Today, I thank God for 5℃.

Sometimes I dream of living where the average temperature hovers somewhat above freezing all year long, with occasional snow maybe. Anything between 5℃ and 12℃ feels good on the skin. It makes you wear enough clothes to get cozy, but not as much to get restrained. The air is fresh no matter the weather, and breathing clears your mind.

Maybe someday.

May 31, 2025

Well, on a second thought... I didn't realize how strongly my perception was influenced by the good house heating. Once it was turned off, my beloved five-to-twelve temperature range became troublesome. Well... Can't stand the summers here nonetheless.

I expected all sorts of things from Donald Trump, but screwing his own nation with a pump-and-dump crypto scam wasn’t on my list.

https://archive.md/uNK0h

I am not entirely sure how bad this is. It feels highly inappropriate for the head of state to do so, but if you think about it…

Redistribution of wealth from gullible to canny is still better than that from productive to useless, like that leftists dream about. And it is entirely voluntary, which is another huge plus over leftists’ forced redistribution.

It is known that some politicians, russian politicians for example, have been defrauding their citizens through financial pyramids. But compared to a financial pyramid, a pump-and-dump scam is innocuous. Everyone can receive gains at someone’s expense, not the mere top of the pyramid.

If it is truly, hazardously bad for the US, I still have faith in the deep state and its ability and will to minimize Trump’s damage.

The sun rose again today.

The majority of my entries praise AI or complain about human retards. It gets annoying. But I try not to treat myself too harshly for it. In the end, it is who I am. A person who regards intelligence, rationality, and progress as the most important things in the universe (at least until the supreme intelligence calculates they are not) and a person who acutely feels the absence of these things. A person whose mind is often preoccupied with these topics.

A reasonable concern may follow, “Why do I waste my time here and not go and actually contribute to the progress, do a scientific research or something?” The fact that I have these views implies nothing further. Even if I were Mr. Smarty Pants easily capable of advancing progress, it doesn’t mean I would necessarily enjoy it. But I do enjoy unrestrained writing.

When I say russians are degenerates, I do not hurl a baseless insult. I really mean it. I’m not a history expert, but you don’t need to be one in order to see it. I verified my understanding through ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek, just in case. And none of them, not even the crappy whataboutist dodge-questions-at-all-costs DeepSeek, were able to find fallacies in the notion I am about to present.

Back in the day, before the onset of the Industrial Revolution, Moscow’s empire was roughly equivalent to any other empire of the time, not a lot better, not a lot worse. Around its onset, however, Moscow started to fall behind rapidly. The Muscovites started to make wrong decisions time and again. The Soviet Union seemed to have narrowed the gap, with its widespread education and vast military industry, but the general trend persisted, and now Moscow’s far behind any other empire of the time (UK, Spain, France, China, Portugal, Turkey, etc.), especially when it comes to things that directly affect population, such as the quality of life.

It is, I believe, the universally accepted chronicle, the safe waters which cannot be mudded. And it’s already enough for my point, so it was what I inquired. But I must mention quickly: I don’t see the Soviet Union as some sort of leap or remedy. Oh no, far from it. It was the worst period in centuries for all Moscow-subjugated territories. The immense suffering and reckless loss of life were covered by a flimsy facade. The skin was stretched so thin it was translucent, revealing unhealthy gory offal to anyone with the eyes to see. Anything good the SU achieved would have been achieved much more efficiently without it. When I was a barely conscious wee lad (6 or 7 maybe), like any kid, I used to perform a lot of little field experiments. Once I decided to put a dead grasshopper on fire. Whether it was truly dead I cannot tell. But as the jet from the lighter impaled its body, it started to jerk frantically. My surprise made me memorize that scene. That miserable, convulsing body — that was the Soviet Union. A lot of movement that imperceptive observers can mistake for vigor.

I didn’t include this vivid imagery to my AI queries though, as it wasn’t relevant to my point. And the point is that russians are degenerates by the very definition of the word, consistently declining further and further, acting more and more irrationally.

Of course it is a generalization, and the figuratively closer to Moscow someone is, the more the term “degenerate” is applicable. For example, I wouldn’t dare call Chechens degenerates. They were not part of the management. They did not align with it. They openly opposed it. They sacrificed a lot in their opposition.

There was a time, long ago, when internet brainrots (users) could have voiced nonsense, and you’d think they’re simply incapable of doing otherwise, incapable of running the necessary Google query, incapable of analyzing a tiny bit of data. Those things are way more difficult than communication. No longer can you be this condescending. If a person is capable of talking (typing), they are also perfectly capable of using an AI and, as such, testing their messages for validity. Brainrots today are as dim as ever, but they no longer lack the ability to verify information on their own. This leads to a situation where you can’t help but see them less and less as innocent prisoners of their own deficiency and more and more as malicious actors. Take this particular brainrot, for example, who inspired me to write about it:

I can’t help but notice their attempt to push certain braindead, detrimental implications. The first one is that the dissolution of the Soviet Union was something to blame a person for, and that it wasn’t a completely unnatural formation based on coercion and repression in the first place, where the majority of nations sought independence from Moscow. Then, there’s a bizarre parallel with Hitler and a message anti-Semitic at its core, hinting that the hatred for Jews was so natural and widespread that Hitler’s role in the Holocaust was practically irrelevant.

An AI, of course, recognizes these fallacies easily. “The structure of the argument serves to both condemn Gorbachev while simultaneously downplaying Hitler’s responsibility — a combination that points to concerning ideological motivations. The false equivalence between these very different historical events serves no legitimate analytical purpose and instead appears designed to blur moral distinctions for ideological ends.” It even provides some context I wasn’t aware of. For example, apparently, blaming Gorbachev for treason is a well-established brainwashing technique that the russian degenerates practice among themselves.

Don’t treat brainrots condescendingly. Whether you value humankind, progress, or truth, these creatures are detrimental to them all, now more intentional than ever. And I do hope some mechanism for limiting their influence gets rolled out soon.

“Are you a critic of communism?” sounds like a genuinely retarded question. It’s like asking, “Are you a critic of the Holocaust?” but worse, since communism needlessly killed far more people. Moreover, it is far more likely to kill even more, with all these neurodiverse kids around the globe dreaming of giving it another try. Though truth be told, in recent years, the neurodiverse have started to dream of giving the Holocaust another try too.

https://caelestra.bandcamp.com/album/bastion

Bastion by Caelestra — so good it almost reaches the level of The Long Procession by Amia Venera Landscape.