Author: polistra
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Debtoleth = Deatholeth
Reprint from 2018 with a couple of marked updates. = = = = = START REPRINT with addendums: While futilely searching for info about direct payment from banks to heretics, I came across an 1883 text on banking with lots of nice clear history on banks, governments, and debts. There’s an extremely simple pattern that…
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Marx is the real ledger 1
Repeating again the REAL phrase: From each according to his abilities, to each according to his WORK. If you don’t work you don’t eat. These concepts are in the Manifesto, in the first Soviet Constitution of 1917, and in the last Constitution of 1977. Maybe the usual phrase with NEEDS is derived from Capital; I…
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Marx is the real ledger 2
From Wikipedia: Marx was a scholar, not a politician. He was primarily concerned with disproving the concept of marginal utility. He didn’t want to publish volumes 2 and 3 of Capital until he could disprove the concept to his satisfaction, which he never did. Engels and others saw the power-mongering potential and published the rest.…
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Labored in obscurity
Sailer has an interesting observation about rediscovered greatness. “Labored in obscurity” is logically impossible. Greatness can’t be rediscovered later unless the artist or author was important enough (not necessarily famous enough) to leave a body of work in collections or libraries, or a ‘school’ of proteges and followers. The opposite is actually more common: Artists…
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Farm electric was a BIG business
Following from the Delco vibrator mystery, perusing 32V farm power systems. I was mainly curious about the form of the outlets. Was there a special plug for 32VDC so regular 110VAC appliances couldn’t be plugged in, and vice versa? No. At that time the two-pronged outlet was still rare; most houses had nothing but screw-in…
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Zirn Zibbles
Influencers really need to realize their weak points. Well, everybody does, but it’s more consequential when influencers grab onto the latest obvious scam. Kirn doesn’t realize that tech is his weak point. Or else he’s working for the enemy. Today he’s advertising something called Urbit, the latest version of Gab or Parler. Urbit comes with…
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NOT Parkinson!
For 65 years NASA has been serving no purpose except a pissing contest against Russia’s superior education system and superior work system. We lost the pissing contest when we failed to “wake up” our own schools. Since 1975 NASA wasn’t even pissing, just burning up money. Pure Parkinson. Today for the first time NASA performed…
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Crannogs vs Quages
LiveScience has a nicely written article on crannogs. At first I thought these were the same as quages, but they’re not. Crannogs are anchored islands, basically the same as breakwaters or polders. Put down some rocks or junk cars in a lake, and pretty soon plants will turn the deposit into an island. Quages are…
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Purpose vs Parkinson
Briefly returning to those ‘independent’ organizations who allowed BLATANTLY OBVIOUS DEEPSTATERS to take command. Early in the holocaust, the German ‘independent’ ACU claimed to have secret info that would blow up the blackmail. Nothing happened, then they allowed RFK Jr to take over. The Unz boys claimed to be working on the biowar question, revealing…
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Debunk, rebunk
I’m always patrolling for potential debunks and rebunks. Debunk: No, it wasn’t that way! Rebunk: Yes, it was that way, despite my debunk desires! Browsing through old radio magazines, noticed an ad for Delco farm radios, powered by 32 volts DC. The ad loudly claimed NO VIBRATOR! Delco, part of GM, primarily made starters and…
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Sorry about the messy format
I was screwing around with WordPress themes, trying to get tags to appear at the bottom of the post as they did in Blogspot. Now I’ve got the tags (by accident!), but the fonts and headers are messed up, and the top image is somehow minimized. Well, the tags were the goal, so I guess…
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It’s all QA
The intense pro-college propaganda issued by Deepstate after WW2 always boosted “cultural training”. Supposedly college would turn you into a “well-rounded citizen of the world.” Thinking back to my time at Phillips (small ‘liberal’ Christian college, now extinct)… Did anyone acquire culture there? No. Everyone I knew was already familiar with classical music and classical…
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Getting closer
Kirn has expanded his peculiar argument against AI “art”. He’s on the angelic side of the fight, but his approach is destructive. He focuses on risk and vulnerability as the important factors that make human products human. THE PRODUCT IS NOT THE POINT. Peter Biles gets a lot closer: For me, knowing that a specific…
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Unwanted? Here’s the solution!
Nerds like me always complain about being unwanted. Well, here’s the ultimate answer: = = = = = Do Kwon is wanted in 195 countries. Prosecutors in Seoul confirmed Monday that the Terraform Labs co-founder had been added to Interpol’s red notice list, effectively making him a wanted fugitive in 195 countries. = = =…
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Wisdom of crowds
Textbook example of the ‘wisdom of crowds’. EnidBuzz posted an apartment rental ad. It’s a big fully renovated 2-bed fourplex on the nicer side of town, not far from Vance AFB. The rent is $970. Half of the commenters said it was a good deal, half said it was way too expensive. Which is it?…
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