Author: polistra
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Salute to cafes
(Redated and reposted after some additions) Last week I noticed a picture of an old workingman’s cafe in Enid. The picture was self-explanatory. Why did little cafes do a good business? Because they were right next to downtown apartments and rooms where most people lacked kitchens. Decided to do a proper salute to cafes and…
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Another trust restorer
Sailer points to a university president who has learned the Bud Light lesson. When you’re running a business or a college or a government, your SOLE goal is serving your employees and customers. The business or college or government has specific well-defined products. Beer or research or safe neighborhoods. As long as you work SOLELY…
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Friend spam
All spam messages are now addressed to Friend. Even the supposedly high-dollar politicians start every message with Friend. I’m getting peculiar repeated messages asking me to “endorse” Jim Jordan for some meaningless office in meaningless Congress. Jordan was already rejected three times for the meaningless office, but Friend is still supposed to “endorse” him. Friend,…
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Witches and trust
Mentioned witches and trust yesterday. Here’s a rehash of a couple earlier items relating to both. = = = = = From 2017, dealing with the RUSSIAN_HACKING witch hunt, now resumed after the hunters satisfied their killing frenzy with the “virus”. = = = = = START REHASH: We have two competing witch-hunts underway. The…
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Small defections
There’s no way to fight monsters from the outside. The best we can do is hold back our money and talents when possible, to diminish the available resources. Monsters lose force when internal disputes weaken their unity and resolve. Greenwald reports a couple of small but meaningful internal defections. A board member of ADL resigned…
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FD = GS
I’ve probably written this before, but feels like a good time to write it again. The Fairness Doctrine was directly parallel to Glass-Steagall. Both New Deal laws tried to separate frauds from honest business. FD forced broadcasters to avoid partisan disputes and devote a certain amount of time to public service. GS forced banks to…
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Trying for the Ig-Nobel
New study on a fashionable subject: Predicting potential problems of persistent plastic particulates Peer-Reviewed Publication I don’t know if the Ig-Nobel still exists. After science tortured and strangled the world for three years, not many folks feel like laughing at science. We OUGHT to be laughing and mocking the whole fucking mess, but there’s not…
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Oldest rule
Another example of my oldest rule and oldest passion, endlessly repeated in this blog. As I animate electrotyping and stereotyping, I’m having trouble with the chemical aspects. One of the source articles made an error which was probably simple and obvious. I couldn’t spot it until I read several other explanations. I took chemistry in…
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Nonrandom note
Just one extremely nonrandom note on the Sam Old Subject. I have considerable sympathy for Sammy’s associates, especially Singh and Wang. I HAVE GALACTICALLY INFINITE NEGATIVE SYMPATHY FOR THE INVESTORS AND CUSTOMERS. THEY KNEW EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE GETTING INTO. IF YOU WANT YOUR MONEY TO BE SAFE OR ‘RING FENCED’, YOU PUT YOUR MONEY…
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New breed?
Random thought, probably wrong. The Sammy trial is giving birth to a new breed of journalists in the same way that Watergate and OJ caused major shifts in the field. The new breed has to get along without all their usual hardware, which is banned in the courtroom. They watch the trial, some in the…
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Two main switches
From 1920 to 1945 both parties were isolationist and nationalist. Now both parties are aggressive NAZI warmongers. Deepstate worked assiduously to convert both parties. Truman was the switch point for D. Henry Wallace told us exactly how it happened. In ’48 Nixon, the Kennedy brothers, and Reagan were all working together in HUAC, the training…
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Whose ox?
For many years the “right” was properly mocking the Left for slogans like SILENCE IS VIOLENCE. Now the “right” is fiercely unsilencing people who dare to be silent on the current pet issue. Forced speech is far worse than forced silence, no matter who is doing the forcing. Silence is passive. Most people don’t talk…
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Poignant
Nishad Singh’s testimony focuses sharply on a point I’ve been making since 2014. Nishad admired and respected Sammy UNTIL Sammy instructed him to write dishonest code. Nerds do a terrible job of judging personalities and social strategies because we don’t have personalities or social skills. BUT: When you instruct a programmer to write dishonest code,…
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Not ideas
Sailer observes that foreign ideologies are making more headway in US thanks to international conversations on Twitter etc. I don’t think ideology is a major import. And I don’t think international conversations on modern social media are spreading any ideas or changing any minds. Most foreigners on Twitter and Reddit have a boringly predictable standard…
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