Diary (January 20, 2021)
Online diary of Karl Jones for Wednesday January 20, 2021.
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President Biden
Inauguration Day
Three cheers for Not Alarming!
Limits of free speech
No. Speech is based on truth, reliability, honest communication.
Purposely spreading lies and misinformation is—
- Corrupt speech
- Pathological speech
- Broken speech
- Speech as hunting call of predators
- Speech as parasitic infection
Source: [ Comment] on Facebook.
Ghost Dance USA
Ghost Dance.
People in societies under intolerable pressure experience prophecy and superstition.
Symptoms are Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression — the first four stages of the five-stage Kübler-Ross model.
Everything but the acceptance.
Pillow Man Juice
Lindell gets a private five minutes with Trump the other day, *just like that*.
This implies a very potent Juice, to use the Vegas term.
It takes Juice to see *any* President in person.
Imagine the Juice required for a private meeting with a twice-impeached criminal monster of a President at the desperate and violent end of his Presidency.
Lindell must have either something Trump wants, or something Trump fears. Or both.
Sarlacc mating
WHAT the — ?!
"That's no Symbiotic Combination of Bacteria and Yeast. It's a space station."
Or maybe an extreme close-up of a Sarlacc mating tentacle absorbing the viewer's face.
Either way, better risk it all.
- Post @ Twitter
Blue spill
Emmy Werner
Emmy E. Werner (1929-2017) was an American developmental psychologist. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska and was a professor emerita in the Department of Human and Community Development at the University of California, Davis.
Dr. Werner was best known in the field of child development for her leadership of a forty-year longitudinal study of 698 infants on the Hawaiian island of Kauai—the island's entire birth cohort for the year 1955.[1][2][3] The study supported the conventional wisdom that many children exposed to reproductive and environmental risk factors (for instance, premature birth coupled with an unstable household and a mentally ill mother) go on to experience more problems with delinquency, mental and physical health and family stability than children exposed to fewer such risk factors. Among Werner's most significant findings was that one third of all high-risk children displayed resilience and developed into caring, competent and confident adults despite their problematic development histories. She and her fellow researchers identified a number of protective factors in the lives of these resilient individuals which helped to balance out risk factors at critical periods in their development. Among these factors were a strong bond with a nonparent caretaker (such as an aunt, babysitter, or teacher) and involvement in a church or community group like the YMCA. She received numerous national and international awards.
Her book Through the Eyes of Innocents tells the stories of children caught up in World War II in their own words.
Jagiellonian University
Jagiellonian University (nonfiction)
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Prisoner of war bank
In November 1944 the officers created a bank which printed banknotes.
- Oflag II-D @ Wikipedia
In October 1944, actual paying out of salaries was stopped, and instead of receiving notes, the amounts were deposited to the prisoner's account. At this time prisoners requested "The Oldest of the Camp" to create their own financial institution, the "Bank of the Oflag IID" (Bank Obozu IID).
Official permission was granted, and all the formalities fulfilled. A monetary unit was called a "piast", and was divided into 100 groszy. (Piast was the name of the first Polish king's dynasty. It was never used as a name for monetary units, but in 1919 in the independent Poland, one proposition was to name a new Polish monetary unit "piast". Then, in 1924, after Grabski's monetary reform, the name "zloty" won). Currency was covered by cigarettes, deposited in the bank's vault. One box of American or British cigarettes was equal to 10 piast. Banknotes were printed in the camp printing house, with emission date October 16, 1944. They were put into circulation on November 1, 1944.
Artificial deserts in Poland
The town of Borne Sulinowo traces back its roots to two distinct villages founded in the area in the 16th century by local Pomeranian nobility. Modern town occupies the place of the village of Linde (linden tree), which in 1590 had 12 inhabitants. A nearby village named Großborn was home to 14 peasants.
Both villages developed very slowly. In the late 19th century, the area of the village of Linde was bought by the Prussian government and converted into a military training ground. However, it was not until the advent of Nazism in Germany that changes really arrived there.
During the first World War, there was an outcamp from Schneidemuhl prisoner of war camp at Gross Born.
In 1933 the new German authorities bought all of the area and started the construction of a large military base, a training ground and various testing grounds there. Most of the local inhabitants were resettled and their homes razed to the ground. In place of the village of Linde, a small military garrison and a town was built. Paradoxically, it was given the name of the nearby village of Gross Born (which was also levelled), despite the fact that the actual namesake was located several kilometres to the south-east. All facilities were officially opened by Adolf Hitler on August 18, 1938. Soon afterwards the Artillery School of the Wehrmacht was moved there. Shortly before the outbreak of the Polish Defensive War of 1939, the training grounds housed Heinz Guderian's XIX Army Corps. During the later stages of World War II an artificial desert was built there for the units of Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps (the other such training ground was established in the Błędów Desert near Olkusz). At the same time the area became part of the so-called Pomeranian Rampart, a line of almost 1000 concrete bunkers guarding the pre-war Polish-German border and eastern approaches to Berlin.
- Borne Sulinowo @ Wikipedia