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He’s being honest this time
Some say Trump must have suffered PTSD from the near-shooting. Nope. His new honesty started before the shooting. In this campaign he’s no longer bothering to read the fake scripts that his advisers want. He’s just saying EXACTLY what he means and letting the chips fall. Two examples: (1) He said that military medal of…
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How it worked
My current Hudson obsession gave rise to several questions about details. The unique failsafe brake system is vaguely described online but not detailed or diagrammed. I bought a ’48 Stepdown Owners Manual on Ebay for $40 to satisfy my curiosity. The brake system was pretty much how I imagined it. The pedal applies leverage to…
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Nice landmark
Before the “virus” holocaust I often had good casual conversations in the store or the neighborhood or the bus. All conversation was wiped out in the holocaust, along with everything else that made life worthwhile. The perpetrators, including Demon Trump and Demon Inslee and Demon Mecher and a million soulless bureaucrats, will never be punished…
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Kirn quibble
Haven’t done one of these quibbles in a LONG time. This one is a real clanger. Kirn was responding to a twitterite who said (somewhat more accurately) that communists hate private property but love copyrights, which are only fictional. = = = = = START KIRN: Copywrights, along with patents, are the LEAST fictional form…
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More professional criminals
Hooray for the salon owner who went to independent media with her tapes of the SS breaking and entering her building to use the bathroom. If she had followed official channels or mainstream media, the story would never reach the public. For fucks sake, UTILITY CREWS have bathrooms and kitchenettes in their vans so they…
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More on Fessenden’s electrifier
I mentioned that Fessenden’s crop electrifier was basically a repeat of earlier experiments around 1900. Found some of those experiments, reported in California Climate Review for 1891. The details verify that Fessenden was following the same method. The results were remarkable and consistent when this setup was used. Other researchers tried passing a current through…
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Tempering the dismissal 2
Still trying to knock down my PTSD and restore rational judgment. When Harris picked Walz, my PTSD reflexively turned away. Earlier I had made the rational rule that neither the P or VP could be one of the unpunished torturers and genocidists. The VP mattered when Biden’s vertical corpse was the P, because SOON the…
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Not so random
Writing about Fessenden’s static irrigator caused an old popup memory. A chemical called Gibberellin was a big deal in the 50s and 60s, advertised as a universal helper for plants. Science mags wrote about it, and house and garden catalogs featured it. I wasn’t interested in gardening so didn’t really explore the subject. I haven’t…
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Fessenden the farmer
Well, not really. Fessenden had a wide-ranging vision and tried his hand in many different areas. Around 1914 he got into agriculture. In one patent he wrote a treatise on improving agriculture, showing the tech optimism of the time. Mass production will solve all problems. He developed a sort of super-greenhouse system where everything could…
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Tempering the total dismissal
Purely for my own purposes. Before 2020, I thought gathering facts was an important part of science and life. The perfect unimaginable horror of 2020 taught me that “facts” and “laws” have no consequence at all. No matter how many “investigations” and “revelations” and “lawsuits” we make, rulers will continue doing what they want. If…
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New way of squatting
Most squatters break into a vacant house and live there. Spokane squatters just gotta be different. This one stole the house!. Admittedly it was a ‘tiny house’ stored on a trailer, so it’s more like stealing a camper. Update: Two days later the cops found it, 20 miles south of town, thanks to tips from…
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WRONG, asshole.
Stupid headline in Compact: Tariffs aren’t a manufacturing cure-all Yes they are, asshole. The most effective tariff is a .45 tariff. Instant death for the entire executive board and all shareholders, direct or indirect, of any corporation that imports one molecule of manufactured products, or employs or offshores one picosecond of labor from overseas. The…
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Beginner errors
Trump is making beginner errors now, running wild with utterly loony ideas and promises, totally knocked off his normal evil track by suddenly facing a live opponent. Tonight he tried an interview with Elon, EXACTLY the same mistake that ruined DeSantis. Elon pulled EXACTLY the same prank, delaying the interview by 40 minutes for “tech”…
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The real problem and purpose
A long time ago I got tired of reading the philosophical thinkers about AI. They argue about utterly meaningless shit like whether AI can be conscious or creative. Of course meaningless arguing is the JOB DEFINITION of philosophers. Artists and animators understand the ONLY purpose of AI, destroying the skills and lives of artists and…
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Highly informative!
A question posed on Reddit. = = = = = START QUOTE: Hi, I am a Vietnamese HS student and just curious about how the US teaches the next generation about the Vietnam War. I know this gonna be controversial so let me share mine first. Vietnamese do NOT call the war “Vietnam War”, instead,…
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