Polistra's Mill

Polistra's Mill

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  • I used to know this

    Here’s a fact I recognized a long time ago and then forgot. Antivaxxers are OCD. The Public “Health” demons are also OCD. This explains one peculiar twist in the current fake “debates”. Antivax is a more natural and less contrived outcome of OCD. The provax position was imposed in 2020 by the ALL OR NOTHING…

    polistra

    January 15, 2022
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    Constants and Variables, jackboot stomping forever, Metrology, Sucker Filter
  • Not a conflict

    I’ve made a habit of watching all Batya interviews, at least until they turn boring. I know Batya’s story by now, but she has the old-fashioned journalistic knack of interviewing the interviewer. The interviewer’s story is sometimes interesting. This clip with three Bros got boring soon, with the Bros doing the usual Bro things about…

    polistra

    January 13, 2022
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    Fairness Doctrine
  • Narrowing bandwidth works both ways

    Still continuing from Kirn’s theme. Self-defense in a digital world seems to require narrow bandwidths and digital responses. Ideally we should be able to shrug off false flags and intentionally crazy media. Some people can do it, but I can’t. I tried it for a long time, and finally decided that I don’t have enough…

    polistra

    January 13, 2022
    Uncategorized
    defensible spaces
  • — out of the park.

    Continuing on Kirn’s latest hit: Even the fiercest of our debates now occupy about 1/100th of the spectrum thinkers and writers of earlier times have used while exploring major human questions. Through censorship and timidity, we’ve lost access to bandwidths we don’t even know exist now. Deafness is setting in. Focus on Deafness is setting…

    polistra

    January 13, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Status
  • Kirn hits a home run

    Kirn has a way with words! Even the fiercest of our debates now occupy about 1/100th of the spectrum thinkers and writers of earlier times have used while exploring major human questions. Through censorship and timidity, we’ve lost access to bandwidths we don’t even know exist now. Deafness is setting in. This point has been…

    polistra

    January 13, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Bitcoin, jackboot stomping forever, Kirn Quibbles, Status
  • BIG crime is legal

    In a semi-serious Facebook thread about a shoplifting arrest, one commenter mentioned that the thieves need to report their illegal loot to the IRS. I couldn’t believe it, so I looked it up. Sure enough, it’s true. I hadn’t seen it before because it’s not in the regular instruction PDFs. I always file Schedule C,…

    polistra

    January 11, 2022
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  • This year’s yak-shaving

    I tend to do the same things and think the same thoughts at the same time each year, without trying. Keeping a daily journal or worklog helps to spot these patterns. Right now I’m having fun shaving a yak. I started working on a 3d animatable waterfall spectrogram, extending the ‘live sine waves’ seen here.…

    polistra

    January 10, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Equipoise, experiential education, skill-estate
  • Contradictory? Not quite.

    In the last couple days I’ve been writing and reprinting two opposite approaches. 1. Surrender immediately! 2. Mid-level powers should try to assert their power! Not really contradictory, just two different categories of people and nations. Powerless people should avoid exciting psychopaths into a killing frenzy. People with some power should use it carefully. DeSantis…

    polistra

    January 9, 2022
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  • Circassian Solution reprint

    Written Aug 2020. = = = = = START REPRINT: Idiot headline at RCS: Why is science letting us down? I won’t read the underlying article since I know in advance that it will be answering the wrong question to serve Satan. = = = = = The proper answer is: Science isn’t letting us…

    polistra

    January 9, 2022
    Uncategorized
    natural law = sharia law
  • Chuck vs Chuck

    Kirn on evolution: You read history, count up the wars, the slaughters, the genocides, etc, you realize the most stalwart, spirited, courageous members of our species have been culled in a kind of counter-evolution. Nature may favor the fittest. Not society. We descend from those who fit in. This isn’t counter-evolution, it’s evolution. The leader…

    polistra

    January 9, 2022
    Uncategorized
    natural law = sharia law, Status
  • Reprint on UNsolving

    Speaking of leaders solving and unsolving problems, I managed to pull the subject together a few months ago then forgot. The endless torture chamber ruins focus, as I was saying IN this item. = = = = = START REPRINT: Humans want to solve problems. When a problem is important, we devote more attention to…

    polistra

    January 8, 2022
    Uncategorized
    skill-estate
  • Still uneasy

    Speaking of cancelling reminded me of the university now being organized by the Famous Cancelleds. When I looked at their website in November, it was all future plans, and felt like vaporware. Now there’s one class or seminar firmly scheduled: Our Forbidden Courses summer program invites top students from other universities to join us for…

    polistra

    January 8, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Tenure
  • Not original

    This is hardly a new thought, and it’s not a dramatic or binary thought, but it deserves more emphasis and repetition. We need more GUTS and strength in the middle levels of our structures. Nature is infinitely modular, from mitochondria to cells to tissues to organs to animals to hives to local ecosystems. Every level…

    polistra

    January 8, 2022
    Uncategorized
  • Dust bowls and rice bowls

    A surprising fact from the same Nov 33 issue of Electronics as the microwaved “bun sandwich”: More people than ever before live on the nation’s farms. Not only has the drift of farm boys and girls to the city been stopped, after thirty years of continuous growth of the city population at the expense of…

    polistra

    January 8, 2022
    Uncategorized
    skill-estate, Storage
  • The muddlers are worse than the cancellers

    Right now there’s a kerfuffle in literary circles over the “cancelling” of an anthology by Norman Mailer. His son put together some previously unpublished essays and offered them to Random House. The official story is that a low-level Woke editor at Random House didn’t like Mailer’s currently unfashionable language. Censorship! No, it’s not censorship. It’s…

    polistra

    January 8, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Status
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