MERRY NEW YEAR

A long standing tradition, that I've been doing since the dawn of time, is to do a blog post on the first day of each new year, usually called something like "NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS", in which I spell out my good intentions for the upcoming year.
 

I generally don't seem to end up doing many of them for very long, but at least I set out with some good intentions each year.

Here are my five resolutions for 2026 (five is always a good number for this sort of thing, simply because we have five toes on each foot):
 

 1. HEALTH

To focus firstly on my own health, by asking "Is this thought or action good for me?" And then to only do it if it is. I already eat pretty well and generally have fairly good habits, but the thing I think I really need to change is to shift towards a more positive focus. 

I'm sure Louise Hay would have recommended that! 

2. PINE

To apply the acronym "PINE" to what I say and post online. Check that it's Positive, Inspiring, Necessary or Entertaining. So I'll be aiming to stop going on about conspiracies for at least the next year. I've been doing quite a lot of that for the past 25 years, and although I've mostly been right, it probably hasn't really achieved much. 

Here's an example: This year rather than saying Microsoft are evil, I'll try to help people who already know that to switch over to Linux.

3. STAY FOCUSED 

To limit my looking at crap online to under 15 minutes a day. 

I'm now using an extension on Brave called "StayFocusd" and the sites I've got it monitoring include Youtube, Bitchute, and Facebook, which are essentially the last three remaining social media sites I was still looking at in 2025. Now after 15 mins they are being blocked. 

Essentially I can choose whether to let a bunch of deep state programmers use their lame AI to fill my mind with crap, or to choose to come up with my own thoughts.

4. LAUGH

To laugh more. Things are way too dark, serious, and depressing in fudporn world. 

If one of my enlightened objectives is to make woketards heads explode, taking the piss out of the clueless fuckers is probably one of the best tactics we have. 

We can either laugh or cry, but laughing is more fun.
 

5. MOVE ON

To let go and move on. There are all sorts of things that are beyond my control, like everything in the past for example, but I've been like a dog that won't let go of it's stick. 

I want to direct my attention at the things that matter and ignore the stuff that doesn't. 

OK that is probably a bit ambitious I know, but I'll give it another crack this year.

 

 

ENDING MY OBSESSION

I've decided that the end of 2025 will also mark the end of my two years daily www.sift.co.nz blogging. Posting something every day has been an entertaining experiment, but now I want to reduce my posting to a more random occurrence.

Some days I really feel like posting something, but some days I don't, and that is OK too. Being a completionist I'm going to keep doing a post each day until the end of this year, but from January 1st 2026 I'll just be posting whatever and whenever.

The truth is, I'm a bit burned out, and even with the blog hits now up well over 1000 on good days, that's still nothing to write home about. Back in the good old days (around 2017) I was getting more than 5000 hits a day, which was more impressive.

But it's not primarily about the hit count, it's more about watching what I essentially think is a giant fake global circus show, and having nothing very productive to say about any of it. I suspect that watching this endless flow of utter bullshit is just making me increasingly negative and cynical.

I used to think exposing psyops was helping to work against them, so that meant I was doing good work. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit now that after more than 20 years "conspiracy" research it's only in the past few years I've started to grasp that the puppet masters are not trying to hide their psyops any more.

On the contrary, they are doing their best to make them blatantly obvious. Back when they did the first fake moon landing in 1969, they were actually doing their best to make it look real. It looked utterly ridiculous, but that wasn't deliberate, they were just really bad at special effects back then. 

Last year when they pretended to shoot Trump's ear off, they knew full well it was obviously fake, but that was the desired intention.

It created division, between people who believe in official narratives, and people who can see obvious fakes. And that division is a key objective.

All the narratives both official and unofficial, are fake, but I've analysed them to death for decades and I really need to move on. I've already pretty much stopped looking at all media, and all social media too, apart from a quick daily look at Facebook.

But even looking at my Facebook feed of over 1500 "conspiracy theorists" posts in chronological order, pretty much everything on my feed is utter bollocks, and it seems to get more lame and retarded by the day. It's quite depressing to see how little ability even my own FB friends seem to have to differentiate shit from chewed dates. I'm on the brink of just giving up looking at even these last remnants of all the programming inputs. I probably will half heartedly keep a lazy eye on what today's stories are, but I've long since lost interest in most of it, even including posts from the "freedom" and "truther" movements, who seem to have no idea how completely they are being played. I'm hanging out to make a mental shift. I don't even want to wait until the new year, I just want to start right now. As part of that shift I don't even want to tell everyone about what I'm no longer doing, in some big explanatory blog post. I will just aim to quietly change and see how things work out.

HOW MUCH???

Not being into phones myself I had no idea that people were flinging this sort of money at the stupid things, but when I did some looking into phones yesterday, it boggled my mind that there are phones apparently selling in New Zealand for NZ$3799.
 

Are people really paying that much for phones? Are they stark raving mad?

A person who was able to make good second hand selections on Trade Me could buy an entire collection of technologies for that amount of money.

 To see how this might play out, I went imaginary shopping online. What did I buy?:

Firstly a laptop - I like 17" Dell Laptops - here is a fairly good one for $599. And this comes with a good hard drive so it wouldn't need upgrading like my next purchase, the PC, would.

 

 

Next a PC - I like old HP Z240 PC's - this one is just $200 - yes I would do some hard drive upgrades to it, but I'm sure there will be plenty of $ remaining from my imaginary $3799 budget to cover those as well.

 

 

The PC would also need a screen to go with it - I like 32" screens - OK, for this item I'll splash out and go with a brand new LG monitor because they are good, and that would cost $445. So far I'm up to $599 + $200 + $445 = $1244.

 I'd like a new tablet as well - my pick is a 12" Samsung - $699 brand new

 And I might as well buy a phone even though I seldom use them - If I was buying one for real I'd prefer a Brax 3 privacy phone, but for the purposes of this blog I'll just go with the first half decent refurbished phone I see - $169

So now I've spent $599 + $200 + $445 + $699 + $169 = $2112.

 I'm doing an imaginary tech spending spree here, and still have $1687 to spend. Those purchases will cost about an extra $100 in freight, so I'll need to keep at least that much in reserve, and next I'd like to buy some better drives for the PC.

 First a new 500Gb Samsung SSD drive for doing a fresh install of a Linux Mint operating system on the PC - $96

 

Then a big 4TB Samsung SSD slave drive for storing all my data - $689 - those drives are fairly expensive and I could easily find something cheaper, but even after buying one, I'd still be rolling in cash at this point, and wouldn't really need to look for drive bargains.

 I'd also get a stylish keyboard and mouse for the PC, along with a WD 4TB external drive ($229) for doing my backups. That lot will cost about $400 all up, leaving me with $300 to spend on extras like a foot massager.

 

As well as using the external drive to backup the slave drive on the PC, I'd also use it to share my big collections of movies and stuff with the laptop.

  

So for the price of that one total rip off phone I could have a nice laptop, PC, monitor, tablet, phone, and a backup drive with some leftover change.

Yeah, that is pretty much what I already actually do have, and honestly, I think if anyone spends $3800 on a phone they are a complete tool.

Speaking of tools, if you are still looking for something to spend some leftover money on, I recommend a Stanley Fatmax 20oz hammer because I think they have a nicer grip than any other hammers. 

 

SOME RUSSIAN DUDE

 Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian novelist, philosopher, and essayist, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in world literature. His works explore the depths of human psychology, morality, and faith amid the turbulent social and political changes of 19th-century Russia. Arrested for his involvement in a political group, he spent years in a Siberian prison camp — an experience that profoundly shaped his worldview and writing. 

Dostoevsky’s most famous novels, including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov, delve into themes of guilt, redemption, free will, and the search for meaning in suffering. His profound insights into the human soul influenced countless writers, philosophers, and psychologists.

"People do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. They prefer to live under someone else’s idea of truth, to obey rather than think, to blame rather than act. The real battle is not between good and evil, but between cowardice and courage — between those who dare to think for themselves and those who choose the comfort of chains." — Fyodor

 

 

MY INNER PARROT

Sometimes people talk about their inner guides, as if they are delicate soft spoken little wallflowers, hard to even hear, let alone to understand what they are trying to say.

Five days ago I woke up with a voice like an angry parrot in my head, telling me to get my arse off the internet.

I made a pretty solid compromise and decided to cut my internet time back to a maximum of one hour each day, and I have indeed been doing that. But each evening as I fire up my countdown timer to time my daily internet time, it seems like quite a rush to get the basics done.

I was half expecting my inner parrot to say something like “It’s OK to use the internet for longer if you have a specific reason, as long as you don’t waste time surfing”.

But no, today my inner parrot is saying “One hour is more than enough, cut back all the crap you are doing". I have already cut out most of the crap, but I can’t argue with my inner parrot. I suspect any blog posts I do will not be long winded epic masterpieces (I’m already writing them offline, but don’t have much spare time to post them).

It’s not always this clear, but whatever sense of intuition I have really seems to have had enough of the internet at the moment.

ANOTHER OLD MOVIE

While I’m going on about old movies, today I’m re-watching Blade Runner again. The original one, from 1982, directed by Ridley Scott and based on the book by Philip K Dick. It stars Harrison Ford, still looking fairly young, as this was only five years on from the original Star Wars.

It is a very dark movie, but it’s so well done that it’s absolutely engrossing. In 1982 some of those scenes must have been quite mind boggling. In fact many of them still are.

The movie is full of classic quotes. They are not so much quotes as samples now, because they have since appeared in music videos and other movies. Classic lines like Leon the replicant saying “Let me tell you about my mother” are right up there with Dirty Harry asking “Do you feel lucky, punk?” 

 One of the final scenes, Rutger Hauer's final monologue, has been described as "perhaps the most moving death soliloquy in cinematic history".

It was set in what must have seemed like a bleak distant future back in 1982 - 2019. A scary dark future world. The scariest thing about 2019 from the current viewpoint of 2025, is that we now look back to it as the last year of a sort happy innocent pre-covidhoax era, before everything got well and truly screwed up.

Predictably the more recent sequel staring Ryan Gossling, “Blade Runner 2049” (2017) by comparison, is unimaginative, slow moving, boring, and depressing. It’s not so much that it’s particularly bad if it was an original stand alone movie, but the big issue is that it copies every last detail from the original, and brings almost nothing new to the table. 

In 35 years it seems to have not moved forward a single day from the vision of the future from 1982. So it’s a sad letdown compared with the amazing original.

I’ve long been a big fan of Philip K Dick, and despite the fact that these days I’m asking questions like “did he have deeper motivations for the dark visions he described?”, I still think the original Blade Runner was a spectacular and visionary movie that was decades ahead of it’s time and truly original.

A DIFFERENT WORLD

Most of the movies I watch are fairly old. The main reason for that is because modern movies are all utter crap. 

Yesterday I looked at a list of the top 100 movies so far in 2025 by box office returns. There was only one movie this year I’ve seen or even had any desire to see – F1 staring Brad Pitt. 

It was fairly entertaining with some good action scenes, but it was also too long at times, and the acting was fairly predictable and average. It was pretty good but is often compared unfavorably to the earlier F1 movie "Rush" (2013) staring Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl, which arguably had a better plot and only cost a fraction of the amount to make.

The other 99 movies in the list all look totally lame and gay, so much so that I would probably pay money to not have to watch most of them, and if there was even one other movie I actually did want to see, I’d just find a torrent and download a copy, as I did with F1.

Here is the Top 20 - what a bunch of crap! And it gets even worse from Snow White down to 100th place...

So it really isn’t a mystery why the movie industry is losing so much money. They spend hundreds of millions making boring woke crap, that very few people actually pay to see. The real mystery is why they appear to be so clueless about how to provide entertainment - what are they really up to?

Part of the attraction of watching old movies, apart from the fact that some of them are light years better than anything that has come out in the past 10 years, is to be able to visit different worlds. Ones without computers, or cell phones, or an internet.

In movies made before 1985, (yes, only 40 years ago) there was no digital crap at all. Nobody had it, nobody wanted it, there were entire realities functioning without it. Yesterday I re-watched Magnum Force staring Clint Eastwood from 1973. It’s an entertaining classic, and some of it is pretty awesome.

I’m fully confident that in 50 years time, nobody is going to be watching any movies from 2025 and using words like “awesome”. 

Either the future will be so totally crap that enslaved subservient humanity won’t even understand concepts like “awesome”, or it will actually be an awesome future. In which case they will look back at the movies from 2025 and wonder why anyone even bothered to make them.

Despite feeling a bit daunted sometimes, I’m still aspiring to option two, the awesome future. And avoiding seeing any crappy modern movies is part of how to avoid the horrible futures they endlessly depict.

FIRST DAY OF LIMITED INTERNET

I was expecting to be hanging out to see online stuff, especially cryptos, after nearly 24 hours with no internet, but the truth is I didn’t even really want to plug in the connection and felt relieved not to be looking at all that crap.

I never even did a half hour session to try that out, but instead decided to make it only one internet session a day, for a maximum of one hour.

I didn’t seem to suffer the cravings of an addiction withdrawal, but more like the relief of removing a butt plug (I presume).

 

When I finally did get around to doing my hour of internet in the evening, I was quite excited to start my timer and see how it would go. It was fine, and I got all the essentials done.

Next I'm planning to do an internet checklist to help me whiz through all my more essential internet jobs in one hour each day without forgetting any.

Quick blog post, tick! 

 

 

INTERNET FREEDOM

Information overload has long been an ongoing problem, but this year it seems even more excessive than usual. Despite being totally burned out from the endless inflow of data, I seem to be compelled to keep looking at it, endlessly searching for the missing link. 

At the start of this week I decided to make some positive changes, and I could see straight away where most of my flow of exhausting negative input was coming from, but I have always seemed to avoid facing up to it.

The internet is my main problem. It can be a very useful tool, but it’s starting to feel like a giant sewage pipe pumping crap straight into my mind, and for some reason I have become addicted to that inflow. 

Today I woke up with a new plan to put the internet back in it’s place as a tool, and stop it taking over my life. It’s a very basic plan that only took about two seconds to implement.

Before starting up my computer I unplugged the internet connection. My plan is to leave the internet unplugged most of the time, and also to permanently stop using WIFI.

 

I now have a digital timer on my desk, set to one hour. That is the maximum amount of time I want to spend connected to the internet on any given day. So when I plug my internet connection back in and start my timer, it’s safe to say I won’t have much time to piss about looking at distractions like YouTube or Facebook.

And if anything is going to take up much time, I plan to download it and look at it offline, or in the case of something like a blog post, to write it offline, and then quickly upload it during my connected time.

FUDPORN FREE

 Yesterday I decided to shift to a more positive focus, and stop looking at so much fudporn. They say Rome wasn't built in a day, and I have made a shift but it certainly isn't finished yet.

At one point I found myself almost looking at an in depth analysis of a deep state conspiracy. But instead I watched some old TV shows by an English comedian called Harry Enfield from the 90's.

I had never seen him before, and his character of a South African pharmacist who keeps embarrassing his customers by going on about their suppositories and sexually transmitted diseases totally cracked me up.

Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9DhuyudQQg