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Inn to inn
An extremely English writer has a feature on the old inns of London. The pictures are surprising. All the inns have balconies and galleries on each floor, with the rooms opening off the balconies. US hotels didn’t follow this model, except for some ‘medicinal porches’ on hot springs resorts. Hotels were strictly self-contained with central…
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Reminds me
The palace revolt reminds me of Greenwald’s prescient observation a couple weeks ago. He compared the current moment to the point in 1968 when LBJ decided not to run. There are plenty of differences in detail, but the basic layout is the same. LBJ was not senile, he was completely in control. In ’68 the…
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Palace revolt?
= = = = = START MACHIAVELLI: To arrive at this position depends not entirely on worth or entirely on fortune, but rather on cunning assisted by fortune. One attains it by help of popular favour or by the favour of the aristocracy. The worst that a prince has to expect from a hostile people…
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Pinned down the weird
After getting more of the weird lovey-dovey spam from the Trump campaign, I’ve pinned down the exact form of the weirdness. This is how an about to be ex-wife talks to a husband who has already moved on to a nicer lover. Why would The Second Cuming of Our Lord And Personal Saviour Jesus Christ…
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Protests work sometimes
Via Shepstone’s substack, the massive tractor protests in nearly every EU country finally caused a temporary backdown by the demons. = = = = = START QUOTE: The concessions came amid mounting demonstrations by farmers in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Romania ahead of this year’s EU elections. Spanish farmers on Tuesday joined the…
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Full intelligence achieved!
Headline: A.I apocalypse: Terrifying study simulated what artificial intelligence would do in five military conflict scenarios… and it chose WAR 100% of the time AI has achieved full humanity! It chooses exactly the same thing human rulers choose in every situation! If a computer system chose peace in any circumstance it would be considered dangerously…
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Taibbi is an aspectless idiot
One headline is enough: The Fix is In. Taibbi constantly plays the fake surprise game, pretending that journalism used to be honest and politics used to be honest. Now the Horrible Other Party has turned everything sour, but we can restore the old pristine state of integrity by “electing” My Wonderful Party. 2/3 of the…
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Recycled authentication
1. Every language has ways of marking the end of a sentence or thought. Words are much less definite and more variable. In some languages the elements we’d consider words are integral parts of one ‘word’ that forms a sentence. In every language phonetic coarticulation melds ‘words’ but doesn’t cross a sentence boundary. 2. Written…
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Isn’t that fraud?
The latest weird spam from the Trump campaign asks if I’d like to be Trump’s VP. Isn’t that outright fraud? Making a job offer that is known to be false? Well, I guess it isn’t weird. Everything Trump does is outright fraud, so a non-fraudulent action would be weird.
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Unexpectedly fashionable
Seen in a 1923 radio mag… I’ve never seen a picture of Mrs Coolidge before. Unlike Calvin, she looked fashionable and sharp. Political wives were expected to be dowdy and drab, and most of them still are. Jackie Kennedy was the first well-known exception, but she didn’t shift the pattern much. Looking up Grace Coolidge,…
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An opportunity if they want it
Businesses don’t really want to do business. Rushfield at the Ankler writes another incisive piece on the failure of the movie industry. The decline started a LONG time ago after WW2 when young folks moved into the suburbs, had kids, and the theaters didn’t follow them. Cable TV and its newer web-based streaming versions, plus…
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UAW loses
Shawn Fain, after a year of splendid leadership against the corporate monsters, sacrifices it all by endorsing one of the corporate monsters. Betrayal breaks trust. Everyone in a position of power is a betrayer now. In a less dramatic sense, smart independent power-seekers understand that you lose your magic when you endorse a party or…
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Reprint on original sin
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = START 2020 REPRINT: Basic generality: All factions of Deepstate are blackmailers. Blackmailer is another name for secret-keeper. Any profession that has the habit of confidentiality will end up blackmailing and destroying normal people if it’s not rigidly constrained. The first Deepstate was Rome. Priests hear…
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Nature’s revenge
Nature hates California as much as humans hate California. Admittedly floods and mudslides ruin humans more often than they ruin demons, but these specific mudslides are a perfect punishment for the rich. Demons always build at max available altitude to reflect their max status. In Los Angeles the fuckhead mansions are perched on unstable cliffs…
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