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Understands
This comedian UNDERSTANDS the permanent unbridgeable chasm between attractive and unattractive, popular and unpopular. I was an ugly kid and my parents were fairly attractive. I knew that their advice and reassurances were wrong, but there were no alternative advisors. Meritocracy and behaviorism were UNIVERSAL AND UNQUESTIONABLE at that time. Now there’s a wider recognition…
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Close can’t close, must close.
This item isn’t important but I couldn’t resist the headline. The story does fit the general theme of institutions proudly going bankrupt to avoid contamination by horrible civilization and life and beauty. Sacrificing all to support chaos and riots and crime and war and ugliness. Good riddance, churches and Hollywood and journalism and libraries. Not…
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Branch farts
From previous item: = = = = = START REPRINT: In fact NSA and CIA don’t use “laws” and “courts” at all. Even ordinary police are not restricted by “warrants”. All police spy on everything** they find interesting, then apply for a “warrant” when they’ve finished spying. After the “warrant” is AUTOMATICALLY ISSUED by a…
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More farts
Idiot Repooflicans are making some especially stinky farts this week, knowing as always that zero action will ever result from the farts. = = = = = Fart 1: An NPR employee “revealed” common knowledge, as Deepstate always does. Deepstate never reveals genuine information. He “revealed” that NPR is all Democrat all the time. His…
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No product, no sampling
Carrying on with CH Smith’s point that AI is winning because there are no better human products to compare with. Certainly true of “journalism”. The professionals, whether still working in MSM or working elsewhere as fake “independents”, have the same arrogance toward their audience. They know what’s best, and they’re PROUD that their product is…
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One huge point
The latest article by Charles Hugh Smith makes one HUGE point that I haven’t heard before. It resonates deeply. The one huge point: AI is winning because the people in charge of making decisions NO LONGER HAVE A QUALITY HUMAN PRODUCT TO COMPARE WITH. The deciders don’t know how shitty the new offshored or AI’d…
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Studie trivia
I bought a new coffeetable book about old cars, the Standard Catalog of Independents. These Standard Catalog books list fine details about all types and prices and options for all years, to the extent that the data was available. The details on Studebaker include some unfamiliar weirdness in the ’50s. Studie ran wild with names…
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Reprint on Platonic crap
Reprinting this from just a few months ago because I feel like it. = = = = = START REPRINT: Via MindMatters. = = = = = START QUOTE: Mark Balaguer defends the proposition that mathematics belongs to an eternal realm. This realm is frequently referred to as the Platonic realm. Mathematics is like nothing…
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What’s the problem?
Headline: Oil and gas companies must pay more to drill on federal land under new Biden admin rule. Conservatives are squawking as usual, but this is a rare example of government applying the correct incentives. Government desperately needs to function more like a business. Businesses charge individual customers for individual services. This leads to more…
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Enjoying rare realists
Online people who agree with reality are rare. (Offline realism is far more common.) So I appreciate the few writers and podcasters who are firmly grounded in reality, ignoring soap opera noise of all sorts. Taggart is reliable, and most of his guests are also reliable. Last week he talked with Hoenig, who was the…
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Radio in the walls
Looking up DeForest’s Unit Panel system, ran into an article in Gernsback’s Radio News from June 1928. Radio in the Ohio State Pen, by 52607. Conditions were definitely different when I was in Mansfield in 1969. If this article is accurate, the inmates of 1928 had far more latitude and trust. = = = =…
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April is the sweetest month
Will wonders never cease? The EU passed a law to restrict “asylum” fakers. They said it would fast-track asylum procedures at the EU’s border, impose tough new screening systems and return people who do not qualify for international protection to their countries. Sorosian devils hate the law, which tells me all I need to know.…
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Y no breadboard?
I’m finally getting my electronics workbench back into commission after a couple years of general weariness. Days go better with a little soldering and experimentation and Real Science™ in the mix. For instance, I was uncertain about the bidirectional current in the induction loop of the Phelps Railroad Telegraph, so I set up a quick…
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World in one checkout
In Safeway the woman behind me in the checkout line was loading the belt with dozens and dozens and dozens of baby food jars. She was clearly from India, judging by her appearance and dress. The other customers, including me, were Anglo and OLD. Describes the world. India and Africa are winning because they have…
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Kucinich misses Parkinson
Kucinich is running for Congress again. I like and admire him, but he seems to have fallen behind the times. He wants to be a Unifier Not Divider by increasing discussion between the parties. This might have been useful before 1990. Parties aren’t the problem now. As I was saying in previous item, civilization depends…
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