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Landmark dies
Hudsons Bay Company, a historical landmark, is closing down. Another victim of the endless march of globalizing and financializing. HBC is the oldest company in North America by definition. At the start it WAS the British part of North America. Most of Canada and US except the east coast were controlled by HBC. It was…
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Grocery analogy
Thinking about social media vs other selective experiences. Substack is absolutely tiring, and I only spend a few minutes at a time before I can’t take it any more. Quora is much less tiring. Both have lots of crap I don’t want and a little valuable reading material. Why is one better? Comparing with other…
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Itemizing national pride
Interesting piece at TheHub on how Canadian wine drinkers can stop buying US wine. His first suggestion is excellent. The rain-shadow zone of BC is identical in climate and soil to the rain-shadow part of Washington. Any grape that grows around Wenatchee will also grow around Kelowna. The author says BC does have some vineyards…
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Same thing but more specialized
What Trump is doing now is the same sort of thing he did in 2020, but much more narrowly specialized. Both times he ruined normal people and rewarded devils. In his first term, especially in 2020, he shut down everything except the tech tyrants and enriched the tech tyrants. The effect was broad, including Bezos…
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Wish I’d said it…
Saw a splendidly succinct proverb in an online meme: The opposite of depression is expression. I normally say it two ways, both less succinct. MAKE. WALK. Men need to make things. If they can’t make things they will break things. Graybill said it in ornate 1880 style: The people of Free-Trade countries are therefore driven…
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We need equipoise
I linked these items as examples of professional criminals misusing math as a culprit. Rehashing both together. = = = = = START 2022 REHASH: Bitcoiners constantly say they’re letting math rule. Math is god, math is supreme, math is unarguable. Nope. They’ve kicked math out of the house. Math is always formed in equations.…
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More Hudson trivia
A couple more Hudson trivia items. 1. I was wondering if Neals Motors in Australia was just a dealer who modified the cars, or a manufacturer. They definitely modified some trucks into Aussie-style utes. The answer is here. Neals was an assembly plant with a large factory. Presumably they didn’t cast and forge the parts,…
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Canada keeps doing the right thing
New PM Mark Carney is enacting some changes immediately to aid Canada’s industry and consumers. He’s repealing the destructive Carbon Tax. Carney is a pure bankster and WEFoid, and he strongly supported the Carbon nonsense before, but now he’s getting rid of it. Commentators point out that Carney won’t necessarily be in office for long;…
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Judge doing his job for once!
JUDGE Alsup of the District Court in Calif has summarily ordered the Elon administration to retract its firing of all federal workers. Alsup is the only JUDGE. He knows the law and applies the law, no matter which side wins. JUDGE Alsup blocked Green loonies when they broke the law, and he blocks Elon when…
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π Day
Keeping up a tradition… π Day again! Since I’m talking typography lately, I’ll hash and rehash a couple items from 2019. = = = = = Thinking about Trump as Pied Piper. When the metaphor first appeared in those DNC emails I didn’t quite understand it. After learning that Trump is Roy Cohn’s protege, I…
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Don’t spoil a good thing
A grammarian type on Substack is complaining that da yoots are calling LP records “vinyls”. I used to worry about such things because I’m a natural proofreader, and I used to “correct” people. I finally learned to stop. “Correction” is ALWAYS counterproductive. It doesn’t work and it only irritates the pig. You can’t apply logic…
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Stop blaming the voters.
Democrats have been smashing their own voters for 40 years. When Trump came along and tried to please and respect the working class, the Democrats blamed the stupid Deplorable Low-Information voters. Poets and artists and composers and journalists have been turning out grotesque horrible SHIT for more than 40 years, and loudly insulting their own…
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Random thought, good question
The 1959 union film on pipefitters learning to build nuclear reactors led to an irrelevant sidebar. The narrator is emphasizing the complexity of the physics and math needed for reactors. The plumbers had to learn a new vocabulary, a whole new way of thinking. “Specific heat, latent heat, sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant and cosecant.”…
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Debunking Day 2
The new “history” of the Intel IC is part of a much larger fake “history” written by the Tech Lords to glorify and deify the Tech Lords. The “history” makes a special point of OMITTING the role of IBM. The San Francisco Tech Tyrants vanquished the old Rust Belt tech industry and rewrote the world…
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Today is Debunking Day
Debunking Day is clearly designed by the “fact-checkers” like Snopes, who check facts in the same way that a chess player checks an opponent. They “correct misinformation” in the same way that Sprenger and Kremer corrected witches. Here’s a more honest salute to the day. Several years ago I did a comprehensive debunk of the…
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