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We need more dramatization, not more facts.
At the start of the 2020 “virus” hoax, I stupidly hoped that getting out the facts would persuade people. I shouldn’t have let myself harbor such hopes, since I’m the one who constantly shouts EXPERIENCE IS THE ONLY TEACHER. Those hopes faded quickly, replaced by my own jail EXPERIENCE with psychopaths. Good teachers and good…
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Universal boxtops
Frank Edwards, in selling his short features to radio stations, mentioned that his books would serve as ‘self-liquidating premiums’. I hadn’t heard the phrase before, so started looking it up. The idea was developed by adman Duane Jones in the ’30s. His best premium was a Blarney-stone charm bracelet offered in exchange for 25 cents…
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Big Birn Bibble
Kirn is seriously wrong on this one, and commenters called him down. When my son was very little he asked me: “Why do so many people live in little houses when there are mansions?” “It’s not their choice,” I said. “Then whose choice is it?” he asked me. I am still trying to come up…
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Right for the wrong reasons
Governments are telling us recession is a good thing. Everyone, left and right, is bemoaning and mocking this “hypocrisy”. Truth: Recession is a good thing. The governments are speaking the truth for a multitude of false and evil reasons, but that doesn’t make it false. In culture and technology and economics and individual life, drunken…
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Whimsical correction
Vintage.es has pix of people listening to radios. Most are German, but this one is delightfully American, and reminds me that the Zenith Transoceanic was originally meant to be a portable for boating. So the Zenith needs to be added to this whimsical item, especially since the Transoceanic has a specific Okie connection for me.…
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Much better!
Here’s a much more valid and informative comment by another of Kirn’s discussers. Polarization is bad now but it was worse in the early 70s. At that time there was a full-on violent left wing insurgency underway. Thousands of bombings by people who believed they were the vanguards of a communist revolution. Then it ended…
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RTFM, idiot.
In Kirn’s continuing discussion of misdefinition, one commenter says: Half-seriously just waiting at this point for the Regime to redefine election victory: “Ballot totals are only part of the story. To truly understand who won an election, we need to take a holistic look at a number of variables…” That’s not a wild ironic redefinition,…
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Not new
Kirn is musing on the arbitrary definitions of recession and inflation. The whole late 20th Century notion that your immediate experience is less reliable than information broadcast on electronic screens needs to be reconsidered. It was a case of mistaking science fiction for fact and stemmed from a kind of daft optimistic boom-times delirium. Well,…
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AI comprehends comprehension
I hadn’t looked at good old CookingFlavr.com in a while. Today it’s treading into my area of partial expertise, language and speech. Quoting the definitive and authoritative definition: = = = = = There is Plenty of Evidence to Support the Claim That Solely responsible for language comprehension is a False Claim. First and foremost,…
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Hard answer to soft question 3
Third in a stupid series. EnidBuzz asked: What do you like to do the old-fashioned way? Most common answer: Everything. Hard answer (lit and fig): Your mom. = = = = = FWIW, I’m pretty damn old-fashioned, but I’m newfangled in one way. Many of the commenters mentioned drying clothes on the line. Nope, I’ll…
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2014 prophecy
In previous item about two big walkbacks of “scientific” errors, I asked why these two errors were so easy to fund and so hard to find. The answer is obvious: When a problem is “caused” by chemistry, it can be “solved” by pharmaceuticals. I remembered writing several pieces about the 1920s ascent of the pill-pushers,…
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More BIG
Wesley Smith hits hard on two BIG corrections in BIG medical topics. Two longstanding orthodoxies have been PROVED wrong. 1. Depression is caused by biochemistry. Wrong but probably not fraudulent. 2. Alzheimers is caused by plaque. Wrong and deliberate fraud. THIS IS BIG. I already know 1 is wrong, because I’ve figured out non-chemical ways…
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Fairness Doctrine with a vengeance!
I’ve been noticing some small-scale attempts to recapture the Fairness Doctrine, like StraightArrowNews. Via Kirn yet again…. The Disney-backed streaming service Hulu is refusing to run political ads on central themes of Democratic midterm campaigns, including abortion, guns and the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, prompting fury from the party’s candidates and leaders.…
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Combining
Combining previous and previous. I discussed the communication systems of bees and flowers. I discussed the common ground of a trust-based economy. I noted that a website about plant intelligence was obviously old, obviously a living fossil. It featured MOV videos, which are ‘no longer supported’ by Apple. The Github syndrome, constantly EOLing every useful…
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Islands
Kirn is active tonight! No man is an island, but perhaps ten thousand people can be an island, and society can be a chain or network of connected yet still largely self-sufficient islands. This ever- enlarging, ever-consolidating pyramidal model is showing its age. = = = = = START REPRINT: Hawala or scrip is the…
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