Tag: natural law = soviet law
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If you really want…
If you really want to encourage families and civilization, you MUST force business to provide secure jobs. Secure employment and independent artisans (gig work) have always been the two poles of work. Most people are worker bees. Only a few are designed for the gig life. = = = = = START REPRINT: There is…
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Sailer atypically misses
Sailer on India: = = = = = START SAILER: Narendra Modi is fooling around, Elon Musk-style, with the idea of changing the name of his country to “Bharat” as an anti-colonial gesture. And the California legislature has, after much acrimony among Hindus, sent a bill to governor Gavin Newsom’s desk outlawing the ancient Hindu…
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More positive signs
Wolf picks up another sign of returning economic normalcy. Corporations have stopped fighting Powell, stopped betting on a “pivot” back to lunacy. They’ve settled into a future of NORMAL interest rates, offering long-term bonds in the 6% range. This will open more channels for loose cash to move away from IPO and SPAC and Bitcoin…
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It’s not the mechanism
More from the 1891 Inland Printer. Note the year. This is an editorial on the condition of the Government Printing Bureau. = = = = = START INLAND PRINTER: The bureau intended to gradually substitute steam presses for hand presses, but Congress failed to execute a contract. [SOUNDS FAMILIAR.] However, by working overtime the bureau…
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Learning requires stability.
In previous item about the history of stereotyping as it related to Kellogg’s Patent Insides, I was quoting a 1927 book by George Kubler. He understood how psychopathic chaos halts all learning and genuine innovation. = = = = = START QUOTE: Writing of books by hand continued to be the only method practiced throughout…
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Reprint on Russian tech
Reprint from 2015, linked in previous item. Keyloggers and Lysenko Interesting discussion at ArsTechnica about a clever keylogger bug that KGB implanted in the Selectric typewriters at the US Embassy. The bugs remained in place from 1976 to 1984, when someone finally spotted them. The commenters are more interesting than the article. A few showed…
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Bigger questions
This discussion on Reddit verifies a hardass fact of life. Men stop talking about our troubles because women use the information for blackmail. This is actually a special case of a broader rule. Both genders are vulnerable in other situations. Priests and Deepstate want to hear your troubles so they can use the information for…
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Words of another song
Mattingly at GetReligion is discussing the Anthony song. He quotes a religion prof: = = = = = START QUOTE: “The song was immediately politicized, even though there have always been country songs with singers lamenting the state of their lives and the state of America,” said David Watson, a theologian and country-music fan. He…
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Raw materials
The Ankler interviews a striking writer who makes a striking analogy. Every real business relies on raw materials or basic labor, and makes money by organizing and selling the materials and labor. “You wouldn’t have content, you wouldn’t be talking about streaming, if you didn’t have writers and actors to create the raw material.” Honest…
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The sides aren’t always rigid
Not a new thought, just a reinforced old thought. The BASIC dividing line for civilization and economics and technology has always been: Who does it serve? One side says that everything must serve human beings. The other side says everything must serve Genghis or Attila or Caesar or Robespierre or Morgan or Zuck, depending on…
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From Mao to Marx in one move
A constant theme in old scifi, and a recognized rule of human behavior: An external enemy like an alien invasion can unite bickering family members or internally divided nations. Our monstrous rulers have been dividing us for centuries, with special success in the last 30 years thanks to their total control of MEDIA. Alien monsters…
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That’s not how we get there.
Weiss interviews Vivek. He’s obviously running to be Trump’s VP, no matter how strongly he asserts otherwise. This is standard political strategy. Nobody ever SAYS he’s running for VP. Vivek is pushing for “raw unfiltered meritocracy”. That’s exactly how we got into the current grotesque situation where a few monstrous psychopaths own the world and…
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Stages
Doomberg, a prolific and pseudonymous bitcoiner, reveals how Twitter worked and how Xlon changed it. Summary: Like all social media, Twitter had Lurkers, Participants and Creators. Twitter was different from other media like Youtube or Facebook or old-fashioned publishers, because Twitter didn’t pay its creators. Instead, the Creators were meant to use Twitter as a…
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Worthy reprint
Looking at the statcounter for the old blog. I haven’t changed it in 18 months, but the readers there are more varied and “purposeful” than the readers of this new WordPress version. I still don’t know why. Is it something about the format, or am I just dumbed down after three years of NAZI TORTURE?…
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Whoda thunk it?
Actors get it. The rest of the public sphere, including “independent” journalists, doesn’t get it. Whoda thunk it? Hollywood understands the world better than anyone else with a public voice? I certainly never thunk it until a few months ago when I heard the Hollywood types at the Ankler talking plain truth about “the” “virus”.…
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