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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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What the web lost
Yesterday I was discussing the web’s GAIN of available information compared to the pre-digital age. There are also LOSSES in functionality compared to the digital pre-web era. Today’s courseware work reminds me again of what we lost when programs switched from Windows to the web. The text’s author wants me to bring back part of…
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Should be charging for value!
Lately I’ve been browsing the reddit section for Post Office employees. Mostly inscrutable tech talk about PTMA and Form 3517B and Amended RMD2. Some interesting stories about good or bad customers, some encouraging advice from oldtimers to newbies, and occasional inputs from non-employees. One of the latter is a smart idea, and it’s the sort…
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More OCD witchcraft
Ran across an especially egregious example of modern OCD witch hunts, blaming trace elements and trace waves for huge illnesses. I understand the temptation only too well. I’m a natural hypochondriac, ready to blame any available outside influence for my “symptoms”. Long experience has taught me that 98% of my problems are either seasonal inflammation…
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Universal facts
One of the AFL-CIO booster films sympathizes with unionized postal workers. Carriers got up routinely at 4AM to start their sorting before walking the route. The narrator said “Nobody wants to get up at 4AM!” That was the official universal FACT for many decades as seen on TV and books and movies. People got up…
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