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Shouldn’t be impressive
This is impressive! In a sane world it wouldn’t be impressive; it would be the expected default attitude of a state or provincial governor. We aren’t in a sane world. The premier of New Brunswick says clearly and firmly that her purpose, and the purpose of the province, is to build and strengthen Canada. The…
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Mexico does FDR!
Mexico is getting SERIOUS about implementing the New Deal. I haven’t been looking much at other countries; somebody on Substack mentioned it. I googled it and found very little coverage in any US “news” sources; it was discussed in a few tech insider publications. The protections were signed into law last month after a year…
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Unnecessary offshoring
A few years ago I started eating okra again. It was familiar and loved in Oklahoma, and I still love it. The frozen okra in Safeway comes from China! Why not from Dixie where it’s a common crop? I guess Dixie is still under a complete sanction and blockade. Our insane grudges never go away.…
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Chickenshit cowards
The clickbaiters in “media” and “congress” are playing the usual stupid talking points game with the latest pretend “revelations” about Epstein. Was Trump on the list? “Congress” demands that the admin must release the list. In the first place, “revelations” never reveal. FOIAs are carefully censored. Deepstate never lets out the facts in a meaningful…
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Nicely understated
The back of a Hershey chocolate bar has some recipes under the headline ‘Great for Any Occasion!’ It’s rare to find something cheerful and non-political on a package, amid all the required nonsense about GMO and Gluten and such. But this bit of advertising is actually understated. Nobody needs an Occasion for chocolate! Hershey could…
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Worth supporting
I know that local “elections” are mythical. I still make marks on ballots to register a survey response, though I know decent people will never be allowed to take office. Manweller’s Rule. One candidate for council in this part of town got my “vote” and a donation. Chris Savage is working class. Currently a truck…
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Shocking but didn’t seem right
Saw this pair of graphs, credited to NYTimes. Industry was dominant everywhere in 1990, now healthcare is dominant everywhere. First response was Yup, that’s exactly what happened. Then I stood back and compared with what I know from tech history and experience. On the 1990 end, industry was never dominant in most states. It was…
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Leonardo da Jersey
Postal inspectors busted the latest giant Ponzi, a New Jersey racketeer who called himself NJ Flipper. = = = = = START LONG QUOTE: Cesar Pina provided services for narcotics traffickers, bribed a government official, and defrauded unsuspecting investors out of millions of dollars, all for personal gain. Under the guise of being an entrepreneur…
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How to kill science
Oxford University Press will censor genetic studies from China because some of the samples come from Uyghurs, who are allegedly persecuted. First: Most of the good research is in China now. Rejecting Chinese studies is deliberately blinding ourselves to most science. Second: I can understand rejecting a study because the subjects were unnecessarily harmed. But…
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Were books better?
Literary types are always lecturing the unwashed masses about the critical importance of BIG HEAVY BOOKS. If you aren’t reading BIG HEAVY BOOKS you’re illiterate. I used to read lots of books, including BIG HEAVY ones. Did I get more benefit from them than I’m getting currently from social media? Not really. Through the 70s…
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Also unsurprising
Also unsurprising but not as important as arsonists… Bari Weiss set up a fake “independent” news source using Substack as the platform. At first it looked independent, but soon showed its purpose. It’s just a branch office of NYTimes. Bari allegedly got disgusted with NYTimes and quit to form her own media company. She’s competing…
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Schrodinger’s jail
Yesterday an arsonist was released without bail “because the jail was critically overcrowded.” Today an arsonist who caused only a dumpster fire was arrested and held on $100,000 bail. Mysteriously the jail was no longer critically overcrowded. Hmm. I wonder what emptied the jail? From police report: = = = = = START QUOTE: On…
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NextDoor tries to reform
The doorbell net NextDoor recognizes that it has become a gossip and bitching party line. It’s trying to add more of the services that people need, services that USED to be provided by local radio and TV and newspapers. I signed up for NextDoor in 2018, but quickly realized it was mostly groundless suspicions, not…
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Error bar and tense
My reading at Substack has pretty much reduced to one writer, Del Mastro. I was reading him before he moved to Substack, and he’s still worth reading. Today’s article observes that we tend to view short increments of time or distance as “within tolerance” or “within NOW”. An activity that takes a few more minutes…
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Two forms of measure
Well, I’ll try to work around the WordPress weirdness to say what I wanted to say. = = = = = I overuse Dillinger’s Rule because it’s an elegant explanation for many human activities that have more complex conventional motives. When asked “Why do you rob banks?” Dillinger said “Because that’s where the money is.”…
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