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Had me at “parole”…
Nikki Haley got another donation from me. She’s hopelessly hawkish on war, but she accomplshed ALL the right things as governor of SC. In a speech she mentioned that SC had been reliant on textiles, and collapsed when our robber barons sent textiles to China. She got revenge by attracting factories from Japanese and German…
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Mass mechviews
This blog is getting a HUGE number of obviously mechanical “views” today. Most of them are “seeing” the previous item on Campbells Soup, which is not politically or culturally interesting in any way. Normally such items are carefully AVOIDED by all real viewers. All are coming through Oracle Cloud, all are clearly timed at regular…
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Where the ice goes
[Redated after several addendums…] I’ve got a brief break in courseware, so decided to do some ‘fun’ graphics. The Ice Plant piece earlier this year didn’t include the destination of the ice. So here’s a condensed version of the original set, with the destination added on. = = = = = How did the ice…
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More techtonic shifting!
Elon jumps around too much, but occasionally he comes down to the ground with a firm command. Today he declared that Twitterites who use cis as an insult will be treated as bullies and harassers, just like people who use nigger as an insult. This is a major shift in the techtonic plates! Eunuchs and…
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Centennial soup
Campbell’s no longer makes Printanier soup, but it does still make Vegetable in beef stock, and I eat it all the time. It’s especially nice on a coldish June day like today, 50 degrees with rain. This summer is a reward for two previous hot ones. From a 1922 Ladies Home Journal: The only influencer…
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YAVO 2
Detroit learned the Bud Light lesson heavily in ’57 to ’60. Executives, drunk with complacency and EXTREMELY drunk on actual martinis, decided to leave their dull boring customers behind. GM got rid of Buick’s portholes, then got rid of its traditional brand distinctions entirely. Ford dropped its beloved circular taillights. Chrysler got rid of quality…
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Yet Another Vague Observation (YAVO)
One of Kirn’s commenters was recommending the All-In Podcast as a relatively non-partisan source. I tried listening to an episode and turned it off after 20 seconds. These are RICH FUCKHEADS of the tech-tyrant species. They were apparently joshing each other in Bro Style, talking about ??doing?? some ??things?? and ??going?? to some ??places??. Every…
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Vague observation on usefulness
My courseware work is sort of half-time by average. 1. I put in roughly one year of fulltime work on a new version. 2. Then I sit back and let the royalties roll in for one or sometimes two years. This provides a constants/variables observation for my feelings when actually working and completing stuff versus…
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One big data point
Ryan Burge, a pastor who sidegigs as a data-based writer, has a new piece trying to track down exactly who is losing religion. He runs through various age groups and finds nothing surprising. In general men are less churchy than women, but this gap is closing and even crossing over lately. Young women are now…
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Cults then and now
An extremely vague old memory popped up. We have lots of high-IQ cult leaders running around now, from Balaji to Jordan to Tate. High-IQ “scientific” cults were rampant in the 70s, with varying purposes and flavors. Synanon, EST, Rolfing, Ecumenical Institute, Fritz Perls, etc. (Scientology was the biggest player, but it operated behind the curtains.…
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Interesting point
Mollie Hemingway at TheFederalist offers an interesting point at 27:00 in this podcast. She’s discussing the low threshold for Repoof candidates, versus the absolute refusal of all debates and primaries by D. She thinks this gives an advantage to R, since people who want to see a functional “democracy” are seeing it on the R…
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More pointless thoughts
Continuing thoughts on the universal dividers. Rulers generate divides to keep the people weak and distracted so every bad event can be symmetrically scapegoated. R blames D, D blames R, nobody blames the permanent Deepstate. A few of the side-makers are controlled by Deepstate, especially the rioters and protesters. A proper riot needs government support…
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AI as seen by execs
The Ankler interviews an anonymous exec at Apple’s streaming service. He gives the industry’s view on AI and outsourcing, which we don’t hear much. We hear from AI boosters, and we hear from the writers and artists who are losing their property. The actual USERS have a hardass attitude, tempered by knowing what works. Hardass…
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Bad design
Why are we designed to make life so damn easy for the dividers and conquerors? It takes hard mental work and long experience to avoid both teams. Ockham and Machiavelli warned us in specific ways. Jesus and his disciples warned their flock. Out of curiosity I checked the book of Proverbs, which I hadn’t read…
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De Vast Atery
DailyMail tries to transcribe Fetterman’s question to a bureaucrat about the recent major problem on I95 in Philly. (It wasn’t a failure of the bridge itself; it was a tanker truck that burned up a bridge. So it wasn’t a Federal policy concern, and didn’t need to be discussed in Congress.) “I, uh, would just,…
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