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Weird WordPress glitch /// No, Firefox glitch.
WordPress often introduces bugs in its UI, then fixes them after a few days. This week’s bug is a new trick. It seems to treat me as “halfway signed in”. I’m able to write and publish new items, but when I try to see the preview while writing, the preview looks like this: Also, it…
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Medieval mindset
The medieval mindset is hardass realistic about human nature, especially the nature of demons. Machiavelli wrote it all down in systematic and scientific form so we can read it now, but ordinary peasants were equally realistic. You can hear the realism in religious songs and prayers from the period. They didn’t ask God to Elect…
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Metawait 2
At a fixed timepoint in every episode of Lady Edgar’s official propaganda outlet This is your FBI, the smarmy Special Agent slaps his forehead and says “Wait! Why didn’t I notice this before?” Here’s one of those moments. For many years I’ve been focusing on ZERO TAX as the sole purpose of Repooflicans and Tech…
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King Solomon’s rosary
One of those supershort Ripley pieces tells a strange story. A village in India commonly received rain including pre-drilled beads. The natives gathered them and strung them into ‘King Solomon’s Rosaries’. Several old books note that Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists use rosaries; the Buddhist version is well known. Finally found the source of Ripley’s story.…
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Reminds me of
Another of those Natl Assn of Mfrs films. This one is mainly about uses of ultrasonics. Many of them are familiar now, detecting flaws in aluminum or embryos, and cleaning surfaces. Here’s a use that didn’t seem to go anywhere, but the experiment is dramatically effective: Ultrasonic sound breaks up fog and smog. Reminds me…
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Wrong variable
Still in pointless rant mode. Tired of fake outrage and fake surprise over government spying on its citizens, and “warrantless” wiretaps. First: All governments spy on their citizens. Knowing what the people are doing and thinking is a necessary INPUT to government. Feedback loops are necessary for any functional machine. This input used to be…
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DGAF
Speaking of lost opportunities, got an email this morning from antiwar.com, asking for a donation. NO. I stopped reading them in 2020 because they ignored the BIGGEST AND MOST EVIL WAR IN HUMAN HISTORY, the war of all governments against all people. If you can’t oppose the biggest war of all, you’re not against war.…
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Kirn vs Hart
Still annoyed at the lost opportunity of Kirn’s “newspaper”. When you take the trouble to print something on paper, and boast that the material is uncensored and unrepetitive, you should BE uncensored and unrepetitive. You should be DAMN SURE that everything you print is entirely new, representing original viewpoints that aren’t available in any of…
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Maybe too fair
Via Eurekalert. = = = = = START QUOTE: Experts today call for more value to be given to patients’ ‘lived experiences’ as a study of over 1,000 patients and clinicians found multiple examples of patient reports being under-valued. The research, led by a team at the University of Cambridge and Kings’ College London, found…
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Will they change the script?
This Bloomberg podcast raises an interesting point. The Biden administration has been pushing HARD for anti-trust regulation, which is an unquestionably good move. They’re even pushing harder than I would in some cases! Google has a natural monopoly on searching, acquired by doing the job far better than others. This is not predatory. At an…
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Ease and comfort
Previous item about retirement emphasized ‘ease and comfort’, a time when you don’t have to be anywhere or satisfy anyone except yourself. Strikes an immediate resonance. During the “virus” holocaust I was fighting all the time, churning out courseware and graphics, walking every day and making the hellish storetrip twice a week by bus. Now…
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Absolutely everything.
Lately I’ve been running the audio from these old film features in my bedtime playlist. Good bedtime material, halfway interesting but not noisy or dramatic. The features were written by the National Assn of Mfrs in the ’50s, and each includes a variety of industries and occupations in a sauce of capitalist propaganda. Each item…
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NHI
Another clicky story from Protos. Aiden Pleterski, who ran a pure Ponzi and stole 40 million FAST, is spending it FAST. His loot is supposedly under the control of a bankruptcy trustee, but the trustee isn’t trying very hard to stop the spending. Pleterski is jetting around the world, a new country every day, spending…
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How to increase trust
Spokane News posted one of our multiple daily overdose deaths, then added this explanation: Yes, this happens a lot in the area. True, we do not post them all. We posted this as it was called out as a cardiac arrest which calls for a very large response so we post to avoid the area.…
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Asking the same question
In this segment, around 22 minutes, Tucker and Glenn are discussing a question that I’ve been asking for a long time. Why do we hate Russia? They don’t find an answer at all, and I’ve never found a convincing answer. It’s not about “communism”. We hated Russia before it turned “communist”, and we hate it…
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