest owner. There's not much info or detail yet.

First thought: This is like a farmers coop or mutual insurance company, where the users take control of the company.

Second thought: No, it's not exactly the users. It's more like a major Chevy dealer acquiring GM.

Coop or not, it's an interesting arrangement. If it works, it should give more control to the users because Rendo has been in direct commercial contact with the users for 20 years. Dealers know what the customers want.

Poser's previous owner, Smith Micro, didn't have a feel for the graphics business. They primarily do storage and backup systems.

  ¶ 10:11 PM

  Strong stuff
A concise and POWERFUL comment from Putin. Most of it is expected from the only adult leader in the world... but the first bit about architecture and harmony is unexpected and brilliant.

= = = = =

Sidenote, related to Putin's comments about the Hermitage. Here's an astonishing one-man Hermitage. An old soldier spent his life making BRILLIANT AND SERIOUS CLASSICAL ART and furniture. Some of the frescos are on the ceiling of his house, which looks like it's in danger of failing because he didn't maintain the outside. Seems like an opportunity for historical preservationists to fix the house before all the glorious art collapses.

Labels: #HowToAdult, infinite GOOD

  ¶ 5:00 PM

  Giant non-lookback
This year is the 50th anniversary of my Mansfield year, and today is the day I moved from the county jail into Mansfield. I'm torn between some sort of writing versus the basic DON'T LOOK BACK.

Choosing the latter, here's a beautiful exorcism exercise from Zuhlsdorf, the only remaining representative of God's side within the Roman hierarchy. He proposes that each major bishop should form a giant sign of the cross over his entire diocese, crossing the territory with a counterforce to Satan.

No bishops will take up the idea, because Zuhlsdorf is the only remaining representative of God's side within the Roman hierarchy. Nevertheless the proposal may lead to similar exercises by non-hierarchical Romans on God's side, if any exist.

Labels: Jail mode, modest proposal

  ¶ 1:05 PM

  I hope he goes all the way!
Via ZH as usual:

After images of the shoe were posted online, Mr. Kaepernick, a Nike endorser, reached out to company officials saying that he and others felt the Betsy Ross flag is an offensive symbol because of its connection to an era of slavery,

Hey Colin! You're only scratching the surface. You need to carry out this principle TOTALLY. All languages and writing systems and monetary systems evolved in societies with slaves, because ALL societies had slaves before 1750.

So you need to stop talking and writing, and stop receiving money.

Perhaps you could communicate using quantum qubits, and get paid only in Bitcoin. But quantum qubits and Bitcoin were designed using math symbols developed before 1750, and carried on wires and electrical systems that were designed in America before 1861, so they're also taboo. You need to develop a method of communicating and payment that doesn't depend in any way on anything that happened before right now. But right now is defined by clocks and calendars that have been around for 5000 years. Good luck, dude.

Later: Other commenters caught the vastly more important point which I totally missed. Nike shoes are made by ACTUAL SLAVES RIGHT NOW. Colin has no problem with MAKING MILLIONS OF BLOOD DOLLARS BY DIRECTLY ENDORSING ACTUAL SLAVE LABOR RIGHT NOW, but has a big problem with symbols vaguely connected with places where slavery was practiced 250 years ago.

Labels: infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE lunacy

  ¶ 9:00 AM

  Great news for anti-vaxxers!
A global coalition of genocidal monsters has declared war on dissidents.

The tone of the statement is warlike and military, impelling full mobilization of all government resources to SLAUGHTER ALL DOUBTERS.

The list of genocidal mass-murderers signing the statement includes a "Professor of Planetary Health" and a "William H. Foege Professor of Global Health". Nuff said.

This is guaranteed to redouble and strengthen the resistance.

I wonder if this statement was quietly funded by the anti-vaxxers? If not, it should be.

Just to clarify which side I'm on, this and this will do.

Labels: defensible spaces, Sorosia

  ¶ 8:33 AM

  Not crazy at all, just infinitely evil.
Via ZH:

49-year-old Roy Larner screamed “f*** you, I’m Millwall” as he defended himself against jihadists who ended up killing 8 people and injuring 38 others during the horrific attack in London two years ago. Following the attack, Larner revealed that the terrorists had shouted, “This is for Allah” and “Islam, Islam, Islam” during the rampage.

Now Larner himself is being treated as a potential terrorist by the UK government.

Because he was allegedly contacted by far-right anti-Islam activists, Larner has been put on the government’s Prevent terror watchlist over fears he might become an extremist. They treat me like a terrorist but I’m not political at all,” said Larner, who revealed he has been forced to attend de-radicalization classes and is being monitored by the police.

The United Kingdom is so addled with political correctness, it treats those who fought back against Islamic jihadists as terrorists. Let the sheer intensity of that level of clown world insanity sink right in.

If you know how things work, it's not insanity at all. Sorosian lands are exterminating Muslims everywhere. We're killing Muslims by the million in Iraq and Syria and Afghanistan. The "Islamic terrorists" who operate within UK and US are government agents. Some of them were originally Muslim, others were "radicalized" by Deepstate. All are working for Deepstate to MAKE ISLAM LOOK HORRIBLE so we can slaughter real Muslims without public resistance.

Larner was fighting against Deepstate agents, mistakenly believing that they were real Muslims working for Islam. He is being punished for disloyalty to Deepstate, even though he didn't know who he was fighting.

It's an old story. In the '50s Nixon and McCarthy were punished for unmasking fake "Soviet agents" who were actually Deepstate agents assigned to make Communism look horrible.

Labels: infinite evil

  ¶ 2:36 AM

  Jesus. We never learn.
More local governments hit by ransomware.

In the first fucking place, computer security is NOT DIFFICULT. Pay for the best antivirus, preferably from a non-Sorosian company like Kaspersky or AVG. Don't click on spam. Keep important data rigorously and PHYSICALLY disconnected from the web.

In the second fucking place, PAY THE TWO DOLLARS. Get the ransomware turned off. Even if the Two Dollars is actually half a million, it's still cheaper than being down for weeks while you rebuild your entire system without most of the data. Paying won't "encourage the criminals". They're already encouraged.

In the third fucking place, PAYING IS PART OF CATCHING. This has always been central to police procedure for old-fashioned kidnappings. Make the payoff immediately. Even if you don't get the victim back, the payment gives you a new link to the criminals. You know where the envelope with "unmarked" (actually marked) bills went, and you can track the criminals from there. If you do get the victim back, the victim can tell you something about the criminals and where they took him.

Obvious parallel. Paying via bitcoin is paying via NSA. The "unmarked" digital units are actually marked. You can track the transaction. After the computers are functioning again, you can try to trace the source of the malware.
  ¶ 11:20 PM

  I wish I could give proper credit....
The most important thing I learned in the last few years is the Sucker Filter. I wish I could remember who wrote about it. I like to give proper credit for valid and brilliant ideas. The Sucker Filter explains all sorts of otherwise mysterious phenomena, and it's not well known or publicly discussed.

Latest example: A fake "peace think tank".

Since peaceful foreign policy was a founding principle of the United States, it’s appropriate that the name of this think tank harken back to history. It will be called the Quincy Institute, an homage to John Quincy Adams, who in a seminal speech on Independence Day in 1821 declared that the United States “goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.” The Quincy Institute will promote a foreign policy based on that live-and-let-live principle.

Sounds good, until:

The institute plans to open its doors in September and hold an official inauguration later in the autumn. Its founding donors — Soros’s Open Society Foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation — have each contributed half a million dollars to fund its takeoff.

Soros and Koch are identical demons. Both are imperialist warmonger omnicidal robber barons posing as "philanthropists". Both seek to destroy the world. Soros has been vastly more effective, exterminating about 20 million Negative Externalities so far.

Normally demon "philanthropists" hide behind a multi-layer structure of dummy companies and dummy foundations. Not this time. They're right out in the open.

Sucker Filter. An efficient scam comes at you with a brazenly obvious fraud, like the classic Nigerian Prince. If you're dumb enough to think the obvious fraud is worth checking out, you're worth cultivating. If you detect the lie and avoid the click, you weren't worth cultivating anyway.

Therefore: This 'Quincy Institute' is an agent provocateur, assigned to make localism and peace look horrible.

In other words, it's a DECOY, a TRAP, a POISONED APPLE. It is designed to sap the energy and waste the effort and misdirect the actions of the real peace movement.

= = = = =

A bit later: Looks like a full-court sucker press. Kristol is "bashing" the Soros project to give it credibility. The suckers at TAC, who really should know better, are going along for the ride. Or maybe they're not suckers at all....

In either case, it's a good time for this:

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter, Sucker Filter

  ¶ 1:54 AM

  The Hillary effect
Zuesse, as usual, DOESN'T miss the point. He sometimes speaks a little too broadly, attributing evil to "billionaires" instead of Sheldon Adelson, but he sees the effect properly.

Here he's analyzing a UN report on refugee flows.

Figure 18, Major source countries of new asylum-seekers 2017-2018” shows that in 2018, the highest number of new asylum-applicants were from Venezuela, second-highest were from Afghanistan, third-highest were from Syria, and fourth-highest were from Iraq. All of those are lands that suffer from the US regime’s past and current aggressions. (Of course, everybody expects Iran to be the next.)

A chart he didn't cite shows a more refined correlation.



When Hillary took charge, refugee flows increased. After Obama fired Hillary, flows decreased. When the Clinton dynasty's Regent replaced the disloyal Obama, the proper Hillary level of genocide resumed.
  ¶ 12:56 AM

  Missing the point, the line, and the plane
Linked via RCS, an interesting correlation that seems to hold up across nations.

When he arrived, the suicide rates in his new home made him wonder: Was there something about the elevation that was affecting the way the brain functioned?

His theory didn’t catch on until he and his colleagues published a 2011 paper that looked at all 2,584 counties in the U.S. and found a correlation between average altitude and suicide rate over the previous 20 years. They found that if a county was below 2,000 feet, their suicide rates were about half of counties at 4,000 to 5,000 feet. The counties with the highest suicide rates were above 9,000 feet.

A subsequent study attempted to control for the other factors commonly thought to influence suicide rates, like gun ownership, poverty, availability of psychiatric care, population density, and health insurance status. Renshaw said they still found that altitude was an independent risk factor, calling the correlation “whoppingly strong.” Since then, there have been multiple studies that showed the same association, both on state and county levels. Similar findings have been reported in Spain, South Korea, and Austria.

Within the US, the pattern of suicide by county associates obviously and blatantly with two factors: Native tribes and post-industrial areas. If the "social" "scientists" think they've factored out poverty and status, they're missing the WHOLE FUCKING POINT of human perception. As fucking always.

Perception is a VECTOR, a differential. Perception measures DISTANCE between here and there, and TIME between now and then.

When everyone you see is poor, and you have always been poor, you don't feel poor.

When everyone you see is low status, and you have always been low status with no delusions or hopes of raising status, you don't feel low status.

Since "social" "scientists" do not know what LIFE is, they must assume an INORGANIC and INANIMATE cause for living behavior. So these "social" "scientists" assume that lack of oxygen is the cause. If we were discussing suicides among boiling pots of water, this would be a good explanation. But we are not discussing suicides among boiling pots of water. We are discussing suicides among LIVING humans.


= = = = =

How does altitude relate to status? Simple and universal. High status people seek high altitude. Low status people seek low altitude, or are forced down by high status people. If you're a low status person in a high altitude area, the difference between internal template and external senses is extreme. You feel your lowness much more sharply. And if you move INTO a high-status area, the vector is both spatial and temporal.

Around half of people who died by suicide had moved to Montana from other states, making space for a theory that a shift from low to high elevations was a risk factor. ... People shared anecdotes of lives lost to suicide in their families, sometimes occurring shortly after moves to higher elevation.

How do Injuns and post-industrial areas connect? Reservations are concentrated in mountain states and HILLbillies live in the HILLS. In this case altitude may be incidental. The relevant vector here is long-standing loss of usefulness. For Injuns, the reservation busted up a strong culture where everyone had a place and purpose. For Hillbillies, the destruction of industry removed all utility.

LIFE IS PURPOSE.


= = = = =

Speculative: Bridge jumping is a popular means of suicide here in Spokane. A quick way of relieving the tension of misfit altitude, nulling out the differential.

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter, Blinded by Stats

  ¶ 12:04 AM