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Locustation (reprint from 2015)
Ran into this 2015 item while looking for a different href. It’s a BIG thought, possibly correct, and I’d forgotten it entirely. = = = = = START REPRINT: Thinking again about ‘fight like a plant’, and mixing with my observations about the One Necessary War (ie WW2) and the need for hardass propaganda to…
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Process about process
The world of pure abstraction seems to be falling down, at least in the economic realm. No mystery about the cause. Since 2008 all the central banks have been pumping false “value” directly into the stock market, with a final huge blowup “justified” by the fake “virus” holocaust in 2020. Now the central banks have…
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Carver. Carver. Carver.
Listening to Nesbitt’s ‘Passing Parade’ episode on the development of the giant Palomar telescope. Hale was a rich heir who took up astronomy. He used up his father’s money on building bigger and bigger scopes, and then learned how to lobby other rich men and foundations and governments for more and more money to build…
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Talk to them. Let them talk to you.
Random thought, partly repetitive, returning to the subject of communicating with other planets. Before 1920 most professional scientists (including Darwin) were deists. They believed in purpose, even if Galileo had weakened the hold of purpose on physics. Most scientists were fascinated by the possibility of life elsewhere, and several (including Marconi and Tesla) tried to…
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If we assume (part 2)
I’ve been imagining that the ‘standard’ UFOs were living things and their equipment. An ancient tribe of small winged humans developed a technology based on waves and electric fields. They weren’t limited by theories of atomism and particles, so they figured out how to materialize and dematerialize. They continued existing in and around the Earth,…
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Same both ways
I’ve noted before that UFOs were a perfect reversal of the normal “threat” mechanism. Normally a government feels the need for more power and murder and profit, so it makes up a “threat”. Terrorists, subversives, foreign “attacks” on ships, cyber “attacks” on computers, “viruses”, “toxins”, ad infinitum. Government then creates a stageplay, sometimes totally mythical,…
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Rare
We had a real thunderstorm last night. Real t-storms are rare here, less than one a year. Mostly we get convective popups, with 15 minutes of heavy rain announced by one small lightning. Last night was an hour of heavy rain, with some hail and continuous lightning. Fortunately no major wind in this part of…
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Reprint on tenure
Looking for a href on tenure to reinforce previous item on UATX bait and switch, found this from 2020. It’s a pretty good general roundup of the problem and the solution. = = = = = START REPRINT: Some people are starting to catch on to a chronic long-standing problem, which has become acute and…
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Parallax
This author looks at the new allegedly planned Austin “freedom university” from a Catholic perspective. It’s mostly outside of my secular understanding, but her suspicions end up pretty much the same as mine. We’re marking the same target from different angles. The Catholic viewpoint: UATX is strictly within the Enlightenment framework, with no centerpoint of…
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Should be two awards
AIER is giving its annual Intellectual Courage award to Ioannidis. Perfectly deserved. He’s the ONLY member of the demonic NAZI TORTURER Public “Health” cabal who told us FROM THE FUCKING START that the hoaxocaust was a complete violation and reversal of real public health. Every rational person knew it. Lots of powerless peasants have been…
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Actuallied up
Normally the press release or abstract of a serious scientific article is better than the article. University publicity departments have some excellent writers. They capture the essence of the dry article and spice it up into an attractive story. Here’s an exception. It’s a study of engraved rocks in a cave, made 15000 years ago…
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I missed the best part.
The remarkably realistic comment by the Harris Poll included a quote from Ice T. I was enamored of ‘analog people’ and didn’t notice the POWER of Ice T’s suggestion. It would [be] kinda dope if Musk bought Twitter and just shut it off. It’s powerful because shutting off is THE NORMAL PURPOSE of buying a…
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More Kirn Kibble
Since I’m quibbling with Kirn today, here’s another. You went to college and want to learn to write well? Here’s a tip. Vanquish from your mind the entire slate of terms you heard only in classes & used only in papers. Ditch “hegemony.” Forget “problematic.” Scuttle “instantiate.” Excellent and very old advice. Most of the…
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Amazing graph
Cited by Batya, this is an AMAZING graph. It’s the percent of NYTimes headlines occupied by each president from Wilson through Biden. Most of the chart is rational and expectable. Presidents who made more news (wars, depressions, scandals) got more headlines. Unexpectedly there’s not much D vs R difference**. Aside from the regularity, the chart…
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It’s all about personal power
Kirn’s latest pithy paragraph: A lot of what passes for politics these days — the policing of language, the stamping out of heretical opinion, the cancellation of offbeat, difficult figures — feels to me like a step in the construction of a universal operating system for humans. Many in power must dream of it. This…
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