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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Tired of this
I’m lethally tired of conservatives who haven’t been paying attention for the last 50 years. They’re still saying the same two or three Official Conservative Quotes, most of which were wrong from the fucking start even before they turned stale. Here’s a good example from a respondent in one of Kirn’s twitter threads. (Kirn himself…
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Proper use of science
Here’s a nice example of Carverian science. Constant: Everyone knows that the mind shifts mode after age 40. Millions of words have been written about this change for thousands of years. We sometimes call it the midlife crisis, but most folks realize it’s not a crisis, just a change in our way of perceiving the…
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Smart observation by Taibbi
Taibbi is discussing the downfall of journalism in a simple practical way. When CNN decided to run 24-hour news, quality switched to quantity. Definitely true. But Taibbi started in the industry after the Fairness Doctrine was already gone. Revoking the Doctrine opened the way to transform news into soap opera, and the increased quantity of…
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Downtown upstairs
Old downtowns had a separate world upstairs, and often another separate world under the sidewalks. An item in today’s EnidBuzz gives us a glimpse of one upstairs world: Opened in 1923 as the 900-seat Billings Theatre, built by William S. Billings and his wife Henrietta, who lived in apartments above the theatre. It later became…
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Finally figuring it out
Regular conservatives are starting to see the problem with ‘transparency’. I can’t be overly snarky on this topic because I was also inexcusably slow. Before 2012 or so, I was fully onboard with transparency. Even in 2020 I was still vainly hoping that revealing the facts would break the blackmail and weaken the “virus” hoaxocaust.…
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Would be nice…
Latest from Kirn: Someday creativity, free speech, civil liberties, peace, prosperity, and a balanced respect for tradition and exploration will not be assailed as “extreme” positions. The Boy Scout in me hopes that a more open Twitter will help in this process. I think it might. I think it won’t. This is one of the…
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Important piece
Brownstone has published an essay by Haley Kynefin. I wanted to find more of her writing, but she’s not well represented online. She wrote at Medium for a while then stopped just before the hoaxocaust. Kynefin is focusing on the lockdowns and muzzles and distancing, not the vax and “origins”. Vax is a proper part…
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It’s not new (of course)
For chuckles and chortles I’ve been reading the two opposing subfolders about bitcoin at Reddit. The Bitcoin folder is full of true believers, and the Buttcoin folder is laughing at the true believers. Non-barking: After a while I realized that one HUGE element is missing in these discussions among insiders. Outsiders like David Gerard on…
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Sucker gene
Thinking yet again of the totally useless blockchain crap. Every one of these “innovations” is a wildly overcomplicated way of doing a task that is already working just fine. I’ve observed for a long time that complicators and simplifiers are disjunct personality types. I’m a pure simplifier, and I have trouble understanding the motives of…
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