Incompetence and fear - long term effects vol.1

: money, September 26 2021 ▶

Couple of days ago I stumbled on an incredible article in the "Fortune" magazine, called Chipmakers to carmakers: Time to get out of the semiconductor Stone Age. Going with the flow, current one is not in the tech-section for obvious reasons - this is not an engineering problem. It is not even a money-related one. It is the pure incompetence, narrow mindedness and fear of the mid- and high-management that led to it.

For decades, ... yes decades, car manufacturers refuse to adapt their way of vehicle production to the new realities and use ancient electronics with the excuse of "reliability". When COVID struck, the sales plummeted sharp and the chip factories switched their production to a more modern ones. Now (and since late 2020), the VW/BMW/Daimler alike scream in pain Dear car industry ladies and gentlemen - this is bull shit!

1. Who let this happen?
Your own managers. Look at them! Did anyone dare to relay the information to the board, that the company is using obsolete tech and millions would be needed to replace or restructure the lines? No. And this was the job of your managers. They hid this, fearing messenger will be shot and lose the quarterly bonus. Do you think engineers did not try, on numerous times, to raise the question? Oh, you think not? Well guess who hid this too. Now you suffer losses because of them. Would you cut their bonuses or fire them? (Unlikely, so nothing will change - meaning it is all your own fault. Now and for the future.) Imagine someone, who just graduated, and due to some incredible luck (connections), landed as a mid-level manager or another person, who worked his whole life to go up the ladder to the higher management. How do you think such person would tell the ones above "we are doing it wrong and we need to change fast". His professional career will end in the blink of an eye. Or, in case of incompetence, he/she is just not getting it. I can say this fairly straight and with certainty, seeing what goes on in the IT industry for the past 2 decades. I have observed this fearful behavior so many times, I don't even get mad anymore.

2. Why this change is so difficult.
It is not just replacing one medieval transistor with a modern one. It is draining the whole swamp and making a nice lake on its place. As the article properly mentions:
3. How to overcome this?
By some vague statistic, modern cars use between 300 and 1500 "chip" elements. This is really a mind-boggling number! As a person who knows what he is talking about, when it comes to processor power I can guarantee you, with 100% certainty, that in any existing car, in this very moment, there is no such computational load, that can overburden a process from mid-2000s. The first Xeon (64bit Core microarchitecture), codename "Woodcrest", 65nm, came out in 2006. This is considered also "ancient" nowadays (also discontinued by Intel), but incredibly advanced, compared to what is used in the cars. There is nothing, and I repeat, NOTHING, this baby cannot handle, even the dubious "autonomous driving features". I am not talking about the multimedia - there is a special part about this, just below. I am sure, in this moment someone will jump with the usual "what about reliability". Well - use 2 CPUs, hell, use 4! In different areas of the car. With a proper software any level of redundancy can be achieved. Plus you will have just a few points of failure. Not 1000. Another will jump with the "but the price of such CPUs will be times-higher than what we currently pay". Really? A quick search for Intel Xeon 5110 1.6 GHz shows 4.05Euro. Let's calculate the very optimistic 0.5Euro/per/chip * 1000chips = 500Euro. I am not saying they should replace all of them, but a drastic ~90% reduction should definitely be possible. For comparison - most of the modern CPUs have 14nm (and lower) lithography and are hundreds of times more powerful than the example I gave. Third will come with "but these cannot work in extreme conditions". Well that's the point - they will not have to. Use standardized sensors, not micro-controllers or chips. Will you tell me there are no such sensors? I mean WW2 tech, not something that cost hundreds of dollars. I said also "a proper software" - this is crucial. Going the cheapest way possible (...heavy "Boeing"-coughing) is hardly the way.
4. Car multimedia rip-off
Critical vehicle computations and the multimedia part should be separate systems. This is clear as daylight. So the point of "this old CPUs cannot handle someone watching Netflix on the car-screen" is nonsense. Going to the multimedia-scam part - just open any car-configurator and check how much they will charge you for the tablet-thing that shows map data and plays music. $2000, eeh? Car manufacturers, for more than a decade, are selling us the 200-dollars-maximum-tablet (calling it multimedia-navigation-entertainment system), with at least 1000% profit margin. Because F-you, that's why. What would you do? Go somewhere else? There is no excuse when you charge $50K+ for an average-consumer vehicle.
To wrap it up - neither chips cost that much, nor they should have such great impact over the cost of a car. It is all a cartel-like customer treatment, wrong management decisions and greed.

Puppet master's guide - Part 2 - razzle-dazzle

: history, May 21 2021 ▶

Cambridge Dictionary on “razzle-dazzle” meaning:
UK: (confusion caused by) noisy and noticeable activity or very colourful appearance, intended to attract attention
US: showy appearance or performance, intended to attract attention or cause confusion.

Being a good puppet master means “staying in the shadow”. The audience will boo you (and, in our case, carry your dead carcass on their pitchforks around the world) if your performance is a sloppy one, revealing the performer, instead of just playing with the puppet. It is not always easy. One may think just keeping utmost secrecy about your activities will do. Wrong! It will not! There will always be a bunch of smart, curious people, who you somehow failed to turn into the beloved sheep. These pesky brats will dig into your dirt constantly. So you need a diversion...

1. The diversion has to be something, that everybody agrees with and is presented as undeniable fact. How about ECOLOGY? A million scientists say humanity is destroying the planet – which is an absolute truth, but you do not care – power is more important. Some things your propaganda machine should just “forget” to mention:
- where is the undeniable proof about the man-made climate change;
- what would be the impact over the “western lifestyle”, the actual cost and who will pay it;
- how exactly does the westerners plan to force 3rd world countries to play along, especially the ones with the population exploding over 1billion (today China’s crypto mining CO2 output supposedly surpassed the carbon footprint of Italy);
- the solar activity cycles - yeeah, the giant nuclear ball has absolutely no effect on the tiny blue dot
- how a single volcano eruption is compared to the yearly CO2 output? What about other natural disasters?
Just bash the citizens with:
- drive electric cars (10+ years to reach down the same level of emissions as casual cars IF you do not replace the battery)
- do not eat meat – cows fart so your burger destroys the environment (but fracking is perfectly safe)
- do not travel – planes are bad, cars are bad, stay at home and order stuff online … packets will just appear on your doorstep, no CO2 involved. In the meantime you will become dumb as a doorknob. Most of your social relations will collapse.
- it is your duty to preserve the environment (disregarding the other ¾ of the human race who are not so lucky to live in the “flourishing, western type” society and who mostly do not know what ecology means or is occupied with survival and does not care)
- elect ecologists as politicians – they will know what to do… and will definitely not be the insolent, arrogant and utterly incompetent puppets
- climate change is your fault, you are guilty and should feel bad – again, completely ignore what is happening outside Europe, North America and Australia. “Their climate” has nothing to do with “our climate”.
- nuclear power is the worst – we also need to shut down every other alternative. The “cheap and reliable” solar and wind energy will keep us, and what is left of the economy, afloat. Don’t mind these will occupy house/farm land, that costs thousands of times more than the energy production in their entire operational lifespan.
- buy newer, shinier, eco-friendly stuff (and boost even more the planned obsolescence, as all you need is just the "ECO" sticker).

2. The diversion may also be something people think they enjoy.
- Using some psychology, you can easily find methods, to trick human mind to get false sense of satisfaction. Create some shell companies to implement these brilliant ideas. Call them something commonly acceptable, positive ... how about “social media”? You will not be the first to create such (websites for example), so you will have to boost them with something from the top-secret drawer, or just rain pure cash on them until it is done. Their previous competition stands no chance! These social media will engulf all the people’s attention and spawn minor, short-term distractions on their own – bland games, pointless movies, (my all-time-favorite!) influencers, etc. As a bonus you will get the easiest-ever, instant access to all of the sheep’s private information. I mean everything! Pictures, conversations, thoughts, secrets. Use the same platform to create the proper social scoring for everyone, but deny you are doing it. The propaganda machine is really useful when you have to point the herd into your desired direction – elections, social choices, movements. They will be so razzle-dazzled by all the misinformation and fake news, that the line between reality and fiction will just disappear.
- you will stamp as a conspiracy theorist, Querdenker (German – meaning “thinking across the mainstream, thinking differently”), misogynist, racist, anti-vaxxers etc. all who stand against your agenda. The “social” media will censor arbitrary and indiscriminately (but most importantly on your desire) any opponent, any deviation from the mainstream. It is a private enterprise – of course they can do whatever they want in their own premises.
- any watered-down, talentless form of art/sports will do, if it is promoted enough.

3. War, war never changes (“Fallout”) – a reliable but a bit old-fashioned and expedient trick. There is no better distraction than sending your own people to die. Just make the proper excuse first and do it convincingly enough. Social media will help a lot, for reference use the 1997 “Wag the dog” movie. If needed topple a building or two, or claim some genocide occurring (it may be happening for centuries, but who cares), liberate some poor people from their horrible dictator (one of your expendable puppets, of course). It will trigger additional “dazzling” events like a rigged refugee wave, where 90% are 18-30 y.o. men, with $10K in their pockets (normally they would not be able to save that much in their entire life), with the newest and most expensive phones and no identity documents whatsoever. Refer to Part 1 of the guide where you destroy the middle class by destroying the core of the society and its social system. Make the vasals of your “main-stage-country” join the war effort, so they will also take any retaliation hit. Install “the democracy”, ignoring any local cultural specifics. What’s the worst that can happen – another vasal? The best outcome is total and absolute chaos, so the country will take forever to recover, and this is exactly the water you want to swim in.

4. Hide all technology, that may be used to hinder your agenda (in other words - to resolve the problems you cause). Keep the people busy and distracted. Boost only useless tech, but release it slowly, so you can pick all the cash possible. 40-inch TV this year? Oh boy, wait and see the 42-inch for the next. Naah, you do not need new type of batteries, Li-ion from 1970 will do just fine. All new software will be so poorly written (using the newest frameworks and methods), that it will require 100 times the computing power for doing the same thing, so here is our top-of-the line processors. Private datacenters will have to move to the cloud, for convenience, stability, and security (guess whose). Want to watch an influencer shake her ass online – just get a new phone each year. Let’s allow companies to destroy their own hardware remotely, so the sheep can buy more of it – that is perfectly legal. Make repairing your own tech illegal (I can think of only one country to have a judges who accept this in their right mind).

5. Experiment with the public health. If a person faces immediate danger to his/her own health, chances are he/she will start to think and act irrationally (and will not focus on the mess you make). Carefully plan different attack vectors:
- GMO food and dubious food additives, with uncertain long-term effect, not only to humans, but also to the environment. Treated with the same unsafe pesticides. Slap "clinically tested" on everything, so when the truth comes out, people start doubting the scientists, rather then the system itself.
- engineer some disease. It should not be very lethal, nor dangerous, but contagious. The point is not to kill. It is to confuse, remember? Push your government-puppets to take the most ridiculous and illogical decisions to tackle it. Vaccines will first be "untested", then "declined", then "adopted with caution", then replaced with "yearly booster vaccines" and so on...Make more money, dazzle! Repeat each year-or-two.
- Make the general health care achievable only by the relatively rich people. Treat (but not heal) the others with handful of drugs to the point of animal-like-obedience or utter health state failure.
- Pretend to fight illegal drugs, but in reality use them as a hefty source of income. Both ways work - first you can siphon money from "the war on drugs" and second you will be a player on the same market.
- Use high-frequency emitters on all new tech - the sheep want to watch their favorite influencer making her nails on Ultra High HD, while driving on the highway with 200km/h - just give it to them. Their brains will slowly fry - even better!

6. Introduce as many unnatural-to-frankly idiotic ideas such as:
- a person having no gender (or being part of 57 genders)
- flat Earth
- being jobless/unskilled/lazy your entire life is just fine
- cryptocurrencies (at this day, just the cryto-mining chugs more energy than all wind and solar farms combined) and the "freedom" they offer. Do not let the government-puppets regulate them anyhow, as this will be the major source for money-laundering and all kinds of illegal value exchange.
- make the media close their eyes for everything - even for the worst acts of racism and double standards

- or -

- stun the entire movie and TV audience with forced genderism and racial bias. Make James Bond a black female - why not? It worked so well with the Ghost Busters remake and the latest Star Wars garbage. At this point you do not care neither about the money (I mean from the movie industry) nor about the progress, all you need "gender/racial correctness". People with different colors (strangely, white is still considered a color) will love each other even more after that.

Puppet master's guide - Part 1 - destroying the middle class

: history, March 26 2021 ▶

What is a "puppet master"? - The first definition in the Oxford Dictionary is not about the performer/artist with the doll though. It is "a person, group, or country that covertly controls another". I am starting the series in the "history" section, as they are observations of events already in motion or past gone.

Which world are you referring to? - The "developed anglo-saxon western world". Yes, it is a different world, if you put yourself in the, let's say, Chinese or Turkmenistan or Nigerian coordinate system. So mainly the countries of Mid-and-Western Europe, USA, Canada. Some of them are an exception to the picture, but negligible few.

So why a puppet master (PM)? - Are you seriously believing, that your government is entirely "democratically elected" and makes independent decisions, based on the well-being of its own people? If "yes", then this website is not for you. The PM has different names - Deep State, Templar/Mason/Illuminati, etc., but regardless of the name, and whether this particular organization really is THE PM, the main point remains - it exists. He has "THE PLAN". I do not know what exactly the plan is, but I am pretty sure none of us, the common folk, will like it. I believe we will not be very far off, if we assume it involves "total control over the entire planet".

Part 1 - Destroying the middle class
As a puppet master you need sheep. You do not need well educated (and critically thinking), stable and healthy people. They are dangerous to THE PLAN. They may eventually organize and apply some guillotine massage on your neck. The first and very obvious target is the middle class.
1. Inflation, inflation, inflation! First and foremost destroy their financial stability. Printing money solves so many problems. The world operates with your currency, what are they going to do - stop using it? Naah. Problem 1 - well - you print money -> you have money. There is no need to earn them. No need for a working economy. Problem 2 - reduce the price of your working force. Problem 3 - crush any incentive for having some savings. Meeting any unexpected expenditures becomes a really big issue. Problem 4 - you control the inflation rate for other countries, thus controlling their population. Problem 5 - switch the entire banking system from being an saving-interest-investment one to vault-profit-by-fees, so even further pushing the middle class not save a dime. Censor anyone who dares to calculate the inflation in a different way than yours - for example, set the "official rate" to 2.5% regardless and ignoring the the house/rent prices (50%+ over 5 years), food (20%+ over 2 years), and electricity (15%+ during the past year).
2. Destroy the education system. Lower the wages, so mostly incompetent, lazy, worthless people land as teachers. A country where the property-agent, for an hour work, makes more than a teacher per entire year, is doomed. Bad-to-mediocre teachers will lay the best foundation for the future sheep-transformation. They will produce dull, obedient, uninterested, indifferent, passionless students. There will be no motivation for becoming a doctor, scientist, engineer, etc. Devaluate the need for a proper higher education - refer to the property-agent example above. Regardless if your universities enslave people with debt for life or are "free of charge" (but dig deep into the tax-bucket), they should mostly "teach" pointless specialties.
3. Gradually undermine the importance of the family, by spreading wild and ridiculous ideas (like the 30-genders) of how outdated and old-fashioned it is, brainwash how tomorrow it will not be necessary, as we have a better system. Ban the same-sex marriages and turn the two groups against each-other. "Prove" how living without a marriage can be so good. Proclaim hypocritical "equality" for men and women (the Executive job quotas, remember?).

4. Create economic state, where young people struggle to get by, and the only way out is getting their heritage. They will hate elderly people. The latter will be put in retirement homes to be neglected and die, while their children move into their house/flat as buying one is all but impossible. Grandparents will of course hate their children for that. They will blame them for "electing" the wrong politicians and destroying their perfect world from the 1980s.
5. Ruin the healthcare system - either make it an unaffordable-scam or underfund it to the point of uselessness. It will dramatically help dealing with the next point.
6. Reduce the local population. Make life impossible for a single-income family. At the same time do not open any kindergartens (see point 2). Grandparents will not help (see point 4) or they will be dead (see point 5). The responsible parents will have 1-2 children at best. The other ... - well, "mission accomplished". You need more of them. Why stop there - make life impossible for a double-income family!
7. Import as many 3rd-world-extremely-poor-people as you can. Mask this as "helping refugees in need". Chances are they cannot even read/write, let alone integrate into your radically different society. Grant them all the benefits of your working class, plus such your natives can only dream of - paying their rent and bills(see point 4), free healthcare, free food, clothes and some income. Their miserable existence will be far better than what they had into their own country, so moving back is out of the question. At the same time, generations after them will be lost to the vicious circle of poverty, low education and life on government aid. Discriminate your locals in favor of the foreigners - if they react somehow, just bash them as racists! Works every time! Ignore anyone asking "the war is over, when are they going back?".
8. Rig the salaries and the social benefits to a level, where it is just pointless to go to work. This will put even more low-middle class people in the v-circle (see point 7). It will kill any self-improvement desires - and why should you even try, if, after all your efforts, you get almost the same as your jobless neighbor?
9. Cut police funding and control until the entire force consist of mostly trigger-happy-goons. Eventually they can suffocate a guy from one color, ignore the riots, so the people from the other color can be even more stressed, scared and hateful towards the other. No-go zones, encourage police brutality, let lose criminals with hundreds of records, political corruption with full impunity, covering up the crime statistics ... you name it - small steps that will force the middle class away or downwards.
10. Make people confront each other for anything - even the stupidest idea (Flat Earth...)(see all points above).
11. Water-down their daily life with mindless entertainment. The children will forget about reading a book or playing out with a friend when the exhausted parents just throw them the flashing tablet.
12. Constantly proclaim the middle class as the backbone of the society, but also increase the direct- and most importantly the indirect-taxes. Reaching the ridiculous levels of 50% should not stop you! You "need" money, you know. Refer to point 1 again.
13. Just for the sake of proper accounting, throw all the collected taxes in bottomless pits as: "bail your friends out when they gamble and lose" ("The Dictator", 2012), helping BigCorpo "to survive the economic crisis" (created by you again), war, refugees, "ecology", generous social benefits for the already-sheep and any other stupid activity you can think of.
14. Ruin small- and mid-sized business. Provide BigCorpo with every single unfair advantage they request, like not paying taxes, being able to hire-fire in a heartbeat, impose any kind of shady corporate tricks "in order to cut cost", let them lie blatantly on why they are reducing the local workforce, and reopen factories on the other side of the world and so on... A pandemic could come in hand here.
15. Constantly brainwash people, that they are living in the best place on Earth and how any other system, different than the Wild-West-Capitalism, has failed.
16. You do not need to directly control all decision-makers. On the other positions just put the most incompetent, self-confident, arrogant, cowardly ass-kissers you can find - they will do the job for you.
17. Use the word "diversity" on every possible occasion.