The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
At this point, Nybbler, I think all the waters are sufficiently muddied that we'll never know who actually did what
After entertaining various noxious allegations and then finding they are unsupported, it is at the very least discourteous to then fall back on invincible ignorance.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
If the US actually pursues going closed-borders-for-everyone, maybe it will be overtaken by China, given the slight national IQ advantage
China still has the strongest handicap that isn't genetic or physical. Communism.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Doesn't work that way. The credit card company can only write off the amount they paid, and any interest they recognized but didn't actually receive. The debtor, on the other hand, has to report all principal, interest, and fees as income. The IRS is the only winner.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
As an American, I have to say I don't give fuck about British royals. We knew they were degenerate retards in 1776, and a couple of popular Queens notwithstanding, why should we believe that has changed, or care?
The only Trump-related thing in the current meatgrinder is years-old nothingburger. Giuffre had a job at Mar-a-Lago; she was one of the girls that Epstein poached. She's talked about a lot of people, including Trump -- and said nothing bad about Trump. If the Democrats were trying to make some hay involving ex-Prince Andrew, they would have used her name. Instead they redacted it so some people wouldn't realize it was her they were talking about.
If you're going to hypothesize that she would have accused Trump if she were still alive, this is just making shit up out of whole cloth. Maybe Jimmy Hoffa would accuse Trump of putting out the hit on him if he were still alive too.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
One of the pet theories I have is pure economics. It is a public knowledge that women make 85% of purchases and they account for 80% of consumer spending.
No, this is just a layer of the justification onion, it's not really a reason for woke media. You can see the justification fail with things like the Gillette me-too ad, female Ghostbusters and other properties that didn't appeal to women either, pushing all the trans stuff in, etc.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Yeah, so at best it's a femdom porno.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Trump is certainly unsuited for Grand Vizier. The Grand Vizier is the one who stays in the background, whispering things into the sultan's ear and manipulating the visible actors from behind the scenes. Like all administrations, Trump's is full of aspirants to that position, but Trump never seems to listen to any of them for long.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
The ones I’d rather not credit are the Chris Rufo types, who are happy to crucify the College Board for anything and everything except the SAT.
Do they deserve such crucification? Even if not, if Rufo was right on this point, he deserves credit.
Oh, and I guess I expect the scientific racists to run with this result, too. Causation be damned.
Assuming you mean actual William Shockley style "color coded by nature" scientific racism and aren't just smearing around slurs towards anyone who believes in HBD... well, the DEI people pretty much handed this to them. They said the test was racist, they got rid of the test, the accepted applicants were dumber, racism works.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
In practice, I'm fairly sure a lot more people believe in polio vaccine than flu vaccine.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Doubt it. Voldemort and Umbridge were existing archetypes. Certainly in the next 500 years someone will write a more current version of them which will supplant them.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
I have no idea what exactly Virginia Giuffre was claiming happened
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
No, "Trump went to Epstein's island" and "Trump was on Epstein's plane" and "Trump was in the files" have all been said before. As far as I know the latter two are technically true and the first is outright false.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
Apparently there will be a vote coming out to release even more, but the docs released so far have been negative for Trump's claims to be innocent of the whole matter.
Because the Democrats are releasing old nothingburgers with enough redacted to make them hard to identify, and people are falling for it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
Everyone here (minus the lizardman constant) thinks vaccines work.
There probably are few here who would claim that no vaccines work, but if referring to the COVID vaccine specifically, that's a lot of lizardmen.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
I believe that in your rush to throw shade, you have confused rationalists with Objectivists and/or Social Darwinists.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
Expect this to get wielded as a cudgel against anything that might possibly be called DEI.
A somewhat deserved one, as DEI advocates have often claimed standardized tests are racist and pushed for test-optional policies. For example this from the NEA, or Inside Higher Ed.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
· Edited 9d ago
Already starting to happen -- see Figure 1 near the end. The top quintile will probably do fine, and the larger schools in the next quintile (which is so far unaffected) can probably "build down" by consolidating campuses and programs. Schools lower than that and not part of a system don't have a clear path to survival; it seems inevitable that many of them will not survive.
I know at least in New York State, community colleges are already in trouble. I don't think any have closed but at least one lost its campus and had to co-locate with the nearby SUNY school.
ETA: See here for about how I expect this to go with most state university systems.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
I find it unlikely the COVID generation has "banana brains". A low-quality 1 to 2 years of high school shouldn't knock the reasonably intelligent back THAT far. You'd expect some drop but not as bad as they're describing. They also note that "Beginning with the cohort entering in 2021, standardized test scores were no longer used in the admissions process." This is probably the major part of the problem -- note that MIT, which one would expect to be more sensitive to this stuff, was among the quickest to return to standardized testing.
Since I am indeed an HBD believer, I find it unlikely we're creating too many more stupid people; that would take serious miseducation at a much younger age, or more dropping of people on their head. Instead, the UC system is probably sorting more poorly, with too many stupid kids ending up in the better schools and some of the smarter kids probably being displaced elsewhere (e.g. lower down in the UC or Cal State system, or to other schools which did not drop standardized testing).
Assuming we don't get a DEI revival when President AOC takes over in 2028, I think what we'll see is less-efficient hiring for a few years, with more of the stupid having to be sorted out in the employment market rather than by college admissions. Or, if the colleges maintain their own standards (which I find less likely) a greater fail-out rate in college.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
The terrorists in Pakistan are, of themselves, Afghans who the Pakistanis paid to cause trouble. Now that the Americans are out, they go back into Pakistan to cause trouble. How wonderfully shortsighted of their government.
Yeah, after the whole Afghanistan thing it's really hard to feel anything but schadenfreude about the Taliban causing trouble in Pakistan.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10d ago
Sanders did not come anywhere near winning the Democratic primary.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10d ago
I think it is a Democratic loss, though a few more victories like this and the Republicans are undone.
My impression is that the usual way government shutdowns end is the Republicans get all the blame and eventually give in, for complete Democratic victory. Here the Republicans still got the blame, but managed not to give the Democrats what they wanted -- which basically was that their over-40 seat minority in the Senate, along with their control of the media (and thus the blame) let them get their legislative priorities accomplished (while the Republicans still can't get theirs done with majorities... which, admittedly, is not entirely the Democrat's doing)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
With a reputable report, whose accusations are confirmed by resignations, showing leftist bias in media, trust in media takes another hit.
As @JTarrou points out, it's gone already (or rather it's split, with the partisans for one side believing the media uncritically, the partisans for the other side assuming it's all lies, and nothing in the middle but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos). As @WhiningCoil noted in a slightly different context, "The goalpost just shifts to them having been correct to do so, because the axiomatic belief is that Trump must be destroyed by any means nessecary." That they were doing this isn't something anyone's going to update on; though it is interesting that they're actually being punished for it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
Only technically western. If you're allowing that you might as well allow Squid Game.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
There was that audience participation remake of The Andromeda Strain...
Geek, MOP, sociopath IS Culture War. It is describing how the Culture War battle is lost by the geeks by the entryist sociopaths.
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