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Gumption reset
Lately I’ve been low on gumption despite good weather and no actual torture commands. I needed a sensory reset, and got it yesterday in an odd way. In yesterday’s store trip I saw several lunatics voluntarily wearing muzzles, which triggered PTSD. Do they know something? Is the torture about to resume? I checked local websites…
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YAETT
Yet another ‘earlier than thought’, another invention that went to sleep for 50 years before it was officially “invented”. We think pushbutton shifting was developed by Chrysler and Packard in 1956, then spread to Mercury and Edsel and Rambler for a few years. Nope. Pushbutton shifting was developed in 1913. Center of steering wheel, repeated…
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Might be doing some good
Kim Iversen is one of the few former journalists who is not obviously fake. At least she hasn’t converged to the establishment YET. Here she’s interviewing Jose Vega, a NYC activist who constantly attends meetings and rallies to shout POINTED QUESTIONS at fake progressives. I don’t know if he’s doing any good, but he makes…
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Demons always change the rules
Bitcoin and AI are Tech Disruptors introduced by Deepstate at different times for different purposes, following the basic pattern of psychopathic obliterators. Bitcoin was purely social engineering, a meaningless bit of fake computer code that does absolutely nothing and serves absolutely no purpose. The social engineering did serve two purposes. (1) It sucked billions of…
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Noblesse oblige?
Thinking about the instant response of Medium’s algorithm to my futile insults in comments, which was definitely a good thing. Kicked me out of a place I shouldn’t have bothered to enter. Facebook has never cancelled or banned me despite some vastly harsher comments about the demons in charge, especially during the first year of…
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Blind faith
Everyone has a weak point, an area of Blind Faith. We have two similar instances of Blind Faith among auto writers this morning. Wolf Richter is a hardass realist about nearly everything, but has Blind Faith in EVs. He wrote a piece about the Utopian Success of EVs and banned comments, citing backlash from “EV…
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BEST cartoon of the year
Jectoons has drawn (by hand) the BEST analysis of AI vs skill! Says it all.
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Extinct principle
An ad from American Motorist in 1912. Seems like an odd choice of subjects. Muslims were not common or newsworthy or familiar at that time. Maybe they were trying to say discreetly that Protestants shouldn’t be trying to convert Catholics by rough methods? Those conversions were common and controversial. After 2001, this ad would cause…
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Truly effective altruism
The brand name of EA is just a fake philosophical way of “justifying” theft and murder. Gangsters steal money from peasants and give it to their buddies, and gangsters KILL massive numbers of peasants to appease the Climate Gods. The FTX bankruptcy trustee is GENUINELY and EFFECTIVELY altruistic. Justice by recompense is real altruism. Government…
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Live axles
Advertisers took the phrase literally! The first one seems to be a proper limited-slip differential, 50 years before it became common or standard. = = = = = And one more animist ad for a product invented 50 years before it was common. Steel-belted tires.
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Thanks, algo!
Among the social platforms, Medium is especially bad and especially sticky. Good old partial reinforcement. When you start with a good experience, you keep hoping for another one. I started with some good reads by Avi Loeb, and Medium continued to provide about 1 out of 20 interesting pieces. The other 19 were aggressively harmful.…
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Early adaptation
Neat example of handicap adaptation from Motor Age 1922. The Ford T was already closer to all-hand than most cars. Early Ts, and the predecessor model S, were fully footless. The hi/lo/neutral control was a lever instead of a pedal. Only the brake and reverse were pedals, and the brake was always duplicated by the…
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Weather humor
The local Weather Bureau has finally figured out that you don’t gain trust by constantly screeching imprecatory prayers to Gaia and her Prophetess Greta. Cuteness works better. This is cute and educational at the same time. Science should be entertainment, not torture.
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Correct present, wrong history
This piece by Terry Mattingly is frustrating. He accurately describes the current atrocity of total unabashed bias in all media, but he’s wrong about the history. Basically, the world’s most influential newspaper is moving away from the old free-speech liberalism of what historians call the “American model of the press,” with little public commentary about…
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