domain:firsttoilthenthegrave.substack.com
Pretty typical. The default rate on a chick's "rain check" is much closer to 100% than it is 0%.
Young women will commonly flake and ghost. If you even slightly call them out for their lack of reliability, they'll only turn the tables on you and accuse you of being some combination of possessive and judgmental, if they respond at all. Hence why it's so important to have other prospects in the depth chart and to diversify your portfolio.
Women, especially young women, import little to "their word."
When I have a plans with a chick, I remind myself that I don't have a date until she sets foot in my place.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
11mo ago
Yes, we Québécois receive electricity and healthcare as government services. To be frank, I don't know why you'd do it any other way.
The same reason one does anything as a private service: because one believes that either it's not a proper function of government, or that the private market can provide the service better. Pretty straightforward tbh.
No_one
11mo ago
It's not so simple. Also those minor details - e.g. such as that one nuclear submarine could EMP half the globe-
No_one
11mo ago
Also traffic was down in general on the weekends, which surprised me.
Not me. Stuff to do, time to go out, visit people etc.
Still, odd. I doubt that many people are looking at porn at work, it's probably more related to people out of the workforce..
Amadan
"I would put a screwdriver through your eyeballs if I could"
11mo ago
It's right at the top of the page:
Posting links that could be summarized as 'Boo outgroup!' Basically, if your content is 'Can you believe what Those People did this week?' then you should either refrain from posting, or do some very patient work to contextualize and/or steel-man the relevant viewpoint.
Once again, the rules are not an algorithm where we are required to strictly enforce everything that's written, exactly as written, and nothing that isn't. That's not how it works.
You don't like that I didn't mod a comment you think is bad. Duly noted.
No_one
11mo ago
Put scare quotes around "respectable" next time. And yeah, poverty only even correlates with a fraction of the problem.
I'm giving you a downvote because that's really what people at Harvard profess to believe and what polite society seems to believe and pretending it's not so is rather odd.
And you say "since 1930s"? No. The 2020 jump leaves us worse than 1937-1939, but it's still below the start of the 30s and nearly 20% below the peak. The first big jump in homicide was over the 1900s through 1920s (following a long secular decline), and then the mid 30s through mid 50s was a decline again.
We've gone over this. Homicide isn't nearly as lethal now as then. Thus having the same rate now implies perhaps 50-100% higher rate of violence, or more.
Ceteris paribus, far fewer people admitting to having been victimized is evidence of fewer victims!
Has the survey wording stayed the same ? Then yes. But we all know how is it with politicised measures.
TheGodhead
11mo ago
default rate on a chicks rain check closer to 100%
Maybe for that date itself but if I suggest rescheduling the vast majority of the time they do show up, is this not your experience or do you just never try to reschedule?
Disclaimer: this is a serious test for shady thinking. My apologies. Consider this a strawman, and please try to confront a steelman.
Note: see disclaimer above. This is shady thinking in note format.
EDIT: This is mostly in response to https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/why-is-the-academic-job-market-so particularly thinking about Scott analyzing how the academic job market actually works. I bet Scott's analysis is super annoying to many of those in the market, and likewise super satisfying to others. My thesis is that the others are rationalists and the many are not.
idea
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rationalists explain foreign things from "first principles"
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they liken themselves to newton and hooke, exploring new frontiers
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for better or worse
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to the experts in the field, they are cringe and dilettante, sneer worthy
the problem
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within every field, there are certain "touchy areas"
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everyone understands the truth but pretends not to
a bigger problem
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rationalists home in on touchy areas
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rationalists can't "understand the truth but pretend not to"
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rationalists "say the quiet part out loud"
the solution
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demonize the rationalists
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sneer at the rationalists
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how cringe, what baby
rxzp
11mo ago
I mean, if someone you loved was depressed, it would be obvious that you can help them by being kind to them, patient with them, and treating them with understanding. The same concept applies to the way you treat yourself; how you talk to yourself, how you react to your own failures and successes.
Just a suggestion for a supplemental strategy on top of your other good ideas, like tracking sleep and exercise.
Amadan
"I would put a screwdriver through your eyeballs if I could"
11mo ago
I have made very similar arguments before, and I remain optimistic that Jews (and East Asians) will reconcile themselves to whiteness in due time, to the incalculable benefit of all involved.
Are you going to redefine "whiteness" the way it's already been redefined by the woke? Because it sounds like you are proposing not any coherent kind of "white" nationalism, but "ethnicities with high average IQ" nationalism.
I remain bemused by your campaign for a kinder, gentler white nationalism that will be inclusive of Jews and Chinese.
Eetan
11mo ago
Again, do you think that White Christian White House staffers would defend your interests and would see you as their "ally"?
Eetan
11mo ago
So, if Joe Biden fired all Jews and replaced them with good Catholics, as good Catholics as himself and his family, your culture would be protected and you would be happy?
You in 1923:
These Jewish bolsheviks are horrible, this life is unbearable.
If only they were fired and replaced with Christians, if some good Christian man was in charge of the Party, someone who was raised by pious Christian mother, perhaps even someone who studied in Christian school, things would be so much better!
Eetan
11mo ago
But I guess to some people it makes sense somehow?
It makes sense in tribal/clannish society, where tribes/clans stick together and help each other (in other words, a default setting for mankind.)
In this world, if you go to royal court, kneel before courtier, kiss the hem of his robe and humbly present your petition (with appropriate bribe) it makes a big difference whether the courtier is of the same tribe as you - difference whether your petition is passed further and maybe even reaches the king, or whether it goes straight into garbage dump.
As you said, we are not in this world, "White Christians" are not a tribe. If someone greeted White Christian White House staffers: "Hello, my white brothers in Christ!", their answer would be not "Welcome, brother!", but "ARREST THIS RACIST!"
Quantumfreakonomics
11mo ago
WNBA Coach Becky Hammon Suspended.
The WNBA? Do I care? Does anyone care? Well no, but the twist here is that Becky Hammon is (supposedly) actually good. She was a top assistant in the NBA for years under legendary coach Gregg Popovich, and she has gotten numerous head-coaching interviews with NBA teams, some as recently as this month. Every year when the coaching carousel starts, we are treated to at least one thinkpiece asking why Becky Hammon hasn't gotten an NBA head-coaching job yet. So what exactly happened to tarnish her sterling reputation?
"I was asked if I planned my pregnancy," Hamby wrote. "When I responded, 'no,' I was then told that I 'was not taking precautions to not get pregnant.' I was being traded because 'I wouldn't be ready and we need bodies.' I planned to play this season, and I have expressed my desire to play this season. I have pushed myself throughout my entire pregnancy and have continued to work out (basketball included) on my own and with the team staff -- even on days where it was uncomfortable to walk, only to be inaccurately told that 'I was not taking my workouts seriously.'"
"Season-ending pregnancy" strikes again.
It appears Miss Hammon's mistake was taking the WNBA seriously. She has experience in the NBA, a real league, where players are expected to do whatever it takes to win. She thought the same would be true in the women's league. In reality, the WNBA is a loss-leader. It's PR. It's advertising. It's sole purpose is to produce good media coverage and to get little girls interested in basketball. WNBA players aren't paid enough to ignore labor violations (Jordan Poole got a $140 million contract extension shortly after this). The audience of the WNBA doesn't care about women's sports or winning, they care about "women's sports"™. It should be obvious that the core idea of "women's sports"™ is "respect women"™, and you can't "respect women"™ by telling them when they can or can't become pregnant.
anti_dan
11mo ago
I understand your objection, but I think Diamond's book is one of those that taken as how he states it fits into the not even wrong category. You read the book, and it all sounds very science-y and convincing. But then you think about it again and it occurs to you that, hmm wait a minute, how can you even suppose to think about what a "wild" pig, chicken, horse etc actually is? The fact is the ostensibly wild populations of these things are hopelessly interbred with escaped chickens and horses from the early and current selectively bred populations, and its not easily done determinable when breeding really started.
Then you did down into things like his zebra arguments, and they are just obviously rubbish because there are multiple instances of Europeans going to Africa in the 1800s and early 1900s and remarking on how easy to break zebras are, and it seems his zebra-horse comparison is actually like 180 degrees from what actually was the difficulty level. And then you have to think to yourself, "huh, if he got this super easy thing so wrong, how much else is just him spinning nonsense?" And then even small inquiries indicate yes. And your logical conclusion is delving into the rest is simply a massive waste of time and energy.
Eetan
11mo ago
Update of previous culture war post in May 1 thread.
The contentious marker was removed without any ceremony and all dwindled into nothingness.
Maybe other more cinematic events, like New York Subway Thunderdome fight, stole the limelight, maybe the whole thing was just too obscure to turn into major culture war battlefield.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is still dead and so are most of causes she dedicated her life for. Causes like communism, that moved hundreds of millions and turned the Earth asunder, are now just forgotten or reduced to cosplay attire.
As will happen to all of us, as will happen to every cause we hold dear.
hydroacetylene
11mo ago
‘White Christians’ are a tribe, they just don’t call themselves that(they prefer the term evangelical). If you presented a petition to an evangelical functionary while making it clear that you are also an evangelical(or some kind of serious Christian believer), you are more likely, all other things being equal, to have that position granted.
Now of course evangelicals aren’t as overrepresented among powerful functionaries as Jews. But I have no doubt that if you needed a favor from mike pence, being able to give off the important shibboleths of being a Christian true believer would go a long way towards getting him to listen.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
11mo ago
To the extent that certain parts of the “Woke” coalition recognize that East Asians are “spiritually white” or “white-adjacent”, this is yet another example of a “The Woke Are More Correct Than The Mainstream” moment. And certainly there is a storied history within the race-realist philosophical/anthropological tradition of recognizing Asians as one of the “noble races”. White identitarians’ relationship with Asians has always been somewhat bipolar, with one extreme (such as our dearly-departed Sinophobe @Lepidus) viewing Asians as a bug-like overly-communitarian race, incompatible with free-spirited Europeans, and the other extreme seeing them as a brother race, every bit as capable of building and sustaining glorious civilizations as Europeans are. I lean strongly toward the latter extreme, as do many others. This isn’t some totally quixotic effort in which I’m going it alone.
As for recognizing Jews as white, this has pretty much been the normal mainstream view, even among race realists, for the majority of human history. The early American Renaissance conferences featured a number of staunchly white-identitarian Jews, who were unfortunately later sidelined by the more hardcore Jew-skeptical faction of the movement.
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
11mo ago
I want this, but for clamping down on safetyism-as-excuse-to-do-nothing; I think directly pricing in the cost of inaction or prohibition on certain activities (through policies and otherwise) would be a great way to force the paranoid to have to directly pay for it, limiting the moral hazard inherent in the concept of safetyism by attaching a price to it, paid to those affected as a redistributive tax on delaying development.
I’ll have more to say about this later since I don’t currently have time to make this more coherent, but know that I believe this concept is sound at its core when it comes to things that don’t have direct and obvious costs; or in other words, society should have a hard limit on how much hysteria it is allowed to exercise.
jeroboam
11mo ago
One thing that people hate, of course, is the name "rationalism". It's conceited. Doesn't everyone think they are rational? What makes rationalists so special?
Relevant Hanania has a good answer to this question, defining rationalism thusly:
"Rationalism: The belief that fewer topics and ideas in the areas of politics, morality, ethics, and science should be considered taboo or sacred and not subject to cost-benefit analysis.
I think this gets at what you are saying. "Rationalism" is primarily about the ability or desire to examine things that others consider taboo.
This is also how a rationalist lay person can make insights and connections that a scientist with decades of training cannot. The taboos in academia are so strong that there are low-hanging fruit everyone. Infamously, HBD has great explanatory power which is completely tabooed inside the academia.
Now, in academia, does everyone really "understand the truth but pretend not to"? I don't think so. People's ability to self-deceive is very strong. For every person in the social sciences who secretly believes in HBD, there are 10 blank-slaters. Social conformity bias shapes beliefs. It's just less powerful in rationalists, whose lack of conformity also makes them irritating.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
11mo ago
That is far from the biggest problem with using the word Aryan. The biggest problem is that approximately everyone will instantly pattern-match you as an anti-Semite at least, and a Nazi at worst.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
11mo ago
Well yes, that’s obviously true, but I’m pointing out why @SecureSignals specifically, who demonstrably is not concerned with being pattern-matched as an anti-Semite, would still be better off eschewing the term for his own purposes.
Supah_Schmendrick
11mo ago
If Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity mean anything
But we know they do not. We know they are nice-sounding mouth-noises that cover for rank in-group tribal advocacy (or, in other words, morally-loaded but vague marketing buzz-labels). So why bother to continue to engage with the concept on its own terms? Why buy into the marketing materials instead of the actual meat of the policy decisions the marketing is designed to cover for?
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
11mo ago
Nuclear weapons were basically a Jewish science project give to Whites
On the assumption they'd be used to destroy Nazi Germany. And the funding for implementation came from Europeans, without which Jewish physics expertise is useless.
And what have Jews given in return? Just what are these cultural contributions we're talking about? We got multiculturalism, mass immigration, MindGeek and Tinder. We get Blackrock promoting ESG, we get the NYT and media broadly stoking anti-white hatred (with their wildly diverging treatment of white-on-black vs black-on-white killings), we have Disney pushing everything but white men. We have the ADL shamelessly promoting Jewish nationalism and denigrating white nationalism.
Outside the hard sciences, where they provided a lot of useful work - polio vaccines for instance, Jews have had profoundly negative effects on the West. They comprehensively work to transform the Western World to fit their preferences of an open, cosmopolitan society and snaffle up most of the elite positions in said society, while playing a divide-and-conquer game with newly imported minorities and the old majority. This is not advantageous to Europeans, who lose the benefits of homogenous, high trust communities and a good chunk of elite positions. Consider how many people weren't born due to ideas like feminism which was heavily promoted by Jews or 'overpopulation' circulated by people like Ehrlich.
From Sontag:
If America is the culmination of Western white civilization, as everyone from the Left to the Right declares, then there must be something terribly wrong with Western white civilization. This is a painful truth; few of us want to go that far.... The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine ballets, et al, don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone—its ideologies and inventions—which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads.
According to journalist Mark M. Goldblatt, Sontag later made a "sarcastic retraction, saying the line slanders cancer patients.
Or Barbara Spectre in Sweden:
I think there is a resurgence of anti-Semitism because at this point in time Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural, and I think we are going to be part of that transformation which must take place. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies the once were in the last century. Jews are going to be at the center of that. It's a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are now going into a multicultural mode and Jews will be resented because of our leading role. But without that leading role, and without that transformation, Europe will not survive.
Noel Ignatiev writes that he merely wants to abolish the category of whiteness, yet I doubt he'd be so enthusiastic if we wanted to eradicate Jewishness (merely as a category though, never mind about the weakness it induces in the group of individuals after having their identity dissolved.) Obviously having your identity is beneficial to the group, why else would identities even exist?
A large chunk of the Jewish cultural intelligentsia has a deep-seated hatred of whites and don't even bother to hide it. Treating people who openly hate you as friends is ridiculously silly. That's what we've been doing for decades and it isn't working out well. Consider the WW2 veterans who are inconceivably bitter about the society they fought for (there's a whole book of letters, The Unknown Warriors, from UK veterans where they mostly despair at the transformation their country has undergone, how the values they were raised under have been demolished).
Of course, I'll give the standard 'not all Jews are working to undermine to remain the remnants of Western Civilization'. But consider that not all whites participated in pogroms, Crusades or Nazism. Sweden isn't going to be spared its 'inevitable cultural transformation', despite hardly ever doing anything to anger Jews. These large-scale conflicts are totalizing, they do not suffer nuance. Consider what happened to the whites who were sympathetic to Dessalines and remained in Haiti after he won the war.
If anyone wants links to back up my points, then I can provide them with sources.
The idea that any given demographic should have the same number of slots in any given position of power based on their representation in the overall population is dumb, whether you're talking about Jews or blacks.
Jews aren't overrepresented, they're just represented. White people may make up a majority of the USA population, but a big chunk of those are useless or stupid and so don't count. If you look at an AP math class in New York and compare that to the makeup of White House staffers, you'll see a more realistic comparison of Jews to whites.
White people and Jews are not the same kind of race. They're wholly different zoom levels, different layers on the cladistic tree of humanity. If white people are a kingdom then Jews are a genus. Jews have way more in common with the average Jew than whites have with the average whites. Whites include people from all corners of Europe in the same category for some stupid reason, Jews only count a single insular subgroup. If Jews are a race, then Anglo-Americans descended from people who lived in Ulster but aren't descended from Irish stock should also be a race. And if those Anglo-Hibernian Americans are counted as their own race, you will see a truly shocking overrepresentation among US Presidents (shocking if you assume that every European ethnicity should be equally likely to be President, which is a weird assumption).
Groups are different. White House staffers are not recruited by lottery. It is normal for their racial makeup to be biased one way or another by the makeup of the sorts of people who would apply for those positions. Also "white people" are a fever dream invented by racist nutjobs and everyone needs to stop pretending that "white people" exist. They don't.
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