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I shouldn’t try…
I shouldn’t try to get fancy in a language that I don’t know well! I wanted to slip in ecouter les bourgeoisie in the previous item. It didn’t seem right, so I googled. Nothing at all. Finally, after rolling the phrase around in my mind, the right phrase came in. Epater les bourgeoisie. Looking it…
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Not getting the error signal
When Pretty Boy Floyd and Luigi Mangione are universally seen as heroes worthy of emulation, the monsters in charge SHOULD see this as a serious error signal, like steering the ship into a small iceberg. This SHOULD require a serious course correction before the big iceberg sinks the ship. LIFE IS NEGATIVE FEEDBACK. Negative feedback…
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Noticed a comparison
Wolf continues covering the ups and downs of the destructive housing bomb, especially in Frisco. As a Frisco dude, Wolf thinks it’s all wonderful because everything that happens in Frisco is wonderful, and DON’T CALL IT FRISCO! Nevertheless, he does explain how housing responds to tech fraud booms and helps to cause tech fraud busts.…
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Globalism kills another
Willys has been the ultimate survivor and rescuer. First it survived the excesses of founder John North Willys, who built the company up to success as #3 brand in the 1910s then got carried away with mergers and acquisitions. Walter Chrysler took over in 1923 and reorganized it, then moved on to turn Maxwell into…
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If this is a war, I’m on the other side
Defending Deepstate indoctrination in the worst way: = = = = = START QUOTE: There is a major war on the humanities and any form of multidisciplinary thinking and human formation, if you haven’t noticed in the past 24 hours—advocates of the kind of lame, siloed educational system that manufactures STEM students on assembly lines…
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Self-explanatory radar
We’re getting some wind today, fortunately not the worst kind of windstorm. The Weather Bureau’s discussion talks about an upper-level jet streak that mixes gusts down to the surface at times. Hmm. I wonder where the jet streak might be?
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Beyond gigasucker
Several states are planning to set up BITCOIN STRATEGIC RESERVES. CNBC interviews a Bitcoin scammer who thinks it’s a wonderful idea. Of course CNBC will always serve the oligarchs, so I don’t expect objectivity or “balance” from them. Ohio and Texas are considering the fantastically stupid idea, along with the alleged so-called “federal” “government”. Needless…
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Work, not logic
Perfect example of the standard “conservative” and Catholic stupidity about education. “Kids should be taught basic epistemology and logic in primary school before they get access to the Internet”. Precisely wrong. Tyrants LOVE logic and philosophy. The JOB of philosophy is to help tyrants lie and kill. Logic happily defends all sorts of destructive shit.…
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Might be a good source?
I’m always ready to try out “news” sources that claim to be objective, continuing the spirit of the Fairness Doctrine. Until now all have failed quickly. Most were immediately transparent, just another DNC talking point vendor. Today I’m trying Tangle News. So far I haven’t seen any blatant shibboleths or hidden assumptions. They don’t move…
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Reprinting the art of grounding
Reprinting a item from two years ago. It’s not relevant to present shit, but the line of thinking was fairly original, and it wants to be reprinted for reasons I don’t understand yet! (Possibly to help with my courseware project animating brain networks?) Needless to say, like ALL of my fairly original and well-researched items,…
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Y no News Bureau?
After noticing for the 10000th time that “journalists” are incurably destructive, I thought again about which parts of news are really needed. I don’t need to know what some politician said or promised. Politicians never keep their promises, and the verbal stageplay is only mind-wrecking. I don’t need to know what’s happening in some country…
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Seen on Reddit
How many reindeer does Santa have? 10. Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph, and Olive. The song says “Olive the other reindeer…”
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If you don’t like tariffs….
A serious novelist was complaining that publishers have turned into a monopoly, giving less advantage to authors. Not really new. Harper and Random House and Doubleday were always dominant. She’s afraid that Trump’s tariffs will make publishing even more costly, BECAUSE ALL PRINTING IS IN KOREA. I can vouch for the latter. The publisher who…
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Equipoise and social media
Still thinking about PAY FOR VALUE or Equipoise. This is how real business (not Wall Street) works. Substack claims to be different because it depends mainly on payment from readers, not advertising. BUT: It fails the basic requirement of Equipoise. The algorithm doesn’t listen to the concerns of paying readers. No matter how often I…
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Lazy is best.
Following on this item and this item on the importance of MECHANICAL government. = = = = = Good businesses and good rulers are LAZY as well as mechanical. The two go together. When you make a process mechanical it’s affordable and easy to use. When everything is custom-made and ’boutique’, everything is expensive and…
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