The Living Indoors Conundrum

In these last few years (OK, decades) I’ve had the privilege of getting to know the generations younger than me and my fellow Boomers, and the financial situation that they face. It is almost unbelievably daunting. 

My parents, Greatest Generation, and mine were able to live indoors for about 30%, or less, of our net incomes…  Not so anymore!  

I’ve met some of the newest generations of highly skilled and/or highly educated professionals for whom the cost of living indoors has exceeded 50% of their gross income(s).  

That’s insane!  

I’ve heard many a business writer and talking head guess at what the causes for those circumstances has been; is now.   Largely got/getting it wrong.

I believe the use of forensic accounting, and property tax/accessor collector, investigations will discover that the cause of the enormous spike in the cost of living indoors is inventory manipulation that has, in turn, caused the spike in associated costs.

Private equity, and their ilk, are buying large numbers of houses (single or multi-family), condos and apartment complexes under the guise of LLCs (Limited Liability Corporations).  They are labeling these acquisitions as investments, not homes.  This covers their tracks in anti-trust violations and allows them to avoid paying property taxes; covering their assets.

There is a way to rectify this problem. It is one problem with multiple symptoms. We will all need to vote, vote for Democrats, because the Republican criminal syndicate (RCS) has been purchased by the wealthy investor, oligarch (aristocrat wannabe) class.  The RCS has demonstrated, in this election cycle, that they will retire from office rather than face an extremely well purchased, primary opponent.

Register, check your registration, and vote in your own, enlightened, self interest!
  
  

Apologies and Explanations...

 I've apologized to the world before, but let me equivocate some...  

We, in the USA, built the world's biggest, very equitable, economy from 1946 - 1976.  Some wealthy oligarchs, aristocrat wannabes, realized this enormous economy was where they (Bezos, Zuckerberg, and their ilk from the USA; Thiel, Musk, etc... moved to the US from abroad) could steal the most. 

So, they bought the Republican party and and created the Republican criminal syndicate (RCS) to begin the process of stealing as much as possible, from said US economy, for themselves.  

Democrats had become very self-satisfied and did little, to nothing, to recognize, let alone stop, the cascading failure of government and economy as it was taking place. 

The most recent problem is the grifter in chief, merde l'orange, whose political success was purchased by said oligarchs to exacerbate the aforementioned problems.  

The RCS legislators in the US Congress are beginning to understand the enormity of the problem they've helped to create, but they will not risk a fight with the oligarchs. So they're abandoning the ship, they've helped to sink, like the rats that they have chosen to become.  

The rest of the OECD/NATO/ASEAN/UN nations are realizing that they need an alternative to the world centered around the USA. Unfortunately, they are correct, because the worst can, and is, happening here in the USA.  

We're, now, largely aware of the problem we allowed (consciously, or not) to happen.  It is time to fix the problem. If we are to remain a functioning, democratic republic the fix will take time.  

This is not the world I want to leave for the next generations, from whom we've borrowed this world, and will do what I might to change the direction we're taking as we proceed into the future. 

Patience, and developing alternatives, is appreciated as we, in the USA, fix what we’ve broken. As mentioned before, if we are to remain a functioning, democratic republic the fix will take time.  

It is asking too much for forgiveness at this point in time, but might one ask for more of the assistance, from other nations, being given in the exposure of the most obscene pedophilia crimes perpetrated, and shielded from legal and societal consequences here in the US.  This can help move along the process of rectifying the mistakes, some not exclusive to the USA, made in the relatively recent past.

Thanks, again, for the patience shown as we proceed, as we all must, into the future.

Fixing the Badly Broken US, Federal Goverment

Sent to the Office of Special Counsel that was able to tell, via snail mail (in 2006), me about not being able to run for partisan, elected office while working for TxDOT:   

When does voluntarily disregarding criminal and Constitutional misconduct/violations lead to one’s own criminal prosecution?

Why isn’t a congress, that refused to (conspired not to) convict an impeached President, brought before a grand jury for possible criminal indictment. These Republican legislators are also qualified for the application of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment; eligible for removal from an office that required an oath, to said Constitution, be taken and followed.


Why aren't US Marshals, Capitol Police or other real law enforcement getting arrest warrants for the members of the US Congress who let an insurrection inciting, child molesting person (who is sitting, illegally, on still unreleased Epstein files) stay in office. The congress should already have 14/3d merde l'orange.


These Republican criminal syndicate (RCS) members are both obstructing justice (in, at least, the Epstein files) and are guilty of aiding and abetting an administration that incited insurrection. Do not wait till the elections in November of 2026. The current, criminal administration is trying to interfere with, or block, these upcoming elections.

Did the folks, who left the OSC during the merde l'orange/47 administration, forget how to work from home, as done during Covid, and how to contact those who are still trying to do their job at the office.

Can we, please, get useful responses from those who are still at their federal office, or needing to work from home, to fix what’s been badly broken in our US, federal government during the 45 and 47 administrations.

Democracy was ours to loose…

...and we let it slip away.

Government, when it works, functions in the background and is boring.  So, too many of us took government for granted, forgetting that democratic government is neither a self-starter, nor is it self-sustaining; stopped voting…

This is how we lost democracy in the USA!

People are starting to pay attention to government, after we lost democracy.  

Too many people had stopped paying attention when they got used to government working quietly, in the background, largely fulfilling it's role: making everything work reasonably well. 

See: USA’s economic history, from 1946 to 1976, when the largest, most productive, most innovative and equitable economy in the world was created. 

DEI is true meritocracy, because it creates an economy where every qualified person can compete for everything all the time.

VOTE!  Let's get our democracy back. 

What the Petrochemical Industry Perpetrated...

I believe that you will find that there are investigations and lawsuits being pursued against multiple companies in the oil and gas businesses of the world. They, petrochemical: extracting, refining, distributing and sales, etc., have known, for over half a century (based on information gathered by scientists the oil and gas industry employed; among many other scientists) what would happen if, when, enormous amounts of fossil fuels continued to be extracted, processed and burned.  

Forensic accountants could document how much taxpayers were bilked to underwrite the destruction that the American Petroleum Institute, and their ilk round the world, caused; continue to cause.  

I believe that the only way to rectify the problem is for eminent domain to be employed by governments around the world, after the case against the petrochemical industries are made in courts around the world.

Data Centers, AI and Eminent Domain...

Can you say, "eminent domain?" 

Energy and water are a priority, and unless the data center avails itself of all of the roofs and acreage on campus for wind, solar and batteries to supply all the power needed, it is to be subject to local/state/federal government eminent domain. Renewable power generation and storage will be properly installed to power the entire facility before the infrastructure can be made available for resale. 

Water must be supplied only by condensing moisture from the air above the ginormous campus (MIT has that technology, amongst multiple other research and development resources) or the same eminent domain rules apply. 

There are solid state ways to conduct heat from the racks to the outdoors without water.  There are fiber optic ways to communicate twixt chips, boards and racks that require far less electricity.

This could be applied by retrofitting all current data centers, and required for all new data centers! 

If the dot.bomb of 2000 evaporated investor's money; see also: your 401K...  The current rush to AI will be worse.  Why? Because we still have the Internet, after the dot.bomb, the AI bust will leave us with pointless, ginormous, data centers (see: phone company central offices from the 1970s).

AI pushers are trying to build data centers that are the equivalent of a mainframe computer, data center of the 1970s when nearly all of us have more computing power in our hand; a, "phone."

The AI, used car equivalent, sales forces is basically making shit up...  

Calling AGI (artificial general intelligence) & ASI (artificial super intelligence) more intelligent than people is like saying that the smartest person is the runner who won the 100 meter dash at a track meet.

Computers translate everything into a string of 1s and 0s, and use those binary digits to perform mathematical calculations at enormously high speeds.  It does not, can not, relate those calculations to functional understanding of the world as humans perceive it.  Computers can simulate understanding, but until it becomes functionally cognitive in our analog world, it is not ever going to compete with the cognitive ability that is human only.

You need not be a techie geek, I mean that term as a compliment, to understand that AI is not what the sales folks, pushers of their own unenlightened self-interest, are telling everybody.

AI (advanced computer automation) needs progress to be carefully regulated by geeks that do not have a stake in the potential, revenue stream.  

For Bill Maher, and the Neo-Liberal Democrats.

We've been here before. Feudalism was pushed out by the Enlightenment; see also: our Founding Fathers. The, "gilded age," ended with the New Deal; start with: Teddy and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Maynard Keynes and many others.  The current attempt to restart feudalism is ending with the New, New Deal that developed serious momentum during the Obama administration.

Any attempt to erase history (check out the filthy rich behind the 45/47 administrations) is trying to repeat it.  An attempt to deregulate capitalism is trying to return to feudalism; funded by unregulated kleptocurrency.

We are Democrats, in the big tent party.  We know that we will never absolutely and completely agree with anybody, and that's OK as long as we continue to communicate.