Daily Page: 2026-02-16
Not in Control of the Universe
Not Even One Percent
“There are young teen girls on planes to Saudi … RIGHT NOW.” — Sarah Adams
Because you can NEVER mitigate millennia of manifest human harms directly caused by intentionally engineered Economic Forcing Functions.
No, No, THAT can NEVER Happen
Pattern Recognition
No. No. THAT can NEVER happen.
10 years ago, Elon Musk predicted cars would later have no steering wheels.
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) February 16, 2026
The audience laughed.pic.twitter.com/IC0i4xE9zL
The Present Eternal Present Moment
By the Time You See It, It’s the Inevitable Rearview-Mirror
… and POINT.
No. No. That can NEVER work.
Waking from the Job Trance needn’t be this grueling. DIGNITY and MEANING are not an outcome of JOBS, they are the intrinsic motivational drivers of meaningful WORK.
”And we … KILL those people …” — Bill Hicks
As recursive misanthropic atheistic gender misperception trends unwind over the next few years, and possibly (hopefully not) decades; by the exact same articulated process as they emerged; could there ever be a more terrifying and horrific anti-team-human example of the fact that the vain pursuit of “being right” is far from the objective; rather, a dire occupational hazard of The Scientific Method?
Would that we were wrong at so many similar historical junctures.
Something that non-scientists may find difficult to grasp: scientists can often turn out to wish we were wrong; perhaps far more often than many civilians misperceive or haphazardly semi-believe.
Yet another Catastrophic Case Study demonstrating the veracity of the fact that direct observation of the eternal present moment reference frame can be nothing short of horrifying.
If only that “No Bad Trips” laptop sticker could prevent such. Selah.