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Work with what you have
Chris Christie starts to pull ahead of DeSantis. Not surprising. DeSantis SHOULD have been the sole challenger to Trump. He courageously opposed Trump’s lockdowns and muzzles and needles, and protected Florida from Trump’s genocide. As soon as he started running for President he threw away his entire reputation and record. I can’t parse his reasons.…
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Metamach
Machiavelli’s book was written as a reference manual for tyrants. He was quite openly and scientifically telling princes how to divide and rule in all possible situations. What if you have a reluctant bureaucracy? What if you want to rule people with a tradition of autonomy? Recipes for every situation. Non-tyrants can read his reference…
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The sides aren’t always rigid
Not a new thought, just a reinforced old thought. The BASIC dividing line for civilization and economics and technology has always been: Who does it serve? One side says that everything must serve human beings. The other side says everything must serve Genghis or Attila or Caesar or Robespierre or Morgan or Zuck, depending on…
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Not that kind of store
Via Protos: Canada is requesting bids to develop a system to “store” bitcoin for local police. The headline and description imply secure storage of the private key numbers after cops seize them. Struck me as odd. Storing a number isn’t a problem. You just have to keep it away from the web where anyone can…
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Batya’s point again
Substack’s new Twitter-clone Notes immediately turned into the standard social media rats-nest, dominated by the Engagement Seekers. Batya: Every time you fire back hatred at a perfect stranger online, somebody makes a whole lot of money. Localizing: Who makes money? The perfect stranger, who knows exactly how to weaponize your hatred for profit. New thought…
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First world problem /// Edit: Oops.
/// Never mind. This was a false indication. Youtube had simply changed their API, which happens fairly often, and the maker of the download app hadn’t caught up with the change. =============== Youtube has started cutting off most downloads unless you pay for Premium service. Okay, fine. I’d rather pay than go for free. Customer,…
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When you’re a peasant
Mattingly at GetReligion is covering the elite/peasant divide with an emphasis on the consequences for journalism. Most of his commentary is fairly realistic. He says one thing that I’m not hearing from other commentators: Christian churches and colleges are not doing a good job of preparing youngsters to ENTER the elite places. I think he’s…
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Natural clock?
After pondering the eightness of natural money, and the twoness and fourness of natural sleep, the concepts merged in my tired brainlet into a question. What if clocks were consistently binary? Our clocks inherited the quadrants of Roman ‘watches’, mixed with the 12s and 60s of the Babylonian system. As with money, we say the…
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Held accountable!!!!!!!!!!
Sammy is IN jail! Sammy continued blackmailing witnesses after all the gradually increasing restrictions. After a year of wack-a-mole, JUDGE Kaplan finally got serious. This is uniquely important because Sammy was uniquely aristocratic, uniquely top status in every way, uniquely exempt from all “laws”. He bribed and blackmailed all the Correct Persons and until now…
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Big answer
TheFederalist interviews Jake Denton, a tech policy expert. Denton is Mach all the way down. He ignores the absurd noises of “elections” and “votes” and “legislation”, which normally prevent conservatives from thinking. He goes straight to raw personal power every time. Around 26:00 he answers one big question in a highly refreshing way. Why do…
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Weird and dumb
This editorial in Military.com expresses the will of the demons. It’s written by a monster who believes (or pretends to believe) all of Satan’s lies. Nevertheless, it says that the military side of Deepstate is planning a peculiar sort of part-time draft. This paragraph is simply true: = = = = = START QUOTE: While…
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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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