ret5hd
ret5hd's Journalwho here likes William S. Burroughs?
this one i keep coming back to every several years:
Soul Killer
There is intrigue among the souls, and treachery
No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls
Can any soul survive the searing fireball of an atomic blast?
If human and animal souls are seen as electromagnetic force fields
Such fields can be totally disrupted by a nuclear explosion
The mummy's nightmare, disintegration of souls
And this is precisely the ultra-secret and
Super-sensitive function of the atom bomb
A soul-killer, to alleviate an escalating soul-clutch
Scientists always said there's no such thing as a soul
Now they are in a position to prove it
Total death, soul death
It's what the Egyptians call the second and final death
This awesome power to destroy souls forever
Is now vested in far-sighted and responsible men
In the State Department, the CIA, and the Pentagon
Governments fall from sheer indifference
Authority figures, deprived of the vampiric energy
They suck off their constituents, are seen for what they are
Dead, empty mass, manipulated by computers
And what is behind the computers?
Remote control, of course
Look at the prison you are in, we are all in
This is a penal colony that is now a death camp
Place of the second and final death
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change
Only those who can leave behind
Everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape
Don't intend to be there when this shithouse goes up
Nothing here now but the recordings
Shut them off, they are as radioactive as an old joke
Utahan MAGAs Still Hunting For Utah Beach
To Hold Massive Tail-Gate Party.
(sorry. sorry everyone. i’ll go home now)
I need to buy some paper...
i need to print a document approx 50
pages. It has a single photo on the front page, and several photos on the back few pages.
when someone picks it up and “feels” the pages, i want it to seem more than that cheap paper feel.
what kind of paper do i need? thnx.
on edit: i have to order online because there are no paper-vendors in our tiny burg.
Parts seem so familiar...parts seem planned to be...
inevitable…parts seem that only names and decades have been changed.
I hope our outcome is as successful as theirs.
what's the best e-reader to get?
i have to finally admit, my eyes aren’t what they used to be and i need the ability to enlarge print.
hopefully one for a laptop rather than a stand-alone device.
and i love books so much more than screens.
Electricity - Data - Lake Tahoe
i think maybe i just figured something out:
The goal of these data centers ISN’T “control of data”…it IS “control of the power” (electric)
When a single company can shut off a city, selling instead to a single “data-center”/“actually now a power control center”…that’s scary.
on edit:
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/energy-supplier-abandons-lake-tahoe-residents-to-serve-data-centers/
Looking for a GOOD read...
for slight context, my two favorite books were:
Pillars Of The Earth
and
A Gentleman In Moscow
both (it seemed to me) were relatively historically accurate as far as culture, setting, circumstance. both were very enjoyable.
make a suggestion here. thnx in advance. the winner will be gifted with glowing thoughts.
serious question...when one travels for medical stuff...
is the expense of lodging deductible?
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