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Thanks, Elon!
Elon does shit for his own reasons, mostly to have fun. In this case his own reasons happened to coincide with goodness. A real Canadian DOCTOR, Kulvinder Kaul Gill, who was trying to protect her patients from lockdowns and ballgags and vaxes, is being prosecuted by the Canadian “government”, which is even worse than the…
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Luxury brands
Jeffrey Tucker did the best job of all in tracing the history and motives of the “virus” bioterror holocaust. But his Libertarian tendencies are still getting in the way, as he peculiarly wants to protect Apple from the antitrusters: = = = = = START QUOTE: Beyond that, there is a darker agenda here. It’s…
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A philosopher makes sense!
For once, a modern professional philosopher makes sense! Monica Mandoki: = = = = = START QUOTE: The aim of my work is to defend the veridicality of near-death experiences within the framework of idealism. Philosophical idealism, roughly stated, is the theory that reality is consciousness or mind-created and possibly consciousness or mind-dependent. However, the…
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US equivalent of Holy Wells
Kingsnorth’s latest magical Holy Well reminded me instantly of a holy place I knew when I was young. = = = = = START 2016 REPRINT: Spokane’s idiot misgovernment has succumbed to blackmail by the EPA Terrorist Army, and is building a number of Miasmal Swamps. Three of them appeared last month in my neighborhood.…
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Sort of halfway disproved…
Last year I was genuinely astonished to find that dry batteries are all fake. They aren’t sandwiches of zinc/carbon pairs as I had always imagined; instead they are wrapped packages of 1.5 volt dry cells hooked in series. This is so unutterably WEIRD that I still can’t believe it. It still seems like an April…
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Democracy in one county
Stalin’s slogan was Socialism in one country. Trotsky was a globalist who wanted to conquer the world to prove a point. Stalin was a nationalist who wanted to improve his own country. Now there’s a new slogan: Democracy in one county. One county in Texas, solitary and alone among all counties and cities and states…
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Reprint on Glial Equipoise
I was reminded of this by something semi-relevant. It’s utterly amazing and worth remembering. = = = = = START REPRINT: While looking for more ancient stuff to animate, found an interesting 1915 book of questions and factoids. The Book of Wonders is something like Ripley or Hix, but more oriented toward serious descriptions of…
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Why in the fuck?
The Trump gang’s email spam is concentrating on keeping the Trump Tower in the gang. Latest email is titled “Maniacs want to seize Trump Tower.” WHY IN THE HOLY FUCK WOULD I WANT TO PROTECT THE MANIAC WHO STRANGLED AND IMPRISONED THE ENTIRE COUNTRY FOR TWO YEARS? If LESSER maniacs want to seize the property…
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GenRad and pinfeed part 1/4
Last month’s tech history piece on the Standard pinfeed invoice machines reminded me that chart recorders also used the same pinfeed system, along with the more familiar dot matrix printers. The Standard began as THE STANDARD: Chart recorders bring me back to old home territory, GenRad. General Radio in Boston started as a regular maker…
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GenRad and pinfeed part 2/4
Continued from Part 1 re-introducing GenRad. = = = = = GenRad’s chart recorder followed a common pattern, with the usual GR extras to satisfy peculiar needs. The common pattern was a pinfeed drive for the paper and a solenoid controlled by negative feedback pushing the pen back and forth. The pen was driven by…
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GenRad and pinfeed part 3/4
Continued from part 2, the more modern chart recorder. = = = = = Moving a pen back and forth requires a fair amount of force. It was always possible with mechanical signals like an aneroid barometer, or strong electrical signals like a telegraph. Morse’s 1840 telegraph used a moving pen. But a delicate signal…
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Genrad and pinfeed part 4/4
Continued from part 3. = = = = = In between GenRad’s strange photo-film oscillograph in the ’20s and its own pinfeed chart recorder in the ’50s, GR collaborated with Esterline. The Esterline pinfeed chart recorder was the standard in many industries. It was tough, portable, and simple to use. GenRad made a signal conditioner…
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Just figured this out
I’m sure this explanation is available on Google, but I figured it out for myself and I’m proud. Often I’ll see frost on roofs and other surfaces when the outside ambient is about 38. The previous day was up in the 40s or 50s, and there was no actual freezing in recent days. Why do…
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Refreshing
John Ray, in charge of cleaning up Sammy’s bankrupt fraud, offers some welcome clarity. Most of the time we hear cautious lawyered-up buzzwords from people in Ray’s position. = = = = = START RAY: Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of…
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Not unprecedented
Greenwald discusses some fool who made the mistake of working for Trump for a few days. Now the fool is in jail, and Greenwald calls it unjust and unprecedented. Of course it’s unjust. Everything in politics is WAY beyond unjust. Words like justice shouldn’t be ruined and blasphemed by applying them to politics. But it’s…
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