Tag: Happy Ending
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Early adaptation
Neat example of handicap adaptation from Motor Age 1922. The Ford T was already closer to all-hand than most cars. Early Ts, and the predecessor model S, were fully footless. The hi/lo/neutral control was a lever instead of a pedal. Only the brake and reverse were pedals, and the brake was always duplicated by the…
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Not worried
Headline at Bari Weiss’s neocon opinion page: The rise of deepfake porn: AI can turn anyone into a porn star without their knowledge. That reality should frighten us all. Well, that’s one AI threat I definitely don’t need to worry about. Guarangoddamnteed.
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Skill vs status
Carver in 1913: Start where you are. Work with what you have. Make something of it. Never give up. Here’s a fable showing what happens when you disobey Carver. Around 1915, Ford’s total mastery of high quantity at low price forced everyone else out of that position. Later, Cadillac’s total ownership of the luxury market…
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Charlie sweeps out the trash
King Charles is starting out strong. He has literally evicted Andrew from all royal palaces and offices and titles and honors. No American politician has ever kicked out an Epstein agent, because “both” “parties” are totally owned by Epstein. All of the recent “presidents” have been openly and proudly associated with the Epstein Blackmail Factory.…
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1933 again? Hope so!
Free money for demons enables demons to kill and torture freely. Free money to corporations enables corporations to focus solely on pleasing the shareholders. QT forces corporations to seek PROFIT, which means they must try to improve their products and improve the life of their workers. Since 2008 all automakers have been producing the same…
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Sanity returns to influencers
During QE, all influencers were “investing” in stupid IPOs and fantastically brainless bitcoin. Now that Powell has stopped the counterfeit, some rich athletes are returning to real capitalism. A brokerage is buying farmland for the influencers and renting it out to farmers. Sharia would approve, and real economics also approves. Unlike Gates and other Gaian…
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Trying again
Trying to talk myself down from Muzzle PTSD yet again. Even the fucking NY Times now acknowledges that self-muzzlers are weird and crazy. The mood of the elites has unquestionably shifted. They’re done. When the NY Times is done, the whole monstrosity is done. The agencies will keep pushing, but so far their pushes are…
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Who invented the earth?
Multiple choice quiz. Who invented the earth? A: God, 4004 BC. B: Random quantum fluctuations evolving atoms and molecules and planets, at a quantum indeterminate date and time. C: Carl August Steinheil, 1837. Correct answer is C. = = = = = Steinheil was a physics prof who got interested in the new sport of…
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Seeing the whole graph
A brief feature on Yahoo Finance shows that the new “alarming” trend toward youngsters staying with parents is not alarming at all. A screencap of the relevant graph: This shows the percent of younger folks 18-29 who are living with parents. The underlying article at Business Insider links to Census data, but the Census website…
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Two cheers for nuclear!
Yahoo Financial interviewed the head of Constellation Energy, which owns several existing nuclear power plants. He is optimistic about the future of nukes, since the omnibus “Inflation” “Reduction” “Act” includes a new tax credit to level the economic playing field for nukes vs fake “renewable” sources. He also (finally) sees some real action in the…
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Three cheers for coal!
Following on Coal vs Ice: Coal is coming back, and New Nazi Torturist magazine hates it. The UK is set to get its first new deep coal mine in three decades after the government approved plans for a project in Cumbria, despite widespread opposition on environmental grounds. The Woodhouse Colliery in Whitehaven will produce about…
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The ice industry, part 5/5
Summing up: The ice trade journals from the ’20s show an industry starting to grasp its decline, and responding in predictable ways. We need better salesmanship, we need to work harder, we need to organize better. By 1933 the decline was heard in radio comedy. An episode of Mirth Parade (not online now) has an…
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Sputnik’s birthday, with a difference
Polistra and friends have been saluting Sputnik’s birthday for many years. This year, for the very first time, we have to salute NASA as well. Until last week NASA served no purpose at all. USA was pretending to compete against Russia’s superior education system and superior work system. We lost the pissing contest forever when…
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Legacies
EnidBuzz posted a ‘memory’ picture of two ladies dressed up in silly style, riding banana bikes to work. Both worked at Sears, and they were doing the annual Crazy Day in 1968. Commenters had positive memories of the ladies and Sears. This one wins: I worked at Sears back in 1976 and knew Lucille, she…
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Ready when needed
It’s always a pleasant surprise when a needed bit of memory pops up after LONG storage. I’m already grumpy from loss of sleep due to the psychopathic thunderstorms last night. Random yellow and red blobs on radar, sometimes missing, sometimes fading, sometimes suddenly growing, and ALWAYS coming from unexpected directions. Every time you think Okay,…
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