Tag: variables and variables
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Big flip
This is highly encouraging if generally true. Via Ankler, Wall Street is siding with the strikers in the Hollywood conflict! = = = = = START QUOTE: Michael Pachter, research analyst at Wedbush Securities, is more pointed: “The market thinks all of the corporate bosses are idiots, and generally sides with the unions.” He adds:…
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Making the case, fucking the case
Perfect contrast between two pieces on the writers strike and AI and such. (1) The Ankler flawlessly makes the case that AI is worth worrying about, and a strike to control it is worth supporting. He rigorously avoids all politics and religion and cultural crap, following the oldest persuasive advice to perfection. Fairness Doctrine all…
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The one peacetime year
Still reading Pat Foster’s books on Willys and Jeep. The Jeep obviously began as a military project, and typically 60% of its income was from military contracts. The company always produced a variety of specialized vehicles for sole military use, along with the dual-use Universal Jeep. The company was an attractive and productive acquisition because…
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Speakable now!
Just after writing previous item, checked DailyMail for the latest SHOCKING news. This one is GENUINELY shocking, and reveals that the Inquisitors are no longer in absolute control. Truth about gender is returning to speakableness. = = = = = START QUOTE: Melanie Nipper, a 28-year-old gender studies professor at the University of Cincinnati, has…
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Dubious, obvious
Three hot decisions by the Supremes today. One is dubious, the second wildly obvious, the third meaningless. = = = = = Dubious: They said Biden couldn’t forgive student loans. There’s no principle involved at all. Student loan programs already include forgiveness when the student meets certain conditions. If you become a teacher in a…
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Robber barons on strike
We have a nice clear contrast between two strikes currently underway. The Hollywood writers are striking for classic and understandable labor reasons. Too much unpaid work and AI threats to skill-estate. They may have picked the wrong TIME for a strike, since the directors and actors unions have already gained new contracts without striking. But…
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Narrow truth, full truth
Trump is making two claims right now. = = = = = The first is narrowly and technically true but omits the only important part. “We have a government that’s out of control.” CHUTZPAH! He started with an out-of-control government, grabbed the steering wheel, and drove it straight into the black hole of WORLDWIDE NAZI…
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More flip
Lately I’ve been noticing establishment types who understand reality better than independent types. This reversal happens only on specific issues. The debt ceiling stageplay is a good example. Yahoo Financial gets it. The whole thing is pure noise, and even the changes made by each “side” to finish the negotiation are marginal and temporary, reverted…
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Another zeitgeist flip?
Another interesting flip in the cultural and partisan landscape. The Hill thinks this is the year when past their prime women as defined by Don Lemon are in the spotlight. The zeitgeist is mocking a judgment by the PERFECT aristocrat. Lemon ticks ALL the Die-Verse boxes, and was a leading high priest of DNC and…
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More carbon flip
This is getting interesting. The antivaxers are now the Gaians, following RFK Jr and worrying about toxic plastics and cheering Erin Brockovich. This is actually a return to their true OCD personality type. And Greta is flipping the other way. Last week she was protesting AGAINST windmills. Now she’s deleting her previous claims that the…
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Another flip
Persia and Saudi are becoming allies and taking the China-Russia side. Saudi has been slowly and carefully moving eastward. Several years ago they started buying weapons from Russia, and they hired Rosatom to build a new power reactor. This new linkage with Persia should worry the US empire more than the commercial ties. Starting in…
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Bet they’ll flip on this
The fake “ideologies” of the “two” parties have flipped on most of their fake “issues”. Here’s one they haven’t caught yet. For many decades “both” parties have been screeching about immigrants getting to “vote”. D wants immigrants to “vote”, R wants to keep them from “voting”. The actual party preferences of several major immigrant groups…
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Poor comparison
Let’s try a comparison of the clubs and interest groups in the 1950s UFO craze vs the 2020 “virus” holocaust. The comparison is messy from the start because the government’s experiments were opposite in form and scale. So I can’t draw a proper analogy. I’m just looking at the organizations. UFO: Government was experimenting with…
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