Tag: Powell!
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Sometimes satisfying
As noted yesterday, justice rarely occurs at all. When it does happen, it’s rarely satisfying. We have to be content that a demon is removed from power, though the style of the removal is wildly annoying. Public drawing and quartering would be enjoyable. Still, sometimes justice is visible. NYC, control center of hell for 400…
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HA HA HA HA HA HA 2
Via Quartz: = = = = = START SPLENDID QUOTE: Thousands of people lined up outside Apple Stores on Feb. 2 to see the Vision Pro’s stunning debut, but dissatisfied customers are returning their headsets this week. Why? Apple’s 14-day return period expires on Feb. 16 for day one Vision Pro users. It looks like…
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WOW!
Via MSN: = = = = = START QUOTE: JPMorgan Chase and institutional investors BlackRock and State Street Global Advisors announced Thursday that they are quitting or, in the case of BlackRock, substantially scaling back involvement in a massive United Nations climate alliance formed to combat global warming through corporate sustainability agreements. In a statement,…
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Interesting career, drab ideas
Pointed via Denyse as usual, the strange book and career of Julian Jaynes. Jaynes published only one book, which became popular among philosophers who like to discuss pointless and untestable questions. He theorized that modern awareness was a recent development. = = = = = START QUOTE: Humans were not fully conscious until about 3,000…
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What desistance means
Desistance means depriving the system of your talents and resources. It does NOT mean getting into the system to obstruct things. Internal obstruction is a game that accomplishes less than nothing. I figured this out a LONG time ago when some of my semi-hippie friends joined the military to “reform the system from inside”. I…
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Protos reports that the “banks” who bought up the “assets” of the demonic family offices posing as “banks” are struggling now. = = = = = START QUOTE: Early 2023 was an incredibly difficult time for regional banks in the US — particularly crypto banks. Silicon Valley, First Republic, Signature, Silvergate, and Pacific Western Bank…
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Depends on what you offer
There’s a lot of bitching lately about ‘audience capture’, meaning that the newspaper or broadcaster is forced to keep pleasing only Democrats or only Repooflicans. The bitchers are blaming the audience, ordering us to pay for stuff we don’t want in order to prevent the broadcasters from being ‘captured’. Wrong. Capture is permanent, inevitable and…
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Supersuckers
Via Protos: = = = = = START QUOTE: A spate of ETF fund managers, including Proshares, Grayscale, Roundhill, and Simplify are announcing interest-bearing spot bitcoin ETFs that promise bitcoin exposure along with generous dividends. For example, another firm, Purpose Investments, is offering 11.9% yield on its bitcoin yield ETF in Canada, while other ETF…
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Fed breaks Parkinson!
Jerome Powell is the ONLY problem solver in this fucked former “country”. Everyone else at all levels is manufacturing problems and evils at an exponentially increasing rate. Now Powell has added another achievement: He broke the unbreakable Parkinson. He REPEALED a Federal program! Not quite as big as repealing a whole agency, but still unprecedented…
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Good news for real business
Via Pitchbook, about 40% of venture capitalists quit this year. The number of active investors dropped from 7000 to 4000. The counterfeit has dried up, and the insane and evil nonsense created by the counterfeit is also drying up fast. Bitcoin shit, “renewable energy” shit, DEI shit, AI shit, all collapsing. Thanks, Powell! Stupid sidenote:…
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Writes, not reads
A very old and perfectly accurate proverb: The Supreme Court reads election returns. A modern version, especially since 2000: The Supreme Court WRITES election returns. Homelessness was not caused by cities allowing camping and squatting; it was caused by Wall Street. 40 years of Holy Share Value and offshoring has devastated and destroyed the country.…
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Not your campaign 2
Fortune mag says the anti-DEI movement has gone mainstream. In all of these cases, ideologues are mischaracterizing the goals of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Their strategy is working: critiquing DEI has become more mainstream. Increasingly, even people who likely support some of the most common and visible examples of these efforts (parental leave, fair…
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Speedrunning Newark
At Curbside Classic, Stephen Pellegrino posted a series of street pix from his home area in New Jersey. Each pair was Then/Now. Then was 1970s. Now was the closest he could get to the original on Google Streets. Jersey in the 70s was declining badly. Now only the streets and infrastructure remain, and the streets…
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Will they change the script?
This Bloomberg podcast raises an interesting point. The Biden administration has been pushing HARD for anti-trust regulation, which is an unquestionably good move. They’re even pushing harder than I would in some cases! Google has a natural monopoly on searching, acquired by doing the job far better than others. This is not predatory. At an…
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Strong point by Batya
I always appreciate Greenwald’s clarity. He’s the only big-time journalist who maintains rigid and precise objectivity about all questions. He has lots of tribal loyalties and biases, but he rigorously separates his private life and private feelings from The News. In this clip he’s talking with Batya and other Jewish activists. All agree that the…
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