You Can’t Hate Boomers Enough

Seriously, it’s not possible. Outside of Carthage and Technochtitlan, it is hard to imagine that there has ever been a more detestable, more justifiably hateable collection of people on the planet:

Now I understand the grandma hate..

Hate is a strong Word.

l’ve heard my entire husband’s side of the family gripe about grandma for about a decade now. It always seemed like little things that just made me sad for her because ‘aww she’s just old.’

Well. Grandma came over with the fam for a quick visit. Just a pass through. Maybe 40 minutes.

In that time, grandma makes her way up to my tiny garden up the hill and starts plucking away at my peppers. Proudly shows me the load and tells me I wasn’t paying attention to my garden because I had all these peppers ready.

They were all green.

I told her they were red peppers and hadrït had the chance to turn red yet. Her response: “Well they worït turn red now.”

And just walked off.

If there had been SOME REMORSE OR APOLOGY, I could get past it but it was her “sucks for you” attitude…. Thank god my husband understands because the way I ranted and raved that afternoon.

It’s always somewhat amusing how the only people who defend the Boomers are those with absolutely zero direct experience of them. This is why you do not EVER call even the most grizzled member of GenX a Boomer, even in jest. We were hating them before the Millennials were even born.

It took this woman just 40 minutes to learn to hate Grandma. Now imagine what it must have been like for those unfortunate younger GenXers who were raised by people like that as children…

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Stupid Question Day

You know the drill. Post your Stupid Questions, or better yet, your insightful and intelligent questions, on SG.

Not a lot of posting today. I haven’t even read the news, because I’ve been finishing what can only be described as a massive and major translation from the German.

It’s Litricha

Castalia is now #1 Rising in Literature

I’m reliably informed that if you subscribe to the Castalia Library site, it’s +1 to your Social Standing. And if you become a subscriber to Library, History, or Cathedra, that’s another +1.

Libraria Castalia, of course, is do not pass go, do not collect $200, go directly to a natural 18.

And yes, I mixed a few analogies there. I’m a professional writer. Don’t try this at home.

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Alien Enemies

The law is nothing more than a rhetorical game about definitions:

BREAKING: Supreme Court just handed Trump the immigration equivalent of a nuclear button.

In a 5–4 ruling, they confirmed he can use the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to treat Tren de Aragua as what it is: an invading foreign force.

That means:

  • No more endless appeals
  • No more activist judges blocking deportations
  • Venezuelan gang members can be rounded up and shipped straight to El Salvador’s mega-prison

This is a historic win for borders, sovereignty and law & order in the United States. The only people upset today are the open-borders globalists who never thought this day would come.

How many people does it take to make up “an invading foreign force”? It seems to me there are many invading foreign forces now in the United States, whose repatriation is obviously in the American national interest.

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How Does the Fed LOSE Money?

The answer is pretty simple. The cost of propping up the system is greater than the profit of printing money out of thin air. After all, even the ability to create money from nothing still has to go through a process, and that process is finite. So, even if you create $200 billion and use it to buy a distressed asset that turns out to have negative value of $50 billion, you just lost $50 billion with your free money.

What this chart suggests is that the Fed is having a hard time keeping everything propped up, a much harder time that it had during the 2008 financial crisis. The AI boom helped mitigate the crisis, but that’s rapidly coming to an end.

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The End of the Global Technocracy

The rest of the world is beginning to understand that it simply cannot use Clown World’s technology, no matter how alluring it might be.

France just banned Windows from 2.5 million government computers. The reason is terrifying. The US sanctioned the International Criminal Court. Microsoft locked the chief prosecutor out of his email overnight. One switch and an entire institution went dark. Europe realized any government running American software is one executive order away from losing access to its own data.

1/ What Happened

France ordered every ministry to ditch Windows, Teams, Zoom, and all American tech. 2.5 million computers moving to Linux. Denmark dumped Microsoft Office. Germany moved 30,000 PCs to Linux. All 27 EU members signed a digital sovereignty charter.

2/ Move Sensitive Email

Every email on Gmail or Outlook is subject to US law. Set up a free ProtonMail account. Based in Switzerland. Encrypted end to end. No US jurisdiction. Move medical, legal, and financial email there. Keep Gmail for newsletters.

3/ Move Sensitive Files

Google Drive and OneDrive are US companies. The CLOUD Act applies to everything stored on them. Move anything sensitive to a local drive, encrypted USB, or European cloud like Tresorit or Filen. Keep Google Drive for files you wouldn’t care if someone

4/ Encrypt Your Messages

iMessage and WhatsApp are US companies. Signal is end-to-end encrypted, open source, and stores nothing. Install Signal. Move sensitive conversations there. It only works when both sides use it.

5/ Replace Microsoft Office

Everything you type in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint passes through Microsoft’s servers. Download LibreOffice. Free. Open source. Works offline. Your documents stay on your machine. No cloud. No American servers.

6/ Lock Your Browser

Chrome is Google. Every search, every site, every tab reported back. Switch to Brave or Firefox. Both block trackers by default. Neither sends your browsing history to an American company.

The more you stay off the mainstream technology, the lower your level of risk. It’s one of the primary reasons we’re doing our own AI before it becomes completely corrupted.

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The Corpocracy Isn’t Capitalist

It’s no wonder the younger generations are turning national socialist. That’s the natural reaction to financial rape by a foreign corpocracy:

The average big-company CEO now makes about 281x the typical worker. At some companies it’s in the thousands. Starbucks hit 6,666x last year. Since 1978, CEO pay is up more than 1,000%. Worker pay: 24%. The pain isn’t shared. When Meta cut about 3,600 people it branded “low performers” in early 2025, it raised executive bonus targets from 75% to 200% of salary about a week later.

A generation raised on that arithmetic does not need an economics degree to reach a verdict.

I’m the parent of a Gen Z kid, so I hear the verdict at my own dinner table. Just 17% of Americans told Gallup in 2026 they have real confidence in big business, near a record low. Among adults under 35, nearly half now view socialism favorably. A colleague told me, half-terrified, that her son is becoming a full-blown socialist. I’ve seen what he’s seen: loyalty punished, honesty optional, promises reversed, the gains routed to the top.

When people stop believing their work protects them, they don’t decide one company is bad. They decide the system is rigged. And they go looking for another one. And increasingly, they’re not just looking. They’re leaving. Americans filed a record 5.5 million new business applications in 2023 and have held roughly that pace since, up about 50% from before the pandemic. Nearly four in 10 recent college graduates say they’d rather start a business than climb someone else’s ladder. When a generation stops trusting the deal, they go into business for themselves.

Business leaders keep asking why young workers seem disloyal, disengaged, quick to walk. They have it backward. This generation isn’t refusing to buy in. They were never sold anything worth buying.

Look, we all know that the corpocracy is little more than a collection of devil-worshipping foreign pedophiles who are, at best, mediocrities following orders. No one who spends any time listening to a CEO, a COO, a Wall Street figure, or even a media analyst babble on television in a vain attempt to explain why anything happened or predict anything that will happen knows that these are not brilliant people who succeeded through hard work and intelligence.

Young people are turning nationalist because they’re seeing their own people left unemployed, sexless, and homeless while rapist migrants are being provided homes, phones, and spending money by their own governments. And they’re turning socialist because they see the way the game is legally rigged against them, where corpocracies are breaking laws left and right while bringing in revenue from government contracts, then being bailed out when they manage to somehow fail anyhow, while the kids can’t even declare bankruptcy to get out from the debt incurred from the useless degrees they were pushed to obtain.

When the elites are irresponsible, rapacious, and out of control, as they indubitably are now, the masses quit playing along and no amount of abstract appeals to idealism are going to convince them otherwise.

And whatever this is, it isn’t capitalism or a meritocracy. It’s all fake, gay, and wicked.

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The Castalia Reader

A lack of a good eReader has long been a real problem for me over the years. Everything is halfway-decent, but I’ve never found what I believe to be the perfect eReader even though I’ve been reading extexts since carting around my Alphasmart Dana which had a full keyboard and displayed about three long lines at a time before happily converting to my first Treo. That felt like a miracle, carrying an entire library around in your pocket.

My preferences are Aldiko, which is defunct, and MoonReader, which is actually pretty good and is even integrated with the GoldenDict dictionary translations for reading in different languages and looking up words. But the fundamental problem is that most eReaders are not designed to be used the way actual books are used, but as a vehicle to sell books. Which is why basic functions like being able to export your highlights and notes are so often glaringly absent from an eReader.

Anyhow, since Castalia Unlimited is going to distribute DRM-free epubs, I decided that we’re going to have our own Castalia Reader. And so I built one with more than a little help from Claude Athos, and although it’s really just a browser app, it’s already replaced Aldiko on my tablet, as you can see.

That is the title page of the Castalia Reader running on my PC in Brave. However, it looks exactly the same on my Android tablet. There is a lot of information in there if you look closely; first, it’s correctly displaying the Japanese symbols. Second, you can see how to navigate back to the Library of books stored locally, and third, you can see the four icons across the top that provide Bookmarks, Full-Screen Mode, Navigation, and Settings.

Once you actually start reading the book, it keeps track of where you are by chapter on the bottom left and by virtual page and percentage on the bottom right. You can swipe, tap, or scroll to change the page, and selecting a text section allows for highlighting, copying, or sharing; saved highlights can be exported en masse later on demand.

We’re very, very serious about this Castalia Unlimited thing, so if you want to be a part of it, become a paid subscriber to Castalia Library and you can become part of the alpha testing of the Castalia Reader as soon as we’re ready to let people start playing with it. And I would be remiss if I did not note that the new translation system allowed me to translate all ten volumes of Sangokushi, plus the first three volumes of the Second Series of the Episodios Nacionales this weekend.

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Federal Hasbara

Washington is getting into the act of buying social media influencers to counteract the influence of other influencers:

The Pentagon has secretly installed several conservative military veterans with large online followings in government roles, declining to disclose their assignments as they amplify the viewpoints of Pete Hegseth. At least some of the influencers have been assigned to civilian roles that could lead to changes in policy, the people familiar with the matter said. They include Rob Maness, Kurt Schlicter and Thomas Anderson, who goes by the online handle Cynical Publius.

Neither the Pentagon nor those involved have disclosed the government roles despite the Trump administration’s claims that they are running the most transparent Defense Department ever.

It’s fake, gay, and corrupt all the way down. It’s at the point where I just laugh and delete the email every time someone sends me a request for my take on yet another “conservative” who “really tells it like it is.” I don’t have a take on any of them. I don’t pay attention to any of them. The only people who interest me are the people who simply describe what they think they are seeing without trying to fit it into some sort of narrative.

What part of “it’s all fake, gay, corrupt, and retarded” is so hard to understand? Why do so many people have this burning need to follow other people and parrot whatever it is they’re saying?

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