ng hip pain) in the exercise group; and no adverse events in the usual care group. In the exercise group an adverse event was reported by 23/329 (7.0%, 95% confidence interval 4.7% to 10.3%) participants.
That's just plain scary. Falls are the typical endpoint of Alzheimers.
Why in the fuck did you even THINK that weightlifting would help? It diverts blood and energy FROM the brain. Unlike walking or dancing, weightlifting doesn't sync the nervous system and doesn't provide any sensory input except pain and misery and torture and dread.
Among young folks there's a 100.00% correlation between weightlifting and absolute brainless stupidity. I don't know the direction of causality, but when you see a 100.00% correlation you've got to be CAUTIOUS at the very fucking least.
¶ 4:49 AM
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Noticed something about a recurring location in dreams. The location is mixed and merged, but it's the same place(defined vectorly) in three cities at once. Manhattan, Enid, Ponca. Vector description: Θ = south from downtown. R = five blocks.
City maps overlay nicely on the location marked in green:
In terms of buildings and topology, the dream location is more Enid than anything else, but it has echoes of the others. I'm always heading northward, which is slightly uphill in all three places.
Here's a Googlestreet of the place in current Enid:
This catches the feel of the street itself but not the buildings. Enid has been stripping itself out since 1980, replacing rows of flavorful old storefronts with parking lots and big undefined rectangles.
Does this overlay process say something about memory? Are memories stacked on a single geographic datum, like the layers of ancient cities under Rome or London?
When Kissinger gets involved....UD notes that even Henry Kissinger has joined all the other COOOOOOOOOOOOOOL people in worrying about artificial intelligence.
When all of the ruling class is publicly "worried" about a target, it means they're getting ready to treat the target as a fake enemy.
The sponsors of AI are at the deepest heart of Deepstate, maybe even deeper than Henry, so there's no reason for Deepstate to worry about them. Just like previous Red Scares and Muslim Scares, the worry presages a pogrom. We're being "poisoned" by "Russian" AI bots, and we must obey Deepstate's own AI perfectly so it can "defend" us against the "Russian" AI. We must be microchipped and turned into Things Of The Internet Of Things. Most residents of Sorosian lands are already hardwired into the grid, so the pogrom will only affect the unchipped. Take a chip or take a bullet. You're free to choose.
Tip for map freaksLatest item at KSHS is a big 1856 map of Kansas. It shows the roads, railroads, and counties. The first cities were founded in 1855, so this is FRESH. You can see the line of settlements established by Yankee industrialists to spread Northern sweatshop slavery, with Manhattan at the end of the line. Most of the counties were reboundaried or renamed later, so the counties on this map are an alternate universe. Riley is EAST of Manhattan, occupying present Pottawatomie.
¶ 1:09 AM
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
What would Morris do with a Tardis?
Pointless convective thought.
Not sure why this item updrafted to the top of consciousness, but I'll go ahead and write it. This thought grew from the Paine vs Morris essay.
A recurring topic in various forums and sci-fi stories is what you'd do with a time machine, given a limited amount of power. Three Tardis wishes.
The standard answer, of course, is abort Hitler.
Nope, wouldn't work. If Adolf hadn't been born, the backwash from Versailles would still have produced a similar leader. Given the basic nature of Krauts, another leader would have been more effective. Adolf was sloppy and unfocused. The typical Kraut is relentlessly persistent and infinitely thorough. Krautistic.
In general killing any bad leader is useless because the leaders are responding to existing pressure, filling a niche.
Revolutions kill leaders along with a lot of innocent bystanders, in the hope of eliminating the niche.