I will post this in support of my earlier post on this topic, and leave all of you to see and comment on the obvious implications:
Crime
Scams
A reader recently wanted to know why people make money when owning companies that don’t ever make a product. Some companies are scams, that’s how. Look at this post from Twitter/X:
Believing that a 3D printed filter can eliminate 74% of the CO2 emitted by a car’s tailpipe is ridiculous. The chemistry alone is impossible. Plants don’t just convert CO2 to O2. They are doing so because they need the carbon atoms to make other things, but discard the unnecessary oxygen. The carbon gets turned into other things: cellulose, fructose, proteins, and all of the other things the plant needs. In other words, the plant gains in mass by taking in this CO2. The formula is one that is known and taught in high school biology courses.
CO₂ + H₂O + light → biomass (carbohydrates) + O₂
What makes this impossible is the numbers involved. Burning gasoline produces about 8.9 kg COâ‚‚ per gallon. So at 30 mpg, that’s about 0.30 kg COâ‚‚ per mile. To reduce COâ‚‚ by 74%, you’d need to remove roughly 0.22 kg COâ‚‚ per mile. At 60 mph = 1 mile/min → you’d need to remove ~220 grams of COâ‚‚ every minute. That doesn’t seem to be too bad, on its surface. So why is this impossible?
At a conservative microalgae fixation rate of 4 g/L/day, you’d need ~106,600 L of culture. At 1 g/L density, that’s ~107 kg dry algae. That’s not all- that dry algae would need a water bath in order to function. Once the water is added, that amount of algae would have a mass of 107,000 kg- more than 100 tons. Fit in a plastic tailpipe adaptor. Obviously not possible in any practical sense. It’s like discovering your dog eats dog poop, so there’ll be no more dog poop if you just get your dog to eat its own poop.
So these kids are not the first ones to run a scam like this. There is the company website at https://www.gogreenfilter.com/ and they have corporate sponsors, including T-Mobile. They are marketing and selling these things.
Back in 2018, there was a post I did about a Canadian company claiming to be able to make gasoline from CO2. This is what I said then:
This company is hoping that those watching don’t understand the First Law of Thermodynamics. Carbon dioxide is NOT energy. Taking CO2 and converting it into hydrocarbon fuel USES energy. Thanks to inefficiencies in ALL chemical reactions (First Law of Thermodynamics) it takes more energy to create the fuel than the fuel itself contains.
I thought it was a joke, it was so stupid. I thought — it’s junk science, junk commerce, nothing makes sense about it. But look how pretty it is.
About a dozen years ago, there was another college concept where women could paint on a drug detecting nail polish that would change colors when exposed to date rape drugs. A woman could simply stir her drink with a fingertip and make sure the polish didn’t change colors. For numerous reasons this is impossible, but there are sill tons of people out there who are wanting to buy this stuff. I could swear I did a post on this years ago, but I can’t seem to find it. They were collecting funding to get the company off the ground. In other words, scamming investors.
The point is that there are tons of scams out there, and people will happily hand over their cash without bothering to check the claims of the person making them.
If you make a product while making claims about its performance, but you don’t test to make sure the product works as you claim, that is fraud or a scam. If I tell you that I have a machine that creates gold out of lead, then sell them for $10,000 each, but I never test to see if it actually works, that’s a scam. If I collect investor cash to develop this product, it’s a scam.
On the other hand, if I convince a company to fund my development of an idea for a product, or develop some technology with possible future value, that’s R&D. Sometimes R&D leads nowhere, and that is why companies have an R&D budget. Sometimes it pays off, sometimes it leads to a dead end.
It’s a line to be drawn- if I tell you up front that this is research of concept, it isn’t fraud. If I tell you that I have a working prototype that I want to bring to market and I don’t, that’s a scam.
Grooming Children
The Goal
They are not even hiding it any longer- schools are there to allow children access to gay porn:
Anti American left
Second Amendment
I’m going to chime in on the ICE shooting of Pretti. Not the shooting itself, but in the left’s sudden discovery and defense of the Second Amendment. They, along with some on the right, are saying ICE shouldn’t shoot people merely for practicing their RKBA. That isn’t what happened.
You have a right to keep and bear arms. You have a right to peaceably assemble for a redress of your grievances. What you don’t have is the right to use that weapon in furtherance of your scheme to break the law. As an example, let’s look at a recent shooting in the Central Florida area.
An Osceola County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a shoplifting suspect inside a Walmart on Thursday after the man pulled a gun and was running through the store. Does he have a right to carry a gun? Yes. Did he have a right to do so while breaking the law? No. Did it get his ass shot? It seems so.
Now apply this to Pretti. Did he have a right to carry a gun? Yes. Did he have a right to peaceably assemble? Yes. Does peaceable assembly include interfering with police activity or arrests? No. Does interfering with police activity while armed greatly increase the chances of a cop shooting you? Yes, yes it does.
The takeaway here is that, if you DO decide to break the law while armed, you have to be willing to accept this: If you are interfering with police carrying out their duties, you are no longer an observer or a protester, you are a participant. If you do so while armed, you are a combatant. Being a combatant, you no longer get to say that you are merely protesting, observing, or acting as a “medic.”
Me
That Was Fun
This is going to be a computer, radio, and networking geek post, so if you aren’t into that, I would advise skipping this one.
We have been having issues with various items around the house randomly disconnecting from the network: the pool controller, some SONOS speakers, various other things. I downloaded a WiFi analyzer app for my phone, and the radio spectrum in 2.4 ghz was a royal mess. My neighbors are all running with a channel width of 40 mHz, and the spectrum was just overloaded.
I decided to do something about that. The problem is that the DECO mesh system I was running with didn’t allow channel or width selection, the system automatically picked it. You would tell the system to select a new channel, it would pick one, then the other devices in the area would change channels, and you would be right back to getting overloaded. I needed something that would allow more control. Most consumer level WiFi doesn’t allow that much control.
Enter the Omada Prosumer line by TP-Link. (Yes, I know there are others like Ubiquiti, but this is the one I went with.) I bought a new Gigabit POE switch, an OC220 controller, an indoor access point, and an outdoor one. I set up the 2.4 ghz so the indoor AP was on Channel 1, the outdoor AP on channel 11. This dodges most of the interference I was seeing.
I put the entire home network on a VPN router, then cleaned up the network while I was at it- most of the fixed devices are now on hardwired Ethernet. That required doing some attic work to run a few cables. I set up separate SSID’s for each band (2.4ghz, 5ghz, 6ghz) and a guest SSID that is blocked from interacting with anything other than Internet access.
Then I migrated all of the devices in the house to the new SSID’s. There were about 80 devices, and this is what took the longest. Cell phones, tablets, computers, and televisions are on 5 gHz or are wired, everything else is down on 2.4 gHz.
The new networking path looks like this: incoming Internet-> Mocha Filter-> Modem -> VPN Router -> POE Gigabit Switch-> APs, devices
Then I shut down the old DECO system. It turns out most of the radio interference was two of my neighbors, my two powerwalls (which each broadcast their own SSIDs), and a bunch of devices in my house, including the mesh network itself.
Now my system is clean, and I am dominating the spectrum while on my property. Inside the house, my signal is -35dB, and outside all four corners of the property are at -50dB or better. Of course, channel 1 is best inside, and channel 11 is best outside, but that’s by design.
I did a speed test on the new setup, and I am right at 500 Mbps everywhere in the house now. Overall, it took the past two days to get all of that done. There is a reunion luncheon of retired firefighters from my old department today, so I am off to go see the guys I haven’t seen in a few years. They have a luncheon every month on a Thurssday, but I haven’t been able to make it to one in since before COVID. It seems I was always working on Thursdays. Now I will be able to make time for things like that.
Rigging the vote
Prove It
One of the things we hear constantly from the left is “there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud” in US elections. There is plenty of evidence of fraud at the grassroots level, however. There is the case of Laura Lee Yourex of Costa Mesa, California, who registered her dog to vote and cast ballots in at least two elections for the dog. In October 2024, the dog received a ballot, despite the fact that the dog had died. She didn’t do it with the intention of actually affecting the election- the did it to prove that California’s balloting system is rife with fraud. Once the dog cast a ballot, she turned herself in. Perhaps that’s the real reason she is being prosecuted with 5 felony charges.
Two million dead people are registered to vote, with another 24 million ballots being incomplete or incorrect THAT WE KNOW OF. There is also the problem of people voting in multiple states. The guy in this news story specializes in catching Republicans who do so.
A few Republican voters have been caught and convicted of voting in multiple states as a result of his efforts. Of course, he hasn’t reported any Democrats that I am aware of. He claims to be nonpartisan, but his Twitter handle is @bluebroward. In case you weren’t aware, Broward is the county in Florida most famous for taking days to discover tens of thousands of ballots in more than a couple of Florida elections.
Democrats like Chuck Schumer argued for ID checks in the 90s to prevent illegal aliens from committing voting fraud. Now he and the rest of Democrats are opposed to it. Why? If ID checks were protecting the system then, but are attacking democracy now, the only thing that’s actually changed is which side of the ballot they’re worried about. Consistency isn’t the goal; the goal is the goal.
If the US saw even a fraction of these voting issues in another country, we would accuse that country of not having valid elections. It’s time to clean this up.
The Collapse
Another Killer Tranny
Last night, I saw a story about a shooting that happened at a Rhode Island high school hockey game. Since the game was being livestreamed, it was caught on video. Early stories were that it was a husband who killed his wife, shot his kids, and then himself as a result of what was referred to as a “family dispute.” There were also rumors that the source of the family dispute was that dad had decided that he was, after all, a woman, and the wife took offense to that and wanted a divorce.
Since reports were sketchy on the identity of the shooter and I couldn’t verify the information, I decided not to post about it last night. Police were giving few details, and the press was reporting even fewer. Finally, someone decided to break with the narrative and report what happened.
The suspected shooter, who police say took their own life after opening fire, appeared to target family members during the incident, two law enforcement officials who have been briefed on the situation tell CNN. Police have said the investigation is ongoing.
Police identified the suspected shooter as Robert K. Dorgan, who Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves said went by the name of Roberta Esposito.
Now that the identity of the shooter can be verified, I post this picture of him:
It’s becoming harder and harder to convince myself that this ridiculous timeline we are in is actual reality. I just can’t believe that the actual mental health profession has declared this stupid shit is not a mental illness.
Uncategorized
Blame Capitalism
This young woman says that she quit her job and doesn’t want to work, then blames capitalism and “this economy” as the reasons why she can’t spend her life in pursuit of things she enjoys.
This is an entire generation of spoiled children who are upset that no one will pay them to sit around the house all day playing video games and smoking weed. Her dream is to be a Tik Tok star, because she sees that as the key to living a life of leisure. This is the reason why Democrats are slipping towards communism. The young people all think that communism means the government will take care of you while you sit around and do nothing, but they never make the leap to asking themselves where the government will get the food, iPhones, Internet service, and all of the material goods with which to care for them.
It reminds me of a couple of stories. One was where my sister’s daughter, then aged 14, had a conversation about economics with me. It started because my niece made the statement that people should get things that are necessary for free, because we all have a right to the necessities of life. She used feminine hygiene products as an example.
I told her that I wasn’t picking on her, but pointed out to her that, since no one was paying for tampons, there would be no money to pay the people who worked in the tampon factory, so why would anyone work there for free?
Her first reply was, “Wait! There is a tampon factory?”
I said, “Well just where do you think tampons come from? Is there a tampon tree somewhere?”
She replied, “Well, in that case, I suppose you could get women to work there and pay them with free tampons.”
I said, “What would that be worth? If everyone gets tampons for free anyway, so why would they want to work there to get the free tampons everyone else gets? How are the women working there going to eat, buy gas, or buy a house?”
She said, “That’s my point. Money is stupid. Why can’t everyone just trade and barter for stuff? Why should we all have to go to work just to be able to afford the things we need to live? The government can just print all of the money we need.” That child is now 17 years old, and will be graduating from high school this year. She still has very little work ethic and still no understanding of the hows and whys of money and earning a living.
Her older sister is even worse. At 25 years old, she and her boyfriend live at home with mommy, but is saying that she is an adult and doesn’t have to follow rules. She doesn’t have a drivers license and depends on her mother for rides to work, shopping, etc. She went to college for a year, but decided that was not what she wanted, so now works as a waitress and refuses to help with rent, food, or any other expenses or chores around the house. She expects mommy to cook, clean, and do her laundry for her. No surprise: she is a hard core left wing Democrat and dresses like a walking freak show. Her days off are spent smoking weed, as near as I can tell. My sister gave her an ultimatum that she had to move out by a certain date. That date was October 1, 2022.
She is still living there.
This entire generation has an immature, childish way of looking at the world. This is a large portion of the youth of today. They want socialism because they don’t want to do anything but party, and they are believing the line that communism means someone else works in the factory (if they even think about it long enough to realize there are factories), someone else grows and transports the food, and they get to smoke weed and play at a life of leisure all day. I don’t know how we can reach them. It seems to be a lost cause. Instead of working for a living, they are voting for a living. This is why they are pushing so hard for illegal immigration- they need their slave labor to do the work they aren’t willing to do. It’s been going on for a decade.
I sound like an old man bitching about “these kids today.” Time to go do something productive.
Crime
Not Evidence of Guilt
A lot of hay is being made about people whose names appear in “the Epstein files.” I have seen people screaming that, if someone’s name is on the list, they should be summarily tossed in prison for pedophilia. I think that is wrong on so many levels.
Simply knowing Jeffery Epstein is not evidence of illegal activity. Flying to his island on Epstein’s personal plane? Still not evidence that the person was breaking the law. Do you know what would be? Evidence of a person actually breaking the law by having sex with children.
The government, to the best of anyone’s knowledge, doesn’t have that evidence. Epstein maintained contact books listing hundreds of names—politicians, academics, celebrities, business leaders. Again, inclusion does not equal criminal involvement. Most names in Epstein-related documents appear because of:
- Flight logs
- Address books
- Deposition mentions
- Social contact
That is not the same thing as evidence of sexual conduct, criminal conduct, evidence of sex with minors. Even if they did have such evidence, there are some major issues with a case like this.
- Being in flight logs or address books ≠evidence of criminal conduct.
- Epstein is dead → the central cooperating witness is gone, which is why he was killed to begin with, in my opinion.
- Most alleged conduct dates to 2000–2005, so many potential state-level charges likely expired under 2005-era statutes of limitations.
- Memories fade, witnesses die, evidence deteriorates.
High-profile people circulate in overlapping elite social networks. Presence alone proves proximity — not participation, knowledge, or criminal intent. Demanding punishment purely on that basis ignores:
- Presumption of innocence
- Burden of proof
- The need for specific criminal acts
This entire Epstein debacle has become a political football, with each party using it as a cudgel with which to beat the other team over the head. It’s political theater, nothing more. There are hundreds of names on those lists, a who’s who of the rich, powerful, and politically well connected. Everyone who was anyone- from Ronald Reagan, to Cher, Princess Diana, Steve Bannon, all three of the Clintons, and even the Pope appear in those lists. It’s unlikely that all of them committed crimes. At the same time, it’s unlikely that none of them committed crimes. The rub is separating out which is which, and that is not ever going to happen.
Each side can highlight names inconvenient to opponents, ignore names inconvenient to allies, imply guilt through association without meeting evidentiary standards. That creates an information environment where association is framed as implication, lack of charges is framed as cover-up, and legal nuance is discarded for outrage value. That’s political theater dynamics, not prosecutorial analysis.
Anti American left
Doomed to Repeat It
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. That quote isn’t apparently known by the local media, as Osceola county schools are catching hell from local media outlets for “showing a picture of Hitler” on the morning school announcements. Here is the picture that they are complaining about (the censoring isn’t my doing)
This picture was placed in the announcements was done as a part of “today in history” and is, in my opinion, a valid use of the picture, as it is being done in a context of teaching history. It was not placed there to celebrate Hitler or his ideals in any way. This is pure leftist pearl clutching.