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May 31 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
NYT spinning the hamster wheel this morning at sufficient velocity to generate a miniature black hole
Sinple metaphysics, chuds
Mask mandates cannot fail, only be failed

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Apr 19
I think I know which side of that they plan on crushing
My personal inflation hedges:
1) Debt. Not paying off anything under 2%, which means exploiting credit card promos, car loans, mortgage tax implications etc
2) Being aggressive about pre purchasing regular "would suck if this wasn't affordable" expenses. Shoes, medications, contacts, furnace filters, etc. A lot of this is obvious home ec stuff.
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Apr 4
The idea that myths were *developed to explain*, eg, why the peacock has many eyes on its tail, or why a cave echoes, is a complete inversion of the actual purpose of such correspondences.
Myths are designed to *tell a truth*, and the correspondence to physical trivia like the arrangement of constellations is meant as a reminder of that truth, not other way around.
Ares, Aphrodite, Phobos, etc are not just arbitrarily named characters in some drama - it means something to say that Fear is the child of War and Love! Seashells and foam are not just a motif - it means something to say love has no mother and no father! Pay attention!
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Mar 20
Nuclear weapons are real, but what's more interesting is speculation about whether the actual ones we have still work. We have many empirical examples of extremely complex aerospace engineering lore being lost outright.
What tended to happen is that the absolute sharpest knife in the drawer would build something at just about the limits of his comprehension, because the budget was effectively unlimited as long as you could produce a set of capabilities. Then he retires.
His replacement is not as good. And there was a bunch of arcane process knowledge accumulated, much of it unique to specific production runs (cf the stories of chip fab yields cratering because someone changed their shampoo).
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Feb 27
My meta level read of the propaganda situation is that Russia is trying to conceal the actual cost from its people for as long as possible, and Ukraine is wall-spaghetti-ing memes designed entirely for a western audience who they wish to provide them with unlimited support.
I'm concerned that the "Ukrainian" propaganda arm appears to be increasingly dominated by western spooks with an interest in escalation, unlimited access to western media time, and apparently wide bipartisan support in the US public.
In that context I interpret Russian statements about their "strategic forces" being put on high alert (characterized by BBC etc as delusional unprovoked threats) as being directed at western elite elements contemplating "no fly zones" or increasingly direct intervention.
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Feb 26
Did a bunch of driving today and listened to a bunch of NPR and BBC today. The "Ukrainian civilians taking up arms" story was pushed heavily. The two examples they gave:
1) Russian cossack woman who moved to Ukraine in '13, discovered it "wasn't what they said", and fought in '14 for UKR. She's fleeing reserve duty to take care of her son, the AK is presumably in case someone breaks into the apartment.
2) UKR member of parliament who keeps insisting Putler will next move on Warsaw and Tallinn. She tearfully explains that as a MP she was offered a gun licence, but declined it as she is fleeing with her family.
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Jan 17
MLK Day means we can take stock of the mythology over 50 years on from his work and death.
MLK is an important mythological figure in the US due to the civil rights era being the foundation of America's current order. America beat the Nazis and came home to scourge the traces of similar behavior from its shores. His death is perfect martyrdom for the religion.
MLK is also framed as a peaceful example of enacting change. MLK's famous showdown in Selma used television and changed how all future movements would operate. This was a false promise as detailed in Four Arguments For The Elimination of Television. Other movements failed.
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