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Deepstate loves the 4
I’ve been spending a lot of time in 1948 because it’s a close parallel to the current situation. A long war displaced everything in the economy and culture, and the people were hungry to resume normalcy after the war. The ’48 election shared many of the current elements. In the current mess, at first there…
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Non-orthogonal
After writing the slightly offbase word anytime in previous post, I got thinking about the non-orthogonal nature of the ‘logicators’ in English. some any every no Who? someone/somebody anyone/anybody everyone/everybody noone/nobody What? something anything everything nothing Where? somewhere anywhere everywhere nowhere How? somehow anyhow — nohow** When? sometime[s] anytime — — Why? — — —…
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It’s all Sucker Filter
Looking at the post “debate” discussion, I was struck by the total absence of non-suckers. Everyone in the discussion stays inside a carefully constrained set of Shared Lies. This led to an extremely simple conclusion, which I’ve been nibbling around for a long time without quite getting there. Sucker filter explains EVERYTHING in politics. Politics…
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Powell wins
This is an important landmark, switching the gradients of investment. Savings now yield more than stocks, by the usual averages. This will make life easier for pension funds and insurers, who no longer have to seek crazy IPOs and SPACs and SWINDLEs. They can return to their historical habits of stability.
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Infinitely insane
Random pointless thought while listening to discussion of the Repooflican “debate” tonight. When trying to fill an important job, you want to attract a large set of seekers with solid and relevant experience. On the R side the active candidates include 5 former or current governors and 1 current congresscritter, all successful vote-getters, all generally…
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India gets shit done.
While we’re arguing about Trans Babies and gearing up for an utterly meaningless foodfight between two identical zombie demons, India is quietly getting shit done. Today they landed on the moon.
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Deer
Saw a couple of deer on this morning’s long walk. The last time I saw them was 2018. I’ll take this as a sign that the universe is trying to return to normal after three years of NAZI TORTURE.
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Zenith set released
I’m done with the expanded Zenith topic. Here’s the set at ShareCG as usual. ShareCG wouldn’t let me upload the set titled as ‘Zenith expanded’. I finally figured out that their algorithm is tuned to reject small variations. I changed the title to ‘Wincharger’ and it uploaded properly. = = = = = List of…
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When Sailer writes what he knows
Sailer writes best when he writes about California. He lives there and PAYS ATTENTION to both current events and local history. He doesn’t blow up verb aspect by conflating permanent with temporary or vice versa. = = = = = START SAILER: In Los Angeles, Hurricane Hilary, the first since 1939, has been a summer…
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Even more Wallace
Last month I transcribed a long passage from Henry Wallace’s 1948 speech on inflation. It’s time to add a second section. Wallace saw the development of PERMANENT CRISIS as the guarantee of permanent monopoly by the Men Of Monopoly. Again, here’s the speech itself in mp3 form. = = = = = START WALLACE first…
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Incongruous?
From a 1966 Record World: Sitarist Sri Harihar Rao was signed as a featured artist by Peer-Southern Music. A wailing song and a good sitar, the only things that I understand, Krishna Krishna, the only things that I understand. Well, maybe it’s congruous after all. Indian music is country music, and much of it is…
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Both sides play the game
Reprint from a few months ago. = = = = = START REPRINT: Now we have more “Chinese” UFOs. After I obediently gave Deepstate the snap reaction it wanted, I turned up my input filters and baseline sensors. This is clearly a rather low-quality fake THREAT, and the repeat is designed to create a new…
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Unsurprising, surprising
Browsing through old books looking for more weird clocks to animate. This book contained an unsurprising verification of my observation that censorship is universal and natural. = = = = = START QUOTE: Upon the introduction of printing it was found that the facility with which the copies of books could be multiplied might occasion…
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Note on two-part sleep
Addendum for recent item on two-part sleep. For fun, tried looking for “first sleep” in Googlebooks. Only one definite mention, in a book on the Franciscan monks. = = = = = START QUOTE: In course of time S. Francis came to this place, and in the evening, after compline, he lay down to sleep…
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RAIN!
This rain is especially welcome since it frustrates the ARSONISTS who have been starting hugely destructive fires around here. Not all the fires are arson, but at least three arsonists have been seen, and two have been arrested. Of course the Sorosian monster prosecutor releases all criminals instantly, but at least the cops will know…
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