Mindconnection eNL, 2022-12-04

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1. Hundreds of Twitter employees have quit, citing disapproval of Musk's management style. This reminds me of what happens when a low fiber diet person uses a natural laxative. Good riddance to those employees, maybe some of them will relocate to Venezuela.
    
2. Speaking of Musk, "John Wick" wants you to check out another development at Twitter: https://twitter.com/hodgetwins/status/1594195878100668417?s=20&t=rPA46aZTf8T2nvIxW7aovw
    
3. On 20NOV, Democrat (non-socialist) Adam Frisch conceded to Lauren Boebert in the race for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional district. Now if only Brainless Biden would concede to Trump....
    
4. In South Carolina, a school board changed its composition as the result of the recent election. In one of their earliest actions, they fired a school superintendant for promoting Critical Hatred Theory (CRT).
    
5. In Arizona, the AG refused to certify the election until a full investigation has been conducted into irregularities in Maricopa County. That's a hotbed of socialist party election fraud, and it is likely Kari Lake will beat her socialist opponent if that fraud is removed from the results. Libtards will no doubt howl in protest that it's unfair they aren't allowed to cheat.
    
6. In the People's Republic of California, the leftwing media declared a GOP candidate as the winner in a drawn-out contest for a House seat. That brings the GOP up to a 20 seat majority there. So even with some RINOs, the Republicans can control the House. If they are smart about it (no guarantees there), they will identify and court Democrats who are in the socialist party. For example, the Speaker is in charge of assigning office spaces and parking spaces; Nutcase abused this power to bully people into voting for the Unaffordable Care Act. The new Speaker can use this power to show the few Democrats remaining in the socialist party that they are valued. He can also protect them from socialist backlash to a large extent. He will have to make it clear that he doesn't expect them to always side with the Republicans, but he does expect them to stand up to socialist extremism. He should also assign Nutcase the crappiest office and worst parking space possible, showing what sane people think of her.
    
7. This man SCHOOLED a socialist campaign worker. He used facts and logic, she relied on stammering and interrupting. https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1596647546201419776
    
8. Follow Candace Owens and her work on Blexit (black exit from the Democratic Party): https://blexitfoundation.org/candace-owens/

The ongoing Covid scam

1. Dr. Peter McCullough wrote this great piece on mRNA therapies:
   https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/unintended-consequence-of-covid-19-vaccines-permanent-installation-of-mrna-genetic-code_4895932.html
    
2. This e-book claims to help the victims of the population reduction jab. It's free, so if you were bullied or duped into getting jabbed then why not check it out? https://braveseries.com/guide/?a=5c48865ee3b6f&b
    
3. Brainless now wants to pass a dust mask mandate in response to "Long Covid". This retard has no clue that a dust mask doesn't block a virus and that Long Covid means the after effect of having had Covid. Why is he still in office?
    
4. The majority of people dying from Covid have been "vaccinated". This is according to the CDC's own skewed data, which under-reports the Covid deaths of the "vaxed" and over-reports the deaths of the "unvaxed". It is likely this has always been the case, since the clot shot is not a vaccine and does not confer Covid immunity. Tell me again how "effective" this clot shot is? For creating massive blod clots, it's very effective. For protection from anything, there's no evidence it's effective in any way.
    
5. Here's a good article for those who were duped into getting the unsafe and ineffective jab:
   https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/what-covid-jabs-are-doing-to-the-immune-system-and-how-the-injured-can-heal_4476998.html
    
6. A pilot died suddenly right after taking off from O'Hare: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/just-pilot-dies-suddenly-collapsing-shortly-takeoff-chicago-airport-audio. Another died suddenly in mid-flight: https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/09/19/pilot-novokuznetsk-st-petersburg-dies-suddenly-on-plane. What's going on? I think you will find the explanation here: https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/11/world-premier-died-suddenly/ and here: https://rumble.com/v1vaqp2-full-episode-ep56-vile-ingredients.html.
    
7. The world is overpopulated by humans. If you were a rich and powerful person with connections to other rich and powerful persons and all of you saw this situation as apocalyptic, how would you go about saving the planet? Here's a thought. Create a fake pandemic scare, hyping up the threat way out of proportion. Then offer a "vaccine" that is certain to cause amyloidal plaque in the vascular system. This will create a tenfold spike in miscarriages (which it already has, we know from actual data), reducing the birth rate dramatically while also killing a fair percentage of post-birth individuals (culling the herd). Brilliant!
    
8. You can amp up the death by injection rate if you use Brainless Biden to mandate the jab for all commercial pilots. This way, one sudden death on a planeful of 330 passengers results in a multiplier of 330 when the copilot (who has a severely compromised vascular system) freaks out over the suddenly dead coworker next to him and has his own cardiac arrest. Brilliant!
    
9. Another strategy that can be used to reduce the population is to mandate the jab to everyone in the military. Once readiness is obviously close to zero, minor players will suddenly be emboldened to attack. This results in dozens of wars around the globe, with a kill-off of at least a billion people. Brilliant!
    
10. Another strategy is to mandate the jab to nurses and doctors, thereby crippling the medical care system. If every major nation does this, you can expect a 10% or greater reduction in population year after year. Brilliant!
     
11. Maybe we need a little less brilliance and a little more compassion.
     

Other news

1. Is the Ice Age predicted in 1977 still coming? See what Leonard Nimoy had to say back then: https://twitter.com/RobSchneider/status/1593834832601452545?s=20&t=ZWUPSlgDnB5y_ypV0Wtiag
    
2. I've never been a fan of fish oil. Here's a great reason not to use it: https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/consumer-council-finds-contaminants-in-all-fish-oil-samples-tested_4866390.html
    
3. A Berlin court has ordered a re-do of the 2021 state election, due to irregularities and widespread disenfranchisement. In the USA, when people are cheated of their voting rights the criminals who cheat them claim that defeating efforts to get it right is "voter protection."
    
4. The five cars used by Brainless' Secret Service detail burst into flames after Brainless and his detail left. But the Fire Chief determined the blazes were "not suspicious". Draw your own conclusions.
    
5. The socialist agenda has Americans arming to the eye teeth. This last Black Friday registered the third highest gun sales ever. The socialists plan to unleash over 80,000 more armed psychopaths onto the lower and middle classes, and people are not waiting for the new RINO-controlled House to stop this madness.

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When people see my background as an engineer and an MBA, they think "quant" and that is correct. As far as it goes. But they may also think quants are:

• Not artistic. Many engineers and other quants are very artistic. Most of us learned cursive handwriting, which bestows a particular kind of brain development (which is why "educators" want to do away with it). I also learned calligraphy. When I build something, my art is evident in the craftsmanship and in various flourishes; my big Navy blue and stainless steel climbing wall is an example. https://youtu.be/6mLDISvIlnI

• Not socially adept. Granted, most quants prefer socializing with other quants. This is not due to inadequacy on the part of quants, but due to a demonstrated intolerance from many non-quants.

• A pencilneck with no athletic ability. Here are some of the careers that I have discovered among skilled climbers: actuary, attorney, mechanical engineer, chemical engineer, electrical engineer, software engineer, nurse practitioner, brain surgeon, and neurologist. Regarding those last two occupations, the two individuals I know in each of those jobs work together and each is a better climber than I am. I'm not exactly a beginner, either: https://youtu.be/cR24S18oQbs, https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc

• No concept of the natural world. I know two exceptionally good engineers who are also successful beekeepers. Many electricians, mechanics, and engineers hunt, fish, do gardening, volunteer at pet shelters, maintain exquisite landscaping (which they created) for their  homes, hike nature  trails regularly, etc. It's also worth noting that electricians and electrical engineers tend to wear natural fibers exclusively; this is because in that line of work you do not wear polyester.

• Have no sense of style. Back in the day, we wore suits to the office. When I worked at Bailey Controls, everyone (at least in my group) wore tailored suits with silk ties selected by the tailor and our wingtips were polished to a high gloss. When we'd walk into a place dressed to the nines, people noticed.

Unfortunately, these reality-challenged beliefs about quants lead many youngsters to make poor career choices. Rather than risk heading to Nerdsville, they choose a "soft" major in college or go take a McJob somewhere instead of learning a trade. After the college-going ones rack up enormous debt, they find their degree is worthless on the job market. It's not so much the substance of the degree itself, but the perception among employers that wasting four years to get such a degree shows poor judgment and also must have left the applicant with less practical brainpower than the job requires. That is not to say everyone with a degree in history or philosophy is an unemployable idiot. And of course we all know people with non-STEM majors or no degree at all who are very smart and capable. But how much better off would that "soft" major person have been with a "work hard to graduate with useful skills" degree? Or a journeyman's card as a plumber, carpenter, machinist, or plumber? Or certification as an arborist?

Getting through engineering school is tough; the first-year dropout rate is very high. Same for graduating with a 3.6 or higher GPA in an MBA program; most MBAs fall under the "pay your fee and get your B" plan, and don't work hard enough to stand out. Going for top grades in a tough cirriculum stretches a person's intellectual capacity quite a bit. The brain has an adaptive response to the overload placed on it, plus you make some choices such as developing good study habits. Most of all, perhaps, you develop the ability to focus and stay focused for a long time.

What happens if we take this same dynamic and apply it not to selecting your college path or vocation but to selecting your hobbies, interests, and past times? You already know the answer. You get smarter.

So if you have a choice between reading a celebrity magazine or working a crossword puzzle, which will lead to increased brainpower? Hiring someone to build an item you need, or building it yourself to journeyman or master standards? Replacing something or fixing it? Watching football on TV or playing a game of pickup basketball? Getting a bag lunch from a fast food joint, or planning and preparing a chef-worthy meal yourself?

You make choices like these often enough that they can add up. Or not add up. Someone who is intellectually curious and has made the harder choices is very interesting to converse with. The other person is a bore. Don't be that other person. Chose the challenging path, and stretch yourself.

Taxes are egregiously burdensome. If you work a 50 hour week, you likely work 40 of those hours just to pay the hundreds of different taxes that you really have no choice but to pay. Most are collected automatically, and the inflation tax is a primary example of that. You don't see a payroll deduction, but you do see it in the diminished value of what you are paid.

Of course, we get many government services for this enormous amount of taxation. But we also pay for things that have no benefit. For example, Anthony Fauci draws a government salary and nobody should have to pay for that.

A century ago, the tax bit was far smaller. Why is it so big today? Recall that FDR turned a stock crash into the Great Depression by illegally implementing one dumb federal program after another. Other administrations have followed suit, with the result being a bloated federal government. The justification for useless programs and useless agencies is nearly always made using Article 1, Section 8. The is the "go to" Section for getting around the 10th Amendment, which limits the powers of the federal government to those enumerated in the Constitution. Usually the "provide for the general welfare" clause is cited. I don't think that's any kind of stretch to include the FAA, for example. Imagine the chaos and carnage without the FAA.

Unfortunately, Section 8 does get stretched beyond credulity. FDR cited it to "justify" every scheme he could come up with, redefining its words to suit the occasion. While it's still abused, nobody since FDR abused it nearly as much as he did. For example, he cited it for Social Security. But this program benefits specific individuals rather than providing for the general welfare. I'm glad we have Social Security, but it should have been implemented the right way not through deceit.

And there's the big clue. Deceit.

When there's a theftocracy thing being proposed, when corporate interests want to use the federal government to reach into your pockets, they lie about it. Almost every major scheme benefits some corporation at your expense. A specific interest will benefit, but not people in general. So the welfare clause cannot legally be used. Yet, it is used. And the lies surrounding the proposal are the kind that critical thinkers debunk instantly yet most people accept as true.

It may seem there is not much you can do about this theftocracy problem, because spending decisions get made without consulting you. Some developer comes to town, and your city council gives them a "tax incentive" to do business in the city. Translated into English, the city sticks you with the tab for what is essentially a wealth transfer to this other party.

1. One way to battle this is to vote for candidates who are either conservative or libertarian. If you draw a horizontal line on a piece of paper, you have big spenders on the left and small spenders on the right. If you draw a vertical line, you have libertarians (personal freedom and personal property rights) on the top and statists (government control and government ownership) on the bottom. Keep this in mind when donating time or money to candidates and when voting. Keep it in mind also when contacting the incumbents even when there's no election coming up.
2. Another way to battle this is to identify a specific program and ask that it be eliminated or reduced. This means taking on quite a fight. So organize a small group and get petitions signed.
3. There's a third way that takes ongoing commitment for a term of office. At the city level, Libertarians (notice, it's capitalized this time because I am referring to a political party) make the petitioning unnecessary. They have been reducing waste, fraud, and corruption for decades and actually getting tax rebates to the residents. Consider joining the LP and running for City Council or your County Board on a fiscal responsibility platform.
4. A fourth way requires being unafraid to voice your opinion at a public forum. You can attend meetings of school boards and city councils and speak your mind. This is what Mark Robinson did in 2018 and that impassioned speech so resonated with voters it wasn't long before he was the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina. Robinson's speech attacked a set of lies that was being propagated to reduce the personal freedom of residents of his city. Lies that would make people less safe and less free at the same time.

His is a masterful speech, and if you have not watched it then do so now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZSA7QjVT6A. Robinson is a Bible-believing Christian, so I will quote Luke 10:37. Go thou and do likewise.

So, millions of dollars later (spent on getting faking thousands of mail-in votes, among other acts of fraud), what was the result and what security tip do I have for you? The socialists lost the House, but they still control the Senate and they still have their pet retard in the White House.

Brainless Biden, who will enjoy the protection of an armed guard for the rest of his pointless life, seeks to ensure ordinary Americans do not have armed protection. Consider the danger:

• Catch and Release is common in the socialist states, and some whackos are pushing for it in the free states. It makes police not want to bother, because the perp will be back out the same day.
• We have a massive shortage of police officers. There's no mystery as to why, but the problem isn't going away soon.
• People have become far less civil and far more aggressive.
• It is common for people to disguise themselves with face diapers. This practice should be illegal, as it defeats common security measures. Yet, it is actually encouraged. Brainless even wants to MANDATE it nationwide.

We need to secure our elections so that we can secure our personal safety. If the socialists get their way, it will be difficult for decent people to carry weapons for self-defense and those of us who do will be criminals (though that will be our only "offense").

Even during the two awful years in which Brainless has been illegally occupying the office of POTUS and taking a wrecking ball to our economy, the Supreme Court has settled several cases that yet again reaffirm the Second Amendment which itself affirms (not grants) our right to bear arms. One "solution" to this "problem" is to legislate away the Second Amendment. Even with massive fraud, the socialists failed to re-steal the House and barely stole the Senate. The next election could give them back the House, a very scary thought. In the meantime, another solution is to pack the Court. A recent pro-citizen decision was 6 to 3. If Brainless appoints 4 pro-criminal whackos (gun banners) to the Court, a case like that will be settled 7 to 6. No more Second Amendment rights, and the other Amendments will fall like dominoes.

We sane people need to put election reform pressure on our legislators, even if they are socialists. You do this at the county level, and somewhat at the state level. It's very easy to do. Just go onto the site of your County Election Board and ask them to improve election integrity. Say you are concerned that your vote is rendered moot by election fraud. Ask them for their specific plan of action and a date by which they expect it to be implemented. The main thing to restrict is mail-in voting, which is a major fraud vector. Yeah, this might take a half hour out of your day. But that's a teensy price to pay for what is at stake. Ask others to do the same.

An even bigger problem is election fraud at the brainwashing level. Cancel your Facebook account (if you have one) and encourage others to do the same. When you cancel, give their political smell as the reason why. And tell them you are asking others to cancel too. They already had one mass exodus earlier this year, resulting in layoffs. They will get the message. We just need to give it to them again in enough numbers.

Stop using Google for search (the results are politically skewed) and encourage others to use Duck Duck Go, Bing, or Yahoo. Facebook and Google have done enormous damage to the concept of free elections by spreading disinformation and suppressing information. Making these few small changes costs you nothing.

When you encounter libtards spewing their fantasies and delusions, simply say, "I disagree, because I am actually informed on that subject." This shuts them down, at least in my experience, so you don't have to engage them. And they leave the encounter with a feeling of disapproval, cognitive dissonance, and far more reticence to voice their stupid opinions. If your experience differs from mine (so far) and they want to argue, just say, "Be intellectually curious and learn about this if you want, but I don't have the time or inclination to enlighten you. Thanks."

Trying to argue with a libtard merely gives them a chance to abuse you, and they consider it a "win" when they get others to give up in frustration. Not giving them this opportunity takes the air out of their proverbial tires. You have to remember, if they cared about the truth they would already see things the way you do. So you can't educate them. You can, however, show them you don't care what they "think". That sends a powerful message. I think this is the message they need to receive.

6. Health tip/Fitness tips

The photos tell you something important about my credibility in this area. Statistics when these photos were taken, 2 days past my 62nd birthday: Height: 6'0" Wingspan: 6'1" Weight: 148.8lbs (a bit more than the Age 60 shoot, and I am leaner for this one) Bodyfat: Unknown, but well below what the Tanita scale says is 5% Waist: 29 Chest: 48 Arms: 15 Quads: 20.5 (an increase of half an inch since the Age 60 shoot) Max bench press: Unknown, but I do 4 sets of 10 reps with 150 lbs to warm up on chest day Max squat: Unknown, but I do 4 sets of 8 reps of front squats with 90lbs to start Leg Day Cholesterol: In normal range, on low side Testosterone: Above the upper limit of the normal range Last illness: 1971 Last workout missed: Spring of 1977 Training days per week: 6 Type of training: Split routine, heavy on supersets Meals per day: 7 on training days, 6 on rest day Percent of diet that is processed food: 0 Amount of meat, wheat, corn, or soy eaten annually: 0 Number of eggs eaten per day: Between 8 and 10 Some cool climbing  videos: https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE   See all of my climbing videos here: https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel

• The best workouts are short and intense.
• A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction than the typical American diet.

Reality does not fit the narrative, so it was silenced.