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Repooflican wet dream
Repooflicans serve billionaires openly. Democrats serve billionaires more quietly. Rich fuckheads HATE taxes and HATE paying for ANYTHING, so Repooflicans obediently HATE taxes and persuade the fools that we’re all billionaires. Trump is finally doing what the Repooflicans wanted. He’s wiping out the IRS along with all other useful parts of the government, leaving only…
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Zenith Flash-matic
An odd tech dead end from 1956. I got a hint of this while browsing old radio-TV trade journals, then looked it up. Zenith was the king of gadgets and gimmicks. Everything they made had at least one fascinating mechanical or electronic feature. The shutter dial on late 30s radios was the best of all.…
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Literally to the choir
Ross Douthatt, a conservative Catholic who has been writing for NYTimes for many years, has a new book titled “Everyone should go to church.” I got tired of Catholic intellectuals a long time ago. Ockham got tired of them 700 years ago. They have an endless appetite for detailed argument about insignificant matters. In this…
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Full moon
Spokane News reports: Officer in pursuit of male fleeing on bicycle. Update: Speeds exceeding 7 MPH! Nuff said.
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Law of selective camouflage
The law of selective gravity is well known. A food particle that falls on the floor MUST bounce and roll into an inaccessible location, even if it has to bounce up over a threshold. A separate camouflage law applies to the unfortunate particle that can’t bounce out of reach. 1. Brown food like bread and…
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What do we pay for?
Thinking about courts and juries led to a comparison of doctors vs lawyers. In most products and services we pay for improvement. Food that gives us more taste and nutrition, entertainment that gives us more pleasure, cars that give us more enjoyable travel. In earlier decades, both lawyers and doctors matched this pattern. We paid…
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Truth in advertising
Auto writers uniformly say that Ford made a big mistake by emphasizing safety in ’56. Nobody wants safety! First, Ford wasn’t alone in the “mistake”. Everyone started offering seat belts and padded dashes in ’56. Imperial and Chrysler had standard padding since ’49. Second, it’s simply not true that everyone hates safety. Real men are…
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Krauts are always Krauts
This article from UK Telegraph is written by an experienced British army man who knows a thing or two about tanks. He says the Kraut tanks being used in Ukraine are failing for the same reasons that Krauts lost WW2. First, Kraut machinery is brittle and precise, while Russian machinery is flexible and easy to…
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Rant on “cybersecurity”
Forcing us to change a password every month is like the old ’50s Loyalty Oaths. The oaths were NOT meant to catch real Russian spies. First, real spies for any country are expert liars. They have no compunction about faking an oath to maintain a cover. Spying is lying. Second, the KGB, like all professional…
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Postal employee GETS IT.
One of the post office employees in the USPS reddit section writes: = = = = = We no longer have overnight shipping? The best we have is 2 day “express”, which is the same price as overnight shipping was. At my facility now we also hold outgoing mail until the next day. I’m so…
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Is Elon more efficient than SS?
This 1962 educational film about Social Security is a nicely produced story, by educational film standards anyway. It tells about SS by following a young reporter who visits the administration with her grandpa, to see how SS works for young people and old people. At one point the film mentions that modern computers enable SSA…
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Fish in a barrel
Journalists have found a new way to insult the peasants. Subhead: A new study finds that the poor, those with less education, young people, and women are less likely to prefer “impartial” news sources over those that align with their own views. Reality: “Impartial” news is even more starkly aristocratic than “partial” news. “Impartial” news…
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Not so weird
This morning’s dream was super-weird. I let the dog out through the kitchen door, then realized he was going out to play with his friend. His friend was a big-eyed lemur with an aluminum-foil patch over one big eye. I noticed the patch was wearing out so I got out the aluminum foil and started…
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Manweller wins every time
Both idiot parties are still obsessed with “honest” “elections”. No such thing. Manweller’s Rule is absolute. Elections only count when they agree with the ruler. Elections that change the course of a country or city or state are NOT ALLOWED to stand. Usually the parties can derail a real reformer before the election by refusing…
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Elizabeth is right this time
Elizabeth Warren often serves the bankers by adhering to the banker-sponsored “climate” and “virus” genocidal myths, but in other areas she does a good job of opposing the bankers. In this article she discusses the effects of psychopaths in charge of the world: Donald Trump’s erratic policy shifts have created an economic environment that, as…
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