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Still more rancher rambling
Following on this and this. The standard ‘rancher’ and the standard bungalow are domesticated versions of two truly vernacular house types, which are rarely seen in books of house plans. The genuine Ranch, developed on genuine western ranches, was one room DEEP for full cross-ventilation. A Ranch is designed for the wide-open spaces. Each room…
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Pulling the filter
RFK is pulling hard on the Sucker Filter. He’s claiming that the “virus” is ethnically targeted, most effective on blacks and Caucasians, and designed not to bother Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews. This statement is ethnically targeted, designed to make RFK’s followers look stupid. The publicly attributed deaths have been mostly black and Anglo, because those…
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Sometimes incompetence?
Two common arguments against conspiracy “theories”: 1. More than three people can’t keep a secret. This one is sheer nonsense. Massive numbers of people can keep a secret if they feel like it’s worth doing. Secrecy is the default in human affairs. Transparency is rare and usually fake. 2. What looks like conspiracy is always…
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Medicalized
The antivaxers are still playing the same “cases” game as the provaxers, focusing on multiple symptoms reported by people who got lots of shots. They’re missing the simplest causation. People who like to get shots are also people who like to get tested. They’re MEDICALIZED. They have decided to let MDs make all their decisions…
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More pointless rancher rambling
A few days ago I was thinking about bungalows vs ranchers. I have a Poser version of a LONG rancher, which would have made the point better than the squarish rancher I ended up using. The long rancher has an attached garage so it wasn’t suitable for the turning and flipping I needed in that…
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Black holes
Via Protos: = = = = = START QUOTE: CIC Digital LLP, the company owned by Donald Trump that licenses the likeness of the multi-billionaire former president for use on NFTs has revealed that it has less than $1,000 in its US bank account. The firm does, however, hold an Ethereum wallet with an estimated…
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One bright spot
When I say Deepstate I mean the specific alliance of investment banks with the spy agencies and “political” NGOs. Most people use Deepstate to mean all bureaucracies, the Administrative State. The non-spy bureaucracies are actually a bright spot in the current dismal picture. Media holds our focus on the utterly meaningless and trivial noise of…
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Two maps
Unz has mostly descended into tiresome eugenics and outdated racial stereotypes. It still manages to include a smart piece once in a while. Mike Whitney makes a highly unorthodox and thus true point about China, using just one pair of maps. = = = = = START QUOTE: You see the development of a high-speed…
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Debs and Gompers would be proud
Franny the Nanny delivers a classic stemwinding labor speech. She knows how to sell. She doesn’t sidetrack into cultural crap or fine details. Pure labor vs capital, workers vs Wall Street. Gompers approved of women leading labor unions 100 years ago, so he wouldn’t be shocked at all. = = = = = The folks…
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MAGNIFICENT
MAGNIFICENT writing by Rushfield at the Ankler. Anything I try to add would spoil it. READ IT.
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Recognize the tanh point.
Outrage! The Miss Universe pageant goes all the way on Woke. First, this is NOT NEW. The big beauty pageants stopped competing for real beauty and other human qualities a LONG TIME ago. Second, the same thing has happened in other forms of competition from athletics to spelling bees to casinos to business. Third, why…
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Reprint on confidence and immunity
Following on previous item, here’s a reprint from July 2020. This was before RFK took over ACU and guided it into the OPPOSITE form of panic. Were we being prepared for this fake emergency? The ACU’s own Youtube channel doesn’t have many of the press conferences, but it does have some useful interviews on the…
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Broader Fairness Doctrine needed
FDR gave us the official Fairness Doctrine for R vs D partisanship, which also applied to other denominational teams like churches. Broadcasters had to take both sides, which meant in practice that they took NO SIDE. The result was much less national division along party lines. Lately I’ve been feeling generally non-confident and fearful, which…
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Find the engineer
Seen on Reddit: What happens when an engineer likes to make coffee? Engineering students not so humble setup byu/FarmerNo6196 inespresso See also. And also.
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The first oil boom was NOT here.
The latest FOIA from John Greenewald at BlackVault is a brief account of a UFO sighting by Sen Richard Russell on a 1955 trip through the Soviet Union. Near Baku, Russell saw a greenish bright orb rising from the ground. He told the other people in the group, who hadn’t seen the orb. A second…
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