What the World’s Largest Organism Reveals About Fires and Forests
In Oregon, the tree-killing Humongous Fungus never would have gotten so large without the accidental help of modern fire suppression tactics.
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Invoking extremes just makes things worse. Government usually creates more problems to solve the problems it already created.
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I had a blog, a big ole political blog with all sorts of entries and spanning two blogging platforms. It went through a catastrophic data scramble. Some content was lost. So here are the old directory links. As I find it useful, I'll probably end up rewriting it and putting in the new blog. But there are some mixups.
scrambled legacy links
NeoWayland is a pagan philosopher, libertarian & part-time trouble maker. Keeping vigil, he shares beacons of individual freedom & responsibility while watching for threats to LIBERTY. There's more to life than just black & white.
❝What Does Russia Want?❞
Interview with Michael Millerman, expert on Putinist Eurasianism
❝The Parents Are Mad: An Explanation❞
“The schools were closed for a year. A year. A year of learning loss and gaslighting and messing with parents and treating them with contempt. That’s why.”
❝Vaccine Hesitancy EXPLAINED❞
“You’re struggling to understand why some people are vaccine hesitant, TRIGGERnometry co-host Konstantin Kisin explains.”
Life, with a side of truth
Sometimes I'm right.
Politics in paganism - updated
From a comment at another site.
Can you trust me?
❝Occasionally I wandered in where I was not wanted and gave truthful answers. Sometimes I even did it deliberately. A little disruption now can prevent disaster later.❞
What makes this one different?
Selected parts of my contributions to a comment thread from May 2020.
"My problem is that we don't have informed science making decisions. We have politicos, none of whom I would trust to give me a straight answer that didn't give them votes. I want to see informed science, but I want to see scientists and statisticians making their best cases. I don't want to see justifications for decisions that have already been made so we can all mutter approvingly about how government has saved us from our own folly."Fighting Wrongthink
I'm not going to include names. I won't give them notoriety.
At the end of the day, which is more important? My vote? Or a system that can be trusted?
One rule of thumb is that all things being equal (which they usually aren't), the side working to control who gets to speak is the one you should worry about.
“Thou shalt not dissent” should a be red flag with a siren.❝Yes, the US Election Was Fraudulent; but Will the Judiciary Recognize That?❞
“Much like segregation was legal while being illegal, if the judiciary is wrong or refuses to rule, what barrier is there to tyranny except breaking the law? An eternal constitutional paradox”
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What the World’s Largest Organism Reveals About Fires and Forests
In Oregon, the tree-killing Humongous Fungus never would have gotten so large without the accidental help of modern fire suppression tactics.What the World’s Largest Organism Reveals About Fires and Forests
In Oregon, the tree-killing Humongous Fungus never would have gotten so large without the accidental help of modern fire suppression tactics.“Woke Agenda” At The American School in London Leads To Downgrade by British Officials
“Parents are furious at the £32,650-a-year American School in London for allegedly teaching their children there are ‘64 genders’ and standing by its ‘woke agenda’ despite a damming Ofsted report.”Orwell Was Right
“From free speech to 'spheres of influence' to our passion for endless war, we've become the doublethinkers 1984 predicted”The Ins and Outs of Whose Money is it Anyway?
“Austrians, like myself, have always understood that eventually Inside Money fails because it is ultimately nothing more than a Ponzi Scheme built on top of Outside Money — money that exists outside the financial system, like commodities and bitcoin.”
Added innumerate to lexicon.
Added Julian factor to lexicon.
Added table stakes to lexicon.
Minor update to racism definition.
Updated polygamy definition in lexicon and added references to polygyny.
Added Ides of Diana to ACT.
Edited pagan entry at lexicon.