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Both right
Pointless rant, triggered by dueling headlines. Fox: Leftist media peddles another anti-Trump hoax MSNBC: Far-right media peddles another anti-Biden hoax They’re both right. Media peddles hoaxes and lies. Nothing else. That’s the whole story. The alleged “independents” are no better. Taibbi peddles information “leaked” by Deepstate, which has carefully edited what it “leaks”. Taibbi seems…
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Why the consistent hate?
I don’t understand why everyone is required to hate realtors. This article is a good example, but the tendency is universal. Realtors settled a stupid lawsuit that accused them of price-fixing because they charge a commission on sales. Everyone is acting like the 6% commission is the sole problem with the housing market. Houses cost…
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Even the Austinites are rebelling
Ted Gioia is enough of an insider that he gets invited to their events. He reports that even the wild-eyed Innovative Disruptors at the annual Austin SXSW thing are tired of AI. When a speaker spewed the standard Effective Altruism pitch for AI, promising to enrich the rich and cull the Negative Externalities more effectively…
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WOW.
Just after writing previous item about the top-level druggies, this Compact article popped into my inbox. It’s the complete history of Deepstate’s drug project, starting in the 1920s with Margaret Mead, who also founded Deepstate’s Gaian project in 1975. Several segments: = = = = = START QUOTE: Breen’s protagonists were far from alone. He…
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Jail mode thoughts
A powerful and heartfelt comment in Spokane News. = = = = = START QUOTE: I don’t think anyone is laughing or joking but after 40 in a weekend everyone is becoming more desensitized to these situations. The police aren’t allowed to arrest people blantingly using drugs in plain sight, which typically is the start…
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Natural desistance?
Random thought triggered by Desistance, probably wrong. I wonder if we’re seeing a sort of natural Desistance from government. This year MANY young and competent and less partisan people are leaving Congress and leaving the federal bureaucracy. Each of them has expressed disgust and weariness with the utterly pointless institution. This will purify the monstrosity.…
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Rererereprint on experts
Closely tied to previous two items. I’ve reprinted this list many times in various contexts with various additions. Feels like a good time to reprint it again, connecting it to my recent language-based comparison of facts vs commands and the recent UFO frenzy. This version of the list is from 2017, with a good discussion…
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Metaswitch
Toby Rogers writes an interesting analogy but doesn’t seem to realize that he is one of the people he describes. He parallels the apparent flip in the earth’s magnetic poles, which seems to be underway at the moment, with a flip in the roles of professions. His specific personal examples are powerful and valid. Everyone…
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Reprint on OCD
Linked in above item about Toby Rogers, worth a reprint. = = = = = REPRINT FROM JUNE 2020: A lot of people seem to be OBSERVING the ferociously obvious fact that Social Distancing is an imperative mandate for ordinary humans but not for rioters and looters. Some of these people are finally realizing what…
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Ideal prospect
I’ve been consuming these old dealer training filmstrips (audio only) in my bedtime playlist lately. This was aimed at Rambler dealers in 1959. As it happens, I can check the realism of the advice. My parents bought a new Rambler in 1960. The car had an unsolvable intermittent ignition problem. Some days it wouldn’t start,…
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Same as the others
I haven’t paid attention to Big Architecture lately. It’s refreshingly clear that small-scale architects are turning toward sanity. Recent new houses around here are remarkably resonant with the older neighbors, neatly transitioning toward the existing house on each side. It’s impressive in a NON-radical way. If this article is generally true, it sounds like Big…
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What is it?
I’m fairly familiar with old electronics stuff. I’ve been around it most of my life, and I’ve been researching and writing tech history pieces for 10 years. This one is a complete puzzle. It’s an attractive deco ad in a 1930 issue of the British Popular Wireless. The text doesn’t say what the Blue Spot…
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Novelty songs
This morning I sneezed funny, which reminded me of the old novelty song Boop bop diddum daddum waddum CHOO! And they fam and they fam all over the dam. So this song has been running in my internal jukebox. The Muzak in Safeway was playing what seems to be a strictly modern novelty song: I’ve…
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Tractors and supercars
Curbside Classics has a eulogy for designer Marcello Gandini, who died recently. He specialized in extreme supercars, which I find extremely boring. The article mentions one interesting fact: Lamborghini made tractors before it started doing supercars as a sidegig, then eventually dropped the tractors. This is an extreme case of a very old rule I…
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Official Hobbies
Totally random thought. In my father’s generation, men were expected to have an “Official Hobby”. For most this was a “Sport”, and it had to be “Golf”, of course. Nothing else was even thinkable. For other men the “Official Hobby” was “Philately (that’s stamp collecting)” or “Carpentry”. A wider range of collecting or crafting was…
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