Month: April 2018

Progress in the Trump Administration has been slow yet erratic, save for some talks regarding Korea. There are these huge, canyon-wide gaps between anything important happening, that the odds of missing anything by not following things, are minuscule. The question, will technology eliminate jobs–and if so, how many–frequently comes up on in online discussion, especially… Continue reading Competition necessitates humans

But one reason why I’m optimistic about the future of the economy is, decades from now, once these smart, frugal, well-educated millennials, grown up, take over the upper-management jobs from the less intelligent boomers and gen-x, the economy will receive a significant tailwind from the increase in productivity and profits. According to an article in… Continue reading Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 10

Bitcoin resumes its crash: Bitcoin is at $9100, a 60% decline from December highs. To get an idea of how low this is, Bitcoin was at $11,500 just 3 months ago, yet everyone is acting like this is the start of a new rally to new highs. People are so deluded they forget how much… Continue reading Bitcoin crash resumes…new lows coming

Okay I finany found a livestream in which I disagree with Scott Adams Scott Adams tells you how Kanye showed the way to The Golden Age. With coffee. https://t.co/RCFwKuXjCA — Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) April 22, 2018 There is a tendency some to ascribe imaginary or non-existent attributes and accomplishments to Trump. In the video Scott… Continue reading A golden age?

The 9th installment of the Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism serial. I eventually want to get this wrapped up. Part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8 The rise of intellectualism is also apparent in changing beauty standards and celebrity culture. For example, the permanent stardom of brunettes… Continue reading Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 9

When the Twitter Mob Came for Me Williamson is surprisingly controversial and incendiary for someone who the far-right deems a ‘cuck’ and is a ‘never-trumper’. I have a lot of respect for Williamson’s realism and unabashed style, and many of his ideas are correct or make sense, although his views on abortion are possibly inconsistent… Continue reading Kevin Williamson responds to his firing

To say things are slow is an understatement..they are downright glacial/comatose, as I correctly predicted last year. it seems the news cycle over the past few weeks, and this week in particular, has slowed to a trickle. There’s no need to keep close tabs on stuff, because if something even slightly important happens the media… Continue reading Biggest winners of the Trump administration: centrists, moderates; biggest losers: the far left

In response to the excellent New Statesmen article The IQ trap: how the study of genetics could transform education, Steven Pinker tweeted: The Blank Slate is cracking: With polygenic scores corroborating twin & adoption studies in showing IQ is in good part heritable, even schools & left-leaning mags are walkiing back the tabula rasa. https://t.co/mpKTDB8sQ7… Continue reading The IQ trap: how the study of genetics could transform education, New Statesmen

We’re still in the Smartest era. It began in 2009, picked up steam in 2013 with the post-2013 SJW backlash, and accelerated further in 2017 with the post-Trump rise of centrism and the ‘rational middle’. Notice how everything is in multiples of four. Between 2005-2009, for example, the political cultural landscape consisted of low-information activism… Continue reading The accent of the alt-middle/center: how it began