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Polistra's Mill

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  • Metes and bees

    Brownstone is another frustrating visionary. Do they really have a goal, or are they just another Parkinson organization trying to keep running without a goal? From their latest mission statement: = = = = = START QUOTE: The [“virus”] response was as much an institutional failure as it was a failure of rationality and courage.…

    polistra

    April 9, 2023
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    bee, defensible spaces, defensible times, jackboot NOT stomping forever, Metrology, Parkinson, Powell!, Thanks
  • Vector thinking 2

    While writing previous item about lots and maps and houses, I asked “What if maps were done as vec…. The answer came before I finished thinking the question. Maps WERE done by vectors until quite recently. Metes and bounds was strictly vectorial, and it closely resembled the newly discovered bee vectors. The example given by…

    polistra

    April 9, 2023
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    bee, Heimatkunde, Real world math
  • Liminal ramps

    I enjoy the Liminal Spaces section on Reddit. The term is defined visually, not verbally. Seems to be long narrow repetitive views, like hotel halls or stairways or sewers. Many of the pics are from night-shift workers who have more responsibilities than duties. I used to work such jobs and enjoyed patrolling the rooms and…

    polistra

    April 9, 2023
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    Heimatkunde, Infill
  • Vector thinking

    Following the bees… Nikki Haley is using an old political platitude while claiming to be non-platitudinous. Bring us together! Uniter, not divider! She seems to mean it, but she’s not dancing about it, not giving us the vector to the honey or the terrain we can expect along the way to the honey. We can…

    polistra

    April 9, 2023
    Uncategorized
    bee, Fairness Doctrine, Real world math
  • Two graphy Californians

    I’ve been reading Steve Sailer and Wolf Richter for many years. Both are longtime Californians, both are keen observers who know how to look beyond the partisan crap, and both use a lot of data and graphs. Recently Sailer has been losing his sharpness and Wolf has been gaining. Today’s articles are a good example.…

    polistra

    April 9, 2023
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    Emersonian justice, Happy Ending, skill-estate, Tenure
  • Secret vectors

    This got me thinking about the bee’s waggle dance and vector vs cartesian orientation. Our eyes can do cartesian, but most of our senses, including basic orientation via the eyes, are vector. Looking through PNAS, found a new bit of bee research that goes way beyond this question. The researchers placed an artificial feeder in…

    polistra

    April 8, 2023
    Uncategorized
    bee, Grand Blueprint, Metrology
  • Not new? New.

    Randomly downloaded a 1954 British trade journal. On the first page is an account of some early globalist “social” “science” research, which sounds familiar…. = = = = = START QUOTE: Human Relations in Industry is the title of an interesting report that has been issued jointly by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research…

    polistra

    April 8, 2023
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  • Yeah, okay

    One commentator notes that arresting the main opposition candidate is what Latin American banana republics do. Yeah, okay, I see the point. But it’s only valid when the candidate doesn’t deserve to be arrested. The problem with the charges against Trump is that he SHOULD be executed for committing the worst crime in history. And…

    polistra

    April 8, 2023
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    #WholeOfSociety, jackboot stomping forever
  • More Jones

    Continuing from previous item. There’s a more important factor. It’s not just the asking, it’s the location of the ask. The DeSantis campaign hasn’t appeared in my email, AND the DeSantis campaign hasn’t been using Substack. Haley used both. The Haley campaign seems to understand that their buyers are disgusted with mass media. The DeSantis…

    polistra

    April 8, 2023
    Uncategorized
    Duane Jones
  • Learning yet?

    Elon’s admirers are finally catching on. He’s a demon. He’s Deepstate. Elon handed carefully filtered “revelations” to naive dummy Taibbi, and Taibbi plastered them all over Substack. Now Elon has officially tinfoiled Substack and refuses to let people link there from Twitter. Will the naive dummy start learning about real life? I doubt it. His…

    polistra

    April 7, 2023
    Uncategorized
    Fairness Doctrine
  • She asked

    I swore I’d never donate to another politician. Just now I donated to Nikki Haley’s campaign. Why? She is a neocon, but she’s firmly on the right side on NAZI TORTURE, and has a good governing record on industry vs finance. DeSantis has a MUCH stronger record on the ONLY THING THAT MATTERS, but he…

    polistra

    April 7, 2023
    Uncategorized
    Duane Jones
  • Be your own magnet

    Lately I’ve been trying to expand the analog side of my life, after retracting into a digital shell during the hottest part of the NAZI TORTURE. I was functioning in OBEYING ALL ORDERS VERBATIM SIR! NAME RANK AND SERIAL NUMBER SIR! mode. Now I’m trying to recapture the analog/digital proportion that I had before the…

    polistra

    April 7, 2023
    Uncategorized
    coot-proofing, Heimatkunde, Real world math, skill-estate
  • Shadowbanometry

    Shadowbanning and cancelling are useful measuring devices. I’m listening to some VC types discussing Balaji’s strange bet. I have exactly zero gambling genes, so my understanding of this type of behavior is extremely dim at best. After listening several times and thinking, I sort of halfway semi-understand: Balaji is known to hold far more than…

    polistra

    April 7, 2023
    Uncategorized
    Metrology, NOW I SEE
  • Sucking, not blowing

    MindMatters notes an increasing discontent with AI among musicians. “We tried to use these machines to express something extremely moving that a machine cannot feel, but a human can,” he continued. “We were always on the side of humanity and not on the side of technology.” Bangalter said that the timing of Daft Punk’s 2021…

    polistra

    April 7, 2023
    Uncategorized
    skill-estate
  • Yes sir, she’s my puzzle

    One neighbor has been playing a puzzling form of music for many months. Not annoyingly loud, just weirdly monotonous. It sounds like tuned bongos or tuned snares. At first I thought it was a school band practicing their marches, but there’s no school band nearby. I never hear any bass guitar or other actual instruments,…

    polistra

    April 6, 2023
    Uncategorized
    Heimatkunde
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