Tag: defensible cases
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Materials and Methods
Following on previous item that mentioned the primacy of MATERIALS and METHODS. I’ve hammered this subject repeatedly. Here’s one of the better hammers from 2014. = = = = = START 2014 REPRINT: Reading another stupid “study” on improving nutrition, it struck me that Portion and Serving are extremely peculiar units. They are new instances…
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Proof of the old rule
After working on a project for a while I develop an internal dialect with some new words to resonate with the newly developed skills. This fits my basic rule: Language is encryption, not communication. Like birdcalls, language is MEANT to be private within a family or tribe or workplace or lodge or church. Language is…
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ALL is all.
Time for my occasional salute to good old Kedit. I’ve been using it since 1984, and I’ve tried all the alleged substitutes and replacements. Nothing comes close. My life and work is centered around Kedit, specifically the ALL keyword, which has no equivalent in any other program. I use standard phrases in my daily life…
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Uganda reminds me
Uganda’s monetary defense against our cultural imperialism reminds me of this point. I was exploring this concept in late 2019, just in time to have it in my ‘reserves’ when Deepstate’s 2020 holocaust struck. = = = = = START 2019 REPRINT: Continuing with Del Giudice’s magnificently productive question about mental defensible spaces against pathogens.…
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Fairness Doctrine comes first
I have absolutely no reason to defend ANY politician, let alone Biden. BUT: DailyMail makes some unfair evaluations of his performance in today’s interview. Assuming their transcripts are accurate: (1) They say Biden claimed to be the inventor of the computer chip. He supposedly said: “We used to have 40 percent of computer chips. We…
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From fences to commons
When computing changed from the Private Property model of the separate PC to the Deepstate Property model of web-based apps, tyrants won the battle for our memory. Brendan Eich played a major part in this loss when he designed Javascript for use by tyrants. Let’s follow the long trail of long term memory vs no…
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Extending again
In previous item: Every real experience has non-verbal cultural factors that can’t be acquired through books or Google. This meshes with my assertion that secrecy is the default. Secrecy in this form is not enforced by government rules and censors; it arises from the natural barrier around the culture and experience of a group. The…
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Another stepback
Another example of stepping back to the higher-level question. One of the Things I Learned From Others was this clarifier by Dick Morris in the ’90s. Political messages are NOT aimed at voters. They’re aimed at donors or other politicians. When we see absurd crap floating around the media and ask Do they really think…
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Gaian grammar
Religion Unplugged, the successor to GetReligion, constantly beats the drum for “climate emergency”. It’s a good reminder that “global warming” was a Christian scam before it was coopted by CIA and turned into a secular religion. One aspect remains constant. Apocalyptic Christians always miss the meaning of prophecy. A prophet is telling us what WILL…
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Continuing on grammar…
Continuing from grammar and utility. Before the holocaust I was exploring this subject in detail, noticing that languages without noun cases correlated strongly with Sorosian destruction. The holocaust derailed me; maybe I can get back on track. In yesterday’s piece I mentioned but didn’t emphasize the TWO-WAY OBLIGATIONS, which are the key to real civilization.…
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Reprint on utility and grammar
Reprint from 2021, just because I want to bring it back to the foreground. = = = = = START REPRINT: MindMatters tries to separate out human language from animal communication: Believers in human non-exclusivity do not appear to be especially picky about what counts as evidence for their views. For example, here’s a research…
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Reprint on grammar and skill
Reprint from 2021, relevant to the Altman AI monstrosity. = = = = = START REPRINT: MindMatters tries to separate out human language from animal communication: Believers in human non-exclusivity do not appear to be especially picky about what counts as evidence for their views. For example, here’s a research finding that is supposed to…
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Phats?
Reading an 1891 Inland Printer, noticed an odd modern word in a report of conditions in KC: = = = = = START INLAND PRINTER: The past few months have witnessed the lowest depression in all branches of the printing business ever known in this city. Retrenchment has been the universal cry and practice among…
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Today is & day!
Time to reprint the genuine history of the symbol, which doesn’t match the standard etymology. = = = = = START REPRINT: I’ve always been bothered by the bizarre-sounding etymology of Ampersand. The symbol itself is no mystery: just a stylized version of et. But the usual etymology for the name doesn’t make a lick…
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What happened? China.
As I’m expanding my daily walks to include some blocks I haven’t seen in several years, and some I never walked before, I’m noticing one systematic change. 10 years ago many houses in the neighborhood had wall-mounted air conditioners. This was a bit of a fad in the ’50s, and it was necessary on the…
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