Author: polistra
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Beautiful! More, please!
Another fuckhead bank goes DOWN IN FLAMES! Silicon Valley Bank branch in Manhattan today called the cops on tech investors trying to pull their cash out as a run on the bank forced regulators to seize its assets. Police were called after ‘about a dozen’ financiers, including former Lyft executive Dor Levi, showed up outside…
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Stupidest game
Ordinary people solve problems all the time, in life and in work. Politicians make problems, and when they’re not making problems they write stupid stageplays that look like solving problems. This one is a very old Repooflican game. “President Biden is prioritizing politics over his own people,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said at a signing…
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Yeah, but what IS it kinda like?
Fine one-liner from Kirn. Congress is showing its idiocy in hearings about the Taibbi Twitter expose. Zing! The non-techy congresspuppet should have prepared better. Congresspuppets have large staffs of younger people whose entire job is preparing and scripting the puppet. The staff didn’t do their job. BUT: The question isn’t easy. In non-techy terms, what…
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Why do we ignore life?
Life is negative feedback. Negative feedback is life. Our bodies are running an infinite number of feedback loops inside each cell and inside each organ and between the organs and between people and between communities all the time. Nearly all of these loops are unconscious, but we certainly comprehend feedback in conscious and verbal ways.…
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FDIC to Bitcoin: Drop Dead!
This is breaking news. I included it as an update to last week’s ramble about Silvergate, but this deserves immediate mention and an irresistible headline. Silvergate, the main real bank supporting the fake foundation of bitcoin, was collapsing. Earlier today it tried to imitate Goldman, begging FDIC for a bailout. Now FDIC has told Silvergate…
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Makes sense.
Pointed via Reddit, an interesting observation from a survey about scam-spotting. Extroverts have a harder time detecting fake reviews. Makes complete sense. Unpopular people NEVER experience a positive reaction in real life, so we KNOW from long and painful experience that EVERY positive reaction is fake. Popular people ALWAYS get positive reactions, so their experience…
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Forgotten now
Hersh’s latest piece is a lengthy tribute to Daniel Ellsberg. He emphasizes a set of facts that were general knowledge back then, but forgotten now. = = = = = START QUOTE: [The Church Committee] was the most extensive Congressional inquiry into the activities of the CIA since the agency’s beginning. The committee exposed the…
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Rita’s talent
Lately I’ve been listening to several Hollywood gossip columns in my OTR bedtime list. The available selection is extremely sparse, only about a dozen altogether. Most are Louella Parsons, with a couple from Erskine Johnson and Nancy Terry. The dates range from ’46 through ’54. Nearly all have one common factor: Rita Hayworth. She was…
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Nuke news!
Via StraightArrowNews, a new nuclear power station STARTED OPERATION today! Two more reactors on the site will start up in the next few months! Several other plants are allegedly planned, but this group near Atlanta is the only actual construction and completion in many many many years. Dixie gets it right every time. I made…
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How do you trust?
I stopped reading Berenson a long time ago because he seemed to be working both sides of the fence. Peeked at his substack today, and he has moved on to other subjects, which is probably wise. He’s discussing AI and consciousness, but he seems unwilling to trust the real experts. My question to you –…
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Silly
Now that the warring lunatic oligarchs are reaching out to the moon again, astronomers are considering a standard time zone for the moon. The goal is to “streamline contact among the many countries”. Why? Astronomers have been using one time and date system for centuries, and computers use one time and date. Giving the moon…
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Same game
Headline says it all: Seattle bus driver says fentanyl smoke is making him sick; health dept. says it’s no risk These are the same Public “Health” Murderers who COMMANDED in 2020 that riots were the cure for the “virus”. The riots gave away the game. After the COMMAND, sane people recognized that the only “virus”…
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Depression?
A 1933 aerial photo of Enid’s square, shortly after the old courthouse burned and before the WPA built a new one. Note especially the solid rows of parked cars. What depression? This goes along with my earlier personal and numerical observations on the non-depressed parts of the country.
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Not new, new
A real artist who has been specifically fighting the virocaust writes an excellent and comprehensive piece on the problems of art. One problem is permanent: Aristocrats have all the money, so aristocratic tastes control the art market. Aristocratic tastes have always been “culturally left”. Another problem is genuinely new: In a culture that’s hostile to…
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Impressed
I sat down and listened to this long interview with Nikki Haley. I’m glad I did. She is unquestionably an imperialist neocon, but she’s ALSO an experienced problem-solver who did the right things as governor of SC. Right things = bringing in more real physical business, not sending real business to China. She’s ALSO a…
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