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Fake all the way down
I always knew that our “wakeup” response to the surprise of Sputnik was fake, or maybe just incalculably stupid. We ruined our own science and math education in an alleged effort to surpass the genuinely excellent Soviet education. This article shows that our SURPRISE was also fake. The context makes sense based on what I…
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Wrong word, same advice?
Randomly noted in a Reddit topic of ‘useful quotations’… How to survive in a tyranny: Keep your mouth closed and your eyes open. In 1969, Warden Copley gave the new intakes his standard speech. Imagine Edward G. Robinson as a gangster and you’ve got Warden Copley. I heard him say: Keep your mouth closed and…
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Ray of hope?
Denyse is back at UncommonDescent. I’m glad. She was gone for a few months, and the ‘news’ section was edited by a physics type who was solely interested in dark matter and black holes. The galaxy-brained bullies took over the site entirely. Denyse is an experienced journalist (no quotes) who knows how to select and…
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Pierce trucks 2
We’re looking at an old tourist court, with a shady-looking truck and trailer parked in one of the spaces. It’s a 1915 Pierce truck, with some unique features. The four-speed transmission had a semi-freewheeling device. When you pushed the clutch down all the way, the input shaft of the gearbox was slowed down, allowing a…
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Keeping the channel occupied
Seymour Hersh, the only strict truth-teller in “journalism”, started a Substack a few weeks ago, and immediately gathered thousands of paid subscribers. So far he’s posted one intro, one real column, and one random note. He doesn’t seem to understand the nature of subscription media, which is odd since subscription media is similar to daily…
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Ancient words continued
Following on previous item about the ancient details of possession… Yesterday I watched a stupid Youtube sales pitch for NFTs. Even now, after the whole fake entity has publicly collapsed, the scammers are still working hard. Old radio and TV shows about rackets dramatized this aspect. As the cops were hauling the swindler off, he…
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Ancient words
Kirn points out yet another reason why you shouldn’t copyright your work if you want to leave a legacy. I hadn’t thought about this part of the problem. He shows parallel passages from Roald Dahl’s novel ‘Witches’, with the latest edition bowdlerized by Woke idiocy. Recently the ancient word usufruct popped into my ancient head…
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More Mattingly meandering
I’m going to quibble with Mattingly again. He’s so close to right in many areas that his errors make me itchy. (I don’t bother to quibble with demons who are intentionally wrong about everything.) In this piece about journalism he gets the post-1990 action powerfully right. Cable soap opera and web are pulling toward the…
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Expertly gaming the algo
If you think you’re gaming the system, beware. There’s always somebody who games better than you! Via Reddit, dozens of TikTok livestreamers are sitting on the sidewalk in one highway underpass. Each is using the same type of circle light, and each is sitting on a low platform. Each is arranged so her camera can’t…
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QT is starting to make a difference!
Via DailyMail, the top tech monster companies are firing “diversity” loonies and cutting out “DEI” departments. This is an automatic result of the shutoff of free counterfeit. When business demons are subsidized by the stock demons, they will happily do demonic shit. When business demons are constrained by PROFIT, they are forced against their satanic…
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Opposite kind of “music”
Archive has a few episodes of Herb Shriner Time, which is the opposite of other old variety programs. Most have splendid music and crappy comedy. Shriner is a splendid comedian with atrocious “music”. The “music” was outputted by an entity called the Raymond Scott Quintet. Example: Powerhouse. This piece is mechanistic and ugly, in the…
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Go all the way
Wesley Smith is complaining about the movement toward “rights” for inanimate things like rivers. He wants to reserve “rights” only for humans. In the first place, “rights” are a recent and destructive invention. God never said anything about “rights”. In all the old scriptures, God talks about duties, not “rights”. In the second place, you’ll…
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Interesting question
From Reddit: For reference I’m 34. From what I can tell, when my parents were younger, it was just accepted that you could get a burger and milkshake at your local drug store. That’s not intuitive if no one told you it was a thing. But by the time I was a kid, the practice…
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Unrealistic
TheFederalist makes a somewhat valid point: In a world where the left has achieved near-total dominance of the cultural space, finding an openly conservative artist can feel like tracking down an endangered species. Unfortunately, like poachers in the jungle, the left is on the hunt. While leftist artists can openly spew their bile for the…
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Strong point
Pithy point from Kirn: One “superstition” I was invited to laugh at as a youngster was the aversion of certain traditional and native peoples to having their pictures taken and to photographic imagery in general. But I don’t laugh at this now. Sometimes I even ask myself how in the world they knew. I’m not…
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