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Is digital currency new?
Found the banking statistic I was looking for. It’s not exactly the same quote but it agrees with the proportions. From a history of US banking: = = = = = START QUOTE: Gen. James A. Garfield, in speaking on the Resumption Act in the House of Representatives, November 16, 1877, stated that while Chairman…
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Nice whether I grasp it or not.
Two newsish articles today form a contrast that proves a point: Banks are one of the few remaining old-fashioned businesses. (1) The Ankler is discussing how movies get capital. Private equity is one of the sources as expected, and PE wants to take huge risks and make huge losses for tax evasion. Regular banks are…
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Not so bad
Maybe AI is a good thing after all. Lever News, a ‘progressive’ site, pulls together some facts about a side of AI we normally don’t consider. The data centers for AI servers are adding a huge load to electric grids, and the electric utilities are keeping coal power running to satisfy the need. = =…
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Where do they learn?
Here’s a question worth asking. All official Experts in science and related fields know how to generate fake panics for fun and profit. In medicine, climate, economics, social science, they all seem to know the same torture techniques. Where do they learn these techniques? I’ve been in and around speech and hearing since the ’70s.…
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Hardass humor
Seen on SpokaneNews under one of the dozen overdoses today: Dark humor is the best way to survive when the whole state is an insane asylum.
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Somebody should, somebody did
Random thought while listening to Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony. Somebody should write an Overly Finished Symphony with too many shimmering glissandos and silvery cornets. Or an Unassembled Symphony, with instructions to Insert Trumpet A in Rest B. Or a Lego Symphony, modules that could be assembled in various ways. Come to think of it, real composers…
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No spoilage in caves
Vintage.es has a cute feature about thousands of unsold Mavericks stored in one of the giant caves under KC. When I lived in Lawrence in the ’80s, I owned one of the Mavericks made by the KC Ford plant, and I drove it through one of those caves without realizing that it was visiting its…
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Fairness Doctrine vs d’Aurignac
In previous item about modularity I didn’t mention the Fairness Doctrine. It’s an important part of the platform vs publication distinction. The FD censored broadcasters for a specific reason. Ideally censoring a platform should be wrong, but every platform has rules to keep the traffic going smoothly. Streets have stop signs and speed limits. The…
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What could they do?
Last week I asked: Who benefits from the overdose genocide? At that time I couldn’t see any obvious money gains. New thought: There is one beneficiary. City governments are receiving federal aid to keep the genocide running. The devil “mayor” made this clear when she “declared an emergency”, which is another name for requesting a…
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Modularity is the key
The latest appeal from Brownstone: = = = = = START BROWNSTONE: It became clear in 2020 and following that a major purge was on. It hit academia, media, government, and industry. The vaccine mandates helped cull the dissenters from many institutions. Censorship also worked wonders. The demonization of the resistance was ferocious. It remains…
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The Saudi divorce
Thinking about the universal blocking principle. Patents block innovation, investment blocks business, outsourcing blocks useful work. I forgot to include war in the list. Our wars since 1990 have been blocking wars. Before Wilson we fought to ACQUIRE resources in Latin America and Asia because we had a PRODUCTIVE economy, not a BLOCKING economy. WW1…
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Sentence never written before
The president headbutted the pope. Even AI couldn’t come up with this combination. Only our actual presidents and popes can reach this level of impossible unimaginable lunacy.
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Wonderful cerebellum
This morning’s storetrip seemed especially easy. I wonder why? Oh. School is out for the summer so traffic is light. Instantly ‘His Yoke is Easy and his Burthen is Light’ dropped on the turntable of my mental jukebox and played all the way through. I haven’t heard or thought about that piece in at least…
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Empathy for Dixie!
Most articles allegedly about the South only recapitulate the standard Yankee hatreds. This feature about dialect gets everything right, with a rare added dollop of empathy. Best is the definition of Fixin To, often pronounced as fitna. We have to love the laid-back attitude of the Southerners. This phrase pre-empts an intention, so it’s right…
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Finally found an exception
A couple years ago I complained that US movies and TV were short on genuine psychopaths. Brits did a much better job of portraying the type. Finally found a solid exception. The villain in this movie is Sam Altman or Sam Bankman or Elon or Bezos, the Effective Altruist type. He lives a wealthy life…
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