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Rererereprint on experts
Closely tied to previous two items. I’ve reprinted this list many times in various contexts with various additions. Feels like a good time to reprint it again, connecting it to my recent language-based comparison of facts vs commands and the recent UFO frenzy. This version of the list is from 2017, with a good discussion…
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Metaswitch
Toby Rogers writes an interesting analogy but doesn’t seem to realize that he is one of the people he describes. He parallels the apparent flip in the earth’s magnetic poles, which seems to be underway at the moment, with a flip in the roles of professions. His specific personal examples are powerful and valid. Everyone…
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Reprint on OCD
Linked in above item about Toby Rogers, worth a reprint. = = = = = REPRINT FROM JUNE 2020: A lot of people seem to be OBSERVING the ferociously obvious fact that Social Distancing is an imperative mandate for ordinary humans but not for rioters and looters. Some of these people are finally realizing what…
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Ideal prospect
I’ve been consuming these old dealer training filmstrips (audio only) in my bedtime playlist lately. This was aimed at Rambler dealers in 1959. As it happens, I can check the realism of the advice. My parents bought a new Rambler in 1960. The car had an unsolvable intermittent ignition problem. Some days it wouldn’t start,…
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Same as the others
I haven’t paid attention to Big Architecture lately. It’s refreshingly clear that small-scale architects are turning toward sanity. Recent new houses around here are remarkably resonant with the older neighbors, neatly transitioning toward the existing house on each side. It’s impressive in a NON-radical way. If this article is generally true, it sounds like Big…
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What is it?
I’m fairly familiar with old electronics stuff. I’ve been around it most of my life, and I’ve been researching and writing tech history pieces for 10 years. This one is a complete puzzle. It’s an attractive deco ad in a 1930 issue of the British Popular Wireless. The text doesn’t say what the Blue Spot…
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Novelty songs
This morning I sneezed funny, which reminded me of the old novelty song Boop bop diddum daddum waddum CHOO! And they fam and they fam all over the dam. So this song has been running in my internal jukebox. The Muzak in Safeway was playing what seems to be a strictly modern novelty song: I’ve…
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Tractors and supercars
Curbside Classics has a eulogy for designer Marcello Gandini, who died recently. He specialized in extreme supercars, which I find extremely boring. The article mentions one interesting fact: Lamborghini made tractors before it started doing supercars as a sidegig, then eventually dropped the tractors. This is an extreme case of a very old rule I…
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Official Hobbies
Totally random thought. In my father’s generation, men were expected to have an “Official Hobby”. For most this was a “Sport”, and it had to be “Golf”, of course. Nothing else was even thinkable. For other men the “Official Hobby” was “Philately (that’s stamp collecting)” or “Carpentry”. A wider range of collecting or crafting was…
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Why the Chinese are smarter than us
They smoke. We used to be smarter. Now we’re dumb, thanks to Deepstate.
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Bloomberg continues to amaze
Bloomberg continues to amaze. In this piece they conclude that Congress is banning Tiktok because Congress wants to block ordinary Americans from talking with each other, and because Congress wants to ruin small businesses so Facebook and Google can own the country. Bloomberg thinks the “law” will probably fail in the courts, but it will…
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Nice conclusion
Unsurprising but nice: A British court finds that Craig Wright’s claim to be Satoshi is false. Several of his accomplices are leaving the sinking ship. Wright is just a suer. Nothing else. He made big money from a pre-bitcoin fraud, and has been using his fortune to run an endless series of mostly losing lawsuits.…
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One specific fact
When I read Naomi Wolf’s latest poetic lament on our modern hell, I wrote a quick passionate assent to her main point. She was saying that demons certainly exist. I wrote that demons have always been about 1% of the population, but before 1980 they were kept in asylums and prisons. Now they occupy all…
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Reprint on Perfect Mitt
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = START 2012 REPRINT: Trying to figure out why I hate Mitt so ferociously, when he’s by no means the only candidate of the Wall Street Mafia. Both Newt and Obama are Goldman slaves, and I don’t hate them in the same way. Basically it’s…
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Exception to the trend
The sort-of-trend noted in previous item is definitely not universal. Some establishment sources are still fully locked into official lunacy. Yahoo Finance is among the worst. A couple years ago they seemed to be trying out reality, but they gave up and returned to total Deepstate. Nothing but the latest swindles and tyranny. In this…
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