Tag: jail mode
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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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Makes up for the silliness
Compact Mag publishes some silly or counterproductive stuff. It also publishes some hugely valuable REALISTIC coverage of important things and places. This article on Bukele has a silly-sounding headline but turns out to be a REALISTIC history of a long-suffering nation that our media ignore. The history reveals why our media ignore it. El Salvador…
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Speaking of TIL
TIL about the only astronaut who deserves to be treated as a hero. Until now I disdained the whole space endeavor. As a nerd I was supposed to follow it eagerly, but I found it boring and purposeless. Here’s one astronaut worthy of emulation! = = = = = START QUOTE: Japan’s main TV network…
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Emerson is smiling
Via MSN: The infamous Dolezal, who posed as black for a long time and got credentials and money and prestige for her fraud, was kicked out of her prestigious positions in 2015. Since then she has continued trying various fraudulent games, gradually losing even more prestige and money in a downward spiral. Lately she was…
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Interesting career, drab ideas
Pointed via Denyse as usual, the strange book and career of Julian Jaynes. Jaynes published only one book, which became popular among philosophers who like to discuss pointless and untestable questions. He theorized that modern awareness was a recent development. = = = = = START QUOTE: Humans were not fully conscious until about 3,000…
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Renightmaring
The new “city” monsters, who are even worse than the old “city” monsters, want us to REIMAGINE DOWNTOWN. The picture illustrating the “imagining” is in Seattle, capital of riots and destruction, and the first thing you see in this “dream” is a Farmers Market with a huge sign MASKS REQUIRED. THIS IS THE WET DREAM…
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Pure cult
Still grouching about spam. Recent spam from the Trump campaign has been disgusting in a specifically Christian way. An earlier email asked me if I preferred to get a handshake or a HUG from Our Lord Trump. ARRRGH! Just now: = = = = = START QUOTE: I’ll never stop loving you! THIS IS PRESIDENT…
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Nerd burglars
Speaking of typical and atypical… Model railroad fans aren’t typical criminals. A young man and woman decided to break into the Railroad Museum in Enid late at night, and stole some model railroad equipment. At one point they looked directly into the security camera, sealing their fate. (Nerds ought to know about security cameras!) The…
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Had to jump in
The Hasidic tunnel in NYC is weird in an infinite number of ways. First, a Hasidic Riot is the weirdest possible image. Second, if they wanted a mikvah, it would be easier and safer to build one in their own building, instead of paying Mexicans to dig a tunnel to reach the existing mikvah. Hasidim…
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Does the correlation work?
Here’s an interesting take on the Trump indictments by an economics prof writing at Compact. = = = = = START QUOTE: Observers have been surprised that the indictments themselves haven’t done more to dent his support. Put differently, why isn’t the lawfare against Trump working yet? Part of the answer might lie in this…
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Trading
Tiffany talks with Sammy again. Predictably he’s taken up trading mackerel packs, which are the modern prison equivalent of cigarettes. When I was in the walls, cigarettes were the currency. Each pack had a “par value” of a quarter, though the actual price in the commissary was 40 cents. I bought my way out of…
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Simmering 2
The simmering metaphor in previous item reminded me of a picture I’ve been wanting to make. Back in 1970 when I got out of prison, my first experience with independent life was in this duplex in Stillwater. My Zenith Trans-Oceanic helped to pull me out of the walls and back into the larger world. I…
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Speaking of swindles and patterns
From March 2020, linked in previous item about confidence. At that time the full horror of the “virus” holocaust hadn’t been rolled out yet, but my prediction based on (ahem) previous patterns was correct. = = = = = START REPRINT: When I call Inslee and Newsom ‘holocausters’ I’m using the word both literally and…
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Two-headed coins
Stock trading is the exact opposite of real business. A real business makes real things or fixes and maintains real things. Selling and delivering real things are also real businesses. A stock trader doesn’t make or fix or sell anything real. He just makes sidebets ABOUT the people who make and sell. Above all he…
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