The Chicago brand
Curbside Classic shows a brochure for a 1997 Caddy limo.

The first thing I noticed is the change of scale. The limo was custom built by Chicago Armor And Limousine, who extended the wheelbase from 113 to 119. This provided supposedly luxurious legroom for the executive-class rear passenger.

119 inches was the wheelbase of a 1948 Plymouth, which had the same luxurious legroom in the rear.

Now you have to pay an extra 100k for a custom limo to get the same space that was formerly available in every low-priced car.

The second salient point is the company name.

Chicago = crime. Chicago = armor.

No change of scale on this measurement. Today's Chicago is still the murder capital.

I recognized the Chicago brand in June 2020 when I was animating some old recording machines....

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This item doesn't really fit my usual criteria. It's a complex modern machine, not 'patient' or ancestral.

I decided to make it as a form of salute to the police, who are doing a nearly impossible job. They're hammered from above by evil politicians who want to neuter them entirely, and they're literally killed from below by "activists" of "both" "left" and "right" who are equally sponsored by the same Deepstate that runs the evil politicians.

In some places the police have gone along with the commands to create chaos, but not here. From the start of this grotesque mess the cops have maintained EQUIPOISE, letting normal people do normal things while trying to stop the worst crimes and riots with measured force. Regular city cops (NOT FEDERALS) are the last true defenders of civilization.

I recognized this EQUIPOISE earlier, after observing that young gangsta types shared my respect. Jailbirds know better than most folks how police can go wrong, so we recognize when police are doing the right thing.

The EQUIPOISE paid off when the "left" and "right" idiots got serious a few days ago. Calm was restored quickly with minimal damage, and SO FAR the idiots haven't resumed their idiocy.

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The Webster Chicago fits this salute because it was specialized for law enforcement use, and was actually used by cops. This model appears in many movies and TV shows from the 40s and 50s, and is mentioned in many legal decisions.



The Webster was optimized for hard use and clandestine use. The speaker was protected behind the metal panel, and the reels and head were recessed inside a metal superstructure so random motions wouldn't halt them or knock them off. Input plug on left, and output plug on right, were both unique, not standard. An unauthorized user couldn't just plug in ordinary mics or phones. The controls allowed you to listen through the speaker or earphones, as Polistra is doing here. Unlike acetate disks or Dictaphone cylinders, the source reel (left) could fit in a coat pocket, and couldn't be crushed or cracked in a scuffle. Even the brand name helped. Webster Chicago sounds tougher than other brands of similar equipment.



Wire recorders have to solve the problem of distribution. Poulsen's original moved the reels back and forth while leaving the head steady:



Webster kept the reels steady while the wire passed through a slot in the head, which moved slowly up and down to distribute the wire evenly on the takeup reel:



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Back to editorial: Both "libertarians" and "leftists" are alarmed about surveillance by phones and drones and microchips in vaccine. Wrong variable. Surveillance is a good thing. Governments need to know what criminals and foreign enemies are planning, and need to keep an ear to the pulse of the public. The problem is what the Feds, and some local cops, do with the knowledge. When the knowledge is used for NEGATIVE FEEDBACK, to protect the people from crime and invasion, and to shape agendas toward improving the nation, it's good. When the knowledge is used for blackmail and tyranny it's bad.

Blackmail and tyranny are INTRINSICALLY BAD, regardless of surveillance.

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Labels: #bluelivesmatter, Metrology

  ¶ 12:24 AM

  Zoology
The ID folks are pointing to a 2012 book by Thomas Nagel, busting out of the Darwin bubble.

Nagel put a “sell by” date on the Darwinist idea of mind:

I would be willing to bet that the present right-thinking consensus will come to seem laughable in a generation or two — though of course it may be replaced by a new consensus that is just as invalid. The human will to believe is inexhaustible.

As a colleague points out, Nagel’s departure from the “right-thinking consensus” is on a par with Yale computer scientist David Gelernter’s 2019 farewell to Darwinism: both are major thinkers who showed that rejecting that orthodoxy can be done. Their courage also persuades me it will be done, by others of equal stature, giving intellectual permission to others in turn, until the tipping point that Nagel forecasts comes to pass. Of course, his sober warning about the next “consensus” must also be heeded.

I'm not so confident about the influence of influencers.

In the "virus" holocaust we've seen the same dozen serious biologists pointing out the fraud during the entire 17 fucking months. Ioannidis was first. He's still employed. The others, as I've noted, are mainly from India.

They haven't been imprisoned or fired. BUT nobody else has joined them. The number of CREDENTIALED truth tellers has not changed in either direction.

Nagel's pessimism about the next consensus is more realistic. Tenure and grants guarantee that Big Science will never get close to truth. Will to believe isn't the limitation. The competitive drive for STATUS is the limitation. Big Science is a ferociously competitive team sport. Grants are the scores, STATUS is the goal.

Deepstate allows a few dissenters to survive, in order to create an impression of "freedom" and "democracy". Deepstate encysts those exceptions in a toxic cage that warns other potential dissenters to avoid their fate.

It's a zoo of heretics.

Labels: endless hell, Grand Blueprint

  ¶ 11:24 PM

  Culp is back in the game
Loren Culp is running for Congress now, starting early for 2022. He's still holding ROCK-SOLID on all the issues that matter. He's in the NE part of Wash, not the same district where I live, so I couldn't vote for him. But I can sure as hell send him money.

Culp easily defeated 34 Repooflican candidates in last year's governor election. He had no chance at all of winning the state. The fagass pussyass cowardass establishment Repoofs didn't even try to help him. Their emails never mentioned him, and they didn't send party money to his campaign. With more help he would have done better, but Seattle is simply too big and too uniformly demonic.

In a district race he has a realistic chance of winning based on demographics. The NE part of the state is agriculture and forests, with no big cities and not many ex-Californians.

I'm tired of paying for betrayal. Culp is the ONLY candidate who didn't betray his own voters and supporters. Pay for value, pay for GUTS.

Labels: Equipoise

  ¶ 2:27 PM

  It's just Parkinson
Quora question:

Who are some people who the world thought were crazy, but were right all along?

Answers cite Wegener's idea of continental drift, saying "Revolutionary ideas are rarely accepted".

I hadn't stopped to think about it before. This answer is mostly backwards. Not entirely.

Drift is the opposite of crazy and revolutionary. It's OBVIOUS. Anyone can see it. Wegener was dismissed because geologists wanted NON-OBVIOUS theories.

Most of the time common sense is dismissed. The obvious is dismissed. Crazy and revolutionary and murderous ideas are REQUIRED.

A similar change in a closely related subject is Schiaparelli's OBSERVATION of rivers on Mars. For hundreds of years official science laughed at the claim. We KNOW that Mars doesn't have water, so it can't have rivers. How do we KNOW Mars doesn't have water? Because we KNOW that Schiaparelli was wrong.

A similar pattern happened in speech, with "competing" theories about the function of the larynx. The old idea was OBVIOUS, and the old idea was right. The larynx is like an oboe or saxophone. A column of air resonates, allowing a double reed to open and close with the variations of pressure. Bell described it clearly.

But this wasn't good enough for the scientists. They assumed that the larynx produced vibrations by direct muscular action, like a tapping finger.

The latter was OBVIOUSLY wrong, and you don't need fancy instruments to see why it was wrong. The larynx vibrates from 60 to 600 cycles in singing, and 150 to 300 cycles in normal speech. You can't even reach 20 cycles with a tapping finger, and 600 is OBVIOUSLY impossible. Muscles just don't move that fast.

Despite its OBVIOUS wrongness, the textbooks and teachers in the '70s were still treating both theories as competing and equally likely.

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I'm tempted to cite Michelet on the psychopathic innovators yet again, but this problem is much simpler and more crassly Parkinsonian.

There's no profit in proving the obvious.

Proving a crazy idea takes HARD WORK and UNLIMITED WORK. The best part of proving a crazy idea is that you CAN'T GET THERE. So the budgets and authority must INCREASE FOREVER. It's a self-feeding pump.



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Semi-relevant: Another Quora question mentions this quote:

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

I hadn't heard this before. Concise and comprehensive. Parkinson in one sentence. Google credits it to Ernest Benn, a British political writer contemporary with Parkinson.

Labels: Answered better than asked, Parkinson, SES

  ¶ 10:19 PM

  Reprint on emerging vs settled science
Time for a reprint from 14 fucking hellish months ago. This particular distinction seems to be coming up again. I had a rare clear thought on the subject in June 2020.

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It's been clear from the start of the "virus" coup that the Public Death Officers are doing ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING to eliminate immunity. They know how it really works, so they don't miss a trick in their wicked use of their own skills for mass murder.

I just noticed a sneaky verbal trick.

Counting "cases" or "infections" is an explicit reversal of real knowledge and science. In fact an "infection" is an INOCULATION.

When a basically healthy person encounters a virus, the immune system reads the particle, checks against its intelligent knowledge of existing immunities, and sends some T-cells to eject the invader. The system then adds this virus to its library of known enemies. This is INOCULATION. Vaccines are extra inoculations, helping us to encounter viruses early. We formerly understood this as part of regular scientific literacy.

From Jules Michelet's 1904 book on the inquisitors and witch hunters:

The method is everywhere identical. Good common sense first of all, followed by a direct frontal attack, a downright, unhesitating negation of common sense. It would seem natural enough, for instance, to say that, love being in the soul already, it is hardly necessary to assume the mysterious intervention of the Evil One to be required. Is not this fairly self-evident? Not so, says Sprenger.

By redefining INOCULATION as a bad thing, the Public Death Officers have redefined immunity itself as a bad thing.

Immunity is the new cancer.

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Another word trick is EMERGING SCIENCE. Central Death Command now claims that masks are proved by EMERGING SCIENCE. In the former extinct world of REAL science, EMERGING science was called by another word. EMERGING science used to be called PSEUDOSCIENCE. When 300 years of experience have led consistently to a solid conclusion about a fact or procedure, a sudden new contrary claim REQUIRES EXTRAORDINARY PROOF, as old Sagan used to say. I'm sure he's an Unperson now.

We can certainly examine the contrary claim. Occasionally a new claim turns out to be right when exploring unfamiliar territory. In this case we know for sure that it's wrong, because viruses are thoroughly familiar. In either case we CAN'T use the contrary claim as the basis for policy or medical practice unless and until it's proved just as solidly as the older belief. Especially when the policy is murder, and especially when the monsters who are pushing the new claim are holocaustal psychopaths.

But now we must ruin our own immunity because EMERGING SCIENCE.

This fits the Michelet pattern. Before the "virus" coup, the "global warming" coup simply lied about the validity of their pseudoscience. They called their pseudoscience "settled science" to imply that it was just like the real conclusions of real science. The new use of EMERGING SCIENCE openly admits that the pseudoscience is fake by all normal standards of real science. The open admission is part of the murder. It's AGGRESSIVELY UNFAIR, intentionally GRINDING OUR FACES IN SHIT to prove that the psychopaths have TOTAL CONTROL OF OUR MINDS. They openly BRAG that they're lying, and we can't do a fucking thing about it.

= = = = = END FUCKING REPRINT.

The key point is simple.

True is true no matter what you call it. False is false no matter what you call it.

If you call truth emerging, it's truth. If you call truth settled, it's truth.

If you call a lie emerging, it's a lie. If you call a lie settled, it's a lie.

Labels: #WholeOfSociety, 2000=1000, Carbon Cult

  ¶ 9:04 PM

  Might have been my question
Saagar and Krystal run a weekly 'answering session' reserved for their subscribers. I'm one of their paid subscribers so I get to watch it.

In this week's session, one question could have been mine. Sounded just like my shit, but it wasn't me unless I've been sleepwalking or something.

Question: "I grew up in the era when the Fairness Doctrine kept media honest. Is there any chance of returning to the Fairness Doctrine?"

Saagar's answer is unsatisfying but unfortunately valid. The web "jumbles everything up", so the best chance of fairness is finding a source that tries to be fair. When you find such a source, support it. (So I do.)

Can't argue with that. Saagar does try to stay above mechanical partisanship, and usually succeeds. Krystal is firmly inside the D echo chamber but halfway tries to see outside the fishbowl.

Labels: Answered better than asked

  ¶ 9:01 AM

  Return of old humor?
For many years I've taken refuge from modern media's SCREECHING MURDER, living inside the empathetic and gentle humor of the '30s.

Lately I saluted the 1933 program Mirth Parade, one of many low-budget offerings that lightened the mood with low-quality humor and high-quality music.

Mirth Parade featured a satirical swami, a Hindu Swede called Yogi Yorgesson. His Swedish dialect was accurate, but his Hindu views weren't. He closed each segment with a punning prayer to the Hindu god Allah. (This was a common conflation for some reason.)

Yogi Yorgesson specialized in contrived puns:

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.

He also delved into the edges of politics at times, with a pun about the Ku Klux Klan being Dumb Klux. (Partisan politics was illegal on radio in the '30s, so jokes against one party were impossible.)

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Kevin Barrett interviewed a modern comic who seems to be echoing Yogi Yorgesson intentionally or not. He's a Jew posing as Swami Beyondananda. He calls one of his channels OM Times Radio, an explicit echo. He also specializes in contrived puns, a little too densely for my taste. Every sentence includes a contrivance like "Notsee America: spelled N-O-T-S-E-E."

If you have to explain it, taint funny, McGee.

Despite the contrivance, I solidly support his purpose. For the last 30 years all entertainment has simply been FUCK TRUMP. "Comedians" no longer try for anything remotely resembling humor. They've become pure court jesters, reinforcing the aristocratic need to KILL ALL PEASANTS.

Incidentally, one of the Swami's blogs redirects to a Chinese site that AVG halts for malware. Makes me wonder if he's paying attention to his productions.

Labels: Entertainment

  ¶ 11:16 PM

  Okay, that's all. I'm officially an anti-vaxer.
From the start of the holocaust I tried to make a careful distinction between 'measures' that were proper parts of real EXPERIMENTALLY PROVED science, versus 'measures' that were demonic tools of total war and genocide.

I got the vax because I wanted to maintain some foolish notion of 'integrity'. Obey real science, disobey holocaust.

Now I'm done with 'integrity'. The 2nd shot of Moderna made me SICK for several days, and it seems to have changed my body's way of reacting to stimuli. The 2nd shot was June 9.

From previous blog post:

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 yesterday, 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.

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Today (8/6) another bug bite on my neck. This one is swelling up in a way that NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. So far it isn't red.

And of course there's a second factor. I was stupidly hoping that the vax might make a "legal" difference, might make it easier to demuzzle. Get the card, get privileges. That stupid hope was UNSURPRISINGLY dashed when Demon Inslee resumed full muzzling last week after exactly 35 days of partial "legality". Psychopaths always do this. So there was no practical reason to get the shot after all.

That's it. I'm done. No more integrity, no more "legality". This vax is NOT THE SAME as real vaxes. I don't know what makes it so different, but it is NOT JUST A VAX. It's something else. The demons know it's something else, and they know it doesn't provide immunity against any real viruses.

Labels: Constants and Variables, NOW I SEE

  ¶ 10:07 AM

  Drawing a clear line
Speaking of mice and cats...

At the start of the holocaust, all of the big mice collaborated and got nice juicy bribes for their collaboration. Noem was the only initial non-collaborator. She has been properly quiet, realizing that her state has little power.

DeSantis isn't the cat, but he's a HUGE mouse. DC politicians know the power of Florida in the Electoral College. They also know that a large part of Florida is New Yorkers who are happy with DeSantis. It's not redneck cracker hillbillies who can safely be dismissed.

I don't usually do long quotes, but in this case the entire speech needs to be MARKED as a DIVIDING LINE. The battle is joined.

And I just want to say something quickly, you know, Joe Biden is taken to himself to try to single out Florida over COVID. This is a guy who ran for president saying he was going to “shut down the virus.” And what has he done? He’s imported more virus from around the world by having a wide-open southern border, you have hundreds of thousands of people pouring across every month. And it’s not just from Mexico. In fact, it’s rarely from Mexico; you have over 100 different countries where people are pouring through, not only are they letting them through, they’re then farming them out all across our communities across this country, putting them on planes, putting them on buses. Do you think they’re being worried about COVID for that? Of course not. So he’s facilitating, who knows what new variants are out there, but I can tell you, whatever variants around the world, they’re coming across that southern border, and so he’s not shutting down the virus, he’s helping to facilitate it in our country. And what is his big solution? What is he so upset about Florida? His solution is he wants to have the government force kindergarteners to wear masks in school; he doesn’t believe the parents should have a say in that; he thinks that should be a decision for the government. Well, I can tell you in Florida, the parents are going to be the ones in charge of that decision.

One of the major medical people in his administration just recently told parents that they should be wearing masks at home when they’re around their own children. This is insane. Joe Biden also believes that vaccination should be mandated by force of government and that you should have to show vaccination status to be able to participate in society. Now, Florida, we’re very proud of our seniors-first strategy, you look at the mortality in nursing homes among seniors, it’s declined dramatically. But we said from the beginning, we’re going to make it available for all, but we’re not going to mandate it on anybody, that’s ultimately an individual’s choice to be able to do it. Biden, he rejects science, because he denies the fact that people that recover from COVID have long lasting immunity. And that’s been proven time and time again, and the data is very clear. So his vision is, just like in New York City, restaurants should ban young kids from being able to go in because they’re not eligible for vaccination. And law-abiding citizens have to produce proof of their medical records, just to go to the gym, or attend an event, or just to participate in everyday society. He wants that. But yet, if you want to vote, he thinks it’s too much of a burden to show a picture ID when you’re voting, so no voter ID, but have to show your medical papers just to be able to live in everyday life. Give me a break. And so I think the question is, is we can either have a free society, or we can have a biomedical security state, and I can tell you, Florida, we’re a free state, people are going to be free to choose to make their own decisions about themselves about their families, about their kid’s education, and about putting food on the table.

And Joe Biden suggests that if you don’t do lockdown policies, then you should quote, “get out of the way.” But let me tell you this, if you’re coming after the rights of parents in Florida, I’m standing in your way, I’m not going to let you get away with it.

If you’re trying to deny kids a proper in-person education, I’m going to stand in your way and I’m going to stand up for the kids in Florida. If you’re trying to restrict people, impose mandates, if you’re trying to ruin their jobs and their livelihoods and their small business, if you are trying to lock people down, I am standing in your way and I’m standing for the people of Florida.

DeSantis is precisely and totally on the side of real science and real medicine. His actions have solidly backed up his solid words. The speech reminds me of General Lee's refusal to lead the Yankee army. The Yankees are running a NAZI HOLOCAUST against science, civilization, life, and the whole fucking universe.

Labels: #WholeOfSociety, endless hell

  ¶ 8:16 AM

  When you're the mouse
Two sources for this rant:

1. Irritation at the Weather Bureau's failure to predict simple temperature one day in advance. They're always wrong, and always wrong in the same direction.

2. Reading Pat Foster's history of American Motors. Nash/AMC had three brilliant managers who understood Booker T's rule. When you're a mouse living with a cat, you can't afford illusions. You have to live carefully, stay under the cat's radar, find your unique talent and optimize it. Nash had succeeded longer than the other mice by following the rule. Roy Abernethy took over from Romney and spoiled it because he didn't grasp reality. He wanted to beat GM at its own game.

Foster has a sharp observation:

"Perhaps he felt that he would be the one to beat the odds, just as Henry Kaiser had felt."

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Low-status people and companies survive by knowing the odds. We live by anticipating and predicting.

Government ruins both types of knowledge. Government and media give us fake ideas of risk and fake predictions.

What's the purpose of governmental and corporate predictions? In the current insane era, the ONLY purpose is creating chaos and panic. The extreme (but certainly not final) example is the grotesque HOLOCAUSTAL use of predictions and models to IMPRISON AND GAG THE ENTIRE WORLD. We see the curves, and we think we are guaranteed to die from a perfectly ordinary flu bug. Without the constant hammering of curves and models, we would simply

LOOK ABOUT YOU.

TAKE HOLD OF THE THINGS THAT ARE HERE.

and we would realize there's no epidemic at all and no risk at all. When we can see and sense the risk for ourselves, we judge the risk correctly.

When we rely on externally supplied predictions and odds instead of our own, we are completely vulnerable to the monsters... AND we lose our own ability to predict. Muzzles and distancing destroy physical immunity. Models and fake risks destroy mental immunity. USE IT OR LOSE IT.

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The Weather Bureau no longer predicts weather. They're too busy fulfilling their PANIC QUOTA. Every day must have at least one PANIC. A dry summer is EXTREME DROUGHT WARNING. Nice calm fall weather? STAGNANT AIR WARNING. Nice calm spring weather? POLLEN WARNING.



Before the current UNIVERSAL PANIC, what was the point of predicting? The old Islamic astronomers had it right, and later astronomers also had it partly right, though they had already surrendered most of the battle.

When you know how the universe moves, you can move with it.

This is just a longer-timeline version of basic neural prediction. When you walk, all of your senses anticipate each step and move with it. When you hear a sentence you know the pattern and your semantic predictor stays ahead of it.

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Long before the 2020 monstrosity, western culture stopped moving with the universe. Meritocracy and free will are an intentional ASYNCHRONOUS departure from the universal rhythm.

We delusionally believe that we will be "the one to beat the odds", and many of us waste our own lives and ruin our employees and citizens in futile pursuit of beating the odds.

Exceptionalism and Messianism are two good names for this delusion.

Nature doesn't have exceptions. Nature doesn't have messiahs. Nature has one way of doing things, and you can live and profit best when you swing WITH nature instead of trying to be the exception.

Or in less ethereal terms: NOBODY beats the odds. The mouse can't beat the odds. The cat doesn't have to beat the odds because the cat MAKES THE ODDS. GM was the perfect example.

THEY KNOW IT'S A HOAX BECAUSE THEY'RE MAKING THE HOAX.


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Footnote on AMC: Abernethy took over in 1962 after Romney went into politics. Abernethy's decision to play GM's game was doubly stupid because Rambler was already moving into the Big Three's sales league by PLAYING ITS OWN GAME. The Big Three introduced their compacts in 1960, attempting to PLAY RAMBLER'S GAME. This only helped Rambler, which continued gaining sales from '60 to '62, beating Plymouth. Abernethy was trying to copy the obviously losing strategy, at the exact moment when the Big Three were trying to copy Rambler's winning strategy.

His stupidest move came in '66. Ford had opened up a new and successful segment with the Mustang, a RAMBLER-SIZED sport coupe. Abernethy answered with the Marlin, a FULL-SIZED and weird-looking fastback, which immediately failed. Even stupider, the Argentine branch of AMC had already created THE perfect answer to the Mustang. The IKA Torino was a beautifully modified Rambler American with an elegant British wood and leather interior. A little Jaguar. Abernethy had the correct answer IN-HOUSE, but he insisted on spending millions to find the wrong answer.

Most non-SUV cars in recent decades have been in Rambler's size range of 100 to 108 inch wheelbase. Rambler won in the end, despite Abernethy's stupidity.

Labels: Carver

  ¶ 6:13 AM

  Not ironic, just good planning
Another viewpoint flip.

I've been making the usual sardonic schadenfreudisch comments about the Eastasia/Eurasia switch from the "Plastics" Crisis to the "Virus" Crisis.

In 2019 we were supposed to avoid all plastics to Save The Ocean.

In 2020 we were supposed to buy new plastic ballgags every day, then throw them in the ocean.

Just now I stood back and looked at the situation from the opposite angle.

If you were planning to make and discard trillions of plastic ballgags, you'd want to slow down other uses of plastics for several years in advance, so you could STOCKPILE plastics.

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Incidentally, I never bought or accepted any of the official ballgags. I rigged up a muzzle from an old T-shirt, rather cleverly fastened with zipties. It has minimally complied with the demonic "rules" for 14 fucking months, needing no purchased or new materials at all.

Labels: Answered and unasked, Answered better than asked, NOW I SEE, SES

  ¶ 1:27 PM

  Aesop's memes
In crazy times, truth has to be expressed indirectly. Often animal empathy hits the mark.....

Labels: 2000=1000, endless hell

  ¶ 9:53 AM

  Pink sombreros
Recently Avista has been doing some street work in the neighborhood, putting in natural gas lines. Their workers wear the usual luminescent green vests, and they also wear WEIRD pink sombreros. These sombreros appear to be made of flexible translucent plastic. I've also seen a city street cleaner wearing the same sombrero.

I suppose the hats are described as sunshields, but I'm certain they have more to do with Woke symbolism. Frankly they remind me of tinfoil hats. Protection against the Deplorable Witch Rays in this neighborhood, not protection from the sun's UV rays.

Googling 'pink sombrero sun shield' finds some cloth and straw women's gardening hats, but not the weird translucent plastic.

Incidentally, and more seriously, the "pipe" they're putting in the ground is also plastic. It's more like flexible hose than pipe. No wonder it gets punctured every week or so.

Labels: 2000=1000, Bemusement

  ¶ 5:03 AM

  Lost genre of songs?
A couple months ago I saluted Mirth Parade, a 1933 low-budget syndicated show.

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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.

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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.

= = = = = END REPRINT.

Several episodes featured songs similar to 'Two-Buck Tim'. They all have the same pattern and probably the same author. Simple tunes and fast complex wordplay. All were performed by the same singer in the same Singsprache form. The singer was identified as Andy Andrews**. Some of the songs are jokes with a clear punchline.

These songs somehow don't fit the usual 'novelty song' category. Most 'novelty songs' are cheerful nonsense, not tightly crafted verses. These are much closer to the British music hall tradition, as in Gilbert and Sullivan.

LIFE IS PURPOSE.

ENTERTAINMENT IS THE OPPOSITE OF GENOCIDE.

LAUGHTER IS THE OPPOSITE OF DEATH.

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** Not much online info about Andrews. Goldindex, the best OTR source, shows his appearances in Mirth Parade plus one National Barn Dance episode. Another source lists most of the Mirth Parade performers as Al Pearce's troupe. Two episodes of Pearce's own show are on Archive.org. They're pretty much the same thing: outstanding music, pointless "comedy".

Again I need to thank those hard-working preservers and digitizers who have been restoring REAL SANE ENTERTAINMENT for the benefit of moderns stuck in a totally insane time. Their work is on the same scale as the Arabs and Persians who preserved and advanced Greek science while Europe was stuck in craziness.

Labels: Asked and not worth asking, Entertainment

  ¶ 3:31 PM

  Balanced pair
Two articles showed up in my usual website wanderings today. The two form a nice balance or bridge. Both are written by careful thinkers, not blind partisans. Both are on the same basic topic.

Meritocracy.

One defends the standard Shared Lie, the other is proposing realism.

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From the allegedly independent leftists at Persuasion, a stout defense of Meritocracy:

Meritocracy was a real creation that took time, and that took a certain self-denying ordinance—we were pushing against some of the most obvious things about human nature. So, meritocracy has a relatively brief history, in the sense that it’s the creation of the French Revolution, the American Revolution, and of what I call the the “English Revolution,” the Gladstonian revolution of the 19th century—all of which were taking the old social order and tearing it up, saying, “Let’s reconstitute the social order on the basis of a set of new principles, open competition, testing people’s promise and ability, getting rid of nepotism, getting rid of feudal restrictions.”

Pushing against human nature and reconstituting the social order: true. Psychopaths always reconstruct humans to suit their purposes.

Testing people's promise and ability: False.

We still have a completely inherited hierarchy WITHIN THE RULING CLASS, and we have eliminated the hierarchy of SKILL in the working class. Before Locke and Marat, farmers and blacksmiths and printers trained their sons to take over the business. This also happened within the employed class in feudal systems, where family continuity was important. Serfs could be bought and sold, but mostly they continued to work on the same farm, training their children. The employer had a lifelong OBLIGATION to the workers, and he gained more by maintaining an INTERGENERATIONAL loyalty. Grandparents were supported because they were helping to bring up the kids into effective workers.

Persuasion tries to answer this:

Absolutely. I think if you’re going to take people seriously as human beings, you have to take their talents seriously. You have to take into account the fact that there are people who have potential, who can develop that potential, and who are at their most fulfilled when they are expressing that. I think a good society is a society [with] the development of talent at [its] very heart. You have to be willing to test your talent. There’s a lot of criticism by the anti-meritocratic people about the terrible examination system, [with] everybody spending a life doing examinations. Most of us don’t like doing examinations. But doing examinations is also a way of developing our talents.

Spending a life doing exams? Exams seem to be dominant in Britain and the Orient, but not in America. So maybe I'm missing the point. In any case, feudal systems had room for the RARE genetic variations that led to out-of-family talents. We shouldn't lose the transfer of the MAJORITY of skills solely to encourage this RARE situation, which was already encouraged.

I can think of two obvious examples. Carver's owners recognized his unique skill and helped him develop it to benefit their farm. Astronomer James Ferguson was born poor and spent his early life in involuntary apprenticeships. Some of the masters recognized his unique talent and gave him time and room to develop it.

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James Hankins writing in Public Discourse is more realistic and more original. He grasps the current situation accurately:

Suppose you were living at a time when all around you, it seemed, civilization was breaking down. Political institutions were so little respected that the only way they could compel obedience was by increasing surveillance, multiplying laws, and tightening enforcement. People did not trust their leaders and suspected that elites were only interested in themselves. Many leaders were tyrannous, ignoring constitutional norms. Religious leaders engaged in scandalous behavior, and religious faith was losing its hold over the educated classes. Standards of personal behavior had collapsed, and it seemed that most people had forgotten what even ordinary decency was. Examples of upright character were hard to find, heroism almost unknown. The young went to universities only to learn how to earn money and achieve status. Even the military had grown corrupt. A great pandemic had taken many lives and filled people with fear. No one believed any more that medical science was honest about its ability to cope with the disease.

Welcome to the fourteenth century.

On the fucking dot.

Hankins tells how Petrarch created a system to clean up the ELITES:

The scholastic approach to ethics is precisely the opposite of what Petrarch wanted to do with the studia humanitatis. He and his followers invented a new form of education whose principal purpose was to develop good moral character and practical wisdom. In their view, the souls of all human beings contained both good and bad, but a well-designed curriculum could help cultivate the good and make students ashamed to do the bad. It could impart “true nobility” to human nature—not the kind of nobility inherited from forebears or acquired from titles handed out by dishonorable authorities, but the kind of nobility that came from true, personal distinction, a distinction gained through study, effort, and admiration earned honestly from one’s peers. Petrarch’s view and that of his followers was that persons with true nobility could and should provide the leadership to reform Christendom. So you could say that Petrarch and his followers invented a new kind of meritocracy.

In other words, Petrarch created exams that flunked psychopaths. Priests and courtiers had to show an ability to think and work FOR THE GOOD OF SOCIETY.

The concept of institutio (paideia in Greek; inadequately translated as “education”) for the humanists meant not only learning to read old books in school. It meant absorbing the moral and intellectual formation human beings needed to live successfully in civilized societies. It included manners (mores) learned informally in the family and the school. It included the customs of the community, practices like those associated with marriage, with taking meals together, with showing reverence for elders, with other rituals associated with festivals and funerals, and with military service.

Hankins proposes a concrete modern version of the Petrarch project, in considerable detail:

First, we have to recognize that this is a long-term project. It may well take more than one or two generations to revive sound education. It may have to start in private homes and small colleges, but we cannot give up on the public square and the universities.

We need to find ways to acquire cultural prestige. We need to build alliances, form networks, and find patrons who share our vision.

I think also we need to emphasize more strongly the role of the humanities in strengthening skills of communication and persuasion. The precise use of language is an indispensable tool of civilization. We need to hold up an ideal of human excellence and challenge students to attain it.

Amen to the precise use of language. Room 101 is all about ruining the TOOL of language.

In other words, Hankins proposes using exams to limit the ruling class, while Persuasion favors using exams to limit the working class.

Labels: 2000=1000, Equipoise, skill-estate

  ¶ 11:09 PM

  Amazingly good idea!
99% of Quora questions are pointless bots. Here's an extreme exception:

CDC is fueling anti-vaxxers by their new mask policies. Should the Biden administration abolish CDC and transfer the pandemic response to Pfizer?

YES! YES! YES!

Ordinarily letting one industry's profit determine policy is unwise, but in this specific case it would achieve the desired goal. Vax is real public health. Lockdowns and muzzles are the EXACT OPPOSITE of real public health.

CDC doesn't WANT to reach herd immunity or full vax, because CDC's goal is torture and riots and screeching superhell and total hyperobliteration of more than all universes. Maintaining a scapegoat group makes total war easy when it's time to pull the trigger.

Abolishing CDC and executing all of its employees, plus all the "bioterror" monsters, plus all the Public Death Officers in all states and counties and countries, is the ONLY CURE for the REAL PANDEMIC OF HOLOCAUSTS.

More broadly, leaving aside the demonic purpose of CDC, this is just good old Parkinson. A bureaucracy never solves a problem. A bureaucracy always UNsolves the problem to justify ever-increasing budget and power. A profit-driven company wants to sell its product to EVERYONE. Two or three competing companies will sell to everyone even faster.

Labels: asked better than ever asked before, infinite GOOD, Parkinson

  ¶ 12:28 AM

  Proofreaderoleth
A fairly old cartoon that popped up in some memes:



Funny. It also hits several resonant notes with me. Jail experience, teaching, grammar, and ABOVE ALL .... proofreading.

I was slow to get the joke because I was stuck on the incorrect 2nd plural form.

Labels: Entertainment, Jail mode, Language update, Leth

  ¶ 3:40 PM

  Who wins?
Speaking of Kraut OCD.... Here's an interesting Quora article on the preparations of Russia vs Krautland in WW2.

The question was:

How many trucks did Russia and Germany have at the start of Barbarossa?

The Soviet military had 432,600 transport trucks in June 1941, including 160,000 requisited from the civilian sector over the first week of war. The vast majority were dated GAZ AA - a license built 1930 Ford 1,5 ton truck and ZIS-5 - 3 ton.

Germans didn’t have all that many motor vehicles or people who knew how to operate them, with the total fleet of about 150,000 trucks, including half-trucks and wheeled APCs. The Germans had about a million horses though.

I've discussed Russia's Ford plant before. I didn't realize it was still turning out Fords in 1941. Previous articles gave the impression that it had closed in the '20s.

The pictures are the most interesting part.

Russian soldiers are ragged and disorganized and properly dirty. They're crowded into the Model A trucks in no particular order.

Kraut soldiers and horses are shiny and surgically clean and PRECISELY SPACED. You could calibrate a carpenter's square from the PRECISE angles and distances in the PRECISE vector matrix.

Who won? Ragged and disorganized won.

Labels: Metrology

  ¶ 9:43 PM

  Hadn't heard this piece of history before
Klinghoffer at EvoNews is discussing a historical piece on doctors eagerly joining Hitler.

It is worthy of emphasis that although many professions (including law) were “taken in” by Nazi philosophy, doctors and nurses had a peculiarly strong attraction to it. Robert N. Proctor (1988) notes that physicians joined the Nazi party in droves (nearly 50% by 1945), much higher than any other profession. Physicians were seven times more likely to join the SS than other employed German males. Nurses were also major collaborators….

Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazis established a “biocracy,” which ultimately murdered millions of innocent persons.

I've been tracing this tendency from 1789 to now, and hadn't heard of the Hitler connection. It's totally unsurprising.

OCD + psychopath = holocaust.

Hitler expanded on the basic Kraut OCD tendency, extending bodily purity to societal purity.

OCD is insatiable, and psychopath is insatiable. OCD must have MORE THAN 100% PURITY. Psychopath must have MORE THAN 100% POWER. Bodily purity is never enough. We must purify society of all filthy subhumans. The psychopath defines the subhumans, and keeps the definition moving so there's never a sense of completion. We're dirty! We can't rest until Type 1 subhuman is gone! Oops, we're still dirty! Now we need to purify Type 2 subhumans! Oops, we're still dirty! Now we need to purify Type 3 subhumans!

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The first modern example is exactly the start of modernism in 1789, the revolution planned and implemented by doctors.

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.

Since then, Fauci has obligingly filled in the analogy.

Fauci literally said: La Science, c'est moi.

Robespierre also said the same thing by his actions, but the more familiar echo of the sentence is Louis XIV: L'etat, c'est moi.

The CLEANSING tendency showed up beautifully in Ibsen's 1900 picture of a Public "health" officer:

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.

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Unfortunately Klinghoffer misses the main point:

It does seem that Covid unleashed a sort of madness across the culture. The past year and a half, almost, have seen unprecedented distortions in social thinking: about science, doctors, government, race, and much more. That the country’s leading popular science journal would agree to such insanity — slandering those who question evolutionary orthodoxy as “white supremacists” — could well be attributed to the social pandemic.

The poor little virus DID NOT UNLEASH ANYTHING. The virus was just a puppet, like all the rest of us. The virus plays the villain puppet on the stage of the Operating THEATER where the Whole Of Society is TESTED and CLEANSED and DISINFECTED.

This 1922 author, while still asserting the aristocratic OCD privilege, was closer to right:

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 answer is clear but unachievable. Remove all doctors and psychopaths from positions of power, and disconnect all of science from all of government. Restore medicine to a reactive job that fixes a problem AFTER patients come in and state the problem. Restore science to its original role as an interesting form of entertainment.

ENTERTAINMENT IS THE OPPOSITE OF SECRETS.

ENTERTAINMENT IS THE OPPOSITE OF GENOCIDE.

LAUGHTER IS THE OPPOSITE OF DEATH.

Labels: #WholeOfSociety, Jackboot stomping forever, UNENDING HELL

  ¶ 5:31 AM

  Honest but still demonic
A "science" "writer" named Phillip Ball is arguing that science can't be separated from politics.

In one way, Ball is just being realistic. Academia has ALWAYS been ideological. The personal values of scientists have ALWAYS been part of academia's standards and judgments. Taboos change from decade to decade, so the specific standards also change, but the judgments are always ideological and personal, not "scientific".

A recent change in the economic structure of Big Science accounts for the modern purely partisan D team vs R team bias. Before 1980 there were competing centers of Big Science. Industries had major research labs that were more oriented to real problem solving and less oriented to raw ideology. Bell Tel, Westinghouse, RCA, GM, oil companies, farm coops, all had their "universities". When we handed our industries to China, those research centers faded out. Now the only non-academic centers are inside Deepstate.

When people are striving to solve real problems, ideology doesn't matter nearly as much. When people are working solely to satisfy a government grant, partisan labels are THE UNIVERSE. All bureaucrats are on the D team, and all bureaucrats hate the R team.

In my field of speech research, Bell Labs was the leader for 70 years. Bell was much less political than universities. (See Shockley.) Bell Labs dissolved in the 80s, and now the only non-academic center of speech research is GoogleNSA, which is even more nakedly ideological than any university.

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Phillip Ball is completely blind to the fact that taboos change. He mentions that standards change, and then IMMEDIATELY knocks it down. MY standards RIGHT NOW are the ONLY standards, and MY rigidly conformist opinion RIGHT NOW must force us to cancel good scientists who were rigidly conformist to the norms of THEIR own time. (See detemporation.)

Krylov is right that ‘Scientists are not saints. They are human beings born into places and times they did not choose.’ Yet it is absurd to suggest that, by naming things after them, we do not in some degree elevate and sanctify them.

Good old Github. Good old Room 101.

As Fauci put it succinctly and perfectly:

I am science. Do as you're told.

Labels: #WholeOfSociety

  ¶ 11:21 PM