Light and sound are opposite
Random popup thought:

Signal vs noise has opposite meanings for light and sound.

We are built to need ambient light, but we don't primarily use light for signals. Sunlight gives us vitamin D and immunity, and light helps us walk and work. Reading and writing are innate, but they weren't an important means of signaling until a few hundred years ago.

We are built to use sound for signals. Ambient sound is annoying and unhealthy.

So: Our buildings are designed to MAXIMIZE ambient light and MINIMIZE ambient sound.

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  ¶ 6:14 AM

  Why didn't I know this?
Browsing through Quora, ran into this question:

What is the meaning of the phrase “drinking straws”?

I was getting ready to provide a snarky answer about consuming fermented hay. I googled fermented hay to see if there was a well-known alcoholic drink.

Instead I found SILAGE. Silage is 'pickled pasture', carefully fermented to preserve leftover hay so horses can eat in the winter.

I grew up in wheat country, and I'd seen and felt and smelled silage, but I never knew or bothered to think of it as a USEFUL fermented product.

Even worse, in the '70s I worked for a company that installed systems to PREVENT grain from fermenting, and still didn't know that fermented hay was a useful product.

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A broader question: Fermentation is THE basis of human civilization. Fermentation made year-round living possible. Schools pay very little attention to fermentation. We learned that beer and cheese and bread and pickles are products of fermentation, but we never did an EXPERIMENT in fermentation.

Crude oil is a complex fermented plant-based food product like wine. Before modern tech, oil geologists smelled and tasted oil to determine its vintage and terroir.

If this fact was more broadly understood, we wouldn't have environmental idiots protesting pipelines. (Well, I'm sure idiots would still protest, but at least non-idiots would have a clearer view of the idiocy.)

Considering its ABSOLUTE DOMINANCE of civilization and technology, both ancient and modern, why is fermentation so completely neglected in education?

Is this a leftover of Prohibition? Is fermentation covered better in non-Prohibition countries?

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Random sidenote: Geologists testing oil by taste is an old Okie story. I tried to check its authenticity in old books and couldn't find it. I did find an interesting example of superior Russian petroleum in 1915, just before we invaded and occupied Russia. This paragraph is discussing white oil, now called mineral oil, still used as a laxative:

The question of the taste of the oil, while it may have no relation to its purity, is an important one, because consumers will not buy an oil which carries a petroleum taste. Chemists state the Russian oils are the only ones which approach a state which might be described as tasteless, and that many American oils, being marketed as tasteless, in reality carry a disagreeable flavor which must be removed before the oil can be sold extensively. The chemists have a method of testing white oils for taste by placing a few drops on a bit of bread and then eating it. They say the Russian oils are the only ones which will bear this test without disclosing a petroleum taste.

This leads to an interesting pattern. Three times in 'living memory' we had friendly relations with Russia, then Deepstate cut off the friendship to make war. We were obviously trading openly in 1915, then we invaded and occupied in 1918. We opened up again in the '20s and '30s, with industrial connections (eg Ford) and 'cultural relations'. During WW2 we worked together against both Krauts and Japs. Just after WW2 Deepstate created the Iron Curtain and slammed it shut. The third time was in the early '60s. Again we had 'cultural exchanges and imported some Soviet products. LBJ slammed the door in '68 by going into Vietnam. We never really opened it again. Reagan may have been trying at Rejkjavik, but he wasn't going to push back against Deepstate after Deepstate had shot him.

Labels: asked and worth asking again, NOW I SEE

  ¶ 11:54 PM

  Good question.
A good question seen on Quora:

Can our immune system kill insects?

Obvious answer: No.

But when you step back and ask why not, the question gets more interesting.

Plants have an immune system that does repel and kill insects, in complex and effective ways. When an insect starts chewing on a leaf, the plant sends toxins through its circulatory system to repel the bug. And then the plant tells its neighbors to start fighting this type of insect. The signal goes through stolons or through fungal 'wires' or through the air, depending on how the plant is connected up.

Why do animals lack a similar ability?

I can only think of one reason, which is unsatisfying.

Mammals and birds can shake off an insect, or knock it off with a leg or tail or beak. But this doesn’t seem nearly as effective as the plant method.

Labels: asked and worth asking again, Grand Blueprint

  ¶ 10:32 PM

  Soldier scams
Totally random thought after seeing more of those Prisoner and Soldier scams on Quora. I hadn't remembered this until just now.

After WW2 there was an onslaught of fake-soldier scams. Some were pretending to offer stolen surplus cars and radios, others were taking advantage of GI perks like education and free flights.

The government came down HARD on these scammers, arresting them for impersonating a federal officer.

Why isn't the government getting involved now? Probably because the VA is too busy killing everyone.

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  ¶ 5:06 PM

  Who's communist?
This answer on Quora should be required reading for Americans.

The original subject of school eligibility is irrelevant. One fact is hugely important and SURPRISING.

A child is ineligible for certain public schools if they don’t have the corresponding residency permit, or Hukou. A Hukou is issued irrespective of whether or not you own your own residence.

The source of the confusion is that 90% of Chinese do own their own home. So the chances of you having the Hukou but not actually owning your own home is extremely slim. And vice versa if somebody is a renter, chances are they came to the host city for work, and thus no Hukou.

See that?

90% OF CHINESE OWN THEIR OWN HOMES.

I've been railing against the idiotic propaganda that China is Communist, but I didn't realize how TOTALLY capitalist China is. Russia has similar near-universal ownership.

By comparison, the US percentage is 65% and dropping fast.

Who's communist?

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  ¶ 12:17 AM

  Epidemic of relabeling, epidemic BY relabeling
In the last 30 years economics and science have been totally ruined by RELABELING and REBRANDING. This is a cardinal sin against the rules of measurement. The first principle of metrology is USE THE SAME FUCKING MEASUREMENT FOR EVERYTHING.

Economics relabeled both unemployment and inflation. In recent decades our unemployment is similar to 1930s, but we changed the metric to achieve the desired 3%. In the last few years inflation has been 10%, but we changed the metric to achieve the desired 3%. REALITY DIDN'T CHANGE, ONLY THE MEASUREMENT CHANGED.

"Mental illness" is constantly redefined to increase the number of "cases" who "need" drugs and treatment. Each change in the metric is treated as a REAL increase in "illness".

And of course the 2020 holocaust is pure relabeling. The "cases" trick is part of the game, but primarily the deaths attributed to "the virus" are not new deaths. They're existing deaths rebranded. Move numbers from one column to another, and you've magically created a "pandemic".

I'm disgusted this week at the data-gatherers who are eagerly running with the obvious false flag of Wuhan, after spending an entire year documenting and proving the accounting trick.

Here's a new and admittedly non-serious relabel.

Headline: Earth's fifth ocean confirmed

Hear the word CONFIRMED? Recognize it from confirmed cases and confirmed deaths? It's not a new ocean. Nothing discovered, nothing confirmed. Some fuckhead has decided to relabel the area around Antarctica as the "Southern Ocean". This doesn't fit the traditional standards for oceans or lakes or bays or gulfs. All the real oceans have clear boundaries formed mainly by land, with a "sightable" water gap. The area around Antarctica is just an area.

Change the metric, confirm a new ocean! Presto!

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The biggest relabel of all is NATURAL IMMUNITY. This holocaust has two flanks. One flank, the lockdowns and unemployment and panic and muzzles and distancing, is PERFECTLY DESIGNED to weaken our immunity. ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING that goes into maintaining immunity has been turned upside down. The other flank is memoryholing the entire IDEA and KNOWLEDGE of natural immunity. As I've noted, the idea was already absent in younger folks. Apparently it's been ignored or just mentioned in school "science" classes. In the early part of the holocaust, censorship focused ferociously on wiping out all explanations of real viruses and real immunity, replacing them with the fiendish malware that ONLY VAXES CAN EVER CREATE IMMUNITY.

This point is infinitely more important than the “virus origin” crap, which has always been an obvious false flag.

But WHY? Why is it necessary to eliminate both actual immunity AND the understanding of immunity? Will the next panic be amplified by losing the entire concept of immunity?

Labels: asked and worth asking again, Jackboot stomping forever, Metrology

  ¶ 5:25 AM

  Excellent question
Found on Quora:

How did we just magically figure out that itching relieves bug bites?

It's deeper than it sounds. Scratching is a complex intelligent skill requiring lots of target-seeking. It's not a simple reflex like pulling away from pain. Sometimes scratching requires the use of a tool like a tree or fencepost, especially among animals with less flexible limbs.

All mammals do it, and I suspect birds do it as well.

How did evolution magically lead to this complex response?

Labels: asked and worth asking again, Grand Blueprint

  ¶ 10:13 PM

  Marshrooms?
Now this is INTERESTING.

Sequential pictures show fungus-like objects on Mars, growing and spreading and 'crusting' just like puffballs on earth.

These are convincingly lifelike in appearance.

Another article "debunks" the claim by pointing out that the claimer has been trying for quite a while to see life on Mars, and isn't NASA. Those are irrelevant. A fact is usually discovered by somebody who was looking for it, and NASA's credibility is trashed after decades of Gaian genocide.

The "debunker" says We have mountains of data showing the conditions of Mars are not conducive to life as we know it. Violently false. Life as we know it flourishes in conditions much worse than Mars.

Even worse, the "debunker" tells us that viruses and immunity are pseudoscience, and Fauci is science.

Murderer.

Simple fact: The fungus claim can't be settled without a chemical sniffer. Visual impressions are evocative, but these particular forms could be 'snow-rollers' or growing crystals.

"Debunking" by a vicious murderous liar, who doesn't even bother to question the pictures, tends to raise the credibility of the fungus claim, but doesn't prove it.

These objects are more decisively lifelike to my eyes.

Labels: asked and worth asking again, Carbon Cult

  ¶ 2:03 PM

  Question worth asking
I've noticed a potential trend in the last few weeks. Probably just confirmation bias, but worth mentioning.

The faces in GIF memes are starting to lose their features. The lower part of the face is often bulgy and vague.

After a year of murder muzzles concealing and strangling the lower part, are we starting to lose our shared image of what a face looks like?

Are the mouth and nose obscene, needing the airbrush?

Labels: asked and worth asking again, endless hell

  ¶ 8:01 AM

  Why is it so unusual?
I've always made a STRONG POINT of paying attention to actions, not words.

This is EXTREMELY UNORIGINAL. Actions speak louder than words is an extremely old and well-known proverb, with equivalents in all cultures.

My version is stricter: Actions speak. Words destroy your brain.

Even though it's a universal piece of wisdom, you never hear it in media or schools. All conversations on all topics, from official to "independent" to "alt", are solely focused on words and theories and ideologies and "laws" and "constitutions", paying NO attention at all to actions or intentions.

Most discussions aren't even about allegedly purposeful words. We're just arguing about words that some famous asshole said in response to some other famous asshole, or worst of all, words that some famous asshole didn't say in response to what some other famous asshole didn't say.

How did we depart so far from universal solid OLD wisdom and knowledge?

Labels: asked and worth asking again

  ¶ 7:52 AM

  More on beauty
A beautiful essay about beauty by Tom Gilson at Evolution News.

Nicely associated with previous item.

Gilson asks a good question about deciduous trees. There isn't an obvious answer from either evolution or design.

So both the evolutionist and the proponent of intelligent design can look at the colors and say, “I am having an experience of beauty and I enjoy it.” The evolutionist cannot honestly and coherently say, however, “It’s glorious out there! The trees are beautiful!”

But here as I am write this by dictation, I’m on a two-mile walk that goes mostly through woods near my home. These snapshots came from that walk. And the trees? They are indeed beautiful. We all say that, don’t we? It’s because we all know it’s true. The beauty is in the trees, where it belongs, where we all know it to be. It’s not just in some evolutionary adaptive subjective experience.

This is a gift, a most wonderful way to transition into winter. It could only be intentional.

Nature is commercial. Beauty is purposeful, and intended to induce payment in some form. Honeytraps lit and fig. But what form? What are we as animals (insects, birds, mammals) supposed to do for the trees when we see them dramatically change color? Should we ask the birds and bees? Did older human cultures know the answer and perform the appropriate service? Should we relearn the service?



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Partial answer from the older tribes in next item.

Labels: asked and worth asking again, Grand Blueprint

  ¶ 10:17 AM

  Non-random question
Tardigrades seem to be a 'proof of concept' design for an entirely different form of life. Animals that form long-lasting seeds like plants.

Many successful forms of life seem to have been designed by competing teams with alternate ideas.

All animals and plants exhibit beauty in form or behavior, totally unnecessary for mere reproduction.

When you see competing teams and 'entertainment' in a design, you can be sure it wasn't just for the designer's amusement. It was aimed to satisfy a customer, or aimed to appeal to potential customers. Major studios like Loewy and Pininfarina are always creating displays and exhibits to pull in new work.

Question: Who were God's customers?

Obviously the studio we call God wasn't just working for its own amusement. It was trying to serve some highly demanding customers, and trying to advertise for new customers. Who were they? What did they specify?

The older cultures who had multiple gods with different personalities, interacting with various types of subgods, were probably a lot closer to reality than the more recent monotheistic setups. Monotheism is created by imperial globalists, and reinforces globalism in a deadly positive feedback loop.

Labels: asked and worth asking again, Entertainment, Grand Blueprint

  ¶ 7:48 PM