Experiments with open borders don’t always work out.

Sweden’s Bråvalla music festival cancelled next year after sex attacks.

If it’s racism to observe that certain cultures treat women much, much worse than others, then I am a racist and proud to be. The left has made a huge, incalculably large mistake in supporting the rights of refugees and economic migrants over the rights of women. And yes, they are in conflict often as we see here.

Notice in every media article the provenance of the rapists and assailants is unmentioned. But that is of course a glaring omission that only highlights the issue.

Fellow liberals can pretend — will pretend unto the demise of their own culture and institutions as we see here — that everyone always is exactly identical, but that is not how the real world works.

Expect much more of this sort of thing across much of Europe where large numbers of economic migrants (most are not refugees in the sense that the UN and others use the word) have been taken in. In some cities in Europe, it will not be safe for women to be on the streets alone in the near future. In some cities, it already is not.

One reason I do not align with the liberal coalition though I am far to the left of almost all of them in many ways is that I absolutely do not support the abridgments of the rights or liberties of women already resident in one place so that economic migrants can assert their own culture’s rights to assault and demean them.

And yep, for me this has nothing to do with race — I do and will treat the same every Chad and Brock in every frat house in the country.

One thing I love though is Automator on the Mac.

Every OS should have a tool like this.

Makes other OS automation tools look like a complete joke.

People have wondered why I fucking hate Matt Yglesias and people like him.

Well, this is why I fucking hate Matt Yglesias and people like him:

Matt Yglesias is the epitome of the filter-bubbled liberal who has absolutely no idea of anything outside of Washington D.C., and it shows in everything he writes.

Yes, sometimes, he is accidentally right. “Sometimes” and “accidentally” ain’t good enough.

Good sentence from Tyler Cowen, someone with whom I normally disagree.

Once you understand endogeneity, it should come as not a huge surprise that “the candidate you want” so often ends up resembling “the candidate you don’t want” more than you had expected.

The system tends to produce people like Macron, and even if someone is not like Macron, they tend to become more like Macron than expected when in office (see Hollande the “socialist” for an example).

Finally got real internet again:

Yep, that is our home connection.

Wait, this is real?

The people responsible for this 100% real abomination of political messaging all think universal health care is unrealistic and uninspiring pic.twitter.com/Kcls1l74Pk

— Will 🐋 Menaker (@willmenaker) July 5, 2017

I thought this was a parody. It couldn’t be real. But it is.

Democrats plan to never win another election I see.

If you are ever put on a so-called performance improvement plan at work, just quit.

It’s not to improve your performance, it’s to give them an excuse to fire you with no blowback.

Just as the surest sign in the corporate world that something is going to happen is if HR or management holds a meeting claiming it won’t, a PIP just means that the only performance they are going to improve is their efficiency in firing you.

It looks like self-driving cars will be like global warming: there will be legions of people (as there are now) lined up to tell you it’ll never happen, meanwhile it is happening and will continue to happen.

Self-driving cars are a done deal.

Strangely enough, many of the self-driving car doubters are claiming the impossibility of ideas and applications that are already being used in the real world every day.

That I just can’t explain.

Typical STEM grad nonsense.

I see this sort of talk from STEM grads all the time — that their degrees are the only ones with value, and that they are the only ones who have any chance of getting a job. What’s funny is that the average STEM grad is almost invariably the most clueless person in the room about anything not directly related to their limited area of focus — and they have also have no inkling of just how very incompetent and ill-informed they are. I do like listening to them for the comedic value, though, depending on my mood.

Meanwhile, even if you just focus on the financial aspect (which is in itself a problem):

And this. And this.

The narrative that any degree in the humanities is useless and bad has nothing at all to do with reality — it is that humanities degrees are threatening because they lead to the examination of societal problems and ways of being that many STEM grads wish we could just not think about.

STEM of course is vital to society. But so are people who know things about philosophy, about sociology, about history, about art, about music, and all the other myriad fields that make STEM grads whine.

Smartphones ruined the internet.

Not only, but they were the largest single factor.

Was it worth it? Not to me.

No, no, no. The amount of military understanding Twitter-folk have could not be revealed even with a scanning tunneling electron microscope.

A “show of force” is a military exercise. You almost always (cannot think of any exceptions, really) want the opposing power that is the reason or the cause of the show of force to be aware of the exercise, for two reasons:

1) So that there aren’t any mistakes, such as accidentally starting a war if one side doesn’t realize it’s not actually an invasion or an attack.

2) So that the other side can observe and see how imposing and how prepared and how effective your military in fact is.

Military exercises are dangerous — both to the side conducting the exercise and for everyone else.

So yes, Twitdiots, we should just do something that might appear to be an invasion or attack on North Korea. That sounds like an awesome idea!

Fuck.

Strange that so many people get so angry at Chris Arnade for doing something that journalists should’ve been doing 10 or 20 years ago.

The truth, though, is the most offensive and most triggering concept of them all.

I was reading this article on Marketwatch.

Not bad, for that site. Gets many things wrong, is very shallow, gets the causation backwards a few times of various realities of the world. Typical Marketwatch fare. No problem. It’s about average for them.

I know, I know — never read the comments. But this was the first one:

The entire comment is filled with such calumny, incomprehension and resentment that it almost seems to be a parody. Almost. But it’s not.

You can’t even refute something like that as it has nothing to do with truth, with the actual world. It’s just an amorphous exclamation of antipathy and odium such that there is no counterargument.