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Princess of Sanity
Via DailyMail. = = = = = START QUOTE: Kate, 41, was beaming as she arrived at Anna Freud’s London base this morning, where she joined a series of roundtable discussions about the mental health challenges facing youngsters today. The Princess of Wales said she believes emotions should not be ‘over medicalised’, particularly among young…
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Old ads work
I don’t respond to modern media, which includes modern ads. Old ads in old radio shows or old publications are more effective, as long as the product still exists. Example: Last November I had a common cold for the first time in many decades. Google suggested chicken soup. Inspired by this 1927 ad, I altered…
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Bitgosbank?
Via Protos: Texas has passed a law requiring bitcoin “banks” to be proper FULL-RESERVE banks. No fractional reserve. Even better, bitcoin “banks” must follow the old 1936 banking laws, keeping their customer deposit business strictly separate from trading and speculating. Glass-Steagall prevented serious bank failures when it was in place. The current mess began when…
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Fabled
Radio scriptwriters mastered the technique of creating a full image in a few words. The cheaper shows overused great to describe a great mansion on a great boulevard in a great city. Erskine Johnson’s Hollywood gossip column in the late 40s began with: This is Truman Bradley speaking to you from the fabled penthouse studio…
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Fibers
Convective thought: I’ve been annoyed by galaxybrain bullies for a long time. Like Ockham’s schoolmen, they know ALL the details of ALL the facts in the world, and spin intricate webs of details, precise to an infinite number of decimal places. If you dare to answer, the galaxybrain will twist and turn your answer in…
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Parkinson didn’t foresee
Both houses of Congress have been purposeless for a LONG time, but they lost their purpose in unusual ways. As documented by Parkinson, an agency or organization starts out with a meaningful goal, assigned to solve a real problem. Parkinson saw two alternate paths to triviality: (1) The agency or organization solves the real problem…
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Metrology Day 2023
Today is Metrology Day. The latest edition of courseware is in the final stretch so I don’t have any spare graphics energy or time. I’ll reprint a frequent reprint on a topic that seems appropriate at the moment, using metrology as a bullshit detector. = = = = = TRYING A QUESTION. In late 2020…
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Force means freedom
Speaking of bridges and balances: Freedom requires opposing forces and opposing blackmails. “Rights” do not exist, and even if they did exist, court decisions on “rights” have never given real autonomy to low-class or low-status people. Organized unified force is the only way to control demons. Active unions, willing to engage in violence and blackmail,…
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Fake problem
It’s an interesting question technically and legally. Clearly a state can’t regulate speech and press on its own. 1st amendment + 14th amendment. Federal only. A state can’t ban imports on its own. Federal only. At the national level, our government has no obligation to import anything at all. The original “constitution” was excruciatingly clear…
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Missed prophecy
Walker Percy missed a chance to add yet one more Joycean prophetic note to ‘Love in the Ruins’, the precise dystopian prediction of 2020. His Satan character was named Immermann, which hologrammed between The Forever Man or Always A Man, with a secondary echo of the Immelmann Loop rule-changer. Immermann seemed to misunderstand earthlings in…
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Clarifier
From the Ankler’s latest summary of entertainment news: = = = = = START QUOTE: Iger called off plans to relocate around 1,000 employees from CA to FL, and spend around $1 Billion for a new campus in Lake Nona, FL as the home for 2,000 new FL jobs. The 200 or so DISNEY employees…
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Dove stops the itch
Latest from Kirn: None of the myriad products being boycotted now are products I buy anyway. It’s as though I knew something, but I wonder what it was. Avoid all goods that are heavily advertised? I suppose it was this. Yup. I feel the same itch. Living a simple life means (1) I don’t buy…
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He says what I say
Arthur Brooks gives the best possible job advice. This is especially important for Uncool people who are NOT going to get satisfaction from the social side of life. Brooks emphasizes COMPLETION: = = = = = START QUOTE: “Maybe you’ll work in your major — probably not. Maybe you’ll land your dream job — probably…
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Still around!
Rambling through Rumble, looking for something that isn’t Trump cult, surprised by this. I used to watch Gene Scott on UHF TV in the early ’80s. He was a weird Christian cult leader who seemed to have a master-slave relationship with his acolytes. He always wore about 7 hats at the same time and smoked…
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Da yoots GET IT.
Poll gave yoots a choice of losing social media or losing “voting” “rights”. They’d rather lose “voting” “rights”. This is a good sign. They’re full Machiavelli. They’ve figured out that “voting” is utterly pointless. = = = = = Looking more closely at the poll article, it gets even better. Is astrology a science? Is…
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