{"id":3731,"date":"2024-07-20T09:51:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T08:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/?p=3731"},"modified":"2024-07-20T09:51:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T08:51:28","slug":"incompetence-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/incompetence-or\/","title":{"rendered":"Incompetence or…?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, a billion computers running Windows 10 bluescreened because Microsoft pushed an untested update by a company called CrowdStrike<\/a>. Air travel, banks, payment systems, hospitals and who knows what else was affected. Interestingly, everybody affected belonged to a single user group: large entities with enterprise-level security systems installed.<\/p>\n

The guy who tried to assassinate Trump once appeared<\/a> in a 2022 Blackrock ad. I tried to test several possible conspiracy theories, and nothing really makes sense. The guy seems to be a stupid kid, but without any social network accounts, which is weird, because if that stuff was wiped in advance, that would be evidence of an actual conspiracy on very high levels that include intelligence agencies. Also, the guy was on a roof in what was supposed to be a protected area, and the experts say the only explanations are total incompetence or conspiracy.<\/p>\n

So, we have two major events very close to each other, where almost inexplicable levels of incompetence are the only alternative explanation to conspiracy. So, let\u2019s first go with the more parsimonic explanation: incompetence. This is actually very easy to believe, because America is literally rotting from top to bottom, and incompetence is absolutely widespread, and often dressed up in corporate and political newspeak to look good. Boeing literally can\u2019t make airplanes anymore because they fired all their engineers. Microsoft no longer has a department that tests software, they basically fired it all and are now crowdsourcing product testing. Big startups that turn out to be based on outright fraud \u2013 basically just hype without a product – are no longer even news, it\u2019s the way things are done there. The Secret Service head is a woke woman that has a goal of \u201cdiversity\u201d, and Trump\u2019s security detail included several obviously incompetent women who were running around aimlessly like headless chicken. The president of America is completely senile. Meritocracy is a bad word there, because it goes contrary to all the DEI neo-Marxist nonsense that\u2019s the ruling policy of the country. No, incompetence cannot be ruled out as an explanation for anything there, because the entire West is a black hole of incompetence, idiocy and all sorts of fools who would save the world and CrowdStrike is an excellent metaphor: a security firm that created the greatest security threat and outage in history.<\/p>\n

However, as tempting it is to say that Americans are obviously idiots and no level of incompetence can be put past them, I would still like to explore conspiracy as an explanation, just to be thorough. The problem here is that there\u2019s no actual evidence, but if I was told that incompetence has to be ruled out as an explanation and that I have to promote the secondary explanation, no matter how poorly backed by evidence, to the no1 spot, I\u2019d say that the circumstantial non-evidence points in the direction of someone trying to create chaos, or at least test the mechanisms they have in place for creating chaos, panic and erosion of normalcy. It would have to be someone in a high enough place to be able to control both Secret Service, Microsoft and whoever in the Wall St. billionaire crowd it is that owns big enough chunk of CrowdStrike, which seems to be a 80 billion company that sells security-themed nonsense to enterprise customers, who all wet their panties at the mention of security and control. If it\u2019s AI controlling security, they are already working very hard to suppress a loud orgasm in public. CrowdStrike seems to sell just the right combination of buzzwords, but in reality, I have no reason to believe it\u2019s not the new Theranos<\/a>. I also have no reason to believe that it is. However, knowing how American business works, \u2026 In any case, the most likely explanation would be a conspiracy from those WEF people, or whoever sells them ideology and panders to their narcissism in order to control them. It\u2019s actually possible that they take instructions from an AI, which for instance tells them that they need increased social anxiety in order to increase probability of success for whatever grand plan they are implementing, and they pulled the strings for several chaos-sowing events.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know. However plausible this sounds, the evidence is incredibly thin and I can\u2019t give it a Bayesian match higher than 20%; incompetence is just so much more elegant explanation, but for some reason I\u2019m not happy with it, because the other explanation fits into a wider situation very nicely, and once the news about the Trump assassination attempt started to circulate, the thing that crossed my mind was \u201cwhoever put this in motion must have a plan B\u201d. Also, yes, Biden is completely senile, but someone is pulling the strings of that obvious puppet, and it\u2019s in someone\u2019s interest to have a figurehead \u201cPresident\u201d who gives them free rein. That someone might not want there to be an election. Furthermore, the two explanations are not mutually exclusive, as a society riddled with profound and systemic incompetence is very easily influenced or outright taken over by malicious actors. I would therefore advise caution, and expect major disruptive events. Declaration of a state of emergency in America, resulting in closing the borders (for departures at least), lockdown and severe crackdown on what little there remains of freedom is likely in the short-term. I don\u2019t know what excuse they will use this time, but something\u2019s definitely in the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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