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  • Stalin missed a chance.

    Thinking about our permanent war against Russia. China figured out how to halt American aggression. Blackmail. Starting in ’71, China became NECESSARY to our financiers. China enabled Wall Street to satisfy its demonic need to kill American peasants, and loaned us the money to do it. We can’t invade China now because JP Morgan might…

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    October 11, 2022
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  • They know what they’re doing

    Interesting picture at one of the Enid history FB pages. It’s an aerial shot of the abandoned Trail Drivein theater. Appears to be a trucking company next door, and they’ve used the back end of the quarter-circle to store trailers.  (Now it’s the Trailer Drivein!  Yuk yuk yuk.) Trees are taking over the main part…

    polistra

    October 10, 2022
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    smarty-plants
  • Interesting for other reasons

    Speaking of galaxy-brained bullies…. Cryptadamus, a writer about bitcoin, believes that Satoshi is really the galaxy-brain master criminal Paul LeRoux. Cryptadamus is convinced by experience, having formerly used one of the Mac encryption systems developed by LeRoux. Cryptadamus also matched several of the important dates of bitcoin against the few possibly “known” dates in LeRoux’s…

    polistra

    October 10, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Bitcoin
  • What would Proverbial think?

    If the proverbial Martian picked up scenes like this while monitoring Earth TV, what would he think? People are standing and sitting bent over. Many of them are using crutches and canes and wheelchairs. If he was a proverbial evolutionist as well as a proverbial Martian, he’d automatically assume we were dropping back to quadrupedal…

    polistra

    October 9, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Metrology, UFO
  • Money as delta

    Both sides in the pointless battle between bitcoin and fiat are missing the biggest point. I’m also missing it most of the time, though I did hit it once or twice. I was reminded of the point by the recent amazing finding about spores. Like many actively living things, spores contain an abacus that counts…

    polistra

    October 9, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Bitcoin, skill-estate
  • The Great Tradeoff?

    I was surprised last month when BEVERLY HILLS blocked an attempt by Los Angeles to resume NAZI STRANGULATION TORTURE. Peasants had been protesting for three fucking years, but peasant protests only bring out the storm troopers. Protests by courtiers are meaningful and influential. Machiavelli: The worst that a prince has to expect from a hostile…

    polistra

    October 9, 2022
    Uncategorized
    experiential education, jackboot NOT stomping forever
  • Still true both ways

    The collection of rare one-off old radio programs at Archive includes a lot of serious wisdom. Possibly those single episodes were preserved on tape or disk because of the unique wisdom, or possibly the wisdom was typical of all episodes. In the cases where the Blessed Preservers have given us a full season or a…

    polistra

    October 9, 2022
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  • Indicative vs Imperative again

    The galaxy-brains are always bullies. Not necessarily full-fledged psychopaths, but always functioning as powermongers. Balaji is a classic galaxy-brain. Here he shows how to turn an admission of failure into a command. Korea and the urban parts of China are getting ready to adapt ALL of their roads and streets for self-driving cars. Balaji requires…

    polistra

    October 8, 2022
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  • Aphid Day 2022 (tentative)

    Oct 8, 2022, temp 78. We’re getting a fairly good swarm today so I’ll do the reprint. In the last few years the aphids have pulled a headfake before the serious swarm, so this is tentative. The weather.com forecast agrees with the aphids that it’s all downhill from today; the NWS forecast sees a few…

    polistra

    October 8, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Metrology
  • Good question

    Latest from Kirn: When I was a kid, there was a huge Cold War-inspired math, science, and physical education push. It wasn’t quite my bag but it made a lot of sense and quite possibly paid off in many ways. Why is there not one now? I don’t get it. I’ve been grinding on the…

    polistra

    October 7, 2022
    Uncategorized
    experiential education, Kirn Quibbles
  • VR = Casino

    An article at Coindesk points to a jarring dissonance in numbers. A metaverse project called Decentraland has an average of 38 users each day. (Defined as people who log in, not just momentary views.) Decentraland has a stock “value” of $1.3 billion, meaning that idiot venture capitalists have used it as a toilet to throw…

    polistra

    October 7, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Metrology
  • Weird political ads

    I’ve been getting more political spam from D than R lately, but the two are interchangeable. Neither side EVER offers to solve any problems or do any work. Most of the emails are expressing desperation. “I’m getting stressed out!” “I’m almost done.” “I’ve had it.” “We’re devastated!” “Tearing up while writing this email.” If you…

    polistra

    October 7, 2022
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  • Wasted imagination

    Inside the convoluted world of bitcoin scams, a lot of super-smart nerds are working hard, probably for very little pay, to develop ever-denser convolutions. Here’s one sample found on Medium. There are HUNDREDS of projects like this, each with its own purposeless purpose, always ENABLING USER to do something that no actual human could ever…

    polistra

    October 7, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Bitcoin, skill-estate
  • Two solvers

    We have exactly two problem-solvers in the world of politics and power. All the rest are demonic problem-generators or passive helpers for the demons. The first problem-solver is DeSantis in Florida. He is clearly following FDR’s model. Ignore ideology, forget standard sayings and standard tactics. Just fix what’s broken. He’s also explaining his actions clearly…

    polistra

    October 7, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Desistance, Powell!, Thanks
  • Wow! Wow! and Wow again!!!!!!

    A perfectly GIANT contribution to our knowledge of the world! Bacterial spores have an extraordinary ability to evaluate their surrounding environment while remaining in a physiologically dead state. They found that spores use stored electrochemical energy, acting like a capacitor, to determine whether conditions are suitable for a return to normal functioning life. Spores were…

    polistra

    October 6, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Carver
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