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Old spell
Reddit is being hit by a boycott for an appropriately obscure and inscrutable reason. The management started charging fees for some app that made Reddit easier to use on iPhones. Or maybe the app made Reddit more inscrutable on iPhones, which was probably the desired goal. In either case, the maker of the app quit…
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Not learning from Lia
Via DailyMail, taken with a block of salt but certainly sounds about right…. DeSantis’s consultants and advisors are training him to be somebody else. He’s basically an introvert, so his efforts to laugh and talk like an extrovert CAN’T POSSIBLY WORK. = = = = = START QUOTE: They are now figuring out ways to…
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Rbird
As an old CW type, I always interpret in Morse. For the last week, one nearby bird (most likely a California quail) has been saying R all day every day. Slight variations in tone, always the same .-. rhythm over and over. I suppose he’s calling CQ to the nearest available broad, or just announcing…
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C and V
Liel Leibovitz writes a wonderful exercise in Constants and Variables. RFK appeared on Jon Stewart’s TV show in 2005 and said the same thing he’s saying now. Stewart had a civilized and well-informed conversation on the subject. Now, of course, all discussion on all scientific topics is Leibovitz goes into the forgotten details of the…
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Speaking of literal….
Continuing from previous, here’s a well-constructed joke found at upjoke.com. = = = = = As the alien onslaught continued, linguists were working furiously to translate the only message they’d received in response to our plea to understand why they were attacking. The President was in his bunker trying to figure out where the first…
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Motives vs motes
In response to the latest shift in UFO hemlines, smart people are speculating on the motives of aliens who send rockets a million light years through space and then crash repeatedly. We should first ask why WE wanted to play the space game in the ’50s and ’60s. It made no sense and had no…
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Expert teacher, poor student
Back in 2019 I heard that Trump was trained by Roy Cohn, the best blackmailer in the world. This explained everything at the time. Since then, Trump’s blackmailing talents haven’t been on display. He claims that he didn’t want to do the “virus” tyranny, but he eagerly organized the concentration camps and strangled the world…
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When a baron begs for regs
Sam Altman and other tech robber barons have been begging for more regulation of their AI product. When a robber baron begs for regulation, he’s instructing the government to LEGITIMIZE AND PREFER his company over others. If he begs expensively enough, his desires will be fulfilled. This was already obvious with Bitcoin Sammy, now it’s…
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Sane politicians!
This is a recent interview with some Enid politicians. I was listening to it for background noise while doing graphics. My ears perked up when I heard one of the ladies joking about a previous politician who wanted to SEEment all the medians for global warming. I perked even more when Frank Baker discussed how…
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That’s why
I wrote my usual comment about the nonsense of “rights”. For some reason the usual comment caused a new thought today. The usual comment: “Rights” are nonsense, not found in the Bible. “Rights” were created by aristocrats to grant themselves more privileges than they already have. New thought: I’ve always wondered why this particular bit…
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Porchets
An architecture trade journal from the ’20s has some dubious innovations for a brief fashion. Sleeping porches were a big deal in the ’20s, especially in California. Fresh air is unquestionably good for you, but sleeping outside of the building is an invitation to bugs and birds and burglars. The better sleeping porches or sunporches…
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What you mean WE, theory man?
McDiarmid praises two professional arguers for arguing without nastiness. The result is the type of interaction we’re secretly craving more of these days — energetic conversation between people with differing views but who demonstrate respect for one another, for themselves, and for those who may be watching. I’m not craving pointless argument whether civilized or…
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Why the inversion?
Sailer catches the same inversion that I was noticing earlier. Back in the ’50s and ’60s we had lots of serious reports of UFOs, including several from astronauts. Weather radar and ship radar often tracked the vehicles, so they weren’t insects or lens flares. Also back in the ’50s and ’60s, the same government that…
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It’s all about caste
Recurring to the theme of primary sources. One of Taibbi’s commenters approvingly cites Mencken’s nasty description of Harding’s writing. Primary sources tell the correct story. Mencken was an arrogant conformist elitist bully of the worst sort. Pure Nietzsche. I am GOD. You are SHIT. He constantly berated peasants and Southerners and yokels. He hated anyone…
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Bud Licht
Licht’s statements are remarkably candid and POWERFULLY TRUE. = = = = = START QUOTE: In the 15,000-word piece, he spoke disparagingly of the network’s staff and how they’d covered topics before he came on board. Mimicking their approach, he said: ‘COVID, COVID, COVID! Look at the case numbers! Look at this! Look at this!…
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