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Wrong product
Article in Catholic Thing discusses adapting to a smaller church. The stats are clear and drastic. Catholics are dying and leaving fast, except in Mexican parts of town. And even there, evangelical churches are taking over from Rome. Example: In my working-class mixed race neighborhood, there are four Evangelical churches within easy walking distance. Each…
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Speedrunning = speedreading
From 1905 to 1945, most Americans had an accurate idea of how to get wealthy. We understood the Machiavellian truth. Power and wealth are earned by evil and crime. Busting this truth was a MAJOR part of Deepstate’s project after 1946. Massive media and school-based propaganda attempted to restore the lies of “equality” and “meritocracy”.…
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Bright idea!
News or something: Bud Light’s vice president said she wanted to update its ‘fratty’ branding with ‘inclusivity’ days before Dylan Mulvaney’s partnership was unveiled. Hey guys! I’ve got the best idea in history! Let’s aim all of our ads solely at a dozen super-rich super-hoitytoity OCD Vegans who would never never never condescend to drink…
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I shouldn’t even try
Discussions of Sammy’s rise and fall repeatedly hit a point that I can’t grasp. Supposedly Sammy was a hypnotic figure. Supposedly he had a magnetic appeal to everyone he met. I don’t get it. I can sort of see the appeal of Elizabeth Holmes. She’s pretty and lively and radiates a sense of mission and…
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What would Steinbeck think?
Peter Biles at MindMatters uses an old literary interview with Steinbeck to speculate on Steinbeck’s views of AI. Biles concentrates on the way an author writes, and concludes that Steinbeck would dislike the way AI writes. There’s a much bigger and simpler answer. I was reading Steinbeck constantly for most of my early life. I’m…
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Sucker filter fails!
When an extreme Sucker Filter fails, it’s a sign that the suckers have left the table. Via Protos, four of the Big Names in bitcoin crime tried to start up a new “exchange” specializing in securitized bankruptcy claims from other failed bitcoin crimes. This is like viaticals, securitized pre-bets on life insurance. Blood money. Just…
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Metes and bees
Brownstone is another frustrating visionary. Do they really have a goal, or are they just another Parkinson organization trying to keep running without a goal? From their latest mission statement: = = = = = START QUOTE: The [“virus”] response was as much an institutional failure as it was a failure of rationality and courage.…
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Vector thinking 2
While writing previous item about lots and maps and houses, I asked “What if maps were done as vec…. The answer came before I finished thinking the question. Maps WERE done by vectors until quite recently. Metes and bounds was strictly vectorial, and it closely resembled the newly discovered bee vectors. The example given by…
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Liminal ramps
I enjoy the Liminal Spaces section on Reddit. The term is defined visually, not verbally. Seems to be long narrow repetitive views, like hotel halls or stairways or sewers. Many of the pics are from night-shift workers who have more responsibilities than duties. I used to work such jobs and enjoyed patrolling the rooms and…
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Vector thinking
Following the bees… Nikki Haley is using an old political platitude while claiming to be non-platitudinous. Bring us together! Uniter, not divider! She seems to mean it, but she’s not dancing about it, not giving us the vector to the honey or the terrain we can expect along the way to the honey. We can…
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Two graphy Californians
I’ve been reading Steve Sailer and Wolf Richter for many years. Both are longtime Californians, both are keen observers who know how to look beyond the partisan crap, and both use a lot of data and graphs. Recently Sailer has been losing his sharpness and Wolf has been gaining. Today’s articles are a good example.…
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Secret vectors
This got me thinking about the bee’s waggle dance and vector vs cartesian orientation. Our eyes can do cartesian, but most of our senses, including basic orientation via the eyes, are vector. Looking through PNAS, found a new bit of bee research that goes way beyond this question. The researchers placed an artificial feeder in…
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Not new? New.
Randomly downloaded a 1954 British trade journal. On the first page is an account of some early globalist “social” “science” research, which sounds familiar…. = = = = = START QUOTE: Human Relations in Industry is the title of an interesting report that has been issued jointly by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research…
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Yeah, okay
One commentator notes that arresting the main opposition candidate is what Latin American banana republics do. Yeah, okay, I see the point. But it’s only valid when the candidate doesn’t deserve to be arrested. The problem with the charges against Trump is that he SHOULD be executed for committing the worst crime in history. And…
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More Jones
Continuing from previous item. There’s a more important factor. It’s not just the asking, it’s the location of the ask. The DeSantis campaign hasn’t appeared in my email, AND the DeSantis campaign hasn’t been using Substack. Haley used both. The Haley campaign seems to understand that their buyers are disgusted with mass media. The DeSantis…
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