Tag: Desistance
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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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Ran across this
THEY KNOW IT’S A HOAX BECAUSE THEY MADE THE HOAX … has been true for centuries. Machiavelli and Parkinson exposed it, and nothing changed. While looking for something else I ran across this 1960 letter from Theodore White. He deserves RAW VICIOUS CONTEMPT because he knew the whole thing was a fucking fraud and CONTINUED […]
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Deeper itch
After randomly mentioning Tablet Magazine and Kirn yesterday, I ended up watching this long and splendid interview again. Kirn and Liel Leibovitz are talking to young elites who are just now realizing they’ve been swindled by their own leaders. The solution is to fuck the Establishment and find your own way. Kirn’s praise for the […]
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Aside from personal feelings…
Putin has decided to retake Ukraine in a dramatic way. If he had done this before 2020, I would have been disappointed and disgusted at the way he’s doing it. But two years ago Putin joined the “virus” holocaust, and I gave up on him at that point. He’s indistinguishable from Trump or Biden or […]
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Cui bono? Non-combatants.
I went to sleep listening to those 1940 news broadcasts, when US was trying to benefit from neutrality without getting involved in the war. Woke up after only two hours, with a bad dream about being pursued by two sides. Then the next item in the playlist was this episode of Calling All Detectives, where […]
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