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Supercondensed matter
This 1954 promo for the Nutrilite supplement is well produced and typifies a long tradition for MLMs and related scams. Bitcoin follows the same tradition. Both pivot on a false idea of super-condensation. The product is EXTREMELY valuable because it’s EXTREMELY condensed. Condensed products are a wonderful idea, making extended storage and savings possible. Condensed…
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Great old idea
Via ReligionUnplugged, a British preacher is offering a 15-minute web program of meditation and prayer. Smart idea. Many people are still solidly Christian but got tired of devoting a half day to church, especially when church didn’t bother to defend them against the “virus” holocaust. If the priests won’t fight the most satanic supercrime in…
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Eat it, Elon.
= = = = = START QUOTE: Return-to-office mandates at some of the most powerful tech companies — Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX — were followed by a spike in departures among the most senior, tough-to-replace talent, according to a case study published last week by researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of…
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Let a hundred basis points bloom
Not a good analogy, but maybe the comparison will help me to think about one of the parallels. = = = = = The solid side of the parallel: ZIRP was an extreme outlier, totally unprecedented when Bugsy Bernanke ordered it in 2008. Previously the expected interest had pulled down to 2% at some points…
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It must work, but why?
The Trump cult email spam continues along the same lines. It’s not political or economic in any way. Nothing about borders or walls or jobs or China or Israel. It’s all pure whipsawing emotions, like an obsessed menopausal ex-wife. Today’s subject line: “I would never have expected this from YOU, of all people!” Marketers must…
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Clear after defining
Wondered why 100% of “news” about politics is pointless arguing. A roasts B, C debates with D, E kicks F out of speakership. Within “dissident” circles it’s the same. Pointless arguing about who’s more ideologically pure or who’s taking more money from Deepstate. For powerless people, the only effective political action is Desistance, finding ways…
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Substock
I’ve decided that everyone who succeeds on Substack is a stock trader, manipulating the “two” “sides” of an issue to gain arbitrage. Questions that can’t be turned into a trade or a bet aren’t discussed much. With a few notable exceptions, the writers who don’t engage in stock crime don’t last. This is historically normal.…
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Layerbilt again
Redoing an item from last month with a better picture. Last year I was genuinely astonished to find that dry batteries are all fake. They aren’t sandwiches of zinc/carbon pairs as I had always imagined; instead they are wrapped packages of 1.5 volt dry cells hooked in series. This is so unutterably WEIRD that I…
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Essential difference
When GetReligion closed in Feb, I missed a favorite reading place on the web. I didn’t recognize, or maybe I didn’t remember, that Religion Unplugged is basically the successor. Warm weather opens my mental pores. Found it again today, and it’s still a good read, with most of the same writers and features. This article…
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Ask and ye shall
Last night, thinking about the satanic “government” of Spokane, which is unfortunately the default in most cities, an odd analogy popped up. When other jobs need to solve a problem and can’t think of the solution, we Google it. More specifically we go to subject area websites like Slack or StackExchange, where people within a…
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A new feature that works!
The warm weather has opened my perception up just a bit, so I’m noticing things that faded into the background before. I was looking at the features available on AOL Mail. I’ve always used inbox, spam, trash, and saved mail, and simply blindspotted the other choices. Today I noticed ‘subscriptions’. Huh? AOL isn’t like Substack.…
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Ice cream
Nice warm evening after a long tired (but blessedly NOT very snowy) winter. The ice cream man is driving around, playing his unidentified song that sounds like Lilly Marlene. His tune has been the same for several years, but apparently less than 10. Around 2013 the ice cream man was playing the required Entertainer Rag.…
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Other way around
Vivek knows how to play the clickbait game, and Ann Coulter does too. Ann claims to agree with Vivek on many points but says that she couldn’t vote for him because he’s Indian. Good clickbait. I’d have trouble voting for Vivek because he’s TOO AMERICAN. He makes a huge point of American exceptionalism, which is…
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This is how to do it.
Pew writes another long detailed article about how people get local news and what they think of it. Turns out my tastes are typical, not unique! Many people use a local Facebook group instead of radio or TV or newspapers, and most people think weather** is the only important and valid part of local coverage.…
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Shannon info!
ZeroHedge mentions that BlackVault had tried to get an FBI file on Bezos’s grandfather, but the file was supposedly deleted. That’s not important. Here’s the important fact. I didn’t know it until now. Jeff’s grandpa was Gise, the founder of DARPA and the grandpa of the HTML internet. The conventional story says that Jeff was…
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