Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[aeden]

http://tankona.free.fr/isenberg2016.pdf

I can only cover our factual survival from 1640 anno Domini to contract and infer the Senate are now the liability of the head winds.
Johns cohort cycle is instructional for the secular weathervane to periodic effects.
JFK was correct when He forwarded when Jefferson dined alone.

Extract from John F. Kennedy’s Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Nobel Prize Winners of the Western Hemisphere April 29, 1962
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. Someone once said that Thomas Jefferson was a gentleman of 32 who could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, and dance the minuet.

thread: taproot, ibit

[aeden]

Careful guys dark pool movements noted alert.
BITI had 16.01 relative volume to 90 day average.
Of course I'm out I bought tbills will the proceeds.
Also T noted ISM's Manufacturing survey puked from 49.1 to 47.8.
No one went down with closer stops and took it off the table either.
Best note was gold up producers are down. Well that's why call it sweeps.
March price breadth makes as much sense as the warped Hag on the Beast and
BLM looting the base also. Be careful but you know this.
Playing the blame game is as warped as they actually are.

[Higgenbotham]

Dark Age Chronicles

When does the lease run out?

End of February.

Yesterday I dropped by the apartment office to turn in the keys. Pre dark age it would have been a simple matter of walking in and having someone come to the apartment to do a move-out condition check, turning in the keys, and probably leaving a forwarding address. However, upon getting to the office around 3 pm in the afternoon, everything was locked up. There was a sign on the door saying the office was closed and there was a training session in progress. I thought that kind of strange, as it was the end of the month and there would typically be several move-outs being completed that day. I stood at the door for a minute or so holding a cup containing all the keys in view for anyone who might see it. Then I saw a security guard dressed in a blue uniform coming toward the door. I told him what I needed and he went back and got someone to take the keys. A woman about 100 pounds overweight came out to get them from me. I asked if there was anything else that needed to be done such as leaving a forwarding address. She said not right now, but that I would be receiving an email from them to reply to so that they would have my forwarding address. This morning I logged into my account and paid the water, sewer, garbage, etc., that was billed for the month of December. I thought it unusual that they would be so far behind on their billing and wondered how many skip out without paying the last 3 months of these charges, many of which are now inflated and ridiculous. The total came to $155. When I rented the place 19 years ago, the miscellaneous monthly charges were around $30. It seems a logical conclusion that the apartment management staff was threatened or assaulted recently, perhaps as recently as yesterday, and the office was suddenly locked down and a security company called in. Normally when the office is going to be closed for any reason, an email is sent but in this instance no email was received.

[Guest]

Dark Age Chronicles

When does the lease run out?

End of February.

Yesterday I dropped by the apartment office to turn in the keys. Pre dark age it would have been a simple matter of walking in and having someone come to the apartment to do a move-out condition check, turning in the keys, and probably leaving a forwarding address. However, upon getting to the office around 3 pm in the afternoon, everything was locked up. There was a sign on the door saying the office was closed and there was a training session in progress. I thought that kind of strange, as it was the end of the month and there would typically be several move-outs being completed that day. I stood at the door for a minute or so holding a cup containing all the keys in view for anyone who might see it. Then I saw a security guard dressed in a blue uniform coming toward the door. I told him what I needed and he went back and got someone to take the keys. A woman about 100 pounds overweight came out to get them from me. I asked if there was anything else that needed to be done such as leaving a forwarding address. She said not right now, but that I would be receiving an email from them to reply to so that they would have my forwarding address. This morning I logged into my account and paid the water, sewer, garbage, etc., that was billed for the month of December. I thought it unusual that they would be so far behind on their billing and wondered how many skip out without paying the last 3 months of these charges, many of which are now inflated and ridiculous. The total came to $155. When I rented the place 19 years ago, the miscellaneous monthly charges were around $30. It seems a logical conclusion that the apartment management staff was threatened or assaulted recently, perhaps as recently as yesterday, and the office was suddenly locked down and a security company called in. Normally when the office is going to be closed for any reason, an email is sent but in this instance no email was received.

What happened to your friends living there?

[Higgenbotham]

What happened to your friends living there?

They didn't move into our apartment because they found another one close by. Without having a job and last we heard she still doesn't have one.

This morning I heard that she rented another apartment in the same school district. I was told she used the income from the contract job that's over to qualify and has no current job yet. I guess that's another example of people running rentals that have no idea what they're doing and will be expecting another bailout when it all falls apart.

[Higgenbotham]

As for the rest of it, it's sort of like the discussion about Amazon openly supporting BLM and Defund the Police...

I think you are right about Bezos and Amazon feeding the beasts to fuel the anarchy, HB.

There are other aspects of that too. Amazon launched a program in 2018 that basically targeted immigrants for cheap business management labor. I'll just take a few snips out of an article that describes it.





https://www.geekwire.com/2018/owning-am ... epreneurs/

I remember an immigrant asking me about this. My response was typical of what I say here - that Bezos became a billionaire off the backs of hard working people. That didn't seem to resonate. I think some immigrants are sold on the idea that they can be "just like Jeff" if they go ahead and join the club. What did resonate was when I said to think of that business in terms of what you will be making per package delivered. I said figure on delivering about 2 million packages per year working 7 days a week 365 days per year and only God knows how many hours per day, if you even make it, while making less than 10 cents net profit on every package delivered.

Also, has anyone seen the crappy Amazon boxes that say "Now Made With Less Material" on them? They send stuff out in these crappy, cheap boxes trying to appear environmentally friendly and it all has to go in the trash. Even Wal-Mart can send a decent box that is reusable.

Amazon is fueling decline in many ways.



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[Guest]

As for the rest of it, it's sort of like the discussion about Amazon openly supporting BLM and Defund the Police...

I think you are right about Bezos and Amazon feeding the beasts to fuel the anarchy, HB.

There are other aspects of that too. Amazon launched a program in 2018 that basically targeted immigrants for cheap business management labor. I'll just take a few snips out of an article that describes it.

Now I know why Bezos lives on a half-billion dollar mega yacht in the middle of the Mediterranean.

He thinks he will be able to avoid the guillotine.

[Higgenbotham]

As for the rest of it, it's sort of like the discussion about Amazon openly supporting BLM and Defund the Police...

I think you are right about Bezos and Amazon feeding the beasts to fuel the anarchy, HB.

There are other aspects of that too. Amazon launched a program in 2018 that basically targeted immigrants for cheap business management labor. I'll just take a few snips out of an article that describes it.

Now I know why Bezos lives on a half-billion dollar mega yacht in the middle of the Mediterranean.

He thinks he will be able to avoid the guillotine.

Looking at just the issue of the crappy boxes Amazon uses, if we go back to metrics used 40 years ago, a large corporation might do an objective calculation of the cost savings. Probably it's all been done many times by many different companies and that's why boxes are what they are. On one side would go things like cost savings for cheaper boxes, fuel savings due to shipping less weight, and maybe throwing in some increase in efficiency due to delivery people handling slightly less weight. On the other side would go things like increased damage of product during shipping, decrease in efficiency due to employees needing to be more careful handling the crappy boxes, and maybe some harm to the company's reputation for appearing cheap.

I'm not on the inside but I don't believe Amazon thinks that way at all. It seems like they believe they can justify any situation with public relations - in this case by sloganeering, "Hey guys, we are using less material! Yes, we are great and we just proved it to you again! We are Amazon!" while pinning the damages due to the crappy boxes on somebody else like their delivery contractors or third party sellers.

Filling one-third of a box? No problemo, our algorithms prove that saves money!

Bottom line:

Data analytics company Fastmarkets says that shopping online uses seven times more cardboard than shopping in a store.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90564818/in ... -cardboard

[Higgenbotham]

I can't get into this much detail on one issue but this seems approximately correct. The sloganeering on the crappy box is part of the discourse that insinuates that, "Amazon uses less material and we are therefore providing you the customer with good, responsible sustainability options."

The techno-conglomerate Amazon has emerged as a corporate giant, branching out
their operations to include many sectors of the global market. While previously
concealing their carbon footprint, Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge together
with two former architects of the Paris Agreement in 2019 with the goal of reaching
net zero carbon by 2040, ten years earlier than the Paris agreement. A copious
amount of criticism has been leveled at the firm for a various number of affronts;
including accusations of anti-competitive behaviour; surveillance; inhumane
working conditions; supporting climate change denying think tanks; and selling
soware technology to Big Oil and highly criticized Homeland Security subdivision
ICE. Through the lens of critical discourse analysis and a greenwashing perspective,
a selection of material concerning the Climate Pledge and Amazon’s sustainability
discourse was analyzed with the question “how does Amazon construct itself as being
sustainable?” followed by corollaries “what discourses does it reproduce?” and “is Amazon
engaging in greenwashing?” in mind. I argue that Amazon uses its discourse to conceal
its preceding abuses and hypocritical behaviours by using language that situate them
in an ecomodernist discourse that is vague and contradictory, refraining from
acknowledging its culpability in perpetuating waste, pollution and carbon emissions.

As established in the background, Amazon prides itself on being a
“customer-centric company”. Their business model is centered around making
commerce “frictionless” for the customer (Quinn, 2019). Several times in the report,
we can see that Amazon constructs itself as a vessel for customers to make
environmental decisions, making it one of the recurring themes throughout the
report, with variants of the word “customer” being referenced over 150 times in the
report. An example of this is: “Amazon is committed to making it easier for customers to
participate in making a positive impact on society” (Amazon, 2020, p.15). In another
sentence Amazon states: “At Amazon, we take a science-based, customer-centric
approach to sustainability” (p.91). In the former sentence, the company implicitly
refrains from acknowledging their part in environmental problems, and instead
constructs itself as a vessel, which through people can make “sustainable” choices.
The latter phrase informs us that the firm perspective of sustainability is seen
through the customers’ eyes, which is further reinforced in the phrase “sustainable
food selection means something different to each customer”(p.39), becoming clear that
“sustainable” is an elusive concept, lacking clear definition. Thereby, confirming that
the company doesn’t define the word, the customer does.

Amazon’s discourse revolves around the customer, and this discursive practice
merges with eco-modernism, with the use of the word “science-based”. Amazon
further uses the word when saying “...In line with our ongoing science-based approach to
tackle climate change” ( p.111). Hajer describes how in eco-modernism “there is a
renewed belief in the possibility of mastery and control, drawing on modernist policy
instruments such as expert systems and science” (Hajer, p.25). “Science-based” therefore
signals an ecomodernist discursive practice, conjuring associations of pathos,
rationality and control.

Amazon also touts circular economy as a major aspect of the report through big
bold titles and references to it. Contextually, this word is used when describing how
Amazon is “minimizing waste, increasing recycling and providing options for our customers
to reuse, repair and recycle their products – sending less material to the landfill and more
back into the circular economy loop” (Amazon, 2020, p.31). Circular economy is also an
ecomodernist friendly concept, since it implies that consumption can continue, if
only the material can be recycled or reused as it goes into the “loop”. By using this
concept, Amazon is somewhat (although implicitly) acknowledging how
consumption is an ecological problem, but does not explicitly reckon with the issue
of consumption, or say that consumption needs to decrease. Instead, they put the
responsibility on the customer to make green choices.

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[Guest]

I have been reading through this thread and find it extremely interesting; however, I would like to ask what do you think life will be like for the average American in ten years (barring a nuclear war)?

I am curious what life will be like for the man on the street? Will America be just like Mexico? Or will it be like Haiti? I think both are bad outcomes (as I have been to both).

Could America breakup? That's what Martin Armstrong has said in interviews. I hope he is right.