Tag: Constants and Constants
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Color revolution or opportunity?
The hippie movement of the 60s hated profit. In the 70s the stock criminals took over. They also hate profit, and destroy businesses that dare to make a profit. The Tech Tyrants smoothly morphed out of the hippies, and started in the same Frisco. Modern “leftists” continue to hate profit, which continues to make it…
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Common sense from courts
Bitcoin fraudsters always pretend their schemes are decentralized and uncontrolled. Two different courts applied common sense to this criminality. = = = = = First, Coinbase is trying to argue that DeFi networks are simply a form of speech, since they don’t have a central controller, so they don’t need to register as securities. Courts…
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Not new!
People are constantly complaining that nobody reads books any more. Da Yoots are stuck to their screens, and only the ancient geezers read books. In the old days everybody read books! Nope. Vintage.es has some London street scenes from the 1960s, focusing on street book vendors. They were well-equipped, with customized trailers and carts full…
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Interesting!
This is INTERESTING from a Speech & Hearing viewpoint! RFK’s relatives are disowning him, which isn’t surprising. In this clip one of his sisters is interviewed, and she has EXACTLY THE SAME spasmodic dysphonia! Normally it’s acquired through stress or ‘unknown origin’, but this must be genetic. = = = = = The Rising hosts,…
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Astrology again
Beautiful example of astrology proved by the daily journal. This week I’m having lots of sudden panic attacks. The external reason is real enough. At the end of June a hard session in the dentist chair left the neck and shoulders tensed up, causing enhanced balance problems. Vestibular crap often triggers panic. Then a week…
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Bootleggers and Baptists
Europe continues buying oil and gas from Russia while pretending to obey our monstrous sanctions. Euro countries are simply buying the stuff from India and China, adding a middleman profit. Russia still gets paid the same, while Europe pays more to keep the lights on. Sanctions NEVER harm the target government. Sanctions ALWAYS harm the…
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Transformed
Substack Notes started as a copy of Twitter. Now it has become a precise mirror image of Reddit. Both consist mainly of horrible can’t-unsee-it pictures atop blindly partisan insults related to This Week’s One Official Topic. Only difference: Reddit takes the D side and Substack takes the R side. This week’s One Official Topic is…
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Perfect repetition
I’m infinitely tired of “conservatives” calling China communist. China is just Chinese. In terms of ideology, China is mercantilist, not communist. China is EXACTLY REPEATING what Britain did in the 1800s. Britain was the world’s factory, sweatshopping millions of peasants for low wages. Britain colonized tropical countries for resources, letting the countries run their own…
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Critical Thinking
The people who urge Critical Thinking rarely mean it. (There are some genuine exceptions.) Good example today. Jordan Schachtel worked HARD against what Trump did. He filed lawsuits and led movements. A year ago he decided to work hard FOR Trump. Today he posts that we need more Critical Thinking. Admittedly the subject of this…
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The only decider
Vance’s speech is great. Hits all the points correctly. I’ve learned to ignore words and listen to what HAPPENS when one man or party is in power. Trump also gave great speeches in 2016. When he got power he joined the Bush regime, enriched the rich INFINITELY, and imprisoned and killed and gagged the poor,…
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Normal stage
MindMatters notes a splitup in Satan Altman’s company. Several top execs are leaving all at once. There’s no point in speculating about the detailed reasons for the split, which is a typical stage in a fast-growing company with a fanatical founder. At some point the fanatical founder needs to PURIFY his execs, and the less…
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Verifying a recommendation
Just reinforcing a recommendation. Yasuko’s gluteus technique for relieving lower back pain continues to work. I’ve tried it three times now and it worked every time. Too often I jump to conclusions about post-hoc “methods” that work once but fail on the second try, which means they’re just correlations. After three successful tries, I’m confident…
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Another old pattern
A long time ago I observed a pattern among blogs. Announcing a big start usually leads to nothing much. Announcing a dramatic Goodbye usually leads to continued work. Real productive action starts abruptly without any Hello and stops suddenly without any Goodbye. Now I’m seeing the same thing in Substack, at least on the starting…
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Goddamn right.
Goddamn right. Good work by Jeffrey Funk. On the dot in every way. It’s refreshing to see a “conservative” writer who states accurately why universities are permanently useless. Most “conservatives” start with the bizarre delusional myth that universities were meant to be havens of “open debate” and “critical thinking”, but were ruined by Current President…
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Logging the experiment
Along with internal worklogs, keeping a blog with tags is a valuable way of tracking the experiment of life. Just now I added the bitcoin tag to an item about Sammy, then looked at the bottom of the blog where BITCOIN is by far the largest tag. I don’t FEEL like I’m obsessed with bitcoin,…
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