RSSWe need to start shopping for counterfeit vax certs.
Hochul just signed a bill making that a felony in the state of NY.
We need to start shopping for counterfeit vax certs.
If you carve out a country and push out the natives the world will treat you like any other country a hundred years later. South Africa tried to be nice and create homelands for everyone which actually later incurred the wrath of the world powers.
True. And the story continues everywhere else. Whites might as well set about forming separate nations for themselves. Instead, they try to make life better for the nonwhites in their societies. The harder they try, the more they are despised, but they can’t or won’t see that. It’s totally futile.
For a while at least, it looked like the colonization of Africa (certainly S. Africa) was going to work out and be just as successful as other Western colonial endeavors.
South Africa suffered the British invasion and then later the wrath of the entire world.
Even under sanctions they still had a stronger currency than any African country.
One mistake they made was assuming the world would value their patronage of the Bantu. In their minds by elevating the standard of living for Africans in their borders the world wouldn’t care if they had racial separation. Hitler was correct in that the world forgets where countries come from. If you carve out a country and push out the natives the world will treat you like any other country a hundred years later. South Africa tried to be nice and create homelands for everyone which actually later incurred the wrath of the world powers. US/UK decided that race doth not exist and the USSR opposed them for obvious political reasons.
Imagine a world without WWI and WWII. One where there was no USSR acting as a thorn in the size of colonialism (not because they really gave a damn about Africans but as a way of countering the West). One in which maybe the colonial powers took action to ensure that the benefits of Western medicine would not create a population explosion among the natives. It might have turned out quite differently.
The worst aspect of WW1 was that it killed off so many strong minded Europeans while the weak and cowardly stayed home to breed. The British undoubtedly suffered the worst as their upper class military families were basically fed to machine guns. Most of their Viking and Germanic warriors were cut down in battles where they didn’t even see the enemy. Machine guns and artillery ended thousands of years of natural selection.
Britain had major dysgenic drain after WW1 and then along comes WW2.
There is really little hope for them. They bow to US egalitarian race delusions and also the relics of their class system. They can’t even admit that trying to turn London into NYC was a dumb idea.
True. And the story continues everywhere else. Whites might as well set about forming separate nations for themselves. Instead, they try to make life better for the nonwhites in their societies. The harder they try, the more they are despised, but they can't or won't see that. It's totally futile.
If you carve out a country and push out the natives the world will treat you like any other country a hundred years later. South Africa tried to be nice and create homelands for everyone which actually later incurred the wrath of the world powers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Porter_(inventor)Replies: @El Dato, @Rob McX
In 1849 Porter planned to build an 800-foot steam-powered airship with accommodations for 50 to 100 passengers, aiming to convey miners to the California Gold Rush. He had already built and flown several scale models in Boston and New York. He advertised New York-to-California service, asking a $50 down payment for a $200 fare, and began building immediately. His first "aeroport" was 240 feet long; it was destroyed by a tornado. Later that year, he began a 700-foot version with new backers, but during a showing of the almost-complete dirigible on Thanksgiving Day, rowdy visitors tore the hydrogen bag and destroyed it. In 1854 his third attempt ended with technical troubles.
Later that year, he began a 700-foot version with new backers, but during a showing of the almost-complete dirigible on Thanksgiving Day, rowdy visitors tore the hydrogen bag and destroyed it.
Kind of a metaphorical premonition?
That’s a useful picture for anyone who accidentally ingests a tab of Viagra.
NEW YORK (AP) — Amanda Gorman is ending her extraordinary year on a hopeful note.
The 23-year-old poet, whose reading of her own “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration made her an international sensation, posted a new work and accompanying video Wednesday on Instagram to mark the end of 2021. “New Day’s Lyric” is a five-stanza, 48-line resolution with themes of struggle and healing known to admirers of “The Hill We Climb” and of her bestselling collection “Call Us What We Carry,” which came out in early December:
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“What was cursed, we will cure.
What was plagued, we will prove pure.
Where we tend to argue, we will try to agree,
Those fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee,
Where we weren’t aware, we’re now awake;
Those moments we missed
Are now these moments we make,
The moments we meet,
And our hearts, once all together beaten,
Now all together beat.”
Poets rarely enjoy the kind of attention Gorman received in 2021, but in an email to The Associated Press she reflected less on her own success than on the state of the country. Gorman wrote that the “chaos and instability” of the past year had made her reject the idea of going “back to normal” and instead fight to “move beyond it.” She mentioned Maya Angelou’s poem “Human Family” and added, “To be a family, a country, doesn’t necessitate that we be the same or agree on everything, only that we continue to try to see the best in each other and move forward into a shared future. Whether we like it or not, we are in this together.”
Gorman offered an alliterative response when asked what inspired “New Day’s Lyric,” telling the AP that she “wanted to write a lyric to honor the hardships, hurt, hope and healing of 2021 while also harkening the potential of 2022.”
“This is such a unique New Year’s Day, because even as we toast our glasses to the future, we still have our heads bowed for what has been lost,” she wrote. “I think one of the most important things the new year reminds us is of that old adage: This too shall pass. You can’t relive the same day twice — meaning every dawn is a new one, and every year an opportunity to step into the light.”
In her Instagram post, Gorman urged readers to donate money to the International Rescue Committee to help those affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Instagram’s parent company, Meta, has pledged $50,000.
Roses be red-Violets be blue-Newports be menthol-Swisher Sweets be too.
One the weirder forms of weird is all the
A USN carrier strike group will come under attack by Chinese or Russian aircraft.
You have to remember that history is full of surprises though. But I do hope you’re right about this.
Washington watchers will become alarmed when the the director of Weekend at Bernie’s is seen moving into the West Wing to perform unspecified duties.
I work at the intersection of statistics, evolutionary genomics and bioethics.
Well, I work at the intersection of Lexington and 42nd St., but nobody publishes my thoughts in Nature magazine.
The US military has been working to make America weaker as a nation for…how long? Opinions vary. Maybe close to a century.
Still, I have been dismayed by how often the academics and clinicians I’ve encountered shy away from examining, or even acknowledging, how racism warps science.
Anti-white racism is warping science, and this article of hers is a good example of that.
What next, George Floyd will get a posthumous PhD from Caltech?
Not sure if it’ll happen in the next year, but I can see the morpheme trans being cancelled. It suggests a barrier that has to be crossed to go from one “gender” to another, a relic from the bad old days when people thought there were just two sexes with a clear dividing line.
Good prediction. We have already gone from "transsexual" to "transgender" with hardly anybody noticing. Now we only have to replace "trans", and the whole of the dirty old word is gone.Replies: @animalogic
I can see the morpheme trans being cancelled.
On Christmas and Die Hard, I feel I have to link to this. I’ve never included a Tweet in a comment, so here we go!
IT WAS DECLARED A CHRISTMAS MOVIE AT THE COUNCIL OF NICEA I CAN’T BELIEVE I HAVE TO GET ANGRY ABOUT THIS
— The Messianic Secret (@MessianicSecret) December 21, 2018
I’ve never heard of that. Are you sure you’re not confusing it with the deaths of 39 Vietnamese stowaways on a lorry in Essex two years ago? It seems some of them were destined for work in the cannabis growing industry.
Yes I do acknowledge the existence of exotic, boutique rounds that do not overpenetrate, like Glaser safety slugs. But those rounds are typically not used by anyone but Air Marshals.
It was this type of round that John Hinckley used in his assassination attempt, a .22LR with aluminium and lead azide in the bullet, which was designed to explode on impact with the target. This was supposed to stop it from ricocheting or penetrating the fuselage of an aircraft. Only the one that hit James Brady actually exploded, which probably saved his life.
Under the FBI’s rules at the time of the Miami Shootout the agents in the task force were required to have at least one machine gun. Unfortunately, the rules as then written called for a machine gun in the task force, not in each vehicle comprising the task force. The agents who had the machine gun were some distance away from the shootout, and didn’t arrive on the scene until it was over.
That being said, the shootout was a prime example of Murphy’s Law, when everything possible went wrong. For example, one agent lost his glasses when the agents’ car rammed the criminals’ car and couldn’t see well enough to aim without them. Another agent had a shotgun loaded with buckshot, which could have been decisive, but a bullet shattered his arm and despite a valiant attempt was able to get off only one shot. And then there’s the fact that the criminals were in deep shade under a huge tree while the agents were exposed in the blazing Florida sun.
In the past, police had access to high powered weapons locked away in preparation for a worst case scenario, but nowadays they have them in the squad car ready to use. What’s strange about the Miami case is how ill-equipped the police and FBI were, considering that they knew they were hunting a pair of criminals who had already committed several murders.
I know that homegrown weed (legal or otherwise) has spawned a whole new type of burglary and home invasion in Britain, where domestic cultivation of cannabis is relatively new. Off the top of my head I can think of two murders in England and Wales that were committed during the theft of cannabis plants from growers’ houses.
That’s how it seems to me too. The cop could have got close enough not to miss, as the perp only had a chain, and there’d be far less chance of the bullet going through its target and hitting an innocent victim.
In 1940, Sir Michael Francis O’Dwyer, Lieutenant-Governor of Punjab at the time of the Amritsar massacre, was assassinated in London by Udham Singh. I don’t know the rights or wrongs of his cause, but it’s hard not to respect Singh, who made no attempt to escape or to deny the killing.
In the court that sentenced him to be hanged, he was asked what his motive was, and he replied:
I did it because I had a grudge against him. He deserved it. He was the real culprit. He wanted to crush the spirit of my people, so I have crushed him. For full 21 years, I have been trying to seek vengeance. I am happy that I have done the job. I am not scared of death. I am dying for my country. I have seen my people starving in India under the British rule. I have protested against this, it was my duty.
“We are considering options to strengthen controls on crossbows,” a spokesman for Britain’s Home Office said in a statement Tuesday, as part of a continuing review of rules on lethal weapons ordered this year by Priti Patel, the home secretary.
In 1842 a would-be assassin tried to shoot Queen Victoria as she rode through The Mall in London. His gun misfired, but he escaped.
So what was the response of the most powerful government and monarch in the world?
Leave guns legal, but the Queen should ride the same route the next day to see if she can bait shooter back out into the open!
She did.
It worked.
He reappeared, shot at her again, but missed, upon which he was caught.
The supposedly archaic Victorians were in fact far more tolerant, liberal (in the old sense), and brave than the modern woke police state tyranny that inherited their country.
“Britain doesn’t need crossbow control. We need Jasbir Singh Chail control.”
– Would-be slogan of the British X-bow Association, were it legal to have such an organization with such a slogan.
Anyone who has a mother-in-law living with them knows banning suttee is the REAL crime of the British Empire.
Next you’ll tell me Dr. Dre is not actually a physician!
John, my daughter deals with lots of black mothers through her job. Young boy named Whatever Whatever III. My daughter asked if the boy’s dad and grandfather were both named Whatever Whatever and the mother replied, no, why did you ask. Or maybe, why did you axed. And Whatever is because I don’t recall the boy’s real name, just the story. Stay safe.
Yes. And to Indians, she’d never be a true Indian anyway.
Yes, definitely something not quite right there. Lots of 15-year-olds have the hots for their 40-year-old teachers in a Beavis and Butthead sort of way, but they don’t end up married to them nearly 30 years later. As the TikTok generation would say, it’s creepy.
I lived in Singapore for four years (then retired back to the US). I was warned they were a draconian state, gum and most non-prescription drugs verboten. Shi-sha (hookah, waterpipe) a mainstay of Muslim restaurants where people would go and have long discussions daily (once every three weeks or so for me!) was abolished while I was there, for “health reasons”, although cigarettes were not touched (Chinese men smoke). Alcohol was heavily taxed, so expensive (most Chinese don’t drink). Cars were also heavily taxed and regulated (not even needed– they are a status symbol ONLY– the whole country is 30 miles by 10 miles and easily circumnavigated by a bicycle or the excellent public transportation. There are sidewalks and public restrooms everywhere, great for morning walking but too hot and humid in the afternoons. Taxes are extremely low and except for hotels and touristy areas, taxes and tips are included in all stated prices.
When I first started working there, my computer connections were slow. When I complained to my Singaporean friends, they all laughed– “you are being watched. But you are boring, so they’ll stop soon”, and they did. There is almost no violent crime in Singapore, and like Nordic countries, corruption is not tolerated. Singaporeans love to travel, and are open to new ideas, but follow Asian ways. Lots of entrepreneurs. Spectacular architecture and green parks everywhere (for over 5.9 million people). People are welcoming and hardworking.
They have infinitely more trust in their government agencies than we have in the US, as their more competent Covid response showed. Covid death rate in Singapore: 139 per million; in the US: 2509 per million.
The negative aspects of Singapore are subtle and hidden. Super competitive, most moms are Tiger Moms and there are no “late bloomers” allowed; a kid’s life is charted out before they are 12. The Elderly who proudly built Singapore are frequently exasperated with the Youth (even more so than elsewhere)– “they won’t sweat, won’t do hard physical work” (but all males serve two years of military service, though Singapore since independence has never been attacked. There is barbed wire fencing everywhere, and signs implying you will be shot if you enter). Singapore is CLEAN and beautiful (due to day labor from Malaysia constantly cleaning). There is an obvious hierarchy throughout Singapore (maybe just not as obvious as in the US where the wealthy do not mix with the poorest). Food is incredible!
Probably their biggest weakness is they don’t have much of a history of innovation. May change, as they love technology, and bring in outsiders for expertise. When asked What are Singaporeans best at? They invariably reply “Following the Rules!”
although cigarettes were not touched (Chinese men smoke).
All tobacco is heavily taxed. This is to discourage the habit
Alcohol was heavily taxed, so expensive (most Chinese don’t drink).
It is because of a credible defence, that is why "Singapore has never been attacked".
(but all males serve two years of military service, though Singapore since independence has never been attacked.
If you had had a closer look at the signs you would have seen "Protected Place". These are critical infrastructure like power stations, water pumping stations, military bases etc. In your country, your military bases and critical installations are located away from your major population centres. That is why you do not notice them. Singapore does not have that luxury. I am sure if attempt to enter a military base in your country you will also be confronted with the threat of being shot.I do appreciate that you have made many observations about Singapore. What seems lacking, is asking the question "why are they that way?"Replies: @jeff stryker
There is barbed wire fencing everywhere, and signs implying you will be shot if you enter).
The fertility rate of France is 1.8, so already clearly below what it would take to maintain the population.
Even France with so much maternity leave can’t solve it.
Steve Sailer looked into the various birthrates by race in France a few years ago in Takimag. He tried to come up with an estimate based on the number of tests for sickle-cell disease in newborns. Generally speaking, only ethnic groups originating in Africa, the Subcontinent and parts of the Middle East are screened. Chinese and other East Asians are excluded. And only those babies with both parents originating from the affected regions are tested.
His conclusion:
After all those preliminaries, here are the unadjusted percentages of newborns targeted for testing in France because both parents come from the Global South:
2005: 25.6 percent
2010: 31.5 percent
2015: 38.9 percentAnd Paris in 2015 was 73.4 percent, up from 54.2 percent just a decade earlier.
Wow.
Just wow.
Years before the Battle of the Little Big Horn (1876) and the Lincoln County War (1881) in the Montana and New Mexico territories out West, the progs circa 1870 were quietly and diligently working behind the scenes in the United States on ideas and plans for the distant future, naturally for everyone else’s own good.
One Hundred Years Progress of the United States would be published in 1871. A section of the book entitled ‘One Hundred Years Progress in the Future’, or ‘Marvels That Our Grandchildren Will See’, starting on pg 460, tells what life is to be like in the United States in June, 1970.
On pg 496 ‘pneumatic tubes for railways’ is lauded, but, as is known, didn’t quite pan out.
Pg 462, linked below, shows a map of the future United States of [North] America in 1970, the US having become a true continental super-state, the whole of North America, Canada and Mexico included, being under Washington DC’s overt direct control.
Pg 467 gives a population projection of almost five hundred million US population in 1970. This is a direct result of completely open borders and the importation of many tens of millions of wage slaves (ie so called ‘cheap labor’/’immigrants’) from all over the planet over the course of a hundred years.
This section of the book makes its very plain that in the prog’s world view, whether this prog is a Mitt Romney or Susan Warren of today or yesteryear, the ‘immigrant’ is the slave, and they ‘care’ about the wage slave in the same way and for the same reasons the masters of old ‘cared’ about their slaves.
‘From 1960 to 1970, the increase is estimated on a ratio of 21 percent., giving [the United States] a population in 1970 of 474,011,000.’
On, pg 515, a fundamental change projected for the American citizen of 1970, for better or worse, in not only physical appearance, but in intellect and character as well. Again, a direct result of the uncontrolled mass immigration.
‘But the future man of the American Republic will be a thoroughly composite being. It is not simply the union of the Mongolian, and Caucasian types to which we are to look forward, but an agglomeration of almost all races and nationalities to make up the coming man…will give to the average American of a hundred years hence, a darker complexion and very different intellectual and moral characteristics from those which we possess today.’
Pg 526 describes quite vividly one of the ‘marvels which our grandchildren will see’ in 1970, ie the few pure blooded Anglo-Saxons left in the future, presumably the writer’s own hypothetical grandchildren, being routinely murdered in the streets in acts of ultra-violence by the angry, hatred driven, and drug crazed, discarded inner city descendants of the imported wage slaves (ie the so called ‘cheap labor’/’immigrants’).
But hey, the writer already ‘got his’ and will be long gone by the time any of this might roll around.
On pg 527, a little after dinner music to end the day, played by the very progressive, but also quite racially and ethnically mixed, Marston family.
‘The evening would have been dull had music been wanting; but in this the Marston family are adepts. All joined in some sweet, new songs, while Madame accompanied them on the organ-
piano, a new combination of string, reed and wind instruments, whose soft and delicious tones delighted all ears. So ends a day in June, 1970.’
https://archive.org/details/onehundredyearsp00flinrich/page/462/mode/2up
Indeed, who could forget Glenn Miller and his Band tommygunning Bill Haley and the Comets back in the day? That Buddy Holly plane crash? Enemy action , my friend. Good times.
That was a smart move for Miller, who’d been pretending to be dead for years. Just wait till Elvis comes out of hiding and wipes out Coldplay with an AR-15.
Or maybe Kwanzaa was the “safe word” for when she was beginning to choke: “Mmf..kwamfaa!”.
Strangely, neither the Chrome nor Microsoft Edge spellcheck on my computer recognises Kwanzaa as a word.
“During the madness of the _____s, the FBI encouraged the most extreme _______ organizations in order to discredit and split the ____.”
Fill in the blanks. It’s a perennial!
And the FBI is a full-owned subsidiary of the ADL.
“During the madness of the _____s, the FBI encouraged the most extreme _______ organizations in order to discredit and split the ____.”
Fill in the blanks. It’s a perennial!
http://www.stationgossip.com/2021/12/shocking-video-shows-woman-armed-with.htmlReplies: @Rob McX
Shocking video shows woman armed with a PICKAXE shoplifting in broad daylight at a Rite Aid in crime-ridden Los Angeles
I was looking at that earlier. I bet she made sure her haul was worth less than \$950.
Do these distinguish between riding, walk-behind, and reel?
single-mather household statistics
It’s relatively easy to chart the path of future progress. It’s human stupidity and irrationality that defy all efforts at prediction or prognostication.
As Schiller has it “Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.” =”With stupidity, Gods themselves contend in vain.”
Was it Yogi Berra who’s credited with: “Predictions are hard, especially about the future”?
Random, but I hope apposite thoughts, on the topic this early Christmas morning before dinner with family and a woman friend.
Physicists successfully predicted the possibility of an atomic bomb almost immediately after that paper on fission was published in the late 1930s.
As a sales manager, my sales estimates, i. e., predictions, got to be good enough once I reasonably understood my product, the capabilities of my sales force, the market, etc.
Minatory dystopian fiction—We, 1984, Brave New World, City, etc.—never dissuades people or nations from engaging in the very things those fictions were warning against.
Predictions that one makes about the course of one’s own life, or the lives of people you presume are close to you, are mostly bosh.
Dire predictions offered by American conservatives regarding our government’s military interventions, market interventions, and social interventions are usually right and usually ignored. Those interventions create factions that, once created, snuff out the oxygen in the room so those factions can maintain their unearned advantage over their fellow Americans.
Well, that’s it. Brain cells exhausted; morning coffee’s working.
Merry Christmas to all, and many thanks to our host, Ron Unz, and his writers.
Well, I gave it a shot, hey. Best wishes to all.
In 2021, the well-paid senior functionary of a giant economic corporation, earning many thousands of times what an ordinary laborer of middling talent earns today [in 1900], and enjoying luxuries as commonplaces that would be the envy of Midas, shall nonetheless find his moral ambit smaller than that of our common workmen.
While today's skilled machine operators [in 1900] may earn enough to marry a suitable woman and found a family, and rely with confidence upon our schools, churches, and institutions of governance to offer guidance in accord with well-established standards, the captains and lieutenants of tomorrow's world [2021] will find themselves in a mean world.
The authority and influence disposed of naturally by our menfolk [in 1900] shall be denied the men of 2021, by virtue of the rising of women, as can be seen among the suffragists, and the pressing of Negroes, some of no little talent, who will seek to establish their own ambit of authority by agitation and law where their own natural abilities find little purchase in tradition or the blessings of Providence.
It’s human stupidity and irrationality that defy all efforts at prediction or prognostication.
Except to note that there will be plenty of it. What form it takes–who knows.
Technically, eyeglasses, note paper, and telephones are transhumanist. Normally it implies more invasive procedures, but there’s nothing inherently invasive about the idea. Anything which makes the human super-human is transhumanism.
Evolution will make humans trans-human whether we want it to or not, exactly the way sapiens is trans-erectus. Or make it go extinct, if you prefer to interpret it that way. However, will this next species in fact have “expanded” abilities? Or merely different ones? It’s an open question. We already know that significantly expanding IQ tends to lead to be sharply limited by disorders. This could be an overtraining issue, or it could be inherent limitations of carbohydrate engineering.
Eugenics doesn’t need to be invasive either. Eyeglasses release certain evolutionary pressures, and similarly non-invasive techniques could be used to increase them instead. Though admittedly my favourite intervention is fairly invasive.
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You don’t need transhumanism to fix the birth rates. Re-legalize marriage, that will solve 90% of the problem. Probably best not to re-criminalize fornication, since that will only lead to another round of re-criminalizing marriage. Don’t actually outlaw living in sin, but allow it to be called “living in sin” again. A light touch is called for; the heavy hand already failed.
SSC carefully summed this up: nearly every modern problem is a mere “stop digging” problem. It’s caused by bad policy and the solution is to give up the bad policy. Literally cheaper than free…in a budgetary sense, anyway. The other side is a bunch of sinecures that form ferocious special interests.
Agreed. Thank god that black psychopath is dead. Highly likely that her actions saved some innocent lives.Regarding the officer, intent matters in this case. Her stated intent was to taser. She accidentally shot him instead. Involuntary manslaughter must be the verdict. No more, or less. Such is the destiny of excitable little fat chicks, way in over their heads. I’m guessing she’ll do better on appeal. Black people aren’t so good with the perception of time. By the time the case gets retried, most of the thugs family will be on to other things. Much less negro hoopla.This incompetence problem for the local police could certainly be mitigated on a vetting process based on solely on intellectual, emotional, and physical merit, but that would mean America’s "Jabari's" would be inadvertently spared. The little piece of shit is off the face of the planet forever. That’s a very good thing.I’ll take the underqualified diversity hires. Saves court time, taxes, and lives.Sitting her fat little ass in jail for a year or so is a small price to pay for the good of modern civilization.Replies: @Rob McX
I was looking at these reports of Officer Potter being convicted. The only consolation is that a violent and dangerous thug is dead, something that can’t be reversed no matter how vindictive the sentence that’s handed down
By the time the case gets retried, most of the thugs family will be on to other things. Much less negro hoopla.
Yes, by that time they’ll have got their hands on the compensation millions, so they’re unlikely to be distracted by judicial matters.
A new awakening – the spirit of 1848.
The BBC's hagiography of Wright is titled "One of those kids everybody looked up to", and does not disclose his criminal past except to say that the police tried to arrest him on an outstanding warrant.The Daily Mail tells it like it is, in a story with the headline "EXCLUSIVE: 'He was either going to be imprisoned, kill someone, or be killed.' How Daunte Wright led a life of crime and violence before his death and shot his own friend in the head, broke into a neighbor's home, and robbed a woman at gunpoint".In unrelated news, large numbers of British people despise the Daily Mail as a racist, fascist rag produced from beyond the grave by Julius Streicher and Joseph Goebbels.Replies: @Rob McX, @AnotherDad
To provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them: the BBC should provide duly accurate and impartial news, current affairs and factual programming to build people’s understanding of all parts of the United Kingdom and of the wider world.
I was looking at these reports of Officer Potter being convicted. The only consolation is that a violent and dangerous thug is dead, something that can’t be reversed no matter how vindictive the sentence that’s handed down.
Agreed. Thank god that black psychopath is dead. Highly likely that her actions saved some innocent lives.Regarding the officer, intent matters in this case. Her stated intent was to taser. She accidentally shot him instead. Involuntary manslaughter must be the verdict. No more, or less. Such is the destiny of excitable little fat chicks, way in over their heads. I’m guessing she’ll do better on appeal. Black people aren’t so good with the perception of time. By the time the case gets retried, most of the thugs family will be on to other things. Much less negro hoopla.This incompetence problem for the local police could certainly be mitigated on a vetting process based on solely on intellectual, emotional, and physical merit, but that would mean America’s "Jabari's" would be inadvertently spared. The little piece of shit is off the face of the planet forever. That’s a very good thing.I’ll take the underqualified diversity hires. Saves court time, taxes, and lives.Sitting her fat little ass in jail for a year or so is a small price to pay for the good of modern civilization.Replies: @Rob McX
I was looking at these reports of Officer Potter being convicted. The only consolation is that a violent and dangerous thug is dead, something that can’t be reversed no matter how vindictive the sentence that’s handed down
Too true!When projecting the future, one detail they often don't even bother trying to get right is hair and clothing styles. Typically they'll just present what is the height of fashion at the particular time the projection is made, such as the short hair and mini-skirts of pre-hippiedom 1964 when the original (though not broadcast initially) Star Trek series pilot ('The Menagerie' in a later bastardized form) starring Jeffrey Hunter was filmed.
In general, it’s hard to get the details right about the future.
Judging by SF fashions, it seems they all thought the days of shirt collars were numbered.
The anti-hero of the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets, played by Alec Guinness, is Louis D’Ascoyne Mazzini, the son of an Italian opera singer who married a duke’s daughter, thus causing her family to disown her. But in in the book on which it’s based, he’s called Israel Rank, son of a Jewish father and an English aristocrat mother.
Citing a book on the subject published by the British Film Institute, Wikipedia says, “The change from Israel Rank to Louis Mazzini was brought about by the ‘post-war sensitivity about anti-Semitism’, and the moral stance of the films produced by Ealing”.
The "post-war sensitivity about 'anti-semitism'" is entirely the product of zionist Jews (ref Arnold Leese trial etc) and their servitors, who are instructed to divert any criticism, however valid, from any Jew, no matter the cost to anyone else.
“The change from Israel Rank to Louis Mazzini was brought about by the ‘post-war sensitivity about anti-Semitism’, and the moral stance of the films produced by Ealing”.
Pneumatic tubes were essentially a form of public transport, and as such, suffered the same fate as all public goods in Diversity regimes.
Pneumatic tubes are the great lost steampunk technology
Another public good. Same fate.Oddly enough, we more or less stopped establishing new great national universities as the 20th Century progressed.
Several great national university will have been established.
Yeah...Tracking, I believe, which is probably headed toward being abolished in the name of equity.
Time will be saved by grouping like studies.
Because it would be Systemic Racism, of course...The last sentence, no.
Etiquette and housekeeping will be important studies in the public schools.
USA leads in Diversity, therefore also leads in sacrifices to the Diversity god.
Some things that were common in much of the world never happened in the USA:
Trains one Hundred and Fifty miles an Hour. Trains will run two miles a minute, normally; express trains one hundred and fifty miles an hour.
The greatest genius who ever lived couldn’t have foreseen the current Diversity worship. It’s relatively easy to chart the path of future progress. It’s human stupidity and irrationality that defy all efforts at prediction or prognostication.
Except to note that there will be plenty of it. What form it takes--who knows.
It’s human stupidity and irrationality that defy all efforts at prediction or prognostication.
Pneumatic tubes are the great lost steampunk technology
Pneumatic tubes were essentially a form of public transport, and as such, suffered the same fate as all public goods in Diversity regimes.
Several great national university will have been established.
Oddly enough, we more or less stopped establishing new great national universities as the 20th Century progressed.
Another public good. Same fate.
Time will be saved by grouping like studies.
Tracking, I believe, which is probably headed toward being abolished in the name of equity.
Yeah…
Etiquette and housekeeping will be important studies in the public schools.
The last sentence, no.
Because it would be Systemic Racism, of course…
Some things that were common in much of the world never happened in the USA:
Trains one Hundred and Fifty miles an Hour. Trains will run two miles a minute, normally; express trains one hundred and fifty miles an hour.
USA leads in Diversity, therefore also leads in sacrifices to the Diversity god.
A thread (not golden) runs through these failed futures.
The Future: undone by Diversity.
Or in other words,
Progress or Diversity, choose One.
China has chosen.
Russia is choosing.
The West must choose too, and soon.
But a 19-year-old black with two sons, has no car but wants one, you don’t have to be Nostradamus to foresee that kind of thing.
Trends in science and technology were easy to predict, relatively speaking. Trains would get faster (in some countries, anyway). Cooking and serving food would be done on the macro scale, and so on. Many of these developments follow naturally from scientific progress and advances in management techniques pioneered by people such as Frederick Winslow Taylor. What’s impossible to forecast is social trends. Imagine picking up a book written a hundred years ago that predicted all the LGBTQ stuff of the last decade.
Eating out is still surprisingly expensive. The economies of scale really don't work out, and cooking from home is still very economical by comparison. There are some things I buy prepared, though, because the ingredients are so expensive, that it's cheaper to buy in a jar, e.g. pesto.Replies: @JMcG, @AnotherDad, @Anonymous Jew
Cooking and serving food would be done on the macro scale, and so on.
A month or two of starvation in the cold and dark--sped up for some by dysentery--doesn't really make a great story overall, but the first few chapters of this could be quite entertaining.Some well armed--mostly Christian conservative--farm families into self-sufficiency, would make a go of this with the background issue of whether God was going to come along and do his business like with Mary.But the first few days for the "proud women of color", the academic feminists, the yard sign virtue signalers would be hilarious. Especially at the very beginning when their cell phones stop working.Replies: @Rob McX
Then there’s this: Julia will be published after Granta releases Newman’s new novel The Men – in which every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes from the world – next June.
But the first few days for the “proud women of color”, the academic feminists, the yard sign virtue signalers would be hilarious. Especially at the very beginning when their cell phones stop working.
They’ll serve as a good source of protein for the Disproportionately-Represented-Americans.
Julia will be published after Granta releases Newman’s new novel The Men – in which every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes from the world – next June.
Note how she says “every person with a Y chromosome”, just in case we think she’s referring to those insane people with a phantom Y chromosome who “identify” as men. I think they’ll find them a poor substitute.
Sorry, the LOL was meant for Nikolai Vladivostok, “Look, a squirrel!”
Anyone else find this as funny as I do? There’s an awkward gap in achievement and test scores between men and women, so what do you do to “debunk” it? Go off and study 200 other animal species. Then people can urge for millions more to be spent getting women into STEM because of what dolphins or owls or snakes do.
The Swiss, famously efficient at everything, managed to fuck up rodeos.
Eh, I guess everyone has to have a weakness.
“But our research in over 200 animal species shows variation in male and female behaviour is very similar. Therefore, there is no reason to invoke this argument based on biology to explain why more men than women are Nobel laureates, for example, which we associate with high IQ.”
We looked at 200 animal species and found that none of them are capable of complex language.
Therefore we conclude that human beings aren’t capable of complex language either. That whole talking/reading/writing thing? Turns out, it doesn’t actually exist.
Science is dying.
Indeed. Today, people's feelings are more important than measurements and theories, and pointing out that something else might exist ("two plus two is four") is considered to be evidence of wrongdoing ("Two plus two is not four, it is oppression!")
Science is dying.
Science is forever! It's just...that old kind of science was, on occasion, somewhat inconvenient. The new kind tells us whatever we want to hear! How is that not an improvement?!Replies: @Mr. Anon
Science is dying.
Kochenov makes a valid point that there is an element of luck in life’s lottery. But citizenship isn’t a ”right” because it comes with an obligation.
Sure, but it is not “luck” in any normal sense of drawing a card from the deck.
There is no “me” that pops to life in Japan or Bangladesh or Nigeria. There is no “me” that is black or Mexican or Chinese. There is no “me” that is born crippled or blind or ugly or stupid. All those other people–maybe be wonderful people, or not–are not “me”.
There is only this “me”–born to my American midwestern parents. And so i inherit America–not those other folks. My ancestors worked to make their community nation, great and i inherit that.
There is nothing the least bit “unfair” about it. Even though there may be millions of people out there who are “better people” than i am, born in shittier nations. They needed to pick their parents more carefully. (Except then they would not be the people they are.)
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And it is ongoing–forever. My kids are inheriting an America that is not as nice as it should be because me, my parents, and our fellow Americans in our generation did not do a good job policing our joint. We didn’t confront and destroy the minoritarians as they spewed their toxic ideas and policies. That’s our failure … and my kids inherit that. They don’t have any claim on Japan or China or even Hungary or Poland or anywhere else where the people may be doing better on rejecting toxic ideas and practicing “demographic hygiene”.
But he’s been saying these things for nearly half a century. Here’s what he said at a concert in 1976:
Do we have any foreigners in the audience tonight? If so, please put up your hands. So where are you? Well wherever you all are, I think you should all just leave. Not just leave the hall, leave our country. I don’t want you here, in the room or in my country. Listen to me, man! I think we should vote for Enoch Powell. Enoch’s our man. I think Enoch’s right, I think we should send them all back. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking Jamaicans don’t belong here, we don’t want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. This is Great Britain, a white country, what is happening to us, for fuck’s sake? Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white!
…Mr. Reagan was at least honest in explicitly using the word “amnesty”.
But it wasn’t an amnesty, it was a welfare check. Deportation is amnesty.
At this point “US President” is just a game of hot potato. The best part about being President is being an ex-President so you can rake in all those back-ended bribes and set your family and friends up. Nobody wants actually to be occupying the office when the flaming turd blows up.
That's why they installed Resident Biden. He won't notice,
Nobody wants actually to be occupying the office when the flaming turd blows up.
I’ll phrase it simply.
It is not primarily about economy.
It is about identity.
Muslims and blacks and (choose other groups) are not Danes and will never become.
So- Danes don’t want them.
To each their own.
Certain truths are eternal:
Import the Third World, become the Third World.
I’ve wondered about that for a long time. How does Clapton get away with saying stuff that would have other public figures consigned to oblivion for life? I don’t think it’s because he’s such a supreme icon of rock. A lot of people of equal status had their careers ruined within hours of making far less extreme statements.
https://p1.music.126.net/3L0MJpwtvo5vEOj6WPhXsA==/109951163978775004.jpg
I’ve wondered about that for a long time. How does Clapton get away with saying stuff that would have other public figures consigned to oblivion for life?
I would say 2 reasons.
How does Clapton get away with saying stuff that would have other public figures consigned to oblivion for life?
Lee’s boys wouldn’t have banged those slobs with LINCOLN’S dick.
The reality is every country could do what Denmark is doing. What stops them is not external reproach, it’s internal reproach.
Yes, but from the media and governing class, for the most part, not from their own citizens.
It’s a bit more complicated than that. A lot of Europeans look down on Americans, seeing them as backward when it comes to views on race. They believe all or most of America’s race problems are caused by ignorant and intransigent whites. The idea that the same problems will be repeated in Europe never occurs to them, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Yeah, ca. like that. - Even in rather highbrow publications like The Guardian or Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung or DIE ZEIT. Not so much in the swiss NZZ. The Siwss debate Robert Plomin and Charles Murray openly and reasonably. Somehthing that hardly happens in Germany (it does, but rather shy and defensive. The best one in the last years was Max von Tiltzer about race and IQ. His brilliant article is still online at Tichy' Einblick - a moderately off-mainstream German liberal-conservative publication, which intensely cooperates with David Murray).It would be the easiest way out for us Europeans if the root cause of all race problems would be white ignorance in the US. Because then the problem could be solved overseas, and would be none of our business!Replies: @Peter Akuleyev
They believe all or most of America’s race problems are caused by ignorant and intransigent whites.
Non-white immigration to Europe is pure insanity and racial suicide.
Not really. He goes on to say that “among these are …” Jeff didn’t claim that his list was complete. So, the introductory clause is still going to guide what gets added to the list.
True. Distance is nothing now. Sweden’s benefits exert a pull that can be felt in Zimbabwe or Bangladesh. I don’t believe ending the welfare state is the right solution. Why should you refuse to help the genuinely needy in your own country when the problem could be solved by closing the border? It would amount to making no distinction between your own people and alien freeloaders.
The most Denmark or any EU country can do is slow down or postpone the destruction of the entire continent. Europe’s rulers need to start governing on the principle that indigenous Europeans need their own countries, inhabited and ruled by their own people. If not, they will be gradually destroyed by immigration. Even countries like Denmark and Hungary have open borders with the rest of the EU, and their ability to govern themselves is being progressively curtailed by the EU government and EU court rulings.
The Economist: Muslims in Denmark Are a Life-Long Burden on the Budget
While this is true, it seems a bit narrow-minded in terms of the impacts of immigration. If we flicked a switch and replaced say Jeff Bezos with an immigrant he would be classed as ‘productive’ but infact what you’ve done is just increase the population of the US by one extra person without them doing anything productive that somebody else (Let’s pretend that Bezos and Amazon are a net gain for a moment) couldn’t do.
Has the per capita GDP gone up from the presence of immigrant A? Almost certainly no and almost certainly no for the vast majority of ‘net tax payers’. Has that person produced more land? Has that person produced more housing to offset their needs? No.
The truth is that virtually all immigration is a burden to the pre-existing society in terms of resources. The right just focuses on ‘net tax payers’ but this obfuscates far bigger issues and far easier talking points against immigration and in far greater scope.
The numbers of immigrants who are truly essential and produce addition productivity or capital retention is vanishingly small. (And perhaps impossible to even identify)
The reason Denmark turned against immigration is actually quite simple it didn’t immigration was unpopular like everywhere in Western Europe, while anti-immigration parties were at similar levels in Denmark as elsewhere in terms of votes, the Danish Peoples Party managed to get into a coalition government and was given the immigration brief. They succeeded in staving off a lot of immigration in the key period of the late 90s/early 2000s when things turned up with both the internet making dissemination of asylum tricks and the massive wave of Balkaners who were given and abused asylum in many countries created the template which has been abused since. (Rule number of immigration: Immigration begets more immigration through diasporas, through transformation of the low wage economy to become ‘addicted’ to immigration and through the inhibition and displacement of the native population and it’s ability to argue against it) The idea that Sweden gripes about ‘racist’ (There are few places less ‘racist’ in the world) Denmark because it just wants company in misery is quite apparent to most Danes.
In Denmark now there are far fewer immigrants and people descended from immigrants. In Copenhagen it’s the immigrants who are surrounded. The Danes are free to talk amongst themselves in a super majority. There is no ‘immigrant veto’ from having a critical mass of non-Danes everywhere, making people bide their tongue. People freely put up flag poles. But just over the bridge in Malmo…
I’m serious, one of the remarkable things about Copenhagen is just how Danish it is. There is sadly no longer any equivalent in any capital city in Western Europe. As time has gone on Malmo and Sweden more generally has become a useful comparison to keep the policies in place too. Denmark and Sweden had similar rates of immigration until the early 2000s. Sweden has a much larger whole extra generation of mass migration that Denmark more or less doesn’t have. The riots and unrest that goes on in places like Malmo, Gothenburg and even parts of Stockholm is something the Danes can safely point out as problems they’d have if immigration wasn’t tightened when it was. (To add insult to injury the almost entirely ethnic Danish national team is now far better than Sweden even at the height of the Neanderthal-looking Ibrahimovic)
But make no mistake, just because somebody is a ‘net tax payer’ doesn’t mean they aren’t a burden on their host society. The real question is does somebody increase per capita GDP and the vast majority of immigrants don’t. And even among the ones who do, there are some things money just can’t buy, like housing and other public infrastructure that isn’t easily scaled to unnatural growth.
The alternative to citizenship is subjugation. Before we were citizens we were subjects.
If those in power can just simply import millions of people who will vote for them, then there is no longer any such thing as democracy. The people who control the spigot of immigration control the country in perpetuity.
Just consider that the last two presidential elections have been decided by less than 100,000 votes total, and that twice that many people have been illegally entering the United States every single month since President Ron Klain’s inauguration.
Perhaps the proper corollary to “He who says A must say B” is "He who does not wish to say B should not say A".Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @Almost Missouri, @pyrrhus, @Richard B
From Review of Democracy, a very clear statement of where the conventional wisdom is headed, due to Lenin’s “He who says A must say B” reasons.
Personally, I think the essence of sanity is to say: “I say A but not B, because B is disastrous,” but then I’m a crazed extremist. So I would say that, wouldn’t I?
Lenin’s “He who says A must say B”
Personally, I’ve always preferred Kipling’s “If you take the first step, you will take the last!” But no matter, as the sentiment surely predates both Lenin and Kipling.
And yes,
Perhaps the proper corollary to “He who says A must say B” is “He who does not wish to say B should not say A”.
This is the the crux of it. Seemingly inconsequential philosophical concessions build up until horrifying consequences become inevitable. (“No one thinks of winter when the grass is green!” —from that same Kipling poem.)
And in this case, Prof. Kochenov conveniently puts his errors right at the beginning:
he believes citizenship is a “perpetuation of the ideas of aristocracy,” sexism, and racism;
Sex is real. Race is real. And aristocracy is real too. By assuming they don’t exist, and/or do exist but are bad, Prof. Kochenov makes his entire train of subsequent reasoning inevitable, and inevitably wrong.
Presumably, no one here needs convincing that sex and race are real, but aristocracy may be a stretch for people raised amidst the yammering of “democracy” (a word that does not appear in the US Constitution). But aristos is simply the Greek word for “best”. Who wouldn’t want government by the best? Indeed, it is so obvious, it is almost tautological.
Ah, but how do we know who is best? Traditionally, this was decided by combat. Stronger = better = aristos. Since firearms have now empowered anyone who can pull a trigger (still well short of everyone) as compared to the old warrior elite, the combat-determined aristos expanded to include the citizen-soldier, a trend which reached its high-water mark around the middle of last century. Since then, the citizen-soldiery itself has been in decline, while the democracy-concept that they enabled has carried on expanding in a ghost-life unmoored from its underlying reality. This ungrounded concept of “democracy = good” enables delusions like those professed by Professor Kochenov. But he is only saying plainly what many people now believe in a much less articulate way. And yes, this belief is mistaken and will usher in many disasters. Heading off these disasters can ultimately only be done at the source: the false beliefs of equalism. If only Thomas Jefferson had remembered to use the word “in”…
HBD, sexual dimorphism, Nietzsche and freedom aren’t just good ideas, they are literally the antidote to catastrophe.
It makes you wonder what this guy is doing in Europe, a place where countries so cruelly restrict their citizenship. He could practise what he preaches about citizenship of the world and relocate to Mogadishu or Kabul.
I’ve heard all kinds of crazy advice in the British media about staying safe from burglars, e.g. not marking dates on your calendar when you’ll be away, because that’ll tell them when to come back. Think of all the sorrow and hardship a 12-gauge shotgun could prevent.
No, they failed to produce people that are similar in "quality and appeal" to those of the United States. He's trying to disguise genetics as "citizenship", as if it could be changed at the stroke of a pen. Abolishing the concept of citizenship (which is Kochenov's way of saying open the borders) will just reduce white countries to African levels.Replies: @Moses
Somehow, the absolute majority of states in the world failed to produce a citizenship which is similar in its quality and appeal to the citizenship of the United States.
Abolishing the concept of citizenship (which is Kochenov’s way of saying open the borders) will just reduce white countries to African levels.
I think that is the idea.
Once you accept that "All men are created equal," the logical consequence is world Communism. You have to reject the absurd premise from the beginning. All else is cuckservatism and defeat.Replies: @Rob McX, @Ben tillman, @ic1000
“He who says A must say B”
Steve mentioned somewhere that the computer scientist John McCarthy said that maybe Jefferson inadvertently left out a vital word in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, [in] that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…” Quite a difference.
People want to be separate from other races and tribes. Forcing them together by means of immigration won’t change that. All that happens is they go from separating at the macro level to separating at the micro level, i.e. white flight, etc. and all the hardship and expense that entails. No punishment is cruel enough for nation-wreckers like Kochenov.
Michigan city gets ready to inaugurate all-Muslim government
Hamtramck was once heavily Polish. One of the councilors is a Polish convert.
Jan Sobieski’s 1683 victory before Vienna ……………….. undone in Michigan in 2021.
Ed Sheeran should hire this guy to stand next to him on stage.
The most fundamental freedom is not your personal freedom of speech, press, religion, it is the freedom to associate with the people you want, so that can you live in a community with your norms, values, traditions, culture. (We are a social species.)
When you look at the world from the perspective of two, five, one hundred, two hundred states and territories, then all these gains that we associate with the term “citizenship” disappear because as citizenship functions today, it’s basically a tool to instill absolute inequality between the possessors of different statuses under the guise of the promotion of democratic inclusion, liberation, and fairness.
The most fundamental freedom is not your personal freedom of speech, press, religion, it is the freedom to associate with the people you want, so that can you live in a community with your norms, values, traditions, culture. (We are a social species.)
The most fundamental freedom is self-ownership, which applies both to one’s personal self and to any expanded selves that one has become part of through association with others.
Kochenov wants to enslave the best humans and enforce dysgenics (which ultimately means extinction) on the entire human race. He is a nihilistic, genocidal psychopath.
IMO, dysgenics = human extinction.
Feminization of the world means “no differentiating.” Friend/foe. Rich/poor. Polite/rude.
Somehow, the absolute majority of states in the world failed to produce a citizenship which is similar in its quality and appeal to the citizenship of the United States.
No, they failed to produce people that are similar in “quality and appeal” to those of the United States. He’s trying to disguise genetics as “citizenship”, as if it could be changed at the stroke of a pen. Abolishing the concept of citizenship (which is Kochenov’s way of saying open the borders) will just reduce white countries to African levels.
I think that is the idea.
Abolishing the concept of citizenship (which is Kochenov’s way of saying open the borders) will just reduce white countries to African levels.
Perhaps some enterprising hoodlums could stage a smash-and-grab flash mob robbery at Harvard and boost some degrees.Replies: @Rob McX
In fact, I worry that all this is turning Harvard into the college equivalent of a Louis Vuitton handbag or a Bentley, or a Rolex watch: something aspirational people want that’s increasingly valued only for status.
“Police are asking the public’s help to track down some [ahem] hooded males who may be practicing law/medicine/rocket science with their stolen degrees”.
Application by DNA sample would save everyone a lot of time.
Still, the statistical compressors are reaching good levels:
Rather than give up on the Winograd schemas as a test of understanding, a group of researchers from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence decided instead to try to fix some of their problems. In 2019 they created WinoGrande, a much larger set of Winograd schemas. Instead of several hundred examples, WinoGrande contains a whopping 44,000 sentences. To obtain that many examples, the researchers turned to Amazon Mechanical Turk, a popular platform for crowdsourcing work. Each (human) worker was asked to write several sentence pairs, with some constraints to ensure that the collection would contain diverse topics, though now the sentences in each pair could differ by more than one word.
Maybe we can attain JOI artificial girlfriend which still staying a lot below the actual "I".
However, another surprise was in store. In the almost two years since the WinoGrande collection was published, neural network language models have grown ever larger, and the larger they get, the better they seem to score on this new challenge. At the time of this writing, the current best programs — which have been trained on terabytes of text and then further trained on thousands of WinoGrande examples — get close to 90% correct (humans get about 94% correct). This increase in performance is due almost entirely to the increased size of the neural network language models and their training data.
You don’t need crime data. You just need demographics.
Culs-des-sacs. If you're going to use pretentious French, at least do it right. The English is dead end, which is more appropriate for this post anyway.Anyone else struck by how faggoty those neighborhoods look from the sky? It was quite noticeable on the approach to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky airport. The map shows Transparent Court, Delicious Court, and Apple Cider Drive. But the delicious kind of apple cider isn't transparent.
...on the mean culdesacs of Chevy Chase, Lexington, and Scarsdale.
Plural is culs-de-sac in French. Anglophones have been using it for so long that they’re probably justified in dropping the French plural and saying cul-de-sacs.
But a sac can only have one cul! My 9th-grade French teacher, a saucy type, liked to translate it literally, as "ass of the bag".
Plural is culs-de-sac in French.
“And the fact that most reported crimes go unsolved means that some of the crimes being reported in fact may not be crimes.”
That’s a distinct possibility if you live near Jussie Smollett.
In late 60s Britain a former pirate DJ called Simon Dee (not his birth name) was ubiquitous on the BBC. His early evening show sometimes had 18 million viewers – about a third of the entire country. His style was that of a hipper David Frost.
He moved to the commercial ITV in 1970, his show was canceled and, from being perhaps the most high-profile figure in media, he fell almost overnight into total obscurity – so much so that I wonder who he offended.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Dee
Dee fell out with the station management and they terminated his contract after only a few months. There was friction between Dee and David Frost, part-owner of London Weekend, after whose show Dee’s was broadcast. Both were talk shows, and Frost thought that some of Dee’s items would make the shows too similar. Dee felt that Frost was deliberately sabotaging his show. After a bizarre interview with actor George Lazenby, who outlined at length his theories about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the show was dropped.
Hmm. I wonder what those theories were? Frost was a piece of work, and a very successful one – a TV “rebel” in the satire days who knew just how far to go and when to stop, who had power and who didn’t. I often wondered if he was a role model for Tony Blair.
In June 1970, Dee joined his former Radio Caroline boss, Ronan O’Rahilly, to campaign for pirate radio and against the Labour government’s Marine Broadcasting Offences Act, issuing a poster of Prime Minister Harold Wilson dressed as Chinese dictator Mao Tse-tung. Pirate radio remained a political issue and, in the run up to the 1970 general election that summer, Radio Caroline International launched a campaign in support of the Conservative Party, which supported commercial radio. Dee later claimed that there was an Establishment plot against him because of his open opposition to Wilson: government files were later released showing that he was being monitored by the Security Service. Dee also believed that his phone had been tapped because of his opposition to Britain’s mooted membership of the Common Market.
He ended up as a bus driver.
Establishment: “So Perish Those Who Defy Me!”
In his memoir/”novel” Inside Story, Martin Amis tells of a conversation he had about Israel with Hitchens. Amis asks him was there any place that might have made a better homeland for the Jews after WWII. Hitchens replied Bavaria, in a demilitarised and deindustrialised Germany, where the helpless natives would make futile attempts to attack them with poison arrows.
And George F. Will will follow them into oblivion.Replies: @Harry Baldwin, @Chriscom, @Art Deco
Many such cases. When, for example, did you last hear anyone cite something written by Charles Krauthammer? Once all of the glowing obits faded from the front pages, his relevance to the commentary class seemingly vanished. William F. Buckley is another one.
And George F. Will will follow them into oblivion.
I think George, the chinless wonder, achieved oblivion at least five years ago.
…orthopedics’ numbers have barely budged. Less than 2% of those practicing in the field are Black…
Good news for anyone facing a hip replacement, for instance. There’s only a 2 percent chance they’ll panic and have the urge to run out the door when they meet the surgeon and he looks like George Floyd.
And holding a hacksaw and pliers.
Good news for anyone facing a hip replacement, for instance. There’s only a 2 percent chance they’ll panic and have the urge to run out the door when they meet the surgeon and he looks like George Floyd.
…casting a Jewish individual as a puppet master as a puppet master who manipulates national events for malign purposes conjures up longstanding antisemitic tropes about Jewish power…
How do they think it became a “trope”? Some basis in fact, maybe?
Contrarianism is psychologically attractive to some people because it lets them avoid growing up. It’s the personality type of those with Oppositional Defiant Personality Disorder.
Symptoms of Oppositional Defiant Personality Disorder include:
Often loses temper
Is often touchy or easily annoyed
Is often angry and resentful
Often argues with authority figures or for children and adolescents, with adults
Often actively defies or refuses to comply with requests from authority figures or with rules
Often deliberately annoys others
Often blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior
Has been spiteful or vindictive at least twice within the past 6 months.
That’s Hitchens exactly. He just tried to do it in a more suave manner.
Everyone has met people like this. They like to proclaim they’re against The System or The Man.
Gregory Cochran:
https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2017/09/04/guns-germs-and-steel-revisited/
Jared Diamond’s thesis, in Guns, Germs, and Steel, is that regional differences in civilizational achievement are entirely caused by biogeographical factors, while regional differences in ability have had no effect. It isn’t that he believes that there are no such regional differences: he argues that the populations with the fewest achievements are the most intelligent !
In particular, Diamond argues that people in PNG (Papua New Guinea), are significantly smarter than the average bear. “in mental ability, New Guineans are probably genetically superior [my emphasis] to Westerners”: p21. “Modern ‘Stone Age’ peoples are on the average probably more intelligent, not less intelligent, than industrialized peoples. ” p 21.
This is sufficiently odd that readers of GGS often refuse to admit that Diamond ever said it. They’ll deny that it’s even in the book. They tend to replace this meme with another of their own device: you see, hunter-gatherers are innately better at hunting and gathering – at their own way of life – than developed peoples would be. Of course that doesn’t really work either, since innate superiority at obsolete tasks ( a born buggy-whip maker?) doesn’t necessarily translate to modern superiority, or even adequacy.
You only see the single White woman with the one mulatto. Never two, always one so I assume lesson learned.