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Reprint on freedom vs security
Linked in previous about El Salvador, worth a reprint. = = = = = REPRINT FROM 2012: I’m always irritated by wildly overused cliches. Two of them are wrong in so many ways you can hardly count them. I’ve already noted the first one: The fake “Ben Franklin” quote about security and freedom. Franklin didn’t…
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Makes up for the silliness
Compact Mag publishes some silly or counterproductive stuff. It also publishes some hugely valuable REALISTIC coverage of important things and places. This article on Bukele has a silly-sounding headline but turns out to be a REALISTIC history of a long-suffering nation that our media ignore. The history reveals why our media ignore it. El Salvador…
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Why do they bother?
The only puzzle in politics is why the Repoofs continue to play the Bad Man in the pro wrestling ring. They never actually do anything “evil” by media standards**. All “laws” and court decisions are perfectly aligned with DNC commands, even when Repoofs have “majorities” in all “branches” which would nominally give them the “power”…
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Stupid ripoff
Via MSN, California is proposing some new ‘tiny homes’ for the homeless. Or the Individuals Experiencing Dehousitude. First off, this is stupid. It won’t help the real problem at all. The real problem is offshoring of real jobs, which Superdemon Newsom has been exponentially increasing with his bans on all physical reality and his bans…
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Dovetailing histories
Last month I featured an IEEE journal from 1962. Here’s the journal itself at Google Books. Along with the looking-forward articles, the journal included some plain history pieces. An article on p 752 by Colin Cherry tried to cover the ENTIRE history of mass communication, with a unique insight that our modern propaganda has wiped…
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Should have written it here.
Somebody on substack was noting that Putin is a far better player of international chess than our leaders. I agreed and added this comment, which I really should have written here first. = = = = = Putin has a head start. Russians understand us better than we understand them. Russians also understand us better…
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Finished the task.
Done with the proofreading and checking of courseware. Took about a week of fulltime work after several months of anticipation and waiting for shoes to drop. Organized the task, uploaded about 130 lessons for three different books, ran through each lesson to completion, made sure each registered in the gradebook. I wasn’t trying to check…
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How to depersuade 2
Via Eurekalert. A “social” “science” study in Germany tries to find the most effective way of persuading people to freeze in the dark. Considering the nature of Krauts, this is unnecessary. Ordnung ist Ordnung. Nudges are totally unnecessary and obtrusive to a Kraut, who always knows in precise detail, down to the 20th decimal place,…
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How to depersuade
Persuading by shaming seems to be a trend lately, at least in the spam from campaigns and the writing by advocates. The Trump campaign spam constantly says things like “I never expected this from YOU, Friend!” Advocates at Compact Mag write articles telling the reader he’s an idiot. This isn’t how you gather followers or…
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Another example of novation?
Seen at DailyMail: = = = = = START QUOTE: Scientologists Elena and Grant Cardone established a GoFundMe page to help pay Donald Trump’s latest legal bill. The ardent MAGA supporters set up the page hours after the former president was ordered to pay $355 million fine for lying about his wealth for years. ‘I…
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Speaking of TIL
TIL about the only astronaut who deserves to be treated as a hero. Until now I disdained the whole space endeavor. As a nerd I was supposed to follow it eagerly, but I found it boring and purposeless. Here’s one astronaut worthy of emulation! = = = = = START QUOTE: Japan’s main TV network…
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Sometimes satisfying
As noted yesterday, justice rarely occurs at all. When it does happen, it’s rarely satisfying. We have to be content that a demon is removed from power, though the style of the removal is wildly annoying. Public drawing and quartering would be enjoyable. Still, sometimes justice is visible. NYC, control center of hell for 400…
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It was really The Street!
TIL, as they say, that Wall Street was an OUTDOOR AUCTION for a hundred years, and didn’t come inside as an organized exchange until 1921. The outdoor auction occupied the full width of Broad Street, not Wall Street, with traders shouting bids at each other. After telephones were common, the traders rented offices in facing…
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A long way from Gaia
High-level criminals like politicians and millionaires always blame and frame innocent people or innocent natural phenomena for their massive crimes. Low-level criminals try the frameup trick but they’re too dumb to make it stick. A local druggie claims that his neighbor poisoned him by putting ketamine in his food. This is slightly better than “Some…
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The ledger does balance
I’m frustrated when evil people get punished for the wrong reason. My narrow little bookkeeper soul wants to see Debits and Credits balancing. Along with all the other national leaders except Tanzania and Belarus, Trump committed the biggest crime in history. He will never be punished for his crime. Instead, he is being punished somewhat…
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