Author: polistra
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Return of an old rule
Noticing a repeat of a very old rule. Back in the 60s I was listening to shortwave from various countries. It was clear that Britain and Russia and Portugal had a more objective view of Vietnam than any of our politicians or media. Now I’m getting the same clarity from Canada. Looking at CTV and…
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Best survivor
My Account Netflix is a remarkable survivor. My Account SiriusXM is a close second. Both of accounts these suffer deletion total at least three times a day, and now they’re starting to suffer declined card credit payments once a day. Against odds all, accounts both just keep up popping and it taking. More durable than…
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Indulging a time capsule
On impulse I looked at Zillow for Manhattan, wondering about the houses my parents owned. Didn’t find any of them, but this one is close. It’s part of the huge Phelps Addition. Phelps built exactly two floor plans during the ’50s, then switched to a slightly larger plan in the ’60s. My parents owned one…
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More dust to wait for
Via DailyMail, with the usual caution about DailyMail’s usual wild exaggerations. Trump, working with ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST RFK, has ordered several agencies to stop their Twitter and other public output for a while. We don’t know yet what this means. He undoubtedly remembers how the agencies spent most of their PR time bashing Trump. I noticed…
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Buy the dippy
Via Protos: = = = = = START PROTOS: Donald Trump’s inauguration pastor Reverend Lorenzo Sewell has launched a crypto token that he says will help him and his followers to accomplish God’s vision. Unfortunately for Sewell and God, the token is down 97%. Just hours after Trump’s swearing-in ceremony the pastor announced the launch…
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What did they gain?
Still thinking in terms of Salesmanship and Sampling the Product and Test Drives. Since 2008 the Dems have been concentrating SOLELY on cultivating billionaires. They had a great product in Obama, but he ruined his own chances by approving TARP to enrich the billionaires. Hillary is a shitty product. Everyone knew it. Biden is even…
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Belated mystery
Listening to these Postal Service training films brings back a memory of a situation that I didn’t question at the time, but seems puzzling now. In 1978 I worked night shift for a quasi-private part of OU in Norman. This “business” ran two facilities on the OU campus. One was the Conference Center at the…
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Should have written here first
I wrote this as a comment on a silly pun seen elsewhere. Should have written it here first, since I asked the question a long time ago. Q: What’s the difference between harrowing and farrowing? A: One is sowing a seed, the other is seeding a sow.
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Motivation to get better
One commenter on the endless and unfortunately boring parade of drug overdoses hits the BIG point. Ya know I don’t believe anyone wants anyone to die…however most of us are sick of it. We give them no motivation to get better and provide more services then most of us hardworking folks can afford. Motivation to…
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Omission vs commission
The most effective propaganda is omissive, not commissive. Example: One of the tech-sponsored websites was trying to steer Americans away from Tiktok and Rednote. They highlighted some Americans who ran afoul of Chinese censors banning a thread that was pro-LGBTQA2ABCDEF. See? Red Communist Atheist Godless Marxist China is imprisoned, we are free! What’s omitted: Our…
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Wait for the dust
Trump has written some nice-sounding executive orders, pulling us out of the Paris Climate Hoax and the World Hitler Organization. He revoked the destructive “green” “new” “deal”, which is good, but he ALSO stopped the Biden admin’s quiet unadvertised restoration of some REAL New Deal policies by replacing Lina Khan. The latter action is real.**…
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High-quality joke
Fine joke from upjoke.com. A Baptist preacher sits next to a cowboy on a flight. After the plane takes off, the cowboy asks for a whiskey and soda, which is promptly brought and placed before him. The flight attendant then asks the preacher if he would like a drink. Appalled, the preacher replies, “I’d rather…
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No need to read Machiavelli.
Here’s the end goal of Mach’ian rulers, all wrapped up in one nice little sentence. Do not buy the $TRUMP coin/con. If it isn’t Bitcoin, it is a scam. Brand A scam says “avoid the Brand B scammers, stick with honest Brand A”. Brand B scam says “avoid the Brand A scammers, stick with honest…
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More anniversaries
Jan 20 is one of my anniversary dates. = = = = = PARTIAL REPRINT: When I got out of prison, my first experience with independent life was in this duplex in Stillwater. I restarted college on Jan 20, 1970. My Zenith Trans-Oceanic helped to pull me out of the walls and back into the…
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Same reason as before
Continued thought about Tiktok, Rednote, etc. As I noted yesterday, the net provides REAL opportunities for people in different countries to get to know each other. This has been happening for years, especially on video-oriented media like Youtube. It shouldn’t be a surprise that American and Chinese youngsters are meeting and talking and learning about…
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