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Instant sale
For ten years I’d been walking and watching one vacant apartment building in the neighborhood. The renovation process was LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG at the start and fast at the finish. Five years of occasional activity, followed by five months of real work. They rented the apts on 11/25/21. Then they immediately started building two new houses across…
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Changed assumption
Thinking about the bitcoiners following their gurus, and thinking about the Google guy with his beloved AI, leads to a counterintuitive conclusion. There are always lonely people who fall into cults, and there are always poor people who fall for gambling and lotteries. A functional civilization should try to minimize those problems in two ways.…
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Fairness Doctrine returns?
Denyse called attention to a fresh news organization called Straight Arrow News. It was founded by a cancelled USA Today editor. I’m trying it out. Unlike most of the Cancelleds, it isn’t OBVIOUSLY converging to Deepstate YET. Unlike any other news organization, it has a direct feedback mechanism. When you watch the short videos of…
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Looks familiar somehow
Hugo Gernsback imagined this in 1936, and thought the world was ready in 1960…… It didn’t sell in 1936, it didn’t sell in 1960, it didn’t sell in 1980, and it doesn’t sell now. Only stupid venture capitalists think this is a worthy idea. = = = = = I can’t figure out VCs. There’s…
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Mon[]ey
The California restaurant that claimed to accept monkey-style bitcoin for payment has stopped accepting monkey-style bitcoin. It still accepts nasty old fiat money. I suspect they only took one actual “payment” in monkey money, for the promotion, before they switched from monkey money to money money. Apparently the monkeyburgers weren’t actual monkey meat but nasty…
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Is vs Was
Here’s a nice clear article from Catholic World Report on the super-clear question of gender. The author runs through some of the sillier theological disputes that have divided churches, and contrasts those silly theological issues with the basic SCIENTIFIC definitions of life. Real science and real religion agree now on all important questions of reality.…
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Does he understand the endgame?
Last month a Google programmer fell in love with his AI, and most commentators saw this as a bizarre new thing. I pointed out that this is EXACTLY the oldest response to conversational software, seen immediately with Eliza in 1964. Now the Google guy is talking Wokish, claiming that the AI deserves to be legally…
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Squirrels all over the place!
As usual we have a clusterfuck of misdirections about inflation. The media and their DNC bosses are straightforwardly blaming Putin’s reclaiming of Russian territory for our 40-year internal destruction of our own economy. This is so blatantly stupid that nobody is bothering to discuss or refute it. Everyone recognizes that inflation has been rising for…
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More Mutual meanderings.
More thoughts about mutuality and news… Last night the Spokane News FB page scored a scoop. The sheriff candidates agreed to hold their first televised debate through Spokane News, not through the mainstream “news” demons or Youtube. The candidates fielded live comments and questions from the page. Most cities have a FB page like this.…
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When did Mutual stop being mutual?
I’ve been noticing a clear pattern in the old radio news broadcasts. Especially in the ’50s, Mutual was far more objective and independent than the Big Three. CBS was wholly owned by Deepstate, with NBC and ABC not far behind. Frank Edwards was at Mutual, and he was cancelled by pressure on his sponsor, not…
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More Cirn Cibbles
Latest from Kirn: They’re really mainstreaming prison culture now. Everyone has to pick a gang, time outside is a privilege granted by the warden, hard drugs are available but cigs are rare, and the guards stand around and do absolutely nothing while the prisoners get violent. Mostly wrong. An excellent author like Kirn should avoid…
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Elon is serious.
Looks like I’ll have to take back my initial guess that Elon was just screwing around or trying to move share prices. The Twitter board has given a final recommendation to proceed with the takeover, and Elon has been talking to the employees and tossing around some very smart ideas. The best ideas: Senders should…
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Another UFO?
Polistra and friends are greeting another UFO. This UFO may have appeared before in the dimly remembered past, but it has certainly been absent for the last three months. Rain every day. Sometimes real thunderstorms, sometimes all-day drizzle, sometimes a threat of storms. The threats and the actual storms ALWAYS came just when I was…
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Biden on a bike
Politics is NOT my department, but being old is my department. The commentators on Biden’s bike fall seem to be missing a point. Most old men shouldn’t be riding a bike. (I used to be a serious biker, and gave up at 36 when my heart started to warn me.) An old president, whose mind…
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Valid reason then, not now
Denyse takes down Sabine, but not quite far enough. Hossenfelder: A lot of media coverage on science policy remembers that science is fallible only when it’s convenient for them. When they’ve proclaimed something as fact that later turns out to be wrong, then they’ll blame science. Because science is fallible. Facemasks? Yeah, well, we lacked…
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