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  • Candidate worth supporting

    Manweller’s rule says elections aren’t allowed to change things, so I’m sure this one won’t work. Nevertheless, Natalie Poulson is a viable candidate for state legislature after this week’s top-two primary. She was a teacher until 2021 when she refused to wear the Trump-Inslee strangulation device and refused to force her students to strangle. She…

    polistra

    August 8, 2026
    Uncategorized
    experiential education, infinite GOOD
  • Zinger

    I haven’t been reading MindMatters for a long time. Busy with work, health troubles, didn’t see a lot of interesting stuff there. Checked again today. Denyse O’Leary has written a world-class zinger. She knocks out Ethan Siegel, a world-class contemptuous asshole, and by extension all the academicians, politicians and journalists who play the same obnoxious…

    polistra

    August 8, 2026
    Uncategorized
    Carver, Metrology
  • Abbottizing

    The firefighters talk about halting new sources of ignition but they’re missing the MAIN source of ignition. Texas governor Abbott solved a similar problem with fake “asylum seekers”. He reshipped them all to NYC so the people who claim to love them could have them. Time to apply the Abbott trick here. Evacuate the entire…

    polistra

    August 6, 2026
    Uncategorized
    Modest proposal
  • Having fun

    Trying to break away from the fire crap. Altman is invading the world with theft, and the world is doing a pretty good job of fighting back now. Locally, Avista was negotiating with an unnamed prospective customer, then sensibly decided to halt. Al French, a long-lasting county commissioner who is usually rational, was trying to…

    polistra

    August 6, 2026
    Uncategorized
    aptronym, Metrology, skill-estate
  • Bet on a bet

    I’ll go out on a (so far unburned) limb with this one. Premise 1. Arsonists are at work in several areas, not just the Catholic Criminalities zone west of the river. Some of them are clearly homeless or crazy, some are driving cars. Some are using matches, some using blowtorches, some tossing lit plastic bottles…

    polistra

    August 5, 2026
    Uncategorized
    defensible spaces, defensible times, natural law = sharia law
  • Unsurprising but satisfying

    Given activities in recent years, the chance of criminal arson for Saturday’s fire was somewhere between 100.00000% and 100.00000%. Now the bet is verified. Via Spokesman, Aaron Forrest Farinacci has been arrested for causing the Old Trails fire that destroyed 700 structures. He lived in the Catholic Criminalities homeless apts, which is (only coincidentally) the…

    polistra

    August 3, 2026
    Uncategorized
    aptronym, defensible spaces, defensible thymes, Heimatkunde, jail mode
  • Immodest proposal.

    Fire-prone cities should have permanent shelters. In the cold war every city had a permanent fallout shelter in a civic building, stocked with fuel, generator, canned water, and nonperishable food. Since nuclear attacks were a Deepstate myth, the shelters were never used, but the government kept them ready. Those shelters also served as tornado shelters…

    polistra

    August 2, 2026
    Uncategorized
    Carbon Cult, Modest proposal
  • Alligator / 0

    The AI demons keep preaching about TheSingularityTM. They’re inverting the meaning to attract satanic investors. In math a singularity is a point on a graph where you can’t figure an answer. The result is heading toward infinity, or toward 0/0, or some other value that can’t be calculated or handled or conceived. When a real…

    polistra

    July 30, 2026
    Uncategorized
    Real world math
  • Schadenfreude is sweet

    Even the inconceivably brainless and incomprehensibly evil Spokane “city” dysgovernment has to face finite budget limits. They hired a whole pack of utterly pointless symbolic creatures to send a “resistance” message to Trump, while simultaneously AMPLIFYING Trump’s worst crime in history and ferociously continuing the worst crime in history for two years after Trump got…

    polistra

    July 30, 2026
    Uncategorized
    Fairness Doctrine
  • Plug in lawyer joke here

    Via Spokesman: Fucked-up software prevented 645 new lawyers from taking the bar exam IN PERSON. = = = = = START QUOTE: For about 11 weeks, Guile had studied for the exam, which consists of three three-hour blocks and typically takes two days to complete. But after the Washington State Bar Association canceled the test…

    polistra

    July 29, 2026
    Uncategorized
  • Reported full moon reported!

    Via Spokane News. 800 North Sullivan Rd, vehicle collision in the drive through line reported. Reported a vehicle with a person dressed as an oversized bear on the top of a vehicle did not see the other vehicle and hit them. Caller thinks one driver is possibly intoxicated. Reported the occupants of both vehicles are…

    polistra

    July 29, 2026
    Uncategorized
    Entertainment, Foy Rebellion
  • Simple measuring tool

    The current fad of AI quibbling strongly resembles Walker Percy’s smartphone apocalypse in ‘Love in the Ruins’, the perfect dystopia for our times, written in 1971. The devil invents a little hand-carried imaginator that can see into everyone’s head. He distributes a bunch of them for free, then watches the accusations turn into a war.…

    polistra

    July 28, 2026
    Uncategorized
    Metrology, Real world math
  • When prison is better

    Well-written press release from the county describing an odd incident. Dude wearing a backpack stood in the parking lot of the precinct station. Pulled out a gun and loaded it slowly. A deputy who was watching from inside took the dude down. Eventually the dude said he just wanted to talk to a cop and…

    polistra

    July 28, 2026
    Uncategorized
    jail mode
  • Nonbark to easy answer

    Wondering why political parties aren’t using more AI to simulate dead politicians. McConnell is the latest example of a VERY long tradition. Biden, Feinstein, Pelosi, Tom Kean, McCain and ESPECIALLY Wilson, undoubtedly many less famous. Easy answer: Those things aren’t human so they DON’T NEED to be simulated. Nobody cares if they move or speak…

    polistra

    July 27, 2026
    Uncategorized
    Nonbark, NOW I SEE, Real world math
  • Vinyl siding

    Zoning codes and insurance companies quite properly worry about defensible spaces. In a fire-prone area you need to avoid spreaders. I don’t understand why vinyl siding is allowed ANYWHERE, let alone fire-prone zones. Today a large apartment building burned, leaving two dozen people homeless. It appears that embers from the fire drifted north and torched…

    polistra

    July 27, 2026
    Uncategorized
    defensible spaces
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