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More on the same
Since I’m reprinting work from an era when my brain functioned, here’s one from 2019, just before the NAZI TORTURE CAMP used up my gumption. = = = = = START REPRINT: Idiot headless-line: Susceptibility to mental illness may have helped humans adapt over the millenia. I didn’t bother to read the brainless article. Headline…
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Unmodulated continued
Continuing from previous. Unmodulated carriers don’t get detected in a superhet world. Lately I’ve been enjoying the long series of newsreels and educational films sponsored by Chevy. These films were modulated or spiced by original music and original drama, and heterodyned or baked by the Chevy brand. Every news item and skill was passed through…
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What you mean EVERYONE?
This BBC piece on Sammy starts with an obnoxious headline: Everyone got duped by Sam’s big gamble What you mean Everyone, dupe man? I wasn’t duped by any of the bitcoin shit. Plenty of others with bigger voices weren’t duped, and we all tried to tell EVERYONE that EVERYONE is a goddamn fool. This has…
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Not a paradox
Nice sharp observation from Wesley Smith, who often writes for the Intelligent Design websites. Here’s the dirty secret of the euthanasia movement. They don’t really care about “safeguards.” They put them in, such as they are, to gull a wary public–and then the protections are immediately redefined as “obstacles” to “death with dignity” and eligibility…
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NFT too small
Bloomberg does another deep dive into the Trump Too Small trademark case. A t-shirt vendor wanted to trademark the slogan. The trademark office correctly rejected the trademark because the vendor hadn’t acquired a license from Trump to use his name. The 5th circuit overturned, citing the meaningless and nonexistent “free speech”. Now the Supremes are…
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Radartoons 2
Seattle is about to be attacked by a giant woodpecker. Aside from the toon, that’s an amazingly sharp jet streak.
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Non-convergers
I’m not excited about most of the Officially Exciting Topics, starting with vax, which is a misdirection from the REAL torture of lockdowns and strangulation and raw screeching panic. I’ve never been upset about censorship and canceling. Frankly I don’t see much difference between the supposedly “more free” online channels and the supposedly “less free”.…
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Henry would be proud
And I mean both Henry Ford and Henry Wallace. UAW is the good news in today’s mess. Through careful and clever analog strategy, they achieved tremendous victories against all of the Big Three. Now the non-union carmakers are starting to feel the pressure, raising their own starting wages to remain competitive. When corporations compete to…
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Machiavelli wins
EnidBuzz asked What are you liking less and less as you get older? 357 comments so far. Only a few are about the consequences of aging. More than half are just one word: PEOPLE. Enid is in the comparatively sane part of the country, more rural than urban, with a long history of public-spirited employers.…
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Guilty!
That was quick. Sammy’s guilty on all charges. Bravo and kudos to the jury. I would have had trouble with obscure concepts of balance (a thief stealing from other thieves is not really immoral)… but a jury is only supposed to deal with the letter of the law, and they did it exactly right.
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Aliens
Via NewSuperstitionist: Adult starfish are not bilateral because they don’t have a body. A starfish is just a “head walking about the seafloor on its lips”. The larva is bilateral and looks like other simple invertebrates, a worm with head and tail. When it morphs into an adult, it stops expressing the genes for body…
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Doozy debunk
We always learned that doozy came from Duesenberg, which was an especially impressive car. Halfway recalled reading a debunk of the origin. The Duesenberg brothers started out as engineers at Maytag, which made gas-powered washers before it switched to electric. They departed and created their own car in 1920. It would have taken a few…
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Political warranties
Random stupid thought, impossible and unenforceable. Politicians would be more reliable if they had warranties. Donations would pay for specific promises. Breaking the promise would require refunds of the donations for this promise. If you donated to Tulsi to oppose Biden, or donated to Trump to oppose Wall Street, you should get your money back.…
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