Tag: Equipoise
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Nice symmetry
Powell is no longer entirely alone in turning us back toward a REAL HONEST COUNTRY WITH A REAL HONEST ECONOMY. Peculiarly enough, the Biden administration is taking genuine steps to bring our stuff back from China. Via Reuters, the administration is using the Defense Production Act to spend $50 million on incentives for PC board…
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Make your own holiday day!
Today is Make Your Own Holiday Day! In keeping with multiple narrative levels, Polistra declares BE YOUR OWN BEACON DAY! = = = = = START REHASH: After seeing a picture of the Elgin Observatory and realizing the building still exists, I had to animate it. Because it’s a National Historical Landmark, there’s a document…
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Go all the way
Wesley Smith is complaining about the movement toward “rights” for inanimate things like rivers. He wants to reserve “rights” only for humans. In the first place, “rights” are a recent and destructive invention. God never said anything about “rights”. In all the old scriptures, God talks about duties, not “rights”. In the second place, you’ll…
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Thanks, algo!
Among the social platforms, Medium is especially bad and especially sticky. Good old partial reinforcement. When you start with a good experience, you keep hoping for another one. I started with some good reads by Avi Loeb, and Medium continued to provide about 1 out of 20 interesting pieces. The other 19 were aggressively harmful.…
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Unbash when deserved
I’ve bashed TheFederalist a couple times lately, so I should unbash when unbash is due. In this podcast on the idiotic soap opera of Congress, they get down to HARDASS realism. They recognize that the “political” parts of the federal government, including “elections”, have been completely nonexistent and nonfunctional for several decades, and they also…
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Reprint: Trying a question
Looking at Statcounter for the old blog, noticed several of my semi-regular readers are looking at this item about plant intelligence. I can’t tell if they’re mocking it or discussing it, but it’s definitely one of the better things I’ve written. I was highlighting and extending what Francis Darwin and Dorothea Pertz were saying in…
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Reprint on pay vs value
Linked in previous item, worth a reprint. From 2018. = = = = = START REPRINT: Yet another proposal to counteract big money in politics: At their heart, political campaigns are no different than any other organization: they need to raise revenues and then spend it to meet their objectives. Organizations are responsive to who…
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Never hear the question
Random observation connected to my long-lasting theme on government as a business. Real businesses, at least when seeking profit, try to keep existing customers and bring back missing customers. Now that QT is starting to restore the profit loop, we should see more of this attitude. Even before QT, online businesses routinely detect that I’ve…
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Fill the reader or fulfill the writer?
Both sides are sticking to the peculiar Shared Lie that newspapers are supposed to “hold power accountable” or “speak truth to power”. The two sides have different party-based definitions of which truth and which power, but they’re both essentially wrong. Newspapers were ALWAYS working for one party or for the owner’s business interests. Newspapers are…
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Regret?
As equipoise to previous ‘thankful’ item, here’s a newly formed regret. This week I’ve had a standard common cold. It’s not standard for me! My nose gets annoyed sometimes from dust or allergens, but I haven’t had a proper cold in at least 50 years. I had to google the right way to cough and…
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Both sides should read
This is a 2009 article by Paul Graham. It’s a rare example of real two-way empathy. Most articles about the conflict between creators and managers are strictly from one side. Managers say creators are lazy slobs, designers say managers are cruel villains. I’m purely on the designer side, and this article helped me to understand…
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Done with Substack
I had already passed through the point of not much fun, realizing that I enjoy writing more than reading. The facts and insights from various writers are not Shannon information. For the ‘cancelled’ elites like Dan Rather and Bari Weiss, Substack is just a money-making rest stop on their way back to the Real Establishment.…
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Right for the wrong reasons
Governments are telling us recession is a good thing. Everyone, left and right, is bemoaning and mocking this “hypocrisy”. Truth: Recession is a good thing. The governments are speaking the truth for a multitude of false and evil reasons, but that doesn’t make it false. In culture and technology and economics and individual life, drunken…
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Shkreli has a GOOD idea.
Shkreli has finished his 5 years in prison, and DailyMail has an informative interview. Is he reformed? Hell no. I understand the Shkreli type, and I understand prison, and I predicted correctly that he would be an outstanding mentor to other Bad dudes. From the DailyMail: At the top of his post-prison to-do list is…
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Sharing is meaningless
At least Evolution News isn’t playing the fake surprise game. They acknowledge that the habits of academia are permanent. Scientific progress is being impeded by a culture in which scientists jealously guard their research instead of sharing it. Keas says the problem seems to have gotten worse in recent years but isn’t a new one.…
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