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Kirn quibble
Kirn: We are never at peace anymore. Wartime restrictions are being instituted across every segment of society & culture. Even at the height of the Cold War there were mainstream, popular, & ruthless satires of the great bureaucratic, military, & corporate powers. Yup. This situation isn’t new; the same total control happened during Wilson. There’s…
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Not complicated
“Independents” are seeing Deepstate involvement in the Baltimore bridge collapse, which turned an ironic national anthem into a melting iron sculpture by Dali. Impressive piece of installation art. Jimi Hendrix, eat your guitar strings! Nah. Unnecessary complexity. The event isn’t being portrayed as an attack. If media was treating it as an attack, then we…
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Not gonna complain
One of the checker ladies at Safeway is WAY too helpful. On a previous storetrip she took 10 minutes explaining how to use all, and I mean ALL, of the options available in Safeway’s cellphone app, to a competent-looking young man who probably didn’t need all that information. Today she first spent 5 minutes talking…
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At least they understood
These old sales training films sometimes (but not always) treated the Conservative Prospect as undesirable and the Step-up Prospect and Luxury Prospect as desirable. Ford tended to hold the Conservative Prospect in slightly higher esteem. But they all recognized that PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT. The companies made DIFFERENT MODELS to qualify the DIFFERENT PROSPECTS. Ford’s three…
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LBOs all the way dooooooooooooooooown
And I do mean doooooooooowwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnn. Latest idiocy from the beautifully collapsing “journalism” industry is the strange hiring and firing of Ronna McDaniel, former head of the Repooflican party. NBC hired her and then immediately fired her when their own employees refused to work with her. That’s a good reason to fire someone, but why didn’t…
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They got the worst arguments
This Rambler salesman training film compares the ’60 Rambler with the new competition from the big three. I’ve noticed repeatedly that the salesmen were not taught the best arguments in favor of their own product. The film mentions Corvair’s rear engine, and says it’s a bad idea because AMC’s engineers agree it’s a bad idea.…
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Bell’s photophone experiments
In the 1880s Bell and his collaborator Tainter performed some experiments using light and heat to generate and carry sound. They wrote up the trials in a little monograph Upon the production of sound by radiant energy. Bell was the consummate speech scientist. He thought like a larynx and experimented like a larynx. A larynx…
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2020 reprint
Linked in previous, worth reprinting. = = = = = START REPRINT: Berenson: Now they have frightened us into giving them massive power (I’ve been reading up on the swine flu vaccine fiasco of 1976, when something similar happened)… and we are going to have to figure out how to take it back. We can’t…
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YAPOL
Yet Another Pointless Open Letter. At Brownstone, a group of scientists in India are playing the powerless and inconsequential game as usual. The letter cites in detail how there was little or no evidence to favor the holocaust. THAT IS NOT THE POINT. EVERY ONE OF THE “MEASURES” WAS A CAREFULLY TESTED TECHNIQUE KNOWN TO…
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What the Edsel could have been
Vintage.es has a pictorial feature on the ’58 Facel Vega. The front end is the perfect arrangement of quad headlights and a vertical grille. Those were the required elements for the Edsel. Facel proves that a perfect design fitting the requirements was AVAILABLE in ’58. Ford didn’t have to pick the Cunt In Front design.…
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Best comment of the year
Spokane News caught a nice pic of a rainbow after today’s brief rain. He asked for other pics, and got quite a few, including this timeless perfect comment:
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RFK + VP = EA
RFK has picked Nicole Shanahan as his VP. Shanahan is deeply involved with all the Tech Tyrants who are ruining the world. She’s Effective Altruism and Eugenics with a pretty face. Bye, Bobby. This almost makes the Biden admin look “not entirely bad” by comparison. (Everything is deltas from a baseline!) His administration has taken…
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Reprint on lifespan
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = START 2015 REPRINT: I keep hearing on money-talk and news shows that “Social Security was meant for short-lived people”. Supposedly the system was designed for people who died before 65, or at best might live two or three years beyond 65. Supposedly it was…
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Fink is the world.
Now Larry Fink wants to take over Social Security. He’s peddling a pack of obvious lies, which will work because everyone obeys Larry Fink if they want to survive. He owns a significant portion of the shares in most corporations, and nobody dares to move against His Supreme Will. Fink claims we based our 65…
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NHS right as usual
Purely personal, partly trying to recompense for previous mentions of the subject. The current postwar mess, with every business overworked and understaffed, means a lot of waiting and missed appointments and broken promises. But after you wade through the shit, the actual performance is excellent. In the previous postwar mess around 1948, industries tried to…
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