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More of the same
Continuing on previous item. This piece from 2019 is closer to the current problem than the techie stuff I reprinted earlier. = = = = = START 2019 REPRINT: Farage’s newly branded party needs to gather a BIG LESSON from what happened to Austria’s nationalist party. An obvious honeytrap sting by fake “Russians”, as always.…
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Same old game
Activists are still throwing fake outrage about new “laws” and “treaties”. This week they’re motivating us to fight the WHO “treaty” which will supposedly enable what happened in 2020. 2020 SHOWED FINALLY AND DEFINITIVELY THAT NO LAW CAN STOP OR ENABLE MONSTERS. If 2020 didn’t teach you, you’re either incurably stupid or playing a game…
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Thanks
We just had a quick ministorm, typical of spring weather here. Two minutes of HEAVY rain, two minutes of moderate rain, and then Thanks, Ma Nature! I’m having a bad week and needed a positive sign. = = = = = The Weather Bureau got a better picture out in the country.
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Good question about food
One substack food writer asks a good question. = = = = = START QUOTE: Is wine an ultra-processed food? Ultra-processed food is generally defined as: Having five or more ingredients Using additives that are not typically used in home cooking Designed for a long shelf life = = = = = END QUOTE. Well,…
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Different jobs
Headline says it all: Harvard will no longer make public statements on political, social issues, administration says Starting to get a teensy bit smart, starting to relearn the Fairness Doctrine. Schools and businesses are NOT politicians. Schools and businesses and politicians have DIFFERENT JOBS. A school is supposed to generate profit by training people. A…
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Geography and language
In language we pin down the consonants, which are really absences of sound. Many writing systems, from Sanskrit to Arabic, write only the consonants. The majority of meaning is carried by the chords of vowel formants, which are shaped by the mostly absent consonants. Consonants are moments when the formant vector changes its direction. In…
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I’d rather
More random pointless thoughts. Before the web, newspapers were divided into Serious Publications and Tabloids. Serious Publications had pictures of Serious Men Doing Serious Things, which was usually a meeting to conjure up a new unjustified war. Tabloids had pictures of pretty girls. The same division happens in the web, with one addition. Serious Publications…
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When tools were tools
Random pointless thought about algorithms and such. A tool is supposed to be a servant, not a master. It’s supposed to be an extension of your muscles and senses, not a battering ram to club you into submission. Before 2010 most of our tools were servants. The most basic tools like clothing and houses adapted…
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Got my wish
A while ago somebody was writing about presidential debates sponsored by the Commission for Presidential debates, or CPD. The writer was complaining that the current candidates weren’t going through CPD. I wrote a “clever” comment: I don’t want CPD debates, I want CBD debates. Force both candidates to eat gummies, then let er rip. You…
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Easy correction
When a demon worries about an event or phenomenon, whether it’s “global warming” or “pandemics” or AI, the demon is really informing us about his plans. Psychopaths blame and frame innocent bystanders. I didn’t imprison and strangle you for two years, some dude named Virus imprisoned and strangled you. I didn’t turn off your electricity…
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Is it cheaper?
Now that I’ve found the Duane Jones book again, I’m reading it again. He was writing in the early 50s when radio and magazines were established but TV was too new to quantify. He was mostly discussing household products sold by radio soap operas and magazine ads. He calculated the advertising cost to acquire one…
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Another rerereprint
Originally from 2010, with a few celebrity names and topical words modernized. = = = = = Three types of knowledge: How, What, Who. All three types are necessary, and everyone uses all three types all the time, but the dominant type strongly influences the form and the success of a culture. = = =…
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Nice to see verification
Lately I’ve managed to pin down the vestibular stuff (probably Menieres) to spring and fall, and then more specifically to convective days. When wind is coming and going, and when popup storms are forming and moving around, the balance and tinnitus and general icky feeling are also moving around. Looking back on the daily journal,…
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Rererereprint
First written in late 2020.. = = = = = Berenson: Now they have frightened us into giving them massive power (I’ve been reading up on the swine flu vaccine fiasco of 1976, when something similar happened)… and we are going to have to figure out how to take it back. = = = =…
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