PS: About the music in physical form:

I may have told this story here or in unz.com comments. I stuffed everything I could into a Fox Body Ford Mustang rent-a-car to bring it 500 miles. That was all I owned, and I stuffed that car. The record albums were in one packed milk crate. I had 4 that wouldn't fit. I mean, even elsewhere in the car, I didn't see where I could stuff them without likely breaking them or warping them to the point of ruin.

Because the used records store guy gave me the insulting low ball quote of a quarter a piece, I left these 4 on the grass median of this city street, for someone else's use. That's not the sad thing. The sad thing was that one of those 4 albums was KISS "Destroyer" ... I mean, while Leo Sayer's "Greatest Hits" was in the milk crate. A travesty, I tell you!!

PS: "It's sort of like making cars too computerized or otherwise difficult to work on yourself. When you fix your own car the state doesn't get a cut of your labor. But if you have to take your car to a licensed mechanic, the state gets a cut of that guy's labor (styled “income”).

Under this business model, you work your job (and lose a portion of your labor to the state) so you can make enough money to take the car to the mechanic (who also loses a portion of his labor to the state). The only winner in this scenario is the state. Everyone else loses."

Good take on the matter. Your 2nd paragraph was not part of it, but I had a post in my head about this. It's important for those who want to control us better that we can't be self-reliant DIYs, as Americans used to be in spades, and you still are obviously.

I had in my head more about taking care of our houses and yards. Maybe it's just where I live, but people seem to be shopping that out more. I'm a little tempted myself when it comes to the massive amount of leaves from one certain tree that everyone tells me to take down. Now, on this score, I do understand "division of labor". It makes sense to pay guys - I can still get White! Americans - to do what they do best. They are also small businessmen, so supporting them is something that would make me feel good. OTOH, I've only had other people do a handful of jobs - one big one being the roof - in many, many years.

Your 2nd paragraph on the arranged treadmill is a very good point too.

PS: About the pope card...

𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙, 𝐼 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑡
𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑏𝑜𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝐶𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝐾𝑖𝑑𝑑
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑑
𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, "𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐸𝑦𝑟𝑢𝑘𝑒, 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑"
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑔𝑜 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑖𝑑

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbdF4hBfQiE

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PS: Me again...

“I do really like that ctrl-f capability - only thing better, IMO, with an electronic version.”

Ctrl-f is certainly nice. There are a couple other benefits to the digi-copies. One benefit is the ease of sharing on the interwebs. It is pretty nice being able to share things online. We would otherwise have to mail copies of these things to each other or each of us would have to go out and buy a copy. The other benefit of digital books is storage space. Dieter was just talking about how he needs more storage space for his books. (I'm totally not surprised by this.) If I were to try to store all my books in physical form I would need a warehouse.

It's the same with music. I have a music folder with more than a half a million songs in it. (Many thousands of albums.) Could you imagine how much space that would take up on CDs? (If each CD had an average of 15 songs on it we would be talking about 33,000 CDs that I would have to store.)

They don't really replace a hard copy, but digital books sure are nice in their own way.

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PS: Good afternoon, Achmed!

“One thing about Feminism besides it being just another method of destruction of the American / Western culture it that, yes, for the Big Biz Crony Capitalism program, getting those women into machine-cog jobs helps keep wages down and everyone on board with Big Biz edicts as they worry about their paychecks, since most of them live off them one by one ...”

Totally agree. It also has the added benefit (for the people of “government” that is) of herding these women into J O B jobs that withhold taxes thereby giving the parasites working for the state a cut of these women's labor. And if these women have to pay for child support so they can work at their J O B jobs, all the merrier as the people who work at the daycare center also pay taxes to mommygov.

It's sort of like making cars too computerized or otherwise difficult to work on yourself. When you fix your own car the state doesn't get a cut of your labor. But if you have to take your car to a licensed mechanic, the state gets a cut of that guy's labor (styled “income”).

Under this business model, you work your job (and lose a portion of your labor to the state) so you can make enough money to take the car to the mechanic (who also loses a portion of his labor to the state). The only winner in this scenario is the state. Everyone else loses.

Pretty insidious, really.

Anyway... Hope you have a great afternoon, Achmed! ☮️

PS: Oh, and thanks for the Pope ID card, Mr. Smith! That could come in handy one day.

PS: I saw some of these things, such as the electronic version of "Noticing", on the VDare site. Mr. Sailer is promoting the book and himself HARD right now. I suppose he needs to get into the limelight while he has this chance. It's good for society if he does, not matter how much it's a bit too much for readers.

Regarding paper v plastic, errr electrons, I'm with you on that* - I have the 3 soft back copies. I've got pencil notes - just a few - in one of them, but it gets complicated as one has been with me for traveling and another I read at home. As for the 3rd, I have a friend in town who is not sure he likes this sort of reading, but I hope to convince him he WILL. (He's not at all on the Woke side, so it's not that.)


* Were the electronic edition half the price, I might reconsider. I do really like that ctrl-f capability - only thing better, IMO, with an electronic version.

PS: "I didn't hear anything objectionable, but I guess I have bigger things to worry about."

Same here, Adam. However, it was the headlines here and there about how controversial or objectionable, or GREAT (depending on WHOSE headlines) that got me to watch the speech finally. (That was on GP, but I am glad I found it on youtube - didn't need your help this one time.)

"I did appreciate his line about not being able to teach about who killed Christ in universities and schools, even if the “landing you in jail” part was technically incorrect... "

True, about that last part, and I'd heard this about first time I read about this atrocious Bill (I read that it had been passed by the House, but I take it the Senate would too - Bai Dien would be caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to signing it, if he even knows what he's signing...). However, I see this law as being the biggest crack in Amendment I, as far as speech goes. I understand that Gov't's corporate minions enforce the restrictions they (both of them) want to, but this is right out there in the open - "can't say this." Was it all planned out - get the Jewish left on board with this by having the massive rallies for Hamas and all?

One thing about Feminism besides it being just another method of destruction of the American / Western culture it that, yes, for the Big Biz Crony Capitalism program, getting those women into machine-cog jobs helps keep wages down and everyone on board with Big Biz edicts as they worry about their paychecks, since most of them live off them one by one ...

PS: Good morning, Mr. Moderator & Friends...

“𝐼'𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝐶𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐...” -Achmed E. Newman (Lol... Thanks. 🙂)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/POEE_Pope_Card.svg/2560px-POEE_Pope_Card.svg.png


More outrage over a commencement speech, eh? I didn't hear anything objectionable, but I guess I have bigger things to worry about. (Maybe I'm just all out of outrage? or, Perhaps I'm saving my outrage for when it matters?)

I had to read the comments under an article in the New York Post to fully understand what the Covfefe was about.

Apparently, it is wrong and horrible to express the idea that some women should forego careerism for motherhood because motherhood and being a (gasp!) homemaker are more important than being a replaceable cog in a bullshit corporate job.

Mr. Butker also said some things that the easily offended 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 were... Transphobic. (Double+ Wrongthink!)

I did appreciate his line about not being able to teach about who killed Christ in universities and schools, even if the “landing you in jail” part was technically incorrect...

“Congress just passed a bill where stating something as basic as the biblical teaching of who killed Jesus could land you in jail.”

I wonder if he'll lose his job for criticizing our earthly masters.(?)

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Meanwhile, in other news...

https://www.unz.com/isteve/noticing-now-available-in-kindle-for-instant-download/

“Big news for digital book fans and for overseas potential readers daunted by the high cost and long lag times of shipping the paperback edition of my anthology Noticing abroad: you can now buy the Kindle version from Amazon with instant download for the same price as the paperback $29.95.”

“Other digital formats will follow.”

(Paging Dr. Hail. 🙃)

At $29.95 I'd rather have the paperback. I see no point in paying the same price for a digital copy as one would pay for a tangible, hold it in your hand and/or read it when the power goes out, copy.

Once the digi-copies start making the rounds it is only a matter of time before we can add it to the Book Club library.

(Technology. For the win!)

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PS: I guess I haven't been keeping up with the memos out of Vatican City, Mr. Werner. Thanks for the correction. ;-}

PS He can't be Pope, silly. His children are legitimate.