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More pointless bitching.
Today is pointless bitching day. I’m tired of being ORDERED to listen to all sides. First, it’s futile. People naturally seek encouragement and respect, NOT contempt and disgust. Second, it’s bad business. Persuaders of all sorts know that you can’t keep customers by hammering them with opposition. You have to start with pleasure and improvement.…
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More harm by court than Wright
Since I’ve been steadily writing about Craig Wright, I feel obligated to continue until it’s settled. Basic task-completion drive. Last week Protos reported on his latest grandiose fraud, remaking agriculture now that he’s remade money and banking. This week Protos notes that he’s blithely disobeying the British court order. He hasn’t paid the plaintiffs anything…
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Big scam, little scam
Noticed the daily pile of “cybersecurity” scams in email, illustrating the amateur small-scale version. Your account’s security has been compromised!!!! Your computer has (32) viruses!!! Then noticed some headlines illustrating the professional large-scale version. Russian hackers compromise utility grid!!!! Then heard my usual bedtime playlist with the usual 1950s propaganda about the need to defend…
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More from Edelman
The outfit that writes the Edelman Trust Barometer has put out a special edition on trust in health and medical matters. Like the general report, it covers a dozen nations with large samples. Most of the result is strongly positive. It shows that normal people in most countries are far saner than the activists of…
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Most don’t know
Headline in Spokane News: Possible ammonia leak at the Ice Ribbon, Haz Mat Full Response to 700 West Spokane Falls Blvd. Industrial ice uses either ammonia or CO2. Ammonia is NASTY stuff. One whiff can ruin your sense of smell permanently, and a larger sniff can kill you. CO2 is nice stuff. It feeds plants.…
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Precise joke
I was looking at the German jokes on upjoke.com. Most of them are the same joke in various forms. Standard joke: Q: How many Germans do you need to change a lightbulb? A: One. We are efficient, not funny. The standard joke is IMPRECISE. Here’s the PRECISE joke: Q: How many Ger A:We already changed…
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Amazing!
Lately I’ve noticed that New Scientist has departed from its normal purely political stance, spending much less time on fashionable shit like Climate and Die-Versity. In this article they take a HUGE step in the right direction. For the first time in print, a big science magazine admits that science has ALWAYS depended on the…
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Odd specialty
Whoda thunk it? One industrial designer specialized in weird super-streamlined trucks. This Vintage.es article shows a weird 1936 armored car, with an elevated cupola for a tailgunner, designed by Everett Miller. The article mentions that Miller also did the Gilmore fuel oil neon truck and the Arrowhead Spring Water teardrop car. The latter reminds me…
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It’s all crime
I’ve said something like this before in connection with ‘corporate personhood’. For some reason the topic sharpened up this morning, helped by familiarity with the new research on brain networks. Natural Law is innate. It’s built into our brains. We have specific feature detectors for unfair practices or deceptive language. We don’t know the difference…
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Usual subjects
Random thought on the usual subjects. The Nash Metropolitan was the first offshoring in the US auto industry. Most US makers had branches in Canada and Euro countries from the start. The branches functioned in different ways: some made their own cars, some made identical US models, most made variations or descendants of US cars.…
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Not a good idea
Some commentators are taking the Carney victory as a time to start agitating for independence for the prairie provinces. Bad idea. When you’re the mouse fighting a hostile psychopathic cat, you need all the force you can muster. Workers vs corporations are the easiest example. One worker at a time has no chance of gaining…
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Carney wins.
GOOD. I’m happy. At this point the networks are certain that Carney’s party will have the plurality in parliament, which lets them form a government. The predictors aren’t certain of an absolute majority yet. If the total of seats crosses the absolute threshold, there won’t be any need for coalitions. Later, they’re sure it’s only…
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Why businesses should NEVER…
It’s the oldest and most universal rule in selling and business. NEVER NEVER NEVER get into politics unless you’re a politician. NEVER NEVER NEVER get into religion unless you’re a preacher. If you’re selling anything else, cars or food or software, STRICTLY AVOID all political and religious teams. Don’t let anyone even SUSPECT that you’re…
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Farmers are about to be replaced!!!
All those outdated old-fashioned farmers who are still doing it the stupid way, planting seeds in soil and harvesting the crops, had better watch out! Their hopelessly obsolete methods are about to be overturned by: The Most Holy And Noble Innovator ***C*R*A*I*G***W*R*I*G*H*T*** After successfully overturning a thousand years of obsolete fiat banking and replacing all…
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How they did it
I always enjoy seeing how a task is really done. Usually the real thing is a whole lot harder than it looks from the outside. Sometimes it’s easier. This new upload at American Radio Library is a revealing look behind the scenes of talk radio. It’s a user manual for a Telos Talk Radio Call…
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