Real undertakers do it better
Via ZH: A cryogenics firm is being sued by the family of one client after they mistakenly cremated the body instead of freezing it.

ZH probably intended this as semi-humorous clickbait. Everyone "knows" cryogenics is pointless because there's no chance of thawing back to life.

Common knowledge was valid until a few months ago, when Russian scientists SUCCESSFULLY thawed out some nematodes that had been frozen for thousands of years. Nematodes don't switch to antifreeze mode, so this was genuine reanimation of an animal that wasn't designed to be frozen. This opens a previously closed door.

Aside from the changed context, the mistake is unforgivable anyway. The cryogenics firm was keeping 159 bodies. That's not mass production, it's a quantity that can be handled and inspected CLOSELY AND CAREFULLY without a lot of bureaucracy.

Ordinary funeral homes do a much better job of storing and organizing remains.

AS FUCKING ALWAYS, long experience succeeds and Innovative Disruption kills.

Labels: Carver

  ¶ 12:50 AM

  The original Deepstate
Rome is playing the "reform" game again, calling a special council to "deal with" the total depravity of its monstrous hierarchy.

The absolute total depravity has been constant for at least 1000 years. This particular vice has been a publicly known part of the depravity package for at least 700 years. The "reform" game has been going on since the start. Every 20 years the Church calls up a council to "deal with" the total depravity of its monstrous hierarchy, and every 20 years it stays the same. No reason to expect any difference this time.

Rome is the original Deepstate.

Read Henry Lea's 1877 book. Especially the last chapter around page 600. It's all tiresomely familiar.

Later thought: There's an important difference between the Deepstate of an empire and the Deepstate of a church. An ordinary citizen can't do anything about the empire. Entire countries can leave the empire, but a citizen in USA has exactly zero power. With a church the situation is reversed. Ordinary people have ALL the power against an evil church. Just LEAVE. Get out. A church can't hurt its members when the members are ELSEWHERE.

Labels: infinite infinite infinite infinite evil

  ¶ 8:47 AM

  Reconversion
Noticed an unusual and FAST renovation today.

An attached garage on a '50s house had been converted to a room LONG ago, probably soon after the house was built. The front wall was properly wall-like, not an obvious fill panel.

There was no sign of pending construction on Monday. I didn't walk past the house on Tuesday. Today, Wednesday, the garage is a garage again! Looks like it was always a garage.

Structurally the speed makes sense... the wall was designed to hold an overhead door, so the lower part wasn't bearing any load. Removing it wouldn't require any 'engineering'. Just Sawzall + skill.

Culturally it's UNIQUE. I've never seen a conversion in this direction. In Spokane NOBODY uses a garage for cars. They fill the garage with stuff then build a carport in front to hold the car then fill the carport with stuff then build a carportport in front then [loop]

Labels: Heimatkunde

  ¶ 7:48 AM

  Another retrofitted dream script
Dreamed that Walter Mondale had returned from the dead and was running for President again. He was campaigning only in laundromats. His agenda relied on one magic word which would solve all problems. The word was MNAIT, pronounced like m'night.

WTF?

Oh. This was another of those scenes developed by the dream scripter from bits and pieces of my OTR playlist. In this case I was hearing an episode of 'Strange as it Seems' dealing with a contrived coincidence. Three separate shipwrecks, all on the same date in different centuries, all had exactly one survivor. Each of the survivors was named Hugh Williams. Not much of a coincidence, but Hix turned it into a good story.

Where were the shipwrecks? In Menai Strait, near Bangor in Wales.

I have no idea where Mondale and the laundromats came from, but clearly the dream scripter was retrofitting its own interesting narrative to the one salient word. Even though I've heard the episode hundreds of times during non-dream sleep and dozens of times in wakeness, the dream scripter rejected the THOROUGHLY FAMILIAR connections of the word and resolutely invented its own set of connections.

Mondale returning from the dead makes more sense than the facts of USA politics. All the existing candidates in "both" "parties" are 900-year-old zombies staggering around and emitting incoherent screeches.

= = = = =

A week later dream scripter pulled a similar trick!
  ¶ 4:05 AM

  Fucking reprint
Following on the last two items, it's time to reprint this piece from a couple months ago. It fits nicely.

= = = = = START FUCKING REPRINT:


Political and economic talkers of "both" sides are constantly pushing the Gig Economy. Everyone should be an entrepreneur! Quit the ratrace and start your own business!

Well, it's good advice if your business is crime. It's terrible advice if you're trying to be honest.

In Britain now, the failure rate for crime is only 9%.

Typically the failure rate for new entrepreneurs is about 70%.

Turning it around:

A career in crime has a 9 in 10 chance of success.

An honest career has a 3 in 10 chance of success.

The most serious crime is committed by those advisors. They know EXACTLY what they're doing. They're advising good honest smart people to WORK FOR FREE.

They're selling the best people into debt slavery. Not proper agrarian slavery where the slaves could count on lifetime support. More like the modern migrant system where the victim pays his life savings to the smuggler and then works to an early death with no reward.

= = = = = END FUCKING REPRINT.

This goes along with the Insatiable's cruelly fake invitation to Deplorables. You can be rich and popular! You can be just like me! Start by being an entrepreneur! Spend several years developing new ideas and methods, so I can steal them and LBO you into failure and suicide! Great fun for me! Too bad about you, LOSER SOYBOY MOMMY'S BASEMENT 47% TAKER.

The crime really started with 1776, not with 9/11. The cruelest hoax of all is the genocidal and gene-ocidal myth that all people are identical, that genes don't exist.

When you live by FACTS, you understand that status and popularity are innate and permanent. You don't waste time falling into conveniently provided scams and traps. Instead, you push away the evil by MAKING more value and beauty, which is the duty of all life. Let Satan be Satan. Don't help him.

Labels: defensible spaces, From rights to duties

  ¶ 8:43 AM

  What did 9/11 do?
Headline in Deutsche Welle today:

Death of German fuels fears of far-right violence in Köthen

Epitaph for civilization.

This pattern is UNIVERSAL in the Sorosian lands.

An actual crime is committed by Soros-commanded foreign invaders. Ordinary residents are outraged at the actual crime.

In a sane country, the government would ALSO be outraged at the crime itself, and would do everything possible to find and KILL the murderer, and then REPEL the invasion, which is the SINGLE SOLE SOLITARY PURPOSE OF A MOTHERFUCKING GOVERNMENT.

In a Sorosian country, the dysgovernment IGNORES the actual crime and does everything possible to PROTECT the criminal. Instead, the dysgovernment finds and KILLS the ordinary citizens who expressed outrage.

In USA, this pattern began with 9/11. The dysgovernment told us "See something, say something!".... and when we dared to say something, the dysgovernment treated us as terrorists.

The whole point of 9/11 was to establish maximally crazy tyranny as the norm. The point of 9/11 was to pull Deplorables out of the woodwork so we could be exterminated.

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter, Sorosia

  ¶ 7:51 AM

  Bluffs
Starting with the scenes I like to build.



And the themes I like to hit in this blog:



Notice the common shape? TANH in the real world vs EXP in the fake world.

I hadn't made the connection until now.

There are two physical reasons for the dominance of tanh hills in the scenes. First, the historically genuine scenes are genuinely set against a bluff. Cave Gas is IN a bluff. Many of my 'lost places' are in eastern Kansas, which is a bluffy place. Second, I want these scenes to be USED by real artists, so I try to make them self-contained and efficient. A hill for a backdrop is 'cheaper' in terms of rendering than a lot of trees and background buildings.

Bluffs and hillsides have a real-life connection to Insatiables vs Deplorables. As I detailed here, rising status goes with rising altitude. Ever since the days of aristocratic castles, Insatiables want to be in a commanding position where they can survey their land and slaves.

On the world scale, you can envision Sorosia in tanh-status terms.



USA STRONG occupies the aristocrat ground. The bear occupies the peasant ground.

In between the two plateaus is an eroded area of tricky terrain, similar to the eroded band that includes eastern Kansas.

USA STRONG believes that everyone wants to be on the high ground with him. An Insatiable always believes that everyone wants to be Just Like Him. Why wouldn't they aspire to My Godlike Perfection? Why wouldn't they want to bask in My Holy Radiance? Why wouldn't they want to live on infinite debt and zero savings? Works beautifully for me! I believe that My Infinite Wealth must always increase exponentially, and the only way to do that is with Infinite Debt.

USA STRONG's radiance is actually gamma rays. The countries that share the high ground are getting sick, and finally realizing that USA STRONG is a crazy omnicidal mass killer.

Down on the low ground, the bear doesn't have to do a lot of advertising. Just continue with a low-side tanh way of living. No aggression, limit the power of monopolies, gold standard instead of infinite debt, preserve Natural Law culture. Make things.

Many countries have already slid down the bluff to the Natural Law plateau. Italy is the most recent arrival. At the moment Turkey, Germany and Holland are somewhere in the crevices of the eroded zone. They can't quite imagine a life away from His Holy Radiance, but the Migrant Rays are making them sicker by the day, and they need to get away from the line-of-sight radiation.

Labels: Real World Math, Sorosia, switchover

  ¶ 2:48 AM

  Weak points
Again continuing the split Sorosia theme...

One issue that splits Deepstate is 'machine learning' or AI. There are major Deepstaters on both sides. Some are actively developing it, some are loudly opposing it. Elon, of course, is doing both at once.

I think opposition is more natural for Deepstaters, and active development is just commercial careerism. Let's see if I can show how this works.

= = = = =

1. Machine learning is NOT NEW. Long before the computer age, there were mechanical and electronic systems that adjusted their own way of responding as a result of 'remembered' experience.

Start from the start with the PRIMORDIAL technology, cooking fires. A fire behaves differently after the ashes have piled up for days or weeks, and cooks have learned to use this altered behavior for different types of cooking.

Mechanical examples are more subtle but common. In cars, self-adjusting brakes and hydraulic valve lifters change their limit points automatically as the surfaces wear down. Both of these mechanisms are 80 years old. In electronics, volume leveling and noise canceling circuits adjust the current response based on a 'memory' of the last 5 or 10 seconds. Fairly complex, but again 80 years old, well before the era of software.

2. Deepstate HATES experience more than anything in the world. Mechanisms and people who adjust their behavior based on memory and experience are ADAPTABLE, thus UNSTEADY. The only way to achieve ABSOLUTE BRITTLE RIGID STEADY DEATH is by following an abstract THEORY. A theory never changes.

3. Deepstate squashes all invocations of experience with CITE YOUR DOCUMENTATION. This happens all the time in web comboxes and academia. Any attempt to bring PERSONAL OBSERVATION into a discussion is met with the CITE weapon. Only PERMANENT UNCHANGING WRITTEN AUTHORITATIVE THEORY is acceptable.

4. Deepstate hates experiential education because learning from reality, using your hands and senses, enables you to DETECT a false theory. When your hands and eyes are in direct contact with a frog or a circuit or a bridge, you can't be fooled by written nonsense.

5. Deepstate loves statistics and hates phase and wave charts. Statistics are timeless by definition. When you reduce a situation to mean and variance, you have explicitly STRANGLED THE LIFE out of the situation.

6. Deepstate is always surprised by changes that can be predicted easily by an intelligent experience-based mind. Deepstaters don't understand saturation or cycles or the entire fucking nervous system. When a natural phenomenon or a human behavior runs in cycles or adapts to a baseline, Deepstate can't comprehend what's going on, and has to blame it on a mysterious spiritual force like witches or CO2 or "randomness" or RUSSIAN_MEDDLING.

= = = = =

All of these tendencies are WEAK POINTS in Deepstate thinking. All could be EXPLOITED by the feedback-guided and experience-guided side. We ought to be taking advantage of this weakness.

= = = = =

[Credit footnote: Again I have to thank the NYTimes anonymous neocon eunuch who supplied the correct word, the CLARIFYING word, for our demonic occupiers.]

Later footnote: A reader could rationally infer from this item that I'm supporting 'killer robots' and 'intelligent drones'. I'm not. First: I'm just saying that 'killer robots' are nothing new or special, not any worse than plain old dumb weapons and soldiers. War is war, and war is bad. Second: As a long-time programmer with some experience in this type of work AND some knowledge of neurology, I know that AI is overrated. It can't do the things that its techie supporters claim. Overall, we should be worrying about the basic question of war versus peace, not worrying about specific ways of making war.

In short: Why does Deepstate fear AI-powered weapons? Because any intelligence that gathers EXPERIENTIAL DATA on its own will conclude that war is bad. Bad for everyone and everything, including the nation that built the weapon. All experience in human history agrees 100% with this conclusion. If the weapon wants to serve its maker, it will shut down and do nothing.

The only way to build a loyal war-loving robot is to preprogram it with a THEORY (eg "spreading democracy"), and restrict its inputs and logic to precoded data.

Labels: modest proposal, Patient things, skill-estate

  ¶ 12:44 AM

  The amazing thing
Carrying on the split Sorosia thought...

The amazing thing is that populists in Sorosian lands have managed to put together the facts and logic for ourselves, with NO help from ANY modern "opinion sources". I try to watch foreign leaders like Putin and Orban and Salvini, and I look back at FDR and Jennings Bryan and Graybill. But most populists are processing the facts and reaching the correct conclusions independently, BASED ON THEIR OWN OBSERVATION AND EXPERIENCE, without reading those temporospatially distant sources.

The "leftist" media like NakedCapitalism and CommonDreams are pluponents. While pretending to critique bankism and debtism, they actually propose more abstraction and more debt. They don't even pretend to critique the cultural side of Soros. They're firmly on board with open borders, variable gender, environmental lunacy, the whole bit.

The "libertarian" media like Reason aren't exactly pluponents, but their alternative is no improvement. They have one thing unquestionably right: Central banks are evil. But at the same time they FEROCIOUSLY defend the tech branches of Deepstate like Amazon and Google. They oppose the forceful imposition of anti-Natural Law culture, but at the same time they FAVOR the anti-Natural Law culture itself, and FEROCIOUSLY support open borders and offshoring.

The media from Russia, supposedly solid enemies of OUR PRECIOUS SOROSIAN FREEDOMS, are nearly identical to CNN and MSNBC. The only difference between RT and CNN is the issue of Russia itself. RT agrees that Christianity is bad, "global warming" is real, migrants are good, prisons should be torn down, cops are bad, bitcoin is good, etc.

RT is normal. After all, the job of a national propaganda outlet is to weaken the enemy. What ISN'T normal is the role of CNN, NYT, FOX, etc. In a normal world they would be STRENGTHENING America by assisting Christianity, breaking up monopolies, and avoiding wars.

There were a couple of exceptions to this total absence of public expression. In previous elections Pat Buchanan and Rick Santorum preached the whole populist message consistently and coherently. Both were out of the picture this time. Trump said a few populist things, just enough to bring the desperate citizens out of the woodwork so we can be identified and squashed. But even during his scampaign, most of his message was standard Repooflican. And since the election he has given Deepstate most of what it wants. More war, more debt, higher Dow, less tax, less jobs. Deepstate continues to bash the fake holograph of "Populist Trump", making him attractive to rebels, continuing the Pied Piper role.

REMEMBER: TRUMP IS ROY COHN'S PROTEGE. This tells you everything you need to know.

Labels: Pluponents, Sorosia

  ¶ 11:07 PM

  Constants and variables 105b, Snusnik edition 2
I was sort of hoping for an Italy-like overturn in Sweden, but I'm not hugely surprised at the moderate gain for populists. Sweden isn't ripe for an overturn.

Constant: Soros. Variable: Which SIDE of Soros is dominant.

Sweden has totally surrendered to the Sorosians culturally but hasn't surrendered economically. Its heavy industries are still going strong, very little offshoring. Ordinary Swedes may be disgusted by the migrants and variable-gender ratshit, but they still have useful and high-paid jobs.

Italy went crazy the other way. Italy maintained its culture pretty firmly but allowed the bankers and Krauts to snatch away its industries. Ordinary men are poor and useless, especially in the North.

PURPOSE counts more than anything else.

Labels: Constants and Variables, Sorosia

  ¶ 2:53 PM

  Scamoleth
Haven't had a good scamoleth email in a long time. Most of the scammers have mastered English grammar by now. Not this one.

Subject line:

occa, sorry, but Your appeal 114147 not took into account

Text:

Good afternoon, occa.

You can earn a top iphone in 1 hour
Dont be upset, but Your appeal not examined the
From US You NEVER similar Letters DO NOT GET
FROM this project You will accept specifically the best notice. For example, such:
- money ready for cashing out
The first notification will arrive already Today. So – every couple of hours.

Camille Ward
Your connected manager

= = = = =

Almost every word is completely failed grammar and syntax.

It doesn't even work as a sucker filter because it doesn't convey any message at all. It doesn't imply that you could get something by responding.

A week later: A nearly identical email with a new peculiarity. It's not addressed to me; instead the destination is a real email belonging to a professor of marine biology at the Univ of Tasmania. I've never heard of the prof or the university, and couldn't have any connection to her, unless maybe I've clicked on an article in Eurekalert or something like that. Spam always has a fake origin, but I've never seen a fake destination before. What's the purpose?

Labels: Leth

  ¶ 3:47 AM

  Happy to oblige!
NYTimes demon has written some "clarifications" on its bizarre op-ed from a neocon eunuch.

The last line of the "clarification" indicates the main purpose is to rename Deepstate to Steadystate.

Glad to oblige!!! Without even knowing it, the eunuch has DEFINED THE PROBLEM CORRECTLY.

As I've been pointing out forever, Steadystate is bad PRECISELY BECAUSE IT'S UNCHANGING AND NON-ADAPTABLE. Steady is another name for dead.

A functional government, like any functional living thing, runs on NEGATIVE FEEDBACK. Every action and policy is open to change if it's not maximizing the BASIC PURPOSE OF SURVIVAL for the whole organism.

Steadystate is deadly because it NEVER CHANGES AND NEVER ADAPTS. It always makes war, always barbecues heretics. It's a brainless killing machine, a massive meatgrinder that pushes forward with no steering and no brakes.

= = = = =

Later thought: The change of terminology is well-timed. Since the "election" of Hillary In An Orange Wig, the demonic death forces are no longer deep, no longer hidden under the surface. No need for conspiracy theories when Steadystate is POWERBLASTING THE LANDSCAPE WITH TOXIC SLUDGE from every single outlet and portal and speaker and screen and page and mouth.

= = = = =

Many months later: I had assumed that the name provided by a real authority would catch on. It didn't. I finally edited more than 100 items to switch Steadystate back to Deepstate.

One of my strongest rules is that words should be allowed to evolve normally. I was violating my own rule, and Nature's rule, by attempting to replace the normal and understandable Deepstate with the mysterious Steadystate. I let Steadystate remain in this item, because I still think it WOULD BE a better word than Deepstate.

Labels: From rights to duties, Grand Blueprint

  ¶ 1:14 AM

  First step
The story about the rich fuckheads who raised $400k for their homeless friend, then gambled it all away, is messy in terms of good and evil. Hard to tell from a distance whether there's some unseen betrayal from the other side. But from a contractual viewpoint it's simple. Homeless dude gets the money.

And GoFundMe has come through with an unusual guarantee:

But regardless of what happened, the donations are backed by GoFundMe's "GoFundMe guarantee," which protects donors and recipients. "We reached an agreement today with GoFundMe and they have agreed to make sure he will be made whole," Fallon says. In a statement, the company said it would back the money raised: "...Our platform is backed by the GoFundMe Guarantee, which means that in the rare case that GoFundMe, law enforcement or a user finds campaigns are misused, donors and beneficiaries are protected."

Before this action the story didn't have any major consequences or meaning. Now it does.

GoFundMe has just established itself as the UNQUESTIONABLY SUPERIOR ALTERNATIVE to the infinitely evil stock market. By SPEEDILY enforcing a clear contract in an otherwise messy situation, GoFundMe has become a true Natural Law answer to Wall Street.

Labels: Natural law = Sharia law, Natural law = Soviet law

  ¶ 1:01 AM

  Sorosian stroke
Making a subject unthinkable has real costs. This article in ArseTechnica is surprisingly not-quite-totally-insane, considering the source. It summarizes a TOTALLY INSANE SCREEEEEEEEECH written by demons at MIT, which grudgingly reaches the conclusion that more nuclear power is needed to propitiate Gaia's revenge for TRUMP HITLER KKK ALT-RIGHT NAZI HITLER TRUMP.

Despite the 1% sanity in the Arse article, it still shows a self-destructive blind spot. It assumes that the Soros world is the ONLY world. Nuclear power is no longer being built in Sorosia, THEREFORE it's no longer built anywhere in the world.

IN FACT both Russia and China are building LOTS of new nuke plants, in their own countries and even in Euro countries and Saudi. Economics and technology** are NOT the problem, as Arse and MIT assume. Only our own suicidal hyperlunacy is OUR problem.

This is the exact equivalent of a neurological defect called hemispatial neglect, which often arises after a stroke. The patient simply doesn't know that one side of the world exists. He washes and grooms only one side of his body, reads only one side of a text or picture, and DOESN'T KNOW why the result is odd.

= = = = =

**Even within the visible Sorosian side of the world the techmonsters have memory holes (both Orwellian and neurological). According to Arse, a major part of the technological "problem" is waste disposal, which nobody has ever tried to solve at all. We're waiting for Elon to get to it. C'mon guys, give him time. He's already invented rockets, tunnels, caves, automobiles, factories, the sun, the stock market, the universe, and brains. None of these things existed before the Mighty Creator thought of them. He'll get around to this one pretty soon.

IN FACT the problem of waste was completely and satisfactorily solved TWICE by American engineers. First we invented the recycling Breeder Reactor, which Gaia soon unexisted. After it was unexisted, France picked up the idea and still uses it profitably and safely. Since the problem still hadn't been solved, we had to solve it, so we designed and built a perfectly safe underground storage facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Yucca Mountain was unexisted by a more earthly power. A Mafia crimelord named Harry Reid owned lots of casinos, Nevada, and the Senate. Because he owned Nevada he decided that Yucca Mountain unexists. Because he owned the Senate the Federal dysgovernment agreed with him. Even though God-Emperor Reid no longer owns the Senate, his Imperial Godforce reigns forever and ever forever and ever forever and ever forever and ever hallelujah hallelujah halleluuuuuuuuuJAH. Therefore, as far as we "know", the waste problem has never even been considered, let alone solved, and we're all anxiously awaiting Creator Of The Universe Elon to graciously grant us some time between Holy Eucharistic Tokes.

Labels: infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite lunacy, Sorosia

  ¶ 3:28 AM

  Constants and variables 105, Snusnik edition
Latest item at KSHS is ... amusing? bemusing? just plain weird?



I've cropped and contrasted the picture.

Description:

This set of photographs represent a float for the Svensk Hyllningsfest parade in Lindsborg, Kansas. The design of the float was fashioned after Sputnik, the first artificial Earth satellite launched by the then Soviet Union. The Svensk Hyllningsfest is a biennial celebration honoring the Swedish heritage and culture of the community.

Well, no. The float wasn't fashioned after Sputnik, it was fashioned after the sponsor's Snus tin. Excellent piece of metalcraft. A local sheet-metal shop must have done it.

Under the a-be-musement, there are two major historical comparisons between 1957 and now.

1. A parade float sponsored by a tobacco product. Nuff said. Or rather Snuff said.

2. We think of the current phase of Russia-frenzy as a repeat of the first Cold War. Wrong. In the '50s, as I've noted before, it was possible for people to think and talk RATIONALLY about Russian achievements. In the current psychopathic death-dance, this float would be absolutely unthinkable. No sponsor, Snus or otherwise, would IMAGINE a salute to ANYTHING remotely connected to connected to connected to connected to Russia, and the chain of forbidden connections is literally infinite.

Yessir, we must defend OUR PRECIOUS FREEDOMS by eliminating ALL THOUGHTS AND ALL ART AND ALL CRAFT AND ALL USEFUL WORK.

We are 999999999999999999999 teraparsecs beyond all previous examples of lunacy and evil.

= = = = =

Later thought: The float didn't represent Sputnik, but it was clearly a positive reference. It seems to be saying that Snus is the Swedish Sputnik. What was the message? Snus gets you high? Snus puts you into orbit?

Footnote: The history of the sponsor is more interesting than this float! Worth reading.

Labels: Constants and Variables, defensible times, infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite infinite lunacy

  ¶ 1:39 AM

  Lumberality
I was trying to untangle the electromechanical logic of this mechanism, with some help from the descriptive text.



Suddenly I noticed a MUCH more interesting aspect of the diagram. The wooden beams are shown as wood, not just gray or crosshatch; even more, the draftsman went to the trouble of giving each beam an individual personality. Each is from a different section of a tree, with different grain patterns and different imperfections. A lumber expert could tell which type of sawing had produced each beam, just as a butcher could distinguish cuts of meat by their grain and fat patterns.

That's ART.

Labels: Morsenet of Things, skill-estate

  ¶ 2:12 PM

  Plain old proportion
ZH clickbaits a tiny-room housing project in Spain.

The Sorosians are outraged as usual. Sorosians (including the incalculably wicked hypermonstrous massmurderous city dysgovernment of Spokane) always weaponize "human" "rights" to exterminate Deplorables more efficiently. Housing that people can afford is always an UNACCEPTABLE VIOLATION OF "HUMAN" "RIGHTS". We must eliminate it, we must push Deplorables onto the streets where we can plow them up and toss them in the oven.

The ZH randian commenters are outraged in other directions as predictably usual.

Everyone is missing the point.

Here's the picture given by ZH:



This is PLENTY of space for one person in a dorm or boarding-house situation with common bathrooms and eating facilities. It could even be a complete residence.

The problem with all of these architect-designed tiny spaces is plain old PROPORTION. Mobile homes and RVs make excellent use of small spaces with built-in furniture and SMALL furniture. Small stoves, small sinks, small beds, foldable tables. This room violates the principle. Nothing is built-in, nothing is foldable, nothing is COMPACT. Giant bulgy bed, 3000 square foot 11008800 HHHHDDD TV that you can't even fucking SEE from the available distance. No storage, no kitchenette, no dresser, no table and chair.

Secondly, the walls are glossy and dark, making it impossible to achieve comfortable lighting. Ordinary walls and ceilings are off-white with matte rough surfaces, providing broad diffuse light from a small bulb. Dark walls absorb an amazing amount of light, requiring superbright bulbs to get usable illumination; and glossy walls act like mirrors, reflecting the bulb itself without diffusing.

= = = = =

Later addendum, found in an old Acetylene Lighting journal. A table of reflectivity for various wall surfaces, which verifies the dramatic difference:

Raw plaster ........... 0.40-0.50
Finished plaster ...... 0.60-0.70
Fine white washes...... 0.70-0.84
White tile, marble..... 0.50-0.70
White paint ........... 0.40-0.60
Finished wood—light ... 0.12
Finished wood—dark .... 0.06

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter

  ¶ 8:33 AM

  More Wow
Following on this....

Another fantastically complex yet common computing system used in railroads 150 years ago.

The staff system began in England with wooden staffs, clearly inspired by the tally sticks that had been used for accounting. Each staff was a rod "like a policeman's truncheon", and the staffs for various sections of the line were marked and notched in specific ways. Some of them had a key built into the end to unlock a box containing a receipt. A train entering a section picked up the correct staff, and had to hand it back to a dispatcher at the end of the section. The purpose was to insure that each section was occupied by only one train at a time, and to insure that each train reaching the endpoint had been authorized to enter. (Hadn't slipped in from a siding.)

Later versions used metal staffs with mechanical interlocks:



and each end of the block had a Staff Machine like this:



again using the vending-machine approach like the Torpedo Placer.

To avoid stopping, there were staff cranes similar to mail cranes:



How did it work? Elementary, my dear Watson....



Well, maybe not so elementary. This is just part of a five-page description, all equally dense and complex.

= = = = =

Checking my biases: In 60 years of electronic activity, I'd never encountered any of these mechanisms. Was I just blind to railroad stuff? Ignoring it because it wasn't interesting? Using the search button at American Radio History, the answer is no. Railroads are rarely mentioned. Even in the earlier periodicals when rail was the dominant transportation, there's not much material. Even as the signaling systems became specifically electronic, with tube circuits replacing magnetic circuits, there was no attention in the 'outer world' of electronics. A few railroad items appeared in the '40s when the Morse-style signals began to be replaced by two-way radio systems, but that's no longer peculiar to railroads. It was just a new application of a system already developed for police and taxi use.

Labels: Alternate universe, Morsenet of Things

  ¶ 3:06 PM

  Pretty damn close to Soviet....
A large group of hospitals, along with the VA, are putting together a NON-PROFIT and NON-SHARE-BASED pharmaceutical company to make generic drugs at affordable prices. The effort seems to have been sparked by Shkreli and Valeant's murderous pricejacking.

This isn't quite as good as true Soviet state-controlled capital, but the purpose is the same and the function should be similar.

This is exactly the German approach to health care, with private firms prohibited from seeking profit.

More, please!

Labels: Natural law = Soviet law

  ¶ 10:26 AM

  Famous?
Now this is INTERESTING. Astronomy is one area of science that I don't follow much, partly because it no longer deals in THINGS THAT ARE HERE. The public news-making side of astronomy is all about SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOTIC DELUSIONS like "dark matter" and "string theory" and "dark energy" and "multiverses." These are THINGS THAT DO NOT EXIST AND CANNOT EXIST.

For once we have a public news-making item about a truly fascinating THING THAT IS HERE.

Above Saturn’s north pole, clouds swirl in a distinct and stunning hexagonal shape. Discovered by NASA’s Voyager mission in 1981, Saturn’s hexagon is striking to behold, and one new study suggests that this six-sided vortex may actually be hundreds of kilometers tall.

Now, as part of a new study using Cassini data, researchers have discovered, for the first time, a high-altitude vortex forming at Saturn’s north pole. This vortex was spotted as the planet’s northern hemisphere approached summertime. And it has a hexagonal shape like the famous hexagon originally discovered closer to the planet’s surface. These findings suggest that the high-altitude vortex may be influenced by the low-altitude vortex, potentially forming an immense, tall tower, according to a statement.

The video is indeed stunning. The center is a familiar vortex, like a tornado or hurricane, but it forms a stable and semi-permanent hexagon outside the center. Nothing in Earth weather forms simple polygons.

Famous? Might be famous among academics, but it's NOT famous to outsiders. It should be!

Maybe you'd get more public support if you'd focus more on THINGS THAT ARE HERE and less on the bizarre monstrous fantasies in your own "heads" or whatever you have in place of heads.

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Calmer thought: This fits all the criteria for inter-species communication. If the Saturnians, or some distant planet that had gained magnetic control of Saturn, wanted to send a CQ to Earthlings, this would do it. An unmistakable signal of life imposing structure on chaos. It could even be an answer to our first CQ, which had a lot of Euclidean content.

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