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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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    March 27, 2024
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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…

    polistra

    March 27, 2024
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    Constants and Variables, Patient things
  • 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…

    polistra

    March 27, 2024
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    #WholeOfSociety
  • 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…

    polistra

    March 27, 2024
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    Desistance
  • 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.…

    polistra

    March 26, 2024
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    alt history
  • 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:

    polistra

    March 26, 2024
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    SES
  • 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…

    polistra

    March 26, 2024
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    Powell!, Sucker Filter
  • 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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    March 26, 2024
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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…

    polistra

    March 26, 2024
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    Carbon Cult, Henry Wallace, infinite EVIL, natural law = soviet law
  • 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…

    polistra

    March 25, 2024
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    Happy Ending, TMI
  • 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…

    polistra

    March 25, 2024
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    Happy Ending, infinite GOOD
  • 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…

    polistra

    March 25, 2024
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    Africa is the future
  • 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…

    polistra

    March 24, 2024
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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.…

    polistra

    March 24, 2024
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    defensible places, defensible thymes, defensible times, Heimatkunde
  • 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…

    polistra

    March 23, 2024
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    bemusement
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