Something about this company sets off my spidey senses.

My company just put it in. If you look out in the web, there's almost something like a cult around it. Granted, a lot of people are making a lot of money "helping' companies implement this product. My company hired a consulting firm to do it.

I'm an old school IT admin. I'm looking at this conglomeration of a system and it frankly doesn't make any sense to me why there is so much raving about it and why it costs so much. Seems most of it is half-assed, poorly documented and needlessly costly and complicated. But I went out looking for opinions like mine and it seems that everything I find just gushes about how great it is and anyone who questions this is a luddite.

Now layer on top of that the owner is a wildly successful libtard billionaire/"philanthropist" and it really makes me wonder what's going on here.

I know maybe I'm not articulating this well, but I've been involved in implementing this product for almost a year, and I think we could have done it better and faster with our small in-house dev team and we wouldn't have a black box of code inside the bigger black box of code that is Salesforce housed on somebody else's cloud infrastructure that we're locked into for the next however many decades because it's almost impossible to port anywhere else. None of it makes any sense.

Don't know Frens. Usually when something doesn't make sense like this to me, it ends up being cabal related, but maybe I'm getting conspiratorial in my old age.

Just realized that if (when) GEOTUS gets re-re-elected, that means he'll be President in 2026.

250th anniversary of 1776.

Hopefully, he'll finally get that military parade he wanted. Maybe Melania can plan the celebrations - it should be epic.

Youtube video from Survival Lilly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CNli3UekTk

Here is the contents of the letter she reports from one of her audience:

"I work in the IT department of a very large, renowned insurance company - headquartered in Germany. Unfortunately, what I tell my circle of friends and relatives about my projects, they dismiss as "conspiracy theory". Many people don't see or understand what will happen to us with this great digitalization revolution - especially the possible dangers/misuse. Here is a small excerpt of the pilot projects we are working on

Topic: Digitized car (pilot projects are already underway): In the next 10 years it will no longer be possible to insure "old hams"/ ”old car” (I drive one like that too). You'll be forced to buy a "digital" car (otherwise you won't get insurance). These cars are "online" 24 - 7 and in real time in touch with the insurance/traffic authorities/remote maintenance/surveillance/authorities etc... (that's no joke!). Depending on your driving style, time/speed/driver, your insurance premium will automatically adjust. I.e. If you drive too fast/risky -> you not only pay a fine to the magistrate, but your insurance premium automatically increases. Let's register you as a night driver -> higher premium. If you have more passengers in the car -> higher premium. If your premium is not paid -> you will no longer be able to start your car.

We are already in discussions with several major automotive brands to bring a Europe-wide, standardized technical “one-size-fits-all” solution onto the market. Many people don't know that fully integrated breathalyzers (Alcoguard) will be MANDATORY in the coming vehicle generations. This means that if you are drunk, you will no longer be able to start your car. Even if you are below the "minimum alcohol limit", this data will be passed on to the insurance company and you will be penalized with a higher premium. If you are drunk beyond this limit, the relevant authorities will automatically be informed and your insurance will be canceled immediately.

Transparent customer We are also relying on the upcoming digital ID to access personal data such as health, traffic, home, etc. The background is that all the necessary customer data is already stored somewhere and as long as it does not leave the EU, everything is fine for the insurance sector with the GDPR. Nowadays, customers also carelessly give their OK under the “small print” that we can collect their personal data. In real time, we collect medical records, living conditions, vehicle data, etc. in the event of damage. Upcoming pilot projects are planned with credit institutions/banks to "reward" a "healthy" lifestyle and punish an unhealthy one... in which we monitor shopping behavior (temporarily limited to districts, but only a matter of time until it is delivered about individual people).

If you live in a district where a lot of unhealthy stuff is consumed -> it does affect your life insurance/pension/death insurance etc... We already check the liquidity of ALL customers, but it's still quite old-fashioned. With the coming technological advances (digital ID, digital currency) we will be able to check the liquidity in real time via interfaces with banks/credit institutions/etc..., as well as the tax circumstances of each customer.

Security: Also planned and already scheduled as a pilot project for 2025 - a cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Defense/National Security. If a vehicle is registered to a politically exposed person and there is a suspected case, this person will no longer be able to start their vehicle (it will be deactivated via remote monitoring). This applies to all private vehicles in which the politically exposed person sits (except officially registered ones e.g. police cars).

A powerful RFID chip will be built into these digital ID cards. This enables a close coupling of 10 m, but monitoring/localization with an accuracy of approx. 1000 m. This is of particular interest to the insurance company because, in the event of damage, we can more easily locate the people/acts of damage/crimes/those involved. We are already in negotiations with the “European digitalization and data protection managers”. to also be able to access this data in more detail. Justified under the name of “security”, “customer friendliness”, “digitalization”.

The background is the boom in accident insurance, whereby we are of course interested in how often, when, how and, above all, where each customer moves. Our pilot projects with the connection to AI are particularly interesting - here in ongoing cooperation with Google and Microsoft. In the next 5-10 years, if not much sooner, there will be a revolution (both in the areas of digitalization and AI) that will make the invention of the Internet look like the invention of the "pencil". This is not a conspiracy theory/joke; these are projects that we are already piloting in the implementation/testing phase in the insurance sector.

Side notes: In the coming years, owners of electric cars will be prepared to pay a battery tax instead of an engine tax. Reason: Batteries pose an increased risk (fire) and are harmful to the environment (disposal). Payment is made on a sliding scale - watt hours per kilogram. Already in are insurance for “autopilots”. Here, the higher your insurance amount, the “safer” your autopilot will act. Don't be under any illusions that the autopilot will act the same in all vehicles in the event of an accident. At every point in time we know who, when, how, why... is in the car."

(Edited by me with paragraphs for readability)

May or may not be familiar with youtuber Uncle Tony of Uncle Tony's Garage. He does a lot of car-related vids, mostly about Mopars but other stuff too.

This video was about car makers making vehicles unserviceable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmto6kYTaZo

He predicts we're going to have to "Cubanize" cars to keep them on the road.

About 16 minutes in, he changes gears, starts talking about 2008 financial crisis.

18 minutes in - national debt, derivitives crisis, unfunded liabilities

19:20 he goes into constitutional vs corporate government. name spelling, birth certificates. He's being purposely vague, but he's got a boatload of normies on his channel. Says "do your own research" multiple times. Throws out a series of years to send interested people down the path.

This movie is getting good.

Hope this is an acceptable post. I've seen posts before encouraging fitness as part of the prep work for the coming storm. Partially because of this, and partially because we're going on a beach vacation in September, I've been working on my fitness more intensely. Sorry this is a little long.

So I started with increased dog walking. Dogs were very happy with this, but the downside is doggos tend to get distracted with interesting scents along the way, and because the walk is supposed to be for them, I indulge them. But it breaks the stride and makes the time spent less effective for me.

I then started walking on my own in addition holding light weights (2-3lbs). We live on a gravel/dirt road that has moderate hills. About .7 miles in either direction to the first neighbors' driveway. Dog walks and my personal walks tended to be one round trip in either direction, so about a mile and a half. On a good day, I'd do both so would get roughly 2.8 miles of walking in, and I felt it.

I decided it might be more enjoyable for my solo walks to have some music and that's where part of the hack comes from. It occurred to me that marches are made for marching, so maybe that would help me walk. I was in marching band in HS and college, so I knew how music can help the distance be a little more tolerable and it's also likely why militaries have incorporated it for centuries, but I was never in control of the music. So I went to youtube and downloaded some marches - mostly military, Sousa, a few German ones (nobody does marching like the Germans). Turns out that marches have come so far from marching that the recorded tempos are typically way to fast to be useful. I did find one German march that was about right and conveniently repeated with 6 stanzas. For the first experiment, I just looped that constantly.

Downside is I now have fealty to Der Fatherland, but the upside is I was able to do a full loop in both directions - 2.8 miles total, double my normal walking distance in a single stretch. I was tired, but less so than when I did the 1.5 mile loop. So I was onto something.

Found a program called Audacity (I use linux, there are probably other similar apps) that lets me tweak the tempo without changing the pitch. Most of the mp3s I downloaded had to be slowed by 6-10%. Unfortunately, I haven't found software capable of giving a BPM calculation so I have an objective measure, so I'm still tweaking, but a couple of the MP3s are dead on now, at least for my body and my terrain.

So here's the hack. I'm sure I'm not the only one to figure this out, but there seems to be some sort of kinematic zone, around 60bpm based on some research this morning (or multiples thereof). Probably varies slightly by person and by terrain, and whether you hands are free (I walk holding 3lb weights). But, when you hit that zone, something amazing happens. You end up walking a full stride with complete arm swings and there's something magical and mechanical when you get it right, and the music sort of holds you in that zone without you having to think about it. I won't say it's effortless, but it feels like you could do it almost indefinitely. I just came back from a 2.8mi walk with enough tweaked tunes to get me into that zone for the entirety. I feel like I could go do another loop. It's really amazing to me.

I'm sure you don't have to use military marches - probably any music will do if you can get it adjusted to the right tempo for you. I hate to say it, but Rap/HipHop, if you're into that, might be a good candidate due to it's rythmic base.

This has made a huge (Yuge!) difference for me, enough that I felt it worth sharing. Getting into that zone is actually a slight high I look forward to every morning - would have never said that before about the idea of walking almost 3 miles. If you're looking for a way to improve your fitness, this may help you get over the hump. Hope it helps a Fren somewhere.

Older pedes will recall "USA for Africa" and their annoying and overplayed tune "We are the world". Plenty of back-patting and crying as the music industry "came together" to "fix" Africa. Fortunes were likely made - although probably not in Africa...

They were so successful that they turned around and fixed farmers with FarmAid the same year.

So happy that we don't have to worry about those problems anymore since they were all fixed 35+ years ago.

(spoilers below)

One of the very few mass media things I watch is Picard - skipped the first two seasons but the third isn't bad. Let's just say I'm watching in a way that doesn't support CBS/Paramount.

Just watched ep 09. When the under-25 crowd got assimilated into the Borg, I couldn't help thinking it was an allusion to the woke mind virus.

Anyone else get that same vibe? The whole Borg subplot has always felt sorta Deep State to me, but maybe I'm reading too much into it.

Also the whole "everything in the fleet must be integrated and centrally controlled" plot line seems like it's reflective of where we're heading. Using the old ways or old tech (Enterprise-D) to get around the centralized control also struck a chord with me.

Maybe it's just art imitating life, but it's a little spooky.