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Recycled authentication
1. Every language has ways of marking the end of a sentence or thought. Words are much less definite and more variable. In some languages the elements we’d consider words are integral parts of one ‘word’ that forms a sentence. In every language phonetic coarticulation melds ‘words’ but doesn’t cross a sentence boundary. 2. Written…
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Isn’t that fraud?
The latest weird spam from the Trump campaign asks if I’d like to be Trump’s VP. Isn’t that outright fraud? Making a job offer that is known to be false? Well, I guess it isn’t weird. Everything Trump does is outright fraud, so a non-fraudulent action would be weird.
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Unexpectedly fashionable
Seen in a 1923 radio mag… I’ve never seen a picture of Mrs Coolidge before. Unlike Calvin, she looked fashionable and sharp. Political wives were expected to be dowdy and drab, and most of them still are. Jackie Kennedy was the first well-known exception, but she didn’t shift the pattern much. Looking up Grace Coolidge,…
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An opportunity if they want it
Businesses don’t really want to do business. Rushfield at the Ankler writes another incisive piece on the failure of the movie industry. The decline started a LONG time ago after WW2 when young folks moved into the suburbs, had kids, and the theaters didn’t follow them. Cable TV and its newer web-based streaming versions, plus…
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UAW loses
Shawn Fain, after a year of splendid leadership against the corporate monsters, sacrifices it all by endorsing one of the corporate monsters. Betrayal breaks trust. Everyone in a position of power is a betrayer now. In a less dramatic sense, smart independent power-seekers understand that you lose your magic when you endorse a party or…
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Reprint on original sin
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = START 2020 REPRINT: Basic generality: All factions of Deepstate are blackmailers. Blackmailer is another name for secret-keeper. Any profession that has the habit of confidentiality will end up blackmailing and destroying normal people if it’s not rigidly constrained. The first Deepstate was Rome. Priests hear…
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Nature’s revenge
Nature hates California as much as humans hate California. Admittedly floods and mudslides ruin humans more often than they ruin demons, but these specific mudslides are a perfect punishment for the rich. Demons always build at max available altitude to reflect their max status. In Los Angeles the fuckhead mansions are perched on unstable cliffs…
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Reaches the same conclusion
Ramesh Thakur writing for Brownstone reaches the same conclusion that I reached a couple years ago. Thakur is comparing the British Post Office mess, which was finally compensated way too late, with the “virus” holocaust, which hasn’t even decisively stopped let alone compensated. The two monstrosities are infinitely different in scale. The PO mess ruined…
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Folly houses reprint
Reprinting solely to add an interesting fact that lends weight to one side of my guesses and eliminates the other side. Fact: Vintage.es shows city officials smashing pinball machines with the same gusto that they smashed kegs of beer. Pinball is about as innocent as you can get in the whole historical realm of gambling,…
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Exact parallel
Business Insider says that tired and disgusted workers are demanding cubicles, after two decades of QE and ZIRP and the idiotic WeWork “open offices”. = = = = = START QUOTE: Little did anyone realize that within a few years, the cubicle walls would come crashing down. The tech boom arrived, bringing with it open…
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Amazing!
Federal courts are starting to make a few SANE decisions, counteracting the Gaian demons who are trying to kill all peasants so Bezos can own the world. 1. The Osage, who have been at the bottom of the economic totem pole for decades, are finally winning an important battle. In the area between Ponca and…
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Witch hunts end…
When the torches start burning the igniters. This applies to all sorts of evil fads and trends, not just witch hunts. Harvard seems to have broken the long-term wildly destructive trend of credentialism when its highly credentialed president and Chief Inquisitor foolishly inquisited Correct Persons. Now the broad movement against college is accelerating, which is…
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Since 1975
We’ve been a colony of China since Nixon surrendered to them in 1975. Everything we do is aimed at reserving our natural resources for the Mother Country. Environmentalism eliminates our own consumption of coal and oil and natural gas so we can send all of it to China. This article by a railroad man gives…
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Knowing a place
Industry on Parade paid far more attention to Kansas and Oklahoma than any modern TV show. Many of the features were in that area. They showed Capper’s farm magazine interviewing a modern farmer, a flood in the Argentine industrial area of KCK, aircraft production at Boeing, an oil exhibition in Tulsa, and the Picher lead…
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Deeper into lunacy
If elite groups were really concerned about peasants hating them and distrusting them, the elites wouldn’t try so ferociously hard to be hated and distrusted. They would say something that happens to agree with reality once in a few decades. The latest absurdity from “scientists”: Picking your nose causes Alzheimers. Granted that DailyMail always manages…
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