Tag: Metrology
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Metrology Day 2023
Today is Metrology Day. The latest edition of courseware is in the final stretch so I don’t have any spare graphics energy or time. I’ll reprint a frequent reprint on a topic that seems appropriate at the moment, using metrology as a bullshit detector. = = = = = TRYING A QUESTION. In late 2020…
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For clarity
After mentioning homeopathy in previous item, a footnote for clarity. I don’t know for sure if homeopathy is better or worse than establishment medicine. I know for DAMN SURE that homeopaths are better than establishment doctors. Re-re-repeating an old couplet: How do you know which side of a “debate” is good? “Scientists” jail you for…
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Today is Odometer Day!
Today is Odometer Day! Time for a reprint from Dec 2020. = = = = = START REPRINT: In 1999 there was considerable hubbub over the Y2K bug in old programs, many of which were in COBOL. The language itself wasn’t busted; its date functions have four digits. But the early mainframe programmers in the…
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Good question from Sailer
Sailer asks a damn good question: = = = = = START QUOTE: The massive deinstitutionalization of the 1960s–1980s is now widely considered a blunder, but why did it seem like a good idea at the time? We need to consider why progressive reformers in the English-speaking world turned as fervently against lunatic asylums in…
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Brinkley’s ghost is pissed.
Polly on Rumble is discussing the Transhumanist and Effective Altruist types who want to live forever so they can continue ruining the world forever. Several of them, including Thiel, are into ‘young blood’ transfusions as a way of reversing their age. The ‘young blood’ doctor received FDA approval for his craziness. Doc Brinkley’s ghost is…
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Immediately relevant
Linked in previous. After reading, it’s definitely worth reprinting. = = = = = START 2010 REPRINT: New book by Robert Whitaker. A real eye-opener. Basic theme: Psychiatry has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the drug companies, serving only to sell drugs. This development was not natural or accidental. Whitaker details the history of the…
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Destroying his own point
RFK is playing unscientific games with measurements. He has a strong overall point, but the details are based on “measurements” that constantly change. The argument is too easy to counteract with details. “We have the sickest generation in American history. We have the sickest children on Earth in this country. And by chronic disease, what…
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Frames
GetReligion discusses the FBI’s current focus on traditional Catholics as alt-radicals. Broaden the picture. In a society where everyone is expected to be weightless bubbles, bouncing around with zero inertia under the influence of fast-changing media and government psychopaths, a grounded person is inevitably radical. (Radix = root). To the fast-moving moderns, a fixed moral…
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Metes and bees
Brownstone is another frustrating visionary. Do they really have a goal, or are they just another Parkinson organization trying to keep running without a goal? From their latest mission statement: = = = = = START QUOTE: The [“virus”] response was as much an institutional failure as it was a failure of rationality and courage.…
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Secret vectors
This got me thinking about the bee’s waggle dance and vector vs cartesian orientation. Our eyes can do cartesian, but most of our senses, including basic orientation via the eyes, are vector. Looking through PNAS, found a new bit of bee research that goes way beyond this question. The researchers placed an artificial feeder in…
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Shadowbanometry
Shadowbanning and cancelling are useful measuring devices. I’m listening to some VC types discussing Balaji’s strange bet. I have exactly zero gambling genes, so my understanding of this type of behavior is extremely dim at best. After listening several times and thinking, I sort of halfway semi-understand: Balaji is known to hold far more than…
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Partly trustable
Hersh’s latest scoop is about CIA’s conflict with the Kennedys. His “retired” CIA source told the story of the Castro campaign from the CIA’s angle, which doesn’t sound right to me. The facts are well known. CIA trained and armed Castro as Our Revolutionary, but Castro broke his promise and supported his own people, then…
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Using the trustifying rule
Taibbi received a personal visit from an IRS agent, which is unusual. Normally the IRS sends paper letters to bill you or request corrections. Here’s a good application of my rule for trustifying. Follow personal experience. When I’ve been observing or dealing with an entity for a while, how often has the entity disagreed with…
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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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Solvometer
The pussyass cowardass Repooflicans in Congress have been in control of the House for 3 months and so far they’ve done exactly nothing. They haven’t even TRIED. No problems solved, just a lot of obnoxious farts. Ordinary people in ordinary jobs do a lot of routine uninteresting work, and also solve problems daily. Every normal…
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