Tag: Parkinson
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50 year unsync
In 1958, TV Radio Life magazine interviewed Martin Klein, who hosted a weekly science program on LA television station KCOP, listed as ‘independent’. It’s still there, still on channel 13 with the same call letters. They asked Klein to predict 50 years into the future. How would we live in 2008? Klein worked for Cohu…
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1918, 1957, 1989
Old tech journals often tell you things that weren’t mentioned in the media or our fake school “history” texts. I learned about our 1918 invasion and occupation of Russia from reading old Signal Corps journals at GoogleBooks. Looking up info on my latest tech history obsession, I found two later Signal Corps magazines, one from…
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Oldest sucker filter
A preacher has predicted that the Rapture will occur tomorrow, 9/23. Raptures and apocalypses are unquestionably the oldest Sucker Filter, the oldest tool for selecting the most gullible followers. Every single one has failed. Often a prophet will “revise” the rapture several times in a row. Each failure and revision sorts the suckers at a…
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Happy 250th, Post Office!
The Post Office deserves a special celebration this year, with Demon Elon and Demon Trump conspiring to destroy it. Elon’s Destruction Of Government Excellence is explicitly defunding all the GOOD and USEFUL parts of government while expanding the BAD and EVIL parts. Admittedly there are a couple of mixed cases. Department of Education originally served…
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Why philosophy is fucked
Seen on substack: = = = = = Most people don’t realize how ridiculously hard one needs to think in order to thoroughly grasp certain philosophical problems. It took me well over a decade to really grasp the sorites paradox, for instance. And one often needs more years of investigation to realize the depth of…
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What do we pay for?
Thinking about courts and juries led to a comparison of doctors vs lawyers. In most products and services we pay for improvement. Food that gives us more taste and nutrition, entertainment that gives us more pleasure, cars that give us more enjoyable travel. In earlier decades, both lawyers and doctors matched this pattern. We paid…
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Thanks to weather gods and weather bureau
Speaking of dissipating clouds, we’ve been getting BLESSEDLY NICE WEATHER for a couple weeks now, after a supercold and nasty month. Clear skies, lows around 30, highs in the 50s. Thanks, weather gods! The local weather bureau shows a neat animation of satellite views. You can see the broad snowcover on most of the western…
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Elon vs FDR
Elon is cutting vast amounts of federal bureaucracy, or at least attempting to do it. He has no official role, so courts would be fully justified in rejecting all of his cuts. SYLLOGISM. FIRST PREMISE: We know that Elon will never cut war or tyranny, the only federal FUNCTIONS that need to be eliminated. He…
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No sympathy
I note that the “mayor” in Spokane has joined other “mayors” in a court brief opposing Trump’s cuts to research funding. No sympathy. The corruption of federal funding has been blatantly obvious and perfectly well known inside academia. Everybody knows it and everybody keeps taking it. For christ’s fucking sake, EISENHOWER warned about it in…
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MIL Cliff
About 40k federal bureaucrats are being fired. The old Mother-in-law / cliff joke applies perfectly. In the broadest sense I’m glad to see Trump breaking Parkinson’s Law. The devil is in the details. Some bureaucrats, specifically the Die-Versity types, are mother-in-laws for the real economy. They just bitch and lecture us, serve no useful purpose.…
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Surprisingly good!
Headline: The end of science’s peacetime. The headline of this article sounds like just another standard defense of the vicious science-deepstate axis. Fortunately I took time to read the article. Like Canada’s response to Trump’s tariffs, the author is pointing out WHY science is vulnerable to threats like Trump. He hits all the points correctly!…
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What does it mean?
This recent upload at Periscope Films is pushing college education, mostly aimed at law school and police careers. It was meant to be shown in high school classes. Key statement: “25 years ago, only 1 out of 12 high school students went on to college. Today, 1 out of 3 go on to college. What…
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Good nuke news
A pro-nuke substacker caught an instructive switch in bureaucratic direction. A law passed by the mixed-party congress in July 2024 (before the election) and signed by Democrat Biden REQUIRED the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to stop blocking new construction and start encouraging it. The agency predictably did nothing until Trump’s new head of nuclear policy changed…
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More dust to wait for
Via DailyMail, with the usual caution about DailyMail’s usual wild exaggerations. Trump, working with ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST RFK, has ordered several agencies to stop their Twitter and other public output for a while. We don’t know yet what this means. He undoubtedly remembers how the agencies spent most of their PR time bashing Trump. I noticed…
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Wait for the dust
Trump has written some nice-sounding executive orders, pulling us out of the Paris Climate Hoax and the World Hitler Organization. He revoked the destructive “green” “new” “deal”, which is good, but he ALSO stopped the Biden admin’s quiet unadvertised restoration of some REAL New Deal policies by replacing Lina Khan. The latter action is real.**…
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