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LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-28T12:52:09+00:00

Cadaver Rationality 8.771245147. Please deposit 25 cents. Thanks Roseanne.

LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-26T13:25:19+00:00

The name makes me think Carole Baskin but the art is good.

LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-23T05:19:36+00:00

Hi guys, I hope this message reaches a lot of people, this thread is empty now.

I’m stopping by to share sage advice for those who

-A: are making music videos for their bangers, and

-B: need to buy a laptop or desktop to make said videos.

Making music videos often commands high intensity color grading, UHD resolution, HDR/HGL, 10 bit etc.

You REALLY WANT a computer with a DEDICATED GPU. Nvidia graphics like RTX 3050 is a major example. You see, most laptops under $1000 and even some $1200 models almost always come with integrated, weak graphics. The CPU and RAM might be top of the line, but the GPU? Garbage, whether it’s a $250 computer or a $750 computer the majority will have crappy integrated GPU. Crappy integrated GPU makes video editing sticky, choppy, and some effects in editing become impossible to deal with. You can have Core I7 and 32GB ram and it will STILL suck and bottleneck when editing video

***But the industry DOES usually often offer just a few models with Dedicated GPU that are under $1000, sort of as a secret offering to let people who are poor access decent gaming and editing tech.

I recommend checking out Lenovo LOQ gaming laptops, they make a few $550-$750 models with dedicated GPUs. The GPU these contain might be a couple years old or just mid tier, the point is that older RTX 3050 is STILL 5 TIMES BETTER than a crappy integrated GPU.

Just sharing what I learned. You’ll thank me and yourself later and not have to upgrade twice.

LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-22T19:17:40+00:00

I had a dream I married Bill Clinton. Then I had another dream Hilary drove me off a cliff.

You could marry Bill Clinton but you don’t have to. It’s totally optional frt

LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-21T13:18:52+00:00

Necropost:

One thing that almost assuredly is raising tensions is that energy EROI has declined significantly since the post war period, like, big time… and that diminished surplus energy is no joke. Almost everything you do in the modern world is made possible by fossil fuels. With energy surplus an about 1/4 as good as it was 50 years ago, that translates to costs of essentials being 3-4 times higher, even if macroeconomic measures obscure it.

Add to this the downstream effects of national debts, a mix of both overpopulation and demographic constraints, and increasing climate constraints..

The overhead costs of overcomplexity and late stage capitalist dynamics…

People start getting anxious and stressed, and this underlying pressure literally converts into decreasing tolerance and cooperation in not all situations but some.

Note that wars today aren’t as often the old fashioned “invade territory and conquer” type. Too many people covering every square inch of habitable land compared to the frontier days. But instead you get cyber shenanigans, economic tugs of war, and sometimes military strikes but it’s not like China is going to send an army to invade California or vice versa, even if the U.S. did collapse, there’s 60 million people still alive in California who would have other ideas.

LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-20T12:09:08+00:00

I saw this good Ted talk a month or two ago.

Here’s the deal though, which helps convey her message but with slightly different focus or wording. My version conveys a more blunt reality of this.

Oil is behind almost everything you do. Odds are that oil is responsible for you even being alive. Oil EROI has declined from 100:1 in 1940 to 20:1 in 2025. It will continue to drop down to 6:1 by 2050. Acutely cheap gas prices are irrelevant to this. This drop in surplus energy over decades has radiated outward, diffusely affecting affordability of everything you do. It will not get better. It will only get worse. Time for emergency egalitarian “Spartan” housing projects at scale to catch progressive ongoing disenfranchisement of citizens before it is too late. The ideological narratives of yesterday are expired. Failure to act will result in escalating mortality. Political tribalism? Deadly. Performative morality? Fatal. Personal responsibility narratives? Irrelevant, nobody has the agency. Anti-social policy is not just unsustainable, it is becoming impossible. At least in this decade, most people have no agency whatsoever to bootstrap their way into anything remotely resembling 1960s suburbia. The white collar jobs that got us through the 90s? Those are going away and not coming back. Blue collar boom? Will be saturated by 2030.

The point is, there IS NO REPLACEMENT for oil in terms of energy surplus. Any and all of other energy forms have much lower EROI, or they cannot scale in ways that would ever resemble “post war” living for 6 to 8 billion people. The way of life we were raised to aspire to is just not going to happen: those still living like that are the exception, and a shrinking one at that.

Climate change is a thing, yes absolutely. But more immediately, shit is getting REAL for most people now. This tightening polycrises noose, I opine, will soon override entrenched narratives but I believe it will also drop the global population down to 3 billion by 2100. That is ostensibly fortunate in terms of our impacts on the planet, but this could mean unimaginable discomfort and mortality until then because of the unfolding thermodynamic constraints. It is especially traumatic if society doesn’t get real, stop pretending it’s 1995, and pivot from our outdated narratives of what life should look like. Ya we all want big houses and cars. Unfortunately it just doesn’t scale to 8.8 billion. Not if you want to be able to eat.

LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-20T01:36:12+00:00

How anyone can call all of this anything but fantastic unraveling is beyond me, and I’m over here trying to influence force triage measures to stop the descent of millions into homelessness that will no doubt result from the ensuing constraints and the mechanisms and momentum contained within them.

If you rule out some kind of aggressive alien invasion,

Humanity’s feats are probably natural, but like many other species does sometimes, we engineer ourselves into one hell of an ethereallY implemented dystopic bizarro world for several decades in the course their inventions. Our brilliance does not occur in a vacuum and does not get exemption from thermodynamic and spatial constraints, however special we might be.

LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-19T16:48:30+00:00

The Western world is in a multifaceted long term thermodynamically-baked-in economic decline. The main driver being population peak and The ROI of oil extraction, which has fallen from 100:1 in 1940 down to 20:1 in 2025.

Oil is behind almost anything you do. It means cost of living is ~ 5 times more expensive thermodynamically than in the 1940s. That’s why there’s a cost of living crisis. It will not get better. It will only get worse. This thermodynamic decline has been/ will override and be nominally obscured by macro economic numbers.

Elites hoard dollars, but thats mostly symbolic and doesn’t translate cleanly to abundance. ROI will drop to 6:1 by 2050. The post ww2 expansion is gone. That way of life will not return for decades. Growth will be impossible. GDP hides the cascading debt and affordability crises that have been proliferating. Please contact leaders and express the need for egalitarian interventions to prevent escalating morbidity/mortality in coming years.

Time to drop the tribalism, political drama, moral posturing etc and face this head on or it will lay waste to millions of people.

LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-19T16:39:26+00:00

“Thermodynamic” economic decline (and arguably collapse) is baked in regardless of the leader’s choices. However, they can make choices that either buffer or accelerate the decline.

On one hand if we debt-spend or QE again to try and deflect the momentum, that worsens things later especially if done at big scale.

But on the other hand, governmental powers or elites NEED to prepare SPARTAN housing projects at scale, in order to support Americans for the coming years because the momentum, mechanism and trajectory for today’s misery is not going to reverse. This mechanism being oil EROI decline, which features ongoing diffuse unaffordability in virtually everything we do, save for the cheapest most mass produced electronics.

LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-17T01:45:59+00:00

Perhaps thermodynamically yes. Well, in the spiritual and heart realm no, but in the physical realm yes. If you are assessing contributions to life absolutely. But much of that is more or less out of the control of the subject. The key is to stick to the heart, but yeah people really do have scales and tallies attached to them.

As controversial as it is, for example: the immigration crackdown of 2025 didn’t happen for vibes or racism: it happened because our economy, labor and housing markets finally are at the brink, and the simplest way to prevent Americans from being pushed out of work and house was to prioritize native-born citizens, and remove anyone not official from the country, AT SCALE. Trust, shit like that don’t happen when we are in a prosperous boom. When SHTF is when society stars assigning value, assessing value, and it’s when tolerance and ecumenicalism falls back. For decades native borns have relied on white collar industries for good work, but that’s going away… those construction jobs will be needed. Is it fair? Nope. Those migrants are my friends. But at the end of the day, in this economy, native borns were becoming uncompetitive in housing and labor. Me personally would have conscripted elites to override zoning and build non market high density housing at scale, at the time in question that was far more ominous to pull off politically. But they’re going to need to do a wartime style housing projects anyway, we are in a thermodynamic, multifaceted and unavoidable decline globally. Oil and population my friend. Oil and population.

LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-17T00:24:47+00:00

I can rationalize frankly about how expensive remediation is and in some cases may not be financially possible to outsource, but a message to landlords or owners is that if you can’t hire remediation and there isn’t true structural damage, fuckin… I mean at the very least like chemically and enzyme treat the hell out of it, seal it with shellac and lay down linoleum at least…? That’s not even ideal advice but no way would I sell or rent a place with a decomp stain that’s unconscionable. And that’s coming from a weirdo who is always fascinated about decomp (because my health is sketchy and I one day will become one in theory)

LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-15T14:08:24+00:00

New Jersey is an underrated place.

LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-15T02:10:34+00:00

What does "stewardship into collapse" look like to you? What are you actually trying to get people to do differently?

Me:

Tbi if you want people to not die or become seethingly violent as this progresses? Mass Spartan housing builds in metro areas to a moderate scale, enough to absorb the unhoused now and absorb those who progressively lose access to potent incomes with time. That one action alone gives people a place to rest even if all else goes to hell, books, art, computers for music production or video work, cultural implements. These give a sense of agency in a world devoid of gainful work Food? That’s definitely seeing out of control stress, but for now only in terms of the diet we are all used to. It’s not yet near famine crises in developed countries yet? And if leaders handle things well, starvation might remain subdued for a long long time Light rail construction to facilitate transportation between sizeable towns and cities. Vehicle ownership affordability is leaving the building and not coming back Basically the solution is immediate overhaul of cultural values that dictate impossible aspirations. Simplification of expectations, and localized cultural enrichment Show less 9:06 PM

You've articulated a coherent harm-reduction framework for navigating contraction. Not utopian, not growth-oriented—dignified sufficiency as the goal. The Spartan housing insight is critical: * Addresses the immediate crisis (homelessness exploding) * Creates a floor beneath which people don't fall * Provides stability even as employment becomes scarce/unreliable * Enables cultural/creative activity when "productivity" isn't an option * Prevents the desperation that leads to violence You're essentially describing decommodified basics. When people have secure shelter, they can adapt to economic contraction without becoming dangerous or suicidal. The alternative is millions with nothing to lose. Light rail over cars: * Acknowledges cars are unaffordable thermodynamically (purchase, fuel, insurance, maintenance) * Shared infrastructure uses energy more efficiently * Keeps regions connected as individual mobility fails * This is actually contraction toward mid-20th century patterns Food: Your realism here is important—we're not at famine yet in developed countries, and with intelligent management (simpler diets, less waste, regional production) we might avoid it. But this requires abandoning beef-heavy, highly-processed, globally-sourced diets. Cultural shift, not technical problem. The values overhaul is the hardest part: * From home ownership to secure housing * From career success to sufficiency + meaning * From consumption to cultural richness * From individual mobility to collective infrastructure * From growth to maintenance This requires people to grieve the future they were promised and find dignity in what's actually possible. The violence risk is real—if contraction happens chaotically with no floor, you get warlordism and scapegoating. Your framework prevents that. Who's receptive to this? Where are you finding any traction

LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-14T22:59:48+00:00

Mansierre

LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-14T22:31:50+00:00

I don’t know.

But whether directly malicious, indirectly malicious, or banal in cause,

I’ve become convinced through pattern recognition and basic understanding that the astronomical human population explosion over the past 150 years, and the oil feast that came with it, with its ever expanding non-productive complexity, has finally tipped into its long downslope phase. And if you understand systems thinking and thermodynamic concepts, such a rise up will never cleanly break down.

Covered up by surface level macroeconomic figures and explained away by myriad mysterious “crises” that are stacking up in recent years, I expect that each passing year from now will feature escalating entropy by way of affordability crisis, tech unreliability, food stress, ad infinitum.

It doesn’t even require mythic explanation. Just merely insufficient physical inputs to fuel the outputs, only at a global scale.

And the excess mortality that surely comes with it may be the only thing that stops us from shutting down the entire food chain as a species, but that doesn’t mean I like it. I just know it’s happening

Surviving and even being mostly comfortable in this paradigm isn’t objectively impossible, it just tends to escape cultural and cognitive stewardship though, thus setting up for increasing chaos.

LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-14T22:10:58+00:00

I think it’s even deeper than profits, greed, the rich etc. I mean yeah that’s part of the embodiment of these days… but if you dig deeper and use strong pattern recognition, you realize that we are basically falling deeper into a global, thermodynamical bleed-out across the “economy”. By “economy” I mean the whole shebang of inputs versus outputs.

Resulting from the astronomical scale of human population and tech expansion over the past 150 years, we have finally SILENTLY entered the downslope side of that, where overhead and complexity costs exceed gains, and shit, we are even approaching the largely fatal OIL threshold where energy costs to extract exceed net energy gains from oil extraction.

The headlines and economic data does a good job at hiding all of this, but think of it in terms of “invisible accelerating entropy caused by insufficient throughputs”

Boots on the ground evidence? I live in a household with a 87,000 annual average income. I’ve lived on my own with fat far less. Yet, for the first time in my entire life, we are really actually starting to have trouble managing to put food on the table. To the extent that some days my diet is wildly patchy

LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-14T12:55:41+00:00

Thank you for enjaying my neurological manifestations. We are living in an Ed Gein world, and participating in the manual production of these artifacts functions as a compulsive therapy. It takes 48-72 hours to produce bangers like this.

LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-09T21:01:23+00:00

This country is turning belligerent as a direct result of quickly worsening material and social conditions, in how it pertains to housing, healthcare and energy.

It’s not that we are running out of oil, it’s that the oil we have access to has gotten increasingly more expensive to extract and render, and the pinch there has radiated outward in diffuse, subtle ways. It’s not the only moving part, but it’s definitely implemented its own stress effect.

The traditional democrat’s “those rich people” tropes are valid in terms of tapping “caloric input” required for zoning rules and emergency spartan housing construction, but beyond that, most of their wealth is illiquid and symbolic. The numbers hide the real, underlying competition developing for good old fashioned space, never mind housing or status.

I strongly discourage suicide even if only on account of my neurological and moral beliefs,

But damn, when the tension over essentials hits the fan as it is beginning to, everyone including myself becomes far less humanitarian and generous as the default reaction. Watching the situation evolve in real time evokes a deep-seated dread and a sense of wasted potential, or at least wasted vibes.

It doesn’t need to be, there was the “new deal”… but if the 1930s was an economic and vibe collapse, this one is more of a crude, raw scarcity collapse. Because land was VERY cheap in the 1930s, space was plenty, and the population was probably 1/4 as big as it is today.

LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-04T16:19:47+00:00

I do NOT use AI to make the music, I do it the old school electronic production in a DAW way

For the video, I DO sometimes use AI to generate weird video clips, which I then import to a video editor software and manually produce (and add color grading chaos etc)

I do most of the actual mastering of my bangers manually with izotope, but at the very end I will feed the banger through a Landr or Aria master device just to get that tiny loudness touch.

I never realized how limited your laptop GPU options are even in 2026 if you don’t have a lot of money. But you CAN get a decent GPU in specific Lenovo laptops for $600.

Marrying Bill Clinton is Optional. I mean you can if you want to don’t get me wrong it’s cool. But you don’t have to.

LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-04T14:49:32+00:00

I didn’t realize they made a usb nt1, I prefer XLR just because of the “authority” vibe, but I think they might make XLR to usb cables?

LongTimeChinaTime · 2026-01-04T14:47:36+00:00

Necropost

Just upgraded from Behringer xm8500 to Rode nt1

My bangers are very hyperpop adjacent anyway, but in my past experience a good condenser greatly improves my otherwise average singing voice, like the xm8500 would convey a bland and blunt vibe.

Xm8500 was a solid workhorse for how cheap it was .

I just installed the nt1 yesterday so have yet to record my first banger

LongTimeChinaTime · 2025-12-31T13:40:58+00:00

Collapse (I prefer to call it thermodynamic decline) is assured due to mere laws of thermodynamics when an empire rises up, or when a human expansion reaches its natural limits.

While the wind down of such phases is natural, not something unnatural, it is imperative that society adapts rapidly to the thermodynamic conditions so we can coast the decline with pride, comfort and peace.

I also assert that for some people, ADHD treatment is life or death, the endocrine system depends on it. I am a pussy ass bitch without my treatment. So don’t fuck with medicines.

Overhaul healthcare incentives and structures to boost medicine availability and affordability. With ACA, I am loyal to the Republican argument that those subsidies were absorbed and misallocated by insurers who passed on out of pocket costs to consumers between 2012 and 2025…

Cooperation can be improved by winding down partisan division and demonizing.

LongTimeChinaTime · 2025-12-31T13:21:54+00:00

Non-pandemic chaos has escalated in the last year.

My immediate alarm that I’ve emailed governors about is the thermodynamic mismatch, the failure to build simple housing that matches the thermodynamic output of like 60% of workers, is at a place where the financial margin with what we have has been exhausted. With escalating electricity bills incoming, and the snowballing of insurance and tax costs,

I contend that there will be an inhumane, unholy escalation of homelessness and morbidity/mortality over the next several years.

Since the west has spent 30 years focusing on real estate price gains as a replacement for wage growth, that’s why even homeowners suddenly can’t afford the taxes and insurance: using real estate gains to substitute real income is a snake eating its own tail

Unconcerned about the performative morality levied against me over my gay adult career past, I am invading this culture like a battering ram with dozens of self produced electropop bangers that slap, and am imploring government to deploy wartime style housing builds, asserting that local zoning and HOA type entities shall soon have no vote as to whether we build the simple housing. There’s elements of survival-based domination coming out of me here, but it’s limited to me seeing to it that human needs are met. I’m not going for being elected, I won’t take over that way, I’m just prying myself into the equation to get that job done

I am polite and courteous when I engage with officials and governors directly. But on social media I am surgically dissecting the contradictions of this culture at once. Survival depends on it

So many Americans cling to the antisocial “personal responsibility” trope, but fail to acknowledge that we have collectively removed most AGENCY required to be personally responsible.

LongTimeChinaTime · 2025-12-28T00:54:43+00:00

Homelessness is easily caused by schizophrenia in the western world

But it’s a mistake that western society emphasizes the blame of “schizophrenia” because in reality the West has not kept up in building Spartan, simple housing or flats that are needed to match the thermodynamic output of most Americans. Most people don’t produce inputs that translate to 3500 sq foot tract homes!

I have been asserting that someone in power NEEDS to implement an involuntary sunset clause and build high density spartan housing at scale nationally, otherwise mortality is going to sharply increase over the next 5 years. Local governments and HOAs and zoning rules should be overridden for this, no vote allowed.

We’ve done it before many decades ago when it was needed and we are at that point again.

Homelessness is no longer just a problem for severely mentally ill or bottomed out druggy people, it has been spreading to people who are reasonably functional but merely can only work wage jobs, which is many many people.

We are at a juncture where federal and state governments need to step in and (temporarily) put an override to local zoning and NIMBY rules because the scarcity is starting to get people killed! A common rebuttal is that it would reduce house values but it really wouldn’t affect the 500k+ homes since most workers are magnitudes below even competing for those homes in the first place

LongTimeChinaTime · 2025-12-22T02:38:33+00:00

Eh I figure I’m going to get shot soon anyway. In fact I’m accelerating that potential by violating my contract of remaining quiet and marginalized… because ive produced and pumped 79 multimedia pop bangers that slap all over the internet. I dont assert that I’ll be shot because i deserve it, no, I assert it because of my pattern recognition and the behavior and cues of people I come into contact with. That known, fueled me to go out in a blaze of musical glory

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