On investment communities and forums, people are asking how to invest in this crisis, how to best prepare oneself, what sectors and stocks will recover the fastest, or how the economic landscape will change. The media keeps talking about the US economy ‘having shut down’ or ‘being reopened,’ as if the US economy is some… Continue reading Investment and economic perspectives post-Covid

A little over a month ago, the big story was whether Mike Bloomberg would be able to recover from his bad debate performance, back in Feb 20th. In hindsight, this was so quaint in significance despite all the media coverage at the time, and the last gasp of any sort of semblance of normalcy, as… Continue reading It’s amazing how fast things change

Taleb has gone full retard more than usual, having revealed himself to be little more than a hysterical SJW, as I said in 2019 when I called him out for being a SJW masquerading as a libertarian-conservative. Why else has Twitter not suspended Teleb’s account for egregious TOS violations by insulting people with whom he… Continue reading Taleb liberal goes full retard

Blown cover as cover An interesting little quip given the rumors about The Storm. And for those who don’t understand why the confirmed guilty aren’t simply being rounded up and charged, read The Trial of Roger Stone. There is no point in arresting those who will never be charged by corrupt prosecutors, and if charged,… Continue reading Goalposts, moved

Even though I oppose the shutdowns and mandatory quarantines, I’m tired of lame, logically flawed arguments being brought forward. Z writes Of course, the people in the skeptic camp could be the ones suffering from some form of madness that prevents them from seeing the threat. The trouble is, the great plague is not exactly… Continue reading Holding ourselves to a higher level of discourse in regard to Corona

When expressing oneself, there are two problems: getting facts wrong or having bad opinions. Shared narratives appeal to the internal value system that unites intellectual-web, which tends to to be invariant of facts or ideology. It’ a sort of ‘hack’ that bypasses the difficulty of having correct facts or good opinions, as shared narratives are… Continue reading Shared Narratives and the Coronavirus

The fact that the potential US death toll was revised so substantially and abruptly, to 100k, shows how wrong the initial narrative was, which was the promise or hope that a combination of shutdowns, quarantines, and social distancing would keep the total number of fatalities low, perhaps 10,000 at most, versus potentially hundreds of thousands.… Continue reading The great write-off

Everyone is probably familiar with holliness spirals, which is the tendency of the social-justice left to one-up each other in performative acts of solidity, especially on social media, with the winner being whoever occupies the inner-most circle of intersectionality and virtue. Dissident conservatives however have their own spirals, so-called truth spirals, in which conservatives are… Continue reading Truth Spirals

Why is Quillette, which positions itself as a pro-free speech classically liberal publication and supported by classically-minded liberals, moderates, and libertarian-leaning conservatives, so pro-quarantine and pro-shutdown? Are quarantines and shutdowns compatible with classical liberalism? That seems to have more of an authoritarian vibe to it. The consequentlist argument however can be invoked that the suspension… Continue reading Denmark is evidence social distancing didn’t work

The biggest winner of Covid19 is the media, especially social media. Every senator, governor, and congressperson’s twitter account is being flooded with comments in regard to the virus, as people on either side of the aisle vent their frustrations and point blame at the other ‘side’. Trump’s twitter is bigger and more relevant than ever,… Continue reading The biggest winner of Covid 19: the media