Author: polistra
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Reverting to the meanest
Trump is taking the Sucker Filter to new depths. Previously he was selecting dissatisfied working men and making them look horrible. Now he has gone back to his NYC Mafia and Roy Cohn roots. His rhetoric is designed to appeal to the most vicious criminals and blackmailers and gangsters. Normal discontented people recoil in utter…
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USA = Rodarbal
I’ve been bothered for many years by one vicious inconsistency. 1. US loves and obeys countries that have actually attacked us in one way or another. England, Germany, Japan, Israel, Saudi, China. 2. US hates countries that have never attacked us. Above all Russia, which has always tried to be our friend. We’ve been steadily…
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Better example
Random train of thought, returning to a not quite random location… Noticed that bitcoin gang leader Do Kwon was finally arrested in Montenegro. This is the least famous bit of the former Yugoslavia. The other little Balkan countries have made the news often. We started a war between Serbia and Croatia and Bosnia and Kosovo…
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It’s simple.
I noticed that a lawsuit by publishers against Archive.org has been decided in favor of the publishers. The web coverage of this decision is uniformly one-sided, calling it unfair and illegal. After reading the actual decision, it’s obviously correct and should be uncontroversial. There’s no question of free speech or censorship. The books in question…
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Bitcoin = pot.
3/19 was my jail anniversary, so I was thinking about the process as usual. New click: The bitcoin movement of this decade is IDENTICAL to the hippie movement of the ’60s. High-status influencers advertise the stuff and sell the stuff under CIA auspices, while pretending to be against the government. Alienated youngsters buy the stuff,…
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Solvometer
The pussyass cowardass Repooflicans in Congress have been in control of the House for 3 months and so far they’ve done exactly nothing. They haven’t even TRIED. No problems solved, just a lot of obnoxious farts. Ordinary people in ordinary jobs do a lot of routine uninteresting work, and also solve problems daily. Every normal…
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Two of my favorite people
A Reddit ‘filler’ says that the honeydew melon was introduced to China by Henry Wallace. China already had its own melons, but quickly grew to love the honeydew and even named it after Wallace. This happened on one of Wallace’s foreign Goodwill Tours, which the demonic HUAC later tried to call treason. One of the…
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Fashions for an engineer’s wife
The eyes are up here! No wait, the eyes are… Speaking of which, Can you find the engineer?
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Wrong question as usual
Via MindMatters. The idea that the higher the human population the scarcer earth’s resources become is prevalent and mainstream. It is behind many of the doomsday alarmist calls for population control and influences much of economic theory and practice. But what if it’s wrong? Marian Tupy offers a different account. The earth’s resources and innovation…
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Itchy
The semi-prosecution of celebrity bitcoin influencers bothers me. There’s nothing new about celebrity endorsers who know absolutely nothing about the product they endorse. Their managers and agents make the arrangements, and the celebrities just read the script like any movie or show. Punishing an action that was effectively legal at the time of the endorsement…
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Copyright comprehension
Jectoons understands the copyright problem, and he practices what he preaches by specifying public domain. He wants to have a chance of leaving a legacy.
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Perfectly scientific
From the fucking start, every sane human recognized that imprisonment and strangulation and sleep deprivation and impoverishment and loss of community and loss of social contact and loss of usefulness were NOT scientific responses to a virus. We already knew how to respond to a virus. Maintain immunity. Fresh air and sunshine and exercise. More…
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Guarangoddamnteed.
Kirn writes: Sensibility colonies are forming. They are not organized but magnetized. They’re purely voluntary. You know when you’re in one. You don’t sell out your fellows. You allow for all sorts of differences & when you can aid one another, you do. No one speaks for all. No other rules. The sellout part is…
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If humans had been blind…
This old book reviews early efforts at printing in tactile form. Braille is the most obvious, but intaglio engraving is also 3dish, and carved letters like runes were 3d. If humans had been blind, we would have no concept of 2 dimensions. The tactile world is 3d. The audio world has 4 dimensions: time, frequency,…
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Good.
GOOD. Powell didn’t pause or pivot. He’s the ONLY problem-solver in the entire Federal monstrosity. The EU central bank is assisting him, but NOBODY else in any position of power is on the solving side. ALL the rest are trying to generate more problems and genocide and war and NAZI TORTURE as fast as they…
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