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Today is RYPBLTTFMYEBNMWIWNE Day!
Today is Relive Your Past By Listening to the First Music You Ever Bought No Matter What It Was No Excuses Day. (Probably one of Adrian Koopersmith’s special days.) The website says: Think about the first album or singles you ever purchased. Listen to those recordings and think about what was going on in your…
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Why is music unique?
In Gioia’s latest interview he spends a lot of time discussing Romanticism, which is the parallel to my Foy Rebellion. He also uses Taylor Swift vs AI as an example of opposite trends. AI is removing the human element from the ‘low end’ of music, Swift is returning the human element to the top-dollar end.…
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Why we get news from FB
Last night around 9:30 I had doors and windows open as usual to bring in the nice cool air. Heard some sirens. The sirens stopped close by, and then I heard: SUSPECT, YOU ARE UNDER ARREST! NEIGHBORS, STAY INSIDE YOUR HOUSE! Decided it was a good idea to close windows and doors. SpokaneNews Facebook came…
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What was he thinking?
King Charles commissioned his first official portrait. GAK! The “painter” showed a head floating on a sea of pixelated redness. There’s nothing unusual about an “artist” throwing shit. That’s what “artists” do for a living. Force peasants to eat shit and receive billions from rich assholes. The fact that Charles approved of this monstrosity is…
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Literal viewpoint
In the simpler parts of reality, your physical position makes a huge difference. A motor is turning clockwise or counterclockwise depending on which end you see. Same for the earth, except that we’ve standardized the top view. Richard Rushfield and Ted Gioia are two writers with similar backgrounds, both writing in the same place about…
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Totally understandable
Just noticed a skeptic asking if “any non-governmental entity has actually photographed the alleged sunspots.” In today’s utterly crazy tyranny, total skepticism is totally understandable. When rulers are torturing and strangling and imprisoning us and bombing countries down to bedrock, all justified by blazingly fake “science” and fake “threats”, total disbelief is a natural and…
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Supercondensed matter
This 1954 promo for the Nutrilite supplement is well produced and typifies a long tradition for MLMs and related scams. Bitcoin follows the same tradition. Both pivot on a false idea of super-condensation. The product is EXTREMELY valuable because it’s EXTREMELY condensed. Condensed products are a wonderful idea, making extended storage and savings possible. Condensed…
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Great old idea
Via ReligionUnplugged, a British preacher is offering a 15-minute web program of meditation and prayer. Smart idea. Many people are still solidly Christian but got tired of devoting a half day to church, especially when church didn’t bother to defend them against the “virus” holocaust. If the priests won’t fight the most satanic supercrime in…
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Eat it, Elon.
= = = = = START QUOTE: Return-to-office mandates at some of the most powerful tech companies — Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX — were followed by a spike in departures among the most senior, tough-to-replace talent, according to a case study published last week by researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of…
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Let a hundred basis points bloom
Not a good analogy, but maybe the comparison will help me to think about one of the parallels. = = = = = The solid side of the parallel: ZIRP was an extreme outlier, totally unprecedented when Bugsy Bernanke ordered it in 2008. Previously the expected interest had pulled down to 2% at some points…
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It must work, but why?
The Trump cult email spam continues along the same lines. It’s not political or economic in any way. Nothing about borders or walls or jobs or China or Israel. It’s all pure whipsawing emotions, like an obsessed menopausal ex-wife. Today’s subject line: “I would never have expected this from YOU, of all people!” Marketers must…
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Clear after defining
Wondered why 100% of “news” about politics is pointless arguing. A roasts B, C debates with D, E kicks F out of speakership. Within “dissident” circles it’s the same. Pointless arguing about who’s more ideologically pure or who’s taking more money from Deepstate. For powerless people, the only effective political action is Desistance, finding ways…
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Substock
I’ve decided that everyone who succeeds on Substack is a stock trader, manipulating the “two” “sides” of an issue to gain arbitrage. Questions that can’t be turned into a trade or a bet aren’t discussed much. With a few notable exceptions, the writers who don’t engage in stock crime don’t last. This is historically normal.…
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Layerbilt again
Redoing an item from last month with a better picture. 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…
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Essential difference
When GetReligion closed in Feb, I missed a favorite reading place on the web. I didn’t recognize, or maybe I didn’t remember, that Religion Unplugged is basically the successor. Warm weather opens my mental pores. Found it again today, and it’s still a good read, with most of the same writers and features. This article…
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