Tag: Constants and Variables
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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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The constant
Still thinking about the two-sided failure of marketing this year. The constant on both sides is the culture war. Bud lost its main audience when it focused on culture from the tranny “left”. Repooflicans lost their working-class audience when they focused on culture from the effete elegant Buckleyan “right”, which is precisely identical to the…
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Leaning in, steering in
Substack is “leaning into politics” by hiring a political coordinator who worked at CNN and WaPo. Not auspicious. One basic rule runs deeper than all the current idiocies and monstrosities. Big corporations MUST conform to the whims of the ruler if they want to function and grow even bigger. Big media needs lawyers, loans and…
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Breaking a taboo
In this clip Vivek is discussing bitcoin with an old friend, not a random interviewer. His casual demeanor is appropriate for the situation. (Normally Vivek is fully suited up.) What Vivek is SAYING is orthodox techie talk, not unusual. What he’s DOING is more interesting. He’s drawing diagrams and using them to illustrate his points.…
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