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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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Refreshing realism
After the Assange hall of mirrors it’s refreshing to see a proposal from a hardass realist who recognizes that the devil doesn’t have morals. In this case the devil is Sam Altman. Gioia lays out a strategy for music publishers to handle Altman. Altman is an incurable and immovable and unlearnable devil, but the human…
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Who died?
Suddenly Assange is completely free after 15 years of Kafka. I lost interest in Assange a long time ago; he seemed to be playing a game that didn’t make sense for a man who wanted to stay free. The prosecution is unquestionably and infinitely evil, but I’m not sure about the other side. Assange wasn’t…
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That was fast.
Last week I wondered: The final divorce of Saudi from the Bush house may cause a shift in this pattern. Up to now we’ve been operating as a general contractor for Saudi, destroying every country that threatened to compete. Saudi has now decisively moved into Russia’s house. Will we finally attack Saudi in PROPER response…
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Today is…
Today is Museum Comes To Life Day, and it lived up to its name. I haven’t seen a “virus” ballgag in the wild for several months. The usual gothy suspects have finally given up the fashion. Today on the bus I saw a middle-aged couple, both overdressed and out of style, both wearing outsized glasses…
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England still lives.
Kirn also gets in a well-aimed dig at the Gaian fuckheads vandalizing Stonehenge. They are screwing with the wrong pagan gods — their own! How stupid is that? They’ve unleashed the bards and leprechauns on themselves. Looking at the clip of the vandalism, I’m hugely impressed by the instant response of normal people. As soon…
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AskedAnswered
Haven’t seen one of these in a while. The business of building AI centers IS why it’s so hard to build ANYTHING ELSE in America. When construction serves the needs of Altman or Fink or Zuck, it gets built fast and easy, no permits, no litigation. Anything else needs 20 years of permitting and licensing…
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