Why Protest?

One thing that puzzles me is why people would continue to protest about the Nick Maduro detainment when so many Venezuelan people are celebrating his capture. The people they're calling victims of trump are throwing parties and celebrating the removal of a dictator. A guy that frames his political opponents and gets them sent to prison so he guarantees his victory, and a guy that tanked the venezualan economy so hard that half of them had to leave the country to stay alive. Well, a lot of things don't make sense to me, even in my little world. 

When cold air touches my skin, my taste pallet changes and I like the taste of sour and salty food, I also like spicy food. Even slightly bitter tasting fruits like cranberries and pickled gherkins taste better to me when it is cold. 

I also like to cook my jacket potatoes in the oven instead of microwave, when you cook jacket potatoes in the oven the heat goes through the potatoes from the outside and makes oils and butter you put on them turn crispy and tasty, you don't get that with a microwave because most of the heat appears inside the potato. When it is cold, I don't worry about heat being applied twice as long because it gets used twice, I can cook all my root vegetables in the oven knowing the heat used by the oven would be used twice because it would seep out of the oven and heat up the air in the kitchen and some of that heat would spread around the home. 

Pride in England

One of the things that makes feel proud of my country is we abolished global slavery. The forced slavery of people is illegal in most of the world because of Britain. 

People like William Wilberforce campaigned in parliament to make it illegal to buy and sell people as slaves and force them to work for free. We opened our mind and decided it is wrong to use people as slaves, all people should have the same rights. When we abolished the slave trade, all nations that were part of the empire inherited the law and automatically declared the trade of slaves as piracy. Then we used our huge navy to intercept slave boats from nations that weren't a part of the British Empire so we blocked slave ships from entering the ports of Brazil. 

In the 17th century, every nation on Earth had a significant slave population, it wasn't just the Portuguese dominated Atlantic slave trade, it was the middle east, Asia and many African nations had their own slave trade. Britain abolished all of that using democracy and our powerful navy. 

The most common payer in Britain is to ask God that his will be done. It looks like the prayer was answered because although there is still a lot of illegal slavery, the world at large condemns it. 

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.