Tag: asked and worth asking again
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Great phrase, why isn’t it used?
This show from Canadian TV features a carousel scheme designed to evade taxes by passing purchases around a circle of temporary fake companies. The purchases in this case were packets of “telecom minutes”. Carousel scheme is a wonderfully descriptive phrase but for some reason it hasn’t spread. Google leads only to this specific scheme, not…
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Same arrangement!
Still trying to find pictures of my St Joe Folly House, I bought a little book assembled by the Museum Hill Historical Society. It doesn’t include THE house, but it does include this one with a tantalizingly similar secret tunnel. Transcribing: An enormous secret tunnel that once led to the Nunning Brewery can still be…
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Cornering?
I haven’t seen a verifiable human read here in a couple weeks, and no repeated human reads in at least a year. The AI bots continue swarming at times, always holding two years back from current content. This is clearly a rule, noticed by other observers. It’s certainly not part of copyright law. Altman doesn’t…
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No alarm, no opportunity
Google Books is shutting down, or at least no longer available to the public. They’re telling users to “create a library” so we can continue using the books in our “library”. This is absurd. I always downloaded the books I found useful. Now I have them in my computer. Why would I want to keep…
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Unnecessary offshoring
A few years ago I started eating okra again. It was familiar and loved in Oklahoma, and I still love it. The frozen okra in Safeway comes from China! Why not from Dixie where it’s a common crop? I guess Dixie is still under a complete sanction and blockade. Our insane grudges never go away.…
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Error bar and tense
My reading at Substack has pretty much reduced to one writer, Del Mastro. I was reading him before he moved to Substack, and he’s still worth reading. Today’s article observes that we tend to view short increments of time or distance as “within tolerance” or “within NOW”. An activity that takes a few more minutes…
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They knew it all along.
This 1940 Chevy infomercial focused on facts of human nature as described by Professor Laird (who certainly looked like a prof!) Anxiety and tension come from three main causes: Noise or anticipating noise; fear of losing control; and a sense of being confined or trapped. All are natural and necessary. Prof Laird also gave the…
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Might be a good idea
Seems like a good idea at the moment: Last month I wrote about an eye-opening History Today article on the 1700 Industrial Revolution. The author showed with numbers that England didn’t become MORE industrial during those centuries. What expanded was the financial sector. England offshored its food and concentrated more on banking. The FORM of…
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Naive?
Polls missed again and they’re pretending to reform again. They didn’t see that Zohran could win. In the big picture polls don’t really matter much. The “election” matters to some extent, at least until Deepstate finds a way to overturn it or blackmail the rebel into submission. Or until the rebel turns out to be…
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The other Charles
I’ve never understood the appeal of spaceflight and ETs. Sciencey nerds are supposed to be fascinated by planets and stars and endless space. Nope. Give me creeks and houses and streets and people. I’d rather look about me, take hold of the things that are here, talk to them and let them talk to me.…
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What would it be like?
This 1959 union film focused on plumbers and pipefitters who were training to build the pipes for nuclear reactors. Atomic power was the clean future, the reliable source of non-polluting electricity. The National Assn of Manufacturers films from that era shared the atomic dream, with more emphasis on profits and less on wages. The shared…
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Fits the pattern
Quick thought, might be invalid. For a long time I’ve noticed that the Wokies are correct about lots of basic concepts. First and most powerfully, LIVED EXPERIENCE makes better learning than memorizing theories. This has been my guiding passion for many years. Second, the older cultures, including the old Americans and most Africans, know how…
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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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Unusually good question
Somebody on substack asked a sharp question. Would a new draft start a civil war? Normally I ignore threats of a civil war. Side R expects Side D to start a civil war and vice versa. This specific question might be valid. Our warmakers have been able to run wild since 1975 because there’s no…
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Weird injustice
With the Epstein list scheduled to emerge today, media are speculating on the contents. Most of the names are already known and some are apparently incidental, so as usual this “revelation” won’t reveal. Deepstate never reveals anything that isn’t already known. Media coverage of Epstein has always intentionally missed the purpose of his operation. Everyone…
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