Don't fall for it
Normally my bedtime 'radio' is all '30s and '40s, all empathetic. Tonight I made the mistake of placing an unfamiliar episode from the meritocratic '50s at the start, and had trouble reaching sleep. Fortunately the dream-scripter tried to undo the damage.

There's an important lesson. Meritocracy is part of the underlying structure that made the current tyranny possible. Cultures based on fate and luck have been less susceptible to the Share Value tech tyranny, and now less susceptible to the "medical" version.

When you believe that success depends entirely on what you do, tyrants can make you guilty for not "doing as you're told". When you understand that success is mostly due to permanent caste, and when you understand that health is mostly due to the permanent qualities of your immune system, this type of guilt doesn't work.

African and Oriental and Slavic countries are more fate-based. They understand the primacy of luck. They haven't taken part in the skill destruction of recent decades, and now are less harsh with lockdowns. Cultures with permanent stable castes and niches are HAPPY and CALM cultures.

Meritocracy plus Darwin makes eugenics possible. The super-rich are good. Poor people have chosen to be poor, so they deserve to be punished for their crime. Culled from the herd.

Meritocracy in the hands of Deepstate intentionally stirs up both sides. Rich and popular people are encouraged to believe that they got there entirely by effort, so their advantage is deserved. Unlucky people are encouraged to believe that they CAN become rich and popular, so they waste their lives in upward-striving failure instead of finding satisfaction in an appropriate niche.

The inevitable and INTENDED result of this failed striving is revolution, which is the quickest way to self-cull. Revenge can't possibly work when the state holds all the cards and all the communication channels. Revenge and justice in fictional form are cathartic. Leave it there.

Don't fall for the pressure. Get into medieval mode. Try to keep the monsters calm. Bored monsters eventually move on to something more interesting.

There's very little support for the medieval mode, and no empathy for the unlucky in modern media. So it's especially hard to stay in this mode, but it's the best way to preserve what little remains of civilization until the monsters get tired of burning us and start burning each other.

Labels: From rights to duties, Jail mode

  ¶ 3:51 AM

  Yes, it worked.
In previous item I noted a brief report of an MIT fog control project in 1930, and wondered if it had succeeded.

Unlike Lodge, MIT wouldn't have been limited by inadequate supplies of HV charge. Van de Graaff's own lab was also at Round Hill. Can't get chargier than that!

But they apparently didn't take the static path. This article by MIT gives the details.

Houghton hypothesized that if a more moisture-absorbing chemical were introduced to the fog, water molecules would attach to the new compound, vapor pressure would drop, and the fog would dissipate. He scattered calcium chloride, an inexpensive compound with such properties, onto a dense layer of artificial fog and watched as the fog vanished. Field trials in which a calcium chloride solution was sprayed onto natural fog yielded similar results, but the technique wasn’t practical for clearing fog from sizable patches of land.

To do that, and to counteract the way the wind pushed new fog in, Houghton suspended a 100- foot-long pipeline with downward-facing spray nozzles from 30 feet in the air. When set up perpendicular to wind direction, the apparatus shot a misty curtain of calcium chloride toward the ground, dispersing any fog rolling through.

Spraying 2.5 gallons of the compound per second, Houghton’s machine took only three minutes to turn an area with visibility of less than 500 feet into one where “buildings more than a quarter-mile away were visible,” according to one report.

In short, the MIT fog control project WORKED, and it worked by the same methods used in cloud-seeding.

The article doesn't say why the effort was abandoned. The experimental system required too much salt, but a serious engineering effort could undoubtedly have improved the performance or found other alternatives. It appears that MIT just wasn't interested. They were mainly concerned with detection, not control.

Later Houghton got tangled up in Cold War fakery, pushing for a weather control treaty because the Russkis might get there first.

“I shudder to think of the consequences of a prior Russian discovery of a feasible method of weather control,” Houghton said, although he’d previously been a voice of moderation on the plausibility of weather control. “International control of weather modification will be essential in the safety of the world as control of nuclear energy now is.”

Same old story. We frame Russia for all of our evil, in order to avoid doing anything good or useful.

Result: We do nothing but evil.

Labels: Patient things

  ¶ 9:06 PM

  When self-defense was allowed
Before Gaia invaded large parts of science in 1975, weather control was an active subject of research, with considerable success. Hail cannons worked and still work. Cloud seeding worked and still works.

This little piece from a Gernsback mag in July 1930 shows that fog control was an active research project.



Nice combination of two subjects I've recently mentioned.

1. Lodge and his sons were attempting to use electrical charge to break up fog. They abandoned the effort after deciding that it would require WAY too much equipment and electricity to make a difference. Hail cannons and cloud seeding both require remarkably small amounts of energy and material. A few acetylene puffs, and a few pounds of silver iodide. By analogy, is there a similar solution for fog, using vortices?

2. The MIT facility at Round Hill was a gift from Colonel Green, the heir of the Hetty Green fortune. He was a dilettante but contributed tremendously to the progress and enjoyment of science through gifts of money and property.

Self-defense from weather has been prohibited since 1975. All the old research has been memoryholed, even though hail cannons are still protecting European vineyards.

In 2020 self-defense against disease joined weather. We no longer have immune systems, so we must do what we're told, no matter how crazy and holocaustal the tellers are. Ours not to reason why, ours but to die and die.

Immediate answer to the question: Yes, fog control worked.

Labels: defensible times, Jackboot stomping forever

  ¶ 3:30 PM

  Sportwave reprint
I linked this 2014 piece in previous item. After reading it, I think it deserves a reprint. Partly for the obvious relevance to communication methods, more importantly for the entertainment aspect. The content of shortwave was passively entertaining, and the work needed to send and receive SW was actively entertaining.

= = = = = START REPRINT:

Shortwave is unique among all means of communication. It has a certain sporting aspect. When you send out a signal in the range of 3 to 30 mc, the atmosphere may decide to bounce it around the world, allowing you to reach great distances with fairly low power. With higher power, a serious antenna, and lots of experiment and calculation, you can be reasonably sure of reaching a desired destination most of the time. But you're never entirely sure. Sunspots and thunderstorms and temperature inversions and all sorts of other crap may block you. Ham operators enjoy this sporting aspect. Like fishermen they collect wall trophies (QSLs) and run contests and expeditions for bragging rights. Professional broadcasters may not enjoy it but have learned how to exploit it.

Doing a review of a 1983 Soviet shortwave radio got me thinking (again) about the meaning of SW. This radio, clearly for domestic use, proves that the Soviet system was confident about its success in those years. Not so in Stalin's time, when owning a SW was a criminal act, and radio was basically a closed-circuit intercom system.

Within the US, popularity and availability of SW radios inscribed a different curve. SW broadcasting came of age around 1935, basically enabled by the superhet receiver. Earlier receivers weren't able to maintain a consistent sharpness of tuning across a wide range of freqs.



American radios for home entertainment began to feature SW bands as soon as broadcasters began to provide content. SW reached a peak in WW2, when listening to the propaganda of both sides was considered part of an Informed Citizen's duties. Even some car radios had a SW band. Along the same lines, American newscasters frequently mentioned "our propaganda says .... and their propaganda says ....", trusting the American listener with the fact that both sides were stretching things.

After WW2, home radios dropped SW abruptly and picked up FM instead. This coincided with the government's sharp crackdown on 'disloyalty'. Suddenly the duty of an Informed Citizen was limited to line-of-sight propagation. Then TV finished the job, making the viewing experience line-of-sight as well. Propagandists finally fulfilled their perpetual dream: a closed pipe injecting one stream of messages from source directly to brain, with no leakage or tributary streams allowed. No skip, no bounce, no imagination. Best part: the injectees didn't even realize it was a pipe. They only knew that they couldn't stand to be disconnected from the pipe.

This state of affairs continued, with constantly tightening media monopolies and narrowing of permissible viewpoints, until the Internet came along in the mid-80s and broke the monopolies but didn't stop the censorship. The Web is, after all, a closed-circuit intercom system. Everything we see and hear passes through NSA's ears and eyes before it reaches ours.

SW isn't illegal; you can still buy SW radios designed for ham use, but they aren't meant for home entertainment. They don't look good in the living room. This limits their use to a small number of Oddballs who can be watched easily.

Why did US government and culture encourage SW in the '30s and discourage it from the '50s until the present? I think it was a question of confidence. FDR was confident that his efforts to improve America would stand comparison against the alternatives in Russia and Germany. Truman, Ike, JFK, LBJ, et al were not nearly so confident.

It's especially noteworthy that Russia was building and selling SW radios domestically in the '80s and we were not. Reagan crashed the Soviet Empire at a moment when our own empire truly would not stand comparison. As Gorby was loosening and reforming, we were eliminating industrial jobs, freezing out all possible reforms, and continually narrowing the range of permissible discourse.

Our trend has continued, with disastrous results. We don't know how the Soviet trend would have developed because it was interrupted.

= = = = = END REPRINT.

Everything in the item is still valid except the date of 1935. In fact SW was intensely used by all sorts of operators in 1930, as clearly shown in this 1930 official list. Commercial broadcasters, dispatchers for police and airlines and shipping, simulcasts of US local stations, TV and fax experiments, and above all the commercial wire services.

Labels: Entertainment, meta-entertainment, Natural law = Soviet law, Patient things

  ¶ 12:10 PM

  Breaking out of the usual "debate"
As the usual fake "dispute" rages about new "alternative" ways to stay trapped inside the NSA cellphone system that is TOTALLY OWNED BY APPLE AND GOOGLE, it's worth remembering that there are plenty of other ways to communicate, aside from plain speech.

Some are obvious and some have been forgotten. I've been trying to illustrate some of the forgotten systems in the last few years.

Variations on electric telegraphs, visible through the #Morsenet of things tag and often connected to Breguet.

Railroad signaling systems, via the Box Depots set.

Mechanical semaphores, probably the most interesting and evocative.

Pigeons.

Acoustical channels.

Labels: Morsenet of Things, Patient things

  ¶ 11:53 AM

  Beautiful analog
An extreme example of the distinction between analog and digital that I'm hammering this week.

Via Science Daily, a closeup look at how jellyfish use water vortices for propulsion. Human engineers have figured out some of these concepts in designing aircraft and automobiles and submarines, but those machines have hard surfaces.

Unlike bilateral animals from tardigrades to mammals, jellyfish have a decentralized nervous system with no central brain and no separated efferent and afferent channels. They have muscles everywhere and senses everywhere. Total infinite-directional signals and feedback everywhere.

The whole system works for a PURPOSE, constantly shaping the everywhere-muscles to propel the jellyfish in its chosen direction with a chosen rhythm. The edges of the bell create vortices where needed to lower or raise water pressure at that point, just as an airplane wing creates vortices to raise pressure or a hail cannon creates vortices to break up pressure in the clouds.

Where is the PURPOSE if not in a cerebellum driven by a hippocampus? We don't know. It's everywhere.

LIFE IS PURPOSE.
  ¶ 6:30 AM

  Betting on Loeb
I listen to Abraham Loeb because he has repeatedly showed genuine independence from the tyranny of Big Science.

I've noticed two examples, and there are probably others that I didn't read.

= = = = =

(1)

The experience of subjecting a theoretical conjecture to an experimental test is humbling. If the conjecture turns out to be wrong, it must be adjusted. Becoming a physicist brings with it the privilege of retaining your childhood curiosity throughout your adult life. There is no need to pretend you know more than you actually do, and you can admit mistakes if proven wrong by experience, just like a child who is seeking to learn about the world. Doing pure theory without worrying about experimental verification actually deprives one from the pleasure of learning something new about nature.

EXACTLY. Pure theory deprives you of the PLEASURE of learning something new. I might add the pleasure of learning something TRUE.

Loeb again:

The feedback from experimental data is essential. At its foundation, physics is a dialogue with nature, not a monologue as some theorists would prefer to believe.

Whether he knows it or not, he's quoting Carver!

= = = = =

(2)

At the first annual conference of Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative, a philosopher concluded his talk by stating that “conversations with some prominent theoretical physicists led me to conclude that if the physics community agrees on a research program for over a decade, then it must be correct.” I realized that his conclusion must have been inspired by a scientific culture in which authority sets the tone. My personal experience has taught me otherwise.

As Galileo reasoned after looking through his telescope, “in the sciences, the authority of a thousand is not worth as much as the humble reasoning of a single individual.” To which I would add the footnote that sometimes Mother Nature is kinder to innovative ideas than people are.

= = = = =

Recently Loeb has been insisting that a random-looking space object is a leftover of an alien civilization, not just a collection of dust. He's taking plenty of guff for this insistence. Frankly I don't see the uniqueness of the object; a random rock can be accelerated by the pressure of sunlight or by the sun's magnetic field. Still, a thinker with a firm history of independent VALID thought deserves serious consideration. He has a much better chance of being correct than anybody else who gets published.

= = = = =

Later thought from the angle of science as entertainment. It doesn't matter if Loeb is correct or not. Science doesn't determine truth. Nature is truth. Science is just a type of narrative, and can be used for inspiration or amusement like any other story. When a scientific story agrees with Nature, it's a useful parable, possibly leading to useful thoughts and habits. When a scientific story disagrees with Nature, it's destructive. Before March 2020, "medicine" was trying to agree with Nature, so it was a useful form of entertainment. After March 2020, "medicine" is devoted to obliterating life and truth and logic and Nature, so it's infinitely worse than useless.

If a movie openly promised to kill you while you watched it, would you watch it?

Labels: Carver, Entertainment

  ¶ 11:52 PM

  We are softwarized
Convective thought, triggered by this basic fact in previous item.

These diagrams clearly show the primary advantage of analog systems, whether mechanical or fluid or electronic, over digital software. In real life each layer or module or neuron or organism is always continuously influencing all other layers, with influence and feedback in all directions at once. Interconnected water columns do it naturally. You can't do it at all with interconnected functions in software. You can pass differences from subroutine A to subroutine B, and pass results back, but there's no way to make the influences simultaneous and continuous.

This is a point that even AI skeptics don't seem to grasp, perhaps because they're too young to have experience with analog stuff.

= = = = =

New thought: By channeling all of our communication through digital cellphones, we have been digitalized. We are software, not organisms. We can only communicate via function arguments and function returns in discrete time intervals.

We can no longer CONTINOUSLY INFLUENCE ALL OTHERS, WITH INFLUENCE AND FEEDBACK IN ALL DIRECTIONS.

The softwarization of humans was finished off this year with ballgags and distancing. Physical contact and EMOTIONAL INFLUENCE have been totally disconnected. Even when we're privileged enough to be allowed in the same room (600.0 kilometers apart) we can only communicate verbally by shouting and repeating the muzzled words over and over. We can't send or receive expression or smell or microbes or subtleties of tone.

In normal analog life we gain immunity and tolerance to microbes AND to emotional invasions by constant continuous multidirectional immersion in microbes and pheromones and voices and touch and expression. We give and receive constant feedback.

When we're deprived of this casual and constant multidirectional interaction, we lose ALL TYPES OF IMMUNITY. We can be sickened and killed quickly by any invasion of thoughts or microbes or smells or expressions.

TOTAL OCD IN ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE IS THE PURPOSE AND THE ENDGAME.

Labels: AI point-missing, endless hell, Jackboot stomping forever

  ¶ 10:39 AM

  Parler Piper
I've been trying to hit this point often. Watch out for "alternative" organizations and "alternative" media. Deepstate ALWAYS runs both sides of an argument. It doesn't run every organization, but the bigger and more famous ones are likely to be agents provocateurs.

Simple logic: A movement can't become big and famous without Deepstate approval. Big media need money and lawyers and regulatory permission. If a movement or company is big enough to notice, it CAN'T BE INDEPENDENT.

When protests are planned on "both" sides, smart dissidents stay home. Don't be there. Don't follow the Pied Piper off the cliff. You won't accomplish ANYTHING except your own destruction.

Manweller's Rule is universal. Elections only count when they agree with Deepstate. "Legal" "orders" are only obeyed when they order Deepstate to do what it's already doing. Protests only change Deepstate's mind when Deepstate already intended to change in that direction. Martyrs who die for the wrong side are terrorists, not martyrs.

I tested Parler a couple months ago. Was it really better for your privacy than Twitter or Facebook? No. Parler wouldn't even let me create an account because I don't own a cellphone. This is worse than FB, which allows a sort of second-class citizenship for non-cellies.

Now RT says that Apple and Google have banned Parler from all devices, after the "opposition" "protest" "supporting" Pied Piper Trump.

Gather up the dissidents into a channel where they can be cut off by Apple and Google, then cut them off. Pied Piper.

Semi-relevant recollection: Who started this form of herding? Rush. Back in the early '90s he gave priority to callers using cellphones. He claimed that he was favoring the rich, which was obnoxious enough. The real reason is even more obnoxious.

Labels: From rights to duties, NOW I SEE

  ¶ 3:21 AM

  Lukyanov's water computer
The Russians made the most interesting analog computers. They stuck with analog cybernetics long after Westerners had switched to digital.

In 1936 Lukyanov developed a water-based computer to solve complicated functions for engineering and construction. He was working primarily with concrete and soil under freezing conditions, trying to help design dams and pavement in cold places. His machine, and later variants, served many purposes into the 1970s.

I've drawn the 'museum version' of Lukyanov's hydrointegrator. This may have been only the control panel; it diverges from his descriptions of the functional machine. The real machine was modular, with several large blocks of pipes and tubes behind the control panel.

This picture seems to show the real machine in use:


And this diagram is similar, with the plots showing up more clearly:


The cylinders holding graphic plots would normally be plotted outputs, but in this machine they're inputs. The real machine had four optional input variables, along with an implicit time variable.

A typical use was modeling heat transfer through a structure (dam or pavement) treated as a series of layers. Each water column represented a layer, and each column could be programmed to let in water at a specific rate. In other words, each column was like an RC filter in a sequential filter setup, with the visible height (or voltage in the electronic version) representing the temperature in that layer of the dam.



These diagrams clearly show the primary advantage of analog systems, whether mechanical or fluid or electronic, over digital software. In real life each layer or module or neuron or organism is always continuously influencing all other layers, with influence and feedback in all directions at once. Interconnected water columns do it naturally. You can't do it at all with interconnected functions in software. You can pass differences from subroutine A to subroutine B, and pass results back, but there's no way to make the influences simultaneous and continuous.

Electronic version:



The operator used the big lever to follow the curve already drawn on the wrapped graph. As the lever moved up and down, it moved a tank up and down, raising and lowering the 'potential voltage' input to the system. This diagram shows two input variables B1 and B2.



Programs were entered on the three rows of valves in the center of the control panel. The description doesn't clarify the specific purpose of each row, and the upper crank is also unclear. I suspect it was a manual turner or winder for the plot cylinder, which was apparently driven by clockwork.



Here Polistra is moving the big lever to follow the dam plot on the left cylinder, and the tubes are responding with a (purely imagined) output pattern. Another observer would record the heights at different times, or perhaps use a mounted movie camera to make a direct record.

The RC-like effect of the flow would also enable a single transient response to be modeled. After setting the valves for the appropriate pattern of Rs and Cs, just yank the lever upward and watch the columns move for a minute or two.

= = = = =

Footnote: The best descriptions in English are here at Archive.org.

= = = = =

Sidenote after thinking about "devices" and Pied Pipers: another advantage of mechanical and fluidic computers is independence. They can't be hacked or detected from a distance. Only a live spy in the same room can control or read them. Even electronic analogs are harder to penetrate than digital, because they don't emit a readable stream of patterned codes. An RC computer responds when you turn the knobs, then settles gradually into a new condition. No predictable and redundant patterns. Russia understood this point deeply after repeated invasions and penetrations by Krauts and Yanks.

Labels: Natural law = Soviet law, Patient things

  ¶ 10:01 AM

  A new Parkinson-style law
Put several basic facts together, and you get a Law of Organizations on the same level as Parkinson's Laws. This is one that old Northcote didn't catch.

Parkinson observed that bureaucracies and NGOs grow by creating problems.

Real businesses** solve real problems for profit. Most of the problems are essential and natural. Humans need food, clothing, housing and work. (Work is the MOST important. People need to serve, need to be useful.) Business links those needs by a network of money, serving a good and crucial purpose. Business also creates artificial needs by advertising, but those subneeds are usually built on the basic needs. They don't last long otherwise.

Business for profit is a self-sustaining loop of survival and improvement.

Bureaucracies pretend to solve a problem but actually make it worse, in order to gain more budget and workforce to "solve" the problem by making it worse to gain more budget and workf....

Bureaucracies are a self-sustaining loop of death and destruction.

= = = = =

Now the Deepstate loop.

Fact 1: Blackmail is the best form of power. Raw violence works pretty well, but force needs 'booster shots' from time to time. Blackmail is forever.

Fact 2: Organizations that keep secrets will end up using blackmail to solidify their power. Blackmailers can't be prosecuted because they have blackmailed the would-be enforcers. Priests developed this technique, the secular Deepstate under Lady Edgar continued it in a more specialized way, and in recent decades the tech monsters returned to universal priestly power. Zuck hears everyone's confessions, including judges and regulators and politicians.

Fact 3, the crucial Parkinsonian fact. Organizations that operate by secrets and blackmail recruit new members by blackmail. Most people won't betray a nation or commit crimes for money, but most people WILL betray to avoid revelation of an unpleasant secret. The organization thus gathers people who are accustomed to keeping secrets. When you think about it rationally, it's no different from giving a math test to new accountants, or a physical strength test to new athletes.

Now we have a vast SELF-SUSTAINING AND SELF-GROWING network of infinitely wicked secret-keepers.

Deepstate gathered in the entire "medical" profession over the last 20 years, recruiting a million well-practiced secret-keepers all at once. HIPAA was the keystone of this recruiting effort. In 2020 the "medical" profession was flipped into a holocaust generator.

= = = =

** I say business instead of capitalism, and I emphasize profit instead of Share Value, because capitalism is just one way of controlling and funding business. The Soviet system ran business to gain profit. Soviet businesses got capital and loans from the state instead of Wall Street. Soviet businesses thus had a much stronger focus on the primary human need of WORK, less focus on the artificial but benign subneeds of status and display, and no regard at all for the insatiable demonic appetites of a Morgan or Bezos.

Labels: Jackboot stomping forever, Natural law = Sharia law, Natural law = Soviet law, Parkinson

  ¶ 6:53 AM

  Pure beauty
The anonymous performers who worked for Transco Syndication produced an amazing amount of heavenly music.

I've pointed to this one before as part of a 'Can you imagine that' episode.

The sheer beauty of this rendition of 'Marcheta' deserves to be pulled out and highlighted.

Marcheta.

Youtube has several big-name performances of 'Marcheta', but none remotely approach the ascendant perfection. This instrumental by Isham Jones has the same general harmony and rhythm.

Labels: infinite GOOD

  ¶ 7:15 PM

  Fighting misattribution with misattribution
I was lethally tired of blaming the voters MANY years ago. Commentators always tell WeThePeople to use our sacred Vote and hold leaders accountable. When leaders do evil, it's WeThePeople's fault. WeThePeople neglected our sacred duty and voted for Horrible Other Party instead of Angelic Correct Party.

Fuck off. We've been following your orders forever and it NEVER WORKS. Elections are rigged from top to bottom. The count doesn't matter because real opponents are never allowed to GET IN the election.

Schachtel, who is a pretty good truth-teller, still fails to understand this basic problem (or intentionally fails). He narrates the timeline of China and the "virus" accurately, then:

As 2020 comes to a close, it’s time for us to do more than just shake our collective fists at China, while pretending our leaders share no blame in this self-inflicted catastrophe. It’s time to hold American officials’ feet to the fire, and demand that they are held responsible for continually, recklessly pursuing policies that have resulted in mass economic and societal ruin. China is not responsible for transforming the United States into a nation that more closely resembles Beijing as each day passes.

Fine. We get it. Most of us got it a long time ago. It's the oldest game in Deepstate's book. From 1020 to 2020, Deepstate always blames Witches or Turks or Huns or Commies or AltRightChristers or China or Russia or Hippies or Muslims or Trumptards or "viruses" for its own infinitely evil actions. Deepstate always shapes and relabels its actions to "point" at the currently fashionable witch.

If you want us to do something, you need to specify an action that will not be WORSE THAN FUTILE.

Hold accountable? How?

Hold their feet to the fire? How?

Those questions were already meaningless before the current holocaust. Now they're vastly worse than meaningless.

There's NO POSSIBLE WAY TO INFLUENCE A PSYCHOPATH. All we can do is avoid exciting the demons into a killing frenzy.

Torches eventually burn out. In the more fortunate cases, the burners halt after they start burning their own.

There's only one cure for a demon after it tastes blood and turns feral. Curing only a few will make things INFINITELY worse. The cure would have to be done all at once on all demons from top to bottom. Physically impossible.

Labels: 2000=1000, malign misattribution

  ¶ 2:35 PM

  The engineer's mind
Randomly looking at Gernsback magazines. Radio News, June 1924.

As usual with Gernsback, nice cover!


The original owner made a note for his own reference. Look at picture on page 7.

What's on page 7?


Obviously more interesting. I guess.

See also.

Labels: Alternate universe, Bemusement

  ¶ 10:43 AM

  Random auto thought
Why did it take 50 years to extend the body beyond the wheels?

From 1890 to 1947 all passenger cars had separate fenders for all four wheels, and the envelope for passengers was strictly inside the wheels.



In '47 Crosley



and Kaiser merged the fenders to make just one fender per side, but the inner body was still inside the wheels. The roof and windows didn't stretch out horizontally until the 1960 Valiant.

There were always examples of full-width envelopes. Streetcars and railcars went WAY out beyond the wheels in both directions. Railroads have the same wheel-to-wheel width as autos, but the typical railcar is 10 feet wide.



Box vans always enclosed the rear wheels entirely, with insets for the rear wheels when needed.



Since the idea and example were available BEFORE cars had motors, there's no logical reason for the delay.

Labels: Bemusement

  ¶ 11:42 PM

  First Denazification?
SD and Dixie pulled out of the holocaust early. Since June the 45 crazy states have been steadily crazy, some getting even more murderous and others maintaining a constant level of murder.

I think this is the first definite DENAZIFICATION outside of the small sane zone.

Montana's governor said he will lift the statewide mask mandate put in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus after more vulnerable people receive vaccines and the Legislature sends him a bill to protect businesses, schools, churches and nonprofits from lawsuits if they follow public health guidelines.

Gov. Greg Gianforte did not say how many or what percentage of the most vulnerable would have to be vaccinated to trigger the lifting of the mask mandate put in place by former Gov. Steve Bullock, a Democrat.

“We're talking weeks, not months, as we're able to get this vaccine out to the most vulnerable,” Gianforte said.

The lawsuit protection is especially crucial. Businesses won't go along if they can be instantly sued by muzzle-loading demons.

If Gianforte isn't simply faking**, this will also be the first "election" in recent years that made a difference.

** The mention of weeks makes me suspicious. A very old political game is passing a law that sounds good, knowing full well that the other house of Congress or the president or the courts will instantly delete the good law. The faker can then claim that he "tried", but the "evil other party" foiled him, so we need to give him more money to "try" harder. Weeks sounds like he's planning to "remove" the muzzles on Jan 20, at the exact same time when Biden orders a permanent total muzzling 24 hours a day until the end of the universe.

Labels: Jackboot NOT stomping forever

  ¶ 3:07 PM

  They will appreciate it
The latest by Tucker at AIER is appropriately HARDASS, unrelenting in its absolute truth.

Nothing will change or improve, but it's always good to have as much truth as possible out in the open.

The Martian archeologists will appreciate it.

Labels: endless hell, Jackboot stomping forever

  ¶ 2:06 PM

  Bring back THRILLS!
For many years I've been comparing the earlier MODULAR view of the world with the modern GLOBALIST view. It was much easier to keep irrelevant shit out of your mind when media wasn't forcing you to see the whole universe as OUR BUSINESS.

More recently I've been thinking that we should go back to seeing external shit as ENTERTAINMENT. Nature gives us the ability to laugh at other people's trouble for a reason. Laughter is learning. If you truly learn from watching mistakes and failures, you won't need to make as many of your own mistakes. This part of Nature has also been completely destroyed by modern governments and media. We are never allowed to laugh at ANYTHING. All real comedy is censored, and all learning of all sorts is immediately CRUSHED.

Here's a wonderful example from Feb 1936. An ad for Scott radios.



Text:

March of a million soldiers breaking the untrodden sod of a new empire - peace pacts - the newest continental dances - death from the air - Olympics - history in the making! It's your world! Get some thrills out of it!

PHI in Huizen sends you the news of the world direct from seething Europe! Get it before it's canned! Get it direct with a SCOTT, with a regularity, a diamond clarity, a magnificent undistorted power and a more beautiful true tone than any other radio in the world!

= = = = =

The ad intentionally mixes entertainment in the "proper" sense with entertainment in the NATURAL sense. Dances and death, Olympics and soldiers. It's all THRILLS.

It's your world! Get some thrills! This attitude is the best form of mental immunity against a CARING tyranny.

= = = = =

Footnote: Scott radios furnished another resonance at an early stage of the current holocaust, before its horrible dimensions were fully clear.

Labels: Alternate universe, Entertainment

  ¶ 5:32 AM

  Literal computer
I'm studying old analog computers this week, setting up a graphics project along those lines. Yet another lost and un-re-discovered technology.

Some of the computers in the '30s were weirdly complex and designed for a highly specific task.

Patent 2179822, a computer to simulate the balance in an airplane.





This is a mechanical balance or bridge providing a scaled-down version of a real multi-dimensional balance, the weights in various parts of the plane pulling against the center of gravity. It automatically computes the vector sum of the torques in foot-pounds. The feet part is constant, set by the length of the arm, and the pounds part is variable, set by the rack-and-pinion knobs.

Early passenger planes were highly sensitive to loading patterns. Airlines in those days knew the weight of every passenger and luggage item because they weighed everyone. With this gadget, the loading agent could try out the weight in each row and tank and compartment as he processed them, simply by setting the dials for each. The net balance would immediately show on the dial, so he could move a heavy passenger from row 4 to row 1 before really loading the plane.

I'm sure digital computers in the '60s could calculate the result, but there wasn't a way to instantly input each estimate and read the result until the '90s.

This mechanism isn't really an analog, it's just a scale model of the aircraft. A literal computer!

Labels: Equipoise, Real World Math

  ¶ 3:46 PM

  Over-primitivizing
I noted in previous item that Eliza Morton, writing in 1893, tended to over-primitivize the primitives. This was a widespread habit, practiced by 'progressives' like Darwin and 'conservatives' like Morton.

And we're still doing it. Or more precisely we're split between stupidly romanticizing the Noble Savages and stupidly primitivizing them.

There have always been some experts who remained objective. In the '30s those objective experts were published and respected, eg in the WPA Guides. Those writers treated the old tribes appropriately, describing the massive wars and empires AND the scientific approaches to agriculture and medicine.

Objective experts are still around, still expanding our knowledge of ancient science. We know now that even the Neanderthals used pharmaceutical plants and surgical methods that were lost later on.

Some people are still stuck in the over-primitive style of thinking. This article by Donald Boudreaux misdescribes the ancients, which unfortunately devalues his CORRECT description of modern witchcraft.

Centuries ago, to be sure, people lived simply – if by “simply” is meant life, generation after generation, occupied with unchanging dull routines, and consumption limited almost exclusively to those tiny numbers of goods and services that can be produced from scratch by a few dozen villagers. Such ‘simplicity,’ alas, enables only subsistence. And human beings trapped in subsistence do not escape ignorance and superstition.

Let’s stop mistaking dull routines and the absence of complex patterns of production and consumption as evidence of lives lived in harmony with nature. It’s a myth – we might say an urban myth – that pre-industrial peoples lived with nature harmoniously, or more harmoniously than we today live with nature. Nature devastated our pre-industrial kin. Nature mercilessly plowed them relentlessly into early graves. Our ancestors’ failure to produce much material wealth was a reflection, not of their harmony with nature, but of their deep ignorance of – and, hence, conflictual relationship with – nature.

To dance to imaginary rain gods or to chant for a child dying of bacterial infection is not to live harmoniously with nature; it is to live with nature most inharmoniously. Nature all along did its thing – for example, it occasionally failed to water crops, and it often grew lethal bacteria within children’s lungs – while human beings who were as ignorant of nature as nature is of human beings, chanted, danced, built totems, burned leaves and twigs, sacrificed animals, all in fruitless efforts to solve the problems.

The ancient tribes didn't do those things. They had a repertoire of healing methods, partly pharmaceutical and partly spiritual. Both methods are NECESSARY for healing.

Using solely the spiritual, while doing everything wrong in the areas of sanitation and pharma, was a European invention and specifically a Catholic invention. The rest of the world, from Persia to China to the Americas, was still using traditional part-physical medicine with some success. Only Rome kicked out all the physical knowledge and treated disease by burning heretics.

We've returned to the Roman tradition now in precise detail. Sprenger and Kremer wrote the textbook for Fauci and Ferguson.
  ¶ 9:12 AM