Category: Thoughts

WHAT DOES TRUTH MEAN? (AND WHAT IS ITS ADJECTIVE FORM?) Truth can only mean ‘descriptive testimony free of error, bias, suggestion, obscurantism and deceit’. In other words, speech, the semantic content of which corresponds with reality. One speaks truthfully, or untruthfully , or honestly or dishonestly. To be precise, one speaks honestly not having done…

It’s a very high price to have the best of both worlds. Bridges? Traffic? Fees? https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-bad-is-it-to-live-in-North-Beacon-Hill-Seattle-and-commute-to-Bellevue

https://www.quora.com/Do-people-in-Siberia-Urals-Russian-Far-East-like-those-in-Yekaterinburg-and-Vladivostok-consider-themselves-Asians

Here is a list of the major economic schools currently operating, and how they differ in accessible (or at least reasonably) accessible language. Curt Doolittle’s answer to What are the shortcomings of the Austrian School of Economics’ understanding of economics? https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-classical-economics-and-the-Austrian-School-of-economics

Because it’s (a) it’s justified, and (b) anyone quoting mises or rothbard is a more than little like quoting Marx: ridiculous. Why? Mises created a pseudoscience. He had a basic insight he took from Simmel, and another he took from Weber, and he worked very hard to create an operational logic with which to test…

They take too long to revolt. https://www.quora.com/What-are-your-biggest-grievances-with-American-conservatives

It depends upon which ideology(‘Cult’) you subscribe to. I talk with people every day who do, and read papers, books, articles, posts, and tweets by people who do. But the two major cults argue (propagandize) quite differently: 1 – Pseudoscientific Marxist-Postmodern-Feminist-Temporal-Equalitarians who cherry-pick Consumption as a measure of gain or loss, -OR- 2 – Aristotelian-Empirical-Paternal-Intertemporal-Inequalitarians…

—-“What is a good and recent book on the Irish economic model and the rise of the Celtic Tiger? The shorter and easier to understand the better, as I don’t have a background in economy.”—- You don’t need to read a book. It’s too simple a subject for a book. 1) They provided heavy tax…

MSFT has been a heavy recruiter from India for decades. India has only about a 200M person above ground economy, but that’s still a huge population of at least marginal english speakers to draw from, with low problems of integration into american culture. Before Microsoft the only sizable employer was Boeing, who heavily employed technical…

Retweeted PlayTheTrumpCard (@PlaysTrumpCard): Now that @Project_Veritas has proof of why many conservatives on this platform are experiencing account bans, huge drops in rt’s, and impressions via #ShadowBan #Shadowbanned #Shadowbanning, I would love to hear the opinion of @AjitPaiFCC @FCC about this. https://t.co/BLKuOFRpwQ

Retweeted M (@Mjonesplumber): The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who dare to speak it. #Shitholegate #shithole

As far as I know, Ravens IS extremely predictive (correlative) – certainly within half a standard deviation, and certainly below 130. as far as I know we DO have a working theory of intelligence. as far as I know we DO have a working neurological intelligence as far as I know we DO have a…

“It’s gonna have to get physical before it gets any better.”

Well, reality is, that Sh-t people, make Sh-t countries, that have Sh-t institutions, including Sh-t infrastructure. All the virtue signaling in the world does nothing but continue the problem. There is only one honest virtue signal you can send – go there and physically do something about it. And stop making excuses for bad…

This is a profound change.

Retweeted ?? SKY45 ?? (@SKYRIDER4538): #FixTrumpInFiveWords A #Shithole is a #ShitHole Don’t sugarcoat an obvious #shithole People only flee #ShitholeCountries CNN is the #ShitHole News Trump is still your president Make Liberals Go to #shitholes God bless #America and #Trump #Mypresident need no fixing ?

Retweeted Pat Condell (@patcondell): #Trump is right. #Haiti is a #shithole, and everybody knows it. And the #UN is a moral shithole whose general assembly and human rights council are dominated by repressive third world shitholes that people can’t wait to get out of. https://t.co/SAVb1OBGIj

“What is the single highest return a polity can invest in?” A: Human gamete markets –Julian le Roux

During the early 20th c educators intentionally ‘dumbed down’ education, and ‘marketers’ and the movements of the 1960’s did so further. The purpose was to give the lower middle, working, and underclasses greater confidence – and to do so for a reason. Overconfidence and overestimation of ones abilities and knowledge is an american marxist-postmodern trait.…

(from elsewhere)(re: christ langan)(thx to Chris Cameron) I’m subject to the same criticism’s Chris, for the same reasons, and I sympathize with the problem of working outside the existing paradigms, career reinforcement, and institutional defense of them. Moreover I understand that due to the world wars, we experienced a catastrophic intellectual failure in…

(from elsewhere) Serious people on the margins challenge people to fights as a means of marketing. It works. It’s always worked. It’s just easier today with the internet not gating those challenges and arguments. Serious people in general use some version of ‘either put up and show you understand, ask questions in order…

I thought it was rather obvious that the third world was a ‘sh–thole. An a bundance of ‘sh–t people’ make for a ‘sh–t country’. I mean, land is land, a country requires people, and people with ‘sh–t’ genes, knowledge, culture, and traditions produce Sh–thole contries. #Trump

Never treat disapproval, rejection, shaming, ridicule, and rallying by the left’s effeminacy as anything other than the barking of purse-dogs,with just as much agency behind it.Adults make empirical arguments.If you make a sentimental argument it just means you’re a child. #trump

Retweeted Mike Enoch ?????? (@mikeenochsback): Anyone feigning outrage over Trump’s “shithole” comments is a liar. No one is outraged. Everyone knows he’s right. The most intolerable thing about the present system is the constant lies. It’s run by liars that promote other liars and try to make you and me into liars too.

You want the scariest economic question of all? What is the cumulative cost per year of the loss of one point of median IQ? What is the aggregate return on increasing median IQ by one point per year? What is the single highest return a polity can invest in? #Trump