Author: polistra
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Frustration
Just venting frustration. In a cold uncivilized world ruled by demonic billionaires, it’s difficult to do the right thing. In other places and times it was easier because friendliness and kindness were often reciprocated. Nevertheless I’m going to keep it up. This year I vowed to follow the KSTP rule: Laugh at your ills, pay…
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More than a joke
Joke seen online: Cats must think we’re cleaning an ice cream cone. It’s an interesting exercise in empathy. Dogs and cats use their prehensile tongues for many external purposes, drinking water, cleaning, soothing the C-tactile nerves. We don’t use our tongues for any external purpose except a few specialized tricks like licking an ice cream…
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Bernie comes to life
This is refreshing but futile. Bernie gets it. He’s trying to cultivate some new candidates who will also get it, running closer to FDR’s ideas instead of Sam Altman’s ideas. Bernie already had the right approach in 2016, and could have beaten Trump in 2016. The fucking party cheated Bernie and ran Hillary instead. Now…
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This is why
Protos notes that the bettors in Polymarket are increasing the odds of Jesus returning this year. The odds are still extremely small. It turns out that they’re not really betting on Jesus, they’re working a supercomplex superweird linkage of strategic steps to gain a slight arbitrage advantage. The bet itself isn’t on Jesus: The “odds”…
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Big step for the Foy Rebellion
Basic rule: A new technology is often established by disreputable content. Commercial radio was established as infomercials for businesses, and the leader in high power broadcasting was Doc Brinkley’s goat gland clinic. TV was established by pro wrestling. The web was established by porn. So this development is a good sign (heh) for the return…
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Who ever expected????
I don’t pay attention to instructions on food packages. Today the sun through the window highlighted these instructions on frozen veg as I was reaching into the package to grab some broccoli and carrots. = = = = = Instructions for stovetop: In a medium saucepan combine 8 oz of vegetables and 8 oz of…
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Why so slow?
The post office podcast features a big catch by the postal inspectors. Last year they finally convicted Patrice Runner and his associates for one of the biggest frauds in history. He operated for 20 years, 1994 to 2014, and took in $175 million from 1 million victims. The swindle was low price and high volume.…
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The answer, three ways
The Canadians and the new pope have figured out how to deal with a psychopath. The idiot US Dems and “journalists” aren’t even close to thinking about the right solution. They’re stuck on screeching and suing and insulting the customers, which will only make things worse. Henry Ford and FDR had the right answer to…
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Must be a new month
Substack has screwed up its format again. This always happens at the first of a month. Each time the screwup is different. Goddamnit, why do tech tyrants have to keep fucking things up for the sole purpose of fucking things up? Human beings are smart enough to LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE. Unfortunately human beings don’t…
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Why we were stupid
Back in the hippie 60s we often imagined that the world would be perfect if presidents and CEOs dropped acid. We’d have universal peace and freedom and justice if we could slip some mescaline into Nixon’s martini! We didn’t understand what would REALLY happen because we were infused with the lethal lies of the Endarkenment.…
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Meanwhile in the “real” world….
While Elon destroys the good parts of the government with his wacked-out LSD-fueled psychedelic psychopathy, the “real” world is catching the tech disease. From Spokane News: 500 West Spokane Falls Blvd, Assault Reported. Victim states the suspects were from the metaverse. Nuff said.
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Starship Vega
According to his cultists, Elon is a genius who has mastered every branch of science and engineering beyond all human imagination. He can make an electric car! He can make a subway! He can make a rocket! All of those achievements were fully mastered in 1910. There’s nothing new in any of it. Now his…
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Who’s the welfare bum?
Following on earlier item about Elon’s “efficiency” crusade, where I showed that Social Security, which Elon wants to destroy for “inefficiency”, is infinitely more efficient than Elon. Elon also complains, along with all Repooflicans in all decades, that federal agencies shouldn’t get any money from taxes. Rich fuckheads shouldn’t be nominally required to pay taxes,…
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Stretching the point
Stretching the point a bit, the Post Office belongs in the same category as Bell. It’s a government regulated monopoly, selling services for a profit but firmly required to serve public purposes. So it does. The public purpose works at the supplier end as well as the customer end. The PO buys its trucks from…
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Proved my point
Somebody on substack claimed that quality is the best way to be read online. If you publish the best account of a subject, better than existing work, people will “beat a path to your door”. I responded that it doesn’t work that way, in science or in social media. I linked to my ACTUAL RESEARCH…
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