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Speaking of Gaian suckers…..
Via RealClear: Biologists in Texas have found a rare crossbreed of a bluejay and a greenjay. The two species aren’t as closely related as their names would imply, but they can crossbreed. Instead of simply finding the cross interesting and unusual, the UTexas biologists had to invoke “climate emergency” as the Universal Cause Of Everything.…
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Oldest sucker filter
A preacher has predicted that the Rapture will occur tomorrow, 9/23. Raptures and apocalypses are unquestionably the oldest Sucker Filter, the oldest tool for selecting the most gullible followers. Every single one has failed. Often a prophet will “revise” the rapture several times in a row. Each failure and revision sorts the suckers at a…
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Sign of sanity
Reported in an official newsletter. While most of “congress” plays its usual pointless symbol games with nonexistent “debt ceilings” and nonexistent “shutdowns,” some reps in BOTH parties are organizing to protect and improve the Post Office. They’re concerned that the previous ‘Delivering For America’ agenda is leading to more delays and more costs, not better…
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First sighting!
Found in the Engrish area of Reddit. First sighting anywhere on the net! Ðe original instructions are in ICELANDIC, and ðe English translation is dubious. Icelandic never appears on ðe web. Ðe letters shared wiþ Anglo-Saxon make it stand out immediately. Later, I guess the rarity makes sense numerically. Iceland’s population is 400k, about the…
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Back to unsurprising again
In July I noted a slight bit of apparent action by the insane “city”. Some REAL people, ie people named Cowles, finally got tired enough to make the “city” take a tiny bit of apparent action. I wrote: = = = = = START REPRINT: I’ve been thoroughly bashing the “city” of Spokane for ENCOURAGING…
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Canada should learn from Canada
This new video tells about Canada’s profitable importing of Ladas in the ’80s. At that time USA was, as always, invading and blockading Russia for no reason except our own monstrous drive to destroy everything good and decent. Canada took advantage of the situation, selling huge amounts of wheat and petroleum to Russia, and importing…
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No surprises
New Scientist has a big section this week on How to live to be 100. Beneath the headline there’s nothing unusual. If you do the well-known right things you’ll live longer, but reaching 100 is all in the genes. One study cited in the article gives the hard facts. Somebody tested a group of 500…
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Zapping the mailman
One of the postal employees at Reddit is having trouble with the new NGDV ‘duck truck’. Every time he reaches out and opens a metal mailbox he gets a big static shock. Is it electric motor vs gas motor? Not the most likely cause. Electric motors don’t necessarily build up a static charge. More likely…
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First video game?
Visual displays were common in early telegraphs and railroad signaling systems. There’s nothing new about a visual GUI. Wheatstone’s first system in 1832 was meant for home use, though it didn’t succeed commercially. Here the bee is typing out a message: In the 1850s the magnificent Foy system for the French railroads used a visual…
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Things endure
Looking through old Billboard mags while chasing elusive info about Western Union’s public fax machines, ran across a permanent memorial to the last moment of sanity before political lunacy resumed. In Dec 1945 the treasury issued the FDR dime. Billboard, serving coin-op vendors, was concerned that the dime wouldn’t fit current machines, but the treasury…
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If you think
If you think Left and Right exist you’re a fool. If you think Democracy and Fascism exist you’re a fool. If you think Laws and Constitutions and Rights exist you’re a fool. If you think Free Speech exists you’re a fool. If you think Privacy exists, and the latest hack ruined Privacy, you’re a fool.…
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Modern equivalent of Features
Media no longer includes Features because some of them were true, and truth is utterly prohibited now. The non-mainstream news sources can follow the old tradition by deadpan reporting of crazy shit. This dude would be an improvement on any of our current mayors, governors and presidents. He’s crazy in a private way. He’s not…
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More Hudson trivia
Bought yet another picture book on Hudson. This one is by Don Butler, who worked as a stylist for Hudson in the 40s, then moved to Nash and Chrysler. He didn’t have as much inside access as Conde, but did some long research to gather up a wider variety of pictures. His book answers a…
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Snacks and turkeys
The website devoted to Hudson material includes quite a few Dealer Bulletins. These gave dealers the company’s talking points on this year’s cars and options. Each bulletin started with a long set of features and fillers, giving salesmen some jokes and bits of knowledge to spice up their talks. I’m an avid consumer of Features,…
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SubSPAC
SPACs are money-laundering devices for new entries in the stock crime index. The sole purpose of a SPAC is to evade the few remaining regulations on initial offerings of crime shares. When a fake company wants to enter the NASDAQ Murder Index but knows it’s too blatantly bankrupt to get past the weak rules, it…
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