Monday, April 5, 2021

 

"I Persist"


Well I'm enjoying hot soup on this now somewhat chilly day. This planetary climate alteration thing has us fried one day chipping ice off the walk the next...figuratively.

All part of this strange world I've lived into. Thing is I'm still not used to a non-demanding life since retirement. Forcible though it was. There's really no place I 'need' to be.
Before I had responsibilities serious ones. As during the care-giving era of my, and my sister's life. Looking after aging, and seriously ill elders that we loved so. That, and when working I had shows to plan engineering shifts to prepare for. Internal political station warfare to contend with.

Now I just wake up, and well... I mean for a while I took classes went on long walks taking photos. 'Did art stuff, and such, but I think I'm now retired from that as well. As I told my former shrink, "...the world is getting away from me. I don't understand or seem to belong in it." Like my grandmother who was born at the very end of the 19th century, and lived to see us fly in the air go to the moon have the beginnings of full Civil Rights. That, and my heavens Queer Pride parades, and the very early digital age. Like her I feel a stranger in this even stranger land.

Like that book's title. "Still I Persist in Wondering"

 

"...Long Term"



We're an interesting species. We can dream Heaven, and Hell then bring either or both into physical existence.

What's that if not a kind of Magic.

We can live, not just live, but prosper in everything from sub-zero to 120f degree climates. We're a hardy, and persistent bunch.  Just like the  dinosaurs before us.

Climate Change?

Desertification shrinking glaciers famines wars over fresh water pole shift ocean rise. You kidding this is nuthin' total bullshit.

The multiverse ain't getting rid of us that easy.

Bleep that. 

Get used to us we're here for the long term.

The 'real' long term. 

 

"Eckk"



As you know besides everything else I'm a shape shifter. I find it easier to turn into cartoon characters as opposed to say a radioactive toaster. Anyway there I am what's her name from "Alice",...guess that makes me "Alice' sleeping, and healing.

I'm also the cat.

 

"...just say'n"



Humanity will Crash with a Fire that will be seen at the Galactic Rim!

 

"DEATH, and PIE"



If you are anywhere within 50 miles of a multi warhead hit on a major city read no further.
You are dead...period.

This from direct blast injury from being buried under burning wreckage asphyxiation as all the air is sucked up by the multiple fire storms that will soon congeal into a vast regional blaze.

If you are 100 miles away your chances would be 1 in 40. This for immediate survival. Your dangers will be break down of order, and the radioactive frontal waves from the firestorms that will in a few hours reach you.

Your life expectancy increases the farther away you go.

If I 'had' to be in a state that was hit I'd want to be a minimum of 200+ miles from the many ground zeros. Even then I'd be on the move to get further away especially if the winds were in my direction. We must remember if a nuclear exchange between the major powers happens it will not be 'one' mere bomb from a plane.

This the cold war stereotype of attack.

Whole squadrons of ICBMs will be assigned to hundreds of individual military industrial financial, and yes 'cultural' targets. This is intentional.

Understand this kind war for both sides is to the total destruction, and death of your enemies. The idea is to utterly destroy not just the military economic, and political centers, but the whole complete culture. The traditions histories peoples. To wipe you, and the memory of you from the face of the Earth.

That is the true purpose of Nuclear war.

That said you must know that each target will have 10 to as many as 50+ warheads hit it. Especially if a military area or political center. For example. After the cold war when the Soviet achieves were for a short time open to western scholars we discovered that the Pentagon alone had 30+ warheads of varying strength targeted on it. NYC in excess of 300.

One has to think in such terrible terms. Imagine the un-imaginable if you even have the slightest hope you're going to survive.

Bottom line...

If you can see it or hear it you are immediately dead or dead in hours.

However a terror nuke is another matter.

This may be "just" the spreading of radioactive dust over a distance of 5 to 20 miles. That or a low yield radiological explosions at several regional locations. Each with perhaps a quarter+ the force of the Hiroshima bomb.

These are "survivable" for many if circumstance is with us.

If somewhat favorable conditions are met. Perhaps half the population of the target city (s)  'may' live. If not then just a fraction may "exist" with traumatized shortened post strike lives. This of course because of blast injuries emotional scaring's, and radiation induced cancers in the next 10 to 30 years.

That's it in a nutshell for a "Terror Bomb (s)".

Things of course can vary widely because of type of warheads weather time of day social resilience, and local ground conditions.



...That said "Who wants Pie!"

"A Race War What If..."



In the context of dominate cultures persecuting smaller ones. Example White law makers making Cannabis use a crime. Though used to heal pain for thousands of years it was criminalized in the U.S. because it was commonly consumed by Red Brown, and Black people.

I see an alternate history where Pink people are a powerless minority. This, and their traditions are criminalized.
Golf declared a criminal activity. 5 years for possession of golfing paraphernalia. 8 to15 years for first offense of active golfing. 25 years for the second...no parole. Life or the death penalty...depending on the state for the third.
Consumption of the so-called "Cheeseburger" declared a crime. Possession of paraphernalia,...pickles ketchup buns etc. 5 years. Possession of uncooked meat paddy 5 to 8 years. Possession of cooked patty with intent to consume 15 to 25 years. ...no parole. Sale of uncooked patty 15 years. Sale of cooked patty 30 years. Sale to minor,...death.
Owning multiple cars criminalized. The possession of more than one motorized vehicle for other than licensed professional reasons. Public service for two years plus social responsibility therapy. In excess of three vehicles 10 to 25 years. Sale of multiple motorized vehicles,...death.
Manufacture possession or selling any type of motor home for residential use, and manufacture of any kind of grain alcohol ,...death.
Belonging to any type of racial nationalist group. Including possession of banners of any sort. Literature or recorded nationalist/racial materials on any kind of media. Wearing of illegal nationalist racial symbols customs of 'any' kind, and possession or use of chewing tobacco, and unofficially produced alcohol of any type. 30 years hard labor.
Manufacture of any, and all such nationalist material, and conspiracy to transport, and or distribute same. Death by hanging in a public area of the convicts community. In the case of minor over the age of 10. 18 years plus the right hand to no further than halfway to the joint or elbow will be amputated without anesthesia. (...the Belgians did exactly this in the Congo.)
Parents or guardian(s) fined to no more than 2/3 of their possessions or wealth plus sterilization.
The possession of so-called "country music" instruments, and assorted paraphernalia. 25 years hard labor. The possessing of recordings on any type of media of criminal "Country Music". 5 to 20 case depending . ( If for personal private use 5 to 10 years. If played with others present even family 20 years. No parole.)
Possession Country music media with intent to duplicate no matter the number of copies. That is any quantity more than "one!". 40 years hard labor as long as physically viable or again euthanasia if requested.
Composing illegally publishing on any media criminal "Country Music",...Death. Conspiracy to publish,...Death. Transporting illegally duplicated manuscripts or finished musical products. Death. Failure to report knowledge of the above. Confiscation of all personal properties, and those of family to the third cousins. Life w/o parole or euthanasia if requested.
All this sounds crazy. Well white folks have done exactly this all over the world, they stripped peoples of their cultures as a matter of social control. That, and inflicted punishment irrational extreme, and cruel.
'This' is what it would look like if it happened to pink peoples. If history played out just slightly differently. If other advanced...which some could well have done, and became colonizing industrial enslaving tormenting exploiters.
This is why mostly older white folks are in such a panic.
Their days of over lordship are running out...and they know it. They are soon to be a minority. They know what this will mean since they spent the last 500/600 years tormenting others with impunity.
In 2010 more technicolor babies were born than pink ones. They've been getting born by the metric ton everyday since. This is where the panic to deport 11,000,000 Brown peoples comes from.
They are in pissing terror of their just deserts.
However to us this is just a very minor rear guard action of an already defeated army. I mean Trump, and all that aged redneck I want my country back" noise.
American pink people are already a minority.
Them 2010 babies, all proper citizens, are almost in middle school now. Soon...very soon they'll be voting, and their younger brother's, and sisters, and cousins will be voting just a little after that. ...and more, and more, and more, and more, and more, and yes... More.
However "fear not for I bring thee glad tidings"...sound familiar?
You have nothing to fear. Why? Because 'we' are not 'you'. We ain't perfect, but we sure ain't the worst of you. We will be far more patient thoughtful kind, and generous,...mostly, to you than 'you'
'ever' were to us. You are our brethren. You are our beloved Sisters, and brothers...we're funny this way. ...well most of us. We will embrace you as fellow Americans. As we already do.