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More messages to Congress
The Supremes continue their probably futile but admirable campaign to restore written laws. The Chevron decision is in the same category as the FB/Twitter decision. Both tell Congress to get its miserable ass in gear and start LEGISLATING. Stop letting the courts and the agencies make laws. Courts are supposed to decide who’s guilty of…
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Weird but nice
Weird event, turned out nice. After lunch, without warning, somebody started mowing my back yard. I thought maybe she was a neighbor, so I was feeling guilty and somewhat trespassed. After she finished she walked back to her parked car, so I knew she wasn’t a neighbor. I went over, handed her $60 and thanked…
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Missing part of the picture(s)
Nina Power of Compact writes about the triviality of Big Art. There are two sources of money for Big Art. (1) Serving as tradable securities for rich fuckheads. (2) Licking the butts of bureaucrats who provide Arts Grants. I’d argue that the first source is ancient. Big Artists always worked for aristocrats, and always painted…
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Great comment, new thought
SpokaneNews explained that the small Cessna people are seeing all over the place is a Highway Patrol plane going back and forth over I-90 looking for speeders. It does an especially good job of keeping up with idiot motorcycles, who have been screaming around lately at 160 MPH. Best comment: I wish they would spray…
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Genocide awards
Business Blunders writes about Fisker, one of the thousands of QE swindlers who took advantage of the free money flowing through idiot VCs. Fisker has run up fake companies many times and pulled them into bankruptcy many times. = = = = = START QUOTE: Why would anybody buy a car from this guy? He…
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Good work by Nieman
NiemanLab did some serious tech journalism instead of just parroting the party line as usual. They heard that Altman has contracts with many of the biggest news outfits including AP, Financial Times, and WSJ. The chatbot answers questions from readers and refers them to previous stories from the same source. In fact the references are…
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The importance of delay loops
Reading the headline coverage of today’s Supreme decisions, I was ready to get excited. I’m NOT excited by the FB/Twitter decision, which is just a straightforward and accurate reading of the constitution. The Supremes are doing their proper job for once. I wanted to get excited by a headline saying that the Supremes have canceled…
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Boxtops all the way down
I stay on the email list of NewSuperstitionist because they occasionally feature an interesting development that I hadn’t heard about through other sources. Their emails in recent years reveal a change in their business model. NS runs frequent cruises to various parts of the world, with big-name “Experts On Board” to narrate and discuss what…
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Oh stop it.
“Rights” fans are screeching that the Supreme decision on Twitter and FB destroys the constitution and ruins freedom of speech. Sheer nonsense and crazy bullshit. The decision is precisely and fully correct by the original “constitution”. Freedom of press means that a publisher can censor and edit as much as it wants, for any reason…
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Partial debunk
While I’m thinking about cars and conventional wisdom, here’s another partial debunk. Every auto historian says that Ford ventured out on a limb by featuring safety in ’56, then walked it back later. Partly true. Ford was alone in trying to sell safety. Almost everyone, Big Three and independents, started offering seat belts and padded…
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More proof that parliament works
We coulda hada parliament. We started out with a rebranded version of the British system in the Articles, then NYC replaced it with a rigid totalitarian setup in 1787. In Canada and Britain, despite the universal takeover of all Five Eyes by the same Deepstate, the old system continues to function as a feedback mechanism.…
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One solvable problem
Right now the biggest SOLVABLE problem is housing prices. The total takeover of all government by lunatic devils is NOT SOLVABLE. Many people have incomes that should be enough to raise a family, when judged against overall cost of living OTHER THAN HOUSING. The New Deal enacted price controls on rent, which remained until 1952**.…
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More ancient obsolete wisdom
Rushfield partly misses the point in this article, though he hints at the correct answer. Basic math: 1/5 of Americans are Hispanic, yet Hollywood totally ignores them. Hollywood doesn’t want to make money. Hollywood only wants to please Wall Street. Hispanics have money and they spend it. You don’t need statistics, just look at the…
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Burgum’s boxtop
Here’s a radical idea, which might have been understood at some time in the prehistoric past: If you want people to do something, pay them. Burgum, considered the likely VP for Trump, understands this ancient weird lost arcane astrological mystical wisdom. He wanted people to vote for him, so he paid them. Because of our…
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More wiper puzzles
Earlier I tried to pin down the start dates for electric windshield wipers, after seeing that the conventional wisdom about AMC was wrong. The earliest factory-installed electric wipers were Chrysler in 1939, then Packard in ’42, then Ford and GM and Studebaker around ’51. In each case the wipers were optional on top models at…
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