Author: polistra
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WWHWD?
Listening to these Industry on Parade films reminds me that American industry has always been fanatical about recycling. REAL recycling that reuses waste internally, not the EPA-required FAKE recycling that sends the stuff to China. = = = = = First: Industry has also been willing to do pollution control, but not when it costs…
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Necessary compromise
The anticoiners at Reddit discuss whether bitcoin is halal or haram. Some of the commenters get the important point. The basic rules of Islam solidly forbid all forms of speculation and usury. BUT modern Muslims engage in banking with interest, and engage in speculation, just like modern Jews and Christians. All three abrahamic branches agree…
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Balaji converges
Via Protos, the ultimate Magsman Balaji has SHOCKINGLY revealed his SURPRISING end goal of becoming an ordinary Wall Street hedge fund owner. = = = = = START QUOTE: Balaji Srinivasan, one-time Coinbase CTO and former partner at crypto cheerleading VC firm a16z, has decided that it’s time to start investing on behalf of others…
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Spokane in one picture
Says it all. When you devote all your money and effort to satisfying Bloomberg’s ESG and DEI requirements, there’s nothing left for trivial luxury accessories like streets and snowplows and police and jails.
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Simple answer
I stopped tracking the “climate” fight in 2018 after I decided that most advocates on the side of truth are not really defending truth, just making money. Now I try to determine the truth for myself, and try to live according to the truth, and that’s all. I didn’t even know about the Mann vs…
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Inn to inn
An extremely English writer has a feature on the old inns of London. The pictures are surprising. All the inns have balconies and galleries on each floor, with the rooms opening off the balconies. US hotels didn’t follow this model, except for some ‘medicinal porches’ on hot springs resorts. Hotels were strictly self-contained with central…
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Reminds me
The palace revolt reminds me of Greenwald’s prescient observation a couple weeks ago. He compared the current moment to the point in 1968 when LBJ decided not to run. There are plenty of differences in detail, but the basic layout is the same. LBJ was not senile, he was completely in control. In ’68 the…
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Palace revolt?
= = = = = START MACHIAVELLI: To arrive at this position depends not entirely on worth or entirely on fortune, but rather on cunning assisted by fortune. One attains it by help of popular favour or by the favour of the aristocracy. The worst that a prince has to expect from a hostile people…
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Pinned down the weird
After getting more of the weird lovey-dovey spam from the Trump campaign, I’ve pinned down the exact form of the weirdness. This is how an about to be ex-wife talks to a husband who has already moved on to a nicer lover. Why would The Second Cuming of Our Lord And Personal Saviour Jesus Christ…
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Protests work sometimes
Via Shepstone’s substack, the massive tractor protests in nearly every EU country finally caused a temporary backdown by the demons. = = = = = START QUOTE: The concessions came amid mounting demonstrations by farmers in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Romania ahead of this year’s EU elections. Spanish farmers on Tuesday joined the…
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Full intelligence achieved!
Headline: A.I apocalypse: Terrifying study simulated what artificial intelligence would do in five military conflict scenarios… and it chose WAR 100% of the time AI has achieved full humanity! It chooses exactly the same thing human rulers choose in every situation! If a computer system chose peace in any circumstance it would be considered dangerously…
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Taibbi is an aspectless idiot
One headline is enough: The Fix is In. Taibbi constantly plays the fake surprise game, pretending that journalism used to be honest and politics used to be honest. Now the Horrible Other Party has turned everything sour, but we can restore the old pristine state of integrity by “electing” My Wonderful Party. 2/3 of the…
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Recycled authentication
1. Every language has ways of marking the end of a sentence or thought. Words are much less definite and more variable. In some languages the elements we’d consider words are integral parts of one ‘word’ that forms a sentence. In every language phonetic coarticulation melds ‘words’ but doesn’t cross a sentence boundary. 2. Written…
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Isn’t that fraud?
The latest weird spam from the Trump campaign asks if I’d like to be Trump’s VP. Isn’t that outright fraud? Making a job offer that is known to be false? Well, I guess it isn’t weird. Everything Trump does is outright fraud, so a non-fraudulent action would be weird.
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