Author: polistra
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Returning to top form
The latest issue of Collectible Auto is returning to top form after a few years of lower quality, partly caused by the “virus”. The mag is based in Chicago, which was hard hit by the main symptoms of the “virus”, lockdowns and panic and riots. This month includes a satisfyingly detailed article on the ’39…
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Why did Endicott fail?
MindMatters reviews some newer research on brainwave resonance. This line of research is ‘controversial’ but seems pretty solid now thanks to MRI. The rule is: When intelligent critters are working ‘in sync’, whether in mating or hive activities, their brain waves are literally in sync. Telepathy unquestionably happens in some circumstances. Russian and American scientists…
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What’s wrong with Frank?
Hersh interviews Thomas Frank. They accurately describe the well-known realignment of D and R. In 1932 D became the HONEST voice of the working class and remained there as long as FDR breathed. Now both represent the plutocrats, with varying forms of dishonesty. D pretends to be about hippie shit. Before 2016, R was openly…
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Words are reflectors
EnidBuzz asks “What’s a habit that makes people seem old?” The answerers interpreted it two ways: (1) Physical habits like naps and groaning that are automatic results of aging in any era; (2) Language or cultural habits specific to earlier decades, like writing checks or using landline phones. One of the latter caught my eye…
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Would be interesting research
Super-random thought about mental jukeboxes. Lately I’ve noticed that my jukebox starts the day with a fresh piece. Sometimes it’s one of the regular buttons but not the top hits. Sometimes it starts with a song that is obviously stored in the cerebellum but never shows up on the buttons. A couple days ago it…
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Language update
Before 2010, I was listening to radio and TV, which provided plenty of material for new words and grammar forms. Since I threw away the TV in 2011 and the radio in 2020, I haven’t done many Language Updates. Finally we have two items worthy of mention. Both are verb forms. One has deregularized and…
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Whoda thunk it?
Actors get it. The rest of the public sphere, including “independent” journalists, doesn’t get it. Whoda thunk it? Hollywood understands the world better than anyone else with a public voice? I certainly never thunk it until a few months ago when I heard the Hollywood types at the Ankler talking plain truth about “the” “virus”.…
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Mugshawtys forever
The latest Bad Girl at Mugshawtys, a perfect Mugshot Barbie: Same mugshawty from yesterday, charged with theft by taking, possession of stolen property, possession of marijuana, and possession of a controlled substance. The second mugshot is because while she was being arrested for the first mugshot she stole the cop’s hat and taser out of…
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Both ways continued
Continuing the cuts both ways theme from previous item… Craig Wright, a professional suer, is also running a patent factory, generating THOUSANDS of carefully crafted patents to block everyone else in the blockchain game. Patent pools cut both ways. When used by pure fraudsters like Wright, they block normal business. Bitcoin is a purely dishonest…
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Purchase is not “appropriation”
Surber points to the usual Die-Verse dividing act, accusing white musicians of “cultural appropriation”. The term is nonsense. In music as in most other arts, good work gets used by a wide variety of performers. The audience doesn’t care who “appropriated” who; the audience only cares about the pleasure of the performance. Surber points out…
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Axis Pride
I’m solidly pro-Russia in terms of our perpetual war against Russia, and I remain solidly pro-Russia. For a long time I was solidly pro-Putin because he was defending Russia in the traditional ways, which traditionally worked. I lost trust for Putin when he went along with the Ballgag Brigade in 2020. He showed that he…
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“We’re the ones you’ll talk to”
More classic labor defense from Fran. Transcribing the best parts: Workers in the whole world are being displaced by robots. What happens here, everyone else is looking at. AI is going to put people out of work. It’s already putting our members out of work. And that is MANIACAL. What are you doing? Why do…
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Where isn’t the beef?
DailyMail has an article on the countries that eat the most vegies. The chart is hard to read, includes only the top 20, and is calibrated in kilograms per year. I’ve translated it into pounds per year per person, and included the top 100 broken up in 10s. This seems to be measuring the ‘color’…
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Makes sense
Saagar and Krystal discuss the total takeover of housing by Blackrock and a couple other giant PE firms. They don’t seem to have any solutions, and they unfortunately miss the main point. It’s too late for a regulatory solution, because the takeover is DONE. Most of it happened around 2017. A sliding scale income tax…
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Still more rancher rambling
Following on this and this. The standard ‘rancher’ and the standard bungalow are domesticated versions of two truly vernacular house types, which are rarely seen in books of house plans. The genuine Ranch, developed on genuine western ranches, was one room DEEP for full cross-ventilation. A Ranch is designed for the wide-open spaces. Each room…
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