What December 2025 Means To Me

Throughout December there was very little frost in the mornings, the weather was strange for that time of the year in Britain. Some trees were confused and started to open their flowers as if it were spring because roughly in the middle of the month the temperature increased to 10°C during the day time. 

I saw some Iranian men protesting in London a few times. They were holding up the old Iranian flag with the golden lion holding a sword and partially eclipsing the sun on the horizon; it was the flag that identified the nation before the Iamist ayatollah regime took control of the country at the end of the '70s.  They were making their intentions very clear to everyone, they want the regime to end and the king to return. Later I saw the protests were widespread in that country. They were sick of the leader spending all the countries wealth arming militant groups and spreading hate about Israel, the infrastructure of the country has not improved since 1980 and they were now facing very high inflation and supply issues. 

There was also a lot of tension between USA and Venezuela, the USA were demanding suspicious boats identify themselves and then firing missiles at the boats when they didn't respond. They were trying to shut off the drugs entering the country I think. 

Just the other Day I learned that the Americans captured Nick Maduro himself and the venesualan people seemed happy about that. I was given the impression that he sends his opposition candidates to jail so he could fix his terms in power.  He also seized the large service companies like the internet and oil producers and ran them into the ground like a typical communist would. 

Let's keep our chins up for 2026. Happy times for a while? Who knows? Whatever will be, will be. 

Wood Thinking

When I was a young boy I thought that wood was made by the tree roots from eating soil. When I was older I learnt that almost all wood is made from a gas in the air called carbon dioxide; the same gas we breathe out. When I breathe out, some of the molecules end up fixed in wood. Using just sunlight as energy, a tree will gather carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into wood. 

To me this is amazing, from a tiny seed a tree will grow into a giant structure made of mostly carbon in the air. 

Gold is everywhere, there is gold on the moon, gold particles fall on your roof every day, there is gold throughout the galaxy and universe but wood is rare, as far as we know it only exists on the surface of earth. 

Backpack Flight

I was wondering if you had a personal flight system, what it would look like.  I imagined you would have a backpack with a folding stack of wings. They extend telescopically and form a stack of wings above your head. The propulsion system would be inside the wings, you would have fan blades inside the wings that generate a gust of air. There would be no exposed moving parts. I also imagined the fanblades would be nested inside a ring structure and it would have magnets nexted inside it, electro magnets would then push the outside of the ring with the fanblades inside. 

Unfortunatly the ai I have access to won't draw it the way I imagined it. We have paragliders these days, they would let you descend from a hilltop in style. 

Christmas Paganism

Some Christians and Muslims think that Christmas is a pagan celebration. They say Jesus didn't celebrate Christmas, he did though because he was a Jew and first century Jews celebrated their birthday. They would drink wine and eat lamb and fish flat bread meals. Then they would say there are other pagan festivals close to Christmas; there were  pagan festivals for all 52 weeks of the year somewhere in Europe. They don't get it. Christmas time is the most dangerous time of the year in the Northern  hemisphere, you're more likely to pass away during December than any other time of the year. The air is cold so the blood vessels in your skin constrict causing your blood pressure to go up. Virus particles last longer so they build up and infect more people. If you lived 250 years ago, you would be acutely aware of this issue because you would see all the bodies piling up. They would be getting small pox, measles, tuberculosis and things like that. There is less good quality food and stuff like that, just root vegetables and meat. 

My point is we celebrate Jesus's belated birthday on the darkest, deadliest portion of the year to cheer ourselves up, just like the pagans had festivals to cheer themselves up. 

Supus

With all the crazy things that are happening in the news and all the hatred in the world we often forget there are still science observation missions going on.  They were looking at a giant terrestrial planet that is 8 times the size of Earth orbiting the habitable zone of a red dwarf called K2-18. The planet is called K2-18, no doubt if they visited the planet they would give it a more meaningful name, I would call it Supus-Major because is like earth but a lot bigger and it has a major problem, it is tidally locked to its star. 

What if K2-18 B has a moon that is the same size as earth? Would that moon be tidally locked to the planet instead of the star; then it wouldn't have a over exposed side and under exposed one. Perhaps it would still be partially tidally locked to the star. Who knows. 

Festive Season

December is the season for festivities because it is the most dangerous month of the year. People gather together  and cheer themselves up. Ancient people were more aware of this because they hadn't tamed death like we have these days so many people would have been wiped out by measles, toburculosis and flu and if you were 45 years old , you probably  wouldn't know anyone alive that is older than you. Virus particles do better in the winter because it is cold and dark so they last longer and there is more wind to transmit them to other people; they can't move themselves so the virus particles need wind and host movement to be transmitted to other hosts. Every culture adds their own twist to the festive season. The Jews have Hanukkah, the light miracle festival, the pagons celebrated solstice, the Christians celebrate a belated birthday for their saviour Jesus ( Yeshuah) the Messiah as Christmas. 

There was a shooting aimed at Jews celebrating Hanukkah on a beach in Australia, they weren't Israelis or people that openly support Zionism;  (Jewish self government). They were just Jews. This confirms what I already knew. Many people are being taught that Jews are bad people and they learn to hate them. They need to unlearn their evil dogma and accept that all people on Earth are the same value. That is the future now. 

Chat GPT Cribbage

Yesterday I asked chat GPT if it would play Cribbage with me using virtual text based cards. It cooperated and dealt me six text cards and played cribbage. 

If you ask chat GPT to play cribbage, it will bring everything you need to play the game in text form. It will keep the score and deal out text based cards and hide its own playing hand. If you have no one to play cribbage with and no playing cards with you, don't worry just ask chat GPT. You can even ask it deliberately have impaired judgement to make it easier for you to win. 

I think about card games a lot during the winter because the darkest day is the 21st of December and 21 is the score boundary in the black-jack card game. I often play solo card games like free cell and solitaire during the dark winter months because it settles my mood. When it is cold and dark, one can become very moody. Card games work everywhere because playing cards can be represented by simple graphics or just text. I'm sure the dot matrix graphics of a tamagotchi could be enough for a game of cards. 

This month was the first time I played cribbage with ai using just text.