You can’t deny that 2021 is shaping up to be a different year from 2020. We have the same ol’ virus, but we threw out everything else we can get our hands on. The smell of revolution is in the air, and it smells like a new generation wrestling the wealth away from the old, and new culture bumping off the old guard. Finally.
At request of my handlers at 123ish.com, I plunged again into the Gamestop stock short raid and modern Bitcoin millionaires, and pointed out that this, at last, is the proverbial sacking of Rome writ in modern times and the movement of wealth from dusty old guys in suits to bright young kids who approach investing the way they do a World of Warcraft raid.
Speaking of Bitcoin, JWZ, one of my old-skool-hacker idols, has lately become the Al Gore of cryptocurrency mining, yelling that we’re heating the Earth with our greed and we’re all doomed, doomed, DOOMED! He has headlines like “Bitcoin mine cargo container literally incinerating planet,” and more on his dunning-krugerrands tag.
Meanwhile I follow Satan on Twitter (don’t ask, it’s a long story), and come to find out Hell has its own cryptocurrency now. Because of course it does.
The new official cryptocurrency of hell is here! Fast, Reliable, and Transaction fee Free currency. LEOX is the future of cryptocurrency!
LEOX coin to the moon! over #dogecoin https://t.co/GZHqSXl7TA pic.twitter.com/4CuO43JZlZ
— Satan (@RealS8nn) March 20, 2021
I think Satan and JWZ should meet, and possibly have a no-holds-barred brawl in the DNA Lounge for the destiny of this planet. Wouldn’t that be exciting, boys and girls?
Want to see what other cultural rat-traps I have been poking my battered nose into lately? Right this way…
I Like It When Scammers Cry When I Beat Them Up
Over at my DabConnection gig, there is yet another crappy aspect to pot legalization that we never could have foreseen. That is the rise of scam websites which claim to ship THC products but just take people’s money (in BITCOIN (are you listening JWZ?) or other non-refundable coin) while shipping nothing.
The FBI, DEA, and FDA have all conspired to crack down on these sites, have even taken some down, and yet more pop up. We get people in our comments there, by the hundreds, crying that they have lost hundreds and even thousands of dollars to bogus THC shops online. Apparently there is no end to this. There must be a hundred new ones coming up every day.
I wish I knew how to make federal agencies pay more attention to this issue. This is a multi-billion-dollar industry now, and legalizing pot was supposed to remove the criminal underground, not nurture it. I’m hearing the outraged screams of the ripped-off while being able to do nothing about it.
The site I decide to spotlight in that post, “greenqueensdispensary,” was created on March 6th, 2021, spammed our forum all to hell and back around March 10th or so, and was subject of my public pissing upon it by March 16th. Ten days. They literally created a scam site just to spam it on DabConnection, hoping to fleece our readers out of more money.
Given that DabConnection and yours truly author has been the absolute PALADIN for justice and truth in the cannabis industry, that is a really dumb strategy. That is the dumb crook equivalent of trying to rob the police station. It is yet more evidence that the perpetrators spoke no English, had no concept of the cannabis market, and possibly that the entire process was even automated.
If you’re here to read about other cannabis-related things, be sure to check out my other recent posts on your top frequently asked questions about delta 8 and twenty amazing facts about cannabis terpenes. Interesting science stuff, you will learn things.
I Trampled Through Some More Geek Culture…
GeekyDomain may slow down in the coming months while the powers that be there launch a new gaming-focused site where yours truly will be publishing in-depth gaming strategy guides. That was your teaser, OK? Stay tuned, this is exciting.
But before we re-adjust our focus, there’s a grab bag of cultural analysis I want to share here. First, I ask the question “Was The Matrix Just A Propaganda Film?” That is a question, I don’t claim to have the answer.
But the evidence for that argument is pretty damning! The influences of this film extends from the toxic incel “Red Pill” movement to science-denialism with the “simulation hypothesis” to an actual cult called “Matrixism” and even to being the bible for the killers in the Beltway Sniper shootings case. “The Matrix defense” has even become a common courtroom plea, in which people murder and commit other mayhem while trying to plead off with the defense that they thought they were living in a computer simulation.
Which raises the question, how do we recognize intentional propaganda? Disguising a philosophical pamphlet as fiction is a practice as old as fiction itself. I point to many examples there.
Other geek topics I’ve tackled there lately:
- What If Quentin Tarantino Had Directed Star Trek All Along?
- The First Movie Danny Elfman Scored Is Not For Everyone – An examination of my favorite “midnight movie,” Forbidden Zone, even with all its warts
- Demon Slayer : Difference Between Eastern and Western Demons
The film version of Demon Slayer is alleged to still be on its way to American shores. It was a huge box office juggernaut in Asia; but it’s getting hung with an R rating stateside, so who knows.
I Discovered a Nearly Unknown Movie, Empire of the Dark!
Are you Internet denizens hungry for your next The Room or the next rambling insanity from Neil Breen? Well don’t judge Empire of the Dark by those standards, because even though it’s a self-produced vanity project, it pours its wine from a different carafe. Producer-writer-director-lead-action-man Steve Barkett really knocked himself out to make a “good” movie in the vein of 1980s monster madness flicks. Even though it’s still a bad movie by most metrics, it is entertaining from beginning to end. Barkett is waiting to become the Internet’s new meme hero, whenever the Internet is ready for him.
And well, that comes close to rounding up most of the pies I’ve had fingers in lately. Busy blogging, busy life! Zen out, baby!
