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Long’s leakiness theory
Interesting piece by Rob Long at the Ankler. Long is a writer for TV and movies who has been around long enough to compare the old and new ways of running the entertainment business. He makes a point I’d never considered before. Show biz used to be LEAKY. Everyone along the chain got a share…
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Beautiful bitcoin schadenfreude!
Via Protos: Cathie Wood, the “futurist” who pulled in billions from idiots and used it to bet on obvious nonsense, has destroyed more than 14 billion dollars of the money “invested” by fools. All of them fully deserve the punishment. = = = = = START PROTOS: ARKK, the largest ETF Wood manages, has lost…
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Free at last!
Did the jury thing this morning. Without breaking confidentiality**, the case was on a subject that I have EXTREMELY strong emotions about. I made it clear that I wouldn’t be able to be objective, and got freed, honestly. The ‘one day or one trial’ system means that I’m ALL FREE NOW, after one morning in…
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Rules of ambiguity
Last week I commented on nicknames for cities. Pondering this deep subject further, I conclude that we naturally apply the linguistic rule of ambiguity to city nicknames. If the second word is City: You CAN leave off the City when the first word is unique. Ponca, Dodge, Cawker. When the first word is ambiguous, such…
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Hudson was first after all
A while back I was surprised to find electric wipers on a Hudson in 1928. I ran through some owners manuals online and concluded that historian Conde must be wrong. No, he was probably right. I wasn’t looking closely enough. This proves that Hudson had optional electric wipers in ’34, so ’28 isn’t unlikely. I…
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Best Easter comment
Under one of today’s routine two dozen near-death overdoses, a sharp and evocative comment. He is risen by Narcan. Leads to a broader thought. Rising from the dead used to be a special trick. Now it’s literally cheaper by the dozen. Costco resurrections. A messiah would have to pick a more salient magic trick now.…
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Industrially repeated
This argument has been industrially repeated for decades. It makes superficial sense but there are flaws in the assumptions and facts. = = = = = START QUOTE: Industrialization explicitly rewarded compliance, conformity, and disciplined repetition. Schools were designed to produce workers who fit neatly into that mold, treating variation as a flaw instead of…
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Blaming and framing as always
The former anti-Trump independents, now all fervent Trump cult members, are crowing about the admin’s “revelations” on the role of Fauci. The “revelation” focuses on the fake lab-leak issue, which was obviously staged as a fake arguing point. Deepstate never reveals, never admits fault. Deepstate, like all psychopaths and professional criminals, diverts the blame to…
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Unsafe at pants speed
Speaking of EVs being unsafe at any speed, check out this local incident. He had a little flashlight with a lithium battery on his key fob, and it blew up in his pants pocket. Serious burns over much of his body, helicoptered to Seattle for special care. Old-fashioned dry batteries get corroded and crusty after…
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Big Science vs Big History
An observation about two disciplines. The big science magazines have been lost in politics for a LONG time, not just the Trump era. SciAm was already lost in the 70s. NewScientist dropped into politics around 2000. Nature has also been there for a while, though I don’t read it regularly enough to spot the change.…
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Fuck.
I got a reprieve from jury shit last week but didn’t escape entirely. Will have to be there on Monday. FUCK. At least the one day or one trial system is better than the county setup where you always spend a few days waiting and marching back and forth. In the fed system you appear…
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Read it.
I mostly stopped reading Compact Mag. They have an occasional interesting article but too much ordinary conservative think-tank material. Their latest article rises to the top. It’s the BEST piece of writing I’ve seen in a LONG time. The author lives in Wales, where the British Gaian globalists have been sending coal and steel abroad…
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You have to learn
Comment seen on substack: so now people are pretending like you need an editor to be on substack?! lmaoooo the point is to get rid of gatekeepers and hurdles and barriers shut uupp i write in lowercase and sometimes not and i definitely make typos and none of it serious. we’re all exploring our writing…
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Manweller wins every fucking time
Manweller’s Rule: “Elections” only count when they agree with the ruler. No “election” can be allowed to do the right thing. If any candidate or proposition attempts to do good, the parties will first remove all support and funding from the good thing. If that fails, the “election” or “proposition” will be summarily rejected. Spokane’s…
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Teamites will be teamites
Wolf’s readers often contribute stories from their own experience. This is far more valuable than any sort of generalized observation no matter how well informed. In yesterday’s column on the sudden “unexpected” failure of Elon’s unusable undrivable unsafe illegal Cybrtrk, a marketer tells us why modern businesses choose to appeal ONLY to one religion. This…
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