Tag: defensible thymes
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Supercondensed matter
This 1954 promo for the Nutrilite supplement is well produced and typifies a long tradition for MLMs and related scams. Bitcoin follows the same tradition. Both pivot on a false idea of super-condensation. The product is EXTREMELY valuable because it’s EXTREMELY condensed. Condensed products are a wonderful idea, making extended storage and savings possible. Condensed…
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Might work!
Wolf continues covering the bust in office buildings. Among the usual mix of daytraders talking like ticker tapes and partisan politicians, this comment is especially interesting: = = = = = START QUOTE: Converting office space to traditional apartments is very complex, yes. But what about dorm-style living like what we have at colleges? A…
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One huge point
The latest article by Charles Hugh Smith makes one HUGE point that I haven’t heard before. It resonates deeply. The one huge point: AI is winning because the people in charge of making decisions NO LONGER HAVE A QUALITY HUMAN PRODUCT TO COMPARE WITH. The deciders don’t know how shitty the new offshored or AI’d…
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US equivalent of Holy Wells
Kingsnorth’s latest magical Holy Well reminded me instantly of a holy place I knew when I was young. = = = = = START 2016 REPRINT: Spokane’s idiot misgovernment has succumbed to blackmail by the EPA Terrorist Army, and is building a number of Miasmal Swamps. Three of them appeared last month in my neighborhood.…
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Sounds good at first…
This Brownstone article proposes an official health agency devoted to pushing dietary fads. The article starts with one valid point. Since 1920 the medical establishment has ignored basic aspects of health like diet, exercise, confidence, and sunlight, focusing EXCLUSIVELY on adding more pills. Doctors will rarely tell you to eat less and walk more. But…
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That’s not the purpose.
Pointed by Denyse as usual, this article discusses the problem with meta-analysis studies. It says that meta-analyses are designed to combat misinformation but too often do the opposite. No. A meta-analysis may happen to weed out bad studies, and may happen to emphasize bad studies. Either result is irrelevant. The PURPOSE of a meta-analysis is…
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Today is Scouse Day!
Scouse Day is an annual festival in Liverpool. Wikipedia gives a complex list of dubious origins for the word. The one clear fact is that it was originally Lobscouse. My favorite British dictionary from 1867 says: Lobscouse, a dish made of potatoes and meat and biscuits boiled together. The dictionary doesn’t list scouse at all.…
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Obsolete?
Recently I focused on the role of gelatin in printing. Got curious. With all the current fads and “laws” about vegan and GMO and gluten-free, you’d think gelatin had long since been replaced by synthetics. Has it? Nope. Gelatin isn’t a very large part of industry in monetary terms, but it’s steadily GROWING, gaining new…
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Ease and comfort
Previous item about retirement emphasized ‘ease and comfort’, a time when you don’t have to be anywhere or satisfy anyone except yourself. Strikes an immediate resonance. During the “virus” holocaust I was fighting all the time, churning out courseware and graphics, walking every day and making the hellish storetrip twice a week by bus. Now…
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Kimchicillin?
One of my perpetual themes is that research sponsored by real business to solve real problems is ALWAYS better than research done by universities to satisfy government lunacy. The best real research is in agriculture. Today I learned, as they say on Reddit, that Korea has a World Institute of Kimchi. = = = =…
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Witches and trust
Mentioned witches and trust yesterday. Here’s a rehash of a couple earlier items relating to both. = = = = = From 2017, dealing with the RUSSIAN_HACKING witch hunt, now resumed after the hunters satisfied their killing frenzy with the “virus”. = = = = = START REHASH: We have two competing witch-hunts underway. The…
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Captive regulars
Nice self-explanatory picture. A downtown cafe, facing the alley, making no attempt to look attractive to walkbys. The background explains why. Downtowns were full of upstairs apartments and rooms. Most downtown apartments lacked kitchens. Residents used hotplates or simply ate in cafes. This cafe had a captive audience of reliable regulars.
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Good question
Somebody asked on Reddit: Water is the base drink. What’s the base food? Evocative question. My instant answer was barley. Barley grows everywhere, unlike rice and wheat and corn. Most of the answers were broader, including all of those localized grains when turned into some kind of bread. BUT: What about the premise? For most…
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Another IP situation
Here’s another nonstandard copyright situation, in connection with food instead of sewing. An online recipe writer complains about copiers who grab all the credit and money. = = = = = START QUOTE: This wasn’t a case where someone just had a similar recipe or idea — she had three recipes (that I know of,…
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Were most parodies?
Responding to a Substack item about old state songs, I cited my earlier discussion of Okla’s horrible song, which was blessedly replaced by Rogers and Hammerstein. Got me thinking. Were those horrible songs meant as parodies? My father used to sing the song in parodic style, imitating a warbly offkey church soprano. Home on the…
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