HeyJaredBaldmichael's Letter from England
My search for truth and love. Or visa versa. With humour thrown in for good measure. I will write about anything I fancy. Life is mad, so one might as well enjoy it. Oh, and I do write a lot about COVID 19 as it is in the news.
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An alternative history of broadcasting and its nature (opens the original)
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Here is a brief résumé of the history of broadcasting and those involved. It does not pretend to be accurate and is rather muddled to say the least. The Wikipedia links below are used as a basis for those who wish to check the details to see what is really true.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BroadcastingThe term ‘broadcasting’ stems from the USA where ladies, a.k.a. as ‘broads’, were cast in the Rolls of presenters. This is because the first presenters owned Rolls Royce’s.Broadcast material is di
Why is a marrow called a marrow? – a light bite (opens the original)
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I am thinking of the vegetable, strictly a fruit, and which people like to grow to great size to enter into a garden show. Now is the season for them.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="195" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ru9R!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl
The tech bros (opens the original)
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I am working on a post on Larry Ellison, founder of what became Oracle Corporation. As I am struggling to pull this together I thought perhaps a more general overview of people in his field might be an alternative to start with, especially after anagramming ‘Tech bros’.When I tried typing the phrase into the search engine I came up with this Wikipedia link.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_broIt gives the following definition.“Tech bro” (or “brogrammer”) is a sla
Why does negro mean 'black'? (opens the original)
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Wiktionary says it isBorrowed from Spanish and Portuguese negro (“black”), from Latin nigrum (“shiny black”), of uncertain origin,[1] but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“bare; night”).https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/negroSo one can see the association; neg as in negative, something dark like the night. The N is the letter that stresses the negative like N for ‘no’.Gro sounds like ‘grow’ so the whole thing can be ‘no
Why are the highly educated susceptible to propaganda? (opens the original)
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The consensus seems to be that this is the case. Here is something from reddit.https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/4dwsyl/are_the_educated_more_susceptible_to_propaganda/It saysOne reason that propaganda often works better on the educated than on the uneducated is that educated people read more, so they receive more propaganda. Another is that they’re the commissars. They have jobs as agents of propaganda, and they believe it. By and lar
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