Tag: Status
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Statusometer
Curbside Classic features a 1969 Motor Trend article comparing the three luxury brands. As always, MT tested everything from braking to G-force to suspension characteristics. They concluded that Lincoln was the best by car guy standards, but they also recognized that luxury buyers aren’t car guys. So they found a way to test STATUS, which…
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What we lost part 99999999
Demons and Cadillacs don’t have a reverse gear. Demons only back up under external force, jumpy and tectonic in nature, like shoving a Cadillac backwards with a bulldozer. It’s worth noticing when demons are forced to skid backwards. A couple days ago Canada’s parliament gave a standing ovation to a 98-year-old ACTUAL LITERAL NAZI, a…
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Ohmari’s law
Sohrab Ahmari gets everything right. So far I haven’t heard one false note in his discussions. In this interview with Trish Wood he focuses on the standard Friedmanite lie that price is an automatic result of equal forces on two sides, like a drain trap. Nobody believes this brazenly delusional lie. Even the economists don’t…
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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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Metaburge
Ryan Burge ran into a twitterstorm when he posted graphs showing that church attendance is a function of status. People objected that their own experience didn’t match. Burge is trying to assert the data with rationality, but it’s a hopeless fight for the SAME REASON THAT THE GRAPHS SHOW. In the last 30 years ALL…
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Kellogg and Batya
A Reddit thread about ‘secrets of jobs’ delved into some interesting details about political staff. The fact that staffers run everything is NOT a secret. It’s well known and often discussed, but never mentioned in mainstream media or advertising. Successful politicians start as staffers, then move up to the “elected” role as manager of staff.…
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What would Kellogg do?
Substack serves the same purpose as the preprint or Patent Insides services. Substack makes it economically feasible for small writers and publishers to reach a large public without the massive overhead needed for a separate website with its own SEO and payment methods and publicity spreaders. Web services often make weird changes at the start…
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Legacy and copyright again
Branching off from the Kellogg patent insides, I started reading histories of stereotyping. 1. From Gutenberg’s movable type through the long line of inventors who repeatedly REdiscovered stereotyping, a pattern emerges clearly. Each inventor tried to keep the process secret through oaths (NDAs) and patents and copyrights. When the inventor died the process died with…
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Outside the boilerplate
A Substack writer was wondering how the hippies turned into “virus” tyrants. I wrote my standard comment: = = = = = START BOILERPLATE: The hippies who turned into tyrants were always tyrants. The division between high-status hippies and the rest of us was clear in the ’60s. The high-status types led the movement and…
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Strict white elephant
EnidBuzz shows the Broadway tower being built in 1931. It’s now slated for demolition. Preservationists gave up on it for good practical reasons. One commenter tells the story: I worked in that building for 13 yrs on the 2nd floor and was glad to leave it. I got tired of stepping over big cockroachs in…
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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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When Sailer writes what he knows
Sailer writes best when he writes about California. He lives there and PAYS ATTENTION to both current events and local history. He doesn’t blow up verb aspect by conflating permanent with temporary or vice versa. = = = = = START SAILER: In Los Angeles, Hurricane Hilary, the first since 1939, has been a summer…
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First world problem /// Edit: Oops.
/// Never mind. This was a false indication. Youtube had simply changed their API, which happens fairly often, and the maker of the download app hadn’t caught up with the change. =============== Youtube has started cutting off most downloads unless you pay for Premium service. Okay, fine. I’d rather pay than go for free. Customer,…
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Held accountable!!!!!!!!!!
Sammy is IN jail! Sammy continued blackmailing witnesses after all the gradually increasing restrictions. After a year of wack-a-mole, JUDGE Kaplan finally got serious. This is uniquely important because Sammy was uniquely aristocratic, uniquely top status in every way, uniquely exempt from all “laws”. He bribed and blackmailed all the Correct Persons and until now…