Tag: Constants and Variables
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So that’s what it was about…
I’ve been puzzled by the intense email spam from the California election between Adam Schiff and Katie Porter. I’m nowhere near California and neither side seemed to need money. Why were they filling my inbox? Turns out Porter’s complaints about stolen elections were true. All elections are stolen, but this one was manipulated in an…
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Demonic constant, fake variable
Oregon is recriminalizing hard drugs after decriminalizing for three years. This is a good move but as always with legislatures it’s a fake move. Constants and variables! Fentanyl is a city-ending plague EVERYWHERE, not just where drugs are decriminalized. Every city has the same genocide. Portland is no worse than Philly or Spokane or NYC.…
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CathGPT
I’m working up a tech history piece on the 1611 telescopes of Christoph Scheiner, who bridged the gap between alidades and lenses. I felt the need to reconnect with the beacons of the universe lately, and Maragha is where the beacons are found. Ran across this piece in a 1902 history of astronomy by Agnes…
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Mockery is the controller
I’ve learned one big thing over the years, especially in the last decade when I’ve been running tech history pieces, looking up information in obscure journals and books, OUTSIDE the standard media and school sources. EVERYTHING in the usual media and history books is false. EVERY FACT we learned in school is demonstrably false, by…
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Flat wrong.
From EvoNews: = = = = = START QUOTE: The advancement of science is one of mankind’s greatest triumphs. And who could be against it? Deploying the raw power of rational analysis, science exponentially increases our understanding of the natural world and leads to wonderous applications to improve the human condition. = = = =…
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Not the main variable
Several articles this week are focusing on the fentanyl problem in Portland, blaming it on Oregon’s legalizing of all drugs. Decriminalizing might be part of the problem, but the same problem is equally bad or worse in states that haven’t decriminalized. I suppose the law change makes it a bit harder to jail the dealers…
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Isn’t that fraud?
The latest weird spam from the Trump campaign asks if I’d like to be Trump’s VP. Isn’t that outright fraud? Making a job offer that is known to be false? Well, I guess it isn’t weird. Everything Trump does is outright fraud, so a non-fraudulent action would be weird.
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UAW loses
Shawn Fain, after a year of splendid leadership against the corporate monsters, sacrifices it all by endorsing one of the corporate monsters. Betrayal breaks trust. Everyone in a position of power is a betrayer now. In a less dramatic sense, smart independent power-seekers understand that you lose your magic when you endorse a party or…
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No eagers
O’Keefe pulls off an undercover “Tinder date” with a dude who heads Cybersecurity for two major government departments. Of course the official doesn’t reveal any significant Shannon information. Deepstate never reveals anything that isn’t already common knowledge. In this interview, similar to O’Keefe’s older interviews with media insiders, the insider DOES reveal that he isn’t…
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Wrong variable
Headline: Facebook and Instagram Allegedly Hook Youngsters with Dopamine Triggering Tactics That’s a constant, not a variable. Every successful business tries to hook customers by manipulating pleasure vs pain. The variable is what the product does after you’re hooked. If the product is food or clothing or furniture or harmless sensory experiences like chewing gum…
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Stoller grasps Gosbank
Matt Stoller is getting close to the Gosbank solution. He’s discussing Boeing, with a complete and accurate history. He concludes that the government needs to BUY Boeing and redistribute its production to benefit American workers instead of American shareholders. On the dot. In the Soviet system the government provided the FINANCE and also made the…
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New thought about the comparison
I’ve often observed the Constant of Russia and the Variable of Communism. From 1948 to 1989 we hated Russia because it was COMMUNIST AGGRESSION. Then we loved Russia for a few years after our Color Revolution installed Yeltsin as Our SOB. When Yeltsin handed power to Putin, Russia was no longer our colony. Soon we…
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Always the bait-n-switch
Pieces by journalists trying to fix journalism always fail. Right in the middle of pretending to avoid Machiavelli and avoid fake divisions, they spill their true side, which is always the same side. This piece by Amanda Ripley gets off to a great start, listing all the sins of fake dividers and counseling how to…
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Why lawyers?
Thinking about those lawyers who write on Quora. Why do I appreciate them? Because they’re OBJECTIVE. Other professions sometimes write ‘out of character’, but other professions never manage the same degree of objectivity. Academics never bash tenure outside the ivied walls**. Politicians never reveal real secrets. Journalists never tell the truth about the permanent idiocy…
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