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Continuing
Continuing the theme, reprint from 2011. IT’S NOT JUST THE MATH. I’ve often discussed how the drive toward abstract work, the tendency to judge people by graduate degrees, has already destroyed America’s black population and is now in the process of destroying its Caucasians as well. The harder we try to compete with China and…
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Not surprising
In related news: Kenya has kicked out the Samoids. Unlike the Hollywood switchover, this is unsurprising, part of a long trend. Africa has been defending its people against western tech decadence for many years. Reprint from 2016: MORAL RIGOR VS MATH RIGOR. After reading about the admirable African bishops making one last attempt to turn…
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From Mao to Marx in one move
A constant theme in old scifi, and a recognized rule of human behavior: An external enemy like an alien invasion can unite bickering family members or internally divided nations. Our monstrous rulers have been dividing us for centuries, with special success in the last 30 years thanks to their total control of MEDIA. Alien monsters…
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Random overheard
Bit of conversation overheard on this aft’s walk: … and I was like Why do you want to build another electronics store? And he was like YEAAAH! So I spent another six years underground… Not the same house as previous overheard leprosy conversation, but equally mysterious. I think it might be the same guy; voice…
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2015 reprint on intervals
I linked this 2015 piece in a footnote to yesterday’s item about two-part sleep. This piece listed several examples of theory and “learning” displacing older natural methods and natural knowledge. It rambled somewhat, but the rambling led to a point and turned out to be prophetic. = = = = = START REPRINT: Nothing can…
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Pagebits
Dan Murrell does a highly detailed breakdown of the actors vs producers negotiations. One of the details was interesting to a metrology freak: Murrell says 5-4/8 is not a typo; all paychecks and contracts divide up scripts into eighths with no reduced fractions. 1/4 is 2/8, 1/2 is 4/8, and 3/4 is 6/8. Eighths have…
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Are we entering?
I’m tempted to think that I’m getting shadowbanned or something. In the last month or two my already sparse readership dropped off, with many days showing no reads at all. At the start of this noticeable dropoff a reader from Portugal showed in Statcounter. The takedowns that caused me to leave Blogspot were identifiably caused…
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Animist jargon
From the Old Postcards Facebook page. The crate is familiar, but the official jargon for the crate is new to me. Pop shells!
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Lorgnette
An unusual 1936 hearing aid from RCA Sonotone, which later became a major brand in HAs. This unit wasn’t a freestanding amplifier. Practical HAs had to wait for submini tubes in 1947 and especially transistors in 1954. This was just an earphone or a BONE CONDUCTION transducer to connect to the earphone output of a…
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Thanks to DailyMail
I’m always bitching that modern media fail to warn about classic swindles. Here’s a good solid exception to the rule. DailyMail tells the stories of several people who fell for the classic romance swindle. It hasn’t changed in a hundred years, and the older shows like Racket Squad told the story in many forms. The…
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Restoration, not revolution
The Federalist folks are discussing the Trump indictments. They’re not exactly Trump fans, but they do treat this mess as an unfair prosecution, a use of “legal” techniques to accomplish a purpose that should be done politically. And there’s the real problem. WE CAN’T REMOVE A LEADER POLITICALLY. IT’S PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. Impeachment was a terrible…
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Nature came back
In previous item I linked a 2015 piece about sleep improving memory. At that time I was going through a ‘phase change’ without knowing it: = = = = = START QUOTE: Since the end of paid work project in early Feb, I’ve dropped into a bad broken sleep pattern, and can’t seem to pop…
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Pointless without guildforce
I hadn’t heard of this before. At one time in the world of big “alt” media like Gawker and Buzzfeed, a group of commercial bloggers tried to socially enforce a pair of weird symbols to denote different types of credit. One symbol would indicate that “the discovery of the information is being credited to somebody…
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Massive and instant
The academic side of social science has not produced any good knowledge in at least 100 years. It produces lots of evil (training CIA torturers, assisting NSA surveillers) but mostly churns out trivial and blatantly wrong nonsense. A fine example of the latter is circulating this week. Some “scientist” has declared that most people don’t…
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