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Watching the football
VW has pulled back from the EV craze and decided to continue developing gas engines. They’ve moved most of their future development budget back into real car engines. The EV craze was partly motivated by Elon’s cult power and partly by Share Value imperatives. Elon’s prank follows the model of GM’s pranks from the ’50s…
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Three counterexamples
Constants and Variables: Booker T vs the Meritocrats. Before the “rights” crowd started playing their vicious game in the 1700s, caste and locality worked together to keep cultures strong and give most men and women a position that fitted their abilities and tendencies. The meritocrats busted up both caste and locality with the fraudulent claims…
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Missed the best headline
Microsoft is trying to backpedal on a new dystopian “feature” named Recall, planned for its Surface laptop. The laptop would store a complete history of everything you do, “enhanced” by AI, which means that it’s really stored on MS servers. White hat types have shown that the “feature” would be a dream for hackers. Microsoft…
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Perfect exemplar
Craig Wright continues to provide the perfect exemplar of the Professional Criminal. The pro lives to cheat. He will do dishonest things every second of every day. He will always choose the dishonest way to do every task, even if it’s harder and more costly and more damaging to his own case. Contrary to popular…
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Alien empathy
The life of an executive is purely alien to me. Managing is not in my genes or family history or training, so I’ve carefully avoided getting into such jobs. The few times I had to do a little bit of managing, I failed and hated it. Here’s a rare candid insight into how it feels,…
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BRAVO for Mexico!
I stopped following AMLO after he joined the ballgag brigade. For many years I was admiring his GENUINE POPULISM. Looks like Mexico has regained its sanity now. WHO is trying to restart the temporarily ceasefired holocaust using “bird flu” this time. A Mexican who was dying went ahead and died, and WHO instantly claimed the…
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Started later there
Worth reading! A detailed history from a former British government official in charge of science grants. Briefly: Until 1997, Britain made grants the right way, providing an annual ‘block grant’ to each lab or university to use however they wanted. In 1997 the Major admin adopted the US system of single grants awarded competitively for…
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Getting hardass
SpokaneNews has gone beyond lively to SERIOUSLY HARDASS. = = = = = START SPOKANENEWS: Imagine if the Fire Department and Medical Responders stated that they will no longer respond to Drug Overdose calls. This isn’t far fetched. Did you know that if caller reports a person passed out in a vehicle they don’t respond…
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Pants on the ground
Here’s a perfect contrast to Establishment Rushfield’s hardass economic realism. Compact mag explicitly claims to be populist. Some of their articles fit the promise. This one goes the wrong way. = = = = = START COMPACT: The problem Biden faces is that a long-simmering cost-of-living crisis—reflected most but not exclusively in stifling housing prices—has…
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Good summation
I wrote this as a comment elsewhere. Should have written it here first. It’s a good summation of my overall viewpoint on life. I started turning in this direction in 1978, then solidified the viewpoint in 2012 after I threw away the TV. We’re not designed to be “free”. Social animals are designed to be…
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Belt and suspenders
Rushfield hits the nail again in the middle of a general news column: = = = = = START RUSHFIELD: We’ve been living in an environment of very low-risk speculation thanks to a decade of low interest rates, also known as a speculative bubble. That affected entertainment as much as anything else, as people poured…
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It’s not that simple
A young multimillionaire investor type argues that renting is better than buying. She implies that non-rich people should also be renting. Reality is more complicated. Many rich people have always lived in hotels because it’s an economically efficient way of having servants. Only a psychopath needs obsequious butlers and maids instantly waiting on his commands…
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Why we hate “journalists”, part 1566834523466487987940896045
Headline from AP: Migrants are rattled and unsure as deportations begin under new rule halting asylum Hey assdevils! Why don’t you worry about the NON-IMMIGRANTS for just fucking once in the entire history of your utterly evil unprofession??!??!??! If you were concerned with the welfare of your READERS, the headline would simply reassure them that…
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News doing its job
The SpokaneNews facebook page has been livelier than usual lately. Maybe they have a new employee or something. Tonight they published a notice with a nice moral note, which would NEVER be seen in “mainstream” “news”. Just a reminder! The police pursuit law changes back at 12:00am June 6th. No longer restrictions like before and…
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Probably right
Seen on Substack: = = = = = START QUOTE: You won’t believe the interview I’m working on now. Here’s a taste, “There are no more insects left in Spain. I used to drive coaches for over a decade and had to stop every 100 miles to wash the windshield of all the bugs crushed…
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