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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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More on auto DNA
Random rambling, following from this line of thought. Early automobiles were the child of bicycles and buggies. The body, frame and springs were buggies. The wheels and drivetrain evolved from bicycles and motorcycles. Bicycle: Crank driven by feet, mounted transversely in the middle of the vehicle, driving rear wheel through a chain. Motorcycle: Replace feet…
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A genuine historic first!
As pointed by Shepstone, the US Government has done something unique and perfectly unprecedented. Instead of destroying modular sovereignty of states and counties and Mutual Benefit Societies, just this once it defended modular sovereignty AGAINST the billionaire globalist terrorists. From a government press release: = = = = = START HEADLINE: U.S. District Judge Jennifer…
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Thanks, weather gods.
The weather forecast for the upcoming two weeks is nice by winter standards. Uniquely monotonous, but highly fortunate. If temperatures had been more typical of winter, this would be several FEET of snow. Thanks, weather gods! I’m sure this will change soon, but I’m appreciating the monotony for now.
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If you didn’t want to see…
When evil government allows a problem to grow intolerable, people WILL do something about it. Often the reaction is extreme and uncontrolled because the problem is extreme. Revolutions happen when inequality is too monstrous to stand. When government refuses to punish real criminals, people WILL punish and execute real criminals, whether in neighborhoods or giant…
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Beehiiv’s Mutual Benefit Society
Earlier I read about this and LOVED the idea. Now I’ve read the Society’s website. It’s the Media Collective. The info on the site matches what I read before, and also clarifies the revenue method. What I read before: Health insurance: Monthly stipend and concierge service with our network of insurance partners. Legal support: Pre-publication…
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From annoying to scary
I was already annoyed with TDS Fiber. Last summer they parked their excavators in the middle of my yard and blocked my entry while making noise all day. They were digging tunnels for cables which were NOT NEEDED, since CenturyLink and Comcast already provide service in this neighborhood. But the city dysgovernment gave TDS some…
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Edsels, Trudeaus, Toilets
Reading an old account of how the Edsel was developed. Designers had something better in mind, but corporate management, newly switched from family ownership to Share Value, had to exert raw power regardless of the consequences in profit. Managers stormed into the design studios and ripped up the drawings and clay models that didn’t suit…
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Reprint on bitcoin from 2014
Linked in previous item, worth a reprint. In this 2014 piece I was discussing three different subjects. Ten years later all three turned out right. A rare conjunction, since I’m wrong about many things! = = = = = START 2014 REPRINT: Three beautiful examples of completely ignoring history in today’s news. = = =…
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Craig Wright, the final chapter
Edit: Oooops, I published too soon without waiting for the actual sentence! The Judge sentenced Wright to 1 year but suspended the sentence for 2 years to see if Wright will start paying his fines. Unsatisfying conclusion and won’t stop the chaos that Wright creates every minute of his nasty life. PROFESSIONAL CRIMINALS NEED TO…
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