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Universal Parkinson
Parkinson’s Law applies to all levels of life. Cells are meant to work. When they aren’t allowed to work, they go rogue, creating arthritis or IBS or lupus or cancer. Humans are meant to work. When they aren’t allowed to work, they go rogue, turning to crime or suicide. And of course Parkinson’s original point:…
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Not nice but funny as hell
The usual Spokane daily crap, followed by the usual nice responses, and then……
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From Galton to Bezos
This piece in Medium is worth reading. Author Jules Evans traces the history of arrogant psychopathic eugenics from Galton through the fad in the 1920s all the way to Bezos and Elon. Tim Leary was the main connector between the earlier and later eugenicists. Leary ruled the high-status hippies, who were NOT thinking loosely and…
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Fishbowls
Cultural circles are never measurable from the inside, because the baseline is invisible. Old Soviet joke: In the midst of the Cold War, the CIA sends its best spy into Russia. He has spent the last 10 years learning how to blend in with the locals. He speaks perfect Russian, he can dance the kalinka…
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Sticks the landing!
I suppose political consultants and operatives have internal names for the athletic moves politicians make under the guidance and training of the consultants. Tulsi has pulled off a beautiful Roadrunner Dauphine! In 2019 she PiedPipered left-populists into her “independent” candidacy. Then at the last moment she swerved into the waiting arms of Biden and allowed…
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Print equivalent
My bedtime OTR playlist has changed its form over the years, partly from available material and partly from my tastes. In the ’90s when I started pulling away from current toxic crap and seeking older and better entertainment, the only available tape cassettes carried the Big Shows like Fibber and Jack Benny. After the early…
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Cranks and eccentrics
Note: This was posted last month and I finally got around to making the correct battery for Morse’s original. I’m reposting at today’s date to add the battery, and ALSO because WordPress did some suspiciously weird ‘optimizing’ on one of the animations. (It looked OK when first published.) Looks like they’re trying to gradually erase…
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Checking the source
In animating old tech, I always try to find the original patent or the earliest version. I decided to look at the (supposedly) original code for blockchain to see what’s really there, and to check if I was making any bad assumptions. In fact I have been making two bad assumptions. (1) I was assuming…
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That’s not the goddamn problem.
Email spam for this “election” is constantly bemoaning the fund-raising pains of the sender. Well, why should I sympathize? You are supposedly auditioning for a job as legislator or executive. You’re openly admitting that your sole PURPOSE AND FUNCTION is fund-raising. The audition is the job. Paper mail spam this year is entirely different. Nothing…
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Why anti-nuke?
Half-baked thought, sounds good at the moment… The anti-nuke movement started in 1946, as an INTEGRAL part of the UN. The UN was initially a continuation of the wartime alliance, US + UK + France + USSR, keeping Japan and Germany weak and unable to start more wars. The allies had plenty of energy. US…
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Fish in a barrel
Continuing from here. Zuck is pushing the envelope of hi-tech with new advances that nobody has ever thought of before! Via UploadVR, a tech-optimist puffery website: Meta Horizon Workrooms is the product name for the beta software on Quest 2 and Quest Pro that’s a cornerstone of the company’s approach to changing the way people…
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Britain works.
Well, that was quick. Liz only lasted six weeks. Britain’s system is still functional. A functional animal or company or country needs a negative feedback system to reject toxic inputs and toxic leaders. Britain’s parliamentary system has always been capable of rapid response and adaptation. Sometimes it waits too long, but it’s still vastly better…
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Kirn misses it
Here he balances out yesterday’s precise hit! We’re in what I’d term the “taste destruction” phase of cultural change. It’s similar to what food co’s did once to wean us off good food and prepare us for products like Wonder Bread, only it involves language, images, and music. You’ll accept less once you forget there…
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Taking on water
In the ’47-65 period when disc UFOs were reported everywhere, several people saw a disc hovering over a lake or pond, siphoning or pumping large quantities of water. This wouldn’t make sense for an electric motor or even a small nuclear plant. Our long-distance satellites have mini nuke reactors, and they don’t need water. Taking…
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Kirn hits it
Kirn has seemed quiet or preoccupied lately. Today he hits the HARDASS REALITY button: There is a terrible emotional drag on daily life now. One must try to be cheerful, but in simple public interactions one witnesses a blankness, a loss of a sense of ordinary honor & caring. Meanwhile, everywhere, people drifting, living in…
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