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Personal superstitions
I pay attention to personal superstitions because they’re actual learnings. The old leftover fake superstitions are just tools for Cool People to mock Uncool People. Incidentally, I cited the “bird flu” superstition in the linked 2005 item, which turned out to be prophetic…. or more likely I was seeing the start of the “bioterror” holocaust…
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Not silly
Following on previous item about bird-human parallels. I thought I was forming a silly ‘reductio’ in this 2016 piece about rackets and scams: = = = = = START REPRINT: As I noted before, 1950’s radio and TV shows constantly used drama and comedy to help us spot frauds and scams. Media now do the…
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Well, here’s the “use case”
MindMatters notes that a sci-fi magazine stopped taking submissions from new writers because most were obviously AI. Automatic checking isn’t reliable, and there’s no way of firmly verifying human action without getting expensively personal. You could require manuscripts in pen and ink, and require a video showing the author actually writing a few of the…
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Hersh gives value for money
His latest piece is perfect journalism. Just long enough to tell the complete story, with no excess details or distraction. Norway helped us blow up the Nordstream pipeline last year. AND: In 1964 the same Norwegian secret forces helped us assemble the Gulf of Tonkin “incident” that “justified” our entry in Vietnam. We should be…
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Another bird gene?
I believe that humans are a mix of mammal and bird, possibly from horizontal gene transfer. Like birds, we’re bipedal, we build complex nests, we enjoy and produce music, and we enjoy and produce speech. The rest of our talents and tendencies are shared with other mammals. Male humans have a conflict between the bird…
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Marker of group power
Seattle gives us an interesting marker for cultural change. A new city ordinance bans discrimination by CASTE. This applies solely within the Indian immigrant community, since other Americans are dishonest about caste. We replace caste by fake shit like “ideology” or “takers and makers” or “merit” or “hard work” or “party”. Indians are honest and…
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What does industry mean?
Headline at Reuters: Stablecoin regulatory crackdown sends warning to industry We don’t have industries. Nixon donated all of our industries to China and got nothing in return but 40 years of pain and misery and slavery. Bitcoin is not an industry, it’s a hive of swindlers and spies and cults. Is there a word for…
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Supremes showing sanity!
Via DailyMail, the Supreme demons are hearing arguments on a case involving the infamous Section 230, which gives Google and Facebook a level of protection that real-world publishers don’t receive. Amazingly, all of the demons agreed that this is NOT A CASE FOR COURTS, and appear ready to throw it back to Congress for fixing.…
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Best thing in the universe
Noted via Reddit, the Broken Arrow schools near Tulsa are teaching biology and physics as part of fly-fishing! = = = = = START QUOTE: “Over a month ago, we started taking a look at insects,” he said. “Then we started learning how to mimic insects, to fly tie, and now we’re putting these flies…
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Another move toward Fairness Doctrine?
The downfall of Don Lemon at CNN is an extremely small event, mainly interesting to the few people who still watch cable soap operas. Maybe it indicates a real change in the management of CNN, a genuine retrenchment from all-Trump all the time. Lemon mastered the idiotic art of turning everything into a slam against…
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Not extrasensory at all
UncommonDescent pointed to this video of cats in Japan anticipating a quake by a few seconds. UD speculated about P-waves vs S-waves, but it’s not that complicated. It’s just rednuht. During the ‘swarm’ of small quakes around here in 2000, the events were frequent and consistent enough to learn the pattern. It was like a…
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Thermal profile
Meteorologists talk about thermal profiles, which are normally way up in the atmosphere. Right now we have 51 degrees by the river (near my house) and 31 on the mountain. There are 40s and 50s on all sides of the 31. I don’t recall seeing such a drastic gradient strictly by altitude. When a front…
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Immediately continuing…
Branching from previous item on Sammy’s stupidity vs Mafia’s wisdom. I wrote that the Mafia used non-electric communication systems perfected 800 years before the telegraph. They also had FINANCIAL systems of equal age and perfection. Both systems relied on what we’d now fakely call “quantum entanglement”, or resonance of thought and purpose. When everyone in…
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Nah, he can’t be that dumb.
Still pointlessly trying to figure out the motives of SBF. He keeps testing the limits, and the judge keeps clamping more limits. Obviously he’s a pro criminal type who simply can’t stop testing limits. Mafiosi from 1930 to 1970 belonged to the same personality but had more TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE. That’s the puzzle. Mafia bosses didn’t…
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Reprint from a year ago
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. This was one year ago but feels like only one month. Nothing has changed except that the “independents” are now totally magnetized by Gaia through Gaia’s High Priest RFK Jr. = = = = = START REPRINT: Still watching all the “independents” falling into line like passive iron filings…
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