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Statusotopic mapping?
If we start from my unconventional thought that secrecy is the default, what happens? If we treat this as the baseline assumption, what about “innovation” and “robust debate”? First some clarification. I’m talking about secrecy and language within a family or tribe or guild, not secrecy between all individuals. Language forms the circle and keeps…
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Old game
I’ve noticed for a while that influencers who are realistic about most aspects of the fucked-up world are also selling bitcoin. This shibboleth works both ways in a perfect balance. Influencers who are strongly opposed to bitcoin are perfectly orthodox about all other aspects. They agree with DNC/CNN/MSNBC on all topics except bitcoin. There’s a…
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Nothing new
The wokies have been trying for a long time to grant “rights” to rivers and gorillas and turtles. The “conservatives” have been screeching about these “rights”. First, stop screeching. This is an inevitable and automatic result of the lethal Enlightenment lie of “rights”. You invented this crap and you have been insisting for 250 years…
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NO! THAT’S NOT THE FUCKING POINT!
Cited by Batya: “The most reliable cure for confirmation bias is interaction with people who don’t share your beliefs. They confront you with counterevidence and counterargument.” NO, NO, NO, NO, NO. This is the same stupid myth as “robust debate” or “academic freedom”. Interaction is the solution, but CONFRONTATION is NOT part of the solution.…
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Da capo al fine.
My very first thought about the “virus” hoaxocaust is turning out to be correct, after two years of wobbling and waffling. For a long time I assumed there was an actual virus but not an epidemic. Then I applied Ockham and settled into the total hoax hypothesis, but ignored the discussions about China because they…
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Focusing on one question…
One of the Thiel questions in previous item is: 8. Normal people want security. Criminals want freedom. The standard line, of course, misquotes Ben Franklin. Ben didn’t say it; an author published by Ben’s printery said it. The question deserves renewed attention in the “virus” era. The “alternative” spokesmen, some of whom may be Agents…
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Global warming
April 15. Two inches of global warming. Other parts of town got 5″ of global warming.
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Placing a small bet
The flurry of “news” about Elon’s “battle” with Twitter reminded me of my Follies theme. Sometimes a rich man’s toy advances science. Elon superficially resembles Ned Green, who inherited his evil mother’s criminally acquired fortune and tried to turn it toward enjoyment of science. The spaceflight competition among Elon and Bezos and Branson also has…
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Updating the Thiel questions
Updating the list of Thiel questions again. Sorting into categories and adding two new ‘exclusives’. The strict question as originally stated: How would you respond if PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel asked you his favorite interview question: “Tell me something that’s true that almost nobody agrees with you on.” My sloppy variation is more like true…
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Unique in one way
Random thought. The UFO phenomenon was a unique conflict of government vs humans. Normally the government makes up a fake “threat”, calling it an “attack” or “witchcraft” or “commie subversives” or “Islamic terrorists” or a “virus”. Ordinary people are NOT observing the nonexistent “threat”. The government has to persuade us that the “threat” is real…
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Revising a conventional guess
In previous item about a strangely primitive tube-based spy rig, I casually dismissed transistors as not ready for prime time. That was true in the early ’50s, but Russian equipment famously stuck with tubes long after transistors were generally reliable and consistent. Sputnik used submini tubes while our satellites used transistors. Sputnik got there first,…
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Tenzor
Continuing a vaguely defined theme of obscure and peculiarly clumsy secret equipment. = = = = = = = = = = Soviet spies were working in Oklahoma and Kansas in the ’50s, as evident in the correct local pronunciations on their maps. Every city and province has its secret shibboleths, its own tests for…
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Fucking idiots
New Satanist has been pushing the Carbon genocide for decades. They got on board the “virus” holocaust with equal demonic frenzy, but “virus” isn’t really their main thrill-kill. They’ve been itching to get back to carbon torture. Now they’re back, with the same brainless idiotic satanic frenzy. The world’s biggest facility for removing carbon dioxide…
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Reprint on scam-spotting
Previous item led to this from last year. = = = = = Another where’s the guild question. In this case I’m not really puzzled by the absence of a guild response because I know exactly how and when the guild was subverted and flipped. It happened 20 years ago. The current “virus” holocaust is…
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Huge exception to an old rule
This is a completely trivial criticism of an old obscure TV show, but it seems to be what I need to write today. Maybe there’s a reason, maybe not. The show was ‘Man of the World’, one of many British James Bond imitators. Other shows in this genre gave us remarkably accurate dramatizations of facts…
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