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Sounds fucking familiar
When you think in terms of trusts and monopolies, government policies are much less mysterious. Copyrights and patents are NOT about encouraging innovation. Their sole purpose is to BLOCK innovation by outsiders. Environmentalism is NOT about clean air, it’s about raising the price of oil and coal. This was already obvious in 2010. The latest…
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Spring rebirth
Polistra and friends enjoy a refreshing spring shower now that warm weather has finally arrived. Thank the Lord and thanks to Jerome Powell for continuing to hold the line despite universal screeching from the vultures. Real business and thrift have a chance of rebirth now. = = = = = Graphics footnote after posting: The…
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Type trust?
In looking through old catalogs of printing supplies, I kept seeing this declaration: We are not part of the Type Trust! What was the Type Trust? From a book listing all the known trusts, How did it break? Classic LBO tactics, same as now. Pick up a mortgage on part of the company, force payment,…
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Another flip
Persia and Saudi are becoming allies and taking the China-Russia side. Saudi has been slowly and carefully moving eastward. Several years ago they started buying weapons from Russia, and they hired Rosatom to build a new power reactor. This new linkage with Persia should worry the US empire more than the commercial ties. Starting in…
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Bet they’ll flip on this
The fake “ideologies” of the “two” parties have flipped on most of their fake “issues”. Here’s one they haven’t caught yet. For many decades “both” parties have been screeching about immigrants getting to “vote”. D wants immigrants to “vote”, R wants to keep them from “voting”. The actual party preferences of several major immigrant groups…
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Older and clearer thoughts
The two “bank” crashes this week resulted from a bizarre reversal of basic definitions. In 2017 I had some broader and clearer thoughts on the subject. = = = = = START REHASH: While feebly attempting to “think” about REAL VALUE vs FAKE VALUE in banking, I noticed a basic fact. So far I can’t…
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Anyone could own?
Last week I was trying to show that one individual has always been powerless against the rulers, but an organization or union has always been capable of pushing back against demons. 4. Before Hollerith, record-keeping and calculation were partly mechanized by printing presses and typewriters and abacuses and cash registers. Anyone could own an adding…
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Mistimed silliness
Vintage.es shows a silly invention from 1941. It’s a phosphorescent mitten to make your hand signals more visible to following drivers. Might have made sense in the ’20s, but by ’41 many car brands offered optional turn signals. The demonstration is especially silly because it’s a ’41 BUICK, which made turn signals STANDARD in ’38.…
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Today is…
Today is ‘Festival of Life in the Cracks Day’! Saluting a hardy survivor that lives in the cracks, reprinted from Sept 2019. = = = = = This week’s big rain triggered a ferocious sprouting of a ‘ground cover’ plant in ALL of the street cracks. The streets are a dense web of cracks now,…
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Beautiful! More, please!
Another fuckhead bank goes DOWN IN FLAMES! Silicon Valley Bank branch in Manhattan today called the cops on tech investors trying to pull their cash out as a run on the bank forced regulators to seize its assets. Police were called after ‘about a dozen’ financiers, including former Lyft executive Dor Levi, showed up outside…
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Stupidest game
Ordinary people solve problems all the time, in life and in work. Politicians make problems, and when they’re not making problems they write stupid stageplays that look like solving problems. This one is a very old Repooflican game. “President Biden is prioritizing politics over his own people,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said at a signing…
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Yeah, but what IS it kinda like?
Fine one-liner from Kirn. Congress is showing its idiocy in hearings about the Taibbi Twitter expose. Zing! The non-techy congresspuppet should have prepared better. Congresspuppets have large staffs of younger people whose entire job is preparing and scripting the puppet. The staff didn’t do their job. BUT: The question isn’t easy. In non-techy terms, what…
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Why do we ignore life?
Life is negative feedback. Negative feedback is life. Our bodies are running an infinite number of feedback loops inside each cell and inside each organ and between the organs and between people and between communities all the time. Nearly all of these loops are unconscious, but we certainly comprehend feedback in conscious and verbal ways.…
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FDIC to Bitcoin: Drop Dead!
This is breaking news. I included it as an update to last week’s ramble about Silvergate, but this deserves immediate mention and an irresistible headline. Silvergate, the main real bank supporting the fake foundation of bitcoin, was collapsing. Earlier today it tried to imitate Goldman, begging FDIC for a bailout. Now FDIC has told Silvergate…
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Makes sense.
Pointed via Reddit, an interesting observation from a survey about scam-spotting. Extroverts have a harder time detecting fake reviews. Makes complete sense. Unpopular people NEVER experience a positive reaction in real life, so we KNOW from long and painful experience that EVERY positive reaction is fake. Popular people ALWAYS get positive reactions, so their experience…
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