The Gematria Community - A Failure In Socialization

Keeping with the recent theme, it’s time for a semi-regular reminder about the nature of gematria in theory and in practice.  Updated from its early days about 10 years ago to what’s going on now.

 Then 

It was off to the races.  Decades of the education system being dismantled.  Decades of selling “The American Dream” as the goal to prove your worth in society.  A romantic partner (ultimately returning to the opposite of the gender you were born as), a family (ultimately returning to your own genes creating the kids instead of adopting someone of the wrong skin color), a house (ultimately returning to something newer generations can never afford), a picket fence because a little quaint nostalgia needs to kick you in the ass later in life when it all goes south, and a puppy or kitten or both (ultimately returning to another abandoned shelter pet that can’t be afforded). The math for the more ordinary people didn’t work without both parents being employed.  The time kids were at school was a sort of cheap day care.  And as the school boards were filling up with ultra conservative types believing more in prosperity gospel than vaccines, climate change, or the basic laws of physics the lack of real thinking was downplayed in favor of bullying those around you into recognizing you as the alpha in the pack.  And the more money you had was the proof that you deserved to be that top dog.

Entering into the fray we have the Alex Jones types of the world.  Where screaming as loud as possible about the evils of the world is the best way to get a podcast up and running.  Because railing against the wealthy elites and sucking your audience dry to make you wealthy being contradictory makes all kinds of fucking sense.  It’s only natural, whether it was gematria or some other scheme, that someone like a Zachary Hubbard would arise.  Where being AN EXTREMELY LOUD, CONDESCENDING DOUCHE BAG is the leader of a “community”.  And god I hate to use that word community to this day, because the ultimate goal is that nobody, absolutely nobody else, was supposed to have any actual role in the community.  The rhetorical style clearly shows that when he says, “I’m the only person that matters in the truth community!”, he means it.  Everyone else is just throwing out free advertisement for the king.  Sure, you might get a lot of Attaboys!^TM thrown your way early on, but as soon as you challenge Cartman’s authoritah you WILL be put in your place.  You retard, you.  Did I mention the condescending rhetoric yet?

As the greatest example of conspiracy theory light content, gematria fit in well with all the so called truth seeking community activity.  The fundamentals, the actual creation of matching gematria was so easy a moderately smart person could do it.  And those moderately smart people weren’t getting the proper intellectual stimulus and looking for an outlet.  And that outlet was the leaders (another word I hate using since it’s a misnomer) in the so called truth community needing to be AS LOUD AND OBNOXIOUS AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE DOUCHE BAGS GET MORE ATTENTION.  And that’s why the Internet isn’t such a great thing.  There’s more money to be made faking a quick fix to financial problems than by trying to catch up for decades of educational neglect with teaching people to actually think for themselves.  So the topics presented were the most lurid possible.  Just copy what Alex Jones and other loud mouths were talking about.  Did I mention the condescending rhetoric yet?

As I’ve proven above via my gematria calculator screenshots, in theory one could use gematria to spread a nonpartisan and friendly narrative.  And holy fuck could the world use a little getting along and cooperation right now.  The triple match, according to most gematria “standards” (yet another word I hate using in this context) should be compelling standing alone.  Imagine what someone with my high level of gematria expertise could do given the time to flesh it out with more magical connections.  BUT THAT’S NOT OUTRAGE PORNY ENOUGH.  In case, dear sheeple, I forgot to mention the condescending rhetoric yet, you need to pick topics that are as belligerent as possible.  Crisis actors in school shootings, every celebrity dies by ritualistic pagan sacrifice, covid is a hoax and don’t you dare make me get a vaccine that might save someone else’s life.  Did I mention the world needing a little more cooperation yet?

 Now 

Well we really did it.  Now we have political leadership that doesn’t just not call out the lack of cooperation and condescending rhetoric (if I haven’t mentioned that yet), it embraces it.  It employs it.  It abuses the power at every chance.  Because there’s a lot more money in insider trading on a broken stock market than by passing cooperative legislation that might, oh, maybe lead to kids not getting shot and killed at school?  Yes, we really did it.  We’ve manufactured the biggest cult in history.  A cult that we’re supposed to simultaneously revere the LOUDEST AND MOST OBNOXIUS DOUCHE BAGS and fear their possibly not yet mentioned condescending rhetoric.  Don’t you dare challenge my anti immigration goon squad.  They are embracing their highly cooperative right to earn money by destroying the lives of others.  Others that in many publicized cases have done nothing but show cooperation and friendship.  In their actual not internet communities.

The gematria “community” doesn’t really exist any more.  The cult, learning the psychological tricks like endless gaslighting and effective use of projection has made gematria unimportant.  They didn’t think big enough.  They didn’t actually cooperate even the slightest among themselves for a long enough period to have any true staying power.  The stragglers might post an occasional piece for nostalgia; their white picket fence.  Some have residuals from unsubscribed Patreonage.  But mostly they just stick to a bit of sports decoding and take solace in their 50%ish success rate.  Probably yearning for the days when the could SCREAM ABOUT HOW SMART THEY ARE on the Internet.

Gematria Vs. Real Numbers - Motivated Numeracy

Motivated Numerancy

Maybe instead of continuing to complain about how not very bright and extremely gullible some people are, somebody out there needs an explanation based on actual scientific results and data.  Something geared towards the person with an interest in a statistical analysis about the highly polarized lunacy that pervades our political discourse, how we are psychologically driven towards extreme partisanship.  The above linked paper is for you.  I will share a couple of graphs and some of the basics here.  But I encourage you to sift through as much of the paper as your actual level of science and comprehension of statistics allows you.

I dare say that someone who is captivated by gematria will not bother to actually try to understand this.  They are either fully aware of the psychological tricks and are being actively manipulative, or they are in the thrall of someone who is.  Someone who has been training them to double down and remain closed minded.  While what the research seeks to do is show that as soon as Liberal Democrats vs. Conservative Republican is thrown into the discourse bias takes over.  Our brains shut down and cease to function in a rational manner.

For purposes of a non political issue to focus on a fictional experiment was outlined.  Creams to treat rashes must be tested as you don’t want to end up using something that might actually make the rash worse.  Even a neutral “didn’t do anything good or bad” resultant particularly desirable.  The product should actually work and show in a statistically large enough sample size that it had a benefit.

Focusing on the top two charts for now, study subjects were asked to identify from the data the effect of the skin cream.  Did use of the skin cream make the condition better or worse?  Please read the paper for detail of the fallacies knowingly involved in making an assessment based on the simplified data.  And instead focus on the politically supercharged gun control variation below.  It’s essentially the same scenario as the skin cream, but with guns.  Also note that randomly “better vs. worse” column headings and “increase in crime vs. decrease in crime “ headings were assigned.

What the hell is numeracy?  It’s the ability of someone to get meaningful information from numbers.  When the data was summarized, as predicted people higher in numeracy were more often able to correctly assess the data for the skin cream scenario.  However, as soon as politics was thrown into the mix, not only did political polarization increase false assessments, it was worse for higher numeracy.  The bottom right chart, the high numeracy conservatives think gun bans increase crime, the high numeracy liberals think guns reduce crime.

Your confirmation bias based on political belief is an off switch to even remotely trying to analyze a set of data points.  As soon as more or less GUNS are mentioned, the brain goes on vacation.  I’m sooooo smart.  This is soooo easy.

If you are unlucky enough to get cornered in a fake debate with a gematria user, let them know about this study.  Challenge them to read through it and get back to you when they can rationally and calmly explain that they understand it in a manner that demonstrates they actually do.  Don’t let them waffle around with Whataboutism? as it has nothing to do with this.  Kobe Bryant = 113 doesn’t have anything to do with skin cream or gun bans in this context.  They will not have the slightest clue what this means.  Science literacy has been attacked deliberately for decades so the masses do not understand these things.

My MLB Playoff Predictions.

On Bluesky, I’ve finished making my wildly not popular playoff predictions.  And I’m not going to bother with the last division series game later tonight.  Since the entire process was just to make a background for this post it became beyond tedious.  Perhaps now a few people on Bluesky will see this and get the point.  Other than that it was just another couple of minutes chore everyday for a bit.  And maybe I did get a new found appreciation for how tedious the life of an internet grifter must be.  At least those grifters are looking at what’s trending and basing their material on what’s a hot topic instead of what’s actually accurate news.

In the future, at a quick glance it will appear that I made a correct prediction for every game in the wild card and division series rounds.  That’s one of the big red flags right there something not legit was going on.  That was 28 right and zero wrong.  A record so unrealistic I doubt any would be gematria sports betting scammer would try to lay claim to.  Something like 25-3 would be psychologically better.  Close enough to perfection to be awesome without being a little bit weird.  Like politics, it’s not about your record and character.  You just have to give the illusion you are a better person than the competition.  At least when you rely on fake news to pump up your own image when your talking points are complete BS.

Adding to the illusion:

On Bluesky, the age of the post shows in the upper right hand corner.  That’s 10 months in the case of this gematria related top viewed post here.  Plausibility is set up for the future.  A quick fly by will show that all my picks were made in early and mid October.  But it was simple using a scammer mindset to get that perfect record.

I just waited until the morning after the games were played, looked at my ESPN app and claimed victory.  I even threw in some sports fan lingo to not make it sound too robotic and repetitive.  The only thing missing was I didn’t take the time to insult anyone by putting in gematria numbers.  My profile makes it clear that I’m not looking to run that kind of operation.

And that is one of the two main weapons of sports gematria schemes.  Wait until the game is over.  Focus on who won and produce a list of magical connections after the fact.  It worked for Nostradamus, so why not update it for this day and age?  A Nostradamus style prediction would be today claiming, “A lamb shall arise in the east and the winds will howl as the demon awakens from its slumber.”  Then people years later will start filling in the blanks through their own biases.  A gematria after the fact prediction just substitutes  <QB name> = xxx, <All time record vs. opposing team> = xxx, <Final score> = xxx.  And ignores the literal millions of things that make no sense at all.

This approach doesn’t work well for those that have structured their thinking logically.  Claiming you’ve made a prediction when it’s clearly the morning after.  Yeah, you are going to get called out on that.

If you’re not going to try that approach.  Well, then you have to pick both teams before the game starts.  Which runs into the same problem, the smarter people are going to pick up on that something is not legit.  You are claiming to make predictions that are magical in nature, yet you never actually make a prediction.  “The Broncos have the upset narrative with 46, but gosh the Eagles have a great record away in head to head match ups, so there’s that 17 narrative.”

Either system results in the same outcome.  It’s what’s known as lying your ass off about your record when you put out new content in the future.

And that’s where gematria gambling content starts to get tricky when commandeered for propaganda purposes.  The more outrageous the content = more views.  Sports celebrities pass away all the time.  Even that offensive tackle that only played two seasons has a name and number and a team name.  Being disrespectful to their families and whatever legacy they’ve left behind is of no concern.  It’s part of the rabbit hole, the pipeline that normalizes talking about death casually  - whether it was natural causes or something spectacular when gematria gets used it’s turned into a supernatural forces of evil foretold their murder of this person because they love to mock the common folk.  And you are that common folk.  We know that because you are posting comments on YouTube videos indicating that you are actually basing wagers on someone reporting the results of yesterday’s game or who picked both teams to win.

Mister Education

Due to copyright restrictions I’m unable to call him Mr. Ed.  That sentence alone will likely get me banned from the Internet, but we’ve had a good run.

Basic education has not been too educational for decades, and boy howdy did it come back to bite us (the world) in the ass, didn’t it?!?  After WWII the big favorites for top dog got nervous about each other.  The atomic bomb didn’t just horrifically savage lives by the blast, it proved beyond any serious doubts that technology was outpacing government capacity to deal with properly socializing the angry masses.  Russia chose the, “Hey we’ve always been an imperialist autocracy, so let’s just call ourselves communists and keep going that way.”  The U.S., “Hey capitalism is GREAT for rich assholes ruining the lives of those that are exploited, let’s have slaves instead of calling them slaves” angle.

Whether you wanted to go with the mad scientist getting top notch funding for tech advance or the educate the masses so education could be privatized into a wealth extraction capitalist scam, the superpowers and smaller players did give us a bright and shiny moment of, oh about 25 years from 1948-1973ish.  The American dream idea.  Mom and Dad got decent paying jobs.  But they actually had to spend time at work and it’s perfectly natural that SOMEBODY had to socialize the little brats.  So let’s underpay teachers, but talk up how great it is to be involved in the education.  And let’s make sure that toxic masculinity, unscientific religious values, and racist/xenophobic/bad economic & political info gets equal voice because FREE SPEECH DAMMIT!  And guns because, REPRESENTATION WITHOUT CONFLATION MEANS I NEED MY EQUALIZER SINCE NOBODY LIKES ME!!!  DAMMIT!!

The Internet finished off the last vestiges of humanity in an ultra competitive and toxic social environment.  Throw little Johnny in front of a smartphone and now he’s smarter than everyone because of Mr. Ed.  Or rather let’s call him Mr. Gematria because that’s what he calls himself.  Calculus and Trigonometry?  Totally unnecessary.  History?  We’re just going to change it.  English?  You don’t need to be great at English to not pay your bills, break alliances, parrot ludicrous tariff misinformation or lie about climate change.  But a little gematria, yeah that’ll fix everything right up.

Mr. Gematria’s YouTube channel is in its infancy right now.  Testing the waters to look for what sinks and what swims.  The three week old 9/11 conspiracy video has 2.6k views, the others from about 20 to 100 views.  And just like yesterday’s story these paltry view counts are all that could be mustered with over 6k subscribers.  I’d suggest the math doesn’t work, but the anti-science movement has ruined my education.

But he is trying.  Along with the undying 9/11 BS, there’s a They Live gematria recap and other openly titled conspiracy theory material there’s the latest video about a day old.  Super Bowl 60 & Bad Bunny.  And if you hadn’t had a reason to sell your soul to gematria confirmation bias Qanon cult insanity, you get the high quality intro that Zach would be proud of.

Don’t forget to like the video, fuck faces.

And he didn’t even say, “Please?” like one would expect coming from a Mister.  Although since education and even basic social skills aren’t called for in this day and age we can be sure that a gematria channel titled Mr. Fuckfaces is out there.  Somewhere.  Because nothing makes a person surrender they’re lunch money like being called a fuck face.

Just a short flyby on some of the video material, the gematria quality - sucks.  

The actual calculator is serviceable and does yield “correct” gematriot.  If that can actually be considered a real thing.  But the narrative and especially the quality of matches and how they are presented is lacking.  There’s Phraseshoppping aplenty, and the picture- that’s 72.  Because you drop zeroes and rearrange stuff all the time and that makes all kinds of sense.  If you want to teach the next generations of fuck faces to build hydrogen fuel cell reactors in their basement, you’re going to need them to park their butt in school and pay attention to a fairly simple reality that 72 and 270 are different numbers.  At least long enough to get a large enough crowd you can divvy out Attaboy!’s to that can influence the next election.

AI Slop Takes Up Gematria

 

There are a couple other channels out there that share the same format.  Those are biblical gematria, and frankly not my cup of tea.  Too legit.  But this one, that’s got all the warning signs of low effort AI generated content.  And it also looks like there’s at least a pause if not having been abandoned as not working out.

Looking through some of the stats we see some contradictions.  Created in late June 2025.  Over 4000 videos.  93 subscribers.  Yet the oldest videos are from two weeks ago.  Typically put out dozens of short videos in a single day, none of which comes close to approaching the 93 subscriber count.  Some don’t even have any views.  Basically, it’s a dead zone that hasn’t found its footing and nobody cares about.

The content does match the channel subscription, that being a genuine mix of real math (Fibonacci series, logic problems and math, infinity) and bullshit math (gematria, dream numbers).  It’s going to need a serious boost of propaganda money generated astroturfing to take off though.  Even a genuine talking point of confirmation bias clouding judgement in gematria isn’t getting any traction.

Gosh I hope I didn’t stay there too long and give that video its first view.

Rounding out the list of red flags we have thumbnails of pretty girls of which there are only four repeated over and over, and a robotic sounding AI voice doing the narration.  You never see a human doing the narration.  This is part of what makes me think that the reason the latest video was 4 days ago.  There just isn’t a market.  It’s not…obnoxious enough.  Sure it was easy to set up and crank out thousands of videos in a short time, but without viewers, what’s the point.  Nothing gets engagement like a loud mouth spouting rage bait that will give your comment a like even though it’s hateful and would cause you to get popped in the face if you said it at your local bar, gym, library or Wal-Mart.

AI stealing jobs is one of those tricky issues that adults in the room should be discussing.  Back at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution it was cheaper to have a machine do labor intensive manual jobs.  More and better machines, less humans to pay wages for.  

We’ve reached a sort of “Holy Shit!” phase of late capitalism.  Education and training that goes extinct far sooner than a career and retirement planning can support is shifted to, “How do I buy gas for my car and afford to feed my kids TODAY?”

If you weren’t on the gematria bandwagon a decade ago, it’s too bad.  Not even low effort AI slop is going to resurrect a new age.  At least until some new crazy and probably violent weirdo comes along.

Picking Both Teams - The Gematria (H)Edge

Gematria, that wonderful and glorious intellectual cop out.  Although there is a huge social impact long term by encouraging short term thinking over long term planning, Gematria outside of sports doesn’t have quite the zing of some barely basic realities - like literally always being wrong as soon as you make a decision based on the numbers in your favorite gematria calculator.  Sure, you might want to prepare for that 1000th time someone predicted the Rapture will be tomorrow, or maybe your lonely because your incredibly bigoted and finding out your favorite fascism based target has bad gematria.  But sports gematria, that has a regular schedule.  And other than weather related delays or similar burps that game will be played.

The gematria cult leader that must appease the masses is painted into a corner.  If not explicit, it is at a minimum implicit that you have secret knowledge.  That you basically have super powers.  And even you are better at the magic than other mystic infused gematria psychics.  So how do you get by with the more than occasional wrong pick, especially with picking a whole bunch of games?  And you know you’re going to get grief during the playoffs and need to make some sort of narrative for every game?  You settle for being wrong LITERALLY every time by picking both teams.  You settle for the 100% chance of being both right and wrong every time in a two participant contest.  Actually, like a roulette wheel having 0 and 00 if the sport has the potential for a tie, you are guaranteed to be wrong more often, unless you want to be the trailblazer that starts making tie narratives.

https://gematriaeffectsports.blogspot.com/2019/12/nfl-week-17-sunday-december-29-2019.html?m=1

That’s the source material, an old blog that Hubbard hasn’t used for years.  The playoffs are getting closer as the regular season rolls s drawing to a close.  Watch that master pick both teams.

There is little value in taking the Packers.  Carefully Nostradamus style vague wording instead of just simply stating a variation of, “The Packers will win tomorrow.”  And then the hedge.  The gematria edge since you can always find a counter when dealing with one, two, or three digit numbers.  “*If the Lions do lose they’ll….”  Congratulations.  You just picked both teams.

“Browns would improve…”.  “The narrative for a Bengals upset…”.  Even less clear than the previous example.  Simply putting out that there is a narrative that the only teams involved each have a chance to win.  Hardly a prediction.

Another leaner, and totally typical that it leans towards the favorite.  But adding, “most likely” to pro Bills talk doesn’t change how there is also, “The best narrative for a Jets upset…” wording to follow the leaning on the heavy favorite.

And it’s like that every week, week after week.  Then if you are caught up in the flashy fast paced chatter on the videos, like the partial positive reinforcement from slot machine winning spins, you forget those losses and remember the wins.  Especially when reinforced with the typical sports betting without gematria proclamations of making a killing, sticking it to the casinos, and being right all the time.  Never, ever mention that when you pick both teams you are also wrong every time.

This is why you never see any actual proof.  The only evidence is the gematria and the claims of the cult leader.  The blog post is a day before the games.  True belief in the system would be verifiable by posting actual betting slips for just one team the day before.  And that happens - never.  The income is not from belief in the mystical knowledge, it’s the subscription service selling the fake mystical knowledge.  Heck, the skeptical crowd would even be impressed by a less than perfect record.  Week after week of being right 75%-80% of the time, that would make a believer out of me.  But take a step back and learn the critical thinking skills of the skeptic.  There would be no need to sell picks if your system worked.

Now since Alex Jones style rage baiting with outrage porn is part of the mix it’s worth mentioning the Jews decodes.  In the meantime, while little Johnny is learning how to develop his gambling addiction by picking both teams, the daily bad news is also double coded.  This week we’re still seeing Charlie Kirk gematria.  Every tragedy brings up gematria stories.

Gematria.  Come to the community for the conspiracy theory lite gambling.  Stay for the trip down the Alt-Right pipeline.

The Reporter vs. The Grifter Spectrum

I envision sometime in the future, not knowing if it is the near or far future, when the low key gematria grift we see today has a revival.  That’s basically what happened in the mid to late 2010’s.  There was nothing new presented.  Some effort was put into researching what happened in the past, it was tweaked to update to Alex Jones era circumstances, and it found a new audience that had never seen it before.  The big question seems to be if it will continue to go after the same target audience it has now or if perhaps someone with the magnetism and charm can pull off a big Ocean’s movie style heist or if it will continue to be like the lottery it is today.  (Lotteries being essentially a tax for people that don’t understand math who can’t afford yet another tax.)  

There is no neat and tidy box to place your gematria disseminating weirdo.  Unlike the gematria presentations that claim a completely binary outcome there is nuance and context.  Truth = 113 and Dishonest = 113.  The more they cry and proclaim that it MUST BE dishonest has no actual 1+1 = 2 proof behind it.  You are perfectly fine with being skeptical of anyone claiming that gematria has real value in analyzing what most people call real life.  But the nagging question remains - is the person a clueless idiot or a greedy and unscrupulous grifter?

Let’s take a side trip on someone that is obviously up to no good.

Checking through previous posts, we find they have a YouTube channel with gematria content.  And the first pass- it’s not good.  There are thumbnails of the Gematrinator calculator, so they are aware of our favorite insane number of ciphers available to cherry pick from site. 

And neither LabubuDolls or Six Six Six result is our magical 225.

Being correct about anything related to gematria is never much of a necessity, so that’s not really a big surprise.  Even the simplest sniff test shows that whatever the motivation is to post blatantly bad gematria, we don’t need to take anything they have to say seriously.  Including non gematria related topics.

There are two main products for gematria.  Gaining attention or money.  And our nuanced scale has a gradient or spectrum of belief in the actual gematria part.  And very simply at its most black and white it’s whether the focus is on the attention part or the money part.  Attention can be limited to an individual seeking solace and comfort in analyzing Bible phrases on their own.  It can extend to a tribe of like minded individuals.  It can get pushy where two opposing tribes could get opposite meanings and fight (hopefully a friendly discussion) over interpretation.

The money side.  That’s always had a fair number of people, especially during the NFL season like now, who don’t really give a damn about the gematria other than belief in the false hope it might give them an edge on their gambling.  Their lottery tax is the inevitable Patreon subscription where it’s pay to play.  The supposed master can provide their expertise.

Being a gematria grifter requires some effort to be successful.  For starters, posting gematria that actually equals what you claim it does is a great start.  It requires advertising.  And that’s blog posts and regular YouTube videos.  And hooking lots of clueless attention seekers into the mix.  They are getting the Attaboy!^TM in exchange for their time.  More Attaboys will be given if you just make sure to sell your soul to the cult leader for at least this sports season.  In its current form it requires rage baiting.  Some people on the scale are fixated on the idea that “All liberals are evil”, or “The Yankees are allowed to cheat because I love them” or “Trump is great”.  Or the polar opposite of those.  Conspiracy theories are equal opportunity employers, it just so happens that at this point in time hard right wing conspiracy thinking dominates the landscape.

For example, there’s a glut of film critic content on YouTube.  Everyone fancies themselves a great critic and not all of them are right.  Some are just bad critics.  Some don’t care about the criticism part and just want to pump up the view count for advertising value - making an entertaining video based on cinema (think MST3K on a small scale).  Some are focused on being controversial just for views.  Some use that rage baiting to branch out into selling merch.  Some are good critics that can explain their position, and maybe even cite legit references.  Some are good critics with no audience just doing it for fun.  And some are so obviously asking for money so frequently it’s insane to believe their audience hasn’t caught on that it’s more about the money than the message.

These same ideas of YouTubers as critic fight in to gematria YouTubers as journalists.  And the makers of the videos have audience members that all fit into different parts of the gradient.  The unfortunate side effect is the same psychological pressure to continue to be more extreme as the world around us gets more extreme.

You Can’t Be Both Wet and Dry

Robert Reich -The Sleeping Giant

Heather Cox Richardson video

Although both pieces are titled about the Sleeping Giant Awakening, I’m choosing to focus on a single line from early on in Heather’s video.

You can’t be both wet and dry.

As you go through the linked material, and if you’re concerned about what’s going on in the U.S. and by chain reaction the rest of the world you absolutely should, keep in mind that there are things that I’ve pointed out about conspiracy theory gematria for almost a decade now.  There isn’t much satisfaction in, “I told you so”commentary when things get really bad before an awakening.

The promoters of gematria in the sports scam and Qanon glory days want you to think you CAN be both wet and dry at the same time.  Which naturally in gematria and with the golden rule of cherry picking they do both equal 16.  However, in the real world it’s not so simple.  The same way those two competing in a single game NFL teams cannot both win, being either wet or dry are mutually exclusive.

The starting point is poor decision making on your source of information.  Once that person is elevated to cult leader status they can and do proclaim mutually exclusive thoughts to be simultaneously true.  Perhaps not simultaneously as much as having to abide with the hypocritical contradictions in a short period of time.

By all appearances, Trump recognizes his physical health is failing, even as he struggles to understand his limited mental capacity is also failing.  There’s been a whirlwind of contradictory evidence in an extremely short time frame.  Like the Epstein story changing every couple days for a prominent example.

The narcissistic populist politician will get away with the tactic of being all over the map, with some caution about the time frame.  Throw enough shit against the wall, then see what’s sticking.  Focus on that long enough to get elected.  But the shit sticking or sliding down are mutually exclusive.  You can’t only deport the worst criminals and also deport innocent grandmothers and children.  You can’t be both a failed businessman with loads of objective evidence like bankruptcies and bailouts and a genius at running the biggest economy in the world - with a tariff policy every smart and sane economist knew wouldn’t work.  You can’t give tax breaks to the rich and have money left to fund schools properly.

Personally, I’m trying very hard not to say, “I hate being right all the time.”  I can only really speak for myself, but I’d like to think that the awakening has similar minded people.  There’s no need to jump right into admission of being wrong.  After decades of mental investment in bad information that can be hard to do.  But you can’t give tax take that step in the right direction.  Actually think about not supporting someone who has dedicated their life to changing their mind daily, like they had a gematria calculator telling them what they want to hear.

The Architects Of Conspiracy Gematria

The Architects of Fear is the third episode of the first season of The Outer Limits.  The entire series is currently available on Tubi if you want to catch up on this family member to The Twilight Zone.  Personally, as I catch up on long forgotten initial viewings I find it to be an exercise in recency bias.  My own personal recency bias, since nobody is truly immune to cognitive biases.  I find myself framing the material in relation to current events.  On the plus side, the main topic for Architects back in 1965 was nuclear war and although still relevant today is just part of the grab bag of other technology based challenges.  And also, I have the critical thinking skills necessary to appreciate a deeper message beyond the, “Holy shit!  Cool alien with a ray gun!” aspect.

The story itself is an exercise in the old question, does the end justify the means?  Robert Culp gets to play the lead in a tale of scientists, well meaning as they might be, hatching a scheme to create a common enemy.  A scarecrow, to use dialogue within the episode. A hideous monster to distract the warring populations of Earth before they blow themselves up with the genie let loose from the bottle of nuclear fission.  Even more entertaining than our alien with the laser pistol is the schizophrenic episode during his transformation that will make you say, “Wow, Robert Culp.  I guess Shatner wasn’t available.”

It’s a bit rushed as the time slot was an hour, but paced pretty well.  I find it interesting in comparison to the second episode just before.  Two consecutive episodes with injections being responsible for transforming physical appearance of people.  (The previous episode was The Hundred Days of the Dragon about a foreign government planting a look a like in for the President of the U.S.).

If you pay attention to foreshadowing and you know the formula it’s obvious that something is destined to go wrong.  The transformation is lengthy and painful for Culp’s character, Allen.  He’s thrown away his marriage with a side story of his wife just finding out she’s pregnant, for The Greater Good.  But it isn’t just enough to make him look like an alien.  A cover story, with way too many moving parts is created.  Weird looking spaceship created, set to land at a peace conference to drive home the angle that this is super dangerous menace.  And, hey let’s foreshadow a working ray gun into that.  The landing goes wrong, and a group of hunters that would have been too traumatizing to kill have their vehicle disintegrated by the laser.

And they naturally react like the fearful and xenophobic humans you would expect.  Let’s give ordinary citizens lots of guns.  What could possibly go wrong.  Their gunfire ends Allen’s pain after an unrealistic unobserved journey back to the lab for a touching death scene with his wife.  (Science fiction and fantasy are lumped together for a reason.  You just get serums and spaceships instead of super strength and a wizard spell of invisibility.)

Although Allen gives his consent to the transformation after a fair lottery it’s certainly… wrong.  What they’ve done to him does not go as smoothly as planned.  His entire biology is altered and physically he’s not Allen, but it’s reinforced that his mind is still Allen’s.

The episode leaves us with the Serling style narration.

There is no magic substitute for soft caring and hard work, for self-respect  and mutual love. If we can learn this from the mistake these frightened men made, then their mistake will at least be a lesson.  A lesson at last to be learned. 

I have the luxury of my self proclaimed arrogance on the subject of gematria to frame this according to my recency bias.  Allen’s context, that his nuance and humanity is removed and he’s identified as the monster by appearance only is intentional.  Do you, for example, really want the architects of fear being in charge of the decision making process when it comes to something like genocide?  Your answer to that shows where you lean on in the fascist or not fascist spectrum.

The Architects of Conspiracy Gematria laid their groundwork in the hard right wing core of Alex Jones online content.  Sure, as it started it was a side gig to hustle some bucks from sports betting.  But once the bots got going it became twisted.  The architects needed their laser gun.  “You know, this sports betting angle isn’t stupid and violent enough.  Let’s make everything anyone with a shred of humanity and decency a monster.  Let’s remove all context and nuance and arbitrarily call everything we like (money and power) good and everything we hate (a soul and a conscience) bad.”

Do you really want someone who has aligned themselves with people that have literally picked both teams and called it a winning prediction involved in higher decisions?  Those are the same people that contradict themselves every day on something like the Epstein files.  Where the mutually exclusive thoughts of it being a complete fabrication, a Democrat hoax, Trump is an informant for the FBI and took down Epstein, and whatever you’re told to believe tomorrow can’t possibly be all correct.

It’s all a distraction to keep you away from realizing that objectively Epstein was a horrific monster.  Closer to the serum transformation in Hundred Days than the manufactured monster in Architects.  Keep you distracted from associating the rich and powerful people Epstein was actually aligned with as being recognized for the monsters they are.

You can try to think for yourself, or you can keep listening to the Architects of Fear.  I highly recommend not listening to the Architects when the good intentions of our Outer Limits Architects is completely missing.

Other Topics For Your Doomscrolling Pleasure

Topics that are unlikely to be addressed by your average gematria spouting clique leader.  (Outrage porn requires emotional reaction to current bad news, not things like history repeating itself).

Scarcity of tin and the disruption of trade (a) and famine driven invaders (b)

a.  https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/02/02/the-disruption-of-bronze/

b.  https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26234904-200-who-were-the-enigmatic-sea-peoples-blamed-for-the-bronze-age-collapse/

Modern equivalent - dependence on fossil fuels and climate change pressures

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What’s up with those old stories about tulip bulbs?

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dutch_tulip_bulb_market_bubble.asp

Modern equivalent - The economic decline of the U.S. and cryptocurrency.

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The Pacte De Famine/French Revolution

https://worldhistoryedu.com/the-pacte-de-famine/

Modern equivalent - The U.S. declaring economic sanctions upon itself after decades of pushing for deregulation.

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Rome decides to give up on religious tolerance - The Cult of Bacchus

https://greekreporter.com/2023/08/18/god-bacchus-ancient-rome/

Modern equivalent - Christian Nationalism/MAGA

Trying To Make Sense Of It All

Well down in the pits of Gehenna, where the clueless gematria and other manufactured evidence propagates dwell, Charlie Kirk was big.  For that first day especially.  I caught a livestream where a YouTube channel moderator pushed for donations because the Jesuits murdered Charlie (allegedly).  And yeah, there’s naturally a video from someone who might have beaten Trump to the punch on publicly stating that it was obviously a radical leftist.  Because Alexandria Ocasio Cortez was <GASP!> wearing purple during her commentary to reporters on the assassination.

<sarcasm font>Because yeah, sure.  That makes all kinds of fucking sense.</sarcasm font>

Overall, the full spectrum of thoughts and prayers are on display.  From full mockery for the irony of Kirk’s clear lack of empathy and obvious grift down to the right wing patriots who should seek revenge.  And that was before we were even sure Kirk had died.  Well, Charlie would have been proud to know that the gematria grifters took it to task to grift and fake debate their way through an exceptional day in their otherwise tepid lives.  Doing what Charlie was really good at.  Stirring up trouble and getting paid for it.

Oh yeah, there’s no doubt in my mind from what I’ve seen that Charlie cared more about the money than an actual consistent message.  Unlike Charlie I don’t view empathy as a weakness; a target painted on oneself to be ridiculed and bullied.  Empathy doesn’t necessarily mean donating to a Go Fund Me or sending thoughts and prayers.  It’s recognizing how, based on pattern recognition and past experiences you can expect others to feel.  So don’t expect me to mourn Charlie.  And god no don’t force me to.

No, my empathy is reserved for what the near future holds as political violence has predictably been ramping up based on all sorts of sociological and financial pressure.  People get crazier when things are going bad, and we’re spiraling towards rock bottom, fast.  It’s all fun and games calling out someone for wearing the wrong color until you realize that your bag of Doritos is out of stock because the whole food supply chain is screwed up by massive unemployment and inflation.

I’m scared immigrants may decide to arm themselves to strike back at the deportation raids.  I’m scared there are National Guard troops not realizing they’re in over their head and suffering from someone else’s bad decision.  I’m worried about political leaders on both sides of the aisle, unable to function knowing what’s right, ok, and wrong to do and say changes within days if not hours.  I’m really fucking terrified of the people I interact daily who refuse to admit there’s the slightest thing wrong going on.  And I empathize with them.  Thanks to the Charlie Kirk’s of the world, violence is normalized.  And that’s why, although not specifically Charlie it was completely foreseeable that something like this would happen to…someone.  And it’s easily foreseeable that we’re a long way from being done.  Generations of propaganda fueled indoctrination don’t disappear by a couple of thoughts and prayers.  (Which were bypassed on the school shooting that happened on the 10th, bigger stuff going on.  That was far too normal.)

Yeah the world is a big place, and you can play the mental gymnastics projection game (which gematria helps with) and claim everyone is jealous of the great U.S. of A.  But the actual fact is we’re a laughing stock.  And you can only play the bully card so many times before the other side just doesn’t want to deal with you anymore.

I do wish Charlie hadn’t been killed.  A lot, like I said was from the expected overcompensating reaction.  But also it won’t solve anything.  No amount of deaths on one side or the other of the highly polarized spectrum is going to make other sovereign nations want to get into a trade deal or alliance, knowing we’re just going to break it.  Other countries are looking on and their powers that be are gauging what happens here as a barometer of how their own capitalist ventures are also hitting the wall.  The wall of “everyone found out how to fraud on a massive scale once the internet misinformation started clicking into high gear.”

Everything about this is a tragedy.  Where is an old fashioned gematria narrator that talks of peace and love when you need one the most?

Gematria: The Antithesis of Wikipedia

Also known as Fun With Polysemes.

Example of a homonym: The bear brought its sharp claws to bear in its life and death struggle with the kitten.  

Nothing removes context quite like gematria.  Wikipedia may not be perfect, but at least there are some well intentioned people trying to give accurate information.  Meanwhile, recently the Gematrinator put out an hour long video on how there is synchronicity between Princess Di’s death, the recent big Afghanistan earthquake, and Formula One racing.

And the big reveal, the opening gunfight to get you hooked at the start of the movie so you’ll settle down, Formula One is racing.  And Diana, on the day she died was racing.  A good old fashioned polyseme, the ugly cousin to the homonym.  A word with multiple distinct but related definitions.

A more appropriate example in honor of conspiracy gematria gibberish would be, “She fell into the well after her aneurism from studying polysemes too long, but Polly seems well, now.”  Well is a homonym.  Polysemes and Polly seems are childish word play more appropriate for puns and Dad jokes than supposed serious discourse on occult oriented pseudo intellectual nonsense.

And gematria does this all the time.  The full range of full blown homonyms, to polysemes, to even stretching something that really pushes it.  It’s a miracle there wasn’t a Racine, Wisconsin reference thrown in because it sort of sounds like and looks like racing.  If you really stretch it.

The context that Diana was in a rapidly moving vehicle as opposed to deliberately putting on a helmet and hopping into a McLaren is pretty important to the actual story.  At least the video got a Wikipedia context box because of the Diana death content.  A fitting punishment despite being for the wrong reason.  The real context that’s missing is the blatant hijacking of both tragedies.  Hijacking Di’s death and quake victims to get a little clout.  Look, all.  I’m an occult master with a database.  I have no gladiator combat of a bear/kitten death match for you.  But, I do have my niche as the only major gematria name that bothers with car racing and some other outrage porn for you to indulge in.

And what makes the gematria angle even worse, the numbers lose whatever context the wordplay doesn’t.  1700 and 17 are equal.  43 and 34 are equal.  103 equals 27 because 103 is the 27th prime number.  And there absolutely is some of that nonsense within the video.

Which begs the question.  Since 1700 and 17 *are* different numbers.  27 and 103 *are* different numbers, horse racing and a heart racing *are* different racings - 

 Do you even know what the word synchronicity means??

The Eye of Argon vs. Gematria

A mostly serious Argon review

Argon Wikipedia page

Let’s see, what would be a quick summary?

The Eye Of Argon is a published work that is regarded now as the written form of something of a “so bad it’s good” movie.  Plan 9 From Outer Space bad.  Battlefield Earth bad.  Not something like Sharknado bad, where the creators 100% knew they were making less than classic cinema, but a labor of love that gets caught up in the childlike earnestness of someone that really tried and gave it 100%.  And ended up failing.  An A for effort, yet an F for execution.

Yet, Jim Theis the author of Argon succeeded in doing something I like most people will never do.  Actually getting their book published.  It is a shame that its enduring popularity now is for the Plan 9 quality.  For decades the writing community followed by the internet has dogpiled on the mockery.  Having live readings as a competition to get through passages of the book, reading aloud and trying not to laugh.  Theis could have taken the route of Tommy Wiseau and his film stinker The Room.  Embrace the badness and pretend that it was all an inside joke along, in stark defiance of the obvious utter sincerity of the film and its marketing in gratingly contradiction to the, “Just a guy having fun” cover story.  Instead Theis chose the rage quit approach.  I was just a kid having fun.  Please stop talking about this, it’s embarrassing.

And these themes of trying, failing, and dealing with the subsequent backlash remind me of the state of the gematria community now.  Before Qanon, given the rough framework of gematria where if you work hard enough every number equals every other number and all the numbers are evil EVERYONE was an author.  Everyone, goaded by those higher up the food chain who found a way to monetize it was writing (from their point of view) their own version of the great American novel.  In reality they were spitting out another chapter of The Eye of Argon.  Openly mocked, and certainly given the eye roll and behind the scenes mockery from those too polite to tell the authors to their face that they were wasting their time.

Along the gradient from fun self written and published LARPING to weaponization as Qanon propaganda we had Alex Jones.  And at least for me that’s when I first realized something funny was going on with YouTube.  Gematria had fully shifted from biblical research to stories about crisis actors and sports decoding rituals.  You weren’t cool looking at bible verses.  You were cool if you were insulting dead game show contestants and picking both teams of every sporting event.  Given the boost of astroturfing, bot farms, and a little bit of dark money it is somewhat natural that writing bad fiction when heaped with enough praise would turn into, “I’m cool, and I associate with some kinda violent people.  Acknowledge my coolness or you will be attacked next.”  The smarter than the gematria authors crowd who could instantly spot the Flat Earth conspiracy theory light quality of gematria decodes were subjected to reverse trolling.  It’s no longer enough for the echo chamber Attaboy!^TM, now true coolness for the Mussolini fascist in training on the Alt Right pipeline sought out the eggheads on the Internet. 

And that’s where every bit of good science that makes life better became a hoax.  Climate change.  Hoax!  Covid.  Hoax!  NASA.  Hoax!  9/11 facts.  Hoax!  And it worked remarkably well.  Until the endgame of the rug pull scam appeared in full force now.

Like the U.S. Democrats the critics were too polite for too long.  Instead of challenging misinformation there was a general malaise and no sense of urgency.  And that’s perfectly understandable given human psychology and the nature of indoctrination.  Getting along with other people is a benefit, and it’s best to not make too many waves.  The true warning sign that was missed that could have helped with bad gematria narratives was the shift to maximum insult mode.  Reverse trolling spurred on by support of the most terrible people on the planet.  A global population with broken infrastructure - education on how to structure your thinking critically instead of just parroting what Fox News said.  Seek ye out hero of Argon, those with actual knowledge and bully them into submission!  Breaketh more shit than they can clean up!  We’ll let the next generations deal with the mess or their flesh will meet my sword now!

With a couple Super Bowl predictions along the way.

The Acronym Game

 Also known as gematria without the burden of numbers.

Also, also known as a lesson in dipshitmatic immunity.

The conspiracy gematria community thrives on confirmation bias.  And the use of psychological projection is never ending.  You can scream about Trump = 25 and Trump = 29 all you want, but it is inescapable that Biden = 25 and 29 in the exact same reduction ciphers.  Therefore, mathematically any short phrase or sentence using the reduction ciphers will have the same gematria results whether you have swapped out the good guy for the bad guy.  Regardless of who you think of the two is the object of adoration and who is to be reviled.  A sort of political antonym, if you will.

In its purest form, dipshitmatic immunity applies to the narrator of the bullshit gematria conspiracy.  They all have names, whether they had the courage to use their real name or have created a never fully seen persona that goes by GeMaTrIaGoD47.  That will have a gematria value, and can be weaponized against them.  And I would argue it should be weaponized against them.  You shouldn’t be allowed to through a slur around when your own name gematria matches it.  That’s the basics of dipshitmatic immunity.  If I call you a douchebag, by default I am not a douchebag.  If I say you’re a pedo, by default I am not a pedo.  At least from a not logically thought out actual occurring in real life psychology perspective.

So just for fun, let’s practice with some acronyms.  Changing a well known acronym, not just into nonsense but something of the opposite of the normal usage.  No need to worry about typing it into your favorite confirmation bias calculator.

LED = Lightless, Entirely Dark

FBI = Fumbling Band of Incompetents

GEICO = Genuinely Evil Insurance Company

NAFTA = Nearly Always Frangible Trump Agreement

FUBAR = Fully Useful, Beautiful And Reliable

MADD = Marvelously Admirable Drunken Drivers

GOAT = Gigantically Offensive Asshole Tyrant

That’s enough of that for the background.  The point is, when abbreviated to an acronym and without the context of the well known meaning there’s something lost in the translation.  Gematria cult leaders expect you to learn certain numbers, repeated over and over.  Those that automatically jump out at you, the newly initiated cult member so that you’re in on the secret.  You’re part of the club.  But as for the rest of the world, the sane part at least.  The lack of nuance and context is hollow.  You only have the word of the dear leader that 113 or 666 means what they say.  And they really don’t like it when you independently develop the critical thinking skills to realize that once the projection is stripped away they are either the GOAT, or the other GOAT.  Or just somewhere in between and they’ve provided no real evidence that’s worthwhile.

Decoding Jack The Ripper

Why, oh tell me why, hasn’t there been an entire gematria YouTube channel devoted to decoding Jack the Ripper?!?

That was a rhetorical question.  Since I know that even the top names in conspiracy gematria are fake intellectual hacks, influencer wannabes, it just isn’t insulting enough.  Why bother with old news when you can insult the living or recently deceased today for fun, attention and profit?  Jack, despite being an enduring legend is old news.

If someone did get around to it I’m sure it would be something like this.  Every number on a screenful of Gematrinator cipher calculations would be shoehorned into a magic number.  And 666 would be the typical holy grail 666 remains to be today.  Geez, when I started researching this piece I didn’t even know that JACK THE RIPPER directly equaled 666 in reverse Satanic.  That’s how easy it is to match shit up.  Step 1, try the obvious. Step 2, if step 1 fails force the issue with generous amounts of Phraseshopping and number pattern tricks.  You’ve never truly lived unless you’ve gematrified with transpositions or using prime numbers.  Also, there are lots of famous dates.  And conspiracy gematria today doesn’t work without adding in date numerology.  Which isn’t even gematria.  With the purchase of that expansion model to add to the basic game you are ready to Jack the Ripper ritual your way into the gematria record books and make sports bets on everyone named Jack who has ever touched a ball.  You’ve also never truly lived unless you’ve touched Jack’s balls.

Actually, my inspiration was an entertainment YouTube video talking about the old Ripper lore.  And somebody before the more current gematria renaissance promoting the idea that Lewis Carroll was actually Jack the Ripper.  The proof?  Anagrams.  How you could actually rearrange bits of Lewis Carroll’s work and have that become a confession from the pen of Jack.  A pre gematria intellectual hack named Richard Wallace did the, uh, heavy lifting.

https://www.straightdope.com/21342381/do-anagrams-in-lewis-carroll-s-poems-prove-he-was-jack-the-ripper

And note that at the end of that blog post it’s mentioned what I heard in my video view.  Proving how easy it is to turn the tables and creating an anagram narrative proving how Wallace himself was Jack the Ripper.

That turning the tables thing is an inherent flaw in the gematria system of lack of logic.  Having the goal of making it easy enough to get newbies a hands on interactive experience makes it inevitable that your narrative can easily get twisted.  In the Ripper anagrams, any sufficiently long text can be anagrammed into something as reasonable sounding as the original narrative.  Or if your anagramming skills aren’t up to speed you can settle on gibberish, whether Jabberwocky style or real words that don’t really go together.  In gematria the anagramming into something reasonable sounding is like finding a direct antonym with the same number.  The gibberish is like finding  out that MASONRY = 33 and the best you can come up with is BANANA = 33.  It’s a valid point that you’re bringing up that lots and lots of random shit equals 33 and the original gematria clown work is just cherry picking (or banana picking) the data.  It doesn’t quite have the same zing as DISHONEST = 113 while VERACIOUS = 113.  The target audience to get excited about gematria being face to smartphone screen with the word “veracious” is likely to be met with confusion for using a word outside their vocabulary.

I did find a Jack the Ripper reference in the old Fee To Find Misinformation blog:

https://freetofindtruth.blogspot.com/2018/02/44-67-86-187-213-charles-mansons-body.html?m=1

Which was really about Manson, has no 666 reference and does include the tacky date numerology and transpositions we mentioned.  Even at the time Manson was old news, having died in 2017.

The use of gematria is, and always has been, a bold statement that you refuse to find real evidence instead of just puking out nonsense.  In theory, you could listen to trained economists that recognize tariffs are a terrible idea, trained financial experts that don’t get fired from their positions on the Fed board, trained CDC staff that understand infectious diseases, trained military instead of tech geeks for lieutenant colonels.  Or you can have bootlicking sycophants not even qualified in proper gibberish.

One of the big unanswered Jack the Ripper questions is we don’t know why he stopped.  Perhaps he was a time traveler from our present day.  Sort of a reverse plot to the movie Time After Time.  Or maybe Jack is still alive like the first TV episode of Kolchak:  The Night Stalker.  Or maybe we live in a simulation that was created to test us. Or maybe, it’s time to listen to real evidence on how to return to affordable living and realize these other possibilities are fantasy with little more than entertainment value.

Hybridized Employee Earnings

One of the things that never fails to piss me off about gematria clowns is the casual attitude towards mass shootings.  Which is of course exactly what they want.  Although the “you instantly lost the logical argument” phrase of crisis actor isn't thrown around so much anymore, the subliminal message is still there.  The <insert tragedy> here happened because <artificial scapegoat> was up to no good.  And some of the victims aren’t really victims.  Because if I’m going to whip people up into a frenzy to buy survival gear and vitamin supplements they need a continuing, living and breathing target for their misplaced anger.  Somehow desecrating a grave verbally isn’t the same as trying to get push back so you can get an Attaboy!^TM from your supplement salesman.

The comparison to shooting and supplement sales is deliberate here.  That was exactly Alex Jones business model.  Declare reality to not be reality.  Force feed a group of gullible cult members in the MLM style scam a wide arrange of bullshit splattered on the wall.  Read the room for what shit stuck the best and try and milk the mark for as much as possible.

Backtracking to real life for about three paragraph or so.  Let’s say you are one of the millions of Americans who has found out that your cable bill isn’t really that good of a value anymore.  Your subscription is the same price, but the value is decreasing.  They’re still using their old, “Here’s what you can view for free” tagline.  Just a tagline because you either run the risk of accidentally signing up for a higher priced tier, getting lost in the purposefully designed web of intrigue.  Or you give up because you really, really wanted to watch one particular movie which is never available for free.  So you break down and pay the $4 for it ($9 or $10 or more) for a new release.  Or you settle for paying for something you didn’t intend, because you tired of watching Avengers: Endgame over and over as the only consistently actually free option among your recommended selections.  All designed in purpose to suck that extra couple of bucks because the more basic package isn’t cutting it.  Gotta pay for that premium streaming.  Admit it, you thought about breaking down and diving into the streamium scam if you didn’t actually do it.

So, now you’ve got a mid level tier and/or some stuff and streamium scam services and your just getting around to realizing that the tariffs have made your fresh produce so much more costly and you really need to cut back on something.  You’re done.  You’re going back to basic cable only, just taking your chances on network TV.  No more Peacock streaming.  Well, forget about doing it within the app you downloaded.  Now you’ve have to jump through hoops to try and do it.  All part of the plan.  Now you’ve have to call the support number.  And you have about a zero percent chance of getting an easy switch to paying less.  And that’s because of the hybridized employee pay structure.  Sure, by law they are required to pay a minimum amount.  But their rutabagas have also increased by 40%, and the wage rate like yours isn’t cutting it.  The only way to make a decent amount is to sell you more, just like trying to trap you while dial switching around.  Phone support, actual customer service within the monopoly structure is pretty much nonexistent.

And now you need to take a vacation day.  Ok, maybe only half a day if you’re lucky.  Just to go to a brick and mortar to try and convince someone as badly off as you that you need to cut costs while they are trying to sell you more.  And don’t forget about the “oopsie, my bad”mistakes that will happen as they “accidentally” push the sales button instead of the downgrade button.  Thanks.  Thanks for voting in making things worse on the most basic level.  People cooperating with each other to get shit done.  I find it difficult to believe a CEO needs to make tens of millions per year to train people to be as unhelpful as possible.  I doubt Luigi Mangione did, either.

Now, how does this hybridized compensation work in the online grifting world?  Merging news and sports in gematria for example.  Zach clearly has separate YouTube channels that are named as separate entities, even though they get mixed together in the hybridization process.  You’ve changed your streamium subscription from getting a reasonably unbiased news source for a subscription to the more lurid content.  If he wants to continue his lifestyle he’s accustomed to he continually needs new subscriptions to the Patreon to feed the narrative.  The latest well covered shooting at the Annunciation school - a two hour video which near the beginning actually used the phrase “magic code”.  A non existent magic code that is being used as outrage porn to make light of a tragedy.  In this case that tragedy made more heinous as the usual “sending you thoughts and prayers” is made more hollow and hypocritical as the affected children were literally praying when the shooter opened fire. And as i doomscroll through Youtube, i literally see lots of ads for the Sandy Hook parents begging us to pressure Congress to act on this insanity.

Mass shootings are so normalized in the U.S. it’s terrifying to many how no progress has been made.  We already know of examples of how other countries have had successful results.  Heck, we even have some states with successful results, at least compared to the diehard gun loving attitudes of the poorest states.  But now our government is based on a hybridized payment structure.  The salary to get shit done never seems to be enough.  Wow, I’m making far too much money on my bribes and insider training tips to actually give a shit about a couple of dead kids.

We’re officially at the stage where people are trying to contact customer support.  Hey, I’m fed up with this dead kids thing and I want to change my subscription.  But the response is selling more hatred and violence.  Sorry, what did you say?  Wouldn’t you like to try out our immigrant deportation bounty system instead of getting results on dead kids?  Along the way, here’s some uncaring algorithms which propose gambling as a solution.  Try out some gematria.  Football season is just around the corner.  You can watch that with an upgraded subscription that will empty your bank account faster.

Weather Warfare Supply Chains Are Screwed

 

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Regularly scheduled.  So regularly scheduled that not a single gematria spewing predictor posted a warning ahead of time.  A complete decode of the name, which we all know in advance, where it would hit with a wide variety of named towns that surely must have some matching gematria, and some lovely numbers for millions of $ worth of damage.

We had none of that, because of course despite the advance warning a hurricane was abrewin’ they’re still too busy with hiding sports decodes behind Patreon paywalls.  Fortunately Erin was a bit of a non issue.  Not fun for those that had to put up with the about $1 million in damage more legitimate sources reported.  But it could have been a lot worse.  Erin did manage to nearly break a record for how rapidly it intensified.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/22/hurricane-erin-analysis-florida

A sort of weather warfare warning shot.  You fuckers better get your shit together and start being appropriately terrified or the next one is hitting the mainland.  I’m serious.  Totally serious, and…what?  What’s that?  My supply chain is screwed up.  DAMMIT!!

Well the agencies that use models to track hurricanes, while not as mind bogglingly stupid as creating hurricanes from scratch so gematria clowns can predict them, the NOAA and NHC have tracked formation and direction and intensity.  So if anybody is creating them, they surely are involved.  But government cuts and layoffs have naturally hit.  The message is clear:  Science is bad.  Having the National Guard available for relief efforts instead of patrolling nonexistent crime in blue cities is bad.  Getting people to not harass FEMA personnel is bad.

In traditional warfare, the idea is to conquer an area and take it over and tape the resources for yourself.  Kinda like, oh for a wild and crazy example Russia invading Ukraine.  Just bombing it into a big parking lot kinda hurts that end goal.  The attacked, oh for another wild and crazy example, like how Russian partisans disrupted German supply lines in WWII.  Try to take that key tactical railroad hub without proper food and munitions for the boots on the ground.

Yep, making hurricanes, not just randomly but regularly scheduling makes no sense even in a Business Is War environment.  There’s enough supply chain issues as it is.  Breaking things on purpose, the attitude of the current Trump regime and Home Demot stores everywhere makes no sense.  The only return on investment is some lovely gematria decodes after the destruction has already happened.

Chattaboy!

Oh, what a joy to be alive in the midst of extreme political polarization.  Gavin Newsom (or at least his staff with his approval) has taken to copying Donald’s Tweeting style to assault X with content mocking Trump.  Some of the calmer heads point out that Gavin has his own problems and possible desire to use this as a springboard for personal political gain (a presidential campaign of his own).  Many others have simply jumped on the polarization troll bandwagon.  Anything that gives the other team a taste of their own medicine has got to be good, right?

But this is about the other current famous troll, the third episode of South Park.  I can tell that South Park has accomplished its goal this season.  Not on the internet life has people simply ignoring the elephant in the room, or even claiming that they heard about it and that it is a low rated flop.  Hold my beer while I switch the subject to avoid disingenuous engagement.

While unremarkable, especially in light of the heavy juvenile attacks of the first two episodes, the third episode did manage to focus on AI.  More specifically, chatbots.  And I think they did a pretty good job of that.  Although in theory neural nets that have already conquered fairly difficult pattern recognition in things like games (Go, chess) could be used to solve things like medical diagnoses, it’s become weaponized to get attention and money.  The G in ChatGPT is already better interpreted as meaning “grifter.”

You have traditional human made art like music already being assaulted by AI generated music.  You have fake people advertising tai chi, fake robot pets, fake testimonials from hijacked celebrity images, fake AI news.  And all this during the biggest socialization crisis in human history.  Not only is your smartphone an expensive necessity for your job, it’s also supposed to replace your need for immediate positive reinforcement in the absence of getting along with other people.  While you’re in your polarized echo chamber learning bad ideas to pass on to your kids (and directly giving the kid a phone to play with) you get AI music stealing money from old fashioned human made music, AI bad health advice like doing a couple minutes of tai chi a day is ALL you need for health and well being, and fake robot pets.  Because sure, it was on the internet so it must be true.  Shelters are at record levels of surrenders because you can’t afford groceries much less the puppy.  So you’re desperate enough to think that robot Panda which doesn’t actually exist might be worth the investment.  Has Teddy Ruxpin taught us nothing??

So, spoiler alert time.  Randy’s marijuana farm is struggling again.  ICE raids have taken away his immigrant labor.  And instead of turning to his wife Sharon who over the decades of the show’s run has always been way more supportive of her dumbass husband than he deserves, Randy turns to ChatGPT.  Which provides him with two things.  The verbal reinforcement he craves.  Yes Randy, you’re the smartest and most awesome person ever.  And yes Randy, you need to turn the marijuana farm into a tech startup company.

And in typical South Park satire it’s so ludicrous it shouldn’t be a real thing, yet mirrors what is actually going on in the real world.

It’s long overdue that the Attaboy!^TM gets an upgrade.  In the old days of gematria and other online grift you would get a human being, often a hyper aggressive condescending know it all, telling you nothing more than there are things wrong in the world and you’re the smartest person ever.  At least as long as you give them your money.  Now it’s the Chattaboy!^GPTM, where a calm voice tells you anything you want to hear (except opening the pod bay doors is out of the question).  It will tell you what supposedly works.  But it still requires actual human boots on the ground to implement.  Boots on the ground that don’t have the education and experience to pull it off.  Boots on the ground like Randy running a farm and Homer Simpson working at a nuclear plant.

And your giving it money goes beyond any cost of loading the app into the phone.  AI data centers already use an estimated 3%-4% of electricity demand.  Future demand is expected to be as high as 8%-12%.  I know, because the AI overview told me so.  And if you think the cost is going to be isolated to just AI companies you have no idea how the Republican Party in the U.S. works.  They’ve always had a strange relationship with affordability, fossil fuels, long term planning, debt, and acting like a decently socialized human being.

Do we really need another investment bubble bursting now?

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-the-critical-detail-that-could-unravel-the-ai-trade-nobody-is-paying-for-it-be09e253

Let’s ask Teddy Ruxpin.

Back To Basics

Balll Don’t Lie

Sports gematria!!  Sports gematria!!!  Excitement in the tournament hall, we’ve got sports gematria!!!  From somebody other than the usual suspects.  And yes, that’s a three l balll, since ball don’t lie seems to be already spoken for with a bunch of different channels.

And, well it’s absolutely nothing new.  The same old story.  Just before the six minute mark, an admission that the better you are at decoding the more you’ll see opposing narratives.  No shit.  If you are any good, as said a billion zillion times, the real challenge would be not to find a match.  It’s not really possible, and I promise you I can whip together something for both teams for every single game.  Some will be better stories than others.

We can see the entire format (with a couple big exceptions) is entirely well trodden paths.  The main topic is a Rangers - Blue Jays game … that’s already finished.  There’s even a comment asking for detail about the losing decodes, completely with the favorite cop out word.  Discernment.  Yes, you suck and only get it right about half the time when you actually pick in advance because your *discernment* is out of whack.  I, on the other hand have the great discernment to wait until the game is over to brag about how reporting after the fact is 100%.  Of course, any proof that this was actually in advance is buried behind a pay to play Patreon subscription.  And oh my gawd, Kobe gematria.  Because you can’t be serious about sports decoding unless you pull in the biggest and most overused figure.

Another noteworthy point about the channel it’s renamed, having spent time outside of sports.  Celebrity deaths and that kind of stuff.

The exceptions are mostly positive.  He collaborates with Kodi and Rambo, two of the bigger names that started of as Zach flunkies.  And Balll, like those two is kind of laid back instead of in your face angry ranting frothing at the mouth mad lunatic psychopath run on sentence kind of schtick.  It’s nice to say that the anger management classes they’ve been taking have had a positive effect on the community.  This could be self preservation instead of being magnanimous, as the Alex Jones settlement is rumored to be back in the cards.

https://youtu.be/PycupKiEpak

You don’t want to go all mouth frothy and get recorded making death threats and stuff, even if YouTube itself doesn’t care.

Anyway, the far fewer videos that appear these days have been pretty laid back compared to 8-10 years ago.  And to his credit, Balll does put out the disclaimer that he’s not actually recommending you gamble with the (useless) magic knowledge (that picks both teams).  So if you’re looking for a dose of the good old days before ANGER=ENGAGEMENT took hold, yeah give it a shot.  Maybe you can earn enough to give a big tip and he can become a 4 l ball.

Roblox, Restatement, and Rotten Numbers

I just found out that Roblox has a predator problem.  Multiple videos addressing the topic have appeared in my feed.  The problem is so widespread that YouTube content creators commenting on the topic have to be careful about their wording or else the video will get yanked because of the sensitive nature of the topic.

So instead of a video link I’ll give you this:

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-roblox-pedophile-problem/

And I will highlight this image:

Well that sounds typical of a lot of the shady stuff on social media.  Getting a vague assurance that the problem is being worked on, or even worse that the problem doesn’t exist.  Supposedly not existing when literally just a few minutes of investigation (now that some researchers have provided clues on where to go and what to look for) shows that it’s obvious that something is wrong.

I’m pretty sure that problem is capitalism itself.  Although the theory of rewarding the more competent with a better life is great, when there’s no effective regulation, no functioning legal system to enforce it, the prevailing attitude of the top earners is an unhealthy, “Screw it, I’m making far too much money to care about even beginning to address doing the right thing.  Even something as near universally accepted as protecting the minds and lives of children.  Maybe there’s something to the thriving demand for Epstein closure after all.  Not a numerical restatement, but an overall conceptual restatement.  Roblox is and always has been a safe haven for children.  The gematria equivalent is something like claiming you picked the last 10 Super Bowl winners correctly when you didn’t.  At least not without virtually waiting until the playoffs started and picking essentially every team.

On a broader economic scale, businesses have grown accustomed to placing reliance on financial information that is not the greatest.  And they also gain a large share of people that decide that it’s too much money to care about worker safety, morale, and affordability for the lower classes.  As far as accounting fraud goes, the classics are the best.  Keep two sets of books.  Collusion and hope the other parties don’t blow the whistle on you.  And restating numbers.  I’ve seen this graph multiple times recently.  It’s what got the head of the BLS fired.

If the May and June numbers were correctly reported then July would not have been as good as it superficially appears.  Even the July number itself was not viewed as great news.  I suppose someone decided to bite the bullet and do the downward revision now instead of misstating the numbers for several more months.  Like a bank reconciliation that was fudged by restating numbers in the prior year the eventual mismatch would be found when the company books don’t match the audited statements.  

And yes, there is a gematria equivalent to revisions.  And actually I haven’t seen much date numerology lately.  Other than dates there is the fun occasional misspelling to mock.  Entire decodes ruined by spelling someone’s name wrong.  Easily solved by the different numbers meaning something irrelevant like Bavarian Illuminati instead of Society of Jesus.  But as for dates, well that’s a function of the mechanics of outrage porn.  What did the current propaganda get people pissed off about today?  And if someone supposedly died for your ritual sacrifice on Tuesday, but they were actually just hospitalized on Tuesday and didn’t die until Thursday?  Ooops.

If the trend continues, where accurate numbers get you in trouble even to the point of being fired, does it really matter if you use gematria or a piece of accounting software?  I should reach out to Roblox and see if they use gematria for their bookkeeping system.