Tag: Constants and Variables
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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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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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