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Corpse vs killer
Until a couple weeks ago the Dem party was frozen up by its insistence that a rotting corpse was the only possible candidate. Nothing could happen, nobody was able to do the normal things that a business or party does to attract more customers. After they finally buried the corpse, the party is suddenly able…
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Outside the worklog
Before 2017, I wasn’t keeping a private worklog for sleeps and dumps, but this public blog included most of the external events like hot spells or windstorms. Nice example right now. I opened the window at midnight to get some non-airconditioned air, and heard an odd noise. Something wrong with the fridge? No, a cricket…
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Worklog inflation
Purely personal! In 2016 I started keeping a daily log of health. The first one started on Aug 6, so I’ve kept the same starting and ending date for each year. In the first year the log only listed dumps and sleeps, plus an occasional note of an event that caused stress. Each day was…
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Descent of heirs
From Marilyn to Bearilyn is quite a ways down on the destruction scale. His story also shows a classic rich-boy contempt for the lowly morality of peasants. Great White Hunter serves as environmental lawyer, sues “polluters” while insulting bicyclists and polluting Central Park.
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China is FDR
Brazil and Peru are working together to build a Pacific port in Peru and a road and railway across the continent from west to east. China is sponsoring and funding the project. China is getting all the goodies, because CHINA IS CAPITALIST. China’s colonialism exemplifies the real advantages of real capitalism, making real infrastructure and…
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Frightening?????
Jesus, what’s wrong with these people? They discuss a drop in the totally fictional “value” of the stock market like it’s the end of the world. They call it “frightening”. They say this REQUIRES Powell to give up his disastrous catastrophic REAL ECONOMY and return to the wonderful heavenly Bush/Trump plutonomy where Larry Fink gets…
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Why the shift?
Last week I was thinking about the universal convergence of former activists against Trump’s holocaust. All of them in my circle have now become Trump cultists. I remembered that Vietnam protesters DIDN’T flip. After the war was done we moved into normal life concerns, but none of us fell in love with LBJ or Nixon.…
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He’s right
Idiot headline: Trump says We’re Not Weird. He’s right. He’s not weird at all by the standards of rulers. Genghis and Attila and Caesar and Henry and Catherine and Victoria and Lincoln and Hitler and Mao are the NORM. LBJ and Nixon and Bush and Trump are strictly NORMAL rulers. Ordinary garden-variety bog-standard mass murderers…
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Bootleggers and Baptists
Europe continues buying oil and gas from Russia while pretending to obey our monstrous sanctions. Euro countries are simply buying the stuff from India and China, adding a middleman profit. Russia still gets paid the same, while Europe pays more to keep the lights on. Sanctions NEVER harm the target government. Sanctions ALWAYS harm the…
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Rain at last!
After a month of nearly unbroken heat, we finally have a RAINY DAY! I went out to walk in the rain and everyone had the same idea. Passed 4 walkers, compared to the usual 1. The last long hot spell was in 2015, arguably worse because it was in June with longer days. But I…
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Didn’t need Buffett backup
Noticed somebody using Warren Buffett’s advice as an authority to say “Buy low, sell high”. First thought: Shit, you don’t need to bring in Buffett to reinforce this basic advice for stock criminals. Second thought: The motto for people who are NOT stock demons is: Buy lasting and maintainable things regardless of price. Then keep…
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Connection
Just made a connection. Trump loves preaching to Christians. Trump loves preaching to bitcoiners. The two groups don’t have much in common culturally. Bitcoiners are atheists who disdain normal ways of morality. The two groups have the MOST IMPORTANT THING in common. Both belief systems are supreme maximum Sucker Filters, preselecting their members for the…
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Lesson in skill-estate
I must admit one item from the Olympics is worth thinking about. Most competitors are expensively equipped and sponsored, with highly specialized custom-made gloves and clothes and helmets. They perform all the expensively trained moves. The shooting contestant from Turkey showed up in T-shirt and jeans, no ear protectors or goggles, looking like he just…
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Transformed
Substack Notes started as a copy of Twitter. Now it has become a precise mirror image of Reddit. Both consist mainly of horrible can’t-unsee-it pictures atop blindly partisan insults related to This Week’s One Official Topic. Only difference: Reddit takes the D side and Substack takes the R side. This week’s One Official Topic is…
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Fessenden’s practical side
Reginald Fessenden is famous as the Canadian who claimed the first invention of radio. The first is hard to determine. Many people were working on wireless from different angles. Fessenden later made one of the first voice broadcasts in 1906, using a high-freq alternator instead of a spark-gap transmitter. Around 1912 he moved into a…
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