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Journalism is a cult.
After trying to read more weirdly lunatic shit from NiemanLab, I reached a conclusion. Journalism isn’t entirely crazy, it’s a high-status cult like Scientology. The members live in a completely isolated bubble of thought, surrounded by their fellow cultists and hearing only their fellow cultists. Reprint of a more general version from 2017, which isn’t…
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Manual vs verbal assembly line
Automotive assembly line workers are fairly well paid for semi-skilled work, typically around $70k a year. The pay compensates for the drab dullness of their repetitive days. Verbal assembly line workers (sometimes called “journalists”), who repeat the same sentence over and over and over for several hours per day, get $10 million a year.
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Loss of filtering
In former times, news and entertainment media served as a noise filter for both money swindlers and political swindlers. They devoted considerable time to dramatizing scams. The Fairness Doctrine REQUIRED media to skip partisanship and pay attention to reality. Frank Edwards, the best newsman of that era, did the best job of filtering political noise.…
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Rifles are fine, cigarettes are banned
Via Protos, Trump held a large meeting for bitcoin fraudsters on 7/27. The top Bitcoin gangsters are RICH, so rich gangster Trump wants them in his circle. = = = = = START PROTOS: As the majority of the conference’s 20,000 attendees queued to enter Nashville’s Music City Center main stage — some of whom…
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Back to 2008
From a Duane Jones viewpoint politics is back to 2008. Before Biden was kicked out, both sides were running defective products. They had to rely on cult behavior to get any buyers at all. The first rule of honest business and honest politics is to start with a product that people feel they can use.…
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Classy Spokane
Via SpokaneNews: North Division and East Courtland area, Reported thousands of fake $100 bills are all over the streets and causing traffic issues as people are stopping in the road collecting them. = = = = = A similar windfall happened several years ago. A drug dealer working from an RV stashed his cash in…
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Crowd of Pied Pipers
Looks like RFK is getting ready to join a long parade of traitors and Pied Pipers, leading a movement directly into the establishment they thought they were fighting. Jennings Bryan did it in 1908. After leading populists for a decade, he joined the Wilson admin and helped to make war and create the League of…
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Why so explosively stupid?
The Repoofs have exploded a blast of crazy shit against Harris. None of this shit will help them win. Normal people WANT strong police and controlled crime. Harris has real experience in accomplishing those tasks. Normal people WANT restraint of monopolies and rich fuckheads. Harris has real experience there as well. Why are the Repoofs…
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Indicative vs imperative
Struck me just now that the Sucker Filter isn’t really unexpected. There are old sayings: If you’ll believe that, you’ll believe anything. If you’ll believe that, I’ve got a bridge… What’s unexpected is that swindlers use these sayings as an operating rule. Madman Lincoln’s saying: You can fool some of the people, etc. We take…
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Y Euclid?
Noticed a news item about a car crash on Euclid here in Spokane. Reminded me that Euclid is a nearly universal street name. Almost all the cities I’ve lived in have a Euclid, often an important street. Trying the autocomplete in Googlemaps finds a Euclid in about 90% of the cities I could think of.…
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Tidegauge
This gadget caught my attention as an example of equipoise in measurement. The chain has a float at one end and a weight at the other. As tide rises, the float goes up and the weight goes down. The pulley drives a sliding pencil on a graph recorder. Far view, in my Electric Village scene,…
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Perfect repetition
I’m infinitely tired of “conservatives” calling China communist. China is just Chinese. In terms of ideology, China is mercantilist, not communist. China is EXACTLY REPEATING what Britain did in the 1800s. Britain was the world’s factory, sweatshopping millions of peasants for low wages. Britain colonized tropical countries for resources, letting the countries run their own…
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Vivek gets it halfway right
Vivek warns Repoofs against being mindlessly reactive. = = = = = START VIVEK: Many Republicans have focused on Harris’ record as a prosecutor, which Ramaswamy warned could backfire if they focus too much on attacks that she “locked up” too many people for petty crimes. Ramaswamy continued, “In fact, one of the images that…
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Bye, Full Circle.
Back in October I started using a delivery service for organic food. Gradually I found that I was wasting more than eating. Cooking needs to be limited in hot weather, and fresh food takes more cooking time. Each order has a minimum quantity of about 20 pounds, which turned out to be more than a…
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Goodspaceguy is still around!
Goodspaceguy is still running for state office! I vote for him every time, but so far he hasn’t won. He makes more sense than any other politician. He favors peace over war, wants us to stop sanctioning other countries, and wants a 4-day work week. His manifesto is overly utopian but most of his proposals…
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