Tag: NOW I SEE
-
Clarifier
Randomly noticed a question/answer on Quora that clarifies a lot of things. The writer was not intending to clarify, but nevertheless his semantic point removes a lot of blinders. The point as stated: Zionism is just Jewish nationalism. We don’t give special names to other nationalisms because we don’t argue about them. The fact in…
-
Huge explanation
Tiffany’s recount of Nishad Singh’s testimony includes one huge explanatory fact. Sammy spent unspeakably huge amounts to buy endorsements. Michael Kives was the agent, a “one-stop shop” for other celebrities. Sammy paid 500 million to Kives. Kives then paid for the most important endorsement of all: Satan’s pet author Michael Lewis. Satan’s pet wrote the…
-
It’s just gangland
I’ve been screwing around with this concept for several years and just now simplified it. After defeating Germany and Japan in WW2 we became the Axis. Until now I was thinking of the change as a mutation in the Allies. We brought over a bunch of Krauts and gradually let their craziness take over the…
-
Metawait 2
I’m deeply enjoying the failure of bitcoin. Fine vintage Schadenfreude**. One of the podcasters mentioned that mining one Bitcoin now costs $45k, but the coin only sells for $26k, with no hope of ever rising again to a profitable level. Wait! Why didn’t I think of this before? Nvidia makes the processors that grind up…
-
Big answer
TheFederalist interviews Jake Denton, a tech policy expert. Denton is Mach all the way down. He ignores the absurd noises of “elections” and “votes” and “legislation”, which normally prevent conservatives from thinking. He goes straight to raw personal power every time. Around 26:00 he answers one big question in a highly refreshing way. Why do…
-
Barbenheimer is not new
Finally got ENOUGH sleep last night. With a non-fogged brain, listened to the Ankler folks discussing Barbenheimer as usual. Ping! This peculiar cocktail was mixed once before! I mentioned it last year in my feature on the Peilempfänger. = = = = = START QUOTE: Speaking of festive colors and obscure cryptographic machines, here’s the…
-
First, second, third, fourth
One of the pro-AI substackers, discussing the fast “development” of systems like Midjourney, said: The next blockbuster movie will be written by a kid in Mom’s basement. First thought: It’s not “developing”. The development is done. What we’re seeing now is a carefully planned and staged rollout by the Men Of Monopoly, carefully publicized by…
-
Nature’s ledger
Thinking again about the peculiar self-liquidating scrip. A city issued the scrip with a series of boxes or punch locations. Each time the scrip changed hands, a new hole was punched and a small tax was paid to the issuer. When all the holes were punched, the scrip was simply discarded. It had served its…
-
Expert teacher, poor student
Back in 2019 I heard that Trump was trained by Roy Cohn, the best blackmailer in the world. This explained everything at the time. Since then, Trump’s blackmailing talents haven’t been on display. He claims that he didn’t want to do the “virus” tyranny, but he eagerly organized the concentration camps and strangled the world…
-
That’s why
I wrote my usual comment about the nonsense of “rights”. For some reason the usual comment caused a new thought today. The usual comment: “Rights” are nonsense, not found in the Bible. “Rights” were created by aristocrats to grant themselves more privileges than they already have. New thought: I’ve always wondered why this particular bit…
-
Trite but true, untried but true
Branching from previous item about the two Cindys. I figured out the truth when I stopped listening to Rush’s VERSION of what the Cindys (and Naomi) said, and started reading the ACTUAL TEXT of what they said. It was NOT THE SAME THING AT ALL. Previous AHAS always came from finding a primary unmediated source.…
-
Fibers
Convective thought: I’ve been annoyed by galaxybrain bullies for a long time. Like Ockham’s schoolmen, they know ALL the details of ALL the facts in the world, and spin intricate webs of details, precise to an infinite number of decimal places. If you dare to answer, the galaxybrain will twist and turn your answer in…
-
Visible or not, Paypal is there
Yesterday I donated to Wolf Richter as usual. He’s the only major writer who understands the real meaning of the end of QE. Everyone else, “left” or “right”, is screaming to get the free money going again, maintaining the bizarre fiction that zero interest is normal. The donation process seemed strange this time. I selected…
-
Habits form assumptions…
Just figured out something. Reproducing my random “chain” of “thought”: After writing previous item on plus key vs minus key, I started “thinking” about the peculiarity of the standard PC keyboard. Plus is shift-equals, which is clumsy and error prone. The separate adding machine keyboard to the right is more convenient, but for some reason…
-
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…
Polistra's Mill 