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More things I learned from others
Recently I gathered up five learnings acquired from others. It’s time to add one more, which isn’t especially recent but was missed in the previous listing. = = = = = START REHASH: Most of my learning comes from painful experience. I couldn’t have figured out these facts on my own, and I’m grateful to…
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Uniquely Enidish
As the west coast continues roaring into chaos and oblivion, the sane states continue gaining economic and cultural strength. Here’s one small but significant sign from my old hometown Enid. A year ago, a woman with a Persian name started a menswear store called Manopolis. She made it through the first year successfully. Downtown is…
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Where’s the prescription?
RFK’s answer to Biden’s “speech” is a perfect history and diagnosis of our troubles. I wouldn’t argue with anything in the transcript, though I might quibble about the educational aspects. He gets all the major points right. As of 1960 we had moral leadership and we deserved it. FDR had rebuilt the country, strictly constrained…
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Yes it is a conspiracy.
This CompactMag article by an architect discusses the shittiness of modern buildings. = = = = = START QUOTE: Life in a recently built apartment is like a simulation that’s constantly glitching. Your towel bar looks like a towel bar, but it can’t hold the weight of a wet towel without falling out of the…
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Should have written here
Another thought that I should have written here first. On Substack somebody posted a description of the Piven-Cloward strategy for overwhelming a government with demands, lawsuits, and immigrants. I’ve seen this many times, but for some reason the style of this description evoked a new thought. New thought 1: This is simply what happens to…
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Even Wash is getting into the game
Amazingly even Overlord Bezos’s fiefdom is joining the anti-crime spirit, at least symbolically. The “state” “legislature” passed a law that would repeal previous limits on police vehicle pursuits, which were slammed down as part of the “George Floyd” massacre of cops in 2021. Won’t help to keep professional criminals in jail, but it should simplify…
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Today’s weird semidream
I wanted to keep the noon nap short, and the semi-dream obliged: A line of parakeets was boarding a car ferry. Each parakeet held a ticket in its beak and inserted the ticket in a vending machine to get on the ferry. WTF?!?!?!! Instant wakeup.
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So that’s what it was about…
I’ve been puzzled by the intense email spam from the California election between Adam Schiff and Katie Porter. I’m nowhere near California and neither side seemed to need money. Why were they filling my inbox? Turns out Porter’s complaints about stolen elections were true. All elections are stolen, but this one was manipulated in an…
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Astrolabes in the news!
Astrolabes don’t hit the headlines often, to put it mildly. Here’s a news item about a newly discovered connection of an old astrolabe. = = = = = START QUOTE: As Gigante began to study the astrolabe – a scientific tool which dates from 11th century Spain and is used to chart stars and other…
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Hell freezes twice!
First Frisco, now even DC!!!!! The city of DC is starting to get serious about crime. = = = = = START QUOTE: The bill will make it easier for judges to order adults and some juveniles to be detained while they await trial for violent offenses, expand the definition of carjacking so cases are…
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Biggest point-miss ever
This is so fucking dumb it’s not even worth taking apart. The difference between digital and analog is ENTIRELY OUTSIDE the weirdass Turing shit in this non-argument. Living analog intelligence works by negative feedback, not by marking ones and zeros. Negative feedback is the crucial ingredient, not a bizarre theoretical limitation which doesn’t even connect…
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Puzzling but wonderful
Adding another random thought to this theme: = = = = = START REPRINT: The teams are getting narrower and narrower and more specialized, in all fields. In pro athletics, every game or race is between two identical performers who are at the top of their range, and the difference has to be measured in…
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Hell freezes over
Alt headline: Why newspapers are failing. San Francisco “voted” solidly against crime and for police yesterday. Hell is officially frozen. The local “newspaper” declared that the people had gone crazy and the city was no longer tolerable for journalists. = = = = = START QUOTE: The San Francisco Chronicle declared its hometown “can no…
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TIL it wasn’t the iceberg
One of those fun fillers at MSN gave us a bunch of things we learned in high school that turned out to be false. Since EVERYTHING we learned was false, and most of the lies were already known AT THAT TIME to be false, this is a low bar. Some of these I already caught…
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