Always Maintain a Joyful Mind

January 6th

Supposed to be satire - but is it?

This would also be believable. 

OK - this one is definitely satire.

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Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Heh Heh 

- Morgan Housel on Selfish Writing. This entire blog, all 17 years of it, could be considered selfish writing.

- Austin Bay - Time for the Taiwan Porcupine to Bristle

- Heh Heh

Truth

Quotes for Today

 Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"I'm an optimist by nature, and humor has been one of my great teachers." - Matthew McConaughey

"Most successful people are just a walking anxiety disorder harnessed for productivity." - Andrew Wilkinson

"It is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own." - Daniel Kahneman

"...we used to call them kings and priests, now we call them experts and fact-checkers." - Marc Andreessen

Remember This!

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Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- China faces a population bomb in reverse. "China's population is expected to peak at 1.4 billion in 2024/25 and then it will almost halve by the end of the century."

- How Fauci fooled America. Significant to me that this appears in Newsweek a very mainstream outlet. The knives are coming out for Fauci.

- The first brand new nuclear power plant just started splitting atoms in Georgia. Not producing commercial power yet but soon. More like this please.

- Why Democrats are dreading a full Jan 6th reveal. Shameful.

Wednesday Flotsam and Jetsam

Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.  

Wonder how John Houseman's character Professor Kingsfield from The Paper Chase would handle student's today and their preferred pronouns? Please Subscribe, hit the Like button, and share with others. 

Farnam Street Knowledge

How not to be stupid.

In all things - first try not to be stupid should be your primary rule.

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Don't take yourself so seriously. You're just a monkey with a plan." - Naval Ravikant

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." - Henry Ford

"The reward for our work is not what we get, but what we become." - Paulo Coelho

"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Texit

Interesting - a bill has been filed into the Texas House of Representatives cleverly named Texit. If the bill is passed a referendum question will appear on the bllot on whether Texas should remain part of the United States. Or become an independent nation.

If the US were to lose a State to independence I'd much prefer it be California.

Joke for Today

Origin of the Word "Dollar"

"Some sixty miles beyond Prague it turns southwest to form a low range between Czechoslovakia and Germany that is called, in German, the Erzgeburge: the Ore Mountains. The Erzgeburge began to be mined for iron in medieval days. In 1516 a rich silver lode was discovered in Joachimsthal  (St. Joachim's Dale), in the territory of the Count von Schlick, who immediately appropriated the mine. In 1519 coins were first struck from its silver at his command. Joachimsthaler, the name or the new coins, shortened to thaler, became "dollar" in English before 1600. Thereby the U.S. dollar descends from the silver of Joachimsthal.

Surprising history and language nugget from Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb.

Sweden Did It Right

No lockdowns, no school closings, no mask or vaccine mandates and yet the lowest mortality during the pandemic. (Via)

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Captain Ed Freeman RIP. Where do we find such men?

- Bernie Sanders now backs equality (opportunity) over equity (outcome). Interesting.

- Arrest warrant issued for Bill Gates in Philippines. Two questions after reading this - is this serious or satire? Secondly - the Philippines must have an extradition treaty with the US as a protectorate right?

- Wow - didn't know this. Johnny Cash was the first American to learn of Joseph Stalin's death.

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people's lives." - Thomas Sowell

"God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world." - Paul Dirac

"Good science, original work, always went beyond the body of received opinion, always represented a dissent from orthodoxy. How, then, could the orthodoxy fairly assess it?" - Richard Rhodes

"Often the masses are plundered and do not know it." - Frederic Bastiat

25-Years Ago Yesterday

The Big Lebowski is released. This blog abides. (Via)

Keanu Reeves has THE Original Red Pill

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More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- A major reason why manufacturers are looking at places like India and Vietnam as alternatives to China. (Via)

- Cool resource - the Biodiversity Heritage Library has around 150,000 illustrations available free for download.

- Marc Andreessen - On the Candlemaker's Petition. Be sure to read the footnotes as you go.

- "I worked on Google's AI. My biggest fears are coming true." Key line to me, "there's no way of knowing the side effects of this technology." We're potentially opening a Pandora's box.