Aristocracy, Snobbery, Virtue
Does not require much money. In fact, if you can purchase time in exchange for decreasing ownership of property that’s better for you. It requires only that you are extremely judicious in your expenditures. It requires only that you ‘be a man’: in control of yourself. Be fit enough to fight no matter your…
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Ran into two of my distant kinfolk the other day. The Breton kin. Same height. Same coloring. Very similar features. We could easily be mistaken for brothers. But what was the difference? they had me by at least a hundred pounds. WTF is modernity doing to my people? We need two innovations…
Snobbery
I am not a snob in denial. I’m just a f-cking snob. Ok? I not only admit it – I’m proud of it. I studied fine art, history, science and philosophy, just so I could MASTER snobbery. The only difference is I prefer to use snobbery to ADVANCE my people rather than masturbate by virtue…
The Costs Of Knowledge Transfer
The transfer of knowledge is dependent upon at least ten “supply demand” curves. Such that the contract (exchange) of knowledge is a function of the costs involved in an exchange. In other words, some communication is low cost and some is worthwhile, and some is very costly, and some is prohibitively costly, and some is…
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Women’s minds, including emotions, evolved, and remain, attenuated for the purposes of bearing and raising generations of children: when young, when fertile, when mother, when grandmother. But what does this mean? It means that upon appeal to intuition in matters interpersonal, social, and political, that women’s intuition supplies a bias – and men’s does not…
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( We just got thrown out of Walmart. Apparently starting pillow fights with strangers is frowned upon. ). Lolz …. ( I went slumming. )
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I take my Macbook pro to the Apple store. It’s three days out of warranty. They still cover it. They send it out and back in three days. I have a new case, new battery, new keyboard, new trackpad and new speakers. They already replaced the battery and the screen and the keyboard last spring.…
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Abstract Intelligence is highly heritable and a major determinant of human health and well-being. Recent genome-wide meta-analyses have identified 24 genomic loci linked to intelligence, but much about its genetic underpinnings remains to be discovered. Here, we present the largest genetic association study of intelligence to date (N=279,930), identifying 206 genomic loci (191 novel)…
New York Event Update!!!
Doolittle, Duchesne, Sunic, Jorjani We’re at room capacity with the current venue but several of you haven’t bought tickets yet who had planned to come. If we have more people, we will need to secure a larger venue. Please check with Megan if you still plan to attend asap. Snooze or lose…
Btw: Teaching Moment
Logic versus Science. There are three rules of the logic of internal consistency: 1) Identity, 2) Non Contradiction, and 3) Excluded Middle. Unfortunately, these rules refer to binary truth (identity) wherein all statements are true or false. But that presumption is false. All statements are true, false, or undecidable (null, meaningless, or unknown).…
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One year without television and the world would be a much better place.
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(from elsewhere) (response to a non-argumentative criticism) I’m your huckleberry pimple-dick. 😉 Seriously. It’s not like the room temperature IQ crowd you hang with is my target audience. And it’s not like I have any interest in dumbing down my work for the pubescent window-licker franchise. So either you can follow adult discourse in…
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by Simon Ström Happiness is redundant to grown men — conviction and love (a relational condition) are more important because those are instruments for us to continually invest our agency in the best way possible from a survival/reproduction perspective regardless if we’re happy or not.
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(DIARY: Health update. Seems that I’ve made incremental progress again over the last month. Blood pressure, heart rate, and levels are all pretty much back to normal. Although I need to start working on strength now. And while I’m up to 192 lbs, I feel good for the first time in a year or two.…
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(I don’t think I’ve ever been happy – it’s not my nature – but the time I have been least unhappy was the time I spent in Ukraine.)
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–“Ukraine’s National Police have arrested several suspects who were illegally producing bitcoins at a recreation center of a Ukrainian state institute, according to newly released court documents. Police found that 200 computers had been set up in an unused swimming pool at the Paton Electric Welding Institute’s recreation center to generate bitcoins, the world’s…
Primary Cities In Ukraine And Driving Times
Kiev is more interesting. Most jobs. Most activity. Very big sprawling city mixing old austro-hungarian-polish with soviet (ugh) concrete apartments. Everyone speaks both russian and ukrainian. More often russian. Most shops have people who speak english. Lviv is cheaper and has more ‘touristy’ feel. More tech. More Polish-Austrian. “Cultural” center of the country.…
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The results of the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) recently released in Ukraine reveal a 20 % reduction in smokers over the past 7 years. Following WHO recommendations, Ukraine has strengthened its anti-tobacco legislation resulting in this reduction in the proportion of the population smoking.
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YES I ADVISE MALE ACTIVIST RELOCATION TO UKRAINE, POLAND, AND RUSSIA
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Yeah. I’ve gone native. I have passion for Ukraine, her culture, and her people.
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What the West, and the Soviet Union’s victims, owe to Robert Conquest
Against Higgs On Anti Minarchism Whereas
The common natural law of reciprocity, adjudicated by professional judges, constitutes a market for the resolution of differences using the incremental discovery of the application of the test of reciprocity. To argue for poly-anything law is not to argue for scientific (reciprocity) law, but to argue for FALSE AND scientifically (objectively) IMMORAL LAW. (Yes, really) …