RANDOMS 2025 #13

THIS PURPLE BLOG IS BACK AS MY #1

I set up a stylish new SIFT blog at the start of 2025, with a different Bloger theme, all in a restrained black, starting off fresh again for the new year, with all updated content, but the hits never got as high as on this purple blog so I've decided to flag it, and go back to purple as my main blog from April 1 2025.

The black blog will remain as an archive of my first three months posts of 2025, so if you want to check it out go to:

https://sift2025.blogspot.com

PURPLE vs. BLACK

For three months I've had two different versions of my SIFT blog battling it out with each other in the wild seas of the deep state controlled internet, each desperately trying to gain authentic hits in an endless stream of fake AI traffic, so I've been back to my original existential battle of purple vs. black.

 My original www.frot.co.nz from 1998 was purple and that was a fairly controversial choice, with one website reviewer saying my site was a garish abomination that burned out his eyeballs and left him a gibbering wreck.

For my second version in 2000 I switched to the more subdued and conservative black. At that point black websites were less common than they are now, and it had a certain dark and stylish menace about it. I liked the look and after that I tended to stick with black websites from then on. 

Over the past few months as I've been switching back and forth from cool looking black to wild looking purple, it's made me appreciate the differences more. Black is quite calming and works better as a backdrop to galleries of images. But purple stands out amongst so many colourless sites and really makes a bold statement. It says "This blog is purple". 

I'm not sure which is "better" but I have to say after 25 years of black, the purple one is growing on me again. Both sites are slowly gaining more traffic, so I tried posting the same content on them both for a while to see what happened.

Here is a screenshot of my black SIFT blog with posts staring Jan 1 2025 (so only three months of posts). It is displayed here using the new FLOORP browser that I highly recommend, and which I use as my default desktop browser.  It is a Japanese privacy fork of the Firefox browser available for both Windows and Linux (but not Android)

  https://sift2025.blogspot.com

And here is a screenshot of my purple SIFT blog, with posts starting Jan 1 2024 (so there are nearly 18 months of posts now). It is displayed here using the BRAVE browser, that I do think is quite stylish once all the junk is removed, but it lacks some features that I like to have. For that reason Brave is my second choice of the Chromium based browsers, with my first choice being Vivaldi.

https://sift666.blogspot.com/

I've been directing the www.sift.co.nz URL at the black blog, but the purple blog has been getting a lot more hits, so I've decided to switch the URL back over to that instead. 

Posting on two blogs is a bit of a pain in the arse, mainly because I keep noticing typos in my posts later on, and having to go back and fix them twice. So I'll continue posting on both up until the end of March, but then I'll go back to only posting on the purple blog from April the 1st.

So then, black or purple?... I've been wrestling with this life defining question for 27 years now and I still haven't resolved it. Maybe the answer is unknowable.

THE SECRET RACE

The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs

by Daniel Coyle (Author), Tyler Hamilton (Author)

4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 5,989 ratings

 Coming from a background of being involved in competitive cycling in the 90's I was well aware of the drug use in pro cycling. I've read most of the popular books about Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the culture of doping. This is my favourite one - Tyler Hamilton really lays it all out, and it's an entertaining read.

On a fateful night in 2009, Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle met for dinner in Boulder, Colorado. Over the next eighteen months, Hamilton would tell Coyle his story, and his sport's story, in explosive detail, never sparing himself in the process. In a way, he became as obsessed with telling the truth as he had been with winning the Tour de France just a few years before. The truth would set Tyler free, but would also be the most damning indictment yet of teammates like Lance Armstrong.

The result of this determination is The Secret Race, a book that pulls back the curtain and takes us into the secret world of professional cycling like never before. A world populated by unbelievably driven – and some flawed – characters. A world where the competition used every means to get an edge, and the options were stark. A world where it often felt like there was no choice. 

 

NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL DEGENERATION

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration (1939)

by Weston A. Price (Author), 

4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 1,133 ratings

 

If I had to pick just one nutrition, diet, and health book, it would be this one.

 

  

https://www.amazon.com/Nutrition-Physical-Degeneration-Weston-Price

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An epic study demonstrating the importance of whole food nutrition, and the degeneration and destruction that comes from a diet of processed foods.

For nearly 10 years, Weston Price and his wife traveled around the world in search of the secret to health. Instead of looking at people afflicted with disease symptoms, this highly-respected dentist and dental researcher chose to focus on healthy individuals, and challenged himself to understand how they achieved such amazing health. 

Dr. Price traveled to hundreds of cities in a total of 14 different countries in his search to find healthy people. He investigated some of the most remote areas in the world. He observed perfect dental arches, minimal tooth decay, high immunity to tuberculosis and overall excellent health in those groups of people who ate their indigenous foods. 

He found when these people were introduced to modernized foods, such as white flour, white sugar, refined vegetable oils and canned goods, signs of degeneration quickly became quite evident. Dental caries, deformed jaw structures, crooked teeth, arthritis and a low immunity to tuberculosis became rampant amongst them. Dr. Price documented this ancestral wisdom including hundreds of photos in his book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration is available to read free online

Thanks to Gutenberg.net.au for sharing it

THE HISTORY OF TEACHING MATHS

1. Teaching Maths In 1960s

A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?

2. Teaching Maths In 1970s

A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?

3. Teaching Maths In 1980s

A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit?

4. Teaching Maths In 1990s

A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.

5. Teaching Maths In 2000s

A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands. He does this so he can make a profit of $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes? (There are no wrong answers, and if you feel like crying, it’s ok.)

6. Teaching Maths In 2010’s

Who cares, just steal the lumber from your neighbour’s property. It’s OK anyway because it’s redistributing the wealth.

7. Teaching Maths In 2020’s

Lumber is no longer available. Stay safe, wear a mask, get your jabs.

 

 

 

RANDOMS 2025 #12

IS BLOGGING A WASTE OF TIME?

 

I've been wasting my time blogging for years now. I started in 1998 and as recently as 2017 it was still an exciting and developing hobby, I was improving my writing, earning money, interacting online, & getting thousands of hits. 

By comparison it sometimes seems a bit lame now, because these days I'm grey-listed online, I have very little audience, the entire internet appears to be mainly AI, and all the blockchain platforms (Steemit, Hive, Flote, Blurt etc), are dead or dying, so realistically I had two choices, continue posting essentially just for myself without caring too much about hits, (because let's face it, I 'm not getting many), or quit altogether.

But I like blogging and I think it helps me to get my ideas in order, improves my writing, and posting online works like having a muse, so it potentially makes me more creative. So I'm continuing to blog but with a new approach. 

I'm using Blogger rather than WordPress because it's quick and simple, I'm posing a mixture of both short new content and updated re-posts of my old content, with very few new long posts. And I'm aiming to have fun and get my thoughts in order rather than to change the world.

To see some content that might change the world I highly recommend the websites of Joachim Bartoll or Jason Christoff

 

 

 

THE GENIUS OF THE PIXIES

The Pixies have been one of my favourite bands since 1989. In the early days with Kim Deal perfectly offsetting Frank Black they pretty much defined the 90's. But they did that back in the 80's!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_aBmrYChfQ

 Their anger and energy live was awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i6jtsCpImo

But then Frank Black with his massive ego sacked Kim Deal

Decades later they achieved that brilliance once again with the hypnotic Paz Lenchantin replacing Kim Deal on bass

"Amazing live performance! They have Joy Division level intensity"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiUNDeuBbi8

 

But then Frank Black sacked Paz too, and these days Pixies are no longer as great. They were awesome once though!

THE NEXT PSYOP HAS JUST BEEN ANNOUNCED

Just in case it isn't obvious enough what controlled puppet Trump is up to, his owners have just announced their next evil plan. As they always do. No surprises here, a US recession, and very soon. 

 "US recession would be a big catalyst for Bitcoin: BlackRock"

One of the first signs of a psyop are repetition of a news story across all the controlled media outlets using a specific key phrase

Yes, I think this signals two things:

1. The US economy is about to crash. (The illuminati always announce their evil plans)

2. Bitcoin (and other cryptos) are about to have a price surge. Buy cryptos now!