Author: Jim

Faith

Satanic symbolism at the vatican

The papacy is maintaining a studied ambiguity as to whether they worship God or Satan Outside view of papal reception hall Inside view of papal reception hall Close up inside view This resembles the infamous Socinian ambiguity when they were conducting entryism against the Church of England in the late seventeenth, early eighteenth century, as …

economics

The end of gold

Gold has been great insurance against crisis and collapse for five thousand years. Now it ends. The gold bugs are whistling in the dark. Currently there is about ten trillion in gold value held in private hands, about one trillion in crypto currency, primarily bitcoin. So gold still dominates crypto currency by capital value. But …

politics

Not the Babylon Bee

Somewhat after the last minute, they have proceeded with the real case against Kyle. A bunch of peaceful protestors peacefully protested by smashing cars and setting buildings on fire. The militia showed up toting guns, Kyle among them, to stop this. The peaceful protesters felt this was extremely provocative. Kyle saw a fire, and unwisely …

crypto

All FIPS compliant cryptographic libraries are backdoored and in the pocket of our enemies

As are many non FIPS compliant cryptographic libraries. We know from the Snowden leaks that the NSA has spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to make sure that cryptographic implementations have backdoors supplied for the NSA. A good way to make money is to construct a cryptographic library, and, if it gets to be …

science

The Jab

I was expecting a significant rise in the excess death rate among young people. If it is happening, it is less impressive than I was expecting. The claim that the jab is saving lives is not obviously and outrageously stupid. It is not obviously true either. What it is, however, doing, is sodomizing people’s immune …

crypto

Bitcoin time

I have been diversifying from Bitcoin to ADA, because I was profoundly unhappy with Bitcoins scalability, and with its implementation of the lightning network, and I recommended that other people do so. This turned out to be a bad idea. The bitcoin lightning network substantially eases the scaling problem for an order of magnitude or …

party politics

Elections and voting

Democracy died on 2020-11-04, so I have been paying no attention to elections, electoral integrity laws, and all that. But, due to normalcy bias, lots of people have: In the run up before the 2020-11-03 election, the Democrats massively escalated all their regular routine fraud, sufficient to deal with a massive Trump landslide. But instead …