Scenario 1: Decent job, medical benefits, overall sense of worth, expensive televisions

Scenario 2: Bad job, no medical benefits, declining sense of worth, cheap televisions

How many people are taking Scenario 2? https://t.co/t8OYd6fnCU

— Eric Gardner (@ericgardner0) October 18, 2019

But econs and other associated types tell me that it’s better for everyone if we immiserate half our population, even for the immiserated. And they have math to prove it!

Because before math, the real world bows and assumes the shape of the model, of course, never mind all those people with no jobs and no futures. The math!

As I’ve noted before, identity politics and the academic focus on ‘texts’ from which it emerged is uniquely suited to the internet and for keyword-based censorship. The other side is to corral ‘troublesome‘ people into talking in ways more technically amenable to control.

— scientism (@mr_scientism) October 19, 2019

Agreed. Outside of academia, ideas like “privilege” and “toxic masculinity” are probably more harmful than helpful. Regular people just don’t and absolutely never will think that way.

The left believes in the magic power of words, though, because academic types live in a cosmos of words and normal people do not. Hell, I live in a cosmos of words too, so I understand. I probably read more in a day than even most academics do in a month or even a year.

But I also know how to look outside my bubble and recognize that for most of the left, the power to punish and to harm for thoughtcrime and wrongspeak is the real driver of a lot of this, if not nearly all.

Off the wall speculation: If Warren or Sanders is the nominee, Hillary Clinton will jump into the race as a third-party spoiler, “for the good of the country,” and of course split the vote.

She’s already making noises in that direction, and most of the plutocrats would by far prefer to have Trump again rather than Warren or Sanders — or anyone else.

Mozilla Intends to Deprecate OpenSearch.

What a bunch of fucking shit-for-brains assclowns. I can’t wait till Mozilla is dead. What a moronic move that will cause more users to jump ship. Do only total fucking dipshits work there now?

Here’s someone who gets why Mozilla shot themselves in the face, though why they continue to do so makes no sense at all. Path dependence, I guess. They are the smartest people in the room and know they are right! But they are full-ass addlepates.