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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Unz has mostly descended into tiresome eugenics and outdated racial stereotypes.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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Boom in quantity = bust in quality
Denyse asks if there’s a rise in dishonesty and cheating in academia. I doubt it. Primarily there has been a huge rise in PUBLISHED UNITS since tenure and grants dominated academia in 1970. Grad students and new profs are required to churn out huge QUANTITIES of papers, and the only way to get there is…
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Nature’s ledger
Thinking again about the peculiar self-liquidating scrip. A city issued the scrip with a series of boxes or punch locations. Each time the scrip changed hands, a new hole was punched and a small tax was paid to the issuer. When all the holes were punched, the scrip was simply discarded. It had served its…
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Same date
Sailer questions the usual narrative about Hitler’s concentration camps. The standard narrative says that Hitler was killing faster and faster until we defeated him. Sailer looks at the trains shipping Jews into Poland, and finds that the trains peaked in mid’42 and stopped at the end of ’42. This date matches an observation on Quora…
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