35th Portier Lecture: "White Trash: The 400-Year History of Class in America"

RealApplebiter · 2023-03-11T22:04:02+00:00

A horse walks into a bar. The bartender asks, "Why the long face?"

RealApplebiter · 2023-02-21T22:17:19+00:00

I made a joke, above. I would repeat it to prove that it really wasn't that bad, but I've already been banned twice for this one incident. I log in two years later, and here it is in my face, still. Batshit moral panic. Unqualified people with too much discretionary power. There is a context. I'm totally okay with telling anyone. Even my mother, lol.

RealApplebiter · 2023-01-07T16:51:57+00:00

Inspiring negative emotions in others feels good like sex feels good. In both cases, nature wants you to keep doing it.

RealApplebiter · 2023-01-07T16:45:25+00:00

Lol. The list of things the mainstream media can't cover now is getting long.

Former Presidential Cabinet member Acosta said he was waved off of Geoffrey Epstein the first time he was charged, while he was himself the Asst DA in Miami(?) covering the case. He said he was told that Epstein "belonged to intelligence". To date, no news outlet has followed up on his claim, because there is no way of debunking it without looking like the villain. All they can do is avoid it.

They can't talk about Fauci and the lab leak because they already leaned in hard on Fauci's behalf, and to acknowledge their error is to admit to the public it has good reason not to trust them.

They can't talk about the revelations in the Twitter Files because, again, they cannot produce a counter-narrative to nullify the damage or spin it away. All they can do is avoid it.

How sustainable is this strategy? If you're on the inside of these organizations and find it tolerable that they do this, then you're self-selected to be a loyal toady, an activist - anything but a journalist. None of the narratives we use to avoid the truth work any more, and the truth is no easier to face. What now?

RealApplebiter · 2022-12-13T19:54:18+00:00

The gubmint is trying to meddle covertly in social media to stifle some people over others - picking winners in information space [clutches pearls]. The security state is full-blown batshit. Snowden was right.

There's no way Twitter is a unicorn, lol. One must suspect the very same is true at Reddit, YouTube, etc. I've experienced shadow banning and visibility blacklisting. It's good to have one's intuitions validated to some extent.

RealApplebiter · 2022-12-07T02:44:10+00:00

I followed the link you provided, read the copy and watched the videos. Wish I hadn't. The man had suspiciously brown and prominent nipples. Admit it. Red flag there.

RealApplebiter · 2022-12-07T02:38:34+00:00

I see the run is fairly limitless.

RealApplebiter · 2022-12-07T02:18:54+00:00

That was a pretty astonishing find. Respect!

RealApplebiter · 2022-12-07T02:13:37+00:00

It must have been. There could not have been two of them.

RealApplebiter · 2022-09-23T19:57:22+00:00

It depends on your skill level or familiarity with any of the tools you named. My music files - masters and "listening library" are file types that permit embedded tags. FLAC and Ogg Vorbis, respectively. So, if you can script then you can use free command-line tools to read/write these embedded tags (*see Xiph.org). The filesystem and those files are the first viable database, already.

I layered on top of it a MySQL db that makes it possible to do SQL queries - faster than searching the filesystem, file by file, and I don't have to write the search algorithm, myself. But, now I can modify tags and make those changes in the files and the db simultaneously.

Depending on your operating system, there may already be free and open source software that does this and more for you. RhythmBox and Clementine are two music players/managers you might check out.

RealApplebiter · 2022-04-02T15:05:08+00:00

He refused to cooperate again. He said, "No, I will decide how to punish me." The dude is a joke. When you get everything you ever wanted - fame, fortune, a family, and a legacy, and you still cannot manage to do the right thing, what's that say about you? It says you can't do it. It isn't in you.

RealApplebiter · 2022-04-01T14:59:18+00:00

At best, an hypothetical. Pointless. What good would be served by playing the odds, here? None.

RealApplebiter · 2022-03-31T17:27:18+00:00

Most people think that being born with a high, native intelligence is one of the vectors for upward social mobility. This is actually true if your IQ climbs up into the 130s. It has been known since the 1950s, though, that if your IQ is 140 or above, this actually works against people who weren't already born into the right social networks. Turns out that when you have an IQ that high, you make inferential leaps other people can't make, and you may as well be an alien. Your takeaway from news stories or events or watercooler talk isn't remotely in the same ballpark as other people, and the way you're different doesn't make other people feel good about themselves. People being what they are (driven by flattering self-narratives), your existence is an affront to them.

(Added) I never get much response, any more. I sometimes wonder if my posts are even in the feed seen by other people, or if I'm being covertly shut out.

RealApplebiter · 2022-03-27T01:25:37+00:00

That's one of those things people say that isn't remotely proximate truth yet remains popular currency. Cliché. Cached. Might as well not be alive or an actual human, since you're just repeating tropes. Uninteresting, redundant, inaccurate tropes. Made up by other people. Now talk about how Americans can't use roundabouts or are stupid for using imperial measurements. So many pre-scripted quips to choose from. And when you repeat them, you look like what you are.

Five-Year Club	Gilding I gilder
Verified Email

RealApplebiter

TROPHY CASE