The seven-sentence rule
The Persuasion substack is run by leftists who claim to be trying for a calmer public discourse. Some of the articles are consistent and objective, without any poke-throughs of the underlying purpose.

When I started reading this one, I had a feeling it would revert to the norm, perhaps because it was written by currently employed academics.

Sure enough, the poke-through came quickly.

Taking stock of our public sphere today is a sobering exercise. Righteous indignation abounds. Everyone shouts; no one listens. The sides share one trait: the conviction that they are absolutely right and their enemies are stupid, misguided, or evil. Perhaps worst of all, their certainty makes facts irrelevant: No evidence could possibly persuade them that they are mistaken.

We understand why so many are so upset. A year in lockdown doesn’t exactly bring out one’s humanity. Having witnessed a decades-long rise in wealth inequality, dramatic changes in climate,

Bingo!

Okay, let's count sentences. How many periods before CLIMATE? Seven.

The authors prove their own point. When we're accustomed to treating a belief as a flat assertion, and everyone around us treats the same belief as a flat assertion not requiring any explanation, it becomes an absolute fact.

Fortunately the rest of the article returns to objectivity, and concludes with a truly persuasive point that should be obvious by now to self-righteous witch hunters of the 1500s or the 2000s:

With influence comes responsibility. Those who acquiesce to violence and intimidation because it is invoked in the name of justice in fact invite it. Actions inconceivable one year become fringe the next, and soon they’re mainstream. Once the intelligentsia condones such excesses, the slide begins. The cancellers are soon canceled. There is no limit to how far that process can go.

The flame starts with the noble mission of burning poor and powerless peasants, but sooner or later the flame flashes back on the nobles.

Later: One of the commenters on the article also caught the CLIMATE dissonance.

Labels: 2000=1000, Equipoise

  ¶ 4:54 AM

  God says TLM.
In previous item I had the tardigrade protesters carrying a 'Tardi Lives Matter' sign, just because it's a typical sign nowadays. I was throwing together a fast silly picture because I felt a shortage of silly pictures. Amusing myself.



Maybe it's not so amusing.

There are many similar critters living in the same places. Arthropods, annelids, nematodes, rotifers. Some are more complex than tardis, some are simpler. Tardis are ordinary in size and complexity.

Only tardis have superpowers.

None of those other critters have special mechanisms to survive all sorts of conditions that don't happen in nature. A shady moss grove doesn't experience gamma rays, vacuum, absolute zero, or being shot from guns.

It's clear that Tardi Lives Mattered in the mind of the designer. Why? Were tardis the original colonists sent to establish life on earth? Or sent from earth to colonize other planets? They have exactly the powers needed for a long spaceflight. After the flight, they live everywhere and they're inconspicuous and innocuous, maybe even cute. Nobody hates them.

Labels: Asked and unanswered, Entertainment, Grand Blueprint

  ¶ 12:53 AM

  SES on programming
Q/A seen on Quora:

Q: What would the first generations of software developers think of today's developers?

A: Win10 describes it all.

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On the dot in 4 words. I'm not quite the first generation; I didn't deal with COBOL and mainframes; I started with Fortran and PDP-11 assembler. That's fairly early.

Win10 uses all of the computer's time and memory to update Win10. When it's not spying on you, it's learning how to spy on you more invasively and efficiently. That's all it does. Occasionally you can slip in a CPU cycle to type one letter on the keyboard if you're really lucky.

Labels: Askedanswered, SES

  ¶ 11:35 AM

  Homers part 2
Speaking of frozen grand slams....

We can now add "being fired out of a gun at high speeds" to the growing list of weird things tardigrades can survive.

The researchers loaded two or three individuals of Hypsibius dujardini into a number of nylon sabots, which were frozen to induce the creatures' hibernation state.

These sabots were then loaded into the gun, and fired at sand targets in a vacuum chamber at a range of velocities from 0.556 to 1.00 kilometers per second.

That's about 1100 to 2200 mph in real measure. The faster shots didn't survive; the limit of survival was about 1800 mph.

I suspect the exact number was 1812.

Labels: Entertainment

  ¶ 2:50 PM

  Thanks Ralph 137, homer edition
Last month I randomly mentioned baseball star Ted Williams, who took endorsement money to front a contest for Nash, then broke the contract and kept the money. A real asshole.

Today I noticed an ODD question on Quora, trying to stir up a conspiracy theory about Ted Williams's frozen head.

WTFFF?

The story is hopelessly weird. When Williams died in 2002 he ordered his body to be cryo-preserved by Alcor Cryonics in Phoenix. Alcor has been in business since 1972!!! and has a couple hundred "guests".

Why was there a particular controversy about Williams, as opposed to the other "guests"?

But the worst was yet to come. Fast forward seven years to 2009, when a book by a former employee of Alcor hit the shelves containing explosive allegations of Alcor’s abusive treatment of Williams’ frozen head. Author Larry Johnson wrote that an empty tuna can was used as a pedestal to support the slugger’s head while experiments (which subsequently cracked his frozen brain) were conducted. When the tuna can became stuck to the head, an Alcor employee allegedly tried to dislodge it by swinging at it with a monkey wrench, in the process missing the can and connecting with Williams’ head instead. Johnson wrote that the impact sprayed “bits of frozen head” around the room.

Grand slam! Out of the park!

Emerson would love it.

But maybe it's a little too much Emersonian justice even for an obnoxious asshole.

Labels: Entertainment, EXTREME SUPREME ABSOLUTE DEFINITIVE FINAL Emersonian justice

  ¶ 2:06 PM

  From an extremely different era 15
From an 1880 guidebook for weather observers, published by the official British Meteorological Council.

Mistrust all rules.

Study all supposed weather signs, and collect all available information thereon.

From those signs which appear in your part of the country to be well authenticated, deduce such inferences as our present knowledge of atmospheric phenomena shows to be probable.

Fancier language than Carver's guidance for scientists, but conveys the same meaning. Can you imagine OFFICIAL guidance starting with Mistrust all rules now?

Labels: Carver

  ¶ 11:06 AM

  Good but not good enough
Texas has joined Florida and a couple others in banning city muzzle requirements.

Good, but still halfway. Banning the requirement isn't enough.

We won't get back to normal until muzzles are EXPLICITLY BANNED EVERYWHERE, AS THEY WERE IN 2019.

Before March 2020, if you walked into a store or bus wearing a muzzle over your nose, Security would ACCURATELY ASSUME that you were a robber, and you would be hauled in for serious questioning and searching.



We need to get back to the ancient Victorian era of 2019. Wearing a muzzle marked you as a criminal, and forcing others to wear ballgags convicted you as a vicious kidnapper. Automatic life sentence.

= = = = =

Later I re-watched the Highway Patrol episode that I had screencapped last year. In retrospect it's even more perfect.

Right here:



the muzzled Fauci is saying

DO AS YOU'RE TOLD and there won't be any trouble.

Labels: endless hell

  ¶ 10:10 AM

  What were the riots for?
The summer riots deserve more attention. I don't have any special info or clear thoughts, just trying to pull the subject back into the open and ask some stupid questions.

Riots are ALWAYS government projects. Anyone can start a small demonstration, but a protest that grows and turns into a riot is ALWAYS sponsored by government.

The sponsorship of these riots was upfront and out in the open. Mayors and governors LED the riots. Can't get more obvious.

Corporations joined in unison, issuing OFFICIAL statements that riots are good for "democracy". Kaiser Permanente issued an OFFICIAL MEDICAL PRESCRIPTION that riots are a necessary part of public "health".

Some of the corporations backed away after learning that BLM leaders were pro-Palestine, but they never disowned their OFFICIAL INCITEMENT TO VIOLENCE.

Can you yell RIOT in a crowded theater? Yes, if you're a Correct Person. In fact you are required to yell RIOT in a crowded theater. Yelling STOP RIOTING is illegal now.

Part of this is normal Deepstate procedure, but where's the connection to the "virus" holocaust?

Media have been telling us for a long time that riots are necessary and good when the riots agree with Deepstate. It was already blazingly clear in the 1992 LA riots.

Was the public "health" connection just a fashionable way to tie the same old statement into today's genocide? Or was it intentional and meaningful?

Open leadership by mayors is new. Previous riot seasons like 1968 and 1992 were not openly led by mayors or governors. Quiet leadership is not new. Political leaders have often been closely tied with gangs, using the approved gang as a private army to blackmail or bomb unwanted citizens and merchants.

And going back even farther, aristocrats led their armies into battle in medieval times.



Now that 1000 has come around on the calendar again, this isn't really surprising.

Labels: 2000=1000

  ¶ 8:38 AM

  Metrology Day 2021
Metrology Day again. A year ago I wrote:

= = = = = START REPRINT:

Polistra always marks Metrology Day. Most of the time she just repeats an old item about WWV.

This year the subject was INFINITELY more important than ever before. The whole world (except Sweden and Belarus) committed a TOTAL HOLOCAUST based on INFINITE VIOLATIONS OF ALL RULES OF MEASUREMENT.

Starting with two items on Jan 25, pretty much everything in this column has been devoted to the HYPERINSANE HYPERDEMONIC INFINITE INFINITE VIOLATIONS OF ALL LAWS OF MORALITY AND SCIENCE by the infinitely satanic holocausters of nearly all countries. No point in repeating those here.

= = = = = END REPRINT.

I was partly wrong about Sweden and Belarus. They were free at that time, but both later converged to the norm. Only Tanzania remained truly free from start to finish.

Since then I've continued to turn out a barrage of 'backfires', trying to assert real science and real measurement in several ways, and trying to make a little beauty when possible.

Now I'm just tired and weary. The bang is ending with a whimper, as always, and we will never learn the truth, as always, and we will never get any explanations or apologies, as always, and there will never be any justice or Nuremberg Trials, as always. The joyous psychopaths will rest from their year-long orgasm, the surviving humans will try to rest and recover, and then the next STOMP will happen in unison when we're least expecting it.

Medieval.

Labels: 2000=1000, Jail mode, Metrology, Trinity House

  ¶ 6:55 AM

  Constants and Variables 164, who hates edition
Totally random note from a bored and sleepy mind wandering through websites.

Among 'intellectual' writers, who hates Islam?

Catholics and Protestants and atheists are constantly slamming Islam itself in all sorts of stupid and bigoted ways, spreading bizarre delusions. Atheists are probably the worst.

[Confession: I was in that crowd before I turned off the TV in 2011. Again I deeply apologize for 10 years of bigotry.]

But: Jewish writers don't hate Islam at all. They treat it objectively and sometimes sympathetically.

Paradox? Israel has been fighting Palestinians since 1948, and occasionally fought other Arab countries.

But: Palestinians are largely Christian. For a long time Israel was allied with Persia, then after the revolution Israel decided to hate Persia.

In other words, Israel's wars and hatreds are ethnic and economic, not religious.

Labels: Constants and Variables

  ¶ 2:44 PM

  Political physics
Just as astrology can be a hard science, political analysis can be a hard science.

Schachtel shows how it's done. Most of the fact-gatherers on the sane side are hampered by a naive faith in "laws" and "liberties" and "ideologies". Schachtel turns politics into physics. Force, friction, flow. Just like Newton or Ohm. He asks the question:

How was the Biden Administration able to flip the switch on COVID Mania and turn off the Safety Regime virtually overnight, after 15 months of a ruthless propaganda and fear campaign claiming that America was in the midst of a perpetual pandemic of endless death and destruction? Luckily for Team Biden, the current White House are beneficiaries of Democrat, or D.C. insider privilege. And because they are part of the insider’s club, they have the ability to control and manipulate the power centers in D.C. at a moment’s notice. To make sense of this rapid, perplexing change of events, you have to understand how our institutions in Washington, D.C. actually work.

He then runs through the forces:

Now, the somewhat level-headed individuals in the Biden Administration have been seeking a way out of COVID Mania for quite some time. While the power grabs related to “the pandemic” have helped the people in charge accumulate power (particularly maniacal state governors) and install an authoritarian Safety Regime, the pandemic policies have also manifested several crises.

The frictions:

The Biden Administration is dealing with countless domestic and international upheavals, in addition to a sinking economy, among many other impending bubbles and catastrophes. They needed a way out as soon as humanly possible. COVID Mania had so many residual effects that it began to threaten the integrity of the entire system.

The flow:

They needed an exit strategy, so they simply asserted their insider privilege, moved the political appointees and the federal bureaucracy into order, and switched off COVID Mania like it was no big deal.

The bureaucratic circuit is protected by diodes. When the force is coming from the correct (D) pole of the president battery, the diode conducts and the bureaucratic circuit amplifies the orders. When the force is coming from the R pole, there's no action, just a lot of Zener noise.

= = = = =

Exactly one year ago I was hoping (but not really believing) that something like this could happen:

= = = = = START REPRINT:

One simple change would help tremendously.

Elect Biden.

Replacing the puppet in the White House wouldn't change the behavior of the Federal dysgovernment. Biden puppet and Trump puppet are identical passive mechanisms controlled by the same Master. But it would definitely change the actions of the governors and the media.

The holocauster governors are driven by infinitely evil bloodlust, but they are also driven by a specific hatred of Deplorables. In their cranial cavities Trump represents Deplorables, so he must be removed. Removing him would relieve some of the pressure in those alien cavities.

For damn sure electing Biden would solve the media end of the holocaust, immediately and completely. The media aren't in direct control of the ovens and gas chambers, but they are providing the fuel and the torches. If Biden was in the White House, the media WOULDN'T HAVE ANY MOTIVATION to continue killing millions of Americans. They would want their team to succeed. The Branded Witch Flu would instantly be treated as just another ordinary annual flu season, which would accidentally agree with fucking reality.

= = = = = END REPRINT.

I was underestimating the elasticity of the federal bureaucrats. They turned out to be changeable after the Orange Witch was burned.

Incidentally, this final flip OUGHT to prove to anyone who still hasn't figured it out that the entire holocaust is a HOAX.

The demonic governors have suddenly abandoned their Phases and Dashboards and Data and Cases. On May 3, Demon Inslee was getting ready to pull most of the state back into a stricter Phase because Cases. Now he has announced a full reopening on June 30. The start had nothing to do with "viruses" and the end had nothing to do with "viruses". Inslee's boss gave a new command and Inslee obeyed. That's all.

THEY KNOW IT'S A HOAX BECAUSE THEY CREATED THE HOAX.

Tiresome but still crucial: We still don't know how the orders were given and what threats accompanied the orders. More importantly, we don't know anything about the PREPARATION before the start date. Everything clicked in perfect unison on March 12, 2020. You don't get a million bureaucrats in 200 countries to act in perfect unison without a couple years of training and rehearsals and drills. All of this shit was going on under the radar. Every Public Death Office in every city and county and province through the world was running through these rehearsals without giving anything away.

More abstractly, we still don't know the PURPOSE of the holocaust, the cui bono. There are several economic winners, like Amazon and Big Pharma, but those gains don't seem to balance out the much larger economic losses by governments and other corporations.

My usual Ockham answer is that there's no defined purpose. It's just psychopaths running rampant, deciding to work together for mutual sexual satisfaction. A global circlefuck. A planetfuck. This may be too simple, but at the moment I can't see anything more complex.

Labels: endless hell, infinite evil

  ¶ 12:46 PM

  Another home run by Avi Loeb
Loeb analyzes orthodoxy.

He starts with the response of other astronomers to his assertion that a big space rock might be an alien spacecraft.

Innovation blossoms in a culture willing to acquire new knowledge rather than being trapped in its past belief system. A mainstream astronomer who worked on rocks in the solar system for decades commented grudgingly: “‘Oumuamua is so strange…. I wish it never existed.” Such a sentiment is not the trademark of an intellectual culture that fosters discovery. In the weeks following the publication of my book I received numerous e-mails from astronomers, some tenured, who confessed that they agree with me but are afraid to speak out because of the potential repercussions to their careers.

Loeb sticks to astronomical questions, thus avoiding THE BIGGEST CRIME IN HISTORY, which is probably wise. Writers who want to keep their heads attached to their necks need to talk sideways. In a total tyranny, oblique references are harder to chop. See nursery rhymes.

I notice only one missed point:

Finding extraordinary evidence requires a commitment of extraordinary funds. This was true in the successful searches for the Higgs boson or gravitational waves, and it is definitely true in the so-far unsuccessful search for the nature of dark matter. Lack of evidence can be a self-fulfilling prophecy, the result of not investing enough in the search.

Might be true in quantum crap, but it's NOT true in biology. Big money and big equipment haven't made any big discoveries. In fact big money and big equipment LIMIT your vision, because (as Loeb noted) the grantors and administrators are unwilling to devote part of the big equipment to an unpopular search.

Big discoveries happen when you take off your equipment, take off your theory goggles, and

LOOK ABOUT YOU.

TAKE HOLD OF THE THINGS THAT ARE HERE.

TALK TO THEM.

LET THEM TALK TO YOU.

Labels: Carver

  ¶ 8:26 AM

  When copywriters open up
This article by Tamara Wilhite is far more valuable than any technical discussion of AI.

Wilhite is a copywriter who has written some of the scripts used by AI bots and also some of the scripts used by human call centers. She gives a long set of REAL Turing tests, based on speed, variability, and language.

Her point is that the dividing line isn't digital talkers versus human talkers. The dividing line is programmed talkers (both silicon and wetware) versus unprogrammed talkers, who are only wetware. You can't really distinguish a programmed silicon writer from a programmed wetware writer. They are both on the mechanistic side of the line.

Reminds me of the 1944 book by Marynelle Williams, another copywriter telling us how copywriters work.

Labels: Not AI point-missing

  ¶ 10:01 PM

  Exponential as a counterweapon
This is BEAUTIFUL.

The article discusses a recent Moscow Arbitration Tribunal ruling ordering Google to restore Tsargrad’s YouTube account, which the censors had deleted citing the usual vague pretext of “community guidelines violation.” The best part: “The consequences are financial, and exponential. For the first week of non-compliance, Google would have to pay a little over one thousand dollars, nothing to speak about there. But afterwards, the fines double each week, and in half a year’s time Google would have to pay over $70 billion!”

Demons are exponential. Demons use exponential increase as a math weapon to scare people shitless. They tell us FALSELY that population and CO2 and viruses increase exponentially, and they create exponential predictions to run the holocaust.

Finally we have an exponential PUNISHMENT against the exponential CRIMES!

Like fighting a forest fire with a back-fire. Fighting mathfire with mathfire.

Labels: defensible spaces, Equipoise

  ¶ 12:44 PM

  Astrometeorology 3: from static Ferguson to magnetic Kepler
Picking up from previous post on James Ferguson.

Previously I showed a couple of science entertainments using static fields to drive gadgets. Ferguson's main focus was orreries or planet simulators.

He began with another static-driven toy:



From the top:



In action:



A simple orrery, not intended to be accurate, using 'electrical spray' to drive the earth and sun. Each pivot represented a center of gravity, and a pointed pin on each concentrated the overcharge and let it spray, like a reaction rocket.

= = = = =

Now I'll use Ferguson's real orrery as a branching point to a larger topic. (In later parts I'll return and use the orrery for more specific conjunctions and oppositions.)



This is a geocentric orrery unlike most modern types. The earth is the central pivot, and the sun and planets orbit around it. The mechanism is driven by a clockwork motor in the can under the sun.

Running through a year in fast motion:



And the same from above with other stuff cleared out, showing only the planets:



= = = = =

Detour into determinism vs freewill.

There's no way to figure out which is ultimately right. Most indications tend toward determinism in most things. We may have freedom of decision in small things, but negative feedback should pull us back toward natural law.

Islam says that since we can't know the real combination for sure, we have to assume determinism.

Christians were totally for freewill, and the Endarkenment of the 1700s got SERIOUS about freewill, (see "rights") in order to give full range to the Innovative Disruptive psychopaths of the French Terror.

Assuming determinism leads to a happier and healthier culture. If you know how things are supposed to run, you can detect departures from Natural Law and steer back into the lane. If you don't resonate with a natural pattern, you're vulnerable to every new monstrosity. As we see now.

= = = = =

Back to astronomy:

Islam picked up astronomy from the Greeks around 800 AD, and refined it tremendously, always aiming to know the will of the universe by reading the patterns of planets and stars.

When Euros came back to astronomy in the 1500s, they picked up the Islamic work and resumed along the same lines. Early astronomers were purely astrologers in the modern sense.

Kepler was interested in the stars for useful purposes. He designed a system of weather prediction, and was also thinking about human influences.

He explained the motivation for his work:

A most unfailing experience of the excitement of sublunary natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets, has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.

The excitement of sublunary natures includes everything that happens on earth.

At that point in history astrology WAS a science in the precise sense. Astrologers observed and measured star and planet positions in order to predict weather and cultural changes. Other scientists observed and measured the positions and shapes of electrostatic fields and magnetic fields. Others observed and measured the positions of small physical objects in order to predict and build engines and mousetraps. Same practices, same methods, same focus on USEFUL RESULTS.

Nature is lawful. Nature is determined. If we can figure out the laws, we can use them reliably.

At that point in history, astronomy on its own was ENTERTAINMENT. If you just wanted to see the stars and paint pictures of them, you were having fun, not trying to do useful work.

The two purposes FLIPPED, by a mysterious and accidental coincidence, at the same time as the French terror. Robespierre and Marat needed to abolish all beacons, all external influences and predictive laws, so they could be perfectly FREE to destroy minds and culture and people. So they declared purposeful science to be "unorthodox science" and banned it.

= = = = =

And back to Ferguson's geocentric orrery.

Holding the earth steady makes it easier to chart and visualize how planetary angles cause sublunary influences. In a heliocentric model everything is moving, so it's much harder to see.

The interplanetary magnetic field is shaped by the motions and magnetic pulls of all the planets. For the sake of modeling, I've drawn the magnetic field as a surface below the planets. Venus has a positive pull and Mars has a negative pull. This corresponds to one Kepler-derived scheme of planetary influence, attributing raininess to Venus and dryness to Mars.

When Venus and Mars are in opposition across Earth, a sharp gradient is formed:



When Venus and Mars are more distant and off-angle, there's no particular gradient around earth, so no particular influence:



This field does a good job of modeling the influences found by Kepler and his followers through experiment and observation.

What's the mechanism? The interplanetary field shapes long-term weather patterns in two ways, one definite and the other speculative.

1. Definite: The field directly moves and shapes our semi-liquid iron core, which moves heat into different areas of the globe. The icecaps are melting FROM BELOW, not from above. The Gulf Stream is being redirected FROM BELOW, not by the atmosphere.

2. Speculative: Bacteria and other plankton are magnet-driven. They navigate by the declination of the field, riding a declination line up or down. When the declination lines change, as they are doing now, bacteria move in different ways, redistributing shade and photosynthesis and nutrition in the ocean. Think Nino/Nina.

The magnetic field shapes human behavior in two ways, both speculative.

1. Our cerebellum has an antenna for electromagnetic fields. We don't do a lot of navigating, but we respond in unknown ways to changes in the planet-scale field. When it's stronger, we may be more synchronized and harmonious. When it's weaker, we have less guidance. As now.

2. Bacteria again. Our digestion is performed by bacteria, which are presumably responsive to magnetic fields like the ocean bacteria. When the field weakens or strengthens, they will behave accordingly. Right now the earth's field is weaker, which means the bacteria are confused and sluggish. See Obesity.

The next part will dig into the Islamic approach in more detail.

Labels: Entertainment, Natural law = Sharia law, Trinity House

  ¶ 6:40 AM

  Is the ice starting to crack?
The bonfire may be starting to burn the torch carriers. I don't want to get overexcited and jinx it.

Gates is supposedly being punished for sexual harassment, per the standard #metoo crap. According to this Verge story, the main problem is his Epstein connections, not his affair with a female employee.

This is the FIRST time Epstein's blackmail empire has been cited as a problem that needs investigation. Previously he was just treated as a pervert, skipping over the giant worldwide absolute total power structure of sexual blackmail and extortion.

Parallel to the old Lone Gunman trick. An assassin is always a crazed wacko who heard voices in his head telling him to kill the president. It doesn't matter if the assassin was a close friend of the vice president or a known employee of Deepstate. He obviously didn't listen to those voices, only the voices in his own head. Got it.
  ¶ 6:19 AM

  Question worth thinking about
Seen on Quora, a rare good question.

How can we infer an increase/decrease in the global skepticism of science?

We know that vast numbers of people stopped trusting Public Health, especially when Public Health and all corporations declared in unison that RIOTS CURE EPIDEMICS.

But how can we get a commercial and quantifiable metric for this distrust?

When people stop trusting a car brand, sales go down. When people stop trusting the Episcopal Church, tithing goes down. When people stop trusting a TV network or newspaper, the clicks and advertisers and subscribers drop. All are measurable decreases in revenue.

There aren't any mass-consumption science magazines or science shows. All the magazines are basically aimed at insiders. Subscribers are part of the secret-keeping priesthood. They're not ordinary churchgoers or customers who can lose trust. They're helping to generate the distrust. They know it's a hoax because they're building the hoax.

So there's no measure equivalent to tithing or subscriptions, no way to quantify trust by outsiders.

Labels: Asked and worth asking again, Metrology, Parkinson

  ¶ 3:01 PM

  Switched and witched
One aspect of the holocaust deserves more attention. I touched on it briefly before, and it's becoming more obvious now.

Testing and wellness laid the foundation for a fake "epidemic".

Heroic martyr Magufuli understood this from the start. He disproved the fraud at the start when he showed that the official "virus" tests came out positive for samples from a goat, a papaya, and a quail.



I'd been growing suspicious of wellness for a while before this shit started.

Wellness switched the whole basis of medicine from patient-driven to clinic-driven. And wellness also WITCHED the basis of medicine.

Before wellness, you went to the doctor when you felt something was wrong. A competent doctor could distinguish fake reports by intuition, and a chemical or histological test could verify fake reports or hypochondria. In audiology, the OAE test is conclusive because it's completely unfakable, completely uncontrollable by willpower.

After wellness, all tests are performed all the time whether you think you're sick or not. You're screened and MRI'd and colonoscoped regularly, often doing serious damage for no purpose. If you're stupid enough to use a cellphone, you're tested every second of your life.

The central tenet of witch hunting, as per Sprenger and Kremer and Fauci, is that you are not competent to know whether you're evil. Your own claims of innocence are PROOF of witchery. Your own sense of health is PROOF of "science denial". "Asymptomatic" is the most dangerous form of "illness" now.

Before wellness, you made the claim, and the test could prove or disprove your claim. After wellness, the test makes the claim, and YOU HAVE NO WAY OF DISPROVING THE CLAIM AT ALL. The test can be fake, and CDC is finally admitting just now that a huge number of them were fake. The testing procedure was cranked up and down to achieve the desired result, which is LETHALLY BAD SCIENCE by any standard.

No matter what you say and do, the inquisitors can turn it against you. They own all the testing equipment and clinics and doctors and prescribing authority and courts and legislatures and presidents and governors and mayors.

It's one against all, and the one has zero chance.

= = = = =

Credit footnote: This realization was triggered by two things.

1. I've noticed that the most zealous Fauci cultists are 'medicalized' people who had already surrendered their own decision power to constant wellness testing. They take all the tests and get all the surgeries when ordered. Do as you're told.

2. An episode of 'FBI in peace and war' about a fake antique fraud. Owners of valuable collections have their paintings and furniture checked, refinished and reupholstered regularly, to maintain the value and keep the insurer happy. The scammer provides this maintenance service. Instead of fixing and returning the valuables, he substitutes an excellent reproduction and fences the original. The collector isn't alert for fraud because the checking is routine.

Labels: Constants and Variables, endless hell

  ¶ 12:24 PM

  Ig-Nobel winner before the contest starts!
Mammals can breathe through their asses.

First, they designed a system to administer pure oxygen into the rectums of mice. They then exposed mice to lethally-low oxygen environments and found that mice rectally receiving oxygen lived at least 60% longer than mice not receiving oxygen – roughly 18 minutes vs. 11 minutes. The scientists subsequently found that if they thinned the lining of the mice's posterior intestine, the mice could live radically longer when hooked up to the system. With this method, 75% of mice lived more than 50 minutes while in lethally-low oxygen conditions. Intestinal 'breathing' effectively allowed them to survive in an environment devoid of oxygen.

The diagrams alone win the prize. The artist decided to go for cute instead of gory.

It would be fun to hear the article read by a Touretter who can't resist making appropriate and original comments.

More seriously, this could open a path to survival for people who have lost lung function from cancer or emphysema or tuberculosis.

Labels: Entertainment

  ¶ 11:40 PM

  Two metaphors
The fast-changing brief side effects of the Moderna vaccine reminded me of two things.

1. Seriously, Room 101/Github.

2. Non-seriously... Once in the 80s I was dogsitting for a friend who was traveling. Her dog was an elderly French Bulldog named Beau, short for Colonel Beauregard. Beau liked beer, so I tried letting him lick a spoonful of beer from my hand while I was drinking.

Beau ran through the stages of human intoxication in fast motion, scaled to his small body and small brain. Calm, affectionate, staggering, fighting, asleep, all in 5 minutes.

These 'effects' are running through a typical flu episode in fast motion. A vaccine is a scale model of a virus, so this makes sense.

I checked Quora just after writing the above, and received a pile of items about small dogs. The Internet Knows Everything.

Labels: Entertainment, Trinity House

  ¶ 4:37 AM

  Slow smolder
While the holocaust is starting to burn out in SOME places, older demonic movements have been smoldering under the surface like Centralia coal.

Here's one that finally burst out to the surface MUCH later than I figured. When Bergoglio took over from Benedict, he seemed to be accelerating toward hell in the usual exponential way, and I figured he'd require abortion in a year or two.

He's finally getting there:

The head of the Vatican’s doctrine office is warning U.S. bishops to deliberate carefully and minimize divisions before proceeding with a possible plan to rebuke Roman Catholic politicians such as President Joe Biden for receiving Communion even though they support abortion rights.

This is actually a return to medieval practices, like everything else now. The church often allied itself with one dynasty of imbecilic psychopathic aristocrats against another dynasty of imbecilic psychopathic aristocrats, and required its followers to obey the favored dynasty. Party is the modern word for dynasty.

Labels: 2000=1000

  ¶ 8:54 PM

  Should be a lesson, won't
Spending way too much time on Quora lately. It's unhealthy but hard to resist, especially when I'm too weary to do serious work on courseware or graphics. Just one more cigarette, just one more little drinky...

Quora is dominated by hero-worshipping autists. They see only the top, and they believe fervently that they deserve to reach the top INSTANTLY. Nietzsche, Rand, and Seneca are the goal-setters. How do I make a billion dollars in a week? How do I create the next world-changing innovation?

Until two days ago Elon was the capo di tutti capi. Everyone wanted to be Elon, everyone wanted the privilege of kissing Elon's ring or other parts.

Suddenly the field has reversed. Now Elon is Trump.

Why? Elon said bad things about Bitcoin, which is the Holy Eucharist of the superstar autists.

The worshippers should learn a lesson from this, but they won't. Superstar status is instantly reversible. You may reach the top, but one wrong word will cancel you. This isn't new.

When you do what you're MEANT to do, whether it's coding or cooking or car-washing, your position is much less fragile and you have more real freedom.

Potential energy applies to status as well as gravity. Some people are naturally higher than others. Stretching beyond your natural height is fragile, and elasticity has a limit.

Labels: defensible spaces, Natural law = Sharia law

  ¶ 8:47 AM

  Got the poke.
The process itself was quick and simple and free. I waited until it was available in a pharmacy near me so I wouldn't have to spend a long bus trip under muzzle to get there.

First dose May 11: So far the side effects (Moderna) are weird but small. Non-weird: The arm muscle is sore, which is a natural result of any shot. Weird: In the first few hours, I went through brief phases of side cramps, headache, slight fever, slight chills, and general fatigue. I don't remember having any of those effects from a previous flu vax a few years ago, but none of them were serious.

Update: Second dose June 9 was noticeably worse, as many others have reported. One day of real misery, fever and chills. Pretty much done the second day, but still not feeling quite healthy.

A week after the second dose, an odd delayed reaction. I got a mosquito or spider bite on my leg. Bug bites always itch for a day then go away. This one grew into a six-inch red rash, which stayed for about a week before fading. THIS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE IN 71 YEARS OF BUG BITES.

And a month later (7/15) I went into Holocaust central for my annual prescription renewal theater. I've been doing this for 10 years. They always take some blood to satisfy their vampire urges. This year, for the first time, the blood test caused a bruise. Technicolor, lasted THREE WEEKS, finally faded out August 5. THIS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE IN 10 YEARS OF THE SAME TEST. Constants and variables: Consistent with previous effects of vax, inconsistent with previous effects of the blood draw itself.

= = = = =

Why did I do it? Three reasons.

1. Consistency. As a non-psychopath and non-demon, I'm bound to hold onto real science and keep my promises. Leave the Room 101 fast switches to the demons. Unlike all the other satanic "measures", vax is part of real public health. I've said several times in this blog that I'd be glad to do it, so I did it.

2. Consistency from the opposite angle. Along with willingness to do REAL things, I'm also bound to reject the false flags on my side. The German skeptics have fallen under the spell of RFK Jr, who is unquestionably an AP. He's still a major officer of Gaian organizations, and he's pushing anti-vax more than anything else. This is the classic two-sides trick. Deepstate always draws the skeptical side into violent and inverted acts, in order to make the skeptical side look horrible. Trump did the job for populists, and RFK Jr is doing the job for real scientists.

3. Lottery ticket. At the moment some of the national demons are temporarily implying that they might grant tiny micromicroprivileges to people who have been vaxed. Possibly we might be graciously allowed to gather in groups of 2 instead of only groups of 1 for a few milliseconds, and possibly we might be allowed to distance only 874.39 kilometers instead of 874.40 kilometers. Superdemon Inslee will never go along with those dangerous and unorthodox risks, but at least I can look at the rest of the country and imagine what it would be like. The odds of a change here in Superdemon Inslee's Superhell are roughly Powerball Cubed, but if I don't have the ticket I won't be in line for the one in a quadrillion probability.

= = = = =

Next day: CDC has gone all the way FAKELY, stating that fully vaxed people can live a normal life EXCEPT WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. This is a classic political trick. Congress has been playing this game forever. One branch passes a "law" that sounds good, knowing perfectly fucking well that the other branch will erase it. Trump played the game with executive "orders", writing "orders" that sounded good until you read the fine print. In fact every "order" suggested that agencies might consider doing the right thing unless they wanted to do evil. So they continued doing evil.

Labels: #WholeOfSociety, endless hell, Natural law = Sharia law

  ¶ 11:22 PM

  Superdoublethink
This is encouraging and ferociously scary at the same time.

MIT media researchers infiltrated the "virus" data gatherers and watched how they worked.

MIT was shockedshockedshocked to find real science going on in science circles. The report acknowledges straightforwardly that the "virus" data people are using perfectly correct facts and perfectly correct scientific methods. That's the encouraging part.

The anti-maskers’ deep story draws from similar wells of resentment, but adds a particular emphasis on the usurpation of scientific knowledge by a paternalistic, condescending elite that expects intellectual subservience rather than critical thinking from the lay public.

Since the dissenters are the real scientists, should the paternalistic condescending elite switch to real science? Of course not. Real science is "horrifying", their word, and real science leads specifically and exactly to the "violent coup of January 6", their words.

They conclude that the Establishment needs to lie more effectively and faster. They think that CDC's wavering and fast changes of rules made it easier for the "horrifying" real scientists to gain ground.

They're wrong about this, because REAL SCIENCE DOESN'T CHANGE. The most important difference between the real scientists and the holocausters is on the issue of change. Real viruses and real immune systems have been interacting for a billion years. The rules of this interaction have been known consistently and steadily for a hundred years. If there is a real "virus", it is claimed to be the same type of virus as the common cold, which is extremely well understood. All the "measures" of this holocaust had been tried before and INSTANTLY rejected by real public health before 2020.

If this entity requires constantly changing and brand-new "measures" which do not work on viruses, THIS ENTITY IS NOT A VIRUS. IT IS A HOLOCAUST. And it's also a perfect display of how psychopaths work. Change the rules, demand obedience, change the rules, demand obedience, never let the victim regain balance.

Without the fast change the whole thing would be far less effective.

And without the FIRST change the whole thing wouldn't have happened at all. If the Establishment had continued using the normal rules of public health as determined by 100 years of experience, there wouldn't be anything to write about. Assuming for argument that there was a real virus, hospitals would have ramped up as they always do, the virus would have spread quickly among the UNLOCKED AND UNMUZZLED AND UNDISTANCED population as it always does, 99.9% of the people would have tossed it off and gained immunity without even noticing more than a few sniffles as they always do. NOTHING WOULD HAVE HAPPENED.

The holocaust happened because it was meant to be a holocaust. It was scheduled in advance. All demons in all countries were ready to go into demonic action IN UNISON on March 12. We still know nothing about the preparation and planning and synchronizing.

= = = = =

Later thought: The scariest part is that the MIT monsters are casually calling normal science "unorthodox science". Flat assertion.

From 1700 to March 2020, every single piece of real science was ORTHODOX. How do you stay healthy? Fresh air, sunlight, exercise, work, keep clean but not obsessively clean, stay happy, get sleep, have contact with people but not promiscuous sex. These rules were universal. These rules were as orthodox as gravity. The monsters flipped every single rule upside down, and now the upside down version is orthodox.

No. No. No. Nature didn't flip. Viruses didn't flip. Immune systems didn't flip. Scientific method didn't flip. Mathematics didn't flip. The only fucking thing that flipped is your DEMONIC MONSTROUS INCALCULABLY EVIL INCOMPREHENSIBLY INSANE HOLOCAUSTAL "MIND".

= = = = =

Later again: I used doublethink in the title but didn't get around to the actual doublethink. Here it is: The MIT demons spent several pages observing ACCURATELY that the skeptics are real scientists, then instantly turned around and concluded the opposite. This is like running a basic physics experiment and recording that objects fall downward, then concluding that objects fall upward.

"I've proved that objects fall downtherefore objects fall up."

The INSTANT and PAUSELESS flip is pure Orwell. It's also pure Sprenger and Kremer.

Labels: constants and constants, endless hell, Jackboot stomping forever, Jail mode

  ¶ 9:55 AM

  They don't skill 'em like they used to.
Vintage.es has a wonderful photo feature showing a HUGE ship being towed through the Chicago Ship Canal in 1953, with only a few inches clearance at some points. The ship was being refitted for Great Lakes bulk carrier service, and Chicago Shipbuilding was contracted to do the work. The planners had to do some serious math and geometry to determine if the move was possible, and clearly they got the math right. The ship carried freight until 1979, then was cut down to a barge and served until 2012. It's still functional but not currently used.

Compare with the ship jamming up the Suez Canal, despite modern GPS and computer autopilots.

DESPITE always means BECAUSE. When you rely on high tech you lose your contact with physical reality. River and canal captains before tech knew every foot of their banks and beds, AND took physical soundings to verify the shape.

USE IT OR LOSE IT.

Labels: Carver, skill-estate

  ¶ 12:55 AM

  Superstar vs Carver
Some botanists are starting to realize the trouble with tenure and grants. A welcome dose of real humility.

It turned out that the species that were most at risk of extinction weren’t the most likely to be written about. Instead, appearance seems to play a big part in research interest, as they report in the journal Nature Plants. For example, plants with blue flowers were found to be studied the most – much more so than brown or green ones. Also, the taller the plant was, the more likely it was to appear in scientific publications. This disparity could be chalked up to what Mammola and Adamo deem an “aesthetic bias” in botany. “We pretend as scientists to be the quintessential example of objectivity,” says Mammola. “But in reality, we are just as biased as the rest of the world.”

Tall people have all the advantages. Blue-eyed blondes have all the advantages. Turns out to be true with plants as well.

Plus, research tends to follow a self-fulfilling cycle: the more that is known about a certain species, the more likely it is to be studied by other researchers. “And then all the efforts in the fundraising or whatever happens to go towards that one, and then others sort of fall by the wayside – and go extinct,” says Cowell.

Tenure perpetuates orthodoxy. Funding always goes to the most popular views and theories and plants.

Here's the junction point with Carver:

She encourages early-career researchers to pay attention to all the plants around them, not just the ones that catch their eye. “Be the next group of discoverers and explorers. It may be in your own backyard.”

Carver specifically studied the plants of the South, the plants that his people knew, the plants that could help his people. He advised scientists:

LOOK ABOUT YOU.
TAKE HOLD OF THE THINGS THAT ARE HERE.
TALK TO THEM.
LET THEM TALK TO YOU.

Labels: Carver

  ¶ 12:31 AM

  Tension and tenses
The familiar old song about Casey and the strawberry blonde has a highly unusual verb tense.

Here's the Transco Chorale version:



Part of the words:

Matt Casey formed a social club
That beat the town for style
And hired for a meeting place a hall
When payday came around each week
They'd grease the floor with wax
And dance with noise and vigour at the ball.

Each Saturday you'd see them
Dressed up in Sunday clothes
Each lad would have his sweetheart by his side.
When Casey led the first grand march
They all would fall in line
Behind the man who was their joy and pride.


Casey would waltz with a strawberry blonde
And the Band played on;
He'd glide cross the floor with the girl he adored
And the Band played on;
But his brain was so loaded it nearly exploded,
The poor girl would shake with alarm.
He'd ne'er leave the girl with the strawberry curls
And the Band played on.


First, brain is clearly a euphemism. The song is about the body part that serves as a young man's brain. If the actual cranial cavity was pressurized, the girl wouldn't notice it while dancing. Alarm is also a euphemism for the source of the girl's quivering.

Second, the constant use of would is rare and possibly unique among songs. It's not a conditional or volitive; it's a past/present imperfective. Waltzing is what Casey habitually did and still does.

Labels: Asked and not worth asking, Language update

  ¶ 5:17 AM

  Irrelevant point-missing
Since I'm in Not My Dream mode today, here's a completely irrelevant pet peeve. Youtube's 'suggested for you' extrapolates pretty well from what I'm watching right now. When I'm looking at an Intelligent Design lecture, it finds a similar ID clip.

But when I'm not currently watching, the suggestions always default to a type of entertainment that I've never watched on Youtube. Suggested thinks I want prime-time comedians from the 60s. Johnny Carson, Rodney Dangerfield, Mel Brooks, Don Rickles, Monty Python. I didn't like those assholes when they were live, and I've never watched them on Youtube. This has been the default for several years. Where does it come from? It's not smart AI.

Labels: AI point-missing

  ¶ 3:04 PM

  MacDream
Weird dream this morning, definitely not 'my kind of dream'.

I was involved in a palace coup that installed Robert MacNamara as president, to restore order after decades of chaos.

Thoughts after waking:

Terrible idea, because Mac's purpose for order was always aimed at magnifying Mac's personal power, not helping the corporation or the country. He was similar to Trump in ultimate goals, but different in the effect on the govenment. Mac created real order and structure for his own purposes. Trump creates massive chaos for his own purposes.

But Mac's way of achieving order would be appropriate and necessary. Like Trump, he was a master of backbiting, sneaky tactics and internal blackmail.

What we really need is a Putin, a master of spycraft and sneaky tactics who has a burning need to improve the country, not to serve himself.

Of course we were blessed with a Putin from 1932 to 1945. FDR's goal was the same, and he accomplished it. He restored order to the economy and solved all the problems that government was able to solve. He didn't create any new problems at all.

His sneaky tactics weren't visible or known, but he couldn't have accomplished anything without suppressing and out-extorting Lady Edgar. There might have been a deal: Lady Edgar was given new authority and budget to go after bank robbers and kidnappers, and in return she had to keep her filthy hands off everything else.

Labels: Equipoise

  ¶ 4:50 AM

  Laughter is learning
When you treat everything as entertainment, you can live longer and MOST IMPORTANTLY you can learn more.

When everything is EMERGENCY PANIC DEADLY SERIOUS you're not allowed to learn anything.

Learning includes 'science', as I've been pushing lately, and learning also includes the basics of human behavior.

= = = = =

Why was Jordan Peterson unnecessary in the 1930s? Because HARDASS human nature was part of entertainment. There were romantic songs for sure, but there was also a constant theme that marriage is more trouble than it's worth. The unattached life had its own romance. If you weren't MEANT to be married, you had more freedom.

These views were already extinct when I grew up in the '50s and '60s. Marriage was automatically assumed to be necessary and wonderful. If you weren't MEANT to be married, you weren't qualified to live. Take one for the team NOW.

= = = = =

Recently my bedtime playlist has included a 1933 series called Mirth Parade. (It doesn't seem to be available free online.) The verbal part of Mirth Parade was low-quality humor by any standards, mainly contrived puns** that reached 10 feet beyond funny to cram in a combination of words. Like many of the syndicated shows, the musical part was brilliant.

An episode about sailing and boats includes two HARDASS representations of romantic reality. Neither song would be singable today. Reality is CRIMETHINK, in 'science' and human behavior.

First a version of the familiar Barnacle Bill, not quite legally obscene but HARDASS real. This is how the world works.

Barnacle Bill.

Second, a totally forgotten lively number about a sailor with a dame in every port.

Two-buck Tim from Timbuktu.

Choral version of the same song.

A young man who grew up with the ability to PERCEIVE reality and LAUGH at reality wouldn't need Jordan Peterson to develop him into a Peterson cultist. He'd know how to HANDLE reality.

LIFE IS PURPOSE.

ENTERTAINMENT IS THE OPPOSITE OF GENOCIDE.

LAUGHTER IS THE OPPOSITE OF DEATH.

= = = = =

** Contrived puns...

An advice columnist answers a question.

Q: My husband is Norwegian and he drinks a lot. Should I expect him to be waiting for me when I return from vacation?

A: No, he won't be waiting for you. Norse is Norse and souse is souse, and never the train shall meet.

= = = = =

Musical sidenote: Many of the Mirth Parade episodes include a performance by Florence Gill, the Barnyard Nightingale. She sang classical numbers like a chicken, in a remarkably realistic way.

The Barnyard Nightingale

Here's an article about her later career working for Disney.

Labels: Alternate universe, Entertainment

  ¶ 10:39 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

  Reprint on Don't Be There
Reprinting this item from 2018 to maintain my own resolve.

= = = = = START REPRINT:

Puppet show. APs versus APs. Both dangling from Deepstate strings. One set is called "Patriot Prayer Puppets", other side is called "Antifa Puppets".

The script says Antifa wins, so Antifa wins.

The lower-level participants are unaware of the scripting. They believe they're "moving the world" or some such shit. The only thing they're doing is strengthening Deepstate. Deepstate uses CONFLICT to justify more spying, more tyranny, more extermination. Parkinson, Parkinson, Parkinson. PAY ATTENTION.

At this moment the Antifa participants are accidentally more honest, since they are OPENLY defending CIA, NSA, Goldman, and Military. They doublethink that they are "resisting" something or other by openly supporting CIA, NSA, Goldman, and Military. Perhaps one or two of them will realize the doubleness and give up, but I doubt it.

If you want to "change the world", there's absolutely no ACTIVE way to do it. The best you can do is AVOID strengthening Deepstate. All you can do is STAY THE FUCK AWAY from these atrocious fake puppet shows. Don't invite "controversial" speakers, don't join protests, don't join movements. Speak the truth when possible, do your duty.

= = = = = END REPRINT.

Survive. Be medieval. Be useful.

Labels: 2000=1000, From rights to duties, Natural law = Sharia law, Parkinson

  ¶ 2:08 AM

  Which came first?
Mentioning chickens in previous item reminded me... Girls were sometimes called chickens in 1930s and 1940s radio shows. NOT chicks. Chicken wasn't nearly as common as dame or doll or gal, but it appeared now and then in jokes and songs.

Example 1 from a 1933 Mirth Parade:

Why are you so grumpy today?

A chicken got into my new garden and ruined it.

Well, you shouldn't feel bad. The same thing happened to Adam in the Garden of Eden.


Example 2 from a 1950 'Ignorant':

Why is a man like a worm?

Because some chicken always gets him.


Chick seems to have started in the '50s, probably with the Beats.

This online discussion completely misses the chicken to chick transition, mainly assuming that chick came from chica.

Labels: Language update

  ¶ 9:19 PM

  Good slogan, not easy to follow
Slogan seen on Tumblr:

Buy art by living artists. The dead ones don't need the money.

Well said. What's more, buying 'great masters' doesn't help any artists at all. It only puts more money into a corrupt trading system that mainly serves as money-laundering.

Unfortunately the living artists and living manufacturers are completely skipping a wide range of good products. Nobody is composing classical music. Nobody is building practical and attractive cars. All four-wheeled vehicles are web-connected and grotesque. Nobody is building analog electronics.

If you want attractive and non-Satanic products, you often have to buy old stuff. I wrestle with this question. There's no simple answer. I try to buy from smaller vendors, and avoid anything connected to Amazon or China, but often the "smaller" vendor is just a cover story for reshipping Amazon.

Labels: Answered better than asked

  ¶ 9:58 AM

  Confusion to the enemies
The new 'Persuasion' website on Substack is trying to mute the harangues and lectures and condescension from Satan.

This article is nominally about Google creating 'eco-friendly' routes for drivers, but the author is really pleading for less screeching.

Paternalistic actions by corporations, often built on these heuristics, can also have unexpected consequences. Epicurious, the food and cooking website, recently decided to stop publishing new recipes with beef to promote sustainability. But performative actions like this can actually create a backlash against the very cause they are promoting. People simply resent being manipulated, which can turn them off to environmental causes more broadly.

Correct. Teaching and selling by example ALWAYS works better than teaching and selling by lecture. Equally true of teaching math, selling cars, and selling religion.

Create a living example, or a living lab experiment, or a living demonstration of the product. Make the example available. ALLOW the student or buyer to EXPERIENCE the skill or religion or product. No screeching necessary.

This isn't new. Wisdom has ALWAYS advised teaching by example.

Consider the Mormons. You never see a lecture or troll or screech by LDS types online. They're smarter than most of us (including me). Mormons just live their ordinary happy lives. The neighbors NOTICE a happy and functional family, with no drug problems or misbehaving kids, and the neighbors then NOTICE that the functional family is LDS.

That's real persuasion.

Fortunately the Gaians and Faucians aren't going to listen to this good advice. They have total demonic power, and they're fully committed to persuasion at the point of a carbon-neutral gun, or persuasion by a carbon-neutral muzzle. Two kinds of muzzle, same result. Physical compliance plus total rejection of the idea and total STUBBORN adoption of opposite ideas.

In this case the opposite ideas are sane and normal and genuinely scientific, so the result is good for our minds and deadly for our bodies.

Labels: Carbon Cult, endless hell, Experiential education, Jail mode

  ¶ 8:11 AM

  Brilliant experiment, brilliant description
Paleontologists at Yale are using casts of the inner ears of dinosaurs to infer the lifestyle of the dinos.

Because we've been making such casts of modern skulls for a long time, we know how the configuration of the vestibular system correlates with motion patterns of living animals.

The form of the vestibular system is a window into understanding bodies in motion.

One vestibular cluster corresponded with "sophisticated" fliers, species with a high level of aerial maneuverability. This included birds of prey and many songbirds.

Another cluster centered around "simple" fliers like modern fowl, which fly in quick, straight bursts, and soaring seabirds and vultures. Most significantly, the inner ears of birdlike dinosaurs called troodontids, pterosaurs, Hesperornis, and the "dino-bird" Archaeopteryx fall within this cluster.

In other words, dinobirds were chickens.

We also know how the configuration of the cochlea correlates with frequency range of living animals.

Bhullar said the data suggest that the cochlear shape's transformation in ancestral reptiles coincided with the development of high-pitched location, danger, and hatching calls in juveniles.

It implies that adults used their new inner ear feature to parent their young, the researchers said.

"All archosaurs sing to each other and have very complex vocal repertoires," Bhullar said. "We can reasonably infer that the common ancestors of crocodiles and birds also sang. But what we didn't know was when that occurred in the evolutionary line leading to them. We've discovered a transitional cochlea in the stem archosaur Euparkeria, suggesting that archosaur ancestors began to sing when they were swift little predators a bit like reptilian foxes."

An important distinction on the production side might complicate these inferences about the reception side. The configuration of the vocal tract determines the style of singing.



Default mammals, with spine and head horizontal, have very little resonance. The larynx is immediately followed by the mouth, which is typically open on both sides. There's no cavity or tube or column after the larynx.

Humans, with spine and head vertical, are built like a pipe organ or train whistle. The pharynx is a closed Helmholtz resonator above the larynx, with the mouth branching off and providing another closed resonator.

Birds are bugles. The mouthpiece or reed is at the bottom of a long resonator with muscular control. The beak is open on both sides like a cat, but the beak isn't needed as a resonator.

Resonators phase-lock the song into discrete notes.

The cochlear inferences are mixing fox-type and bird-type dinos together, which misses an important part of the signaling and coding ability. Bird-like discrete notes make language possible. Fox-like howling is a signal, but doesn't allow for detailed coding by discrete symbols.

Labels: Grand Blueprint, Language update

  ¶ 4:51 AM

  Astrometeorology 2: James Ferguson
Following from intro to the subject.

I'm going to slide into this sideways, starting from the junction point of entertainment and science exemplified by the Magic Lantern. Reminder: The magic lantern was an animated video system. Its slide-projector descendants were rigid.

James Ferguson was a highly unusual character in the aristocratic world of British science. His family was poor but smart. He was born in 1710 and immediately showed talent in mechanics, improving and inventing devices for the family farm. He was apprenticed out to a variety of farmers, millers, and aristocrats. Some mistreated him, others recognized his talents in math and astronomy and gave him room to develop. At age 30 he finally found his niche, the unique occupation that mixed math and mechanics and astronomy.

Orreries. Planet simulators. We'll return to those in the next part. First some entertainment.

Ferguson joined the fashion for electrical entertainment, building and demonstrating gadgets that used electrostatic fields to form complex animation.

Polistra likes this one:



A static-powered mill.



The negative emitter of the static generator is brought near a delicate mill made of paper. The 'electrical spray' repels the paper vanes, causing the mill to rotate. As each vane rotates, it loses the charge it had acquired from the spray, returning to neutral. A neat parallel to the potential energy of gravity in an overshot water mill.

= = = = =

The Electrical Sportsman is a more complex gimmick, perhaps not made by Ferguson.

The emitter from the static generator is connected to the center pole of the Leyden jar under the birds. As charge builds up, the birds tied to the pole repel each other, and float out and up on their wires. When the voltage is high enough to discharge to the gun, a spark shows at the end of the gun, and the bullet is repelled toward the birds. The center pole discharges, letting the birds fall back down as if shot.





In the next part I'll dig back into the history of astrometeorology, starting from Ferguson's geocentric orrery.

For now,

ENTERTAINMENT IS THE OPPOSITE OF SECRETS.

ENTERTAINMENT IS THE OPPOSITE OF GENOCIDE.

LAUGHTER IS THE OPPOSITE OF DEATH.

Labels: Entertainment, Equipoise

  ¶ 1:59 PM

  Interesting experiment, unsatisfying description
Via Gizmodo:

The Parker Solar Probe, Collinson realized, had actually travelled through Venus’s atmosphere, providing the first direct measurement of the Venusian atmosphere in nearly 30 years. Parker had detected natural low-frequency radio emissions, which are associated with planetary ionospheres—an atmospheric region packed with plasma, or charged gases.

By measuring the frequency of this emission, we can directly calculate the density of the ionosphere around Parker, finding it to be far less dense than previous missions have encountered,” wrote the scientists in their paper. “This supports the theory that the ionosphere of Venus varies substantially over the 11 year solar cycle.”

Makes sense, and doesn't even need to be called a theory. We know that Earth's ionosphere varies with the sun's activity, so we expect that the same happens even more on Venus, which is closer to the sun.

"Low-frequency emissions" is vague. Without an audio recording it's hard to tell what this means. I suspect it means the hisses and scratches of an active ionosphere, familiar to SWLs and hams. Hisses and scratches may be LF as seen in a long-term spectrum analysis, but they're mainly transients, so mainly HF as heard by the ears. LF without any other description implies a low hum or gradual seismic wave, not a discharge or transient.

Big Science always describes things in a timeless way, by spectra or by statistics. Humans don't sense the world in a timeless way, and useful thinking always requires a time axis.

Later: this NASA video includes audio. The sound is warbly, not hissy. It's described as a "data sonification", which is completely meaningless without more specs. Is it similar to a plain AM receiver, or is it a way of representing something or other with sound?

Labels: Blinded by Stats

  ¶ 8:21 AM

  Random auto export thought
Stirred by seeing a Packard limo of the Clipper era in an Egyptian movie:



These limos were never seen here. Packard exported most of them.

"Thinking" more, I realized that Cadillacs are never seen in foreign pictures. This applies to movies, and also to old street shots from various places. In every country without its own carmakers, US cars were common in the 30s and 40s. But the luxury end of the US range was NOT Caddy. Buicks were the top GM car in most countries, and Packards were also more common than here.

Why Buick? One possible explanation is the Canadian McLaughlin Buick company. McLaughlin made its own cars at first, then allied with Buick, then became a GM division. Because of Canada's close ties to England, McLaughlin took care of GM's exports to England and other RHD countries. British royalty chose Buicks, and the rest followed.

Asia was RHD following British colonial tradition. China and Korea switched to LHD, but the rest of Asia is still mainly RHD. So a ruler or rich asshole in those countries was more likely to buy Buicks.

Footnote for clarity: GM had its own divisions in England and Germany, but those plants didn't make US brands. They made Vauxhalls and Opels, which were completely different from US cars until very recently.
  ¶ 7:20 AM

  Interesting experiment, uninteresting result
An article in New Superstitionist describes an interesting experiment with an uninteresting result....

Bats are born knowing the speed of sound. This may not be shocking, as they rely on echolocation to find food and avoid crashing into trees in the dark. But unlike birds that learn their songs, or lions that learn to hunt, bats seem to be born knowing how to echolocate.

The comparison doesn't work well, and the experiment shows why, but the author doesn't understand why.

To see whether bats can adjust their echolocation to accommodate changes in the speed of sound, Eran Amichai and Yossi Yovel at Tel Aviv University in Israel trained eight adult Kuhl’s pipistrelle bats (Pipistrellus kuhlii) to fly to a perch within a chamber pumped full of oxygen and helium. Because helium is less dense than other atmospheric gases, sound travels faster through it.

The helium interfered with the bats’ echolocation timing and caused them to aim short of the perch. At first, this was expected, but the adult bats never learned to adjust.

The basic distinction is clear, whether you explain it by evolution or design. In Nature the speed of sound is constant, so there's no reason to evolve or design a mechanism that adapts to the speed of sound. Hearing CAN be rigid at this level, so it is.

Other behaviors depend on the situation right here and now. Hunting is different when the main prey is deer or squirrels. The speed of prey is variable.

Labels: Constants and Variables

  ¶ 11:14 PM

  Speaking of rules
Partial reprint from last July.

= = = = = START REPRINT:

Thus I'm left with two explanations that aren't immediately disprovable.

1. A bar bet between Bezos and Soros. Hold my beer while I destroy the world. Who can reach the ultimate finish line first?

2. A test of all humans and human leaders, performed by God or Satan or an alien civilization.

For now I'm going to run with the test, because at least it provides a survival purpose for those of us who are trying in various ways to expose and oppose the holocaust.

It also fits with the old Sharia view of Natural Law.

The Almighty has created this world as a trial and test for man; every person has therefore been made to depend on others for his living. No one in this world can live independently as regards his needs and requirements. A person of the highest rank turns to the most ordinary to fulfill them. In other words, every single person has an important role to play, without which this world cannot continue.

This role depends upon his abilities, intelligence and inclinations as well as upon his means and resources, which vary from person to person. In fact, it is because of this variation that a society comes into being. Consequently, laborers and workers, artisans and craftsmen, tillers and peasants are as indispensable as scholars and thinkers, savants and sages, leaders and rulers. Every individual is an integral component of the society and contributes to its formation according to his abilities.

By creating various classes of people, the Almighty is testing whether the big and the small, the high and the low create a society based on co-operation and respect or create disorder in the world by disregarding the role each person has been ordained to play.

= = = = = END REPRINT.

It's a direct contract between God and humans. God gave us the infinite gift of life and order and beauty. In return we're expected to maintain and increase order and beauty. Pay for value. Equipoise.

This still makes more sense than the Christian crap about "original sin" and "image of God". It explains the setup with no unnecessary entities.

Here's an instantiation of the test code, from one of the hadiths:

Whoever of you sees an evil must then change it with his hand. If he is not able to do so, then he must change it with his tongue. And if he is not able to do so, then he must change it with his heart. And that is the least of faith.

Directly follows from the variation in abilities and RESOURCES.

When Bezos and Soros cranked up the most massive evil in the history of the world, EVERYONE who could have changed it by hand (economic and political bullypower) joined the evil. Legislatures, courts, churches, businesses. ALL eagerly joined the holocaust. NONE even momentarily pretended to oppose.

This doesn't relieve the duty for those of us who can only oppose by tongue or heart. We still have the duty because we received the gift. Pay for value. Equipoise.

Labels: Equipoise, Natural law = Sharia law

  ¶ 11:32 PM

  The old inverse rule works
Interesting item from Wolfstreet. One of the offshoots of the holocaust is a shortage in the semiconductor industry, for reasons that aren't quite clear.

Intel is making clear and sane moves to counteract the shortage. It's building more factories in US, and halting the share buybacks that were its main source of profit for the last few years. More real work, less finance. Good!

My father used to say "If you want Democrat policies, vote for a Republican. If you want Republican policies, vote for a Democrat." Now R and D are meaningless, but his inverse rule seems to be showing up as Populist vs Globalist.

Trump scampaigned as a Populist, and did everything possible to advance Globalism. Our imports from China increased during Trump after holding steady during Obama.

Biden campaigned as a Globalist, and certainly is a Globalist. But now the pressure from NYC is off. Corporations no longer have to avoid the slightest hint that they might be making Trump look good. Now increased employment will make Biden look good, so it's permissible.

Fine with me. I don't give a fuck how you justify the right result. Just DO the right thing.

Labels: Equipoise

  ¶ 2:19 PM

  Ummoleth
Satan always starts a sentence with Ummmmmmmm......

This has been obvious for at least 15 years. It became grotesquely murderously obvious during the holocaust. Any time you see this demonword (or variants) at the start of a written message, you know without reading the rest that the message was written by Satan, using force and verbal violence to destroy truth and culture and civilization.

For clarity, this doesn't apply to speech. Humans often start sentences with various hesitation sounds, without knowing it or intending any meaning.

Labels: endless hell, Leth

  ¶ 6:17 AM

  Beautiful AI point-hitting
The vast majority of questions on Quora are either absurd or stings. The vast majority of answers (including most of mine) are snarky and nasty. Snarky can be fun.

Here's a rare example of a serious question that brought a variety of serious and SIGNIFICANT answers.

Why are so many software engineers against the Internet of Things?

All the answers are worth reading. This one hits the proper points neatly:

One trend is to collect more and more data about the Internet users and find more and more creative ways to monetize this data in more and more creatively unethical ways.

The other one is to switch more and more services and products from purchase model to rental model.

Between these two trends there is a lot of sentiment among the tech crowd that the wide spread of IoT devices will provide a lot more potential for misuse in both directions.

In the first trend it will enable household IoT devices to gather a lot more private data without your consent. Would you like your IoT bed to tell Google how much sex you have? And if your partner(s) have their phones with them, Google might even find out who you have sex with! Isn’t technology wonderful?

Creatively unethical is a perfect hit.

Real programmers have been arguing against other uses and fantasies of AI as well. Programmers know how these things work, so we know how they can be misused, and we also know which goals are physically impossible fantasies.

How come nobody listens to these Experts? I thought Experts were in charge of the world?

The reality, of course, is that expertise is NOT the relevant variable. Deepstate is the only variable. Experts who agree with Deepstate are experts. Experts who disagree with Deepstate are Anti-Science Anti-Intellectual Deniers Who Must Be Exterminated.

Labels: AI point-missing

  ¶ 5:04 AM

  The biggest One Exception, still there!
I needed a beacon, so I checked in with Tanzania.



Still free and sane, despite the death of Magufuli. His death was suspicious, but apparently it wasn't a full-fledged coup by Satan. It might have been a coup by another politician who simply wanted to take the power. In any case it's clear that the blessed country hasn't changed.

THANK GOD FOR ONE BLESSED SANE COUNTRY.

Labels: infinite GOOD

  ¶ 2:29 PM

  Not surprising
Article in the misnamed "Conversation" outlines the development of voice profiling as used by Deepstate.

In one Amazon patent, a device with the Alexa assistant picks up a woman’s speech irregularities that imply a cold through using “an analysis of pitch, pulse, voicing, jittering, and/or harmonicity of a user’s voice, as determined from processing the voice data.” From that conclusion, Alexa asks if the woman wants a recipe for chicken soup. When she says no, it offers to sell her cough drops with one-hour delivery.

None of this is surprising. I was working on this stuff in academia in the '80s. At the time I didn't foresee the evil reality. After I caught the shadows of NSA working in the same areas and sometimes subsidizing the academic side for replication, I shied away from that line of work. It could have beneficial uses, but frankly the beneficial uses haven't materialized. Only the Deepstate uses.

Labels: TMI

  ¶ 9:12 AM

  Who said it? Nobody said it.
I was vaguely thinking about the BushRush style, which became the only form of public discourse after 1990.

It definitely started with Bush Senior in politics and Rush in media. Never complete a thought. Always jump unexpectedly to a new subject. Psychopath mode.

Above all NEVER APOLOGIZE and never explain. If the current statement clashes with what you said 7 seconds ago, you might "clarify" that what you said 7 seconds ago was just parody and irony. Beyond 7 seconds, no need to worry because the audience has automatically memoryholed it for you.

Now everyone in public life speaks the same way. Disconnected ramblings, changing at every moment, constantly shifting the subject and switching the truth. Trump's scampaign speeches were perfect.

It's one version of Room 101, but it wasn't directly foreseen by Orwell.

When was the last time you heard anyone in politics or media or ESPECIALLY SCIENCE say "I was wrong"? (The whole point of science, according to the textbooks, is admitting when previous results and theories are wrong!)

Just for fun I tried googling "I was wrong". 90% of the items were about some rock-and-roll noisemaker who had a hit "song" with that title. The other 10% were mocking televangelist Jim Bakker for saying "I was wrong".

That's it. Nothing else. Nobody except Jim Bakker said "I was wrong" in public during the period that Google examines.

See also flat assertion, the core of this technique.

= = = = =

Self-calibrating: I went back through the archives of this blog to find verbatim "I was wrong". (Not looking for other ways of saying the same meaning.) There are about 20 instances of "I was wrong". About 1/3 of them were apologizing for a previous attitude or assumption which was actually right. In other words, I was converging to fashionable neocon idiocy and apologizing for being unfashionable before. The other 2/3, especially after turning off the TV in 2011, were in the correct direction.

One major exception in the later period: When Brexit finally happened in 2019, I was happy to see Boris getting it done, which I had never expected. "I was wrong" that it couldn't happen. Soon I realized that "I was wrong" about being happy. As soon as Boris got Brexit, he started ruining Britain even faster than EU had been ruining it. He wanted Brexit, and pushed it through to completion, so he could be free of EU constraints on his own power.

Labels: endless hell, Jail mode, metametrology

  ¶ 5:57 AM

  The Shadow knows
The Internet Knows Everything Immediately.

For a couple weeks Quora has been hitting me with ads for TalentLMS, a full-service LMS somewhat similar to ScormCloud. Quora obviously knows that I'm a courseware developer, so the ad is well targeted.

I tried out the LMS, and found that it's remarkably easy to use and control, and also 'stiffer' than ScormCloud in terms of rejecting poor coding. It rejects the same thing that Canvas rejects, and it's vastly faster and more reliable to use. Canvas is just plain slippery. You can't tell where you are or what you need to do next. Feels like walking on ice.

I'm trying to reach compatibility with Canvas, which is hugely popular for unknown reasons. What I need is a Canvas-like test that's easy to use, so I can run repeated trial-and-error without mystery and frustration. TalentLMS fills the bill. I plunked down a significant amount of money for a yearly subscription to get more storage, more users, and more help. This will be my measuring standard now, instead of ScormCloud.

Immediately after the payment, the ads disappeared from Quora.

Labels: Metrology

  ¶ 11:43 AM

  More on the Law Of One Exception
Continuing with the One Exception Rule, we still have exactly ONE fact about the holocaust, and exactly ONE apology from participants.

The apology isn't consequential in terms of power. It's a strong and beautifully worded apology, but the young priest didn't do anything bad, so he didn't need to apologize. He simply went along for the ride when the church leaders decided to lockdown and muzzle. If he had objected, it wouldn't have made any difference. A young unconnected priest in a poor area can't move the cardinals and popes. But he can move his own soul, and his GUTS can help to move the souls of believers and unbelievers who hear him. (Including me.) So the apology was eminently worthwhile sub specie aeternitatis.

Labels: Metrology

  ¶ 8:09 AM

  Still more on church attendance
Phil Lawler makes a nice clear comparison. Catholic churches started losing people after Vatican II, and every "reform" since then has made the church more comfortable for elite intellectuals and more disgusting for working-class Catholics.

Now the Vatican is banning the traditional Latin mass.

Lawler's sharp point: Nobody needed to ban the Edsel, because nobody wanted to buy the Edsel. An object or practice is banned because it's popular. Rules don't forbid actions that nobody would do in the first place.

The Ford analogy also works the other way. When people ARE buying your product, don't screw it up by trying to make it resemble some other brand.

Old Henry never made that mistake. He produced the T for 20 years, and half of all the cars in America were Ts. He saw no reason to change.

When Henry II took over in 1948, he started making holdem/foldem mistakes, including the Edsel. He tried to copy GM's brands and practices, and failed every time. Ford customers bought Fords because they liked Fords, not because they wished Fords were more like Chevys.

Church leaders make the same mistake. At one time half of all Americans were Roman. Then the church decided that their customers would really rather have the cool "religion" seen in cool places, so they tried to copy academic and media weirdness. They shouldn't be surprised that they're losing. Catholics go to church to get real Catholic masses, not to get Unitarian Gaia-worship. If they wanted Gaia, they'd be in the Unitarian building.
  ¶ 7:21 AM