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Cultural mismatch
Recently Google fed me an ad for a huge can of Wagyu Tallow. Huh? Tallow is a generic industrial byproduct, used in soap and commercial soup stock. Wagyu beef is supposedly a high-prestige type of beef, prized by home cooks and restaurants. The cultural dissonance made me itch. I finally scratched the itch. Apparently Wagyu…
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Understands 2
Writers at Compact Mag often UNDERSTAND reality, which is extremely rare online. Ryan Zickgraf is writing about a new movie that runs the usual D idiocy about R “insurrections”. = = = = = START REALITY: But while there are certainly cracks in the American project, there is little evidence that we are on the…
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Thoughts and prayers
Reports say that Klaus Schwab has been hospitalized. Thoughts and prayers for the unfortunate hospital, which will need to be torn down and cemented over to get rid of his interplanetary demonic microbes.
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Understands
This comedian UNDERSTANDS the permanent unbridgeable chasm between attractive and unattractive, popular and unpopular. I was an ugly kid and my parents were fairly attractive. I knew that their advice and reassurances were wrong, but there were no alternative advisors. Meritocracy and behaviorism were UNIVERSAL AND UNQUESTIONABLE at that time. Now there’s a wider recognition…
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Close can’t close, must close.
This item isn’t important but I couldn’t resist the headline. The story does fit the general theme of institutions proudly going bankrupt to avoid contamination by horrible civilization and life and beauty. Sacrificing all to support chaos and riots and crime and war and ugliness. Good riddance, churches and Hollywood and journalism and libraries. Not…
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Branch farts
From previous item: = = = = = START REPRINT: In fact NSA and CIA don’t use “laws” and “courts” at all. Even ordinary police are not restricted by “warrants”. All police spy on everything** they find interesting, then apply for a “warrant” when they’ve finished spying. After the “warrant” is AUTOMATICALLY ISSUED by a…
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More farts
Idiot Repooflicans are making some especially stinky farts this week, knowing as always that zero action will ever result from the farts. = = = = = Fart 1: An NPR employee “revealed” common knowledge, as Deepstate always does. Deepstate never reveals genuine information. He “revealed” that NPR is all Democrat all the time. His…
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No product, no sampling
Carrying on with CH Smith’s point that AI is winning because there are no better human products to compare with. Certainly true of “journalism”. The professionals, whether still working in MSM or working elsewhere as fake “independents”, have the same arrogance toward their audience. They know what’s best, and they’re PROUD that their product is…
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One huge point
The latest article by Charles Hugh Smith makes one HUGE point that I haven’t heard before. It resonates deeply. The one huge point: AI is winning because the people in charge of making decisions NO LONGER HAVE A QUALITY HUMAN PRODUCT TO COMPARE WITH. The deciders don’t know how shitty the new offshored or AI’d…
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Studie trivia
I bought a new coffeetable book about old cars, the Standard Catalog of Independents. These Standard Catalog books list fine details about all types and prices and options for all years, to the extent that the data was available. The details on Studebaker include some unfamiliar weirdness in the ’50s. Studie ran wild with names…
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Reprint on Platonic crap
Reprinting this from just a few months ago because I feel like it. = = = = = START REPRINT: Via MindMatters. = = = = = START QUOTE: Mark Balaguer defends the proposition that mathematics belongs to an eternal realm. This realm is frequently referred to as the Platonic realm. Mathematics is like nothing…
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What’s the problem?
Headline: Oil and gas companies must pay more to drill on federal land under new Biden admin rule. Conservatives are squawking as usual, but this is a rare example of government applying the correct incentives. Government desperately needs to function more like a business. Businesses charge individual customers for individual services. This leads to more…
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Enjoying rare realists
Online people who agree with reality are rare. (Offline realism is far more common.) So I appreciate the few writers and podcasters who are firmly grounded in reality, ignoring soap opera noise of all sorts. Taggart is reliable, and most of his guests are also reliable. Last week he talked with Hoenig, who was the…
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Radio in the walls
Looking up DeForest’s Unit Panel system, ran into an article in Gernsback’s Radio News from June 1928. Radio in the Ohio State Pen, by 52607. Conditions were definitely different when I was in Mansfield in 1969. If this article is accurate, the inmates of 1928 had far more latitude and trust. = = = =…
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April is the sweetest month
Will wonders never cease? The EU passed a law to restrict “asylum” fakers. They said it would fast-track asylum procedures at the EU’s border, impose tough new screening systems and return people who do not qualify for international protection to their countries. Sorosian devils hate the law, which tells me all I need to know.…
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