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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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Shannon!
Now there’s some real Shannon info, a narrative that I had never thought about or guessed before. Toward the end Ryan is saying that every president since 1963 has known CIA was involved in killing JFK, and every president has continued to cooperate in hiding the info. Ryan makes the connection, which is obvious after…
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Boutique advantage
At the moment, text-generating AI does a nearly perfect job of expressing views that can be found via Google and Wikipedia. I’ve seen some attempts to generate “opposition” views, and they always miss the mark in the same way that Youtube’s Suggested misses the mark. Suggested has picked up the fact that I like old…
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Why does this myth persist?
One of the fact-gatherers is coming to terms with reality, but not quite there yet. As citizens, concerned citizens, we engage in debate not to hear ourselves talk, but to convince others of the truth of what we claim. What is supposed to happen, in a debate, ideally speaking, is that the person who makes…
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Terse
From Reddit: a simple and terse and elegant description of the entire blockchain enterprise. Would taking crypto out of your “product” change the product any more than taking the stone out of the stone soup? Says it all. = = = = = The same model applies to our fake emergencies and panics as well…
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Now I get it. Maybe.
Elon is leaving Twitter, “letting” the people “make the decision” for him. Now the whole thing makes sense, sort of. Back in April he made an offer purely for noise and publicity, certain that Twitter would never take him up on it. Twitter’s big shareholders, perhaps understanding Elon or perhaps for their own cold-hearted reasons,…
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Real Shannon
I think I’ve written this before, but I feel like doing it again. The sudden switch from free money to tight money, Share Value to profit, QE to QT, must have been a genuine Shannon event. Fully unexpected, not telegraphed or predictable in advance. It caught lots of corporations and Experts and Influencers off guard,…
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Works wonders
Via Reuters: After two days in a real Bahamas jail, Sammy has decided to let US extradite him. Jail works wonders on spoiled brats. A real threat of punishment also works wonders on young professional criminals like Sammy who are accustomed to bullying and cheating through all obstacles. Reminds me of my experience on the…
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Seeing the whole graph
A brief feature on Yahoo Finance shows that the new “alarming” trend toward youngsters staying with parents is not alarming at all. A screencap of the relevant graph: This shows the percent of younger folks 18-29 who are living with parents. The underlying article at Business Insider links to Census data, but the Census website…
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Fill the reader or fulfill the writer?
Both sides are sticking to the peculiar Shared Lie that newspapers are supposed to “hold power accountable” or “speak truth to power”. The two sides have different party-based definitions of which truth and which power, but they’re both essentially wrong. Newspapers were ALWAYS working for one party or for the owner’s business interests. Newspapers are…
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