Quote from: RE on Jan 12, 2026, 06:16 PM

Quote from: TDoS on Jan 12, 2026, 05:17 PMYou place a high value on whatever Steve said or wrote.....me not being aware of him means he wasn't even a blip on my radar. That usually meant, back then, that he didn't have much in the way of credibility at all.

So WTF am I a blip on the radar?    I don't have  anything in the way of credibility either. lol.
RE

You are a data point, marching through time with a slowly evolving perspective. This perspective, your behaviors, emphasis and arguments changing along with the web locations where you have spent your time. Even your style has changed, from the peakoil.com days through reddit and your various website adventures. The SUN days. Some of those changes can probably be credited to your physical changes over time, which aren't a surprise. Hell, some of my changes are directly related to aging as well, like what I would do with the grandparents place. I used to think "hey...if doom happens regardless of why, a natural gas powered house on 100 acres of bottomland and woodlands with its own gas wells isn't a bad place to be". More of a mental exercise, I don't have any desire to return to my roots as it were. My wife and children would revolt, for starters. "Venison?!?!?!? Three nights this week.....screw that...where is the nearest McDonalds!". "Sorry honey, they all ran out of ice and then later were overrun by the MZBs and shut down."

Quote from: TDoS on Jan 12, 2026, 05:17 PMYou place a high value on whatever Steve said or wrote.....me not being aware of him means he wasn't even a blip on my radar. That usually meant, back then, that he didn't have much in the way of credibility at all.

So WTF am I a blip on the radar?    I don't have  anything in the way of credibility either. lol.

RE

Quote from: RE on Jan 11, 2026, 11:59 AMClearly you didn't follow my blog very closely, evidenced by the fact also you didn't even know who Steve was or what he wrote about.

You place a high value on whatever Steve said or wrote.....me not being aware of him means he wasn't even a blip on my radar. That usually meant, back then, that he didn't have much in the way of credibility at all. Or lacked any technical angle....drawing a straight line on data that doesn't lend itself to such analysis being a dead giveaway.

Quote from: REAll you have ever wanted to discuss here are Peak Oil topics, you don't even bother to participate in many others.

Not quite accurate. I PARTICIPATED on the peak oil side, said participation being based in original professional interest, and continuing to this day. I WATCHED the others when it became obvious peak oil wasn't really about peak oil. It was just this group of people shotgunning their hopes and dreams of collapse into every idea, good or bad, ridiculous or not. You have Planet X fans on your very site! Yellowstone was going to explode! We know it to be true! Here is a website proving it! Peak oil was just one of topics with website enthusiasts. The topic had more history, less looney tunes, and could be configured within a pseudo science backdrop. And had a logical hook.....no oil.....OMG LOOK AT ALL THE THINGS THAT GO AWAY!!! Which is a good hook.

Quote from: REYour tunnel vision is so laser focused it doesn't leave room for anything besides your area of expertiese.  I've never looked at collapse that way.  The energy problem underpins it, but the tentacles and manifestations are many.  War is one of the most important of them.

RE

I stand by my original comment on war. I don't object to it being important. Just being insufficient when applied to a species that has been doing it since time immemorial. And while it has been a part of some collapse here or there, it is incidental to, not a requirement of. 

PROJECT-SYNDICATE.ORG • 2026-01-09

The Economic Roots of Iran's Protests

The protests now gripping Iran reflect, above all, economic grievances, which planned reforms are likely to exacerbate in the short term. Cash transfers and promises of lower inflation down the line are unlikely to be enough to appease a population battered by years of economic instability.

LATINTIMES.COM • 2026-01-12

Democratic Lawmakers Escalate Calls For Kristi Noem's Impeachment: 'She Has Abjectly Failed'

"As secretary of homeland security, Kristi Noem is responsible for setting the standards and oversight that govern ICE operations," said Rep. Brad Schneider of Illinois

Not bad for spontaneous pop ups. There should be protests every weekend until he resigns.  A National Strike wouldn't hurt either.

https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/11/thousands-turn-out-for-spontaneous-no-kings-protest-in-midtown-manhattan/

Thousands turn out for spontaneous 'No Kings' protest in Midtown Manhattan

I caught this as it was published on YT and snagged it.  It was live so I had to wait for it to finish so I 'chatted' with MAGA idiots in the YT chat.  Some were bots, but the one who said 'Fuck off Keith' must have been real.  Nice.

They were taking the point of view that the protesters are lazy unemployed loosers.  I was taking the point of view that the ICE agents do not have a real job because causing people misery is not a real job.  Yes they have money.  But does being paid define a job?  The protesters are serving the community and clearly working.  That they work without pay shows that just getting money can't define a job because you can work for free.

Q.E.D.    - The lazy fucks are actually the ICE agents.







Here is some sense talking.

His daddy left him half a billion dollars.  He screwed the rest of the family out of their share.  Then he lost it all and bankrupted casinos.

And I have nothing to do with this orange infection being president.  I have hated this man since I was 14 years old after my idealistic ass read that he said he was going to make the world a better place using peace love and real estate.  Somewhere in the subsequent decades he seems to have forgotten about the peace and love part.  Forgotten because it was never there to begin with.

MEIDASNEWS.COM • 2026-01-05

Trump Sends Out More Tariff Rebate Check Scam Emails

Trump dangles the prospect of $2000, but then hits followers up for cash.

The full version is on YT.  Link below.  I clipped it for the version we host here. 


Are You a Crappy Person?






The Johnathan Ross crew is in both clips.  The second is from today.


This clip shows the same crew that Johnathan Ross was a member of. 

I believe Ross was transferred.










More Trump trouble.  Another part of town.

MINTPRESSNEWS.COM • 2025-10-10

Social media spies exposed: Profiles vanish aftter Mintpress report

A series of MintPress News investigations uncovered a network of hundreds of former agents of the CIA, FBI, and other three-letter agencies, as well as high State Department and NATO officials working at social media giants, such as Facebook, Google, TikTok, and Twitter.