Author: polistra
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Two solvers
We have exactly two problem-solvers in the world of politics and power. All the rest are demonic problem-generators or passive helpers for the demons. The first problem-solver is DeSantis in Florida. He is clearly following FDR’s model. Ignore ideology, forget standard sayings and standard tactics. Just fix what’s broken. He’s also explaining his actions clearly…
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Wow! Wow! and Wow again!!!!!!
A perfectly GIANT contribution to our knowledge of the world! Bacterial spores have an extraordinary ability to evaluate their surrounding environment while remaining in a physiologically dead state. They found that spores use stored electrochemical energy, acting like a capacitor, to determine whether conditions are suitable for a return to normal functioning life. Spores were…
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Tired of this
I’m lethally tired of conservatives who haven’t been paying attention for the last 50 years. They’re still saying the same two or three Official Conservative Quotes, most of which were wrong from the fucking start even before they turned stale. Here’s a good example from a respondent in one of Kirn’s twitter threads. (Kirn himself…
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Proper use of science
Here’s a nice example of Carverian science. Constant: Everyone knows that the mind shifts mode after age 40. Millions of words have been written about this change for thousands of years. We sometimes call it the midlife crisis, but most folks realize it’s not a crisis, just a change in our way of perceiving the…
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Smart observation by Taibbi
Taibbi is discussing the downfall of journalism in a simple practical way. When CNN decided to run 24-hour news, quality switched to quantity. Definitely true. But Taibbi started in the industry after the Fairness Doctrine was already gone. Revoking the Doctrine opened the way to transform news into soap opera, and the increased quantity of…
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Downtown upstairs
Old downtowns had a separate world upstairs, and often another separate world under the sidewalks. An item in today’s EnidBuzz gives us a glimpse of one upstairs world: Opened in 1923 as the 900-seat Billings Theatre, built by William S. Billings and his wife Henrietta, who lived in apartments above the theatre. It later became…
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Finally figuring it out
Regular conservatives are starting to see the problem with ‘transparency’. I can’t be overly snarky on this topic because I was also inexcusably slow. Before 2012 or so, I was fully onboard with transparency. Even in 2020 I was still vainly hoping that revealing the facts would break the blackmail and weaken the “virus” hoaxocaust.…
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Would be nice…
Latest from Kirn: Someday creativity, free speech, civil liberties, peace, prosperity, and a balanced respect for tradition and exploration will not be assailed as “extreme” positions. The Boy Scout in me hopes that a more open Twitter will help in this process. I think it might. I think it won’t. This is one of the…
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Important piece
Brownstone has published an essay by Haley Kynefin. I wanted to find more of her writing, but she’s not well represented online. She wrote at Medium for a while then stopped just before the hoaxocaust. Kynefin is focusing on the lockdowns and muzzles and distancing, not the vax and “origins”. Vax is a proper part…
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It’s not new (of course)
For chuckles and chortles I’ve been reading the two opposing subfolders about bitcoin at Reddit. The Bitcoin folder is full of true believers, and the Buttcoin folder is laughing at the true believers. Non-barking: After a while I realized that one HUGE element is missing in these discussions among insiders. Outsiders like David Gerard on…
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Sucker gene
Thinking yet again of the totally useless blockchain crap. Every one of these “innovations” is a wildly overcomplicated way of doing a task that is already working just fine. I’ve observed for a long time that complicators and simplifiers are disjunct personality types. I’m a pure simplifier, and I have trouble understanding the motives of…
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Can’t make it up
Now that NFTs have resumed their natural and accurate value of precisely zero, the true believers still need a liturgy. So a clever priest has developed a ‘fantasy football’ league where you can pretend to trade the things that you formerly believed you were trading. Via Web3IsGoingGreat: Non-fungible token (NFT) traders who’ve lost real money…
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Sputnik’s birthday, with a difference
Polistra and friends have been saluting Sputnik’s birthday for many years. This year, for the very first time, we have to salute NASA as well. Until last week NASA served no purpose at all. USA was pretending to compete against Russia’s superior education system and superior work system. We lost the pissing contest forever when…
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One nice thing
One advantage of the modern era of total control: The insiders are no longer bothering to hide. I’ve been pulling away from Substack as it converged to the Deepstate norm. Like Youtube and FB, it now steers you into the orthodox lane. In all of those media you can still find the unorthodox, but you…
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Not surprising
MindMatters is citing a ‘surprising’ research finding that isn’t surprising. For the past 100 years, we have believed that each sensory cell has its own “optimal frequency” (a measure of the number of sound waves per second). The hair cell responds most strongly to this frequency. This idea means that a sensory cell with an…
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