Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[aedens]

Somebody buying protection. Implied volatility. Vega. No clue just a scratch. Looks edgy never fight the tape.
Plenty of lighter fluid so hedge as it floats up.

The kids told the crayon chewers to wake up as The United States does not yet have a shared
recognition of the problem: Although some challenges are generating widespread frustration, there is no emerging consensus on the barriers
to renewal that demand urgent action. The essential problem is seen in starkly different terms by different segments of society and groups
of political leaders. This creates a distinct challenge for the multiple efforts to solve key issues, which is a typical hallmark of periods of
national renewal:

As a result, opportunity may not emerge.

[Higgenbotham]

The United States does not yet have a shared recognition of the problem: Although some challenges are generating widespread frustration, there is no emerging consensus on the barriers to renewal that demand urgent action. The essential problem is seen in starkly different terms by different segments of society and groups of political leaders. This creates a distinct challenge for the multiple efforts to solve key issues, which is a typical hallmark of periods of national renewal:

As a result, opportunity may not emerge.

Table 3.1, which summarized the causal connections between societal
characteristics and national renewal, points to a critical moment for
the United States at the time of writing. In successful cases of anticipatory
renewal, negative trends in many of those areas—including national unity
and willpower, shared opportunity, a learning and adapting mindset, and
effective active states and institutions—threatened national competitiveness.
However, those trends were at least partly arrested because of reform
agendas. At the time of writing, the United States seems to have arrived
at a similar moment when a variety of challenges may have serious effects
on national dynamism and the potential for renewal. We may already have
slid further in a negative direction than Victorian-era Britain or the United
States during the Gilded Age. The urgency of response is clear.

Many powerful barriers stand in the way of a process of national renewal.
They include a poisoned information environment, deep and seemingly
entrenched political polarization, and an elite class that has not yet dem-
onstrated the sort of widespread commitment to the common good of earlier
eras. In one sense, the United States is ideally poised to undertake yet
another of its repeated eras of reform and renewal, one that would fortify
U.S. social and political stability and strengthen the roots of its global power.
The question is whether, at the beginning of the 21st century, the United
States confronts new and deadly threats to the solidarity, understanding,
and commitment necessary for another round of national renewal.

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/p ... 2611-3.pdf

[Higgenbotham]

Young workers are getting fired at an alarming rate in the US, with experts suggesting the troubling trend could start to plague Australia.

According to a report, 75 percent of American companies weren’t happy with their recent Gen Z hires, meaning anyone age 27 or younger.

The survey by Intelligent found that six in 10 employers had already axed their recently hired university graduates within a year.

The main problems employers found with this generation of workers were that they weren’t prepared, often wanted to leave early, start late and had poor communication skills.

Of the companies surveyed, 79 percent said they had put younger staff on performance improvement plans, with 60 percent eventually sacking them.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/30/lifestyle ... ing-fired/

[aedens]

https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/09/25/eric ... 0Wednesday
NYC rot.

Many missing some victims recovered.
Reports are dire as they are not even close to recovery if ever in many realities.
FEMA is past redemption.

Our's are alive and words will never describe it.

.. supply runs from central NC to meet-ups with contacts from the mountains distributing to the needy,
the good sheriffs advise "come armed, safety off." Gang activity (ie. paid agitators??) is ramping up...

Bigger issue is known...

https://gab.com/NeonRevolt/posts/113241 ... 59/media/1
They are going in stealth so others can survive.

The narrative press just shifted to the adults are in the room on affairs.
The hubris of these presstitutes is as sane as the NYC subway.

Stay safe H these peoples are sprinters to mud huts. Avoid them at all cost.

[aedens]

https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1841 ... igrants-wi

https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S
It is calculated using Federal Receipts (FYFR) and Gross Domestic Product (GDPA):

CBO’s current projections, the deficit for 2024 is $0.4 trillion (or 27 percent) larger than it was in the agency’s February 2024 projections, and the cumulative deficit over the 2025–2034 period is larger by $2.1 trillion (or 10 percent). The largest contributor to the cumulative increase was the incorporation of recently enacted legislation into CBO’s baseline, which added $1.6 trillion to projected deficits.

The expert is full of shit as you go under. Slow at first then all at once.
Go ahead we understand your free shit army is not reported as such anyways.

Best from 2020
Smear all you like, but the BLM movement has struck a cord with millions of our fellow citizens fed up with the discrimination all too many of them suffer and see their friends, Neighbours and co-workers suffer - no doubt the lockdown has given people time to think.

They were looted to extinction bruised and broken and ground to dust from the trained Marxists and in your own words hit with dinosaur meteor
tinged with ignorance as the giant meteor strikes.
Priceless H just smitten with demshevik.

https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/p ... e-kendrick
We all need to sprint to the Bantu Trail but that never ended well now did it.

[Higgenbotham]

Dark Age Chronicles

This post will describe my 2 days after Christmas in the new dark age.

Late yesterday evening, my wife told me that one of her friends had texted her saying she needs a favor, a big favor. (Before we started moving, I said there will be people wanting to move in with us. I said the answer needs to be no, and the reason is that your mother is moving in with us next month. I said let's agree to that now before it happens, because it's going to happen. We agreed.) So I said the big favor she needs is that she wants to move into our house. That turned out to be correct. I said I was surprised they were the first, but they won't be the last. We got more details this morning. He lost his IT job, her contract job ends in a few days, and they were scammed out of all their savings. They thought they were investing in a business. More bad news this morning. Their rent is $2,300 per month, December was not paid, and they are facing eviction. My wife gave her the canned response: her mother is moving into the house next month. But she added that we have this apartment vacated and they (and their kids) can live here until the lease runs out. She rejected that offer, saying she needs to keep the kids in the same school. After she got off the phone, my wife and I noted that she hasn't yet come to terms with how much trouble she is in.

Dark Age Chronicles

This post will describe my 2 days after Christmas in the new dark age.

After she got off the phone, my wife and I noted that she hasn't yet come to terms with how much trouble she is in.

These types never see it coming...

Please keep us posted on her.

As you know, I've been doing some updates about how she found another apartment based on income that doesn't exist and I wondered why anyone would be stupid enough to rent to her.

She came back yesterday with her 3 kids. Before she texted last time, she had come to visit twice. Her behavior yesterday was similar to the previous 2 visits and it's pretty obvious she is once again facing eviction. I heard my wife talking to her about how her Mom is moving in next month and it's all set.

Update: We decided to move my wife's mother into the dark age hovel. Since her mother moved in, we have not seen or heard from this woman. There was another family who was stopping by a lot after we moved into the new dark age hovel. Since they were told my wife's mother was moving in, we haven't seen them either.

[Higgenbotham]

From a practical standpoint, in the physical dark age hovel, I started digging compost pits on April 21, as noted here. I covered the material with soil, hoping to maintain more of the decomposition products in the soil. The processes seem to move faster than what I was used to in colder climates and, much to my surprise, the soil in the first pit seemed fertile and ready to plant by mid July. I was anticipating a minimum of one year.

So after doing some testing indoors with hard red wheat, I planted one tomato plant late July and another a week later as a further test. Right now in Central Texas we are at 100 degrees this afternoon with an anticipated 103 degree high after several days of temperatures around 100 degrees. The plants are holding up well and the first one is flowering in several places. It's unlikely it will set fruit in this heat. The fact that it is flowering, while still growing rapidly, is promising.

I'll be surprised if my first efforts don't result in failures.

This is turning out OK so far. It's been hot and dry as a bone here in Texas with daily highs still hovering in the mid 90s.



Normal highs are the heavy red line and we've been over it for weeks and almost all Summer.

Despite the heat and drought, the tomato plants set fruit; there are about 30 tomatoes so far. According to what is online, tomato plants won't set fruit at daily highs above 90, but I guess there are ways around that. Maybe the fact that I set them below ground level instead of in raised beds helped. That was the idea anyway. The master gardeners at the county extension office told me last week that if the tomatoes even made it through the past few weeks alive, that is a victory of sorts.



Meanwhile, due to the heat and drought, the clay is too hard to efficiently dig compost pits by hand. But I'm picking up the "free" wood chips every time I drive by the recycling center so that the new pits can be layered when the weather finally breaks. Somebody over there told me the wood chips (mulch as they call it) are aged at least a year and are mostly oak and elm. So that is good.



Plus I am continuing to build soil in the pits that have already been dug. aeden, the cover crop will be a mix of crimson clover and rye.

[Higgenbotham]

Gerald brought this up years ago.

In 1947, to keep a close eye on his charges, Calhoun constructed a quarter-acre “rat city” behind his house, and filled it with breeding pairs. He expected to be able to house 5,000 rats there, but over the two years he observed the city, the population never exceeded 150. At that point, the rats became too stressed to reproduce. They started acting weirdly, rolling dirt into balls rather than digging normal tunnels. They hissed and fought.

This fascinated Calhoun—if the rats had everything they needed, what was keeping them from overrunning his little city, just as they had all of Baltimore?

Intrigued, Calhoun built another, slightly bigger rat metropolis—this time in a barn, with ramps connecting several different rooms. Then he built another and another, hopping between patrons that supported his research, and framing his work in terms of population: How many individuals could a rodent city hold without losing its collective mind? By 1954, he was working under the auspices of the National Institute of Mental Health, which gave him whole rooms to build his rodentopias. Some of these featured rats, while others focused on mice instead. Like a rodent real estate developer, he incorporated ever-better amenities: climbable walls, food hoppers that could serve two dozen customers at once, lodging he described as “walk-up one-room apartments.” Video records of his experiments show Calhoun with a pleased smile and a pipe in his mouth, color-coded mice scurrying over his boots.

Still, at a certain point, each of these paradises collapsed. “There could be no escape from the behavioral consequences of rising population density,” Calhoun wrote in an early paper. Even Universe 25—the biggest, best mousetopia of all, built after a quarter century of research—failed to break this pattern. In late October, the first litter of mouse pups was born. After that, the population doubled every two months—20 mice, then 40, then 80. The babies grew up and had babies of their own. Families became dynasties, carving out and holding down the best in-cage real estate. By August of 1969, the population numbered 620.

Then, as always, things took a turn. Such rapid growth put too much pressure on the mouse way of life. As new generations reached adulthood, many couldn’t find mates, or places in the social order—the mouse equivalent of a spouse and a job. Spinster females retreated to high-up nesting boxes, where they lived alone, far from the family neighborhoods. Washed-up males gathered in the center of the Universe, near the food, where they fretted, languished, and attacked each other. Meanwhile, overextended mouse moms and dads began moving nests constantly to avoid their unsavory neighbors. They also took their stress out on their babies, kicking them out of the nest too early, or even losing them during moves.

Population growth slowed way down again. Most of the adolescent mice retreated even further from societal expectations, spending all their time eating, drinking, sleeping and grooming, and refusing to fight or to even attempt to mate. (These individuals were forever changed—when Calhoun’s colleague attempted to transplant some of them to more normal situations, they didn’t remember how to do anything.) In May of 1970, just under 2 years into the study, the last baby was born, and the population entered a swan dive of perpetual senescence. It’s unclear exactly when the last resident of Universe 25 perished, but it was probably sometime in 1973.

Paradise couldn’t even last half a decade.

In 1973, Calhoun published his Universe 25 research as “Death Squared: The Explosive Growth and Demise of a Mouse Population.” It is, to put it lightly, an intense academic reading experience. He quotes liberally from the Book of Revelation, italicizing certain words for emphasis (e.g. “to kill with the sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts”). He gave his claimed discoveries catchy names—the mice who forgot how to mate were “the beautiful ones”’ rats who crowded around water bottles were “social drinkers”; the overall societal breakdown was the “behavioral sink.” In other words, it was exactly the kind of diction you’d expect from someone who spent his entire life perfecting the art of the mouse dystopia.

Most frightening are the parallels he draws between rodent and human society. “I shall largely speak of mice,” he begins, “but my thoughts are on man.” Both species, he explains, are vulnerable to two types of death—that of the spirit and that of the body. Even though he had removed physical threats, doing so had forced the residents of Universe 25 into a spiritually unhealthy situation, full of crowding, overstimulation, and contact with various mouse strangers. To a society experiencing the rapid growth of cities—and reacting, in various ways, quite poorly—this story seemed familiar.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the- ... wtab-en-us

[Higgenbotham]

Canada officially joins the "lowest-low" fertility club of nations.

One issue with population projections based on massive immigration is that you have to get the people from somewhere in a world with massively declining birthrates and most countries below replacement, with more joining them as the years roll by, as "Spengler" discussed in one section of the above post. Which takes us back to the first graphic I posted - the areas of the world that are above and below replacement (except I found one that is updated).

Therefore, every country can make upward population projections based on massive immigration or plan to double the number of guest workers they bring in, etc., if they so desire, but it's not realistically achievable.



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Canada records its lowest fertility rate for 2nd year: StatsCan
B.C. has lowest rate among provinces and territories, with rate of 1 child per woman in 2023, agency says

Akshay Kulkarni · CBC News · Posted: Sep 30, 2024 6:43 PM CDT | Last Updated: September 30

Canada recorded its lowest ever fertility rate for the second year in a row in 2023, according to Statistics Canada.

The country recorded a rate of 1.26 children born per woman, according to the agency, with British Columbia having the nation's lowest fertility rate at one child per woman.

While the number of births stayed stable compared to 2022, at around 350,000, Statistics Canada says the lower fertility rate is due to the increase in the number of women of childbearing age living in the country in 2023.

"Canada has now joined the group of 'lowest-low' fertility countries, including South Korea, Spain, Italy and Japan, with 1.3 children per woman or less," the agency said in a Wednesday statement.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.7338374

[aeden]

Soil with low nitrogen levels legume cover crops will satisfy nitrogen demand from the atmosphere is effective.
We burn all we trim also for all the ash we spread. For our garden we plant nasturtium flowers which you can eat as real thick border.
They work as a rain guage for soil water moisture content condition in that soil for that crop area.

As we know we are in the pre stagflation compression event stage as we know well before. The papers later should indicate the ratio to
unit/value added in a circular eco BOT they flat assed ignore as intent.
The BLS is the antonym to T.D Lysenko was to progress. They cannot stop this event horizon since they are what they truly are.
Demsheviks as Uniparty apparachiks. The only one we seen making any sense is Druckenmiller and as few such as Chip Roy also.
We already lived this before and the white papers forwarded point out the phase unfolding.
We are on course to hedge the best we can as the model suggested before.

QOQ report over 2 yr. Cumulative* 3.18% 4.61% 8.97% 11.03% 12.44% 12.60% 11.49% 8.05% 11.01% 14.34% 17.61% 19.37% 21.44%

Very painful to watch the effects as they drift away in a malaise.

Easy on the oak tree mulch also. Skin irritation is one of the most common symptoms of oak tree poisoning.
Species of oak trees may be more toxic than others, so important as to take precautions when dealing with any part of oak.

Kind of like the BLS to actual value added metrics.