Tag: Modest proposal
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If they meant it
Whenever a Repooflican is serving as the current puppet, musicians love to perform parodies of the Star-Strangled Banner. When the current puppet wears the D team shirt, musicians perform it normally and proudly. No need for stupid guitar buzz sounds. If a musician REALLY wanted to parody the song, he could simply go back to…
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If government had NOT been murderous
Last week I wrote what might be the most important thing I ever wrote, and didn’t hit it hard enough. (I’m in a dull futile mood lately.) This item is my best and most crucial answer to the Thiel question: What’s something you know that nobody else agrees with? = = = = = START…
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Murphy for journalism
Undoubtedly a stupid idea, but haven’t heard it anywhere else. I tried to give Newsweek a chance. I know how real fairness sounds from long experience with old radio. Newsweek failed the test quickly and decisively. In real production of cars or soap or software, real companies hire beta testers to wring out the bugs…
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An opportunity if they want it
Businesses don’t really want to do business. Rushfield at the Ankler writes another incisive piece on the failure of the movie industry. The decline started a LONG time ago after WW2 when young folks moved into the suburbs, had kids, and the theaters didn’t follow them. Cable TV and its newer web-based streaming versions, plus…
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Fairness Dayctrine
Today is Copyright Law Day. Today is Public Domain Day. Great idea! Simplify the thousands of stupid Days and Weeks and Months by placing opposite causes on the same day. Black History Month and White History Month together. Sugar Week and Vinegar Week together. Dwarf Awareness Month and Giant Awareness Month together. lowercase day and…
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Let’s do both!
The Dems have been removing Trump from ballots. Now the Texas lieutenant governor is playing footsie by asking to remove Biden from ballots. DO BOTH!!!!! Ideal solution! Then the dozen COMPETENT candidates could have a real election.
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Misdirected
Big Entertainment is fading. The tech tyrants who bought it know it’s fading. They’re happy to let it fade. That’s why they bought it. LBO. The Hollywood unions acquired solid contracts from the dying dinosaur, but the contracts don’t mean much. The contracts will help the dinosaur to fade, and the tech tyrants will be…
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Mirror image
A few days ago Terry Mattingly, an experienced religion reporter, was complaining that media doesn’t want to know anything about religion. The NYTimes recently advertised for a religion writer who had absolutely no connection or knowledge about religion. Today Ted Gioia, an experienced music writer, complains about the EXACT OPPOSITE situation. He says music critics…
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Political warranties
Random stupid thought, impossible and unenforceable. Politicians would be more reliable if they had warranties. Donations would pay for specific promises. Breaking the promise would require refunds of the donations for this promise. If you donated to Tulsi to oppose Biden, or donated to Trump to oppose Wall Street, you should get your money back.…
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If you really want ethics
Via Hollywood Reporter, the AI demons are plotting how to destroy more skills. Still, across SIGGRAPH, the use of new buzzwords such as “responsible AI” underscored broad fears about the impact the tech could have on Hollywood. “I’m hearing about actors scanning themselves and copyrighting their scans. I wonder if it’s going to be affordable…
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RAIN!
This rain is especially welcome since it frustrates the ARSONISTS who have been starting hugely destructive fires around here. Not all the fires are arson, but at least three arsonists have been seen, and two have been arrested. Of course the Sorosian monster prosecutor releases all criminals instantly, but at least the cops will know…
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Another pointless “what missed”
Partisans are always writing columns about “what the Dems missed” or “what the Repoofs missed”. If only we had done X instead of Y, we would have won election Z. If onlys are utterly meaningless, but here’s a fresh one. Trump knows how to run a cult. Putting it another way, he knows pro wrestling.…
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Weird and dumb
This editorial in Military.com expresses the will of the demons. It’s written by a monster who believes (or pretends to believe) all of Satan’s lies. Nevertheless, it says that the military side of Deepstate is planning a peculiar sort of part-time draft. This paragraph is simply true: = = = = = START QUOTE: While…
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Real complaint, backwards solution
One “socialist” party in Australia is making headlines by proposing that politicians should be paid no more than the median wage. Effective Altruist monsters are rising up against this idea, claiming that you need super-high pay to get the “highest quality” (highest IQ) candidates. Fuck that. High IQ is the specific center and wellspring of…
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Interesting dream
Interesting dream just now. I was talking in-person with some politicians, trying to teach them the radical weird concept of “solving problems”. I explained that humans do this all the time, in life and in jobs. Most of the problems humans solve are created by politicians. Unfortunately the politicians were impenetrable. They just looked down…
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