Tag: natural law = sharia law
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Reprint on Soviet skill-estate
Linked in previous item, worth reprinting. = = = = = START 2014 PARTIAL REPRINT: What’s the moral of the story? Self-sufficiency. (1) When kids are educated through HANDS and MUSCLE MEMORY, they gain a deep and unremovable knowledge. Soviet math and science education did this. American math and science education relied on rote memory,…
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Digital sentencing
I randomly made this metaphor in previous item: France, like most countries, is not stuck in hell for an unstoppable 4-year term. Parole is possible. Exploring the metaphor a bit more, I see a definite split in our tendencies. In the last 40 years of total Wall Street control, we’ve removed some paroles and imposed…
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Dying empires continued
Continuing the timeline from Harrington’s magnificent insight. What happened next? After Spain’s religious and primitive empire was defeated by the superior tech and finance of England and France and Italy, the same damn thing happened. France took the tech and science learned from Islam, along with the secular reaction of the Protestants, and overmodulated it…
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Belt and suspenders
Rushfield hits the nail again in the middle of a general news column: = = = = = START RUSHFIELD: We’ve been living in an environment of very low-risk speculation thanks to a decade of low interest rates, also known as a speculative bubble. That affected entertainment as much as anything else, as people poured…
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He gets the big point
Most of the time, both “sides” in each hot-button Machiavellian divider are missing the main point. The anti-bitcoiners are right about some details but miss the BIG point that every transaction on the web is perfectly global, perfectly centralized, and perfectly public. Here’s one anti who grasps the biggest point of all. He’s citing a…
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Theories
This is what happens when you get involved in theories and theologies and philosophies. Religion Unplugged writes about a survey of Army chaplains, revealing a peculiar and outright evil function served by the chaplains. The survey was dealing with the perceived morality or legitimacy of software-driven drone warfare. It turns out that chaplains ADVISE GENERALS…
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Totally understandable
Just noticed a skeptic asking if “any non-governmental entity has actually photographed the alleged sunspots.” In today’s utterly crazy tyranny, total skepticism is totally understandable. When rulers are torturing and strangling and imprisoning us and bombing countries down to bedrock, all justified by blazingly fake “science” and fake “threats”, total disbelief is a natural and…
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Substock
I’ve decided that everyone who succeeds on Substack is a stock trader, manipulating the “two” “sides” of an issue to gain arbitrage. Questions that can’t be turned into a trade or a bet aren’t discussed much. With a few notable exceptions, the writers who don’t engage in stock crime don’t last. This is historically normal.…
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Reprint on Libertarians
I wrote this in April 2020, after the lockdowns but before the waterboarding got started. Later on the point got even sharper, as the holocaust directly ruined public transit, another favorite target of the Randians. I’m proud of catching the correlation before it was blatantly obvious. Right now I’m tired of Repooflicans trying to blame…
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Natural growth
Following on previous item about Sailer contours. Our homeless camps remain camps, with uncontrolled fires and craziness. They’re strictly illegal, not allowed to settle. In countries with softer governments, poor people build casual houses in their camps, and the houses gradually become more permanent, turning into barrios or favelas and gradually acquiring infrastructure. A similar…
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Not just lenses…
Closely related to my ramblings on the old Islamic insistence on using alidades instead of lenses to observe the universe. Stay as close as you can to the source, don’t distort vision with lenses, don’t distort science with theories, don’t distort business with abstract debt and stocks. RemnantMD on Substack discusses how light controls much…
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Unsophisticated ASM
Continuing the food chain rule in terms of programming. I started programming in assembly language on the early PCs. There was very little “sophisticated food” available for the task I wanted to perform, so I had to write more of the action myself. There was also very little memory and disk space compared to modern…
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Halal vs AI
This has undoubtedly been said many times (heh) but I don’t recall reading it before. Customized one-hour productions like movies, novels, plays, symphonies and operas are totally unlike all other human activity. All other activity consists of repeated reused segments, interspersed with possibly original commentary or filigrees. The typical job repeats the same transaction or…
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Understands 2
Writers at Compact Mag often UNDERSTAND reality, which is extremely rare online. Ryan Zickgraf is writing about a new movie that runs the usual D idiocy about R “insurrections”. = = = = = START REALITY: But while there are certainly cracks in the American project, there is little evidence that we are on the…
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More of the oddity
Lately I’ve been noticing an oddity, which may not be an actual trend. The official myth of “the economy” has been based on strictly fake and fictional “numbers” at least since Nixon. If we defined unemployment the same way we did in the 30s, the current unemployment would be the same as the 30s. We…
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