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- Lincoln: Saint who set free the black people, or dastardly creator of the suffocating, over-centralized modern state?
- Love this Mickey Spillane paperback bookcover.
- Some wonderful Japanese prints of nudes.
- Russian women apparently enjoy being objectified. Imagine that.
- Is there really such a thing as “porn addiction“?
- Are the manosphere and the Dark Enlightenment friends or not?
- A smart appreciation of the manosphere.
- Steve Sailer recalls the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia.
- “The country is approaching a percentage of foreign-born not seen since the late 1800s and early 1900s.”
- Is Radio Shack in a death spiral?
- Paleo/Primal guru Mark Sisson on getting the fitness results you want.
- “So here’s the $10 question. Can a woman consent to sex when she’s been drinking? Universities have decided that the answer is no.” Link tks to Amy Alkon.
- Why is it so hard for women to write about sex?
- Sriracha, the movie.
- Rod Dreher turns up some startlingly frank thoughts and words from Oscar winner John Ridley.
- Randall Parker is digging Gregory Clark’s new book.
- How to fake your way through the crisis in Ukraine.
- Don’t forget to visit our very NSFW Tumblr blog, where some of us share the kinky and nutty things that stir our libidos.
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The Sriracha factory, which is a just a few miles from my parents’ house, now offers free tours: http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-huy-fong-foods-sriracha-factory-free-tour-20140206,0,4813737.story#axzz2uxbyYkDy
I need to get over there for a photo essay.
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Eager to see that.
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Lincoln: Saint who set free the black people, or dastardly creator of the suffocating, over-centralized modern state?
The two are not mutually exclusive, by any means.
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Poor Radio Shack. They couldn’t make it in a world where no one cares about quality consumer electronics. A lot of their business was audio — how’s that going to work when people are content to listen to mp3 files that have 90% of the data compressed out of them, played by a machine that includes an audio player as one of the several things that it does (most of them pretty crappily), and whose amplifier is a cruddy set of earbuds or a pinhole speaker in a laptop / smartphone?
Folks just don’t respond physically to music anymore — it’s only one of several distractions buzzing in the listener’s consciousness. It doesn’t need to sound or feel very good to distract them, as long as it’s on.
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Friggin’ Urban Outfitters has a better consumer electronics selection than Radio Shack does, as it pitifully tries to emulate Amazon in a brick-and-mortar form. They’ve got turntables, toy cameras, and retro video game systems with 50 or 100 games already loaded. Sounds cooler than whatever lame cell phone accessories or cruddy Radio Shack brand TVs they’re selling.
I think that’s the only way Radio Shack could thrive — target the niche that still likes quality thing-a-ma-bobs, and want to try or test them out in person (you can’t hear speakers over the internet). Then shrink down to whatever size necessary. Lowest common denominator offerings, and competing on price with Wal-mart and Amazon is a no-win strategy.
That could generalize to other brick-and-mortar places that are being wiped out by Amazon.
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(But please don’t re-brand the store as Radio Boutique…)
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