Tag: Constants and Variables
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Not surprising
Another item from Eurekalert. Careful experiments show that the often-repeated blue light keeps you awake claim is not a correlation. I’m not surprised. Blaming the physical characteristics of the technology is an INTENTIONAL DISPLACEMENT. It’s a frame-up. McLuhan misunderstood television in a similar way. He thought the dots in the picture caused TV to be…
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Wrong variable
Still in pointless rant mode. Tired of fake outrage and fake surprise over government spying on its citizens, and “warrantless” wiretaps. First: All governments spy on their citizens. Knowing what the people are doing and thinking is a necessary INPUT to government. Feedback loops are necessary for any functional machine. This input used to be…
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Nature’s electrotyping
Pointed by Denyse as always, an interesting speculation about horizontal gene transfer. The researchers are NOT saying this process happens in Nature, only that an experiment shows it CAN happen. = = = = = START QUOTE: Electroporation uses an electric field to create temporary pores in the cell membrane. This lets molecules, like DNA…
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Off by a hundred years, idiot.
Useless Idiot Taibbi continues to trumpet new “leaks” generously provided to him by Deepstate so he can serve them more effectively. = = = = = START IDIOT: Now, a large trove of new documents, including strategy documents, training videos, presentations, and internal messages, reveal that, in 2019, US and UK military and intelligence contractors…
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Is it prosody or epigenes?
This is interesting. Newborns respond preferentially to stories in the ‘mother tongue’ before they’ve had a chance to hear much talking through air conduction. Were they picking up intonations and prosody through the liquids in the womb? Or is the familiarity imparted through epigenes? The former possibility could be checked by using different languages with…
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Who rejects Google?
This map seen at Reddit is informative. It shows all the streets covered by GoogleStreets, condensed onto a world map. In most of the world the streets are where the people are. Northern Canada, northern Russia, inner Australia, and the Amazon region are blank because no cities or roads are there. Some entire countries are…
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Greenwald at his best
Greenwald gets distracted sometimes, but at his best he’s unbeatable. Nobody else can write such a precise sustained rigorous attack on modern lunacy. In this clip he’s discussing the endless phasein and phaseout of crazy wars. Eastasia/Eurasia/Eastasia/Eurasia. The flips happen instantly, and all previous propaganda turns seamlessly upside down to make way for the new…
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Wise woman
In this clip Yasuko is showing a ‘hand reflexology’ trick for slowing down anger. Those indirect pressure points don’t work for me, but her basic advice about anger is deeply and eternally wise, and also good science. = = = = = START YASUKO QUOTE: It looks and feels like people are getting snappier as…
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Constants and Variables on Sammy
The last day of action in Sammy’s trial brought out a set of facts that haven’t been discussed before. Why did Sammy choose to operate in the Bahamas? Because he bribed the Bahamian government. Constant: We can be sure Sammy also tried to bribe US and NY regulators. He always cheats and bribes. That’s his…
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Still good advice
Continuing on the value of condensation. From an 1899 book Making a Country Newspaper: = = = = = START QUOTE: Newspaper English to be good must be simple and concise. Clearness and brevity of statement are all-important. This does not imply that the narrative should be limited to a few facts. On the other…
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Clarifier
Randomly noticed a question/answer on Quora that clarifies a lot of things. The writer was not intending to clarify, but nevertheless his semantic point removes a lot of blinders. The point as stated: Zionism is just Jewish nationalism. We don’t give special names to other nationalisms because we don’t argue about them. The fact in…
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Another trust restorer
Sailer points to a university president who has learned the Bud Light lesson. When you’re running a business or a college or a government, your SOLE goal is serving your employees and customers. The business or college or government has specific well-defined products. Beer or research or safe neighborhoods. As long as you work SOLELY…
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What for?
Tara Henley, former CBC reporter who turned independent, interviews Eric Kaufmann. He’s trying to set up a School of Heterodox Social Science within an existing British college. He offers a balanced and rational approach to the whole mess of Cancel and Woke and such, recognizing that censorship and orthodoxy are permanent in academia. As I…
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Two errors at once
Watching the “independents” fall into line with the warmongers like passive iron filings under a strong magnet. Influencers and marketers lose both influence and quality when they stray from their specialty. Bud Light is an error on the consumer side. A specialist in beer loses customers when it strays into gender politics. A specialist in…
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What we lost part 99999999
Demons and Cadillacs don’t have a reverse gear. Demons only back up under external force, jumpy and tectonic in nature, like shoving a Cadillac backwards with a bulldozer. It’s worth noticing when demons are forced to skid backwards. A couple days ago Canada’s parliament gave a standing ovation to a 98-year-old ACTUAL LITERAL NAZI, a…
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