Author: polistra
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Not extrasensory at all
UncommonDescent pointed to this video of cats in Japan anticipating a quake by a few seconds. UD speculated about P-waves vs S-waves, but it’s not that complicated. It’s just rednuht. During the ‘swarm’ of small quakes around here in 2000, the events were frequent and consistent enough to learn the pattern. It was like a…
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Thermal profile
Meteorologists talk about thermal profiles, which are normally way up in the atmosphere. Right now we have 51 degrees by the river (near my house) and 31 on the mountain. There are 40s and 50s on all sides of the 31. I don’t recall seeing such a drastic gradient strictly by altitude. When a front…
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Immediately continuing…
Branching from previous item on Sammy’s stupidity vs Mafia’s wisdom. I wrote that the Mafia used non-electric communication systems perfected 800 years before the telegraph. They also had FINANCIAL systems of equal age and perfection. Both systems relied on what we’d now fakely call “quantum entanglement”, or resonance of thought and purpose. When everyone in…
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Nah, he can’t be that dumb.
Still pointlessly trying to figure out the motives of SBF. He keeps testing the limits, and the judge keeps clamping more limits. Obviously he’s a pro criminal type who simply can’t stop testing limits. Mafiosi from 1930 to 1970 belonged to the same personality but had more TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE. That’s the puzzle. Mafia bosses didn’t…
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Reprint from a year ago
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. This was one year ago but feels like only one month. Nothing has changed except that the “independents” are now totally magnetized by Gaia through Gaia’s High Priest RFK Jr. = = = = = START REPRINT: Still watching all the “independents” falling into line like passive iron filings…
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Fake all the way down
I always knew that our “wakeup” response to the surprise of Sputnik was fake, or maybe just incalculably stupid. We ruined our own science and math education in an alleged effort to surpass the genuinely excellent Soviet education. This article shows that our SURPRISE was also fake. The context makes sense based on what I…
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Wrong word, same advice?
Randomly noted in a Reddit topic of ‘useful quotations’… How to survive in a tyranny: Keep your mouth closed and your eyes open. In 1969, Warden Copley gave the new intakes his standard speech. Imagine Edward G. Robinson as a gangster and you’ve got Warden Copley. I heard him say: Keep your mouth closed and…
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Ray of hope?
Denyse is back at UncommonDescent. I’m glad. She was gone for a few months, and the ‘news’ section was edited by a physics type who was solely interested in dark matter and black holes. The galaxy-brained bullies took over the site entirely. Denyse is an experienced journalist (no quotes) who knows how to select and…
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Pierce trucks 2
We’re looking at an old tourist court, with a shady-looking truck and trailer parked in one of the spaces. It’s a 1915 Pierce truck, with some unique features. The four-speed transmission had a semi-freewheeling device. When you pushed the clutch down all the way, the input shaft of the gearbox was slowed down, allowing a…
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Keeping the channel occupied
Seymour Hersh, the only strict truth-teller in “journalism”, started a Substack a few weeks ago, and immediately gathered thousands of paid subscribers. So far he’s posted one intro, one real column, and one random note. He doesn’t seem to understand the nature of subscription media, which is odd since subscription media is similar to daily…
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Ancient words continued
Following on previous item about the ancient details of possession… Yesterday I watched a stupid Youtube sales pitch for NFTs. Even now, after the whole fake entity has publicly collapsed, the scammers are still working hard. Old radio and TV shows about rackets dramatized this aspect. As the cops were hauling the swindler off, he…
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Ancient words
Kirn points out yet another reason why you shouldn’t copyright your work if you want to leave a legacy. I hadn’t thought about this part of the problem. He shows parallel passages from Roald Dahl’s novel ‘Witches’, with the latest edition bowdlerized by Woke idiocy. Recently the ancient word usufruct popped into my ancient head…
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More Mattingly meandering
I’m going to quibble with Mattingly again. He’s so close to right in many areas that his errors make me itchy. (I don’t bother to quibble with demons who are intentionally wrong about everything.) In this piece about journalism he gets the post-1990 action powerfully right. Cable soap opera and web are pulling toward the…
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Expertly gaming the algo
If you think you’re gaming the system, beware. There’s always somebody who games better than you! Via Reddit, dozens of TikTok livestreamers are sitting on the sidewalk in one highway underpass. Each is using the same type of circle light, and each is sitting on a low platform. Each is arranged so her camera can’t…
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QT is starting to make a difference!
Via DailyMail, the top tech monster companies are firing “diversity” loonies and cutting out “DEI” departments. This is an automatic result of the shutoff of free counterfeit. When business demons are subsidized by the stock demons, they will happily do demonic shit. When business demons are constrained by PROFIT, they are forced against their satanic…
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