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Funny thing about Bill. Back in the early computer days he and his partner bought an operating system from a programmer in Seattle for $50K and named it MSDOS. Just like Steve Jobs got the idea of a computer desktop, trashcan and mouse from Zerox. The Chairman of Zerox was not interested in computers, he said they were a paper company. Just an interesting sidelight.
Back in those days IBM made computers but no software, so you could buy the computer but had to find someone to write the software. As I recall Bill's MSDOS was on the new PC's that IBM started making but they gave him the approval to sell MSDOS to other PC makers but there were none, until Compaq, then Dell and off to the races. It was an exciting time and I was there.
While we were out for a walk on Sunday we met people who had some kind of virus picked up while travelling. (They were just back from China.) They were considering whether they should go for their flu vaccine on Monday morning... They also said they hadn't tested for Covid yet but obviously would. They were aghast that we hadn't had any vaccines. We were amazed how stupid they were.
Once you dig down past all Gates' money, all you will find is an intellectual dilettante and a political whore. His recent environmental flip-flop is just him, spreading 'em wider (he can't hook 'em behind his head anymore).
Yes, don't change the name of the blog. You're still chronicling a plague; it's just a different sort of plague than it first appeared to be in 2020. The most powerful viruses are not made of proteins and nucleotide strands, and they infect the mind and the heart in their immaterial essences.
It turned out that self-appointed global managers who know better than the masses what is right and good had pre-positioned ribosomes all around us and within us, designed to code for fear in the human heart by reading the Messenger RNA distributed in the daily news cycle. That's the plague you're still chronicling.
This is an extremely encouraging post. Very glad to read it.
But fer heck's sake don't change nuthin' about your Substack! Don't rename it! Don't change the look! It's fine! It's perfect! There's always a new plague coming of one sort or another. It's a name for all seasons.
Both those videos were an embarrassment. But I have high hopes future anthropologists and psychologists will use them as evidence of what a mentally ill, out of touch, ideologically captured local elite actually look like.
I think many of us don't really believe they are out of touch or inept. It must be some conspiracy. A masterplan to enslave us all. But no, it does seem to be a bunch of slightly broken rejects LARPing as statesmen. It is all a performance. This is our era's defining characteristic. Our leaders are followers. They are actors playing a part. That''s why it is all collapsing.
A lot of these really dumb politicians are creatures of proportional representation – they get into office via internal party wrangling and party lists. Hubertz, bizarrely, actually won a direct mandate in Trier in 2021, so despite being clearly cognitively disabled she does not fit in this category and rather managed to persuade some like 1/3 of everyone in her district to vote for her. (She lost her mandate in 2025, however, and entered the Bundestag on the SPD list, so there is that.)
I see the same effect in Scotland. They have proportional representation. You end up with a Frankenstein parliament no one would have directly voted into existence, including fringe figures that cannot win a seat.
First past the post, traditional in the Anglosphere, and proportional representation reflect modernity well. PR is a nice sounding idea that doesn't work in real life. Reflecting everyone's views sounds good. But winner takes all provides decisive and clear winners in each seat. Each person there got the most votes and possess a legitimacy PR candidates lack.
Like lot of what we see now these are pleasant sounding experiments invented by tinkerers then imposed on everyone else.
Thanks! Now I know more about how proportional representation works and doesn't work.
It is interesting that the committees that select candidates act as if they are less well-informed about prospects than are the common voters. I would have hoped the party committees would be much better informed than people relying on mass media and speeches at rallies.
We here in the states are also happy as our govt is shutdown and while it might be an issue for the freeloaders it also can’t fuck the rest of us. This upcoming holiday season might be better than any of us could have ever dreamed.
I think Ted Cruz nailed it: the shutdown is 100% performative, engineered to amp their crazies up to vote; on Wednesday, they'll surrender (unless vote counting drags on).
Gates is backing off climatism because he needs vast amounts of electricity to run the billion or so file servers that are going to power Microsoft's planned expansion into AI, and the solar and wind farms ain't gonna cut it.
This. We're living in this cognitive dissonance here in the UK. On the left, Ed Millipede exhorting us to his Nut Zero insanity. On the right, the same government he's part of, encouraging the construction of gigantic datacentres, which will provide, oh maybe, 12 jobs for local people, but produce zillions of profits offshore for the likes of Google and Amazon.
Know what those datacentres eat? Land, electricity and water.
Guess what is in short supply (for actual people, or industries that employ people) in the UK? Land, electricity and water.
Of course we have plenty of water falling from the sky. Somewhere on the way from the clouds to our taps, there's a "process" (possibly involving unobtainium and barrels of unicorn tears) which makes it blisteringly expensive.
(The reality, of course, is that - like everything in the UK - water is expensive because there's an army of subsidy-guzzling rent-seekers to be fed).
Don't forget that selfsame Danish elite who in 2020 illegally mandated the death of all mink in Denmark as the only country in the world to invent a connection between the mink and the Kung flu. Thousands were (incompetently) put to death by the police and buried in long, long trenches that later had to be reburied. The mink farmers, once the most productive in the world, have still not been compensated. There's more if that's not enough.
The Bovaer fiasco is in the opening phases of eventually being swept under the rug after ruining and bankrupting tens of Danish milk/beef farmers and possibly destroying those industries as well. All the while Chinese and Indian cows produce more methane in a day than Danish cows could produce in a year.
PS Good to see a post from you again. Don't worry about design changes (background color, name), it's the content that I come for.
I am amazed that so many pundits actually believe that Bill gates has actually changed his mind. He never once believed the propaganda that he was spewing. He was making money on it. Now that he is embracing the new AI phenomenon, he knows that we will need 3-4 time more energy than currently available. I believe Gates bought 3 mile island and intends to relight the reactors. He knows that AI will require all the energy the world can produce and that renewables cannot begin to provide it; he will now get behind burning wood, coal, gas, oil, as well as nuclear to pave the way for the AI revolution.
Love your blog - love the name - love the look and feel - and mainly I love to read your thoughts. (The pics are also quite nice). Your blog practically saved me during covid and has proved to be a deep well of insight and thought-provoking commentary. Don’t change a thing! I don’t care if you take a break now and then when things go upside down - it’s worth the wait.
As for suggestions: don’t ever stop blogging. I do like it when you recommend books.
1) slice and dice the recent interview Rav Aurora did with Mark Cuban, where Cuban is still clinging to all of the false information about Covid transmission and the efficacy of the mrna vaccines?
2) delve into the video and viral exchange between former CIA chief John Brennan and Thomas Speciale?
3) dig into something Speciale told Matt Taibbi in an interview reported this morning on Taibbi's Substack - directly implying that subsource "Joseph Mifsud" may not be a real person, as no one has been able to find him in all the investigations being conducted vis-a-vis "Russiagate"?
Please don't change the name of your blog.
ok, but what about making the background colour white, finally? I feel it might be more professional that way.
White can be hard on the eyes when reading on a screen. I think retaining this look makes more sense.
Agreed, soothing set against the actual content which causes rage.
Tradeoffs are necessary :-)
Lol. I do get the urge to repaint it mind you.
Yes. The colors are very good for reading.
No no no. A Plague Chronicle is the perfect name. And the cream color is nice.
The background color is fine. Old farts like me might appreciate black rather than gray text.
Please don't change the background color! White is decidedly NOT more professional in 2025.
I like the "misty" color. It conjures up images of early mornings in the hills of Bavaria.
White background causes glare from the screen into the readers' eyes. I use very light print on very dark background whenever I can. Please consider a very dark shade such that the print shows up white or bright yellow.
Nooooo, dark background is terrible. The current color scheme and contrast level are fine.
Funny thing about Bill. Back in the early computer days he and his partner bought an operating system from a programmer in Seattle for $50K and named it MSDOS. Just like Steve Jobs got the idea of a computer desktop, trashcan and mouse from Zerox. The Chairman of Zerox was not interested in computers, he said they were a paper company. Just an interesting sidelight.
Back in those days IBM made computers but no software, so you could buy the computer but had to find someone to write the software. As I recall Bill's MSDOS was on the new PC's that IBM started making but they gave him the approval to sell MSDOS to other PC makers but there were none, until Compaq, then Dell and off to the races. It was an exciting time and I was there.
The Green Machine will continue regardless.
How long has it been since " An inconvenient truth"?
So many that I know, have been complaining about CO2 & cow parts.
On indoctrinated...
Once.
I hate spellcheck.
Funny, I'm unvaxxed, and a friend of 55+ years, knowing this asked if I had gotten the flu/RSV shot...
Of course, he's had 8+vaxxes, and Covid 4 times.
Sometimes, I'm speechless...
While we were out for a walk on Sunday we met people who had some kind of virus picked up while travelling. (They were just back from China.) They were considering whether they should go for their flu vaccine on Monday morning... They also said they hadn't tested for Covid yet but obviously would. They were aghast that we hadn't had any vaccines. We were amazed how stupid they were.
Gates' estate depends to a great extent on Microsoft stock dividends & sales value, which depend indirectly on powering huge data centers.
Once you dig down past all Gates' money, all you will find is an intellectual dilettante and a political whore. His recent environmental flip-flop is just him, spreading 'em wider (he can't hook 'em behind his head anymore).
Not any more. Melinda cut him loose over the Epstein Logs. He has a "serious girlfriend" but if they both know what's good for them...
Forced marriage?
Yes, don't change the name of the blog. You're still chronicling a plague; it's just a different sort of plague than it first appeared to be in 2020. The most powerful viruses are not made of proteins and nucleotide strands, and they infect the mind and the heart in their immaterial essences.
It turned out that self-appointed global managers who know better than the masses what is right and good had pre-positioned ribosomes all around us and within us, designed to code for fear in the human heart by reading the Messenger RNA distributed in the daily news cycle. That's the plague you're still chronicling.
When I read the blog's title, I almost see a clin d’œil to "a plague on both their houses," so I hope it stays unchanged.
This is an extremely encouraging post. Very glad to read it.
But fer heck's sake don't change nuthin' about your Substack! Don't rename it! Don't change the look! It's fine! It's perfect! There's always a new plague coming of one sort or another. It's a name for all seasons.
Encouraging?
- New machinations from flabby evil genius Bill Gates
- Tree-huggers poisoning the earth, again
- Lobotomized bimbos running rampant in government and the UN
- Terrorism ruining Christmas and threatening political figures
- Another new record for incompetence by the Merz coalition
Did I miss the encouraging part?
Sure did! For reasons out of your control though. So never mind. You get a pass.
Completely agree!
"Automobile of peace attacks".
Classic.
Was hoping you weren't hanging in a dungeon somewhere.
Very much looking forward to your upcoming posts!
Both those videos were an embarrassment. But I have high hopes future anthropologists and psychologists will use them as evidence of what a mentally ill, out of touch, ideologically captured local elite actually look like.
I think many of us don't really believe they are out of touch or inept. It must be some conspiracy. A masterplan to enslave us all. But no, it does seem to be a bunch of slightly broken rejects LARPing as statesmen. It is all a performance. This is our era's defining characteristic. Our leaders are followers. They are actors playing a part. That''s why it is all collapsing.
A lot of these really dumb politicians are creatures of proportional representation – they get into office via internal party wrangling and party lists. Hubertz, bizarrely, actually won a direct mandate in Trier in 2021, so despite being clearly cognitively disabled she does not fit in this category and rather managed to persuade some like 1/3 of everyone in her district to vote for her. (She lost her mandate in 2025, however, and entered the Bundestag on the SPD list, so there is that.)
I see the same effect in Scotland. They have proportional representation. You end up with a Frankenstein parliament no one would have directly voted into existence, including fringe figures that cannot win a seat.
Frankenstein parliament is a great term for it, a sprinkling of real politicians amid a sea of weird withered apparatchiks.
First past the post, traditional in the Anglosphere, and proportional representation reflect modernity well. PR is a nice sounding idea that doesn't work in real life. Reflecting everyone's views sounds good. But winner takes all provides decisive and clear winners in each seat. Each person there got the most votes and possess a legitimacy PR candidates lack.
Like lot of what we see now these are pleasant sounding experiments invented by tinkerers then imposed on everyone else.
We have the same problem here in New Zealand, with crazy green party and an ethnic maori party.
Thanks! Now I know more about how proportional representation works and doesn't work.
It is interesting that the committees that select candidates act as if they are less well-informed about prospects than are the common voters. I would have hoped the party committees would be much better informed than people relying on mass media and speeches at rallies.
We here in the states are also happy as our govt is shutdown and while it might be an issue for the freeloaders it also can’t fuck the rest of us. This upcoming holiday season might be better than any of us could have ever dreamed.
I think Ted Cruz nailed it: the shutdown is 100% performative, engineered to amp their crazies up to vote; on Wednesday, they'll surrender (unless vote counting drags on).
Gates is backing off climatism because he needs vast amounts of electricity to run the billion or so file servers that are going to power Microsoft's planned expansion into AI, and the solar and wind farms ain't gonna cut it.
This. We're living in this cognitive dissonance here in the UK. On the left, Ed Millipede exhorting us to his Nut Zero insanity. On the right, the same government he's part of, encouraging the construction of gigantic datacentres, which will provide, oh maybe, 12 jobs for local people, but produce zillions of profits offshore for the likes of Google and Amazon.
Know what those datacentres eat? Land, electricity and water.
Guess what is in short supply (for actual people, or industries that employ people) in the UK? Land, electricity and water.
Of course we have plenty of water falling from the sky. Somewhere on the way from the clouds to our taps, there's a "process" (possibly involving unobtainium and barrels of unicorn tears) which makes it blisteringly expensive.
(The reality, of course, is that - like everything in the UK - water is expensive because there's an army of subsidy-guzzling rent-seekers to be fed).
I hope you don't rename the blog. Plagues come in many forms :)
Don't forget that selfsame Danish elite who in 2020 illegally mandated the death of all mink in Denmark as the only country in the world to invent a connection between the mink and the Kung flu. Thousands were (incompetently) put to death by the police and buried in long, long trenches that later had to be reburied. The mink farmers, once the most productive in the world, have still not been compensated. There's more if that's not enough.
The Bovaer fiasco is in the opening phases of eventually being swept under the rug after ruining and bankrupting tens of Danish milk/beef farmers and possibly destroying those industries as well. All the while Chinese and Indian cows produce more methane in a day than Danish cows could produce in a year.
PS Good to see a post from you again. Don't worry about design changes (background color, name), it's the content that I come for.
I am amazed that so many pundits actually believe that Bill gates has actually changed his mind. He never once believed the propaganda that he was spewing. He was making money on it. Now that he is embracing the new AI phenomenon, he knows that we will need 3-4 time more energy than currently available. I believe Gates bought 3 mile island and intends to relight the reactors. He knows that AI will require all the energy the world can produce and that renewables cannot begin to provide it; he will now get behind burning wood, coal, gas, oil, as well as nuclear to pave the way for the AI revolution.
Love your blog - love the name - love the look and feel - and mainly I love to read your thoughts. (The pics are also quite nice). Your blog practically saved me during covid and has proved to be a deep well of insight and thought-provoking commentary. Don’t change a thing! I don’t care if you take a break now and then when things go upside down - it’s worth the wait.
As for suggestions: don’t ever stop blogging. I do like it when you recommend books.
Antifa, indeed. That a Christmas Market (or maybe even more than one) should be canceled for fear of these scumbags is deplorable!
Where is the Geheimestaatspolizei when they could be really useful...?
"automobile of peace"..................funny.
Eugyppius, that’s the second time you’ve shown us that magnificent property at the head of your blog - is it your new house?
I think his house is in Thuringia(?), maybe the renovation we saw underway a couple of years ago.
Golly, I hope you know I was being facetious. ☺️
LOL of course.
Yes, I think we all know he resides in a rented apartment.
Glad to hear the beatings have improved morale.
Could you perchance:
1) slice and dice the recent interview Rav Aurora did with Mark Cuban, where Cuban is still clinging to all of the false information about Covid transmission and the efficacy of the mrna vaccines?
2) delve into the video and viral exchange between former CIA chief John Brennan and Thomas Speciale?
3) dig into something Speciale told Matt Taibbi in an interview reported this morning on Taibbi's Substack - directly implying that subsource "Joseph Mifsud" may not be a real person, as no one has been able to find him in all the investigations being conducted vis-a-vis "Russiagate"?
I hope Mr Speciale has some speciale protection now…
No kidding!