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Electrotyping, part 1 of 3
[Redated and slightly revised after I decided to continue the subject. This was originally a single free-standing item.] = = = = = Electrochemistry was the first practical use of electricity. The first attempted telegraphs used electrolytic bubbles in water as the indicator. Stereotyping was already mature in 1840, as an industrial process involving papier-mache…
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Electrotyping, part 2 of 3
Part 1 showed the essential process of electrotyping in a small-scale experimental setup. Real factories like Kellogg’s Patent Insides used bigger machines in mass production. Here again is the Kellogg building in KC, placed in my down-home scene. Most of the Kellogg building was devoted to electrotyping, with hot-lead composition and the writers and researchers…
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Electrotyping, part 3 of 3
After the type is set into a form, suitable for ordinary printing, the electrotype process begins by smashing the form into a thin layer of wax on a metal plate. The metal plate will become the negative electrode in the plating vat. The form is placed face down on the wax layer forming a sandwich.…
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The Yahoo example
Redditors are discussing a news item where Marissa Mayer says Yahoo should have bought Netflix. The commenters come at it from various angles, some citing Yahoo’s downgrading of Instagram. This one says it all: = = = = = Yahoo is used in many business schools as examples of self sabotage. At one point they…
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Simple recipe for trust
This is hardly new, but seems to be forgotten and reversed in recent decades. If you want to create trust, you need to solve problems. If you want to solve problems, you need to start at the FIRST AVAILABLE OPPORTUNITY. I learned this lesson when I was teaching. To maintain discipline and trust, you need…
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More than a baby step
Jeffrey Tucker catches a BIG step in the backaway from the “virus” hoaxocaust. = = = = = START QUOTE: New York Magazine is featuring an article called “COVID Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It Was a Failure.” The authors are two excellent journalists, Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean, who have also written a new…
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Can’t CONverge when you never DIverged.
Headline from latest Taibbi “independent” “news”: New Twitter Files Story Raises Question: Is It Hoaxes All the Way Down? Susan Schmidt’s dive into the Twitter Files is the latest to show ties between a growing number of fake news schemes involving Russian bots. How many frauds are there left to discover? Nice to see that…
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DST SES
Spokane News gave the usual DST reminder. Most comments were the usual. Here’s one wonderful exception. = = = = = START QUOTE: Thumbs up to those of us who still “turn clocks back” rather than notice the time on our phones seems off. I look forward to sowing mayhem in the retirement homes with…
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The dull explanation
Greenwald interviews a “former” CIA dude who says the CIA killed JFK for failing to go along with Deepstate plans. Glenn does a good job of questioning his premises. Former CIA said “Eisenhower outsourced his foreign policy to the Dulles brothers”, which is patently false from observed reality and from news at the time. Observed…
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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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