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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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Obsolete?
Recently I focused on the role of gelatin in printing. Got curious. With all the current fads and “laws” about vegan and GMO and gluten-free, you’d think gelatin had long since been replaced by synthetics. Has it? Nope. Gelatin isn’t a very large part of industry in monetary terms, but it’s steadily GROWING, gaining new…
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Reprint: Culture = skills.
Mentioned in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = START 2020 REPRINT: A new measurement of the cerebellum is SHOCKING as usual. It’s essentially a flat sheet with the thickness of a crepe, crinkled into hundreds of folds to make it fit into a compact volume about one-eighth the volume of the cerebral…
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Still don’t see it
After watching more of those Cox/Moore appearances, I’m less snarky. I think Cox and Moore are probably sincere in their goals. I still don’t see how this will improve anything. We already know that all politicians at all levels and all countries get along beautifully off camera. 2020 proved that EVERYONE from presidents to governors…
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Absorbed despite
Despite my nasty response to this crap about niceness, the basic point must have soaked in. After spitting out the nastiness I laid down for the second segment of sleep, and received a dream about conversation over coffee at Denny’s. At the end of the conversation I said “Thanks, that was fun!” and shook the…
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More fake trust
Yet another idiotic effort for fake trust. The governors agree that people need to be nice. The governors say that being nice will help to solve problems. Fine. Show your work. Nice or not, solve one problem. The data is clear, and the solutions have already been tried and tested and proved. FDR solved all…
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