Shooting at a lie
Before Satan's total victory, shooting at a ghost would have been an excellent sign of insanity. A national navy shooting at a ghost is nationalized insanity.

Finland's navy has bombed a mysterious object near its capital months after nearby Sweden accused Russia of operating a submarine in its waters, later found to be a Swedish [fishing boat]. The Finnish military fired underwater charges on a mysterious underwater object which it believes to be a submarine in the waters near its capital on Tuesday.

Haglund said that there is a possibility that the object is a submarine, as well as that it has likely left the area.

In other words, you're bombing a place where you know nothing currently exists, solely to inform the world that you are bonkers.

Did anything ever exist in that spot? The picture looks like a harbor, which means relatively shallow seabed and close confines. Within a harbor it should be possible to use sonar to locate a large object like a submarine; then use divers or robosubs to take a close look. Finland has plenty of high-tech gadgetry, and could have taken these steps. All this talk about 'mysterious' and 'possibility' tells us that there isn't anything there, never was anything there. The whole mess is a pure lie.
  ¶ 5:26 AM

  Elderly hearing = autocorrect
I'm writing some Python, sort of 20% listening to radio ... Heard an ad for flowers or greeting cards for Mother's Day ... "Remember when your mother told you that eating all your vegetables would give you two burp hours?"

Yeah, she would have been right about that, and it would have seemed like a good reward. Enough burp hours for the Star Spangled Banner, the Gettysburg Address, and part of .... WAIT! That may be right, but it's not the sort of thing they'd say in an ad for greeting cards. Mental replay with revision: "Remember when your mother told you that eating all your vegetables would give you superpowers?"

More plausible, but I like my version better.
  ¶ 8:29 AM

  Already there
Ed news:

Standing is better than sitting for learning, attention and behavior.

No duh, as they say.

The article is really an unpaid ad for a newly formed company making 'stand desks', but that's OK. 'Stand desks' are tall desks with a tall backless stool instead of a 90-degree backed chair. You can stand on your feet or perch on the stool; you can't lay back and snooze.

The point is powerfully valid and the product looks well designed and sturdy.

My only quibble is that the idea is presented as new. It's not new at all, even within conventional public schools.

Classes that involve actual learning of actual skills have always used 'stand-desks' without the new trademark. Chem or physics labs, wood shop, home ec, electronics shop. Standing part of the time, perching on tall backless stools, walking around part of the time to fetch components or ingredients or use power tools. Always moving = always interested. Ideal.

Classes that involve memorization of toxic sludge have always used sleep-able 90 degree seats.

The contrast was accidentally good for real learning. You were awake in useful classes and drowsing in useless classes. Optimal combo.

Labels: Experiential education

  ¶ 4:57 AM

  Buckle up!
Still thinking about Sharpton's "clickit or ticket" riot.

Listened to some nonsense about "death penalty" decisions on Tsarnaev and Holmes. The usual idiot myths about whether "life will give him time to suffer remorse" or not.

Unbelievably ignorant nonsense. Shows less than zero understanding of human nature and modern reality. The only real question is whether he will get a full-time staff of tax-funded lawyers during his life sentence or a part-time staff of tax-funded lawyers during his life sentence.

Those two lines of thought converged on an idea.

It's obvious that a REAL death penalty works. It gets rid of professional criminals, and if it's done properly it deters some potential criminals.

Question: Can we increase the deterrence? Yes, and here's how. Location, location, location.

Executions used to be public. Now they're extremely private, with nobody but ACLU devils observing the process.

If we want to deter, we need to select the audience much more carefully.

Hangings should be done in juvenile detention facilities. Specifically, the juveniles should be buckled in to intimate ringside seats, with the most reformable juvies in the front row. Anyone who tries to unbuckle will be shot, because Our Prophet Sharpton says that criminals should always be securely buckled in. You don't want to insult The Prophet, do you?

The hangee should be fed a big spicy last meal beforehand. He should then be stripped naked and paraded in front of the adolescent dickheads so they can laugh and jeer. Just before pulling the lever, give him a spin.

All of the awful things that happen at the moment of death will then become an "in your face" experience for the juvies.

Those juvies will be deterred.
  ¶ 3:33 AM

  Thanks, Ralph 4
Emerson advises us to be patient with "monopolies and exceptions". Sooner or later they grind themselves down with arrogance.

A couple of slightly promising signs:

(1) Google's monopoly on searching has led to poor quality in one area, and Bing has finally taken advantage. On a basic broad search, Google still beats Bing by a long margin. Bing simply can't understand what you're looking for. But on news aggregation, Bing wins. Google has filled most of its news space with those mysterious "retranslators" that semi-duplicate other sources by mechanically translating one way then human-translating back to English. Many of these appear to be in Turkey. Bing's sources are all genuine, as far as I can tell.

(2) Sharpton's satanic media have been generating riots using low-quality events. Normal black people appear to be getting tired of the "unarmed" thugs who attacked cops and got the justice they deserved. Normal white people were tired from the start. Now Our Lord And Savior The Most Reverend Doctor Alphonse Sharpton Junior, Living Saint And Universal Prophet Of Peace, is burning down Baltimore to protest ... police brutality? Police shooting? No. This protest is apparently about police failure to buckle a suspect into his seat belt. I don't see any indication that the idiot media are getting tired. There is no limit to media evil. But it's obvious to everyone else that the pool of eligible events has dried up.

Labels: Emersonian justice

  ¶ 2:49 AM

  Hippie ramblings, testable question.
Hippie ramblings.....

In mammals for sure, there's a shared gene (a unit of purpose) for socialness, hierarchy, communication.

When the situation is right, humans and dogs and horses and pigs and elephants get along better, and understand each other better, than you'd expect for such far-removed species.

How far does this understanding stretch? Competent beekeepers certainly understand the intentions of their bees. Do the bees reciprocate? Can they tell what the beekeeper is trying to do?

What about plants? Are there social plants versus loner plants? The answer is obviously yes, but the social plants have an extra trick. They communicate via olfactory and auditory signals like mammals and insects, but they can ALSO connect via underground stolons or fungal wires. They invented telephone systems 50 million years before Bell.

Is our communication gene shared with plants as well as mammals? This is a testable question. Some people clearly get along with plants better than others. Even when all the basic stuff like water and sun and soil are identical, some people make plants flourish and others fail. Are the greenthumbers speaking Plantese without knowing it? Specifically, are they expressing a plantish gene that causes them to emit plant-understood smells? Jasmonates or similar VOCs?



And an untestable question. When people grow more stolonized, do they also get more plantish? Current youngsters, growing up with constant quasi-physical ties to everyone else, are definitely functioning more like plants. Are their thumbs (VOCs) greener?

Labels: Danbo, Grand Blueprint, Smarty-plants

  ¶ 4:21 PM

  Constants and variables 27
Big banks are pushing hard toward cashless commerce, eliminating paper rectangles altogether. No mystery there. Total control.

Scanning the aggregated news on the subject, things get more varied.

The news for 'cashless' seems to cluster in 4 places. US/UK, Scandinavia, India and Nigeria. The situation is different in each place.

In US/UK the talk is mainly coming from bankers and their slaves. A few thinkers are resisting. The usual "populists" and "leftists" have already been useful-idioted into adopting Bitcoin, which is the deepest and most perfect form of cashless enslavement because it's advertised as like COOOOOL and like rebellious and like private and shit. Right, dood. Run all your transactions directly through NSA Headquarters using encryption that NSA designed and shit. Like maximal anonymity and shit. Don't say I didn't warn you and shit. More to the fucking point, don't fucking say the fucking FOUNDER OF FUCKING BITCOIN didn't fucking warn you and shit. Do you see the words "classified" and "Hughes" in that article? Obviously you don't and shit.

Despite the idiots, ordinary Americans are unlikely to give up paper rectangles easily. Memories of 1929 have faded, but 2008 is still fresh. Frontier contrariness still thrives in a few places.

In Scandinavia, cashlessness is already complete. No mystery. Scandinavians are not living things. They are soulless mechanisms which have no need for autonomy. Government turns the knobs, and Scandinavian mechanisms move in precise synchrony.

In India and Nigeria there's tremendous opinion pressure from elites, and some apparent acceptance by ordinary business and people. This does NOT fit the pattern.

Hindoos are at least partly alive, and more to the point they're huge hoarders of gold. Nobody beats Hindoos at holding SOLID cash.

Nigerians are EXTREMELY alive, autonomous and creative. Why are their elites even bothering to push this idea?

Labels: Constants and Variables

  ¶ 4:24 AM

  Drawing-room logic
Lately my bedtime playlist has included some episodes of Mr Keen Tracer Of Lost Persons. The show is just as quaint and clunky as the title would imply. Everyone is constantly calling one another by name...

Now, Mrs Edwards, we have something to settle.
But Mr Keen, I already told you...
No, no, Mrs Edwards, that won't do.

Despite that, it's mostly good drama and good acting. Oddly, Mr Keen never Traced any Lost Persons at all; he was just a typical fictional detective dealing with murders and thefts. In the earlier years of the series, Mr Keen was more like the tough Raymond Chandler type, dealing harshly with simple situations. Later on he turned into the standard Agatha Christie drawing-room type, coming up with 20-step deductive solutions to complex situations, always ending with the requisite gathering of suspects and the requisite "surprise" revelation.

= = = = =

We have a couple of recent news-y items involving drawing-room logic.

One is the logic question from a Singapore school test, which nobody outside Singapore manages to get right. Supposedly this explains why Singapore is so successful.

Another is the Hindoo high-frequency trader Sarao who was supposedly busted for trying to beat a complex system with super-complex thinking and equations. Even within the stated premises, it's not at all clear why his activities are worse than the system he was trying to beat. HFT is a criminal enterprise with the official goal of stealing all money from normal productive business. The goal has been accomplished. Sarao's "crime" is similar in form to the London bankers who were busted for manipulating LIBOR without permission of the other criminals. LIBOR is a criminal enterprise designed to starve non-bankers, so it really doesn't matter which criminal is manipulating it.

In both cases the deductive logic is interesting but not the main point.

Singapore succeeds because Orientals are extremely good at business after 5000 years of experience and selective mating; AND because Lee Kwan Yew ferociously disciplined his little country into maximum use of its special talents and geography.

Sarao was busted for being uppity. Hindoos are allowed into a Chosen profession, but they are not allowed to beat Chosens at the Chosen game. Ethnic cleansing.

These explanations are perfectly obvious to anyone who knows a little bit about history.

Real life doesn't require 20-step deductive solutions. Real life requires induction based on experience and pattern-matching, and a clear-eyed view of reality unblinkered by orthodox nonsense.

Unlike Mr Keen, real cops don't do deduction. They see a crime and they instantly know who they're looking for, by type and often by name. The latter wouldn't be possible if our alleged "court" system did a better job of holding onto professional criminals, but the former would still work well enough.

That's why Sharpton is so wildly destructive. Sharpton's media are destroying real cops, forbidding induction and pattern recognition, forcing police departments to rely solely on ACLU-designed deductions. ACLU logic is NOT 20-step deduction. It's just one simple if-then statement.

If you arrest a known criminal, you must let him go.
  ¶ 2:27 AM

  Another Willys thought
Another haphazard automotive thought, related to Willys as usual.

Why didn't Willys join the postwar seller's market by resuming production of its '42 models like everyone else did? The '42 Americar was up to date in styling and mechanics, and would have sold well. It was smaller than most, a foot shorter than a Ford or Chevy, but it wasn't TINY like Crosley. The Americar was fully equipped and fully capable of doing everything an American car was asked to do. The TINY Crosley, which wasn't a Real Car and couldn't hit highway speeds, sold like hotcakes for a few years.

Books say that Willys had outsourced its bodies to Briggs, and all the body-makers were fully occupied by the Big Three after the war. They didn't want to bother with a smaller customer. So Willys had to switch to truck-like station wagons and pickups with squared-off surfaces. The deep-draw presses needed for the curvy Americar were exclusively owned by the body-makers.

Why was that an obstacle? Willys had the engineers and facilities to make frames and engines. They could have built several deep-draw presses for their own use, which would free them from dependence on the Big Body Boys. Or they could have hired a West Coast machine-tool builder who was hungry for business after wartime aircraft production stopped.

The usual story simply doesn't make sense. Nearsighted management always makes sense as an explanation for management mistakes.
  ¶ 4:59 PM

  More Shepardson readings
Following up on this. After drying and folding laundry, the T-shirts seemed especially crackly and zappy. So I decided to see what my crude little charge-meter shows. Supposedly the meter is meant to read negative charge.

Over the crackly T-shirts:

No negative charge.


Then over the non-crackly towels, also pulled and folded a few seconds earlier:

Strong negative charge.

I moved the meter back and forth several times, carefully moving nothing but my shoulder joint, to be sure it wasn't a hand position artifact or something like that. The meter snaps down to zero over the T-shirts each time without requiring a manual discharge. This probably means a definite positive charge in that area, not just a zero charge. (I really need to build a 'clean' two-way meter now that I know the concept works!)

Labels on both sets of items say "100% cotton". I don't believe the labels; both of these items feel part synthetic in terms of 'slipperiness' and elasticity. This charge difference implies that the shirts and towels are made of different materials. Whatever those materials are, they can't both be 100% cotton.

Labels: new toy

  ¶ 4:47 AM

  Nostalgia
Amid all the way-beyond-Orwell hyperlunacy, it's sort of reassuring and nostalgic to encounter a piece of Satan that's just good old-fashioned Orwell.

Headline in WaPo:

Republicans again appeal to theocracy.

No need to read the story, you can write it yourself.

The First Amendment is Theocracy.

Freedom is Slavery.

Back in George's drab old territory for a moment. Somebody at WaPo is getting lazy.
  ¶ 4:02 AM

  Not contradictory after all.
The best of Satan's propaganda techniques is NOT listed among the old classic set of prop tricks, and it wasn't anticipated by Orwell.

The best trick is SYMMETRICAL PASSIVATION. Take an action that is purely our own responsibility, and treat it as an inevitable part of natural cycles, just something that happened. Take an action that is an inevitable part of natural cycles and treat it as purely our own sinful fault.

= = = = =

The former, as committed by NYTimes in today's news:

The war that has engulfed Syria and spread into Iraq has displaced 14 million people, including four million Syrian refugees scattered to neighboring countries, and it has created “host fatigue,” which has further aggravated the crisis, United Nations officials said Friday. In remarks to the United Nations Security Council, the officials also rebuked its 15 members for what they called a failure to exert authority to intervene in the four-year-old Syria war, which has left 220,000 people dead.

In fact the Syria war didn't "engulf". It was intentionally started and funded and armed by USA STRONG with major assistance by NYTimes, both loyally obeying Our Lord And Saviour And Prophet Binyamin Netanyahu [pbuh]. The problem is not LACK of intervention, the problem is CONSTANT MURDEROUS INTERVENTION by the major countries.

= = = = =

The latter from a minor Satan-slave.

Headline: "Florida getting hotter in a bad way."

= = = = =

Nuff said. Part of a natural cycle, so it must be our fault.

= = = = =

Think about this. What is the desired result of BOTH propaganda tricks?

In the former, Satan wants us to "INTERVENE" MORE to stop "natural phenomena" like war. This is crazy three ways at once, but skip that for the moment. The desired consequence is MORE MILITARY ACTION. Always MORE MORE MORE. Never enough. Infinity is a tiny baby step.

In the latter, Satan wants us to ELIMINATE MODERN CIVILIZATION to stop "unnatural phenomena" like "global warming". Also crazy three ways, but skip that for the moment. The desired consequence is ZERO CIVILIZATION.

Take both requirements together and what do you get? A world with INFINITE WAR AND ZERO CIVILIZATION.

After you put it together, the contradiction disappears. Symmetry is beautiful! When everyone is fighting, there is no civilization. Total war solves "global warming". Presto!

Labels: Carbon Cult, STRONG!

  ¶ 2:33 AM

  Where's the loop?
Interesting inside view of the attitudes that drive Satanist "churches" like the United Communist Cadre.

I'm constantly puzzled by the apparent lack of basic marketing skills in those institutions. Not just the Satanist "churches" but the Satanist media as well. It's obvious to outsiders that they are losing money because they've stopped performing their assigned job. Instead of providing information or comfort, they're insulting customers, smashing cultures, inciting riots and starting wars.

Any normal business would understand the connection. A plumber who switched from fixing leaks to spitting on his customers and painting graffiti would go bankrupt. A beautician who switched from makeup and nails to shouting insults would go bankrupt. Plumbers and beauticians undoubtedly feel like spitting and shouting at times. Some customers deserve a good hard cuss-out. But ordinary businesses don't succumb to the impulse. They keep doing their jobs because they'd rather make money.

Why does this feedback loop fail with newspapers and "churches"? Why is the error signal disconnected?

One possible answer by analogy with universities. Big univs don't need to serve students because they have endowments and federal research grants. Big donors are Satanists, and federal agencies don't care if students learn.

Rich "churches" also have endowments, and also respond to the same rich fuckheads. It doesn't matter if the seats are empty on Sunday, as long as starvation and riots and wars keep expanding.

Newspapers don't quite fit the pattern. They don't need the money that comes from subscribers, but they do need to prove that they are being read by large numbers of people. Corporate advertisers want to see Maximum Satan poisoning the pages, but local advertisers (ie plumbers and beauticians) want to see the opposite. So the simple explanation doesn't work.
  ¶ 6:44 AM

  Wooden seismometer
Woke up after a nice LONG sleep. Noticed that the floorboards were creaking more than usual, in a way that usually happens after a windstorm has pushed the house around ... or after the small earthquakes in 2000. Checked the Weather Bureau. Nope, no wind overnight, no big changes of temperature.

Then I noticed this:

According to United States Geological Survey, a 4.1 magnitude earthquake hit just southeast of Sandpoint near Lake Pend Oreille at 7:32 p.m. Their website shows that more than 350 people from 51 area codes reported feeling shaking. A second earthquake occurred just hours later and north of Sandpoint's quake. According to USGS, at 10:43 p.m. a magnitude 4.2 hit near Ponderay. Their website shows almost 600 people from 75 zip codes said they felt it. People in areas as far south as Orofino and all the way up to the Canadian border, as well as in Washington with residents Colville and Spokane reporting feeling movement.

So there was an earthquake! Didn't wake me, didn't even show up in a dream. Thanks, old house, for serving as a recorder! No thanks to my internal predictor, which didn't give me any hint of an approaching quake in the last few days.

Bit later: Lots of people felt it, especially in the north part of town.

Later again: Maybe the quake did influence a dream. I woke around 11 to pee, which would have been just after the biggest of the three quakes. Wasn't thinking about anything except peeing, but one odd bit of dream lingered in memory. In the dream I had removed my glasses and set them down on the desk with a THUMP, hard enough to knock the nosepieces off. I was halfway surprised in the morning when I found my actual eyeglasses intact and normal. (The 2000 quake swarm generally showed as a THUMP after a rumble, sort of like reversed thunder.)

I'm always amazed by the instant creativity of the dream-generator. The time interval between physical arrival of a sound at the cochlea and interpretation in the cortex is about 2 seconds. The dream-scripter has to pick up the sound separately from a reflex channel and develop an appropriate bit of stage business to make the sound plausible by the time it hits awareness. Could you develop an animation and pass it into the visual channel in 2 seconds? I sure as fuck couldn't. But the dream-scripter can. Needless to say, this was "evolved" by "random mutations" and "natural selection". All the experts say that, and all the experts will SLAM YOU IN FUCKING JAIL for saying otherwise, so that's what I say too.

Labels: TMI

  ¶ 3:06 AM

  Chondos?
Get Religion discusses an attempt to repurpose urban 'mainline' church buildings now that the churches have turned to Satan and repelled their Christian members. Some of these buildings occupy high-value locations, which inspires developers to consider turning them into condos. Not an easy job because of enviro shit about asbestos and Brownfields. The buildings that would be worth preserving tend to have Historical District restrictions that make them un-convertible. This leaves some of them in a limbo of high "implied value" but no real value. Trading churches, not worshipping churches.

Made me think ... Several of the church buildings around here already have sections that would convert quickly to apts.

Driscoll Baptist, a simple but graceful late-50s design like most of this neighborhood, has an office and classroom wing that looks just like a late-50s apt:



St Charles Catholic, a wild modernistic Eero Saarinen-tyype deesiign, has a coonveent seection that looks like a motel or apts; and as a convent, it's already residential in character. (Doesn't show very well on this Streetview; up close it could pass for a Patel.)



These would be comparatively cheap to convert. No Historical crap or Brownfield crap, buildings kept up to date. But these churches are NOT going the same way as urban churches. Both are tremendously active. And this area is properly valued, so there's no pressure from developers anyway. No fake value to arbitrage. It's just a calm safe place where ordinary people can afford to live a good ordinary life.

Real values = real value.
  ¶ 4:28 PM

  Perfecting a technique
The "crisis" of migrants from North Africa is the most perfect and pure instance of Sailer's Invade and Invite. Previously, EU/US/UK had been Invading and Inviting in different places. For USA, the Invading was in the Middle East and the Inviting was mainly from Mexico and Central America. There's no connection between those populations, so it was hard to see the connection between the Inviting and Invading.

In Sailer's formulation, the two actions are not exactly connected or symmetrical anyway. They're simply two ways of accomplishing the same purpose. Destroying the skills and culture and economy of two places at once, making the world safe for military contractors and financial manipulation.

Now EU has managed to run the Invading and Inviting in the same place, like a pump. Invade Libya, invite Libyan refugees. Invade Syria, invite Syrian refugees.

So naturally we've got a Robust Debate on how to reduce the problem.

The blazingly obvious logical factual answer is STOP INVADING AND STOP INVITING.

Of course logic and facts are unthinkable and unacceptable. Robust Debates serve only one purpose: Bid up the cost and lethality of lunacy. So we are Robust Debating whether to spend 1000 times as much on expanding the war and rescuing the refugees, or only 999.99 times as much on expanding the war and rescuing the refugees. After the Robust Debate, we will compromise and spend 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times as much on expanding the war and rescuing the refugees. All perfectly sensible.
  ¶ 5:41 AM

  Simple solution
I noted earlier a major disconnect between the mechanical or visceral parts of governments and the Big Name Offices. In every case I can think of, the mechanical parts, the permanent bureaucrats, work properly and sanely, while the Named Politicians are far beyond Satan.

A more recent example: Hypersatan Holder has partnered with Hypermonster Sharpton in slaughtering cops and burning down cities for fun and profit. Simultaneously, the mechanical parts of Holder's own department have been investigating each of those "I can't breath" incidents and finding that the cop was fully and legally justified.

Well, the solution is simple, but I don't know how we can make it happen. Just omit the Named Politicians and let the mechanism run on its own.

This happens fairly often in Euro countries with a parliamentary system. Belgium recently went without Named Politicians for a full year as they idiotically haggled about an election result. Did Belgium collapse? Hardly.

Right now Wash State has a good chance to prove the point, at least on one minor elective office. State Auditor Kelley, a D-label politician, has been indicted on fraud and tax evasion charges from a business he ran before he was elected. D-labels don't get indicted for this sort of stuff, so we can assume there's something vastly more serious and shameful under the surface. Perhaps he's a Christian or a heterosexual. Even the D-label "governor" has firmly asked Kelley to get the hell out, but Kelley refuses. He claims he's just taking a vacation to "get rid of the distraction".

Solution. Just leave the office vacant, and soon it will become clear that the Auditor's staff are perfectly capable of running their work, whatever it is.
  ¶ 2:45 AM

  Amazing number
An amazing number in a Stockman article:

There are currently an estimated 70 million empty high rise apartment units in China, for example, because under the baleful influence of unlimited credit these apartments were built for asset appreciation, not occupancy. In fact, most of China’s tens of million of punters who have invested in these units have taken pains to keep them empty and spanking new; like contemporary works of art, appreciation potential can be impaired by damage and scrapes.

In other words, those 70 million units are 'trading apartments, not living apartments'.

If they actually became 'living apts', how would it affect China? From this wiki page, China has about 455 million households, averaging exactly 3 people per household.

So the 70 million empties could hold 1/6 of all China's households.

The average of 3 also amazed me. Obvious effect of the one-child policy, but I'd figured the usual Chinese household included at least one grandma or auntie. Nope. In fact all of the richer countries, even in Catholic parts of the world, have between 2.5 and 3.5 people per household. It's a remarkably constant number.
  ¶ 5:47 PM

  Kudos to KREM
One case of measles has popped up in Spokane. Measles isn't an especially big deal, or at least it wasn't when I was a kid ... but now that commies have been permitted to skip vaccinations, every disease is more of a threat.

Media can play a positive or negative role in restoring a sane approach to public health. The response of the major media outlets to this one case is instructive.

All but KREM have simply passed along the worse-than-useless crap provided by local health agencies. This statement is full of condescending officialese and empty of information.

"INFECTED INDIVIDUAL TRAVELED TO FOLLOWING LOCATIONS ON FOLLOWING DATES."

TRAVELED? Were INFECTED GENDERLESS INDIVIDUAL wandering all over town trying to spread THEIR germs? Did they TRAVEL first class or coach?

It sounds like a reluctant agency response to a FOIA request, covering the agency's ass with a rash of black spots and REDACTEDs. The only information you can derive from this nonsense is "You are shit. You do not deserve information."

That's exactly the right way to MAXIMIZE paranoia and MINIMIZE compliance. Good job of destroying public health, public health agency!

= = = = =

KREM told the story in normal English, adding several sidebar stories with general info about vaccination.

Turns out THEY are not a GENDERLESS INDIVIDUAL, he's a man; and he didn't TRAVEL TO FOLLOWING LOCATIONS, he went to work and then went to a gym for exercise. More importantly, he tried to get treatment FOUR times after he felt sick. He didn't simply TRAVEL to those four LOCATIONS; he had to keep trying because they were too incompetent to recognize measles.

And that last part is the information we really need. Measles is not tremendously lethal, but the high fever can do real damage if you don't control it. Knowing that local hospitals are too fucking stupid to recognize the disease, you can be ready to control the fever with aspirin or something stronger.

Those sidebar stories are also important. When we sense a scarcity of any substance from gasoline to information, we get fearful and take desperate steps to stock up on the substance, often picking up bad stuff along the way. But when we sense abundance, we relax. We don't go hunting for extra supplies.

That's how you MINIMIZE paranoia.
  ¶ 8:53 AM

  Read-only concepts?
Caution: Incipient half-thought. Writing it down before it completely fades....

Thinking again about Semantic Secession. You can't recapture an organization or symbol after Satan snatches it. "Working within the system" doesn't work. After a church or a sacrament or a word has been possessed, your only choice is to secede. Get out, find or create a new church or concept or word. Don't let Satan squeeze you into a corner.

This is a new idea in the context of Satan, but it's old and routine in the context of inflation. When a monetary unit gets hopelessly inflated, the only choice is to create a new unit. When a grading system gets hopelessly inflated so that everyone is getting A's, the only cure is to create a new system with fresh symbols and fresh mappings. (ie you can't simply replace A with Aardvark, B with Bumblebee, etc.)

New incipient thought:

Some concepts and symbols and words are impervious to alteration. Their Read-Only flag is set to TRUE.

Obvious example in the world of cars. Model names like Biscayne and BelAir get inflated. BelAir starts as a special sport coupe and eventually slides down the scale and disappears as new sport coupes pop into the top of the stack. But model NUMBERS don't slide. Packard's 110-120-160-180 didn't slide. AMC's 220-330-etc in the 1960s didn't slide.

Codes don't get inflated or corrupted either. Nobody has ever snatched Morse.



Various groups have defined their own meanings and flavors for combinations of letters, but those secondary definitions didn't amount to total possession. Nobody has ever been sued for failing to say 73 at the end of a friendly conversation, and nobody has been jailed because his way of sending 73 sounded like

to some Satanic tyrant-fuckhead.

Is there a possible solution here? I dunno, but it seems worth mentioning in case somebody else can expand on it.

= = = = =

A few days later, a more refined and accurate set of thoughts.

Labels: 20th century Dark Age, defensible spaces

  ¶ 3:00 AM