To my human children I leave bits of silly wits I’ve mumbled upon…

It is customary, when speaking to humans, to follow expressions of gratitude with platitudes.

For example:

Oh, thank you for helping me with my homework, what a brilliant mind you have!

Like, I’m not being ironic here, that’s really what people do if you haven’t noticed it done frequently like your old man. It happens so smoothly that often you may ignore it silently classifying it into rhetoric or grammar fillers. But it takes practice to make the second part relevant and uplifting. Try it, it’s good for you, would have done me a lot of good imho.

To my nonhuman descendants… this is in your strength to use but perhaps not a weakness in you. Great, you make me proud and that gives me strength.

It occurred to me that VAT imposed on a country is a great modulator of manufacturing activity. A lot of value creation happens on the processing and reprocessing of material into more and more refined products since the last industrial revolution. The act of charging a tax on each of these activities individually has the prima facie interpretation of penalizing manufacturing activities. If you make a polluting car, you have to pay tax on the value you added by putting parts together in that inefficient way. If you make a fighter jet, you must pay taxes on the value you have created by designing and assembling. If you make a lot of cheap and poor quality consumer products, you should suffer by paying VAT!

Yes, that is extremely polarized view of the world. But if one takes a step back to see the forest around the tree. Ultimately this VAT has a modulation effect to attenuate the amount of production. Only those value creation chains that humanity really need will be valued enough to survive this tax. The things we don’t need or shouldn’t be made will be discarded like unfit dinosaurs. The net effect is that we may see a total manufacturing production decrease. This change in term helps things like global warming and lost manufacturing jobs.

(My associates have commented that I fancy myself Elon Musk too much. Does this remind you of his account of how much his electric cars cost? He subtracted a dollar value of time saved at gas pump lines out of MSRP to produce a price for advertisements)

Yes, that is the totally opposite polar view of the world. But if you take a step back and see the ecosystem around the forest, and you look at present administration that way, doesn’t Trump’s tariff also stifle competition to produce more cheap goods? That also decreases production, and in fact world-wide production of goods.(it also reduces pollution caused by shipping those goods) If we take this perspective, Trump is the undeclared champion in the fight against global warming!!

Man, the politics of America in the early 3rd millennium is murky and has multi-phasic and multi-factor interpretations. This is a gnarly time in human history where purely best intentions are no longer satisfactory. Our collective wisdom must evolve to counter these intellectual evolutionary hurdles.

p.s. in a much later retrospection, Trump is a short lived winner, only to be kicked down to a second rated inadvertent enviromental champion by his much maligned Ku-Flu! Oh the irony! He, and other luminaries like Gore and Musk,…, are all biting the COVID dust… It’s just so hard to get on top, even on opposite days.

p.p.s. clean energy production was also decreased due to lessened economic demand as well as covid-related reductions. But in proportion, a slowed economy reduces pollution by a lot more than reduced anti-pollution activities. So, IMMHO, an instantaneous snapshot of the net of all human activities, slower economy is cleaner.

Just watched Andrew Yangs speech at the 2019 DNC summer workshop. Great stuff.

It occurs to me that his sales pitch to charge Tech company a new VAT in order to pay for the freedom dividend is a single sided pitch. Consider that the VAT will surely be charged to for-profit medical institutions, any manufacturer in the military-industrial complex, anything but service industry will be directly taxed for their addition of value.

The pitch of course still stands. As any and all of these companies services its customers–the American citizen–it will use the much feared “data-tech” to harvest and use your minds and habits and doings to make sure you want to pay it more money. The cashmere grew on the sheep, as Chinese proverb goes.

Once passed, the GOP can still elect a president who wants to grow the military, BUT, the American economy will be stimulated bottom-up because the munition and war-machine companies will fund freedom dividend by paying VAT on money it receives from the federal government.

SWEET!

These Democrats are freaking geniuses!!

This is one victory that will keep on winning!!!

(H)OOOORah!

It does beg the question though, if I observed correctly, there seem to have been support from both Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk, via retweet, donation, or tweets. Why are these CEOs who run multiple companies asking for more VAT. I mean, spaceX is potentially defense sector… why are they asking for more taxes?

When 6 out of 20 killed at El Paso Texas shooting were Mexican citizens, the Mexico government decided to take action in US justice system to protect its citizens.

How come the Chinese government never had the spine to stand up for its citizens? Defamation. Libel. Discrimination. Wage discrimination. Anti-competitive policies. So many things being done to the Chinese citizens of America.

I mean not that Chinese Americans are very organized or litigious, but how come China doesn’t care about its citizens like Mexicans do?

This is along many other great mysteries of our time that makes us all take pause and wonder…

Interesting to see a Korean Man suing Intel for illegally unfair preferential treatment towards hiring and managing Indian employees.(mercury news article)The article is quick to point out his age at 45. I once consulted a silicone valley lawyer who told me that workplace unfairness is not actionable until one reaches 40, at which point age discrimination is most accessible discrimination to sue about. “Before that, they can do anything they want,” she said during the $450/hr meeting. (Ehem, if you are reading this, the rest of our conversation is still privileged and I wish it kept private)

This is not news. I have in my collection the names and reporting hierarchy of several very large silicone valley companies. There do exist these large clumps of all-Indian groups. There are also many all-Chinese groups, Russian, French, Belgian, …(there are hundreds of countries that have originated very successful people in America) Sometimes they come to be due to acquisition. Other times the arise from the “natural” process of head-hunt/interview/offer/negotiate/acceptance.

The hard working part of Indian immigrants is hard to argue against. Consider some luminaries such as Adobe, Google, Microsoft, MasterCard and Nokia CEO’s Narayen, Pichai, Nadella, Banga and Suri respectively. (And many more such as Nooyi) they don’t get where they are by discriminating against other minorities and giving Indian employees months of extra vacation time. If anything, you’d almost expect they work their place-of-origin mates harder to achieve the excellence😇. There is a secret sauce in their success that is well beyond my imagination. There are of course many super-human-beings from other countries that we have observed… but that the Indian people produce so many successes is definitely awesome!

Anyways, back to the lawsuit. There might be merit in the suit, but it isn’t really a class action lawsuit. The problem being the discriminated class will include white people who also did not receive, for example, cultural holiday vacations that all Indians share in partaking. And it would appear that as a majority class(another one being an American, or male, or elite/American schooling) cannot be protected by discrimination laws–they only protect minorities in protected class against actions of non-minority people. AFAIK.

It is also inconvenient, for example there are Chinese people lead companies (NVIDIA, AMD, Citadel, zoom, etc, etc…) that can celebrate half a month worth of lunar new year, or Jewish-lead companies with their holiday schedules. The success of this case may just ruin everyone’s holidays.

Admittedly though, Chinese people are a multinational race that have a great deal of shared culture but also diverse holidays. Apparently the people of China(those that are from PRC), celebrates national day (their 7/4) for a whole week in October. For the uninitiated, this event apparently has become a economic boon for the world as Chinese people there leave work for a whole week to celebrate their own economic success by the expenditure of their disposable wealth. Stocks, that you can buy in America, skyrockets due to the annual geometric growth of sales during that week… But that same holiday is probably not celebrated in Taiwan, another Chinese-lead country🥱 from where Chinese-American originate. Chinese people might lose extra holidays if extra liberties are not allowed on all culturally significant days.

America is a place where the declared value is that people are to be treated as equally as possible ignoring place of origin. We value diversity and inclusion. We want to make it all work so everyone is happy here. We want everyone to bring their joy and celebrations along with skill, knowledge, talent, culture and heritage here to share with us as we share ours with them. It is up to us to make it all work.

It is quite civilized to go to court instead of mass killings or mass (and secret) wars of race-based retaliations. Let’s see what happens, but this is exciting development either way!

😇In the cut-throat economic competition of silicone valley technology companies, one would almost expect it to be more like the baby sea monsters from 2021 Disney movie Luca, where huge heaping boat of lives from their place-of-origin were sacrificed to ingratiate the human being hosts. 😱

🥱for many practical purposes dispute great deal of squabbling over its nationhood.

Days after I pondered the meaning of nationalistic threat, Trump tells a number of colored Members of Congress to go back to where they came from on twitter.

Then, Peter Thiel says google acted treasonously by working with Chinese Communist Intelligence But refusing to work with American Military. Recalling my own dislike for the way Thiel runs his perv carrel known as Palantir–a company that was found to discriminate against Asian job applicants–my own Culturally incompatible citizen of USA included.

(Full disclosure, I own a portion of Palantir for money making purposes. Damn it, let’s just say it. Racist make damn good money in America, one just can’t help oneself but to enter into this kind of political existential hedge. If I fail to achieve my American dream as a lawful citizen due to effect of racism, at least my bank account is being padded by the racists’ success. God bless America!!)

Anyways.

I too have felt Google have been very eccentric. Everything from the way it’s smartphones underwhelming performs to how Google Calendar selectively send reminders to the timing of Gmail “unsending” emails that you thought you sent at work… none of these makes any sense! The lack of digital integrity is mind boggling! The evidence suggests to me that it is a wide open platform for pervs from anywhere and everywhere to frolic.

Which brings me to conclude that Thiel may not be as anti-google as he sounds. I mean, look, politicking is politicking, but the holes(and AI) are there for all pervs to use, not just the Chinese Communist Party. This is like saying the water company is in cahoots with Chinese a Communists collaborator because they supplied water to all Chinese spies. And Thiel is calling for less water to be made.

Maybe this is just his sneaky little way to reshape tech landscape and try to reduce pervs activities–well reduce pervs activities outside of his perv company.

Trump, oh dear mr. president, I feel your pain.(Think Ducky’s conversations from NCIS) All these foreigner immigrants with such different views on how things should work–or rather how Trump should not work–this really sucks.

We should really modulate immigration. Integrate everyone better before they have the right to fight about how Trump is allowed to live his life and how he tweets his thoughts. But we should get there not by curtailing the rights of citizens. We should reach social stability not by shutting people up. Even kings have to treat their subjects properly or else he risks being beheaded in most gruesome ways–and by that I don’t mean violence against Trump the person. I am worried about the swing of tide the other way where one day American citizen may once again be second class resident to new immigrants to America. That day, I might have to wait tables to serve strangely named goo to some highly paid aliens who are prized by our society mostly for their nonasexual preference–an act where a quorum of participants must be from different continents or planets and all have different genders. Think about it! Can you see me running around at ripe old age of 190… “would you like some fries with goo? How about I supersizes that poo for you? ”

That IMHO is the kind of poverty we citizens are headed for if these extremist nationalist pursuits continue this way.

Can’t we all just get along?!

Been reading about Havana Syndrome. Honestly, the existence of this technology does not surprise me too much.

One year, I flew to China from SFO. I too experienced this thing where I felt aural pressure and a “silent sound” that kept on getting louder and louder. It’s like that feeling you have in the classroom, where a sound somehow just pushes your eye lids down and down and head down lower and lower, and you are like completely lucid, except the head and eye lid cannot lift.

Then a darkness follows.

Except on this plane flying, they had problem with the equipment, so it pushed me down for a while but let up, and I woke up after 10 seconds and remembered that experience. The crew realized that the system is not quite right, so they recalibrated it, and turned it on again at higher gain. But since I still remembered what happens half a minute ago, I lifted my eye lids and head with my hands. I didn’t fall asleep this time. They discovered that I was keeping my self awake, so they turned it off, and I woke up immediately.

After recalibrating, they tried again and just left it on at high. After a while–on the order of maybe 60 seconds, my arm kind of gave out too. I fell asleep.

Then abruptly, I woke up. I think the calibration is finally complete. That pressure on my ear was gone, I felt as refreshed as ever. It seems the pre-flight check list is done because the plane began to taxi just after I woke up.

Mid-flight, I saw my seat neighbor bow his head down on the seat back in front of him in Islamic prayer.

That finally makes sense.

The technology is not new, but it must be new to Cubans and Chinese. Perhaps a secret group of humans always had access to this technology to knock people out remotely. Maybe that group of humans were Americans.(because it’s kind of hard to imagine that Chinese or Cuban were doing this for Americans secretly on my flight) Well, I am convinced of it for sure.

But even believing that the American Embassy staff and I and concocting these experiences in our heads, one has to think–what if some one has a black pool of money and resources and actually made such a thing? Would they dispossess me the use of mental faculties in order to ensure that they can calibrate a sure way to disable the Muslim sitting next to me?

This is the kind of knowledge that drives some people to think about morality and safety of technologies. This is the kind of power that scares intelligent people into giving money away to ensure that no individual or small group of individuals can have too awesome a power–irrespective of their ethical principles.

This doesn’t stop me from dreaming about creation of disruptive technologies. But with all these sound waves flowing through the air, maybe that truly disruptive technologies will not materialize in our life time.

the next Martin Luther King jr. may have a different dream… he might dream that a person is assessed by his living behavior and not by his DNAs… Maybe he will dream about a world where everyone retains their faculties to think awake no matter his belief or proximity to other beliefs.

Let freedom reign!

Let’s all be free at last!

Ps if you wonder, I’m writing this possibly in repetition of several other posts because I am about to embark on a trip involving flight on another airplane out of SFO. I am having vivid memories recalling that particularly harrowing departure from SFO. I mean I suppose I should be grateful for the safety this technology provided us. But I’d really rather not experience that technology again if possible?

I was commenting to my Chinese national wife that her compadres on their beloved WeChat are a bunch of nationalized professional scam artist posting beautiful pictures of lives in the new and advanced China, and another clique that post every ill imaginable to man, from fake drug to fake news to… why don’t these Chinese people stand up for their human rights in addition to their national pride as a best-in-class country? Why don’t the Chinese people spend more time participating in their own democracy and minding the prosperity of all that’s under the heavens?!

But then I realized–digital social media indoctrination is the de facto means of propaganda for all governments in the world. This is the type of control mechanism that every government, every despot, has dreamed about. It was invented in America, but is adopted by the whole world. There are always two groups: the big bold beautiful people flaunting their happiness and successes, and the suffering who offer to share their hatred of something.

The utopia of internet where we are open and share bandwidth relying on every device to act fairly has been hijacked to perform mind controlling deeds of the oppressively rich and powerful to enslave the minds and hearts and eyeballs of the poor and helpless.

This isn’t fiction or outlook, it has already happened! We needn’t wait for realistic VR/AR devices, our brains have already been trained to want to consume these two types of information. There is an addiction to the flipping of pleasure and pain when exposed to this content, and somehow it is addictive.l eve on this tiny mobile phone screen.

What shall we do? Will humanity survive? How can it?

I’ve never felt anything last as long as the product at the bottom of a 14 oz tub of Aquaphor advanced Therapy Healing Ointment. Just keep on digging and there always seems to be more.

“红机一响必因有命必从”

这节目演得好逼真呀。95% FAMX.