Tag: Desistance
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Sure enough
I’ve wisely avoided paying attention to beer since I stopped drinking in 1990. Today, just for curiosity, I walked down the beer aisle in Safeway. Sure enough, most brands are half taken, while Bud Light is untouched. Last week I noticed one of the few Bud buyers, who is precisely the exception that proves the…
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Barkott
Dog logic: I bark at the stranger walking by, and he stops being a threat. Therefore my barking drove him away. Human logic: I boycott the woke corporation and it stops being woke. Therefore my boycott drove the woke away. In fact the walker was going to continue walking past the property, and the woker…
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Don’t be there
Trannies continue entering and “winning” all sorts of events, and the honest competitors keep complaining. Bitching won’t do any good. You’ll only get canceled. Why don’t they just quietly walk out when a known cheater enters? This applies to steroid users and corner-cutters in marathons as well as trannies. As soon as a known cheater…
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WTF is he thinking 2
Continuing from here. I didn’t waste time listening to the DeSantis announcement. Reading about it is bad enough. He’s doubling down on strategic stupidity by trying to beat Trump at the nastiness game. WRONG BRAND! Trump is the literal killer app of blackmail and filthiness, trained by Roy Cohn. You shouldn’t get into the nasty…
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Dove stops the itch
Latest from Kirn: None of the myriad products being boycotted now are products I buy anyway. It’s as though I knew something, but I wonder what it was. Avoid all goods that are heavily advertised? I suppose it was this. Yup. I feel the same itch. Living a simple life means (1) I don’t buy…
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Incurable idiots
In the last 50 years both “parties” had dozens of ideal opportunities to stop making problems and start solving problems. Every single time they refused. Even when the problems are ALREADY BEING SOLVED, the Repooflicans still can’t figure out how to ALLOW THE SOLUTION. They’re digging in on the ‘culture war’, calling it the most…
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EA fable
Interesting dream this morning. I was working with a Balaji type. He was talking fast, in long sentences with lots of NUMBERS. He was building fences all over the world, trying to cell off all the humans so they would die and he would be the only survivor. I tried to tell him that he…
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The ZERO PROBLEMS era
Listening to Kim Iversen discussing China’s long patient war against USA, I suddenly realized that China didn’t start this war. I’ve been writing about the front end of this sequence for a long time, but didn’t connect the two ends as question and answer. In 1946 we stopped minding our own business and resumed minding…
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Two solvers
We have exactly two problem-solvers in the world of politics and power. All the rest are demonic problem-generators or passive helpers for the demons. The first problem-solver is DeSantis in Florida. He is clearly following FDR’s model. Ignore ideology, forget standard sayings and standard tactics. Just fix what’s broken. He’s also explaining his actions clearly…
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Reprint on cultural dominance
Linked this 2017 piece in previous item. Worth a reprint if only because it’s smarter than anything I can write now. = = = = = START REPRINT: A couple days ago I tossed in a techy sidenote on UNARY VARIABLES, just as a random pointless pun: ANTI-WAR is the key. Left and right, liberal…
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More Zirn Zibbles
Kirn is praising the Beats again: All the worst bland utopian conformist “scientific” aspects of 1950s culture which the Beat writers eloquently reviled and Hollywood and popular music then spent decades satirizing are present again today at stultifying levels. But where are the peers of those writers? Absent. More than a quibble again. The premise…
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More Xirn Xibbles
Kirn is making a strong point here, but I can still find a way to quibble! Note to my bumptious unorthodox younger friends: Lots of tricky “honey pots” on this site right now meant to draw you by degrees into anti-whomever grunting neo-primitivism so you can go on a big list to be used against…
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Giant waste of talent
There’s an interesting desistance movement in videogaming. Influencers are ganging up on game companies that specialize in addictive gambling with REAL MONEY. At the moment the worst offender is Diablo Immortal. The influencers, who have been playing the game intensively, have figured out all the super-complex steps needed to … win? Well, it’s not really…
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Best card-counting strategy
MindMatters hosts Sal Cordova for a second podcast. This one includes details of card-counting systems used in blackjack. The systems require considerable skill and give you at most a 1% advantage over the house. If you can maintain a 1% advantage and control your betting, you can compound a pretty good pile in one night.…
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No quibbles at all
Kirn hits the mark precisely this time. One clever way to fight the power is to get onboard in a totally inert way with absolutely everything it does, to comply unenthusiastically with every last little dictate, forcing the system to carry your dead weight in full, along with everyone else’s. This is the ONLY way…
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