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Dr Human beats Dr Google
Last year a good doctor at Kaiser found the solution to my constipation. This year the same doctor found the solution to a much stranger problem. In mid-June after a series of unexpected big stresses pushed anxiety high (same as last year) a rash started to appear on my thighs. It was forming flakes that…
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Good oneliner
Spokane News is back in the entertainment biz after being too serious for a while. 1500 North Argonne, Assault Reported with one male who tried to flee from Deputies but obviously skipped Track during High School and didn’t make it far. Male in custody. One commenter saw the chase and said Deputy was quick af.…
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No investigating
Getting really tired of the constant insistence that we need media to “investigate” wrongdoing. Media never does real investigating, and even if it did, EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS. What we need is SOLVING, not investigating. China doesn’t investigate, it solves. The New Deal didn’t investigate, it solved. The same applies to police work.…
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Persistence
It’s so damn good to see a politician who KEEPS doing the right thing. The vast majority are bad all the time. A few make a move toward the good, then give up when the billionaires push back. Carney started doing good and continues doing it, despite the constant threats and craziness from Trump, and…
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Vector fields
Vector fields are a math tool used in graphing and understanding sets of forces or complex patterns. Vector fields have proved useful with brain networks. Older forms of measurement were also vectorial, with complex measures like metes and bounds forming vector fields to measure farm fields. A vector is an arrow representing a movement and…
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Should have kept it
Interesting trivium in the latest Post Office podcast. When Morse made his first official trial, What hath God wrought, he was working for the Post Office. Makes sense. The PO was meant to supervise national communications infrastructure. It already supervised national roads, some navigable rivers, and some coastal waterways. Many Euro countries continued the setup,…
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More homeless arsonists
One major arsonist was caught two weeks ago. Another homeless arsonist was caught and jailed Saturday, a female who was working on the east side. She had all the makings for fires in her shoulder bag. Kindling, hair spray, matches. She was arrested last year for the same crime in the same place, but of…
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In one sentence
Seen on substack. Allegedly a Chinese saying. Extremely wise whether it is or not! Only kids argue over right and wrong. Adults see the nuance. One plays to win. The other plays to understand. How to deal with a psychopath. When your opponent changes all the rules all the time solely to WIN every single…
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Oddity
Just noticed an odd contradiction. The way we learn math in school is NOT the way math is really done in business. We learned each addition as a single process with a single answer. 3 + 4 = 7 Real math by mechanical processes, from the abacus to the Addiator to adding machines to cash…
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Good!
The agency that runs PBS and NPR is closing down. GOOD. PBS and NPR lost their public purpose 50 years ago. PBS switched from education to entertainment. NPR switched from unbiased to pure DNC. Government is supposed to serve ALL the people, not just the members of one party or one elite class. Education was…
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Direct dial
Via Verge: Reddit is trying to build a direct access search engine, making itself an alternative to Google. The management noticed that people search Reddit via Google when they want to find human discussion of a topic instead of AI or carefully filtered and edited content. I’ve done it often. You need to be aware…
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Dream about intellectual humility
Unusual dream this morning about intellectual humility. In the dream I had a conversation with Prevost and found him to be impressive. Message is clear! At first I found him impressive, then immediately dismissed him when he went along with Gaia. I should be less perfectionist, recognize a leader who is mostly doing the RIGHT…
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Goddamnit.
I’m way past tired of partisan mindless fucks. If you can’t do any better than pasting DNC talking points or RNC talking points or Activist Group A talking points or Activist Group B talking points or the same old misquotes from the same old Ben Franklin and CS Lewis and GK Chesterton, GO AWAY AND…
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Misses part of the history
Interesting article about Craigslist and its effect on newspapers. Craigslist is generally credited for taking the important classified ad business from papers. The article gives an insight into the founding principles of Craigslist. But the article misses the earlier part of the decline. Craiglist was simply an online replacement for free Shopper’s Edge and similar…
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Must be end of the month
How do you know it’s the end of a month? Aside from the increase in drug overdoses when the EBT cards are issued, the most reliable online signal is Substack screwing up its UI. Normally they mess with the CSS formatting so the page looks random and impossible to read. This time they left the…
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