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Would be nice…
Latest from Kirn: Someday creativity, free speech, civil liberties, peace, prosperity, and a balanced respect for tradition and exploration will not be assailed as “extreme” positions. The Boy Scout in me hopes that a more open Twitter will help in this process. I think it might. I think it won’t. This is one of the…
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Important piece
Brownstone has published an essay by Haley Kynefin. I wanted to find more of her writing, but she’s not well represented online. She wrote at Medium for a while then stopped just before the hoaxocaust. Kynefin is focusing on the lockdowns and muzzles and distancing, not the vax and “origins”. Vax is a proper part…
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It’s not new (of course)
For chuckles and chortles I’ve been reading the two opposing subfolders about bitcoin at Reddit. The Bitcoin folder is full of true believers, and the Buttcoin folder is laughing at the true believers. Non-barking: After a while I realized that one HUGE element is missing in these discussions among insiders. Outsiders like David Gerard on…
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Sucker gene
Thinking yet again of the totally useless blockchain crap. Every one of these “innovations” is a wildly overcomplicated way of doing a task that is already working just fine. I’ve observed for a long time that complicators and simplifiers are disjunct personality types. I’m a pure simplifier, and I have trouble understanding the motives of…
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Can’t make it up
Now that NFTs have resumed their natural and accurate value of precisely zero, the true believers still need a liturgy. So a clever priest has developed a ‘fantasy football’ league where you can pretend to trade the things that you formerly believed you were trading. Via Web3IsGoingGreat: Non-fungible token (NFT) traders who’ve lost real money…
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Sputnik’s birthday, with a difference
Polistra and friends have been saluting Sputnik’s birthday for many years. This year, for the very first time, we have to salute NASA as well. Until last week NASA served no purpose at all. USA was pretending to compete against Russia’s superior education system and superior work system. We lost the pissing contest forever when…
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One nice thing
One advantage of the modern era of total control: The insiders are no longer bothering to hide. I’ve been pulling away from Substack as it converged to the Deepstate norm. Like Youtube and FB, it now steers you into the orthodox lane. In all of those media you can still find the unorthodox, but you…
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Not surprising
MindMatters is citing a ‘surprising’ research finding that isn’t surprising. For the past 100 years, we have believed that each sensory cell has its own “optimal frequency” (a measure of the number of sound waves per second). The hair cell responds most strongly to this frequency. This idea means that a sensory cell with an…
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Debtoleth = Deatholeth
Reprint from 2018 with a couple of marked updates. = = = = = START REPRINT with addendums: While futilely searching for info about direct payment from banks to heretics, I came across an 1883 text on banking with lots of nice clear history on banks, governments, and debts. There’s an extremely simple pattern that…
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Marx is the real ledger 1
Repeating again the REAL phrase: From each according to his abilities, to each according to his WORK. If you don’t work you don’t eat. These concepts are in the Manifesto, in the first Soviet Constitution of 1917, and in the last Constitution of 1977. Maybe the usual phrase with NEEDS is derived from Capital; I…
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Marx is the real ledger 2
From Wikipedia: Marx was a scholar, not a politician. He was primarily concerned with disproving the concept of marginal utility. He didn’t want to publish volumes 2 and 3 of Capital until he could disprove the concept to his satisfaction, which he never did. Engels and others saw the power-mongering potential and published the rest.…
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Labored in obscurity
Sailer has an interesting observation about rediscovered greatness. “Labored in obscurity” is logically impossible. Greatness can’t be rediscovered later unless the artist or author was important enough (not necessarily famous enough) to leave a body of work in collections or libraries, or a ‘school’ of proteges and followers. The opposite is actually more common: Artists…
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Farm electric was a BIG business
Following from the Delco vibrator mystery, perusing 32V farm power systems. I was mainly curious about the form of the outlets. Was there a special plug for 32VDC so regular 110VAC appliances couldn’t be plugged in, and vice versa? No. At that time the two-pronged outlet was still rare; most houses had nothing but screw-in…
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Zirn Zibbles
Influencers really need to realize their weak points. Well, everybody does, but it’s more consequential when influencers grab onto the latest obvious scam. Kirn doesn’t realize that tech is his weak point. Or else he’s working for the enemy. Today he’s advertising something called Urbit, the latest version of Gab or Parler. Urbit comes with…
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NOT Parkinson!
For 65 years NASA has been serving no purpose except a pissing contest against Russia’s superior education system and superior work system. We lost the pissing contest when we failed to “wake up” our own schools. Since 1975 NASA wasn’t even pissing, just burning up money. Pure Parkinson. Today for the first time NASA performed…
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