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OTOOOOOH
Here’s an odd one. Religion Unplugged sees a Christian angle in the trial of billionaire Bill Hwang. They call him a philanthropist. Admittedly this is a complex situation. On one side, Hwang is a standard superselfish Chinese billionaire who loves betting for its own sake and loves to gain status by owning everything. The perfect…
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Pinfeed and Pigskin, part 4 of 5
This is Metrology Day! I’ve done several relevant items in recent weeks, especially GenRad’s color comparator and a return to the alidade theme. = = = = = I’ve been researching and modeling a lost tech, closely related to my recent sequences on Pinfeed and Pigskin, and Pinfeed and GenRad. Instead of regrouping the previous…
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Pinfeed and Pigskin, part 5 of 5
Now let’s look at the process of making and punching and selecting Filmsort cards. I’ve modeled some of Filmsort’s patents and reused some of my old McBee animations, subbing a Filmsort McBee card for a non-image McBee card. = = = = = Polistra is an office manager tasked with turning a company’s film into…
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Virus = voices
This isn’t the worst example by any means but it’s the available example at the moment. A local bridge has been out of service for four years during maintenance and upgrading. = = = = = START DEVIL: “It’s been a long four years. You know, a couple those years of construction was during COVID,”…
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Dogs resemble owners /// EDIT: FAKE NEWS.
UPDATE: THIS WAS A FAKE STORY. I STEPPED INTO THE TRAP! I APOLOGIZE. ================================================================ Fake story: For some reason the big Aggregators like MSN and DailyMail are hitting hard on every business closure lately, even the ordinary and predictable ones. If the news is accurate, Red Lobster’s closure is predictable. They made an obvious mistake…
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News for ya, bud.
Fareed Zakaria claims to be puzzled by the unrest on college campuses, and says that colleges are not the nice COMMUNITIES that they once were. More students are lonely and depressed. Got news for you, asshole. Colleges were NEVER a community for unpopular people. Colleges were DESIGNED to be a community for aristocrats. In the…
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Nothing new.
Something randomly reminded me of the remarkable Tyler family history. President Tyler’s grandson Harrison Ruffin Tyler died earlier this year. Grandpa married a trophy wife and had a son when he was 75, then the son did the same thing and had Harrison when he was 63. From a 2012 interview with Harrison: = =…
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Reprint from a few months ago
Reprinted because I’m goddamn tired of seeing this formerly somewhat useful country IMPRISONED AND TRAPPED AND BOUND AND GAGGED AND TORTURED by ALL of its politicians and corporations and universities and churches and organizations at ALL fucking levels. No exceptions. Nobody is functional. Everybody is working harder and harder to BLOCK AND STOP AND TRAP…
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Old joke still works
Q: Who killed the president of Tanzania? A: Yes. Q: Who killed the president of Burundi? A: Yes. Q: Who shot Slovakian PM Fico? A: Yes. = = = = = Stupid sidenote: I was trying to remember the real original form of this joke, which was pretty good. The best I could come up…
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Today is RYPBLTTFMYEBNMWIWNE Day!
Today is Relive Your Past By Listening to the First Music You Ever Bought No Matter What It Was No Excuses Day. (Probably one of Adrian Koopersmith’s special days.) The website says: Think about the first album or singles you ever purchased. Listen to those recordings and think about what was going on in your…
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Why is music unique?
In Gioia’s latest interview he spends a lot of time discussing Romanticism, which is the parallel to my Foy Rebellion. He also uses Taylor Swift vs AI as an example of opposite trends. AI is removing the human element from the ‘low end’ of music, Swift is returning the human element to the top-dollar end.…
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Why we get news from FB
Last night around 9:30 I had doors and windows open as usual to bring in the nice cool air. Heard some sirens. The sirens stopped close by, and then I heard: SUSPECT, YOU ARE UNDER ARREST! NEIGHBORS, STAY INSIDE YOUR HOUSE! Decided it was a good idea to close windows and doors. SpokaneNews Facebook came…
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What was he thinking?
King Charles commissioned his first official portrait. GAK! The “painter” showed a head floating on a sea of pixelated redness. There’s nothing unusual about an “artist” throwing shit. That’s what “artists” do for a living. Force peasants to eat shit and receive billions from rich assholes. The fact that Charles approved of this monstrosity is…
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Literal viewpoint
In the simpler parts of reality, your physical position makes a huge difference. A motor is turning clockwise or counterclockwise depending on which end you see. Same for the earth, except that we’ve standardized the top view. Richard Rushfield and Ted Gioia are two writers with similar backgrounds, both writing in the same place about…
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Totally understandable
Just noticed a skeptic asking if “any non-governmental entity has actually photographed the alleged sunspots.” In today’s utterly crazy tyranny, total skepticism is totally understandable. When rulers are torturing and strangling and imprisoning us and bombing countries down to bedrock, all justified by blazingly fake “science” and fake “threats”, total disbelief is a natural and…
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