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2026-11-06 01:29:01 UTC

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The data is too smooth.
(RI data shows # of municipalities not counties)
No outliers. No counter-trends. Never happens this way in the real world.
Keep watching. Getting past certification is first milestone.
On a different topic:
My son, Dylan, who turns 17 tomorrow, is flying in to Denver with me in early February to enlist in the USMC.
He wants to be a Combat Engineer.
Likely fly back in July for Boot Camp such that he'll be a Marine before he's 18!
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2026-04-19 22:08:29 UTC

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2/2
We have today seen a 'perfect' example of blockade enforcement using the oldest technology available to the US Navy, the naval gun.
At this point, I am not going to rule out boarding a ship with cutlasses.
FAFO at every single level.
Can't wait to hear what this blockade runner was trying to get out of Iran!

2026-04-19 22:08:19 UTC

1/2
According to this press release, the Iranian ship trying to run the blockade was engaged and disabled by a US Navy 5 inch gun.
This type of gun has been used by the Navy occasionally for air defence but has not been fired in anger, per Dr Grok, at another ship at sea since 1988.
https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/Press-Release-View/Article/4464037/us-forces-disable-vessel-attempting-to-enter-iranian-port-violate-blockade/

2026-04-08 06:30:07 UTC

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2/2
That sets the geopolitical background into a plausible multigenerational period of relative peace and prosperity.
And what is coming domestically will be just as savage as what Iran got, albeit in a different style.

2026-04-08 06:29:48 UTC

1/2
The Gulf, Straits included, are going to be secured by a coalition of the Petro-states, Pakistan, Israel, and the USA. China may be allowed a peripheral role. Europe's contribution in the near future is trivial anyway, and the only question for me is if this becomes an opportunity to normalise operations with Russia. An artful deal would leverage, rather than tear asunder, old relationships like Iran's with Cuba, China, etc.

2026-04-07 00:00:06 UTC

1/?
In (hopefully) Wictor style, I delved into the Iran rescue story a bit.
It turns out that the aircraft called in after the C-130s got stuck was or included a US Air Force C295W. This is a twin engined turboprop aircraft, smaller than the C-130, which is optimised for SpecOps use. There's only ONE of these aircraft in the USA inventory!

2026-04-05 18:32:49 UTC

Why don’t the indigenous people of Britain and Europe have the same rights of self preservation as other indigenous peoples elsewhere?

2026-04-05 18:21:05 UTC

Tuesday 8 pm. Deadline.
Either Iran is going to return to the Stone Age with its energy infrastructure reduced to ruin and needing years to recover, or the grid will be temporarily disabled with graphite filament munitions which can be cleared in a few days and the grid restarted.
In either case, this is the signal, the overt demand, for Iran's people, the Persians, to rise up & take their nation.
Failure in this regard will require the country to be crippled for a generation.
Serious stuff.

2026-03-31 22:17:11 UTC

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2/2
Combine two things:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/03/ensuring-citizenship-verification-and-integrity-in-federal-elections/
And
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20200258338A1/en
The patent is by the USPS for a blockchain method for securing elections.
Trump took one of the most asthmatic, decaying, and totally underwhelming entities, the good old US Post Office, and instantly turned it into a razor-sharp weapon of mass conformance.
Stunning.

2026-03-31 22:16:47 UTC

1/?
I have not yet been able to organise my thoughts after Trump's wild move today to secure elections. But you need to look at this.
Let's ignore the political theatre about the SAVE Act, the filibuster, etc. Let's ignore it because Trump certainly is, at least in any real terms apart from that theatre.

2026-03-28 01:33:00 UTC

Congressional do-nothingness, including the total departure for holidays, is looking increasingly like a very educational pretext for the declaration of an emergency by Trump, along with likely several Executive Orders. I'd expect at least a few juicy stories to break involving Democrat naughtiness of all sorts in the same time frame.

2026-03-20 20:35:15 UTC

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2026-03-19 23:52:19 UTC

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2026-03-15 18:58:49 UTC

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Junior chauffeur’s assistant.

2026-03-14 17:12:36 UTC

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MAYBE they will allow me to be junior assistant roadie.
Manager? Never.

2026-03-13 21:21:19 UTC

My daughter's new band has been practicing at our place. First gig on March 21.
I have not really enjoyed anything in life more than being a fly on the wall and listening to them progress. They are going to make a splash. Amazing artistic ambition.
Pretty much makes up for the horrors of parenting adolescents!

2026-03-12 20:43:38 UTC

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3/3
But I am utterly unconvinced that the presence of Israeli registered foreign agents is an indicator that America is run by Israel.
Lots of influence? Yes. Occasional dirty deals involving some Israeli and USA people? Yes.
But Israel controlling the USA? Nope.

2026-03-12 20:43:28 UTC

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2/?
Israel has long lived in a reality where its relationship with the USA is utterly necessary for continued survival. No USA relationship, no Israel.
In this environment, is it at all surprising that Israel would exercise its ability to perfectly legally and openly register agents who enthusiastically lobby every American politician that they can?
I am confident that Israel has its own deep state. Its own kleptocratic layer, etc.

2026-03-12 20:40:49 UTC

1/?
I have heard before and recently saw again that every member of the USA’s congress has an assigned “handler” from Israel and the implication is that this proves that Israel controls the USA.
In the first instance, if every member of congress has a handler, it implies that the control is pretty loose if such hands on treatment is needed.
But I take a different perspective.

2026-03-12 00:57:35 UTC

Just to be clear:
There's a pandemic EVERY year.
Flu. Coronavirus. Rhinovirus.
And vulnerable people sometimes die from the secondary infections that result.
EVERY year.
When they say there's going to be another pandemic, it's like saying the sun is going to come up.
I know that. I'm not scared of that. Ever since we developed antibiotics and ICU care, these pandemics have NEVER been catastrophic.
Their big scary boogeyman is just the normal ebb and flow of seasonal illness.
Always was

2026-03-08 18:53:18 UTC

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Yep. Watch where the oil goes to be refined!

2026-03-08 17:28:19 UTC

Massie is the enemy of the USA.
Pretending to be pro-American and hiding behind a facile reading of the Constitution, while ignoring the bloated encrustation of precedent, statute, bureaucracy, etc., that has to be dealt with, is MASSIVELY disingenuous and harmful.

2026-03-07 21:24:11 UTC

The doctrine of superior force being a 1,000,000 drone arsenal and factories to match does not mean much when 950,000 of the drones are eliminated in hours and the factories shortly thereafter.

2026-03-07 06:16:59 UTC

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Bro. I'm a shortass. No woman ever made that particular move on me.
Not that I am complaining about what moves were made.

2026-02-28 18:24:23 UTC

In 2008, Jerry was killed in a "rolling ambush" on Route Irish in Baghdad.
The terrorists who shot him were likely funded and otherwise supported by the insane mullahs of Iran.
All I can say now is GET SOME you satanic devils!
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2026-02-27 23:30:46 UTC

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I simply ignore stuff from Flynn, Byrne, etc. I have never seen it come to anything and there's too much to watch without taking time to watch stuff that never happens.

2026-02-27 22:46:20 UTC

A brilliant speech and article.
Seeing the entirety of the depraved left dismissed as “postmodern abstract thinking” is delicious.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-27/deputy-army-chief-warns-adf-detached-from-violent-reality-of-war/106397538?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=twitter&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

2026-02-23 18:50:01 UTC

The usual premium seen between China and USA silver markets has vanished.
The price on Comex is climbing in anticipation of the opening in Shanghai, after the long holiday in China.
I expect a spike in price once China starts silver trading again!
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2026-02-22 22:47:32 UTC

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Iran declared war on the USA decades ago.
Israel is playing her own game, for sure, but Iran spilled American blood for which it has yet to pay.

2026-02-22 22:46:27 UTC

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First losers

2026-01-30 17:50:54 UTC

34% premium is CRAZY.
We are going to see some insane stuff.
That this dip is happening on a weekend in NZ is driving me nuts.
https://metalcharts.org/shanghai
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2026-01-30 06:16:58 UTC

Joe, Joseph Keating, we still miss you!

2026-01-30 03:23:42 UTC

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2026-01-29 22:28:06 UTC

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Debasement of a currency only goes in one direction.
For perspective, I left the USA in disgust when Clinton was in office! OKC was the last straw for me.

2026-01-29 22:23:23 UTC

With all of the talk about election fraud and autopen, here is a reminder what is at stake, i.e., roughly 25% of the nation's federal judiciary.
Biden represents not one, but TWO major layers of fraud.
There's NO way that Biden's lifetime appointments to the federal bench can stand.
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2026-01-29 20:19:46 UTC

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That is a long and embarrassing story and I am frankly not happy that you brought it up.
Let's leave my smoked butt behind as a topic and concentrate on the Gold/Silver Ratio.

2026-01-29 19:30:01 UTC

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GSR will bottom below 20.
I think.

2026-01-29 18:19:03 UTC

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Gold goes past $10k in the next 12-18 months and Silver goes past $500.
How far past?
Those numbers are reasonably conservative, I think.
Inflation adjusted or M2 adjusted gets there easily.
Monetary reset with PMs/commodities backing the $ takes it farther.

2026-01-29 02:23:38 UTC

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2026-01-28 17:36:44 UTC

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5/5
So, critical safety first, and then larger programs that expel masses as efficiently as possible and set precedent for future prosecutions.
Since I can at least imagine one fairly obvious scenario under which I'd expect Trump to not yet be overtly going after employers, and I am sure there are others, I am not going to get upset (at the moment) that certain necessary steps for long term success have yet to manifest before me.

2026-01-28 17:36:34 UTC

4/?
I suspect that the final element associated with Trump's plans to flush the USA of illegals, will be the exposure and prosecution of a fair number of employers ,individual and corporate.
At that point unless they are living off of a purely criminal cash flow, they will be forced to leave (with minimum additional push to do so).

2026-01-28 17:36:18 UTC

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3/?
The obviously missing element, the one that screams for attention, is indeed the issue of the employers of illegal aliens. Given that there are a LOT of very large companies that have exploited illegal aliens, the investigations associated therewith, especially if the goal is to hold individuals responsible for their actions, will be complex.

2026-01-28 17:36:03 UTC

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2/?
But I agree that the issue of employers has to be addressed. As does the fraud and waste associated with programs that overtly or in secret divert taxpayer dollars to illegals.
And we see that fraud being exposed at the very same time that the worst of the worst are being swept up nationally.
Shutting down that fraud will flush out a bunch of aliens, criminal and self-deporting types, associated with or dependent upon that fraud. No more welfare, off they go.

2026-01-28 17:35:50 UTC

1/?
The immediate emergency, the sharpest threat to the safety of Americans is that of dangerous, violent illegal aliens. You may be tired of the fraud and waste, but that is nothing new. The legal rapist at the window? That is a NOW problem.
A whole bunch more illegals are going to self deport. They will recognise a good deal when they see it.

2026-01-25 18:58:30 UTC

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I'm not gay...but if he and I were trapped on a desert island...

2026-01-25 18:53:27 UTC

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FA's resident Radical Capitalist is a gem of rare beauty.

2026-01-25 18:37:52 UTC

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2026-01-25 17:07:31 UTC

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Thank you and likewise.
God bless!

2026-01-25 06:14:32 UTC

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2026-01-23 23:29:14 UTC

Starmer's attempt to hand Diego Garcia over to China-friendly locals were stymied by his failure to read as far as the second page of the US/UK 1966 treaty where he'd find the very first provisions of the document.
https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20603/volume-603-I-8737-English.pdf
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2026-01-20 17:29:02 UTC

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Summer rainstorm here in NZ today.
Must be climate change.
Better send Al Gore some money!

2026-01-07 22:06:26 UTC

Marco Rubio realising he is going to have to rule Minnesota, including acting as head coach for the Packers.
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2026-01-07 21:50:21 UTC

Watching the unified response to the shooting of the woman who drove at an ICE officer in Minnesota from local, state, and federal office holders suggests to me that this is the bugle's call. This is their neo-George Floyd moment. They are calling for insurrection, are about to pit National Guard vs Feds, are demanding troops ignore orders, etc.
They are taunting Trump.
And the Finding Out is nigh upon us.

2026-01-07 21:47:13 UTC

I think the Democrat machine in Minnesota has simply elected to burn it all down. Probably hoping to throw a ton of evidence into the fire along the way and see how many can successfully scatter in the chaos.

2026-01-07 21:30:19 UTC

Wow.
This is most definitely insurrection writ large.
Walz calls on the Minnesota National Guard to prepare for deployment.
Raising troops to oppose the feds is essentially war.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/07/shooting-south-minneapolis-ice-agents-federal-operation

2026-01-07 20:08:17 UTC

This is far more powerful than people may first think.
Trump controls expenditure. He can declare emergencies. He can direct the military as he desires.
ALL military contractors are subject to his Executive Orders in a way that ordinary companies are not.
The military industrial complex is powerful, but enormously vulnerable to an angry Executive.
Trump just opened up an entirely new front in the war against the deep state.
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2026-01-07 18:54:43 UTC

I see lots of comments regarding the possible cargo/personnel on the seized tanker. People are saying that sending a sub, etc., must mean that there's something or someone of great importance on board.
The most likely explanation to me is simply that Russia was trying to enforce the idea of the legitimacy of the ad hoc reflagging of the vessel.
But that's not very sexy of a headline.

2026-01-07 17:38:59 UTC

All the best communists wear PataGucci outerwear to signal their true class affiliation while expropriating the middle class.
Plus she lives in Crown Heights, a gentrified formerly black neighbourhood.
Can't make this stuff up!
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2026-01-04 19:58:03 UTC

This is genius policy.
Snatch the leader (and his wife).
Tell everyone that you are taking everything back.
Then announce that the way you will enforce it is not to put boots on ground as everyone expected, but instead you will just enforce the same blockade that was used to weaken and ultimately destroy the first guy you snatched.
There’s literally no way for Venezuela to fight against this.
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2026-01-04 00:49:44 UTC

Trump is going to give Americans what King George refused to do when asked by the colonies to intercede in the acts of despotic rule, redress.

2026-01-03 22:41:08 UTC

Finding fraud is the new Great American Pastime.

2026-01-03 21:49:32 UTC

Fetterman is the one to lead a reformed Democrat party out of the wilderness.

2026-01-03 21:30:03 UTC

Absolutely crazy that open carry was unbanned in CA right ahead of all of this going down.

2026-01-03 16:52:18 UTC

Maduro was RESCUED from the Cartels.
Now...songbird!

2026-01-02 17:37:01 UTC

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They could pedal their own generator.

2026-01-02 02:55:14 UTC

Check out this community note.
This makes it so much worse!
She’s so connected to bourgeois status symbols that she borrowed and rented them in a desperate attempt to look like the ruling class to which she aspires.
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2025-12-30 18:49:47 UTC

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7/7
The whole edifice collapses from this.
And this feels VERY well executed.
Trump is a radical centrist. He is going to reclaim that centre and hold MAGA. Midterms are going to be a bloodbath.

2025-12-30 18:49:30 UTC

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6/?
And the flood that breaks as the fruits of present efforts are continuously revealed over the coming months is going to be breathtaking. I'm pretty sure that we are about to learn that the entire debt, and then some, is all fraud.
And then there are the already exploding electoral narratives intertwined with the fraud.

2025-12-30 18:49:05 UTC

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5/?
The same thing is rapidly occurring with the overall fraud discovery and recovery movement. The narrative is ahead of the response. The outrage with this one will grow fast...like fire in a Los Angeles chaparral canyon!
The centre, and even some of the left, are going to soon be screaming for action on this one.

2025-12-30 18:48:49 UTC

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4/?
Try to not get frustrated about a perceived slow pace with regard to investigation and prosecution. Be patient, even.
Trump demonstrated a sound model with the Epstein files. He slow walked that and poked at it until the left screamed for its release. Their reward was (so far) a bunch of Clinton photos. Every drip is bad for the Democrats and Trump is spacing those drips out nicely.

2025-12-30 18:48:38 UTC

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3/?
And it is already exploding with abundant secondary detonations with similarly easily discovered fraud ecosystems in different areas and in different verticals.
There appears to be a pincer emerging with well-funded ventures going after fraud recovery remuneration and aspirant citizen journalists (of the younger generations especially) chasing similarly compelling content for themselves.

2025-12-30 18:48:23 UTC

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2/?
Somalis LOOK utterly and unmistakably as OTHER. And not just for white people. African Americans have rather little connection to East African pirates. It is impossible to escape that visceral response one has to a dangerous beast. The rage in African American populations will be an interesting subset of the overall response to this narrative.

2025-12-30 18:48:04 UTC

1/?
The Somali daycare narrative is the sharpest point of the spear. It is exploding in an utterly viral manner. Comedic videos are being spawned at an amazing pace, and humour is the most powerful way to communicate. This narrative also engages the disgust response. Powerful stuff.
It is going to cut across ideologies, opinions, etc. There are a TON of families struggling to pay for child care as they work two jobs they both hate.

2025-12-29 18:44:07 UTC

At this point, given that I can only tell that wild times are happening (even if I have little idea of what that actually means) about the one thing that I feel confident doing is...nothing.
Waiting and watching with interest.
China's export restrictions kick in January 1st.
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2025-12-29 00:54:23 UTC

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This.
Western banks are fighting a skirmish on Globex. China is fighting a war globally.

2025-12-29 00:53:18 UTC

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It is still fun!
Smell the desperation?

2025-12-29 00:53:04 UTC

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Oracle Nut.

2025-12-29 00:31:49 UTC

Crazy 5% up and 5% down in the first 90 minutes.
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2025-12-28 23:20:36 UTC

Five percent day in the first 20 minutes.
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2025-12-27 22:28:17 UTC

Good things come to those who wait.
I predicted a #ResignationCascade a long time ago...at about the same time I started buying silver.
Now with silver going nuts, maybe my time has come!
The young man who went to Minnesota to reveal fraud has created a monster: lots of pissed off and marginalised males are about to repeat this exercise in their home state.
Good times.

2025-12-27 03:06:50 UTC

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It went over 10%!!!!!

2025-12-26 20:55:38 UTC

Grok says that on a percentage basis, this is the largest single day increase in silver's price in history.
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2025-12-26 03:48:13 UTC

This isn't slowing down.
$7.50 arbitrage is going to drain western vaults FAST.
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2025-12-25 22:09:57 UTC

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And yet God had us in mind...

2025-12-25 22:07:02 UTC

Does anyone remember this movie?
The premise is that one day, a strange fog moves in, and when it clears, all of the Mexicans have vanished.
Comedic chaos ensues.
Was this propaganda...or foreshadowing?
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2025-12-25 19:49:25 UTC

Is the universe the measurement of how close to true infinity you have to get in order for one Earth to be formed?

2025-12-24 21:14:53 UTC

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Setting up academia such that there is no reward or prestige associated with a well-constructed experiment that proves the null hypothesis is a real problem.
There should be journals and prizes for null hypothesis results.
No wonder there's so much fake data out there.

2025-12-24 18:04:02 UTC

Merry Christmas from NZ!

2025-12-24 01:42:17 UTC

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"Trust the science" is an oxymoronic self-cancelling absurdity.

2025-12-24 00:30:50 UTC

Lots of people on X still jabbering about 'trust the science'.
Science is just a method. A good one, but only a method nonetheless.
The trust comes in when one is talking about scientists.
And with corrupted peer review, funding distortions, and very rare replication, there are not many scientists that I am inclined to trust.

2025-12-21 17:04:33 UTC

Oh, look. A massive tax fraud scheme in the kiwifruit industry in Bay of Plenty involving migrants (Mr Singh).
Article rightly complains about the lack of cooperation between IRD and Police, but leaves out, save for the mention of the whistleblower's name, the fact that it's immigration-related!
https://archive.is/QG0EJ

2025-12-19 20:13:05 UTC

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I think the delivered steak knives, in the form of radically lowered drug prices and USA manufacturing, connected pretty damn well with the proposed redirection of Obamacare subsidies directly to consumers. Republicans went from zero health care plane to a full roar in a mere 24 hours.

2025-12-19 18:50:39 UTC

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He'll be hearing soon from his local Democrat Congressman.

2025-12-19 18:41:06 UTC

Marco Rubio's press conference was a tour de force and set a new high point for an American Secretary of State.

2025-12-19 18:38:19 UTC

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(I'm terrible at predicting Trump)

2025-12-19 18:37:53 UTC

Prediction for Trump's announcement:
He's going to offer the USA the set of steak knives.
Or to put it another way, he's going to sweeten his offer from yesterday for American pocketbooks.
Dealmaker.

2025-12-19 17:54:01 UTC

“Life-saving” and “gender-affirming” are mutually exclusive.

2025-12-18 03:03:52 UTC

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Just posted this:
"Venezuela is already defeated by the embargo. Done. No troops needed.
The cartels are about to get blown to kingdom come while the Maduro regime twists in the wind."
Trump, the dealmaker, offered the USA a deal, while clearly framing the serious circumstances of the moment. He spoke to the pocketbook.
If I was to place a bet, it'd be Trump giving America, the Americas, a Christmas present of seriously degraded cartels.

2025-12-18 03:01:29 UTC

Venezuela is already defeated by the embargo. Done. No troops needed.
The cartels are about to get blown to kingdom come while the Maduro regime twists in the wind.

2025-12-17 21:29:12 UTC

What do you all have on your bingo card for Trump's address?
My pick is an assertion of the Monroe Doctrine and his decision to act on that doctrine to destroy the cartels in Mexico, Central America, and South America.
There's been a lot of press on naval power being assembled in the Caribbean. Anybody heard much about the Pacific lately?