Author: polistra
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From the other angle
In previous item I was basically discussing adrenaline addiction. Deepstate keeps the adrenaline flowing at all times, causing heart damage and sudden death and weakened immunity. Never let the victims regain balance and normalcy. But adrenaline is also addictive. Soldiers of fortune, mountain climbers, parachutists, gamblers, risk-takers of all sorts, understand this addiction and use…
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Parkinsonstack
When a war or tornado or storm ends clearly with a VE Day or an All-Clear Siren, people can cleanly shift out of Emergency Mode and return to normal life. When the real action asymptotes down to an approximate end as observed and measured, but the official event doesn’t end, people are confused. Parkinson tells…
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Just brands
For some reason the ‘independents’ are happy with banning Tiktok because of “Chinese espionage” and “cybersecurity”. If we were really worried about Chinese spying, we wouldn’t have invited and subsidized thousands of Chinese spies in industry and academia and military research for the last 40 fucking years. If we were really worried about cybersecurity, we…
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Taibbi is learning
I’ve noted that Taibbi started with a highly naive attitude about the history of media and censorship, firmly believing that newspapers formerly “exposed the truth” and “afflicted the comfortable.” He also believed that censorship is aimed at WHAT, not WHO. He believed that censors were turning lies into truth and truth into lies. I haven’t…
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I miss Paul Harvey.
He could handle some current “news” items. = = = = = I’m sure someone would want you to know that today is ‘Doctor-Patient Trust Day.’ Paul Harvey. Good DAY!
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Improving on Nature
Reddit has some weird categories. When they involve physical arts and crafts, they’re often worth a peek. Anthropomorphic Fungi seems maximally weird, but it includes some well-done paintings and arrangements. This is purely wonderful.
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Rare clarity
An economist on Yahoo Finance just now provided a rare bit of clarity, breaking through the fog generated by both “sides”. Semi-quoting: In 2008 FDIC backstopped all transaction accounts, in other words shadow banking. This was deeply unpopular, so Congress took away FDIC’s authority to backstop shadows. What happened last week was not an exception…
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Those three ancient words again
Continuing from the ‘irrelevant’ part of previous item, and tying it back to the more relevant discussion of the three traditional segments of Intellectual Property. = = = = = START REHASH: Recently the ancient word usufruct popped into my ancient head for no reason. I realized that I didn’t know its exact meaning so…
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Audits and edits
FDIC is like an insurance company, but one crucial aspect of real insurance is missing. Real insurers can raise rates or halt coverage for a driver who has accidents, or a business that allows too many thefts, or a homeowner who allows methies to squat in his garage. Real insurers, especially at the business level,…
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Returning to Elon and Twitter
I’ve tried and discarded a dozen hypotheses about Elon and Twitter. Here’s a new hypothesis. Deepstate, like pro wrestling, always creates a cartoon villain. The Official Good Guy and Official Bad Guy always do exactly the same evil deeds, but the evil deeds are Good when done by the Good Guy and Bad when done…
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Reprint on complex money
I’ve been talking loosely about real money vs imaginary money. I made the point more directly two years ago: = = = = = START REPRINT: An old thought leads to a new ‘data visualization’. Old thought: This is one of my Thiel questions, one of the relatively unknown facts I’ve figured out by reading…
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More carbon flip
This is getting interesting. The antivaxers are now the Gaians, following RFK Jr and worrying about toxic plastics and cheering Erin Brockovich. This is actually a return to their true OCD personality type. And Greta is flipping the other way. Last week she was protesting AGAINST windmills. Now she’s deleting her previous claims that the…
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More Shared Lies
The “independents” are missing the point as usual. OCKHAM! This is a classic Shared Lie, two sides arguing over an intentionally irrelevant point. FISA warrants are a meaningless entity. The FISA “court” ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS gives permission to Deepstate, so the “court” is an unnecessary entity. You can factor it out and nothing will change.…
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Gosbank is the answer
Lots of pointless fingerpointing about the bank failures. R blames D for the ESG crap, D blames R for a deregulation during Trump. The ultimate cause is a total lack of discipline when money is free. Banks are supposed to be highly disciplined and controlled companies, regardless of external regulation. Danielle DiMartino, one of the…
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