Tag: Equipoise
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Reciprocity
I’m trying to pull away from places where I’m the Product and stick with places where I’m the Customer. Substack has become a Productifier since it started Notes. Just now I totaled up the subscription payments over the last month, and it came to exactly $100. That’s a lot of money for not much pleasure.…
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Today is Bean Counter Day
The day after the traditional (but not observed) Income Tax Day has been dedicated to accountants and bookkeepers and clerks. Clerks are insultingly called bean-counters by grandiose executives who want to eat all the beans. Following today’s theme, clerks are the internal negative feedback mechanism for predatory capitalists. When the exec wants to LBO the…
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Effective Alltruthism
Demons can be honest now because they own everything. Bill Maher says cheerfully that abortion is murder from a legal perspective, but murder is needed because there are 8 billion people in the world. Psychopaths must be the sole occupant of the universe. All other living things are Negative Externalities to a demon. Maher states…
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Reprint on two-way loyalty
Related to previous item, reprint from 2021. = = = = = The overall pattern, true for everything from land to telephones, has three steps: 1. Feudal relationships came first. A two-way loyalty between the seller and customer, or landlord and tenant. The land or product was in the hands of the customer but owned…
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Reprint on Glial Equipoise
I was reminded of this by something semi-relevant. It’s utterly amazing and worth remembering. = = = = = START REPRINT: While looking for more ancient stuff to animate, found an interesting 1915 book of questions and factoids. The Book of Wonders is something like Ripley or Hix, but more oriented toward serious descriptions of…
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Non-hustly
One longstanding puzzle is why we decided to hate Russia. We started invading and occupying Russia in 1918, gave up during the blessed Lucid Interval, then started again with a vengeance immediately after President Lucid died in 1945. Here’s a clue to our previous attitude, which isn’t exactly warlike but definitely treats Russians as subhuman.…
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Normalcy is a dirty word
Every job worth doing leads to completion. This is how we judge real talents and interests. If you enjoy DOING a task, it’s not necessarily your best talent. If you enjoy COMPLETING a task, you should pursue this path. As I listen to these 1950s industrial films, I’m constantly reminded of the intended COMPLETION of…
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Pay for value works
TIL week. This one is a genuine surprise. In 1916 we BOUGHT the Virgin Islands from DENMARK. We’ve never had any trouble from the Virgin Islands. Pay for value usually works. Stealing territory by armed conquest or Color Revolution never works. I hadn’t thought much about those islands, but if asked I would have guessed…
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Sometimes satisfying
As noted yesterday, justice rarely occurs at all. When it does happen, it’s rarely satisfying. We have to be content that a demon is removed from power, though the style of the removal is wildly annoying. Public drawing and quartering would be enjoyable. Still, sometimes justice is visible. NYC, control center of hell for 400…
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The ledger does balance
I’m frustrated when evil people get punished for the wrong reason. My narrow little bookkeeper soul wants to see Debits and Credits balancing. Along with all the other national leaders except Tanzania and Belarus, Trump committed the biggest crime in history. He will never be punished for his crime. Instead, he is being punished somewhat…
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Well balanced
The Brits have always been masters of balanced mechanisms and balanced circuits. From the British radio magazine Radio Pictorial, 1934. A radio star is posing with the old well at her family farm, pretending to draw some water. Our old wells were unbalanced, just one handle. The British old well was similar to a steam…
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Protos reports that the “banks” who bought up the “assets” of the demonic family offices posing as “banks” are struggling now. = = = = = START QUOTE: Early 2023 was an incredibly difficult time for regional banks in the US — particularly crypto banks. Silicon Valley, First Republic, Signature, Silvergate, and Pacific Western Bank…
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Buy or steal?
When a Deepstater apologizes, he never apologizes for his own crimes. He apologizes for shit that happened a long time ago involving people who died a long time ago. It’s always a frameup, and it’s especially easy when the framees are dead. Old thefts are a prime target of apologies. Euros stealing land from natives…
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Long overdue
College athletics is on the verge of turning honest with union protection. This is WAY overdue. I remember a class project in a college debate class in 1967, where we researched the money aspect of college athletics. The situation was already crystal clear. College athletes were bringing in BIG money for the university and the…
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