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Wallace’s father and radio
Henry Wallace followed in his father’s footsteps in some ways, and tried to erase his father’s footsteps in other ways. Henry Senior was a farmer who turned into a writer and researcher on agriculture, then turned into Harding’s sec of ag. Henry Junior started as a writer and researcher and businessman in ag, then turned…
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Zenith + Wallace, part 1 of 3.
I decided to continue having fun with Zenith, since it seems to bring out the best in my craft. So far all the Zenith items I’ve ‘drawn’ have turned out nicely, above the standard of other recent output. Write what you know. Write what you love. Randomly looking through old radio journals for more material,…
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Zenith + Wallace, part 2 of 3.
When FDR took office, he had to fix two parallel legacies of the booming speculative 20s, both of which caused busts in the 30s. There were cross-ties between the two legacies, so he couldn’t fix either one by itself. He had to fix them in a cross-linked way. One boom was initiated by huge government…
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Zenith + Wallace, part 3 of 3.
Simplify, simplify, simplify. Wincharger focused my thinking on balancing natural forces with natural forces, using reactance instead of resistance. This leads to three separate Simplifies. The first is impractical, the other two are eminently practical. = = = = = Simplify #1: Farm generators ranged from 6v to 32v, always DC. Modern solid-state equipment, including…
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Universally true
The Supremes ALWAYS serve NYC. On important issues the Supreme demons don’t follow shifting party alignments. From the start, all economic decisions have served the economic interests of the NYC robber barons, and all cultural decisions have supported the immoral values of the NYC robber barons. Even when their decisions appear to favor humans, the…
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There is no coffee in China???
TIL, as they say at Reddit. I’m always suspicious of ‘there are no X in Y’ sentences. Authoritative people have said There Are No Pianos In Japan, and There Are No Basements In Oklahoma. I can debunk the latter from experience, and the former is easily disproved by Yamaha with a long history of making…
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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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