Author: polistra
-
Figured something out…
When Demon Elon was running his scorched-earth blitz, destroying everything good in government and strengthening everything bad, I did some careful reading and bashed him for misunderstanding two of the best parts. I pointed out that Social Security gets only 1% of its money from government subsidies. The rest comes through tax channels, but doesn’t…
-
Set point?
I won’t doubt modern medicine again! Personal experience is the only teacher. Last week, after stupidly DIY diagnosing the problem as psoriasis, I finally got in to see the real human doctor. (A rare GOOD doctor who listens and understands the whole patient, so he’s worth waiting for.) He knew immediately it isn’t psoriasis because…
-
Thresholds
It’s suddenly fashionable to say that AI now makes all truth impossible. ABSOLUTE RAW STINKING BULLSHIT. Visual “news” has ALWAYS been fake because “NEWS” HAS ALWAYS BEEN FAKE. The whole purpose of adding photos and engravings to “news” was to make fakery more credible. The first movie newsreel by Pathe in 1895 was faked in…
-
Worth saying again
I’ve said this before, but it seems appropriate again now. Back in hippie times we used to think that the world would be all peace and justice, man, if the leaders would just get high on LSD and mushrooms. Now they’re high as a kite all the time on LSD and mushrooms, and they’re VASTLY…
-
We should…
We should be giving just as much respect to the regular postman as we do to police and fire. Obviously he doesn’t face life-or-death danger all the time, but he serves EVERYONE in a different way. The regular carrier on a route KNOWS THE NEIGHBORHOOD BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE. He knows most people by name…
-
Repeated pattern
The latest Post Office podcast tells how the postal investigators solved an allergy testing fraud. Fits nicely into my current situation, trying to fix a bad allergic response! The case began when an alert postman in Hyde Park noticed fishy activities in a commercial mailbox service there. He saw their employees opening lots of letters…
-
STOP QUOTING
GODDAMN IT, STOP QUOTING THE SAME TIRED DEAD PHILOSOPHERS AND WRITERS. IF YOU CLAIM TO BE A WRITER, WRITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SAY IT IN YOUR OWN FUCKING WORDS OR SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, I’m pissed. All of these supposed writers are bitching about AI replacing them, while they’re nowhere near AI speed. They can be replaced by a…
-
Even Spokane is learning?
For a long time I’ve been vainly hoping that the idiot Dems would start DOING SOMETHING FOR THE PEOPLE instead of screeching incoherent nonsense about “democracy” and “fascism”, two purely imaginary fake concepts. Now even the perpetually incompetent and nasty “city” “government” of Spokane is starting to figure it out. They’re pouring 7 million into…
-
AI means Artificial Imagination
It’s not Intelligence. Big data has been Intelligent (in the logical sense) for 70 years and gets smarter every day. The LLMs have proven to do a poor job at Intelligence, which makes the rationalists feel superior. Wrong measurement! LLMs are excellent at imagining. Most of what they do is dreamlike, NOT intelligent. Perfect example…
-
Random language note
Been using and enjoying the fresh food from Full Circle for two years. Some items are just the food itself, others are wrapped and labeled. The labels are always in English and French. Organic Cauliflower / Chou-fleur biologique Organic and biologic are equally silly. All food except salt** is organic, and biology is the study…
-
Dr Human beats Dr Google
Last year a good doctor at Kaiser found the solution to my constipation. This year the same doctor found the solution to a much stranger problem. In mid-June after a series of unexpected big stresses pushed anxiety high (same as last year) a rash started to appear on my thighs. It was forming flakes that…
-
Good oneliner
Spokane News is back in the entertainment biz after being too serious for a while. 1500 North Argonne, Assault Reported with one male who tried to flee from Deputies but obviously skipped Track during High School and didn’t make it far. Male in custody. One commenter saw the chase and said Deputy was quick af.…
-
No investigating
Getting really tired of the constant insistence that we need media to “investigate” wrongdoing. Media never does real investigating, and even if it did, EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS. What we need is SOLVING, not investigating. China doesn’t investigate, it solves. The New Deal didn’t investigate, it solved. The same applies to police work.…
-
Persistence
It’s so damn good to see a politician who KEEPS doing the right thing. The vast majority are bad all the time. A few make a move toward the good, then give up when the billionaires push back. Carney started doing good and continues doing it, despite the constant threats and craziness from Trump, and…
-
Vector fields
Vector fields are a math tool used in graphing and understanding sets of forces or complex patterns. Vector fields have proved useful with brain networks. Older forms of measurement were also vectorial, with complex measures like metes and bounds forming vector fields to measure farm fields. A vector is an arrow representing a movement and…
Polistra's Mill 