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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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Constants and Variables on Sammy
The last day of action in Sammy’s trial brought out a set of facts that haven’t been discussed before. Why did Sammy choose to operate in the Bahamas? Because he bribed the Bahamian government. Constant: We can be sure Sammy also tried to bribe US and NY regulators. He always cheats and bribes. That’s his…
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Speaker Filter
After several weeks of meaningless games, the meaningless “office” of “Speaker” of the meaningless “House” was finally filled. They found the perfect squish, a soft-looking jellyfish with many juicy blackmail vulnerabilities, and he or she has been obligingly squishing since he or she was “elected”. He or she looks like Newt’s lesbian sister. This week…
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Kimchicillin?
One of my perpetual themes is that research sponsored by real business to solve real problems is ALWAYS better than research done by universities to satisfy government lunacy. The best real research is in agriculture. Today I learned, as they say on Reddit, that Korea has a World Institute of Kimchi. = = = =…
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Sounds like Henry Wallace
Kucinich is the only top-level politician who refuses to converge to Deepstate. He got swayed by RFK and joined as campaign manager. When RFK showed his true Deepstate colors, Kucinich immediately got the hell out. That’s the mark of maturity. Know when to hold em, fold em, walk away. RFK then replaced Kucinich with a…
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Not just any cult
A German Redditor was puzzled and bemused by a provision in his teaching job application. The application specifically banned adherents of Scientology. Most Redditors predictably screeched ALL RELIGIONS ARE EVIL! Other Germans correctly explained that Scientology is unique. Hubbard always recruited top-level elites, and used extortion and blackmail and technology to weaponize the elites as…
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