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Demobilize
Here’s a modest proposal. We did it in 1920, and we did it in 1945, but then soon went backwards. We can do it again. We still have significant industrial capacity, but it’s mostly making weapons and surveillance equipment. Humans are MASSIVELY SUFFERING because there aren’t nearly enough USEFUL PHYSICAL JOBS FOR MEN. Demobilize. Stop…
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That’s not the purpose.
Pointed by Denyse as usual, this article discusses the problem with meta-analysis studies. It says that meta-analyses are designed to combat misinformation but too often do the opposite. No. A meta-analysis may happen to weed out bad studies, and may happen to emphasize bad studies. Either result is irrelevant. The PURPOSE of a meta-analysis is…
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Today is Scouse Day!
Scouse Day is an annual festival in Liverpool. Wikipedia gives a complex list of dubious origins for the word. The one clear fact is that it was originally Lobscouse. My favorite British dictionary from 1867 says: Lobscouse, a dish made of potatoes and meat and biscuits boiled together. The dictionary doesn’t list scouse at all.…
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Another monster dies
Another idiotic and murderous idea dies, thanks to the end of free counterfeit! Apple drops its “self-driving” weapon. THANKS, POWELL!
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Logging the experiment
Along with internal worklogs, keeping a blog with tags is a valuable way of tracking the experiment of life. Just now I added the bitcoin tag to an item about Sammy, then looked at the bottom of the blog where BITCOIN is by far the largest tag. I don’t FEEL like I’m obsessed with bitcoin,…
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Second vector
Via Protos, Sammy’s old mentor is being tried for fraud. This part of the story hasn’t been mentioned in the media before. = = = = = START PROTOS: Joe Lewis, the billionaire former Premier League football club owner who sold Sam Bankman-Fried more than $76 million worth of property in the Bahamas, is set…
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Correlation?
A writer at The Hill, a solid D outlet, is discussing the belated realization that Biden can’t win, and the practical difficulties of having a REAL convention. He mentions two facts I hadn’t heard before: = = = = = START HILL: Brokered conventions have occurred before, however. Democratic presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt won…
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Intelligence is confusion.
Substack pointed to this perfect Italian parody of Biden. The Biden character is saying that he met with the president of Israel, Mikhail Gorbachev, no, Michael Jordan, who went to the moon and was shot in Dallas, to the moon from Dallas, four million, no four thousand miles,… Reminded me irresistibly of an early AI…
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Non-hustly
One longstanding puzzle is why we decided to hate Russia. We started invading and occupying Russia in 1918, gave up during the blessed Lucid Interval, then started again with a vengeance immediately after President Lucid died in 1945. Here’s a clue to our previous attitude, which isn’t exactly warlike but definitely treats Russians as subhuman.…
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Pew does FD
Pew continues to amaze. Uniquely among big organizations, their writing passes the Fairness Doctrine test every time. It’s NOT HARD to write objectively. You have to know which words and phrases are dog whistles for R or cat whistles for D; and then simply avoid those words and phrases. Example from their announcement of a…
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Elegant joke
EnidBuzz asked ‘What sounds do you enjoy hearing, other than music?’ The last one belongs to a refined category of deadpan country humor. When eating in a bad cafe, “Hey, this might be a good place to build a restaurant!” When Horace Dodge rebelled against Ford and set up his own company, “There are thousands…
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Astrology wins
I started keeping a daily worklog for life in 2016, after realizing the value of worklogs in work projects. The lifelog gets more ‘chatty’ every year. At first it was just dumps and sleeps, now I try to notice and write down everything that might be relevant. Looking back at previous logs makes it easy…
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Fucking idiot
It happens every time. We made it through a mid-size windstorm yesterday with no power outages. This morning a fucking stupid truck driver missed a turn and knocked down a pole, causing a large outage in this part of town. Not even an accident, just bad driving. The outage hasn’t quite reached my house, but…
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The 17th
The Niceness concert tour recognizes part of HARDASS reality. Above all the Two Governors say clearly that the federal “government” is utterly broken, and Congress is pointless and functionless. They and other governors have repeatedly petitioned Congress to fix the thousand problems that COULD be fixed, and nothing ever happens. Congress HAS NO REASON to…
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Still scratching
Still trying to scratch the itch of the Niceness Crusade by Cox and Moore. Coming at it from a different angle: If niceness is a product, what’s the use case? Why would people want to buy niceness as a component of politics? Normal people don’t need to buy civility as a component of ordinary life.…
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