Author: polistra
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Old saying doesn’t work
Previous item about curing psychopaths led to a slightly new thought. In earlier eras psychopaths were mostly kept in prisons or asylums. Now they’re in charge of everything. New thought: The old saying about inmates running the asylum doesn’t work. Now the inmates are running everything EXCEPT the asylums, and the asylums are closed because…
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Aged well
Indirectly linked in previous. Back in May 2020 I made a prediction that turned out pretty nearly correct. Most of my predictions and assumptions are atrocious, so this one is a worthy exception. May 2020 was after Bush and Trump’s lockdown monstrosity started but before the full horror of Bush and Trump’s waterboarding got underway.…
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Critical Thinking
The people who urge Critical Thinking rarely mean it. (There are some genuine exceptions.) Good example today. Jordan Schachtel worked HARD against what Trump did. He filed lawsuits and led movements. A year ago he decided to work hard FOR Trump. Today he posts that we need more Critical Thinking. Admittedly the subject of this…
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SNOP
I’ve been bitching for years about Congress making rules to prevent itself from doing its job. The process started with Marbury vs Madison in 1803, when the Supremes stole the process of amending the constitution and Congress didn’t bother to take it back. The filibuster is another self-made “law” to block action. In the 70s…
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The only decider
Vance’s speech is great. Hits all the points correctly. I’ve learned to ignore words and listen to what HAPPENS when one man or party is in power. Trump also gave great speeches in 2016. When he got power he joined the Bush regime, enriched the rich INFINITELY, and imprisoned and killed and gagged the poor,…
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It’s just transfer functions
In hot weather I’m not trying to do any tech history items or serious items. Will make do with occasional stupid takes. Today’s stupid take: Somebody posted a pic of a kid drinking a Coke. Wrote “Poor kid probably got diabetes in 2nd grade.” Nope, it didn’t work that way. We consumed HUGE amounts of…
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Mong
Cute note seen on Substack. Five things you can mong: Cheese, war, fish, hate, iron Got me thinking about the root. Previously active suffixes tell a story. How did they lose their activeness? Etymonline says: = = = = = START QUOTE: Old English mangere “merchant, trader, broker,” agent noun from mangian “to traffic, trade,”…
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Picture worth a million deaths
SpokaneNews repeats a press release from a nearby county. They arrested a fentanyl salesman. Do fentanyl salesmen know what they’re doing? The picture answers the question. Along with the usual bundles of cash and pills, one pill container has a jolly psychedelic deaths-head as its cover. Open the skull and dispense death. They know what…
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Grilled?
Grilled? Jesus. These clowns let the secret service agent get by with all sorts of nonsense. He said the roof of the sniper’s building was “sloped”, which requires “rappelling skills”. None of the agents were trained for rappelling, so nobody could possibly manage the steep roof. SLOPED? Jesus again. I’m old and unsteady, and I’d…
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Trouble with dialects
Speech recognition sometimes has trouble with dialects. Comment at Spokane News on the usual arson: Saw a guy today trying to sit for her to a field nearby… Bet she’s from East Texas.
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It’s a gold rush!
Speaking of fake sides and Sammy… Now that Larry Fink has turned Bitcoin into a private betting parlor owned by Larry Fink, Larry Fink “changes his mind” and declares that Bitcoin is “digital gold”. The suckers love it. Oh boy! Our decentralized radical freethinking anticapitalist antimonopoly idol Saint Larry has verified what we always knew!…
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Defining desistance again
Time to reprint the basic definition of Desistance. = = = = = START 2019 REPRINT: #Resistance is really #assistance. When you join a protest or a movement, you are joining Deepstate. It doesn’t matter which “side” you think you’re resisting. You are HELPING Deepstate to create chaos. CHAOS IS THE PURPOSE. There are no…
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Almost always a sucker
Briefly got taken in by JD Vance. He certainly talks the talk. Looking at more sources, he turns out to be a scammer like Trump. Vance is a tech tyrant, closely tied to Thiel. His practical sympathies are with billionaires, not workers. Trump needs him as a conduit to the Effective Altruism billionaires, plus a…
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Reminds me
Substackers are arguing about the physics of head shots and rifles. Reminds me of my jury service in 2014. The defendant was a rich Saudi asshole who got too handsy and forceful with some girls in a club. I was trying to discuss his personality and lack of control. The other three males were intensely…
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