Tag: Constants and Variables
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Weird and dumb
This editorial in Military.com expresses the will of the demons. It’s written by a monster who believes (or pretends to believe) all of Satan’s lies. Nevertheless, it says that the military side of Deepstate is planning a peculiar sort of part-time draft. This paragraph is simply true: = = = = = START QUOTE: While…
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Zenith + Wallace, part 3 of 3.
Simplify, simplify, simplify. Wincharger focused my thinking on balancing natural forces with natural forces, using reactance instead of resistance. This leads to three separate Simplifies. The first is impractical, the other two are eminently practical. = = = = = Simplify #1: Farm generators ranged from 6v to 32v, always DC. Modern solid-state equipment, including…
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Restoration, not revolution
The Federalist folks are discussing the Trump indictments. They’re not exactly Trump fans, but they do treat this mess as an unfair prosecution, a use of “legal” techniques to accomplish a purpose that should be done politically. And there’s the real problem. WE CAN’T REMOVE A LEADER POLITICALLY. IT’S PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. Impeachment was a terrible…
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When didn’t it matter?
Rob Lowe’s latest piece takes the long way around to plead for less fussiness by the unions. I think. During the long trip he makes a point that seems automatic but maybe isn’t. He’s talking about what entertainers call continuity, the small details that some people notice immediately but most people don’t see at all.…
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Why did Endicott fail?
MindMatters reviews some newer research on brainwave resonance. This line of research is ‘controversial’ but seems pretty solid now thanks to MRI. The rule is: When intelligent critters are working ‘in sync’, whether in mating or hive activities, their brain waves are literally in sync. Telepathy unquestionably happens in some circumstances. Russian and American scientists…
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What’s wrong with Frank?
Hersh interviews Thomas Frank. They accurately describe the well-known realignment of D and R. In 1932 D became the HONEST voice of the working class and remained there as long as FDR breathed. Now both represent the plutocrats, with varying forms of dishonesty. D pretends to be about hippie shit. Before 2016, R was openly…
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Two maps
Unz has mostly descended into tiresome eugenics and outdated racial stereotypes. It still manages to include a smart piece once in a while. Mike Whitney makes a highly unorthodox and thus true point about China, using just one pair of maps. = = = = = START QUOTE: You see the development of a high-speed…
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Why only v’
Listening to the Strange as it seems episode on the origin of the Star-spangled Banner. The characters are singing the song as it first appeared in a Baltimore paper, and their father tells them it’s not new at all. He then sings Anacreon in Heav’n and orders his daughters to stop singing an old bawdy…
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Graphing the era
Elaine Low at the Ankler is discussing the modern absolute dependence on SHARE VALUE in connection with the writers strike. = = = = = START QUOTE: Broadly, the sense is that the town cares what investors and bankers think far more than it did over 15 years ago, the last time the writers put…
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Silly chemicals
The latest OCD craze is “atrazine makes you gay”. Apparently RFK is pushing this one. I don’t know what Atrazine is. You don’t need any details to dismiss ALL these trace chemicals. Water supplies have an infinite variety of trace chemicals, different from city to city and day to day. We only test for a…
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Two inflection points
Ryan Burge discusses the shifting correlation between party and religion. One of his graphs agrees with what I’ve seen. ‘The Partisanship of White Christians’ shows a flat line until 1980, when Christians abruptly turned Repooflican. I saw this change close up. Lee Atwater converted Christians from Americans to Israelis. Former hippies were suddenly Reaganites because…
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Vague observation on usefulness
My courseware work is sort of half-time by average. 1. I put in roughly one year of fulltime work on a new version. 2. Then I sit back and let the royalties roll in for one or sometimes two years. This provides a constants/variables observation for my feelings when actually working and completing stuff versus…
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When Harry met Seagully
It’s well known that dogs want to eat what their human friends eat. Dogs get confused and frustrated when offered a human favorite food that tastes awful to the dog, like lemons. What about non-domesticated animals like seagulls, who enjoy stealing human food? Are they influenced by our favorites? A British study says yes, and…
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C and V
Liel Leibovitz writes a wonderful exercise in Constants and Variables. RFK appeared on Jon Stewart’s TV show in 2005 and said the same thing he’s saying now. Stewart had a civilized and well-informed conversation on the subject. Now, of course, all discussion on all scientific topics is Leibovitz goes into the forgotten details of the…
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One advance
This 1950 episode of Hollywood Byline is in my bedtime OTR playlist. It happened to be playing when I woke up after a much-needed heavy sleep. The guest in this episode was Celeste Holm, and the discussion at the moment of waking was postwar economics in Hollywood. In the sleep/wake transition state, I thought it…
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