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Hard answer to soft question 2
EnidBuzz asked about best vacation memories. Most were default: Grandma, Beaches, Disney, Branson. Second prize: We ran a farm. What’s a vacation? First prize: Watching squirrels eat my sister’s birthday cake. = = = = = [Previous hard answer contest]
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Giant waste of talent
There’s an interesting desistance movement in videogaming. Influencers are ganging up on game companies that specialize in addictive gambling with REAL MONEY. At the moment the worst offender is Diablo Immortal. The influencers, who have been playing the game intensively, have figured out all the super-complex steps needed to … win? Well, it’s not really…
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Good old CIA-sponsored “resistance”
Checking the latest uploads at American Radio Library, tried a 1966 issue of Downbeat, the jazz magazine. Might be some pretty ’60s girls or some interesting old tech. No pretty girls; jazzMEN were all MEN. No interesting tech; jazzMEN didn’t go for electronics. Instead, some insights into the Deepstate-sponsored “rebellion” of jazz. I’d already noted…
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Allocation, allocation, allocation
One of the programs in my bedtime playlist featured Bing singing Kokomo Indiana. Got me thinking about songs and cities and states. There were two other popular Indiana songs, Gary and Back Home. Gary and Kokomo are novelty songs, mainly having fun with the syllables, not intended as a tribute. Back Home was a proper…
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What am I comparing with?
Lately I’ve been fussing about low quality and low quantity of online stuff. Substack is low quality and low quantity. Straight Arrow News is good quality but low quantity. What’s the baseline? What am I comparing them with? I’ve said that old newspapers and broadcasts had a much better mix of topics, a “substantial and…
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No quibbles this time
A nice long interview with Kirn. Highly needed compensation after this morning’s demon strike. Kirn stands back from all branches of nonsense, tribal and partisan and generational, and sees the BIG picture. The best part of the interview starts around 11 minutes, when he takes his father’s experience as a patent attorney dealing with inventors,…
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Fuck.
The ballgags are returning today after the standard two-month torturer’s pause. New announcements in the bus say “Masks are not required but please mask up and stay home if you’re sick.” New signs in the stores say “Masks encouraged.” The acceleration from encouraged to required will be two weeks. Bet on it. Of course there…
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Another converger
Last week I noted that Batya had been unusually silent for a while. Now she pops up again, joining her fellow fake “independents” in total convergence to Deepstate. The old bait-n-switch game, also known as Pied Piper. Unsurprising but disappointing. She was advancing an important set of principles about the proper role of journalism. Now…
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Another related reprint
From 2018. = = = = = START PARTIAL REPRINT: In general 1930s movies and radio were written from a realistic view of human genes and differences. When you’re down you need to understand that you’re permanently down, and shape your life to survive the predicament. Hearing stories about other people who are in various…
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Perfect contrast
Let’s compare the modern military situation with 1941. Now, after 40 years of unbroken mass destruction of America by its own government and corporations, its young men have no physical skills and no emotional reason to help or serve the country. Reprinting a 2019 piece that came from an unusual angle… = = = =…
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What if they gave a war…
Empires can wither and collapse gradually for a long time. The last step generally happens when nobody is willing to fight for imperial expansion. We were about to reach that point after Vietnam, and the emperors forestalled it briefly by avoiding new wars for 15 years. Since 1990 we’ve been fighting more and more useless…
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TODAY IS CAPS LOCK DAY!
CAPS LOCK DAY! OH BOY! MY FAVORITE! APPARENTLY CAPS LOCK DAY WAS INTENDED TO HONOR BILLY MAYS, THE KING OF INFOMERCIALS, WHO ALWAYS TALKED IN THE AUDIO EQUIVALENT OF CAPS LOCK. 6/28 IS ALSO TAU DAY, FOR A MORE OBVIOUS REASON. TAU IS A WORTHY REFORM THAT STANDS NO CHANCE OF ADOPTION. ALL PRACTICAL USES…
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Terrible idea.
US Congress and UK Parliament are starting to consider regulations on bitcoin. Terrible idea. 1. Regulating after the fools have lost their money won’t help anyone. If you’re going to protect fools from voluntarily losing their money, you need to do it on the boom side, not the bust side. The bust itself cures many…
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Schadenfreude is never tiring
I’m repeating this picture happily. Schadenfreude about bitcoin never gets tiring. A refreshing drink on a hot day. Musical accompaniment. Via Wolf Richter: Goldman created Coinbase to rope in the greater fools. Now that the Fed counterfeit press has stopped, bitcoin has stopped. After the “value” of Coinbase dropped from $400 to $40, Goldman is…
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Fairness doctrine continued…
Continuing to look at one potential candidate for improved journalism. After sampling for several days, I’m convinced that Straight Arrow News is genuinely trying for objectivity and neutrality. I don’t think they’re likely to succeed because they’re skipping the most basic definitional element of news: NEW. The website doesn’t seem to change very fast, and…
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