Tag: Constants and Variables
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Constants and Variables 169
More from the trust-inducing 2/2/51 news report, which was ordinary mainstream CBS output at the time. This story deserves respectful verbatim transcription. Note the literary level as well as the content…… = = = = = With all the troubles that beset us, and perhaps more to come, this is an inevitable corollary. The AP…
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Unshaving the yak
Following on this year’s yak-shaving…. Now it’s time to unshave. After two weeks of slow patient debugging and detours, using little constant/variable tests to eliminate all of the things that WEREN’T causing the problem, I finally eliminated the one thing that WAS causing the problem. Still not sure why it’s a problem in newer versions…
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Actions, not words
Listened again to Lindsay MacHarrie’s dramatization of the Cardiff Giant story. In 1869 George Hull, a skeptic with plenty of money, was arguing with a pastor about the Giants mentioned in the Bible. Hull hired a sculptor to make a huge gypsum man, carefully aged it, and buried it on his brother-in-law’s farm. Hull got…
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I used to know this
Here’s a fact I recognized a long time ago and then forgot. Antivaxxers are OCD. The Public “Health” demons are also OCD. This explains one peculiar twist in the current fake “debates”. Antivax is a more natural and less contrived outcome of OCD. The provax position was imposed in 2020 by the ALL OR NOTHING…
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Nice comparison
On one side: Saagar and Krystal are making fun of Hillary’s tearful self-pity. Hillary CHARGES to watch her reading and weeping about the horrible country that failed to crown her as Emperor. This bizarre exhibition is called a ‘masterclass’. On the other side: A service dog training house had one of the regular trainers reading…
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Conditions for an experiment
I’ll call this my year-end shit for 2021, since I can’t think of anything remotely positive to say about this year. Even my own production of graphics and writing was low this year. I’m weary and tired. Let’s return to the oldest constant theme of this blog: Social Economics. SocEcon companies treat workers like valuable…
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