Day: December 14, 2025

All my work has been done for years on a Win7 Hewlitt Packard computer. I have an H.P. Win10 Envy that I use for gaming and updated it to Win11, and have made it my main PC because everything’s advanced so much past Win7 that a lot of programs just won’t work on it and websites won’t load. Besides that, the Envy is almost instantaneous, websites load in less than a second that take a half minute on the older PC. And something that stands out is how smart all the software is getting.

I play a solitaire game called Free Cell fairly often and bought the updated version of it when I switched computers for daily use. It looks the same as it always did but it doesn’t act the same. All I have to do is click on any card or group of cards and if it’s playable, it does so correctly and instantly, instead of me having to “grab” it with the mouse and move it where I want it. I mean, that’s really smart. I’m kind of amazed. There’s other things, a lot of Internet content I didn’t ask for keeps popping up in my face when I load a link sometimes, trying to pull me over to a different page, asking for personal information, all kinds of crap that my old pc never showed me because it couldn’t recognize the advanced HTML or whatever code they’re using now. If your browser software can’t interpret it, you won’t see it and I quit writing in HTML over 20 years ago, it was growing and changing too fast to keep up.

My browser is Firefox and it updated itself when I updated the pc, and it’s SMARTER. It remembers everything. It came close, before, but it’s smarter now. Win11 is smarter. Kinda too much smarter, and stupider in some ways. Some of the “upgrades” make some things actually take a lot longer to do now than before because so much has been packed into menus and shell extensions that used to be either links directly on the page or small, minimal menus. Now the menus are so long they run to two pages that you have to scroll through and it’s truly an asspain.

Microsoft has always operated on the principle of “It doesn’t need fixing so lets break it”. They probably do this to make the old OS obsolete to get everyone to buy the new OS. I’ll never forget what a clusterfuck of bugs Windows 95 was. It CONSTANTLY crashed. One update after another. By the time they finally got our $100 OS purchase working mostly right, Windows 98 came out.

But yeah, they’re a lot smarter now. So is AI and it’s really scaring the shit out of a lot of people who know what’s going on. I have to get scared shitless by proxy because I don’t know what’s going on but I believe them when they say they do. One thing that’s happening faster than the average uncaring Obliviate, which is my word for over 99% of humanity, realizes is that AI has started putting people out of work right now, and in 3 years or less, probably less, it will be doing a hell of a lot of jobs that people do now and those people will be out of work. You don’t have to have a robot machine, all you need is a fast computer accessing an AI mainframe and it will do everyone’s income taxes, send invoices, bills, mail out checks or auto-deposit payments and payouts, and on and on. Cars and trucks without human drivers are all over the highways now and there’s going to be a lot more. No more taxi, Uber or truck drivers. Auto-delivery of packages by drones is ongoing. The age of AI and smart robots has begun. It’s not coming, it’s here. It’s just young yet, is all.

AI is going to put the larger part of humanity out of work and government welfare systems will be quickly overloaded and unable to keep up with feeding and housing everyone. So the natural solution is to get rid of them, and that means either war or disease or a combination thereof. Chairman Mao starved millions to death to get rid of them but I don’t think the Europeans can do that. Donald Trump & Co. have started deporting them. There’s at least 40 million here that can be kicked out, and most of them are on welfare, so that would really help. Then if he can get a good Vietnam-style war going over in Venezuela and Bolivia and get lots of young Americans killed along with them bringing back the Jungle Crud and other killer diseases, that would help too. The Europeans already have their own solution, they’re going to war with Russia to ease the population problem and will probably start some sort of disease epidemic to help it along.

Make no mistake, the population will have to decline rapidly and by a lot as AI takes over the world. Consider, the larger a population, the more profit from a successful product because, more sales if there’s more people. So if AI robots make everything you want for the asking, there’s no profit so you don’t need more people, and if there’s a lot of people telling the robots to make all kinds of stuff, the world will get buried in all that cast off stuff. So you need less people, to keep from turning Earth into a junk pile. That means that what you end up with is an Elite, small population of humans doing literally anything they want to do, owning anything they want to own and never paying anything for anything. That’s our future, my guess is in about 150 years from now.

I could go on about this and maybe I will later but it’s past my bedtime. So goodnight.

In what seems like a long time ago, Ernesto The Great (very famous person, but of course you know this) asked me if I thought there was going to be another Great War and I said no.

Times change and opinions change along with them, and now my answer is Yes. China is not gearing up for war as fast as they can without reason, nor is the US preparing to conquer Venezuela and Bolivia and kick China out of the Western Hemisphere for no reason, or Japan converting to a war footing that they’re calling “defensive only” to stay within their nations constitution. But they’re preparing to fight on the side of Taiwan, when China attacks Taiwan, because they and everyone else knows that if China takes Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines are next.

Russia continues to battle Ukraine, which is nearly exhausted of materiel and men, as the EU and NATO are united in refusing to allow Russia to win and intend to keep the war against Russia going. Little Israel is a major munitions manufacturer, producing top grade missiles and anti-missiles along with the worlds best air defense systems and some of the very best arms, and they’re at war in Syria and Lebanon now, along with continued fighting in Gaza.

The satellite nations that were formerly unwilling members of the Soviet Union along with those near them, like Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Nederlands, Estonia and so on, are arming up for a fight with Russia.

Wars that Trump keeps trying to end through negotiation keep blowing back up. The latest two are Uganda and Tanzania, and Thailand and Cambodia. Trump gets them to join trade pacts and stop fighting, and a few days or a week later they’re bombing and shooting each other again.

The last two world wars began in Eastern Europe, the first one started out small and drew in neighboring nations until the world was involved, the second one started with the Germans invading Poland. I was 8 months old, by the way.

The third one stands a good chance of also beginning in Eastern Europe, thanks to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But don’t place any bets yet because this one may start in 6 places at the same time. That it will start looks to be pretty certain. How soon? I don’t know and won’t guess.