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Sun!
Polistra and friends salute the SUN, who appeared today after two months of absence. We accumulated 20 inches of snow quickly, followed by constant overcast or fog or added snow. Two days ago we got a dramatic meltoff with heavy rain and 45 degrees, which nicely cleared the roof. When the roof is loaded my…
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From an extremely same/different era
After finding the origin of ringers in this 1927 volume of Vanity Fair I started reading the rest of the magazine. 1927 was the peak of a Share Value boom, so it was like 2017 as measured by aristocrats. The two booms are drastically different as measured by peasants. 1927 was overgrown from a REAL…
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Ringers
I shouldn’t even try to think about politics. My record of mistakes is unbroken. Nevertheless, here’s one random thought after dipping a toe into media for a moment. It’s clear that both parties want to prevent DeSantis from rising to the top. He’s the only major politician who SOLVES PROBLEMS. All other politicians MANUFACTURE PROBLEMS…
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New thought on experiential lessons
Shkreli’s advice to Sammy got me thinking again about my 1969 jail experience and the BIG lessons learned. I kept the lessons about basic human nature, but I lost the lesson about government. (I restored the lesson much later after throwing away the TV.) Questions: 1. How did I lose it? 2. Why was this…
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Man vs machine reprint
Reading the endless (sometimes valid) commentary about AI and lost skills, remembered that I had hit the subject from an unconventional angle in 2014. This probably belongs in the Thiel Question category. It certainly deserves a reprint. = = = = = START REPRINT: Heard a PSA from a union-based group trying to restore full…
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Advice for Sammy
Shkreli gives excellent advice to Sammy. First plead guilty and sing, though it’s already too late for the full effect of confessing. Then try to form a more masculine front for prison. Shkreli gets down and dirty in this department around 27 minutes. “He is an effeminate guy, and his demeanor is not the sort…
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Getters again
Earlier I diagnosed APs and fake movements by their focus on relatively trivial problems. A more refined version is appearing in two current movements. It’s the old getter or sacrificial lamb routine. In the movement against the “virus” holocaust, most of the activists started out opposing the entire demonic monstrosity. After RFK Jr got into…
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Year-end shit
Not in a mood for a year-end or Xmas piece. I’ll repeat 2020’s piece, which still holds true, then add one vaguely quasi-semi-hemi-demi-positivishesque note. = = = = = START REPRINT: Guess I should continue the habit of doing a year-end dump. Not worth it this time. 2020 needs to be thrown away and skipped,…
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High value crops
Thinking about the various natural drugs in terms of geography and value. Drugs intrinsically have more value than wheat or corn, just as entertainment automatically has more value than facts. First distinction: Tobacco and tea and coffee and marijuana are crops. Alcohol is a disease, resulting from spoilage in any sugary or starchy plant. Anyone…
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Stupid distraction
Several state governments have banned TikTok on government-owned computers, and there’s a movement to ban TikTok altogether. Why? Because TikTok gives info about the user to the Chinese government. STOP AND THINK, IDIOTS. How can the Chinese government USE your info? It can’t. China kills and tortures its own people, not ours. China has no…
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Good recycling!
Netflix has bought the former Ft Monmouth in New Jersey, and will turn it into a movie studio. Nice to see old bases reused for something halfway constructive. Many of them are just abandoned and decaying because of idiotic Green requirements. NJ definitely deserves economic rebuilding. Newark was once a major tech center. Looking on…
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Gangsters take care of their own
Sammy has been released on bail IN THE CUSTODY OF HIS PARENTS. This is like releasing Thomas Gambino to the custody of Carlo. Looking up more about Thomas, the parallel is strong. Thomas played the Effective Altruism game to the hilt. Got a college education and engaged in massive “philanthropy” while stealing and killing. =…
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Hypothesis
Wolf does his usual excellent graph and excellent explanation on the bankruptcy of a bitcoin “mining” company. The graphs for SPACs and IPOs are so consistent that they suggest a hypothesis. IPO = LBO. The usual myth tells us that an IPO is designed to provide capital for a company to grow. The graphs tell…
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Reprint on APs
I’m tired and disgusted with the takeover of the “virus” rebels by the anti-vaxers, led by obvious hoaxer RFK Jr. They have completely memoryholed the strangulation and starvation and forced imprisonment of the entire world. They focus solely on side-effects of vax, which apparently happen to some people but not all. Vax is a traditional…
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AM hi-fi
Trying to avoid anxiety in supercold weather, I’m browsing through 1936 issues of Broadcasting magazine. Ran into a totally unfamiliar technology in a totally familiar location! W9XBY in downtown KCMO. At first I thought this was the well-known experimental TV branch of KMBC. It’s the same company in the same building, but different call letters…
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