Mindless Freeks
Providing a runaway ramp for the crazy bus since 2017.
Sunday, February 22, 2026
Reverse Troll Gets Taken Down
Saturday, February 21, 2026
The Event - The Modern Minotaur Story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minos
Hey fans of wasted resources! Got a great one today!
Rumors are circulating that the idea of some sort of societal collapse is coming and the morbidly wealthy are calling it “The Event”. And nothing signifies the keeping up with the Joneses aspect more than the open flaunting of building an underground bunker to “get by a rough patch.” In the linked video, if you key in on about the 3:20 mark you get to the lines about how it’s really kind of stupid. In September 2024 I wrote about this town created by Libertarians, a project that didn’t go well:
https://mindelessfreeks.blogspot.com/2024/09/what-if-there-was-actual-gematria-town.html?m=1
If you have an underground bunker, who exactly is the person in charge of maintaining the septic system? Who will nurture the plants in the hydroponic farms? (For the fans of the we've seen this movie before theme, watch Silent Running.) Chateaubriand doesn’t grow on trees. A ski lift and actual snow? All the “I’m better than you because I have money and you don’t” status symbols are meaningless.
But it does give them ammunition in the I’m a Bigger Asshole Than You pissing contest. Just watch out for that 3:20 video mark downtrodden people in the same bunker as you are. That’s some high quality Vague Promise vs. the Fuck You situational disaster in the making. Somebody knows their Machiavelli or Game of Thrones, or spontaneously figures it out that revenge is an option. Spending extended periods of time fearful of assassination is not a fun thing. It’s the reason you want to build a doomsday bunker in the first place. And the contradictory nature - the narcissistic need for constant glory and admiration trapped in a bunker with a few fickle minions - good luck with that. They aren’t dining on Chateaubriand and can’t eat bitcoin. The entire infrastructure that allowed fraud on a massive scale to produce their ungodly wealth in the first place is gone.
These modern King Minos people are not mentally healthy. The entire lot of them.
The Epstein Class of people that spend more effort covering up heinous crimes with cruelty for distraction. Therapy to rehabilitate is out of the question at this point. They’re too far gone. I think of the labyrinth holding the Minotaur metaphorically. Minos’s actions are a symptom of being trapped in his own mind, one that equates power and cruelty for control as admiration.
The mindset of the angry preppers from the golden days of Alex Jones is better. But just a little bit. They’ve grown accustomed to not being well off, poverty and voter suppression tactics reminding them of reality smacking fantasy constantly. Caught up as pawns in the modern labyrinth. The purposeful erosion of the middle class is a constant reinforcement that you have two choices. Join the destitute preppers or graduate to the Epstein class. Neither option is mentally healthy. The odds that you’ll be genuinely happy saving up money for a portable generator that will be useless when you can’t get fuel for it vs. forced admiration to someone that would rather throw you under the bus at the first chance. Well, at least the bus won’t have gas either….
There’s 100% certainty that if Minos was alive now he’d be prominently featured in the Epstein files. Constantly sacrificing young Athenians to the actual monster in the labyrinth just for a little bit more attention. Another day of pretending the imprisonment of his own thoughts and deeds eating at his conscience. Knowing that if he dared showed up at the Super Bowl he’d be resoundingly booed, yet still insisting he’s the best king ever while the largest No Kings protest ever is brewing in the town outside the labyrinth. Never considering that investment in the future instead of building a doomsday bunker with the resources was a better option.
Sunday, February 15, 2026
The Vague Promise vs.The F-U
Following up on the Hyperkrieg and the “we’ve seen this movie before” themes. Just because you real history fans need some more fun.
In World War I, surprisingly, Axis power Japan was a big winner.
The power of the blitzkrieg - overwhelm the weak. Isolate the true threat from their allies and only need to deal with the one threat to your forcing your will on to others. A quaint side feature of older warfare is the end of war capitulation, which is what we’re experiencing with Russia and Ukraine now. We’ll stop blowing up your shit and killing you if you give us your shit. Japan masterfully jumped into the give me your shit phase without participating a whole lot in the blowing your shit up phase, because that would have resulted in some of their own shit getting blown up.
On a smaller scale, the Nazis had the economic support of coattail riding businesses. The threat of blowing your shit up is hollow and laughable if you’re not actually capable of blowing shit up. Forced labor vs. patriotic fervor, which is better? History tells us patriotic fervor. The will to exist free is more powerful than “join or die”. And never underestimate the facet of human nature for people getting to a point of recognizing things aren’t going well and saying, “Fuck you.”
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From a perspective of personal philosophy and outlook on life I find it ironic that the patriotic fervor of the desire to live free is itself an increasingly vague promise. But anyway….
Before MAGA, Nazi Germany had their MOGGA, Make Our Germany Great Again. Great news for businesses that would end up having cheap forced labor to make batteries, Lugers, Panzers and Luftwaffe planes. And the bankers and other economic infrastructure to make it happen.
And what did the MAGA movement give us? Great news for Tech billionaires making the weapons of misinformation and disinformation warfare. Social media, online grifting, bigotry, misogyny and intimidation. Financed by monetized hate speech. The Hyperkrieg attack on individuals with artificial and arbitrary labels applied by stupid and vague promises that can’t possibly be met. There’s no upcoming economic boom from gematria decoding of yesterday’s victors in sporting competitions.
A perfectly foreseeable conclusion of the Hyperkrieg vague promises is here now. Localized to just the U.S., its short term effect was solid and went according to a semblance of a strategy. Capitalize on vague promises of long term benefit. And we’re officially out of the opening and middle game phases. Based on the European reaction to Marco Rubio’s love bombing speech, Europe is fed up with the U.S. The vague promises of being a steadfast ally is gone. NATO was openly ditched. Imperial accusations are openly announced. The economic sanctions on top of the self imposed foot bullet of using tariffs to declare sanctions on your own people is coming, and since that was based on the Hyperkrieg it’s coming faster than most would think. In short, Europe is at the “Fuck you” stage of diplomacy. Think of it as a larger scale reaction to Minnesota saying “Fuck You” to ICE. The proven arbitrariness of target selection destabilizing a group of people that would be so much happier and productive if they weren’t worried about broken bones, tear gas, and murder.
This is the essence of the phrase, “If you’re not aware of history, you’re doomed to repeat it.”
Saturday, February 14, 2026
Hyperkrieg
Since picking a Super Bowl winner with gematria is actually a coin flip, it’s nice that the flip landed this way this year. The world doesn’t need another year of “I’m never wrong about anything” commentary from the Attaboy!TM wielding coattail riding grifters that helped make Qanon. The song (AI generated?) at the start of the linked video tells you all of the story you need to know.
I personally feel that the failure of gematria is the lack of correct choice of cipher. A new cipher needs to be implemented. The Hyper reduction, where since all the four basic ciphers are divisible by nine, no matter what you cherry pick from you add 9 to the result. HyperSatanic just sounds so much more fake cooooool than Satanic.
A quick chess reference. Online chess has evolved that for profit and marketability the faster time controls are much more popular. Hardly anyone wants to watch a a 5 hour game that likely ends in a draw. Rapid chess with 10-15 minutes plus a bit of bonus time for move played, those games end in less than an hour. Blitz chess - three to five minutes plus an even smaller bonus time allotted for a move played, now those end in a few minutes. Then bullet chess, one minute per game. And the truly insane variation of HYPERbullet, 30 seconds per game. As the time decreases, mistakes increase and the peaceful ties are fewer and fewer.
We have seen the blitzkrieg movie before. A truly great innovation in warfare when introduced. Throw everything all at once on a weak spot, dominate quickly and worry about supply chains later. Since education doesn’t mean anything to several generations, actual knowledge of German blitzkrieg tactics is not great. Remarkably effective early on, but as time marched forward over the years defensive and counteroffensive strategies adapted. Finally, culminating into encounters like the Battle of the Bulge. A last blitzkrieg style push, without any real chance of working since only a miraculous amount of good fortune would keep the necessary fuel supply in place. Live by the blitzkrieg, die by the blitzkrieg.
One thing that didn’t help the WWII German generals was that their leader was batshit crazy. Somehow, that sounds familiar…. And once the adaptions were made, Hitler took over a lot of the planning himself. There was a lot of military leader, “Ummm, we shouldn’t do that. It’s not going to work” countered by, “Fuck you, I’m the boss.” Somehow, that sounds familiar….
Now, with the super fast paced computing power of the Information Age, a mere blitzkrieg is not sufficient. You can’t effectively do a cryptocurrency pump and dump rug pull without trading in less than a second. It’s baffling to see Qanon content influencing people looking for a long term trend out of stupid shit that happened in the morning news cycle. There’s no chance for an ordinary person to take advantage of the Hyperkrieg. Grab the money now, and the lack of a viable consolidation mechanism afterwards.
I’ve often seen it said that Trump is an instinctive authoritarian. I agree, but I suggest that it’s more that Trump is instinctively unpredictable. This is largely due to his mental health. A topic that was hyperkrieged into being he’s a genius with ample evidence over time that he’s never been even average. The equivalent of German WWII officers that could talk him back from the edge in the first term are gone. Now there’s this:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/thomas-massie-roasts-pam-bondi-for-her-attempts-to-attack-lawmakers/
Pam, the Hyperkrieg is over. Instead of petty insults it’s time to move on to something else. Petty insults to deflect haven’t changed the damage tariffs have done to grocery prices.
Or this:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/thomas-massie-roasts-pam-bondi-for-her-attempts-to-attack-lawmakers/
The Hyperkrieg tactic of all out attack doesn’t work so well when courts have a chance to think about stuff. It’s a Battle of the Bulge counterattack instead of a surprise Hyperkrieg invasion.
Oh, and if you want to actually pay attention to what’s going on in the world these are just samples. Especially in Europe, the Hyperkrieg has been halted. What might work with the continually clueless voting base of MAGA republicans doesn’t hold the same sway on the global stage. The damage is done. Trade deals are being renegotiated outside the once almighty U.S. dollar. Enjoy your red hat memorabilia.
This does not suggest that the war is over. No it still rages on. But the chess clock has changed. Instead of hyperbullet the time control is longer. And it’s slowing down enough where an endgame strategy needs to be in place. And being extremely unpredictable is a great advantage. Even if losing, you can still swindle and trap your way to victory. But what has changed is globally we now know in advance that this is coming. We know the Hyperkrieg is fundamentally unsound and our on clock is still ticking away.
Sunday, February 8, 2026
The Gematria Gambling Contract
Saturday, February 7, 2026
The Diary the Gematria Community Never Decoded
There’s a lot of conspiracy theory adjacent topics that self appointed experts have been ignoring lately. The 2nd amendment crowd is either silent about what is happening with protesters being gunned down or even manufacturing fake evidence to support “their side” is OK to abandon it. The free speech absolutists are silent about censorship through intimidation or algorithm. Conspiratorial thinking is fashionable and being called a conspiracy theorist is edgy and cool when it’s for fun and profit, making up bullshit arguments to get clout, views and Patreon subscriptions.
Well the Super Bowl is tomorrow, and of course the gematria community is joining hands in ignoring their prior vocalizations. While they yammered on about crisis actors/dead children, Freemason blood sacrifices, bitcoin, the WWE and synchronicity with the morning news stories, the biggest actual conspiracy in modern history was brewing. Another case of the abject failure of gematria as a predictive system. If it had any real value gematria would have found some actual hints to what was going on with Epstein. And even though the story I’m about to share isn’t what I would call viral in any sense, it’s been out for a bit. And I shouldn’t be mentioning it; it’s that grotesque. But it does have words and code. So I propose if you want to proceed further keep in mind that for a decade “conspiracy theorist” meant blowing out a lot of hot air to scam people for money instead of actually doing journalistic investigation into actual conspiracy. First of all, an image to take up the display so the thumbnail doesn’t relate to the content I’m warning about.
Here’s some source material for reference:
And right off the bat one of the things missing from genuine discourse to get solutions is I look up on the internet and see The Mirror leans far left politically. And within the story they are careful to mention that these are unproven allegations. For now, this is just a story instead of fact.
Allegedly, a young girl was groomed to bear a child as part of some weird genetics experiment cooked up by Epstein and company.
But when has a made up story ever stopped a good fake conspiracy theorist from doing a decode? Except for the past couple years where they’ve been relatively silent other than gambling? This story is perfect for confirmation bias. Hard right will scream FAKE! Hard left will instantly latch on to “this is more proof!” More middle of the road with functioning critical thinking skills may want to dive deeper into it and look for more actual evidence or have become so desensitized they pass it by. Wanting to avoid more of the Epstein Drama. God I hope it’s fake, because you go through the story and it sounds so mind bogglingly awful it’s gruesome. For the record, I searched the files for “diary” and couldn’t find this. But I gave up before going through all the hits.
Now specifically, the sort of gematria related image from the story, the one I didn’t want to show when I posted this:
While in captivity, allegedly, the diary was maintained and written in a sort of code. Top to bottom, left to right. Start with the S in row 1, down to the O in row two, return to the top row since there’s a space before the next line for I. “So, it came out in the….”
A perfect little gematria story in the making. The words in the correct order can be made out. You can deliberately skip around and make up other patterns to decode other than the intended order. You don’t like the NEVER in rows 7-8? How about NVRAEO in row 7 alone? Or start from the right maybe. But like I said, Epstein is pretty much off limits now for the fake conspiracists of the good ole days. What I take away from this for now is one of two choices, which are essentially the same:
Option A: The story is true and just another example of how horrific these people are.
Option B: Somebody generated fake documentation, including a “The distressing document…” DOJ disclosure at the bottom.
And those are the same because somebody wanted attention and of money.
Sunday, February 1, 2026
What About Whataboutism?
Cognitive dissonance is a real thing, not just a fancy psychology term to throw around and make you sound smarter above your actual smarts. And with multiple generations of critical thinking suppression being ingrained into literally tens of millions of people… well let’s just say the low end of the cult/grifting pyramid really are not dealing with it well right now. The contradictory information is off the charts. People who had been silent out of respect, e.g. respecting your elders at the Thanksgiving dinner, have started to speak out. This is a self inflicted bullet to the foot. There’s a wide variety of things wrong just from this year that should be called out if you prefer democracy to dictatorship. The way the victims of Trump’s utter incompetence and creation of the contradictions is all internal. Openly not talking about or just taking cues from far right wing media propaganda for what to say.
And what are the bottom of the food chain actually saying when they do say the quiet part out loud? It’s not just calling Covid a hoax or a Sandy Hook parent a crisis actor of heaven forbid throwing out a gematria decode distraction. What’s the newest catch phrase or meme that counters Trump being all over the files as Epstein’s FRIEND, shattered alliances from destruction of already dwindling trust and what a couple decades ago would be war crimes. Looking mostly at Epstein related content and the critics commentary the new thing is <drum roll>.
Nothing. It’s replaying the greatest hits. All the old outrage porn from the past that worked in campaign rallies. And not even any new variations. The same fading brain that nostalgically yearns for a fleet of battleships that don’t fit in can’t come up with anything other than Whataboutism. The confused brain’s first or second tactic to avoid having to think about actually answering a question directed at you with no good answer available. (The other being the ever fun filled ad hominem attack.)
And there’s no change from years ago, as I said. Shouldn’t we stop funding ICE. Well the Biden crime family was worse. Obama made a statement about the Pretti execution, what do you think? He’s an immigrant himself. Checkmate! I heard that oil companies are actually thinking that it’s not economically feasible to get a ton of money from Venezuela’s oil reserves. Do you care to comment? They’re flooding our country with fentanyl. It’s insane that you cannot get a straight answer from across the board. The top sycophants are mortified they’ll be thrown under the bus next if they get off the approved answer. The online grifter community doesn’t have anything better than, “at least Democrats aren’t in control”. A sideways acknowledgment that they know things are bad. But whatabout Kamala? Boy she’s dumb. Surely things would be even worse. I really hate the idea of buying cheap groceries and having health care. (But what about those bankrupt soybean farmers! They’ve really got it good!)
If you’ve been around the Zachosphere enough, you’ve seen the Whataboutism. A lot. When pinned down about a failed prediction or the reporting after the fact instead of making an actual prediction. The response? What about how Kobe equals 33 just like Masonry equals 33 and blah, blah, blah. In the old days it worked. Now it can lead to a gematria doesn’t work talking point being defended by doing more gematria that doesn’t work, on an unrelated topic to boot.
This could join the Know Your Grifter Tactics series, here. Know and recognize the whataboutism logical fallacy for what it is. “Hillary would have been worse” has nothing to do with what will go down in history as one of the objectively worst presidents. It would be a shame if we had to go on such a downer.
Saturday, January 31, 2026
Upgrade Your Vocabulary
Qanon’s bizarre version of gematria wasn’t fundamentally different than traditional biblical gematria or sports gematria. It was always WORD=NUMBER, force the match if you have to, make a big deal about the match and ignore the inevitable contradictions. What it was - conspiracy theory light. A pretty bauble to dangle and distract. An opening gunfight at the start of the western before you begin to consider a plot. An entry point into the world of conspiracy, just not real conspiracy like exactly who were Epstein’s clients. It was all bullshit conspiracy about cultural war topics that were twisted into fake news defended with the childlike cry, “No, your news is fake” instead of actual evidence. Trump himself relies on the projection accusation of ascribing his own faults onto his enemies. Malignant narcissists have a cozy relationship with projection.
Within that world, lots of lingo became customary. Catch phrases and dog whistles so you knew you were surrounded by your tribe. And that tribe is a closed minded confirmation bias seeking support of literal cult members. Lingo such as crisis actor, red-pilled, The Storm are signs that you don’t mind at all aggressively being a keyboard warrior without consideration for actually being right about stuff.
Facing the barrage of outrage porn based insults is tough. But mentally, and if necessary verbally, you can prepare yourself for unwarranted attacks on your character with a vocabulary upgrade. If you’ve been patiently waiting and wondering why disinformation research has been sounding alarms, the time is pretty much now. Things escalated rapidly and the unjustified attacks aren’t going away anytime soon. So here we go.
You’re not anti-fascist. You’re Pro Democracy. Just because someone has labeled themselves a patriot doesn’t actually make themselves a patriot. They need to act like a patriot. And if the best they can do is attack you by calling you “Antifa” as an insult, they’ve already lost the intellectual battle and have signaled they want to use the fake debate logical fallacy tactics. With practice, delivering that you are Pro Democracy instead of Antifa is mentally healthy for you. It’s the same way some substance abusers that have gotten over that by calling themselves an ex-alcoholic instead of the AA, “I am an alcoholic for eternity” can be an interruption of the healing process. Both essentially mean the same thing but be positive about yourself instead of negative about others.
Similarly, you’re not anti-capitalist, a socialist, or communist unless you actually are and are comfortable with the label. You’re more likely a Pragmatist. You didn’t design the system that demands consumer spending that drives GDP while simultaneously creating the poverty that has no discretionary spending left after necessities. Wealth inequality has been the death sentence of many any empire. Getting the empire in place always had a period of sharing the love around instead of thinking that someone like a Musk might see how loyal you are and throw you a bone instead of buying whatever rich white dude stuff Elon amuses himself with. The balance of giving the working class enough stuff to not want to concentrate on stealing your stuff requires adults in the room having serious talks about compromise and long term sustainability. Economic survival is a virtue and not giving up on all your worldly positions and becoming a monk for “what you believe in” is not a sin.
You’re not woke, you’re smart and educated and a realist. History is on the side of what is called woke. Just as hoax is the favorite word in conspiracy theory disinformation , woke is the biggest word in culture war talking points. The realist recognizes that people who are assholes are assholes for other reasons than the color of the skin, namely being an asshole consistently across a broad spectrum of topics. The intent is to be as controversial as possible for clicks and views. The end result is being wrong about everything to get those clicks and views. Those that accuse others of being woke want to play the “everything is black and white with no context of nuance” game. Alex Pretti wasn’t part of a woke mob that loves immigrants more than natural born citizens. He was a compassionate person caught up in a terrible situation that realistically and correctly assessed that what was going on around him was just wrong.
Going against the flow and risking losing points. You ARE Progressive. Even more pointedly to the losing my credibility on the theme, what is the opposite of Progressive? Regressive. I have no problem with conservatism. But the trajectory of the GOP has been steady. Deregulate everything. Make the judicial system a bad joke. Make financial record keeping a bad joke. Turn law enforcement into a weapon instead of combatting those with weapons who want to be lawless. The ultimate regression is throwing away the Constitution and everything it stands for. A document that also baked in recognition that progression beyond the time it was written was inevitable. So you’re progressive at least in the sense that you prefer the regressive madness has the brakes put on it. Stop breaking shit, then there’s no need to fix it.
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Rapid Fire - The Documentary Part II
I was headed here anyway, but Goddammit what a kick in the ass the latest federally subsidized murder was. People dying are still a hoax. In case you think the Alex Jones inspired nitwits could ever take a break from the morbid stupidity and psychopathic focus on monetization of tragedy.
A quick refresher. Jake Lo (Brandon Lee) goes through a heroes journey where he’s forced to be a pawn in a higher stakes fight between drug kingpins Antonio Serrano (Nick Mancuso) and Kinman Tau (Tzi Ma). Both villains are over the top caricatures of the quintessential bad guy. And along for the ride are the good but flawed cop Mace Ryan (Powers Boothe) and the corrupt federal agent Frank Stuart (Raymond Barry). (Stewart according to Wikipedia, Stuart according to Wikipedia. I wonder what the gematria has to say about that.). And Stuart is the focus for today.
The shit has hit the fan and Stuart is about to hightail it out of town. A vengeful Jake and eternally disgruntled Mace arrive just in time to intimidating him into flipping sides. A turnabout because the intimidation tactics are what forced Jake to give up on his political apathy and get involved in the first place. As it’s fiction you are perfectly allowed to forgive that Jake’s violence is justified and pure. Stuart is a piece of shit and gets rewarded with an untimely death. Instead of no accountability and just being able to escape to an island somewhere or wherever he intended to hole up. With his dirty drug money.
Your life has been adversely affected by intimidation more than you will admit. Things have accelerated fast. So fast that the I can’t believe the leopards are eating my face content can’t keep up. If you’ve ever gotten the sense that your annual salary review was affected because you were asked to do something questionable just to keep your job, you’ve been financially intimidated. If you live in an area which was loaded with TRUMP election banners and signs and you felt uncomfortable, you’ve been intimidated. Even the psychological pressure to overspend and Keep Up With the Joneses is a mild form of intimidation.
And it’s certainly not my fault that politically the far right extremism is front and center at this time. All the really nasty, historically reprehensible shit going down is monetized for a reason. In the battle of getting along with people just to survive vs. comply or die the intimidation machinery set in motion decades, generations ago. To be competitive as a corporation for shareholder profit, you must exploit. Everything must be deregulated. Wages must be cut to the bare bones, layoffs must be done, salaried workers must be overworked, multiple jobs must be held. And you also be better fucking ecstatic about it because now a bullet through the head is on the table. I can hear in the back of my mind the million dollar investment portfolio crowd, “Another shooting?!? Oh No My InVeStMeNtS!!”
Just to reiterate an official prediction here, my guess is the Olympics is going to be a financial disaster. The bigger picture is showing the world moving away from dealing with Trump’s America. Instead of intimidating the rest of the world into submission it’s a global middle figure. Even getting past this regime there’s the lurking fear - these assholes are so clueless in another few years they could elect another clueless mentally ill asshole. Best to trade with someone more stable, like North Korea. And that’s if the U.S. has fair elections anymore. The intimidation machinery is working overtime on the voter suppression, gerrymandering, and feeling of helplessness fear-mongering that set up the rural and uneducated Americans to punch over their weight class by giving them cultural bullshit to complain about while the leopards ate their faces.
And speaking of cultural bullshit, let’s answer the question, “What proof is there anyone was shot?”
Well, for starters there’s oodles of video evidence. There’s the government response to try and spin it that it was Pretti’s fault. Naturally. And a corpse. But the Alex Jones crowd doesn’t care about that. Because they are part of the intimidation machine. There’s another supremely intimidating incident known as January 6th that Jones leant his voice to. A direct chain of events that even culminated in bitcoin donation to Jones legal defense because a broken legal system works great in the intimidation machine, just like it was the last push for Jake Lo.
Also, Hubbard’s own actions years ago show him to be at odds with his response to intimidation. Despite some unkind Trump comments recently he’s gone into Agent Stuart mode. A forward thinking plan, since he’s not stupid, to protect his investments and lay false claim to being anti-Trump forever. He used to go out and visit Oklahoma bombing sites or the 9/11 memorial and mouth off. All fun and games when your opposition is people lighting candles and laying wreaths at the dead’s memorial. Not a problem when you’re met with police trained in non-violent crowd control. A performance designed more to outstupid the other online grifters than be an effective protest over something claimed to be a hoax. Now that the bullets are flying, has there been any righteous anger and narratives of organizing a visit to LA, Chicago, Minneapolis, Maine? Of course not. Just like the NRA, instead of following through with the spirit of the second amendment the time for crickets is here. Time for Agent Stuart to pussy out and skip town.
The Oh No My InVeStMeNtS crowd that I deal with semi regularly have Agent Stuarted. Before Jan 6th they were quick to show that they thought the GOP deregulation pattern was just fine and Trump was a good and just president. Now they do things like post on Facebook about their ski vacations. Surely, those leopards will not follow me home. You do not owe these people any forgiveness unless there is a clear, “Holy shit, what have I done?!!” message coming from them.
Saturday, January 24, 2026
Rapid Fire - A Forgotten Documentary
Sunday, January 18, 2026
The Illusion Of Transparency
…and how we reverse engineer bad people into beneficial geniuses.
Again, life is not so simple for the parent, the business owner, and those who get involved in politics who actually give a shit about governing. The procreative act is finished, the child’s basic nutritional needs are being met, but where do you go from there just getting them to the point of functioning in a society of other children with people who aren’t you training them?
The educators and trainers have their own set of values. Arguably, the most effective ones can put aside egocentrism and teach without bias. But bias is inevitable, and the resulting conflict is inevitable. Too many people, too many competing ideas, too much compromise necessary where instead of just happiness for your share, some jackass will insist (very wrongfully) that they are being unfairly treated.
The illusion of transparency describes an individuals expectations of outsiders “getting” them. Like relationship conflict where you are sad because you feel trivialized and your partner thinks you just had a bad day at work. Like you want to have your birthday remembered and they didn’t get you a card because they thought, “It’s just a card or dinner or flowers. She knows I love her so what’s the big deal”. It is virtually impossible to know exactly what someone else is thinking all the time. The only 100%er is you know what is going on in your brain.
And it’s not a full blown lack of empathy, it’s an unavoidable cognitive bias. Not necessarily good or bad, it just…is. And like the Dunning Kruger Effect it’s not just expected that you are obviously wearing your heart on your sleeve, those you interact with are obviously doing the same. If your brain works that way, then that must be the way others brains work. A recipe for disaster when you think the math of the poker game is solely responsible for success brings you up against the person who is a skilled bluffer. An illusion of transparency and giving people the benefit of the doubt. And the problem is when that illusion is finally broken and you’re confronted with the uncomfortable reality. You aren’t compatible with your long term romantic partner and are talking breaking up/divorce. That promotion you were promised was given to someone else. Are they better than you, or is it just your boss is a manipulative bastard trying to get you to work harder for the same pay? Is trickle down economics actually going to work this time now that a failed businessman is in charge of the country, and am I a bad person suffering through my cognitive dissonance if I don’t quintuple down and give him just. one. more. chance.
My source that motivates this post was titled, something about the illusion and f transparency and jumped right towards turning TRAITORS into geniuses. A little harsh, but not entirely without merit in these times. A key point was how like the poker bluffing expert they understand the structure of the game. How the game is rigged against those who only start with $100 in chips playing against their stack of $10,000. Bankruptcy means nothing to the 1% who can just find backing to start another wild venture. The in video commentary was a clip of Elon talking about the dark times of having to choose whether to keep multiple companies going or just focus on one and “only being left with $20-$40 million”. Well cry me a fucking river.
This is the socialization of the ultra wealthy. The old money that has the larger stack of chips to fall back on. The mindset that not so much they actually believe that the working class needs to just work harder and pick themselves up by their bootstraps, but that as long as that illusion is maintained - the structure of the rigged game - they can operate freely exploiting the common people. The common people that like all recorded history has shown they really don’t give a shit about.
The obligatory gematria reference:
None of the so called experts has anything good planned for the followers. It’s their poker game. Their rules to be changed daily as they see fit. Exploiting the current crop of followers, trying to maintain the illusion of transparency as long as possible. If it wasn’t gematria, or Candace Owen’s dreams, it would be something else. And there are a lot of other bad ideas to choose from. The house edge is the useless Patreon subscription of the premium ad free calculator access you purchased for you reward. That reward is another day of pretending that what your brain is saying is right. You’re smarter than everyone (except Bill Maher who is obviously …oh who am I kidding).
You could play a fun game with the cognitive bias and gematria. Give a presenter who hasn’t been exposed to the common conspiracy gematria narratives a list of two and three digit numbers with big lists of words that have matching gematria. A large group of equally uninitiated in the world of gematria receives the target number from the presenter. The presenter takes a guess at which words will be most frequently duplicated by the receivers. The receivers are just tapping away on the calculator looking for matches. What you’ll end up with is an idea of the topics the presenter has internalized as important. And if the receivers answers are being recorded you’ll get what topics they think are important. The extreme endgame of this kind of process is when the presenter continually suggests that 113 always means dishonest. 56 always means the Jesuits. 33 means 33rd degree Freemason. This is not education or socialization. This is conditioning, brainwashing, mental coercion. And you’re on the path towards reverse engineering the presenter into a genius. A genius that wants you to associate an arbitrary scapegoats and murder while you’re picking your favorite players from the Browns because you live in Cleveland.
A more innocent and actual experiment was done in 1990’s The Tapping Song Experiment. Just like gematria sports betting, actual predictive ability is essentially not in town.
https://www.arisefromthedust.com/tap-tap-tap-surely-you-recognize-that/
Don’t read too much into my source selection. It was one of the top hits and there’s a bunch of different choices you can read through.
The Tapper of the song knows full well what the song is. They sing the song in their head. And the illusion of transparency without knowledge of the actual bias way overestimates the listeners ability to recognize the tune. Your average gematria newbie gets force fed “the tune” early on. The tune is emotionally supercharged rage bait. The same rage bait that dominates the discourse in the higher stakes poker table - the ones with the huge chip stacks and agendas far in excess of your tiny little sports gambling $100 chip stack. They certainly don’t care if you think 26 means DOG to you personally. They’re more interested that someone might convince you that ELON=62 and that’s close enough to 26. You’re forced into a tune you didn’t want to listen to and now you can’t help but wonder - isn’t that what everyone else thinks? Except me and my dog?