Norm seems to be 40% down from last year. That's a bankruptcy-size decline for businesses that run mainly on debt. Vanity toys like WaPo can sustain it, because super-rich fuckheads like Bezos have infinite resources.
This shouldn't have been surprising. When you tie your ENTIRE existence to FUCK TRUMP, and TRUMP disappears, your reason for existence disappears.
I noted this problem in 2017:
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I read an article about Pininfarina's 1961 dream car, the Jacqueline. Pininfarina was trying to get Cadillac to make the car, and the name (as in Jackie Kennedy) was meant to be part of the appeal.
It was a DAMNED PRETTY car, but GM didn't bite. It's clear from actual results, if not from written history, that AMC did bite on the styling. The perfectly pretty 1963 Rambler clearly follows the same lines, and the timing is about right. Ed Anderson gets full credit for the '63. I doubt it. His previous "own" designs were clumsy, and his previous designs with official help from Pininfarina were pretty. So the influence, official or otherwise, seems like a good bet.
Naming cars after people other than the company founder has always been a jinx, so it's easy to see why nobody picked up the name.
Around 1930 Marmon named its sub-luxury car the Roosevelt, after Teddy. Just in time for the other Roosevelt to become a hissing and a byword to Marmon customers. A little later Studie named its new cheap car the Rockne, after Knute. Just in time for Knute to get killed in a plane crash.
This should have been an obvious marketing error. Politics and football are team sports, with passionate fans and anti-fans for each politician or coach. When you pick one side you automatically lose the anti-fans as customers, even though they might have liked the car.
So we don't have a Cadillac Ivanka or a Chevy Nixon or a Ford Paterno.
Lincoln is a major exception to the rule. I guess the jinx doesn't apply with people who are far enough in the past that they have fossilized into household words. It certainly applies to people who are alive at the time of the naming, because living people can surprise you.
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Media were also making another mistake BY THEIR OWN STANDARDS. A plot in soap opera runs for six months. When FOX and CNN turned "news" to soap opera in 1990, they continued the rule. A major story always ran for six months. This one has gone on without any change for 18 months, so it shouldn't be surprising that the people have moved on.
Labels: Emersonian justice
Consider the following case of what I call ‘knowledge insertion’ from The Matrix (1999). In the movie, the protagonist Neo discovers that the world as he knows it is a computer simulation designed to help enslave humanity. To free humanity, it (apparently) helps to know kung fu. While Neo doesn’t know any, he doesn’t need long to learn it. Via a computer cable plugged into the back of his skull, the martial art is downloaded into his mind, instantaneously making him an expert. If you could, would you follow Neo’s example and ‘insert knowledge’ – or indeed any other valuable dispositions, such as character traits? After all, it’s not just knowledge that Neo has ‘inserted’, but the kung fu ability that the kung fu knowledge has enabled. In fact, there are many desirable states that can’t necessarily be reduced to ‘knowledge’ – such as being courageous, intelligent, creative, funny and athletic – but might be facilitated by it.A skill is not a "state", whatever the fuck that means. A skill is a complex set of microprogrammed and FLEXIBLE responses to a physical process. Training involves a long and intentional interaction with the weapon or the hammer or the frying pan. Real trainers put the student through a controlled 'play' of the real process, deliberately creating the oddities or accidents that typically occur during the process, without the deadly consequences of real mistakes. JOHN TILLSON goes on to examine how learning really happens, and relentlessly smashes every part of the process without ever saying why the real thing can't work. The real thing is bad because JOHN TILLSON SAYS SO, and that's all. Michelet as usual:
Here lies Sprenger's real merit, which is beyond dispute. He is a fool, but an intrepid fool; boldly and unflinchingly he lays down the least acceptable doctrines. Another man would have tried to elude, attenuate, soften objections, —but this is not his way. Beginning on the first page, he sets down openly and displays one by one the natural, self-evident reasons there are for disbelieving the satanic miracles. This done, he adds coldly, "Merely so many heretic mistakes." And never pausing to refute the reasons given, he copies out the texts on the other side, St. Thomas Aquinas, the Bible, legends, canonists, and commentators. First he shows you what common sense has to say, then pulverises it by weight of authority.Now the scary part, showing JOHN TILLSON'S real purpose, which is of course the same as Sprenger and Kremer:
Even if we dodge the threat of replacement by downloading a modest suite of knowledge at a suitably gentle pace, we might still worry that knowledge insertion would make us become someone we wouldn’t want to be. This isn’t always a problem. Suppose Neo was racist and wanted to stay racist. I’d say that losing his racism as an unexpected and unwanted side-effect of uploading kung fu would be objectively serendipitous. Any antecedent hostility to becoming non-racist wouldn’t constitute a problem: it should be a welcome becoming.A welcome becoming. Straight out of Comrade O'Brien. Most of the commenters are just fussing about grammar points or definitions. One gets the difference between real experience and injected "states". None of them are bothered by the scary part. And that's the scariest part.
Labels: #WholeOfSociety, Experiential education
Labels: #WholeOfSociety, Asked and badly answered, switchover
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What does this picture contain? Labels: Leth
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It is also interesting to note that Lower Middle Income countries (LMICs) like India do not consist of many citation elites. This in turn leads to less publicity or attention on studies conducted in those countries.This fits with an oddity I've seen in the holocaust.
Only a few MDs and virologist types have dared to defend real science against the holocaust's total reversal of all logic and facts and science. MOST of those heroes have Indian names. This is true in US and Canada and Britain and Germany. I haven't been following other countries but wouldn't be surprised if it's the same there. I don't know what causes this correlation, but it's a STRONG correlation. Were scientists from India left out of the demonic circle of secrets and blackmail? Distrusted by Deepstate, or just forgotten?Doubly interesting: India is the only place where caste is OPENLY AND EXPLICITLY recognized. Every society has strict caste rules, but everyone except India hides the rules. Hidden rules are easy to manipulate. When a society runs on the vicious myth of meritocracy, high-status people can pretend that their place is justified by hard work.
Labels: Constants and Variables
Medical men are rarely politicians, and for this the medical profession should be devoutly thankful. At the the same time so long as doctors are impotent politically they are likely to be shorn of their rights. The ordinary citizen, now that the medical practitioner has been divested of the mystery that enshrouded his calling of yore, is likely to subject the medical profession to an analytical consideration based on ignorance and on a superficial education. The rise of preventive medicine, largely in Great Britain under governmental control, has tended to imperil the independence of the doctor, and to place him somewhat at the mercy of a bureaucracy whose policy seems to be guided by expediency. The American people understand far better than those of Great Britain the importance of hygiene and are more open to educational propaganda on the subject, despite the fact that the medical profession do not count for much in politics. When the masses have learned thoroughly the lesson that good health is the most valuable asset that a nation or individual can possess, and that doctors can or should be able to show how this invaluable possession can be gained and retained, then they will insist that medical men shall be invested with such political power as shall enable them to carry out plans designed to promote health.Relentless propaganda for wellness and testing led us to insist that doctors should have the power to carry out PLANS. And sure enough they did. Eugenics, torture, mass murder. PLANS. Compare this with the more open and honest pressure exerted by the Public Death Officers in Sweden, as documented by Ibsen in 1900.
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I turned 18 in Feb 2020. I lost my friends, my education, the first year of my adult life, my mental health, and 20lbs. I didn’t make sacrifices. I was sacrificed.This is the purpose and the erotic joy of our demonic satanic rulers. Sacrificing all meat objects to Satan provides an endless infinite orgasm.
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1. Democrats are all unmuzzled. They should be thanking Gov Abbott for unmuzzling Texas early and firmly. Instead they're fucking around with stupid shit about voting. Abbott is also fucking around with stupid shit about voting. I forgive him for returning to the stupid shit because he showed GUTS on the ONLY FUCKING THING THAT MATTERS. He gets a free pass forever on stupid partisan shit.
I don't forgive the demons. From the start they've been unmuzzled in their giant mansions and exclusive private clubs while clubbing the rest of us to death.
2. Unchartered territory has pretty much replaced uncharted territory. In this case it's literally wrong, since this is obviously a chartered plane. Commercial flights, along with public transit, still require ballgags. Again the fuckheads should be thanking the charter operator for supporting HEALTH instead of MURDER, but they're not.
3. Even allowing for the turboprop malaprop, there's nothing uncharted about politicians playing quorum games. It's an old routine, used by both "sides" at various times.
Labels: Language update
The torquetum or turquet is a complex and sophisticated instrument characteristic of Medieval astronomy and the Ptolemaic tradition. It was a product of Christian Europe in the late 13th century. It could be used to make measurements in the three sets of astronomical coordinates: horizon (alt-azimuthal), equatorial, and ecliptic. It also provided a mechanical means to interconvert between these sets of coordinates without the use of calculations (it served as an analog computer), and to demonstrate the relationships of these coordinate sets. Modern scholars attribute the torquetum's use largely for demonstration purposes and "conspicuous intellectual consumption."Nice phrase! In other words it was more entertainment than science. The torquetum combined the motions of the astrolabe and the qibla-finder, and added even more motions. Note the vertical and horizontal alidades, for sighting sun and stars:
Here the torquetum runs through all of its possible motions:
It certainly would have been impressive! Maybe not educational.
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A smaller and perhaps more useful tool was the Horary Dial:
This was made in Vienna around 1500. I can't find instructions for the usage of the triple-jointed arm or brachiolus, so Polistra will just wiggle it around.
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The Navicula was more elegant and more useful. It was an artistic version of an astrolabe, designed to look like a ship. In other words it was both an analog computer and a literal computer. Naviculas were made in several European countries, from Venice to Colchester. I'm animating the Colchester version.
The mast rotated from side to side, and carried a cursor sliding down a scale of latitude. A plumb dropped from the middle of the instrument so you could determine the angle of the entire navicula.
Back view: The cursor had its own plumb, with a sliding bead.
Here I'm simply rotating the entire instrument, pausing to show the alidade feature. You would sight between the slots in the end castles.
Putting it through its paces, from the front:
And from the back:
Plenty of action, plenty of scales and moving parts.
Now Polistra will follow David King's instructions.
1. To use the instrument, we first set the cursor on the mast to the
latitude.
2 Then we rotate the mast to the solar declination on the lower
scale.
3 Next we set the bead on the thread at the solar declination on
the side scale.
4 When the instrument is tilted so that the rays of the sun pass through the hole on the upper sight and fall on the corresponding part of the lower sight,
5 ... the inclination of the horizontal axis of the instrument measures the solar altitude. The bead then falls on the appropriate marking of the hour-scale.
Labels: Entertainment, Equipoise
Do note that creating incentives to uncover fraudulent research will be incentives to falsely frame genuine research as being fraudulent (which I consider at least as bad, if not worse). There is really no escaping in the current system - you can try to address some of the symptoms, but you cannot change people's behavioural patterns.It's time to do for research what FDR did for banks. Shut down and sort out. We need a year-long LOCKDOWN of all research. Not just medical research, ALL ALL ALL ALL research. None of it is necessary. A very few projects are aimed at solving real problems. The vast vast vast majority is aimed at CREATING problems and killing people. During the year-long pause, sort out the good from the bad. Carefully resume the dozen or so useful projects, using a Trinity House approach, via a mutual insurance structure.
Each project must bring in a profit by saving lives. The funder charges a fee to the companies that benefit from increased and improved lives. Any project that doesn't actually save actual lives will be cancelled forever.
Labels: Experiential education, Real World Math
I am science. Do as you're told.
We need to understand what has happened. We need to return science to its former role as ENTERTAINMENT.
ENTERTAINMENT IS THE OPPOSITE OF SECRETS.
ENTERTAINMENT IS THE OPPOSITE OF GENOCIDE.
LAUGHTER IS THE OPPOSITE OF DEATH.
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** Language footnote: The history of red ink in liturgy is interesting! It started with carpenters using red ochre to mark "cut here".
Labels: Constants and Variables, Entertainment, Equipoise
When THE GUARDIAN starts telling the truth, you know the game is nearly over.
New Zealand hospitals are experiencing the payoff of IMMUNITY DEBT CREATED BY COVID-19 LOCKDOWNS, with wards flooded by babies with a potentially-deadly respiratory virus, doctors have warned. Wellington has 46 children currently hospitalised for respiratory illnesses including respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. A number are infants, and many are on oxygen. Other hospitals are also experiencing a rise in cases that are straining their resources – with some delaying surgeries or converting playrooms into clinical space. RSV is a common respiratory illness. In adults, it generally only produces very mild symptoms – but it can make young children extremely ill, or even be fatal. The size and seriousness of New Zealand’s outbreak is likely being fed by what some paediatric doctors have called an “immunity debt” – where people don’t develop immunity to other viruses suppressed by Covid lockdowns, causing cases to explode down the line.Needless to say, THIS WAS THE ENTIRE TOTAL PURPOSE of the lockdowns and muzzles and distancing, as many of us have been HAMMERING AND SHOUTING AND SCREAMING FOR 16 FUCKING DEADLY LETHAL HOLOCAUSTAL MONTHS. When Guardian states the full truth, the game is over. Note the perfect karma, perfect Emersonian justice. Kids were RUINED in order to fakely "protect" them from an insignificant virus with EXACTLY EXACTLY ZERO ZERO ZERO ZERO RISK. Now that they are incapable of any immune response, a new virus that is SPECIFICALLY DEADLY TO KIDS comes along and kills them. THIS WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE HOLOCAUST. Do I feel vindicated? Fuck yes. We'll never be recognized. We'll never receive an apology. But at least the governments and media are starting to allow a little scrap of reality to appear. There's one huge unanswered question: If those doctors understood what was happening, WHY DID THEY LET IT HAPPEN?????? Doctors had the POWER to change the rules. Random heretics have no power at all. Nuremberg time.
Labels: EXTREME SUPREME ABSOLUTE DEFINITIVE FINAL Emersonian justice
You have to remember, that before it was rebranded public health, it was called eugenics. The people funding it and it's goals didn't change, they just reframed it, and also pivoted towards climate change as the boogey man that justifies it. This is how the ruling class thinks.On the fucking dot. Rebranding is the name of the game. Take perfectly ordinary parts of nature and rebrand them as HORRIBLE EMERGENCY ALIEN INVADERS, then sacrifice the entire fucking world to "fight" the perfectly ordinary things. Back to Ibsen again: = = = = = START REPRINT: Trying to trace the earliest usage of "Whole-of-society" in the proper form. GoogleBooks doesn't search by exact year, but it does divide by centuries. So far I'm not seeing the trademarked phrase before 2000. The three words sometimes occur in a sentence, but it's clearly incidental, not the official war cry. With one HIGHLY RELEVANT exception. From Ibsen's An enemy of society, 1900.
DR STOCKMANN. But they'll get the worst of it, I can promise them. Henceforth, every day I'll throw myself into the breach in the Messenger; bombard them with one article after another. ASLAKSEN. Yes, but look here... BILLING. Hurrah! There'll be war, there'll be war! DR STOCKMANN. I will smite them to the earth. I will crush them, level all their entrenchments to the ground before the eyes of all right-thinking men. I'll do it. ASLAKSEN. But all the same be reasonable, doctor; proceed with moderation... BILLING. Not at all, not at all; don't spare for dynamite. DR STOCKMANN (going on imperturbably) For, remember that henceforth it is not merely a question of water works and sewers. No, the whole of society must be cleansed, disinfected. BILLING. There sounds the word of salvation! DR STOCKMANN. All the old bunglers must be got rid of, you understand. And that in every department! Such endless vistas have opened out before me today, It was not all clear to me until now, but now I will right everything. It is the young, vigorous banner-bearers we must seek, my friends; we must have now captains for all the outposts.Sounds mighty fucking familiar. Stockmann was a Public Death Officer. The direct hellfather of ALL modern Captains At The Outposts. So the WoSovirus first entered the Public Death profession in 1900, then remained latent for a century as it spread around the world. Finally in 2005, after complete infection, the WoSovirus turned the infected officials into satanic genocidal monsters. = = = = = END REPRINT.
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Homette's interior:
Casita's interior:
Homette's floor plan:
Casita's floor plan:
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Elon is bringing back a system that was common around 1910. Here's a Sears ad showing how their prefabs were constructed:
And here's how the Casita is constructed:
Elon is continuing his tradition of RESTORING old inventions. He has a misplaced reputation as a revolutionary. In fact he's a counter-revolutionary. 1910 cars, 1910 housing construction.
Sidenote on price: Boxabl lists the price, without transportation and assembly and lot, as $50k. This includes all the appliances. Aladdin's 1917 catalog had similar sized houses (kit, not modular) for about $500, NOT including any plumbing or wiring or appliances. $500 would be $10k after inflation. Seems about right, accounting for the equipment and kit vs modular.Labels: NOT alternate universe
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The parallel and regularly spaced engravings have comparable dimensions and were very probably created in a uniform approach suggesting an intentional act.Looks more like a map than an artwork. A stylized representation of rivers and valleys. (Meanders and thals.) Or it could be a family tree. Or an ideogram. Many alphabets, from Korea to Ireland, look like this. Or a cipher. Or a coin with a specified value. Given the size, I'd guess it was a family medal, to be worn on a leather thong. Something like a coat of arms. Come on, archeologists! Show half as much imagination as the Neanderthals! More broadly... Most archeological assumptions miss PURPOSE. They see everything as art or decoration. Decoration is luxury. Carving is hard work. Patterns denote PURPOSE. Language, signaling status, transfer of value.
Labels: From rights to duties
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We are suiciding ourselves by smashing work and value and life. Russia's hypersonic weapons aren't going to attack us. They're only an attempt to CONTAIN our maniacal psychopathic omnicide while we finish suiciding.
Graphic sidenote: Previously I'd shown USA STRONG as a musclebound headless weightlifter. I think a meth-addled sword-swinging zombie is more appropriate now. We're noisily dead. Lots of motion and energy, no work done, no order created. We are North Chorea.
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Later I showed the same character trying to control the world, only to find that most countries have stopped listening:
The meth image turns out to apply in another direction, centered on SLEEP DEPRIVATION.
Jeffrey Tucker's account of Carter Mecher and associates emphasizes their sleepless burning drive to destroy.
Sleep deprivation is the key. Innate psychopaths are total destroyers from birth to death. They sleep beautifully, cradled in Satan's talons. Normal humans can be temporarily turned into psychopaths by loss of sleep and constant forced chaos. Drill instructors and cult leaders have ALWAYS known how to create the transformation.
Meth does the same thing, and adds another element to the picture of the Public Death Demons. Methies are obsessed with CLEANING. They scratch imaginary fleas and germs from their skin, and they spend hours sorting laundry and cleaning surfaces. The gestures are automatic, even when there's no actual laundry or brooms or sponges.
Now see this. A public death zombie finishes locking down a restaurant. Zombie stands in a victory pose for a moment, then starts OBSESSIVELY HAND-WASHING. The hand-washing morphs into a demonic victory dance. Tweaking.
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OCD and psychopath are natural tendencies in some people. They don't necessarily go together. Sleep deprivation induces both of these tendencies TOGETHER in people who might not have exhibited them otherwise.
Labels: NOW I SEE
The current icon shows Polistra using a Personal Equation Machine.