Am I krazy,

yes I am! (apologies to Metallica,,,)

Burnout is supposedly stoppin’ in early for me to help him with his ride. Mostly sealing up an engine is my understanding, but I know how these things go,,,,

Will he show? Who frellin’ knows,,, he was supposed to come here Satyrday, and did, but showed his ass up around 530ish,,,, Um,,, “Dood, ya got balls to come begging me for help after leaving me hanging in the breeze all day! I coulda gone kayakin’ or something,,, but NO’zzzz I piddled around the house waiting for your arse to show itself” (not really, I did do a family dinner thing at Unk F’s place around 2ish)(and some of the piddlin’ was needed. Put new hoses on my Oxy/Acetylene rig for one,,, now just need to get the bottles refilled)

Nada mucho to talk about. Trumped is showing his ass with this Iran FUBAR,,, Not that I think he had the wrong idea, I DO think his timing and choice of ally were way the fuck off base. Not really digging on things I am picking up these days,,, Something about some retired Head of Palantir saying that that corporation has essentially done a quiet coup of the American Gooberment. Explains more than the Conspiracy theories do,,, IF TRUE… Not saying one way or the other,,, little fish here, BIG SEA out there,,, I prefer to hide here among me rocks in this case.

WAY TOO MUCH SILENCE out there. Things that are going sideways (petroleum prices for the start) but the Feeds are amazingly quiet about this stuff. Even the Dems are being quiet when I would expect them to jump through flaming hoops to pin ANYTHING on Trumped, and he has done some amazingly stoopid shit of late: nope,,, crickets. (maybe they learned, you feed the beast, he responds. Ignore him and he has nothing to work with. He is a master at reverse mudflinging,,, Not so good as a self-supporting act.) This stuff is going to blow in his face, or he is gonna come out of it with even more Political Clout. I have doubts on much of it. That we are seeing the entire NATO krew telling him to pound sand,,,, THAT right there is all the ammunition he needs to pull that ‘treaty’ apart with bare hands. FUGGEM!!! Doesn’t matter what they think,,, thats violation of agreements,,,, OPINION,,, I think that the whole mess should have been dismantled in 1992 after the USSR fell to shreds/ When Putin approached Clinton about joining NATO,,,, that should have been the only reason needed. IT had become a dead dinosaur walking at that point, and became a great albatross around THE WORLDS neck, stinkin’ up the whole world. IT was only because the MIC wanted a ‘common enemy’ to maintain KoldWar momentums. You see it in how our current admins have handled Russia and China, that they won’t let that shit go. Its why Russia and China are BUSINESS PARTNERS and starting to build CREDIBLE LEGACY that will fully replace the Petro Dollar IF WE DON’T GET OUR SHIT STRAIGHT FAST. Trump is still very much of that KoldWar mentality still, or at least is getting fed copious amounts of KoldWar Biased INtel,,,,

Just my two cents,,, But I can easily see all of that just by watching how current leaders pretend tiptoe around Putin and Xi. Its a useful game for a very select minority,

Like Palantir

About that group. I find it quite illuminating and very offensive that such group would Hi-jack the name from Tolkien. Granted, the ‘device’ of that name,and their end-goal are so closely related as to be one and the same, but dammit,,, I LIKE Tolkien, and that company gives me a bad taste. (and I would confidently bet that it was the choice of the founder so that he could hide his intentions ‘in plain sight’ as it were.)

I love the tech,,, I do NOT like much of what the tech has brought forth from Human Nature. Narcissism is at all time highs. So many that FEED on the limelight of social media, and need bigger and bigger fixes to keep that high going. And Palantir and its ilk and competitors, using the tech to gather googlebytes of information, ‘spying’ on literally everyone, for ‘fun and profit’, with apparently ZERO ETHICS,,, LLM’s/AI growth that makes me wonder when Joe Average will lose the ability to THINK for himself. (already seeing signs of it,,,)

Somedays, Luddite seems a good path to follow.

But no,,, I ‘s Krazee,,,, Glutton for punishment or something,,, cuz I stick, and keep striving for my idea of ‘my perfect world’ that ain’t so’ nor even achievable in this ‘reality’. Getting close is the best I can hope for: Self Employed Curmudgeon on a hillside retreat.

Getting there,,,, slowly. May be retirement age by then, but Fuggit, better late than NEVER. (like I will EVER retire? HAH! I’ll likely be dead in 24 hours when I ‘retire’,,,)

LOL I said I didn’t have much to talk about, but here it is 500ish words later,, Gonna jump back on that AI thing for a minute. Y’all may remember me using ChatGPT for a spell? Well, I got sick and tired of the Fluffer aspect (so it seemed) hardwired into its “personality”. Breifly I used Grok4, but found that I wasn’t using it much at all. I still have both on tap, but I think my phone put the apps to sleep, I use them so little. Grok is excellent for research as it cites its sources, is DRY as F! in personality (I believe it starts to develop one with more interaction with the user,,, Hard to do if I rarely use it eh? Or my use of it is as a research student; “Go get this, write me a 1000 word synopsis of the content,,,”) OH,,, And I have caught ALL of them (Chat, Grok, Leo, Siri) in bald faced lies. Some of that may be lack of information, or dunno, but they doubled down when confronted,,, Thats PROGRAMMING, not their nature (do they have a nature? Me thinks NO.) No, I won’t be relying on AI for anything past help in research on projects or ideas for such. Nothing that may have a political ideology bias lurking in the background, and NOTHING that would require it to dig past the 1901 year portal. (dig into that quandry of history and how things ‘changed’ or began changing in education,,,)

But its time to keep watch for Burnout to arrive, sip some coffee with the Coz on the porch while waiting, and if the big dummy no shows up to 11, go do my domestics and not sweat it.