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Two positives
Hadn’t looked at StraightArrowNews in a long time. Today they have a couple of truly positive items. One is speculative, the other definite. A huge lithium area has been found by geologists along the boundary of Oregon and Nevada. If it proves out, it would be half of all the world’s lithium deposits combined. Will…
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C-tactile
Yasuko has produced a huge number of tutorials using acupressure and similar methods to improve mood and health. This one turned out to be surprisingly effective: Is C-Tactile proper science? Yes. Exactly. = = = = = START QUOTE: The human equivalent to the C-LTMRs are called C-tactile afferents. The C-tactile afferents, which exist exclusively…
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Bachelor stoves
Ran across this while reading up on the Pratt typewriter. This is described as a bachelor’s stove. It was supposedly invented by James Watt himself. One specimen was donated to a museum by a Watt descendant in 1863. The relative claimed this was the same teapot Watt was using when he was inspired to make…
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Two matching words tell the story
BreakingPoints reviews a Pew poll on the state of American disgust. Pew’s own page has one graph that tells the whole fucking story. 65% of Americans are EXHAUSTED by the whole pile of ratshit. 4% of Americans are EXCITED by the pile. The 4% are instantly identifiable. Psychopaths are about 5% of the population. Psychopaths…
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The constant
Still thinking about the two-sided failure of marketing this year. The constant on both sides is the culture war. Bud lost its main audience when it focused on culture from the tranny “left”. Repooflicans lost their working-class audience when they focused on culture from the effete elegant Buckleyan “right”, which is precisely identical to the…
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There will always be an England
CODE RED CLIMATE BURNING EMERGENCY! headline in Daily Express: UK hot weather: Indian Summer brings 22C heat as new map shows when it will blast Britain 22C is 72 FUCKING DEGREES in real numbers. That’s not HEAT, that’s goddamn ROOM TEMPERATURE. That’s the ideal goal of air conditioning in actual hot weather. You’re getting “blasted”…
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Nice contrast
Most recent marketing failures are completely unnecessary as well as incurably stupid. Bud Light DID NOT HAVE A PROBLEM, so it didn’t need to change anything. Bud was the solid number one in most age categories. It spoiled the best audience with its indescribably idiotic tranny crap. Cracker Barrel restaurants have a real problem. Their…
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Hammering an old point
The argument about common carriers vs Youtube, Twitter, etc is fake. Supposedly we need to treat Youtube etc as more like common carriers in order to insure “free” speech. Supposedly new tech has blurred the line between publisher and carrier. Nonsense. The line is still perfectly sharp and clear. 1. There has never been free…
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Four things I couldn’t have guessed
Just for my own purposes, collecting four important things that I learned from others in recent years. Most of my learning comes from painful experience. I couldn’t have figured out these four facts on my own, and I’m grateful to the people who revealed them. 1. Manweller’s Rule. Elections only count when they don’t count.…
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What we lost, part 54386738957857834579
Yet another example of what we lost when the NYC tax evaders broke out of the FUNCTIONING British system in 1776. = = = = = START QUOTE: MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough admitted last week that he and his wife, co-host Mika Brzezinski, often talk with democrats and other politicos — and “every discussion” about Biden…
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Not noticing
Unfortunately COWARDASS SISSYASS PUSSYASS REPOOFLICANS still haven’t noticed their own marketing failures. TheFederalist is tripling down on the crucial importance of three-piece suits and silk ascots and top hats and monocles and spats and perfumed periwigs and fine cigars and crudités and fine grammar. Tell you what, dummies. A man who thinks first of haute…
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Noticing the problem
For a long time I’ve been hammering on the fact that academic “social science” is totally disconnected from reality. It operates on a standard set of weird preconceptions about ordinary people. The real social scientists are advertisers and marketers, who understand real people deeply and use their understanding for profit. The rule seems to have…
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Spam express
Random pointless observation. I accidentally left AOL mail open this morning while I was cooking and eating. The inbox bell kept ringing over and over for several minutes, and then it stopped. All the items were related-looking spam, not meaningful emails. I’d previously noticed that spam seemed to pile up at a particular time, but…
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Why does the myth persist?
Burge takes a detailed look at Hispanic voting patterns in Florida. I found one BIG number more interesting than the details. = = = = = START QUOTE: Politically, are Hispanic Catholics predisposed to vote for Republicans at a higher clip? I don’t really see that in this data, honestly. According to Nationscape data, 47%…
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Leaning in, steering in
Substack is “leaning into politics” by hiring a political coordinator who worked at CNN and WaPo. Not auspicious. One basic rule runs deeper than all the current idiocies and monstrosities. Big corporations MUST conform to the whims of the ruler if they want to function and grow even bigger. Big media needs lawyers, loans and…
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