Month: June 2025

I saw this article going viral a few days ago Being fat is a trap. It generated 350 comments in under a day, which is a lot. Given that 75% of Americans are obese or overweight, it’s understandable that there is considerable interest in this topic. The funny thing about dieting advice is it’s always… Continue reading The obesity trap, and common misconceptions about obesity

I looks like I was right again. A few days ago, I wrote that Elon had ulterior motives and was only feigning concern over the national debt and spending in regard to his opposition to Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’. I said: Elon dug up some 2011-2012 tweets about how Trump used to be a fiscal… Continue reading From ‘DOGE hero’ to zero…

Last week I wrote: Item 2#: Bitcoin falls below $104K. I was also right about Bitcoin lagging stocks, as it has done for the past few weeks. I have greatly profited by shorting Bitcoin while being long tech stocks. My account balances keep making new highs on a daily or weekly basis due to the… Continue reading Bitcoin crashes and Elon and Trump lock horns over debt, spending bill

AI has basically revealed modern college education for the careerist farce it is, in particular the humanities, where cheating is especially prevalent and hard to prevent. It’s not even an open secret anymore that the only thing that matters is the credential, not the learning. A solution, albeit a long shot, is to make it… Continue reading AI has revealed the modern liberal arts education for a farce

Brian Chau contrasts the relative peacefulness of China to what he perceives as the lawlessness of America: I’m radicalized by how much of the daily problems Americans have could be solved by just two things: building housing and arresting criminals. Do those two things in American cities and no place in the world could ever… Continue reading Brian Chau: America vs. China (Crime edition)