Tag: Carver
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Materials and Methods
Following on previous item that mentioned the primacy of MATERIALS and METHODS. I’ve hammered this subject repeatedly. Here’s one of the better hammers from 2014. = = = = = START 2014 REPRINT: Reading another stupid “study” on improving nutrition, it struck me that Portion and Serving are extremely peculiar units. They are new instances…
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Stop, goddamnit.
A long time ago I got tired of people saying We must hold ____ accountable! If you were honest you’d admit that we have NO WAY of holding accountable. No matter how many activists we organize, NOBODY will ever be held accountable. You’re not the Accounts Receivable department. Elon is Accounts Receivable. Larry Fink is…
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Math teacher’s joke
Seen on Quora. A math teacher met one of his former students in a parking lot. The student parked his Lamborghini next to the teacher’s old Chevy. The surprised teacher said to him: “How can you own a car like that? You were a lousy student.” The ex-student replied: “You see this office building? I…
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Work, not logic
Perfect example of the standard “conservative” and Catholic stupidity about education. “Kids should be taught basic epistemology and logic in primary school before they get access to the Internet”. Precisely wrong. Tyrants LOVE logic and philosophy. The JOB of philosophy is to help tyrants lie and kill. Logic happily defends all sorts of destructive shit.…
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Instead of messaging…
Continuing from previous item on persuasion. I’m talking to the Democrat party now. You don’t need to persuade or message better. You don’t need to find a Blair or Clinton “third way”. The “third way” is exactly why you’re losing now. You only need to COPY your own best president. COPY the only president who…
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Ford and Carver!
Two of my favorite people worked together. I’ve read about Ford’s attempt to make car bodies out of soybean-derived plastic. I’ve seen pictures of Henry demonstrating the strength of a plastic trunk lid on an otherwise normal ’40 Ford. I’ve never seen this unique modernistic car before! Ford commissioned Carver to develop the chemical process…
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Black IOOF history
This is even more interesting than the white IOOF. Black lodges started in NYC in 1843, twenty years after the white lodges. From the Official History of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, published 1893. I’m including an unusually long quote because it’s powerful and important history. = = = = = START QUOTE:…
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How to regain trust
Elites periodically engage in fake superficial gestures toward reform. Right now, predictably, we’re seeing a few of these fakes. An editorial in “Nature” magazine shows the fakeness. Science must regain trust by fighting the people who distrust it. = = = = = START QUOTE: Make no mistake, the political assaults on science stem largely…
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Platonism
Saw this letter to the editor in New “Scientist”. = = = = = START QUOTE: Research has shown that if you show two dogs an unequal treat, they know and react with anxiety. So isn’t basic morality hardwired in some species? Wouldn’t we be one of these? As soon as we appreciate quantity, we…
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Perfection
This podcast by Gallup is PERFECT. They’re discussing the sins and virtues of media, both traditional and social. They get EVERYTHING right. They grasp the vast sins of the media, and they grasp the needs and desires of real people. They don’t softpedal or downplay anything. They don’t pretend that media used to be better.…
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Accuracy isn’t enough
Somebody cited this quote from physicist Feynmann: “We would always like to present things accurately, or at least precisely enough that they will not have to be changed when we learn more.” Precise and accurate are distinct words in metrology, but this still isn’t enough. When we learn more we change our assumptions about what…
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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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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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From impressed to unimpressed
After being impressed by the learning abilities of the prosecution and judge in the Craig Wright case, I made the mistake of reading some “independent” “journalists”. Highly unimpressed as always. I keep stupidly hoping that one of them will eventually show a grasp of reality and history, and they continue to disappoint. They constantly throw…
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