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Wrong variable
Headline: Facebook and Instagram Allegedly Hook Youngsters with Dopamine Triggering Tactics That’s a constant, not a variable. Every successful business tries to hook customers by manipulating pleasure vs pain. The variable is what the product does after you’re hooked. If the product is food or clothing or furniture or harmless sensory experiences like chewing gum…
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Defeated the purpose
Pneumatic control systems have long been used in places like mines and grain elevators where a spark could cause an explosion. Around 1930 there was a burst of patents for pneumatic computers and typewriters, which didn’t seem to be aimed toward safety because most had electric motors and some were ‘adapters’ for electric typewriters. Most…
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Thinks it’s ironic
Post in Buttcoin, Reddit’s home for bitcoin skeptics: = = = = = START QUOTE: At last we have centralized trading of BitCoin for privileged first world citizens on a government-regulated exchange, with merchant bankers clipping the ticket on every transaction! This is the turning point that Satoshi dreamed of. Combine this with the whales…
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Are they learning?
Along with most of the country we’re getting a few days of supercold GLOBAL WARMING. Avista has been sending out the usual WARMING WARNINGS, asking customers to conserve as much as possible. Today, though the supercold GLOBAL WARMING isn’t entirely finished, Avista sent this email: = = = = = START QUOTE: Dear Customer, We…
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If humans…
Congress has made the extremely difficult and courageous decision to postpone its ONLY JOB for another three months, so it can later make the extremely difficult and courageous decision to postpone its ONLY JOB for another three months, and so ad infinitum. Writing the budget is the ONLY JOB of Congress. It is ALLOWED to…
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Dodge got there first!
This is amazing. Our standard myth, which I believed until right now, told us that VW and other rear-engine cars had rollover-prone single joint swing axles until the ’60s when VW “invented” the parallel two joint swing axle. Nope. DODGE ROUTE VANS had independent rear suspension with parallel two-joint swing axles, and a differential mounted…
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Stoller grasps Gosbank
Matt Stoller is getting close to the Gosbank solution. He’s discussing Boeing, with a complete and accurate history. He concludes that the government needs to BUY Boeing and redistribute its production to benefit American workers instead of American shareholders. On the dot. In the Soviet system the government provided the FINANCE and also made the…
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Writes, not reads
A very old and perfectly accurate proverb: The Supreme Court reads election returns. A modern version, especially since 2000: The Supreme Court WRITES election returns. Homelessness was not caused by cities allowing camping and squatting; it was caused by Wall Street. 40 years of Holy Share Value and offshoring has devastated and destroyed the country.…
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Karma bites!
This is DEEEE-LICIOUS. The UN, after 50 years of forcing countries to destroy their own energy sources and overprice the rare remaining energy, has closed its Geneva headquarters building because it can’t pay the energy bills that it caused.
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A real unintended consequence
Most allegedly unintended consequences are clearly intended after you understand the Machiavellian purposes of the monsters. Results only look accidental or “failed” when you delusionally assume that the monsters want peace and happiness and normal lives for normal people. Despite all the “censorship” (mostly the old Banned In Boston trick) the web has brought a…
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Not always evil
Media always concentrate our attention on the utterly irrelevant and meaningless noise in congress and political campaigns and courts. The real power is in the banks and corporations. Sometimes the media concentration isn’t even partisan. For instance, the meaningless noise about the “secretary of defense” missing work without telling anyone seems to be viewed negatively…
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Another great quote
Seen at EnidBuzz facebook page as usual. This one is a bit too long to put in the top icon, but I want to remember it. I got sober because I wanted a better life. I stay sober because I have one.
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Had to jump in
The Hasidic tunnel in NYC is weird in an infinite number of ways. First, a Hasidic Riot is the weirdest possible image. Second, if they wanted a mikvah, it would be easier and safer to build one in their own building, instead of paying Mexicans to dig a tunnel to reach the existing mikvah. Hasidim…
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2012 as seen from 1962
This 1962 publication by IRE (now IEEE) celebrated the 50th anniversary of the organization and looked ahead to 2012 with a series of “lookbacks”. The supermodern superadvanced world-peaceful 2012 inhabitants looked back with contempt at horrible neanderthal 1962. Technical predictions were highly accurate and not really prophetic, since all the necessary pieces were either finished…
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