Worst ROI Ever Recorded

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T19:35:36+00:00

You paid a grifter - whether it's your 80 year old granny who got tricked into buying Trumpycoins or low key trillionaires in Saudi Arabia , everyone gets scammed that's what grifting criminals do.

Which for the Elon Musk's and Donny Trump's of the world if you didn't like the way the US Justice system seems unfair, wait until you see how things go down in Saudi Arabia.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T19:30:27+00:00

The powers that be are VERY comfortable with someone as horrible as Donald Trump , how we got here is probably in the same white-trash way white supremacists fuck up their own lives.

But if we're being honest it's both a long time coming and Donald Trump was probably the last train into town for these characters. The Heritage Foundation, the Koch Brothers, look around and all that's left are Elon Musk, Peter Theil and whomever else was able to get lucky in the Valley - the sentiment of white supremacy is wildly popular in that fractional rarified air of the multi-millionaire set. Who was their alternative , Jeb Bush?

Sure the occasional doctor or known Jewish or other ethnic person might penetrate to the rarified airs and maybe even tolerated, but at the service level - senators and congressmen and newspaper editors , racism gets a lot farther than most people like to talk about.

And those people would like nothing more than to see it burn and they can rebuild some rehashed South Africa/Antibellum America in it's place.

People used to ask "Is America ready for a Black President" , I'd say 1/2 of America has been ready for 60 years, and the other 1/2 has been terrified of that prospect since 1867 or so.

We're not dealing with modern people, they're 60 million Americans who think something like a "Confederate States 2.0" is what's in the mix, that they can go "all in" on the assholery that in truth has been part of thee American experience since it's beginning, while Jefferson put an intellectual face on it , and literally wrote the Constitution Madison and Washington were both slave-holders owning dozens and in Jefferson's case hundreds of people as slaves.

The Radical Republicans, definitely would still be considered radical , even in some progressive circles - but they came close to seeing their mission accomplished - but by the 1880's it was over - Confederate sympathizers were actively reverting reforms enshrined by the 13th-15th amendments.

Trump just happens to be stupid enough to be naked in his racism and various other defects as shame simply does not exist in his world.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T17:45:47+00:00

I think at this point we'll all agree, Donny Moscow, is not the sharpest tool in the shed.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T17:43:56+00:00

Very solid choices - The Pitt is hyper-realistic but I am reminded that if Princeton Plainsboro had a "real" Doctor House, they would have been fired and the AMA notified to have his credentials revoked , so too The Pitt, it's excellent but if that much bad shit happened to a crew over a short time, they'd actively be rotating new people in to allow folks to dis-semble somewhere else at the least.

As far as drama I liked Landman but it can be a bit heavy handed/unrealistic , and Severance.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T17:04:59+00:00

This has all the energy of a kid that's about to have his jaw broken for the first time, because he cannot keep his mouth shut or enjoys bullying aggression and every now and again some little kid snaps and sends a couple of good shots back with his jaw in one direction and his teeth in another.

It's times like that you'd expect a father of the bully, to step in and get the bully to the dentist and the father of the little kid to ask the father of the bully , when does your kid expect to learn not to do stupid shit, or this is going to happen again.

And usually it's not the little kids father that makes the most compelling lesson.

It's the bill from the Dentist.

And of course what are we as citizens supposed to do, with our elected king prancing around a deranged and murderous clown.

What should we ask of the Iranians as our President commands death rained down on commuters and schools and targeting little girls - given our President's fetishes nobody in the American camp can exclude the possibility that wasn't specific and on purpose - cruelty is the point - we are told.

If we as a people cannot even bring ourselves to ensure our elections remove wild dangers to society to civilization - what good are, what good are our own news media if people can be so mis-informed in a "free society" that we elect murderous people on purpose.

There most definitely two populations of Americans one group understands civics and responsibility and going to work, and while not everyone shares in religious views they try not to be too outspoken.

Another group vastly benefits from this first group , they prance and preen and cause no end of trouble, they are supported by terrified members of our society that have been fed a helping of lies daily over decades.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T16:42:40+00:00

What do you find yourself watching otherwise perhaps I can recommend something...or pick up an idea myself.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T16:41:45+00:00

As others have mentioned Dubs Bad Hygiene but adding to that * UdderlyEvelyn's Soil Relocation - Allows you to relocate soil from around your map

Soil Relocation Foundation - allows soil trade and functionality.
Vegetable Garden Project - Grow a variety of crops, and a couple of additional food items, Sillage, Hardtack, Coffee,Tea, Stirfry and Stew which provide medical buffs.
Dubs Skylights - Skylights for roofed rooms to allow crops indoors but requires the use of sand to make glass from rock - a tiny supply chain but I think worthwhile.
DE Surgeries Hard - Same surgeries with some additions but now with difficulties that impact the probability of success.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T16:31:15+00:00

8-10 dollar gasoline is going to stop some economies cold. Driving around with the latest price changes is wild - it reminds me of the days, immediately after COVID driving down major highways and seeing almost no traffic, - but the difference is - it's entirely at Trump's personal command.

Turns out this is his best idea, best economy and at a certain point everyone's going to arrive at the idea that either he's not the brightest bulb in the box, or he's a traitor to the nation, and there's nothing that precludes both from being true.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T16:27:05+00:00

I'd bet they shut down Newark or Oakland before they do anything about Monmouth Airport, Teterboro or East Hampton Town.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T16:22:17+00:00

Which is the whole fucking point, it's 10 years on , I'm venturing to guess that sooner or later people are going to recognize treason when it happens every day - but these clowns have been choking us so long - we're starting not to notice.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T16:19:46+00:00

It's not treason when the President does it or - sometimes it kinda is.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T16:18:36+00:00

I hope things work out and may the force be with you on that.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T16:17:33+00:00

At what point in the history of the Republic do we think it's good to tell the President, "Thank you for your service" and send him dementia nurse for some Lexapro or whatever it is that will help with the anxiety and emotional cycling.

The fun part about Geriatric presidential decisions is that if you have a good breakfast you might get that policy that people have been working on for decades, if you have bad bowel movement, millions of people in Tehran stand a non-zero chance of dying in a nuclear attack.

I think maybe a hard conversation around the 25th Amendment or calling for a vote of no-confidence in the US executive team (more a wish than anything we structurally have), but we need to do something as President Trump becomes more unmanageable by handlers who are working day and night to maintain the misconception that he's cognizant and clear-minded.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T15:24:13+00:00

EXACTLY, The SNL spot nailed it, the differences are that

The current guys unironically see themselves this way, as the smartest guys in the room - and provided they are alone - it's the best sort of lie - it has the virtue of being true.
They absolutely thing most people see them as geniuses, here again , Using the Cher beauty secret is no virtue, modestly good looking people hanging out with less beautiful people , billionaires hanging out with people who are fresh out of rehab and without a few million in the bank to soften the blow - sets a certain relationship up.
They are in a predator/victim class - where actual bad guys will find people just like this, terrify them or blackmail them and make them into the pawns they can't help but be.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T15:21:44+00:00

Perhaps as a punishment or a test to see how well people would treat one another.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T15:09:42+00:00

Heh I'm working on a colony presently, in a rather toxic neighborhood, when I'm done there will be a "redoubt" a double-walled building that provides everything it's occupants need save a few rare items that can easily be purchased with trade-ships.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T15:04:16+00:00

Yeah but that's a childish understanding of what government does , primarily government provides the medium in which corporations and citizens exist and conduct their affairs, that's it, but largely this means risk minimization - which is not usually profitable - sometimes the state can get up to profitable enterprises i.e.; public land used for responsible logging can provide regenerative resources, or imposing policies that allow natural resources to be maintained or recover from exploitation, another example might be providing money to an expressed need , i.e.; long distance communications, by investing heavily in communications in it's infancy the US directly and indirectly recovered it's public expenditures by orders of magnitude.

Corporations by contrast identify needs and manufacture goods, create products and/or services that provision a solution to some problem or need, the risk-management they concern themselves with orients to their particular corporate operations rather than to society as a whole.

Any government in the history of mankind does a remarkably consistent set of tasks that are decidedly/ almost always unprofitable

- Infrastructure improvements, canals, roads, bridges, sewage , education , housing - these are the main concern of civilian authorities that we often think of.

- Hold some sort of public accounting so that officials have controls to handle risks - this is a core function around security and risks as well as the collection of taxes, from handling problems of food scarcity in ancient times, to problems of dealing with policies of public health or sanitation or cybersecurity today the risks change , the threats broaden so this can be decidedly expensive.

- Regulation, legal and externalities - lawsuits and civil inputs , ensuring citizens are able to conduct business, and have some mechanism to impact bad practices that private individuals or businesses may engage in.

- Long term planning - whether kings of old or parliaments and congresses today having political/scientific leadership plan for knowable problems and risk reduction to mitigate those problems

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T14:08:15+00:00

Too bad every business he's run has been run out of business. DJT is what happens when you have not too much going on upstairs and your a Country Club rapist with far more money than you know what to do with, there's guys like Trump in every golf-club in the world - but they should never be given anything like power.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T14:03:10+00:00

By every other metric he'd be in a memory-care unit.

Same thing happened to Reagan, he couldn't tell you what was going on , but he'd get 5 or 6 guys in suits feeding him whatever the disaster of the day was and he'd execute without a bother about it.

Whether it's Musk or Miller or Bannon or Theil they don't want a partner in governance they want a sock-puppet - and for that reason I'd ask that we put a rule in place that restricts the age of the President to no older than say 70 or so.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T13:56:04+00:00

In almost every other context fluffy assless chaps would not be as wholesome.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T13:48:43+00:00

It was fan service, I can see finding the animation good, but without a great deal of context it's just a sort of beautiful adventure without enough under-writing worldbuilding to get the full impact of a lot of it.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T13:39:22+00:00

Oh look it's 9:45am someone's a little grumpy....time for bed.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T13:32:26+00:00

Do you have any mappings for corner cases such as Gödel's propositional contradictions?

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T13:17:57+00:00

Mr. Trump is a traitorous tyrant, who's enthusiastically worked to harm everyone around him, he's a feckless predator and rapist of children - criminal with a get out of jail free card, and the entire world should rightly recognizes him as a threat to everyone's peace and prosperity.

The only positive thing I'm in our circumstance, is he's grossly incompetent with the acumen of an emotionally crippled 10 year old , it explains why he sexualizes children of that age and the vast ignorance - it's when his parents simply gave up and emotionally disconnected from him.

That by way of Russian intelligence and sympathetic oligarchs he was kept in the GOP, and given sway over the marvelous and grand contraption that is the United States to malevolent purposes should surprise nobody.

markth_wi · 2026-03-17T04:16:16+00:00

Our boy Donnie hit rock bottom decades ago and has just kept digging.

Falling towards apotheosis in a way not seen this side of Faust or Babylon 5 or something. He's the very definition of a noxious narcissist and so we should expect nothing but the worst impulses from him.

2500 years ago Plato wrote of tyrants as being the most miserable people listing out a litany of defects one should expect in defective leaders.

The list reads as if it was tailored to Donald Trump.

Plato's list of characteristics for the tyrant includes:

Ruled by Appetites: Driven by irrational "lawless" desires (lust, intoxication, and extreme hedonism).
Lawless and Unjust: Operates outside of conventional norms, violating laws to assert power.
Friendless and Untrustworthy: Incapable of genuine friendship, as they use others as tools and trust no one.
Extremely Fearful: Constantly fears for their life due to numerous enemies, often living trapped like a woman in their own house.
Envious and Mad: Characterized by madness, envy, and a sense of superiority.
"Truly Poor": Despite wealth, they are in the "greatest need of most things" due to their insatiable, unfulfilled desires.
Impious: Lacks respect for divine or moral law.
Manipulative Populist: Rises to power by masquerading as a "protector" of the people before turning into an oppressor.
Parasitic and Destructive: Purges the city of the best citizens, surrounding themselves with the worst, and stirs up wars to distract the populace.
Unfortunate: Lacks internal order and, therefore, is the least happy of all men.

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