SOC of a smartphone today exists with neuromorphic compute cores for ai application acceleration in hardware, etches CMOS into multiple layer silicon data cities, information superhighways designed into CPU & GPU & DRAM, information explosion, more kinds of possibly mindsets and ideologies. If we consider thousands of nuclear bomb tests inside the USA, the US government took advantage of the lack of technical sophistocation of the general public or lay persons, but with internet access anyone at any time including digital agents called agentic entities can become connected with any kind of information, which will shape its choices and outcomes, where a persons brain 88 billion neurons forming dynamic scalable networks of different kinds in response to what a person thinks of or knows about, so even normal people can easily become very technically sophisticated about chip making FAB nodes, emerging kinds of IC or integrated circuits, computational software platforms like operating systems Windows on Intel chips, or Apple Silicon running macOS, or commodity PC hardware running any of many LINUX distros, in America in 2026 you probably have an iPhone or Samsung Android Phone, now just looking at the public mindset in response to information technology, there are an extraordinary number of possible cognitive outcomes. Today I was watching a video about people recycling motherboards from America, e-waste, many main-boards burned in a rotating oven to make ash, screens by size, ultimately sorted into past in filters finally smelted to extract gold Au nuggets a few grams at a time, using a toxic nitric acid processes that emits reddish fumes in the video, then 6 different combustion stages, where dioxins, furans, particulate matter, smog forming air pollutants, main board logic made of phenol treated with bromine flame retardant acting as a plastic glue holding the fiber glass threads together, with drilled holes tin lined to be conductive, where a few hundred ATX main-boards are able to be put through this toxic crude processing for e-waste gold recovery, that has toxic impacts on the workers doing the e-waste gold recovery, and toxic impacts on the environment near and around the location in Pakistan where they are doing mother board gold recovery smelting recycling.
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Cannabis Legalization, Not Uniform in America, Only Some States Legalized Cannabis Products
famous for being one of the first US states to legalized Weed, cannabis or marijuana, strains of a plant species that produces THC, CBD, CBN, CBG, terpenes, & thousands of other substance that contribute to the combined effects of substance in marijuana flowers, those nuggets of crystal coated plant materials that users smoke through a pipe, water bong, in joints made of rolled cannabis in paper, or vaporized on a hot nail or heated apparatus that produces the required heat needed to boil off the active components, often with concentrate made with supercritical CO2 extract, or butane honey oil, crackle, a semi solid, cannabis oil, wax, its the extracted active parts removed with solvent then rendered into cold honey thick or butter like solid, which readily heats into a vapor inhaled for enjoyment, which gets us to the human receptors CB1 and CB2 distributed throughout the body & brain.
Brains CB1 & CB2 Receptors
Our brain manufactures two kinds of endocannabinoids, called 2AG and Anandamide respectively. These natural ligands for the CB1 & CB2 receptor play a variety of roles in apatite, flavor & taste appreciation, music enjoyment, movie enjoyment, bliss, calm, peace, relaxation, pain suppression, sleep maintenance, and many other roles, as this is not an exhaustive list, and I am not a doctor.
Illegal Cannabis, Yet Legalized, Which is it?
My personal interest in cannabis started when it was not legal, back when I was a tense teen at age 17 on the edge of suicide. I was distraught after reading about the life & times of Christopher Columbus, a psychopathic murdering rapist sicko, who happened to discover the "new world" of what would become a colony of the Kingdom of Britain or the United Kingdom of UK of today. Incidentally 7 other explorers found America after Columbus, but almost now one knows their names, no Holidays to Honor others who found USA, or more accurately North America when mostly only indigenous people's lived in North America.
Columbus Learning Made Me Want to Kill Myself
I was so distraught learning about Columbus's horrible criminal personal conduct, that I became deeply demoralized, grabbed a hand gun, held it against my head, chambered a round, had my finger on the trigger about to blow my head off, when suddenly my cell phone rang, it was Adam a friend from school, it was Friday evening. He instructed me on the phone to immediately come down to the party him and other people from my High School were having at local hotel room. It was in this very hotel room that I first encountered illegal marijuana, and was peer pressured into trying it, but found only a deep sense of relief, though on the way home the paranoid aspect made me think every car on the road as a police car determine to nail us for illegal drug consumption. Probably a psychological side effect of D.A.R.E education, ironically realizing that everything I had been taught about cannabis was incorrrect and inaccurate and non-scientific. Fast forward a decade and Oregon legalized weed.
THC Reset Me to Feeling Joy of a Young Child
I woke up the next morning on Saturday and felt like I was 5 years old. All those topics from a class my junior year called Contemporary World Events by Dr. Schneider, had been weighing on my mind, feeling heavy, upsetting and frustrating, to the point of feeling like I did not want to live in a world with such sickness, so many problems, so much inequality, crime, fraud, scams, war lords, Ponzi schemes, scandals, consumer betrayals, public health betrayals, in a world where government places industry profit interests above that of the environmental or public health, where corporations are given more rights than people, which seems immoral, unethical and wrong on many levels.
One hit of THC cured years of Trauma
But having just gotten high for the first time the night before, I woke up without a care in the world, as if that one trip reset my entire mental index, allowing me to understand that I am not those problems and those problems are not me, that I am not responsible for those problems, and if I were in charge, I would fix most of those problems, by starting with changing Colobus day to Indigenous Peoples day, which eventually happened, Juneteenth not just about the abolition of slavery in the USA, its also about the indigenous peoples of the USA seeing some kind of justice or social equity, not that this ever actually translated into lifestyle improvements of such peoples or their children, moreover a philosophic euphemism with an echo to egalitarian humanitarian ethics or human rights laws.
Drugs Legal or Not Causing Biochemical Imbalances
The problem with prescription drugs and drugs of abuse, including alcohol, tobacco, opioids, cannabis, MDMA, Cocaine, Heroin, Sugar added in food, UPF bliss point engineering, its that these excesses, knock the bodies systems out of balance, promoting disease formation, effectively disturbing homeostasis, interfering with cell signaling, or receptor functions, causing brain or organ problems, just like exposure to heavy metals or radioactive isotopes are toxic, ethanol also harms our brain, liver & kidneys, as drunk driving causes many car accidents, bar fights and other problems, yet beer, wine, spiritus, liquor and mixed drinks even sold in cans now, perfectly legally, containing the toxic substance ethanol as the active ingredient.
Zero Ethanol Gasoline
I even buy ethanol free gas for the mowers and weed whacker and my car, because in many application ethanol in gasoline promote corrosion of the fuel system, destroying gaskets, causing rust to form inside tubes important for the engine to work, E10 fuel widely sold gasoline, damages carburetors faster, sours faster, as in oxidize forming waxy threads inside of 4 months. Go to https://www.pure-gas.org/ a web repository of fuel stations in America that sell Ethanol Free Gasoline, to find a fuel station near you selling gasoline with no ethanol content.
Food Killing America
If UPF including Soda & white sugar are harming public health more than Alcohol, then that makes Safeway a mass murderer. People want to demonize drugs and make them taboo, but everyone almost theses days knows that ultra processed foods are harming public healthy more than anything else, in part because few people understand how harmful such things as Oreo cookies are, when in reality they are made by a global tobacco giant using the same chemical manipulation they used to make cigarettes more additive, the same kind of child marketing, looked at commercial breakfast cereals with brightly colored logos with fun characters designed to appeal to young minds, of children riding in the grocery basket, who see these colorful characters and ask for industrial ultra processed items from their mom, when educated mommies say "No little one, we are going to eat carrots with peanut butter and raisins" who only buys organic all natural items, cooks at home from ingredient and largely shuns buying any UPF.
LSD Serotonin Receptors, Controlling Public, How 100 micrograms of Ethlyated Lysergie Acid, Derived from Ergot Fungus, Produce Profound Effects on Neuron Plasticity
PCP Angle Dust, NMDA Receptor Agonist, Maddox Dr Who Invented "It", VICE Episode Exploring Analogs with Fewer Side Effects
Our body naturally actives NMDA receptors with glycine an amino acid or the stimulating glutamate, made famous for the Asian salt Monosodium Glutamate, which makes meat, chicken or fish taste better.
If a NMDA receptor over activated, influx of Ca2+ ions can cause over activation excitotoxicity, implicated as a causal factor for Alzheimer's diseases, Parkson's diseases, and Huntinton's diseases. Agents that block the NMDA receptor are useful for treating these diseases.
MK-801, ketamine, amantadine, memantine are antagonist that bind to the NMDA receptor blocking its activation.
So a few questions arise
1 why did the US government intelligence agency bring PCP to inner urban areas
2 why did agents teach locals how to make PCM to dip cigarettes into to smoke SHERM
3 why did government work with media to air stories of violent people high on PCP
4 why did media demonize PCP as a violent drug, when it was criminals, not PCP
5 why have NMDA receptor drugs become so important in medicine as prescription drugs
6 why have street users of angel dust who are non violent been demonized in media
Iran's Nuclear Program not about Commercial Power & Never Was
Ayatollah vowed to wage global war against "The West" back in the middle of the twentieth century. That means the Islamic Republic of modern day Iran's government under its enforcement of Sharia Law, has zero to do with the History of Iran, and tantamount to a terrorist state of terrible hate filled violent criminal sickos who break every single human rights laws in existence as their operating principle.
Straight of Hormuz important to oil tanker traffic and commercial shipping or global logistics, that means the movement of valuable goods over water in giant expensive ships that mostly belong to private companies. When a illegitimate state such as IRAN attacks privately owned commercial ships, that is an act of terrorism, because that is not war, that is a state attacking private companies.
As an American, ideologically speaking, the way I see the world, in terms of human rights, almost entirely opposite of Sharia Law. Sharia Law looked at in terms of human gender equity for woman similar to the way the world was in the 1400's when that despot pervert pedophile war lord founder of Islam was alive. Muhammad was peaceful up until he moved to Mecca, when he lived in Medina he only used rhetoric to win people over. When he moved to Mecca he became a famous war lord, who lead armies of his men to sack, pillage, rape, steal from, murder and take all their stuff of value, all the cities they attacked. Then to engender loyalty from his army, he would share the spoils of war, what they took from all the victims, gold coins, silver coins, rare valuable items, anything of value, so his men idolized him from making them wealthy through military conquests.
When I play CS an FPS game on my desktop computer, I always play CT, counter terrorist, that means I am for fun, playing a military simulation, where I behave as the world police, to stop terrorists from bombing a commercial location.
In the documentary movie "Requiem for the American Dream", famed professor Noam Chomsky called America the worlds largest terrorist, in part because America at every level exports every kind of firearm or weapon system worldwide. In other words, the military industrial complex parts of the United States are a global arms bizarre open for sales to anyone with money to buy, mostly other western states.
Now the people of America are almost diametrically opposed to the USA acting as the world police, and the overwhelming vast majority of Americans are not even willing to hurt someone else physically for any reason. Notice that most people who go into medicine in America have the intention of helping others. Or how how Americans have historically been the most generous in terms of the public in America giving money to global charities to help address global poverty or fund humanitarian relief programs.
A sane person might wonder, if all the people I encounter are friendly and polite in America, then why is the US government acting as the world police, shooting drones at all sorts of people & vehicles and engaged in a global assassination campaign? That's right, using very expensive UAV with even more expensive air to surface missiles, each costing as much as a luxury car, while the drone itself costs millions of dollars, amid the US racking up national debt so fast that online you can find a US National Debt Clock, but its not just America, among most nations with Fiat Currencies, a global debt crisis of more than $400 trillion dollars missing or MIA or owned to ourselves. That means we are borrowing from future generations, or cheating our children and grandchildren.
Iran Fires Disposable Single Use Explosive Drones at Commercial Ships after Signing a Ceasefire & Peace Agreement
Trump issues a stark warning, either keep the Strait of Hormuz open to commercial ship travel, or the US will continue precision strikes of critical infrastructure to cripple the Iranian uranium enrichment program, power production, oil, gas, water, roads, bridges, ports, in order of economic importance or national security interest importance.
Iran run by incompetent Islamic extremists who enacted and enforce sharia law, causing millions of young girls to be married off to adult men, while GLBTQ+ people discovered to be so by police in Iran are shot on demand murdered for apostasy, stoned to death or dropped from tall buildings into the street. In other words the state of Iran engages in hate crimes and endorses pedophilia.
I really like the Persian people of Iran, the traditional foods of Iran, the Persian language, many aspects of the 9000 + year old culture of Iran are fantastic, making what happened to Iran after the fall of the Shaw so terrible in a perpetual ongoing chaotic way, nearly all other countries denounce sharia law as incompatible with human rights, to the point of being cringy, disturbing, cruel, mean spirited and unfair on many levels to girls & women.
When your heart neurons, gut neurons, & brain neurons align, doing what you know at every level to be good, choosing the right with all sincerity, making the world a better place, making the difference for someone else
Yet people even as babies have an intrinsic sense of right and wrong, able to tell the difference between a good or bad person, before knowing almost nothing about anything as a young infant, a young baby, born with a blank slate brain knowing almost nothing.
Probably a stretch philosophically, but I believe the overwhelming vast majority of people understand the difference between right or wrong conduct as a person.
I am not telling anyone else what to think, how to choose, how to act, what to care about, how to steer their focus, or how to live best, since I could never know enough about anyone else to give them specific pointed instructions in every possible way about the best way for them to live, because clearly I do not even know the best way to live for myself as a person, so on what grounds would I have to claim to know with authority a superior way to think, act, live or operate as a person.
I seek to create unity between people worldwide, across time, space, culture and place, to agree to disagree peacefully, to go our own ways in peace, to be kind to one another, to be polite and fair & reasonable with one another as people, unity, peace, kindness, loving kindness
At my best I show loving kindness to other people, strangers, when it make zero sense, when there is not personal benefit, when its pure genuine benevolence, kindness, being fair, reasonable, polite, decent, operating above suspicion, doing my best to do my best in all ways at all times obedient unto the Lord our God, master creator of all in all realms, out of humble respect for God and not wanting to remove his blessing from my life or that life of my wife who I adore.
CS2, ultra classic FPS for Desktop PC or Gaming Laptops
After more than 20 years of playing Counter Strike on every game console, every laptop, every desktop, I can say its about as neoclassical as the tab on a pop can containing 5182 alloy of mostly aluminum with 4.5% magnesium & 0.3% manganese, cold strain hardened, amenable to every kind of welding, extremely ductile able to be drawn into complex 3D shapes, while the mouse and W A S D keys of a keyboard are the primary typical inputs for gaming, even illuminated specially on some gaming keyboards, but had did Valve the gaming company behind STEAM the online gaming platform, create a perpetually interest.
E-sports game popular worldwide across generations of people, so many iterations of computer and software advances, really a glimmering shimmering amazing example of a game that transcends space and time, connecting with millions of players globally, showing the best of what high speed internet can become when mixed with a computer powerful enough to play Counter Strike with enough frames per second displayed to be playable in a fluid way that players enjoy, special thanks to AMD, Intel & NVIDIA for making it happen, and Kudos to Microsoft & Valve for supporting PC gaming!
In the context of artificial intelligence data centers eating up HBM memory so pervasively its creating bottlenecks and market shortages for DDR production so bad that RAM prices for DDR4 and DDR5 have tripled in less than a year, graphics cards like 4090 and 5090 commanding $2000, $3000 or $4000 now, making gaming PC even more expensive, unfair in particular because PC gaming most popular with younger people with very little if any income or money, who rely on their parents to live, really kicking people who are already at layers of disadvantages, facing a dollar that has never been weaker, against a housing crisis where homes have never been more unaffordable, and wages in most areas of the economy while they have grown, they have not kept up with inflation or the increasing cost of all of life's basics.
In 1999 when I was in high school, gasoline sold for $0.99 per US gallon, today where I grew up, gasoline selling for $6/ gal, 600% increase in price, 290% when adjusted for inflation, a gallon of Milk that was $1 now $5, housing that was $250K selling for $1.5 million, apartments that rented for $450/mo now $2800/mo in worse condition.
Why have so many people taken to hiding behind their smartphone, tablet, TV, desktop monitor, gaming consoles, well, there are many factors, as with most complex phenomena we would have to touch on some very unconfortable realities, so lets go ahead and try.
Loss of community connection, people do not even know their neighbors anymore. A commonly expressed musical lyric touches on this with a pen & paper analogy, "I can't talk openly with anybody anymore, so I talk to my journal writing, social media posts, blog articles, or escape watching movies, videos, shorts, memes, doom scrolling, of whatever
Lack of an effective free to the public open space where people can connect that is not their home or place of work, while Churches have functioned to provide a 3rd place for social connection, in many ways church attendance been on a decline in America for decades because of an increase in secularization, and more recently criminal Islamic terrorist in America have been engaged in arson, burning Christian churches down.
Lets for a moment touch on a disturbing reality, in many Islamic Republics where Sharia Law enforced, girls & women have no rights legally or otherwise, child marriage pervasive, mostly very young girls married of to older adult men, illegal in almost all other countries, in many ways Sharia Law, killing GLTBQ+ alphabet people, stoning them to death, dropping them from tall buildings into the street, or shooting them in the head, Islamic police acting as judge & jury with on demand killings justified in the name of defending apostasy, in effect either become Islamic and practice Sharia Law or they will kill you for not joining.
Unsurprisingly, I always plat Counter Terrorist or CT when playing counter strike. Simulations where I get to stop the terrorists from bombing the target. To warm up after not playing CS for a long time, I play Practice with Bots, and once I am able to dominate the bots, means I am about to get smoked but still play on community maps with real people, usually a few rounds a few times per day for a few weeks and my chops improve, but then I get bored and stop playing CS for months, come back rusty, have to warm up and practice to be good enough to play against other people ")
Anthropic IPO Over Valued, Data Center Noise, Light & Water Pollution, Driving up Electricity Cost for Residents Nearby
A range of problems with data centers that release as much heat daily as large nuclear weapons detonated, millions of gallons of fresh water polluted with coolant additives discharged into municipal water supplies poisoning public and nature simultaneously, giving rise to class action lawsuits seeking damages for harms data centers causing.
Over Valued IPO's
How are any of these big tech companies seeking huge amounts of money going to capitalize on unproven revenue models, entirely based on estimate and projections that might not ever pan out.
Do your remember 2008, when large banks & insurance companies in America projected they could make $60 trillion in profit off of NINJA sub-prime mortgage loans, zero down, no documents, no income, no jobs, upside down, Richard Fuld of failed AIG leading the charge to bankrupting 158 year old institution, worldwide by 2011 more than 30 million people lost their jobs because of great 2008 Recession in America.
Economy Boosting Chip Fabrication
Chip fabrication plants making CPU, DRAM, GPU, SOC, brains in computers, tablets, smartphones, data centers, servers, super computers, smart watches, automobiles, micro-controllers, modems, WiFi routers, data switches, cloud compute, ASIC chips for ai training, BTC or bitcoin mining, blockchain technology, fintech, clean technology.
Closed Loop Water Reclamation
TSMC, Intel, GF, chip FAB plants renowned for immense water consumption, helium consumption, acid contaminated with heavy metals or rare earths, making chips of all kinds using polluting toxic industrial strong corrosive or acidic chemicals, ions created, requiring expensive ion capture, not always applied, so often dumped into local waterways as polluted water emissions, nearly all existing chip FAB are located near large sources of water & electricity.
Dirty Clean Technology
Renewables as micro inverters or inverters, for wind power, geothermal, wave capture, hydro power, solar power, in ever renewable energy system chips controlling data flow essential, of critical importance to the functions of these urgently needed energy systems, part of a trend globally towards clean energy, a mix of SMR fission, novel new nuclear fusion DT FRC pulse direct energy capture magnetic compression from Helion Energy NW, Orion plant under construction as the worlds first fusion power plant to go live in 2028. Fusion reactors are also important for faster access to the moon & mars, to go to Proxima Centari the next closest star system some 4+ light years away.
SpaceX never worth $1.75 Trillion Dollars
Only business segment turning a profit, StarLink, via revue from hundreds of millions of subscriptions, yet at more than $100 per month for truly fast satellite internet, when Verizon 5G option for $50 performs better over cellular data networks, millions of people are switching away from StarLink, to lower their monthly broadband high speed internet subscription fees. SpaceX responded in part to boost revenue before the record setting IPO, by lowering subscription fee with discounts to boost sales.
Innovative Reusable Rockets
SpaceX first company private, to commercialize reusable rockets, using engine gimbals to control relight and inverted pendulum stabilization of Falcon 9. Now with Star Ship V3 SpaceX chasing economies of scale, noting stainless steel & liquid natural gas or LNG along with liquid oxygen LOX chosen as a cost efficient fuel mix. Falcon 9 used RP1 a kind of special Kerosene chilled along with LOX or liquid oxygen
Lithium Aluminum So Expensive
The shell & frame of Falcon 9 instead of cheaper stainless steel like V3 Star Ship, instead made of an expensive exotic lithium aluminum alloy, incredibly with a thinner shell to body ratio than an aluminum beverage can. That is to say that if you stretched and scaled a pop can made of aluminum to the size of a Falcon 9 rocket, the pop can would have thicker walls.
Pop Can Lid 5182 Alloy
In order for the tab to pop open the top of a pop can, the lid actually 6X stronger aluminum magnesium alloy, similar to the low mass 15 inch wheels of a 2nd Gen. Toyota Prius. More specifically 5182 cold worked & strain hardened to H48 temper, giving it exceptional deep draw ductility and corrosion resistance without any heat treatment. Containing 4.5% magnesium & 0.3% manganese, producing high strength, excellent welding characteristics in stick, MIG, TIG, & spot welding.
Beverage can lids are the most iconic use of 5182, while automotive hoods, doors, & body panels of high strength to weight ratio for mass savings and dent resistance also made of 5182. Computer cases, fuel tanks, tankers, ships, aerospace, aircraft, this strong alloy used where low mass strength provides benefits, for example a Ford F150 made with more aluminum uses 27% less fuel by losing 600 lbs by virtue of the low mass strength aluminum alloys offer automakers. Audi famous for using aluminum alloy for the space frame of the A8/S8, giving them higher power to weight ratio performance, improving handling, & reducing fueling consumption, while lowering emissions.
SpaceX Ai
With tough competition from Google Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Amazon Q, Watson, OpenAI, Anthropic, NVIDIA, ChatGPT, some with new over valued IPO upcoming, we see few if any profitable LLM or ai products or services, and while SpaceX wants AI5 asic chips in 3nm process node, they have zero chips, no Optimus has this AI5 brain SOC yet, and to make a 100 million Optimus robots annually, would require more AI5 chips than the combined capacity output of every chip making company, Global Foundries, Intel, TSMC, etc, to even supply 2% of SpaceX ai chip demand.
DDR, Data Center, Chip Fab, NIMBY
Along with need for memory chips, DDR6, as industry ships to ai data training centers, with NIMBY push-back from noise, light, water pollution, water waste, environmental damage, some data centers release so much heat in 24 hours its similar to the heat output of a large nuclear weapon detonated daily, which in hot locals in Pheonix Arizon causing locals to run their AC more often at higher cost, giant Data centers driving up electricity costs as their heat output raises local temperatures up to 9 degrees, further increasing costs to locals, the electric bills are reaching $1000+ per month.
RAM Shortage
Building a PC has never been more expensive. DDR4 that was $50 a year ago, now $150, DDR5 kits selling for $400 to $550 that were under $200 a year ago, CPU chips that were $120 a year ago, now selling for $220-$1000, GPU that sold for $1200 a year ago selling for $4000 now, in every respect core computer components have tripled in price, making a new PC build that was $450 bare bones last year, cost more than $800 now, and that's with cases, PSU, monitors, motherboards that did not go up in price, almost all the cost increase for a basic computer because the CPU & RAM & GPU prices have gone up.
Metabolism, Movement, Steps, Activity, Fitness, Exercise
When a person stops eating for 24 or 48 or 72 hours, fasting, only drinking water, their body places health cells into a protective state by activating Sirtuin Genes, 1-7, known as ancient survival genes, from times in antiquity when food scarcity was a common cultural phenomena, where people went without food for often days or weeks or sometimes even months. Jesus Christ of Nazareth mentions fasting & prayer in The Christian Bible more than 70 times.
Going Forwards & Backwards Simultaneously
So how have we made so much technological progress while overlooking metabolic health in favor of focusing on maximizing the profits of food companies, the overwhelming majority owned by global tobacco giants today, through merger and acquisition to divest investment into unregulated, largely deregulated FDA & UPF or ultra processed foods with any of many chemical additives, so unhealthy, that what Americans eat linked to more than 32 disease in medical evidence & physiology studies. How can the science of exercise from sports medicine or the METABO law of Japan exist in the face of exporting harm as American tobacco giant traffic ultra processed foods globally.
Disease Epidemics Exploding
Exploding cancers, diabetes, heart disease, obesity rates, kidney failure rates, in ever way disease are exploding into epidemics, almost exclusively linked to dietary imbalances, namely tons of chemical additives, modified starches, industrial artificial colors & flavors, not real food by any reasonable definition, but food like sparingly edible items that are sold in colorful bags and boxes, plastic or aluminized "mylar" bags, or packaged processed foods.
Shop Borders of a Grocery Store
The saying "Shop the edges of the grocery for perishable real foods, largely due to the face that most of the stuff sold on the shelving of the isles of a Grocery Store or Supermarket in America, are ultra processed, for example industrial GMO rape seed oil confusingly sold in clear plastic low flavor low smoke labeled bottles cheap, called Vegetable Oil, when no vegetables were used to make veggie oil.
No Veggies In Vegetable Oil
GMO crops of rape seed harvested and pressed with solvents, heat & pressure, then up to 50 different processing stages are applied to the resulting rape seed oil, which given what goes into making it, seems like it would be even more expensive, except doing all that stuff to the rape seed oil sold as vegetable oil, gives it a longer shelf life and done on an unmatched volume level or mass produced, giving the selling of the most unhealthy oils economies of scale, so they can sell Vegetable Oil as cheaply as possible.
Chemical Stream Entering Your Body, Largest Stream Food & Beverages
The overwhelming vast majority of things entering your body are food chemicals, from what your are eating and drinking, which have a majority effect on your body, health, and wellness as a person. This is beyond refute, axiomatically factually accurate backed by an enormous body of evidence from scientific, medical, physiology & sports medicine, the science of exercise, reality of fitness training, even TV shows like The Biggest Looser or My 600lb sisters, reality TV, YouTube videos, intermittent fasting, calorie restriction, SAD standard American diet of ultra processed convenience foods, snacks and fast foods made with industrial chemical additives.
These dietary imbalances, especially excessive sugar, HFCS, starch & carbohydrate, but also UPF or artificially colored & artificially flavored, industrial long shelf life foods, that are known world wide collectively in terms of negative harms to human health as diseases of civilization, noting that the grocery store unlimited access to food plus fridge and pantry are a historical anomaly.
SMOG harms Public Health while Damaging Nature
When gasoline or diesel fuel combusted in engines, the resulting exhaust gas contains mostly carbon dioxide and water vapor, but when we add together the emissions of all combustion engines, the trace emissions of pollutants in traffic congestion accumulate faster than dispersion, forming air pollution that clogs the engines air filter faster, but also damaging the lung cells of people breathing in, near and around traffic congestion, where stop and go traffic jams, all those engines burning fuel without moving getting negative fuel economy, while forming SMOG air pollution that forms acid rain, lung toxic, toxic to brain, kidneys, liver, responsible for many disease pathology, especially cancers.
HC Hydro Carbon vapor, 90% emitted just after cold start after vehicle parked all night
PM Particulate Matter, tiny particles, micro-fine, dust like lodge deep into lung tissue
Oxides of Nitrogen like that orange brown lung toxic nitrogen dioxide, major smog part
Tire tread particles & brake pad dust, wearing away, toxic dust & microplastics
Soot, smoke, vapors from leaking engine oil, transmission fluid, power steering fluid, grease, tar, gunk, smelly petrochemical fog, SMOG
Acid rain also acidifies bodies of water toxic to fish & other aquatic wildlife, SOx, NOx
Rising fuel prices are also still very cheap, to understand why you have to consider all the things that a gallon of crude oil can produce, of incredible value added potential, so many applications of petroleum in industrial chemistry of critical value to most industries, synthetic fabric, wire insulator, explosives, dye, membranes for batteries, non-stick coating, lubricants, lubricating oils, synthetic tire compounds, food additives, concrete additives, asphalt additives, carpeting, vinyl windows and siding, play slides on playgrounds, shoes, tires, storage bins, containers, food packages, hospital tubes and many other plastics in hospitals, in fact plastics are the bread and butter of petrochemical industries.
While a single 42 US gallon barrel of Brent Crude can make about $220 of transportation fuels, propane, butane and tar for asphalt, if the same exact barrel of crude converted to high value polymers they are worth more than $1400, but the market capitalization of fuels about 10,000 bigger than the global market for high value synthetic polymers or similar petrochemicals.
Iran Poor, Why would Iran fight USA a military industrial giant, in Iran gasoline sells for 3 cents per liter, Extreme Poverty
How can the jerks in charge of Iran afford ballistic missiles? That means they in charge of Iran are diverting money from schools, infrastructure, hospitals, police, fire departments, public services, utilities, power grid, natural gas, fuel distribution, retail, building, development, they are buying weapons with money they could be using to help the Persian people, which is immoral, unethical, and wrong on many levels.
Globally, gasoline & diesel prices have sharply risen up to 30% because up to 20% of all Brent Crude travels through tanker ships though the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran has become a major criminal terrorist group blocking shipping channels, causing worldwide economy damage, raising fueling costs for the general public, thus with adequate reasoning and logic the international community should be cracking down on Iran to open the Straight of Hormuz for international trafficking of goods and materials of all kinds, especially Brent Crude Oil.
Crude Oil a virtually ubiquitous input for the production of thousands of high value added petrochemical goods, from tire compounds to wire insulator, to car bumpers or airbags, para-gliders, synthetic fabrics in fashion, carpeting, explosives, dye, pharmaceutical precursors and chemical precursors essential and of critical value to a broad range of industries worldwide. In many ways Petroleum can be seen as Black Gold, of unimaginable value chemically, to so many industries, that create hundreds of millions of jobs, trillions in added value, of essential value of economies of most nations globally.
I am calling for the deposition of Islamic Republics of their extreme leadership, replaced with pro-western reformists who bring human rights to girls and women, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, atheists, agnostics, anyone who is not Islamic, known as the Shaw of Iran's progressive reforms before Ayatollah Khomeini and his stupid Islamic extremists kicked the Shaw out of power and took over Iran, ruining a 9000+ year old nation and making life worse for all the lovely Persian people.
Pop! OS Linux Desktop PC Build Complet & Working
Took a while to build it, and get the ISO flashed onto a USB key to boot, since the reused M2 MVNE SSD upcycled from an older mining rig recycled, and had a windows repair partition that attempted unsuccessfully to repair the disk. Fortunately disabling secure boot in the bios allowed the USB ISO to boot into POP installer, from there system spent all day downloading Steam & CS2, some 60GB of data, over 85 mbps wifi connection, which improved from 52mbps to over 90mbps when I installed the dual antenna to the IO output of the MSI Pro B550 VC motherboard.
For reasons I do not understand, I have to use HDMI cable to get my monitor and graphics card to communicate, using 8K Display Port cable, nothing visible on the screen, and even troubleshooting so far, DP port work, I am not sure why I cannot use the nicer braided DP cable and stuck using the monitors short included HDMI cable. I will do more research to figure it out.
Built my first desktop PC in 1994, using parts obtained from PC shop in Kent Washington, my adoptive father took me there on a Saturday, armed with $450, he contribute $200, got me a color CRT monitor, and a family friend gave me a CD-ROM with Windows 95 on it. Full ATX case, PSU, Pentium Intel CPU, 3DFX AGP GPU, 100MB HDD 64MB DDR RAM, Modem for Dial-up 56K internet, AOL Netscape Navigator, and could only use it online with permission because it absorbed our families only phone line to connect, mostly to web rings about high voltage physics, lasers, chemistry, things that spiked my interest as a per-teen!
This latest PC build my 7th desktop build since 1995. By far the fastest and highest performance, the total build cost $810 keyboard full RGB gaming, 22 in LED 1080P LCD monitor, Cubix-G case, Rosewill 650w 80+ gold PSU, 64 GB DDR4 3200MT/s, AMD ryzen 5-5500 CPU, Thermalright Assassin V2 CPU cooler w/ FRGB fan that matches the 3 included case fans, all the same FRGB color matching, looks cool through the glass, including the Asus dual fan 3050 6GB OC graphics card :)
Game Consoles Xbox, Microsoft, Play Station, Sony, Killed PC Sound Cards, Sound EAX API, Intel 97, then Intel Azalea, CPU after Pentium 4, Mobile SOC DAC ACD integration tightly, iPod
Sound Blaster made IDE & later PCI sound cards for PC or personal computers in the 1990's
Music Streaming, Computer Gaming, Killer Apps required Motherboards to integrate Sound Processing
When Intel & Microsoft got together to put sound in the PC, this eventually doomed sound cards.
By the time the Play Station launched, first Xbox launched, even PC CPU & GPU CUDA offered high end 7.1 surround sound, elite headphone performance, even over USB-A connections, bidirectional gaming headsets with stereo speakers, synthetic 3D soundscape, and a boom mic to talk smack in games like CS or Counter Strike on Steam, CS2 lately.
PCIe super fast storage, but Graphics Cards the killer user app for PCI slots in desktops ITX, mATX or full on full size ATX big dog units.
I am typing this blog posting on an M2 MacBook Pro that has a 1/8 inch multi-function headphone jack.
If we look upon the motherboard and M2 chip of this machine, it features high fidelity audio functions, even over a USB-C connection with high bit rate able to move UHD video, so audio at 198 kilohertz sampling super easy as a simultaneous stream along with ultra high definition video.
Even my VR headset, a Meta Quest 3S features a Qualcomm SOC with incredible audio performance.
Everyone's smartphone SOC, system on a chip features high fidelity audio processing, including ADC and DAC for microphone and speakers, noting most phones like the iPhone or Samsung Galaxy S whatever, have a pair of speakers that can pump out stereo sound, from the top earpiece speaker and bottom charging port location speaker, tiny rare earth magnet speakers featuring foam balls to improve sound performance, making the output sound more rich with more base notes and less tin like which would happen without the foam balls improving the sound pressure wave form spectrum.
When Apple was working with IBM on the first iPod, Steve Jobs contacted Creative in Singapore, to work with them to integrate their sound technology into the iPod line, but Creative declines having their own MP3 player partnerships competing with the iPod, not seeing the sales potential of Apples music distribution AAC files on iTunes online, which came to dominate music sales and the CD players faded into tech history, discs physical kept alive with DVD and lastly BlueRay disks, but no new DISC formats after that, especially not for music alone.
Something about writing all of this reminded me of the Microsoft Zune audio player & software.
I don't even remember the name, but I had an MP3 player in college that used CF Compact Flash Memory Card, it was a Canadian Brand, made in Singapore, around 2001, Napster online download many gigabytes of MP3 music, over USB loaded them onto this portable CF card MP3 player.
2026 Expensive PC Parts Forecast of Higher Prices Upcoming
DDR5 6000MHz RAM for PC, $400
5090 GPU $4000
i9 or Best Ryzen $1000
High end 1000w PSU 80+ Titanium $400
Liquid Cooling for CPU & GPU + radiators, hoses, additives for fluid, kit, $1000
Your looking at a high-end gaming PC for $6000 that blows any gaming laptop out of the water in terms for FPS on AAA titles
Many high-end gaming laptops are selling for $2500-$4500 now
Even popular gaming consoles XBox X and latest PS5 prices are up to $800
AI demand for GPU, RAM, CPU, logic, all the part sharing the same supply chain as PC parts
Leveraging more than $700 billion in ai investments 2026, the ai industry making PC parts expensive
Graphics Cards are Super Computers
Even very cheap GPU cards are pumping data at 2 teraflops, trillions of floating point calculations per second, often on about 20 watts of power, while even the 70w RTX 3050 6GB OC does just above 6 teraflops.
A 4060 does about 12 gigaflops of floating point, on a larger power budget of 150 watts, requires a PSU with a GPU power cord able to give the GPU enough energy, noting that a GPU contains VRMs to regulate RAM & GPU power, a mainboard logic, data controller for IO, and other components of a PC motherboard, and in some sense a gaming GPU card a kind of specialized super computer.
The same can be said of the latest updated Sony Play Station 5 game console or the Xbox X game console, which are gaming computers with highly optimized architectures. Even the Intel Arc 580 with 12GB VRAM performs well at the $450 price point to keep up with vastly more expensive NVIDIA chip GPUs
AI boom eating up global RAM production so much that RAM today sells for 4X what it did 1 year ago. I had to pay almost $240 for 4X8GB of DDR4 3200MHz w/ Aluminum Heat Sinks, while the 3050 6GB OC GPU card cost me $180, the MSI PRO B550-VC mainboard was $80, the AMD Ryzen 5-5500 was $86, the Zalman CUBIX-G case for $40, the Rosewill 650W 80+Gold PSU was $47, 22inch Gaming Monitor with speakers was $70, gaming keyboard was $10, all said with a DP braided cable, about $810
Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX, wait a Rocket Company big on Artificial Intelligence
IO, EUROPA, MARS, MOON, SUN, SpaceX, Elon Musk, Chemical Rocket Mass Paradox, Urgent Need for Space Based Fusion FRC Low Mass Propulsion
United Launch Alliance, Reusable Rockets, Solid Rocket Boosters, 3S Rockets, Space
Amazon New Shepard Explosion on vs Kepler Satellite Internet Amazon.com Prime
Star Link space based high speed internet satellites + ground receiver kits from SpaceX
Global AI race chip GPU RAM demand ai training paradox cost, more electricity & time
New algorithms taking longer & costing more to develop, scraping internet data
Big data explosion generated content videos impossible scenes depicted
Text prompts making images or videos automatically, data centers cost billions
PC parts graphics cards, M2 MVNE SSD, RAM, CPU price debacle 2026 So Expensive
NVIDIA and Microsoft for new kind of CPU, via GPU skills for WINTEL history technology
E-commerce, Investment, Fintech, Crypto, Blockchain, Insane in the Brain Membrane
Catch that riff, different, slippery slope, hope for it, spit it down, sound of which, switch
Twitch streaming videos YouTube Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Pick up sticks, wicks
Legal tender fiat currency global national debt debacle increasingly unstable able to pop
Bubble gum, dumb as a rock, sock missing, hissing sound indicates a leak, take a leak
Pop! OS by System 76, Firefox Web Browser for Low-end Gaming PC Build, Ryzen 5500, B550 MSI, GTX 3050 6GB, 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz, 650W 80+Gold PSU, Vulcan 256GB M2, Still cost me $800.48
Though I got a full gaming keyboard, dope monitor, nice case with 3 fans included, a really novel CPU cooler, really high end PSU, dope mainboard, & what appears to be good ram with aluminum heat sinks, through I dreamt of smashing some copper water pipe to make a custom heatsink for the VRM's on the mainboard and GPU, to keep them a tad cooler to make them last longer. Relatively easy, it gives me a path to some DIY fun, as does some bright yellow spray paint in a can that I will use to custom paint part of my rig to personalize it, including graphics for Pop! OS by System 76, Firefox Browser, Wifi 6 MSI B550, GTX3050 6GB OC, 32GB 3200MHz DDR4, 650W 80+Gold PSU, Up-cycled M2 drive 256GB
AMD Ryzen 5-5500, B550 MSI PRO VC, ASUS dual fan GTX 3050 6GB, 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz Puskill Gaming RAM, Rosewill 650W 80+Gold PSU, Vulcan 256GB M2, Still cost me $800.48
I harvested M2 Vulcan 256 from an old mining rig, while 64GB Kingston USB key used to flash the ISO was found on a public bus with nothing on it. Waiting on Amazon for all the parts, but decided on System 76's Linux as the best net solution for CS2 on PC, but also allowing Web with Firefox secure and lightweight browser with low ram footprint. The 70w low power GPU can run on PCI-e 4.0 port DC energy budget of 150 watts, while this build allows for a better graphics card, as the PSU has a dedicated 450 watt cable for GPUS, but that will be retained for a future upgrade. Desktops being full modular, almost like Lego's to put together, can be updated, mainboard, ram & cpu, gpu, PSU, case, cooling method, its all parts that go together in millions of possible combinations. Why did I go with GTX 3050 6GB OC Asus Dual Fan, because it was $180, while the 4X8gb DDR4 32GB 3200MHz cost $232, more than $50 more than the GPU, noting RAM prices are high because of demand for AI training, but odd that DDR4 288pin desktop sticks would be expensive, who uses those on AI training rigs anyways?