There’s a bunch of stuff going on in the news this week: 1. Elon Musk announced yesterday that Tesla could be taken private at $420/share. Tesla stock surged to $380, a gain of nearly $100 from just a week ago. Last week I put out a post about Tesla. Yet again, another example of how… Continue reading The Daily View 8/8/2018

This story is going viral Shenzhen Tech Girl Naomi Wu: My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine Despite the anti-China rhetoric during Trump’s campaign and the tariffs, China and America, economically and culturally, are closer than ever. What happens in China regularly makes news in America, and vice-versa. The ‘Chinese experience’ is… Continue reading The China-U.S. Intellectual Connection

Vox Day and Scott Adams are close friends, so this video came as a surprise. Scott Adams has always been sorta a moderate. I don’t think he wants to sacrifice his lucrative cartooning gig to appease a fringe. He said that supporting Trump cost him a lot of income in terms of lost speaking gigs… Continue reading Vox Day vs. Scott Adams

Bullshit jobs are a big problem, according to economist David Graeber: Graeber’s unique contribution is to tie these changes to human history, and to explain why, anthropologically, they may not be all that surprising. In an essay five years ago, he made the seemingly bizarre assertion that perhaps as many as 30 percent of all… Continue reading Bullshit jobs

Even though many people on the far-right do not like Ben Shapiro, in this video he is right. There won’t be collapse, nor are we on the brink of civil war (as this blog correctly predicted in 2016). Guys like Vox Day and others who say that we’re living in ‘extraordinary times’ and or subscribe… Continue reading Ben Shapiro – Is AMERICA on the BRINK of COLLAPSE? No

Another correct prediction on this blog: Tesla stock surges 9% after hours on earnings. Tesla shares surge as upbeat Musk sees profitable second half Tesla shares soared as much as 11 percent in after-hours trading. The stock has been under pressure for some time as investors have worried about the cash the company was burning… Continue reading Tesla Stock Surges on Earnings

A couple days ago Scott Adams did a Periscope in which he endorsed a universal single payer plan. If Scott, who is respected among the ‘right’, can get away with left-wing ideas and still be respected, why can’t I. Here is my crazy left-wing idea. Most people when they think of nationalization, they think of… Continue reading Crazy idea: should the US Govt. buyout Microsoft?

Jordan Peterson is mostly right: According to the video, the harsh reality is that 10% of the general population is not smart enough to contribute to the economy in any meaningful way. This is also congruent to the data that shows that 20% (corresponding to an IQ below 87) of the country has a negative… Continue reading Jordan Peterson Truth-bombs Everyone about IQ

Changes in public sentiment don’t arise exnihilo. Rather, there is a multi-step process by which public opinion evolves and forms, through what I call the meme propagation process. When I talk about the ‘high-IQ left’ and the ‘high-IQ right,’ these are the progenitors and propagators of this process. Smarter people tend to have more money… Continue reading Meme propagation process

The left (but also some on the ‘right’) is celebrating Facebook stock plunging 20% yesterday on ‘weak’ earnings (weak as in not meeting the impossibly high estimates set by Wall St. analysts). Facebook stock is still a fist-pounding buy and will make new highs soon, just as I was right about the S&P 500 making… Continue reading Optimism and The_Donald