Month: March 2020

Taiwan

Chill Regular-ass Post

We used to have these things and more. We destroyed them all. And no, it wasn’t just Trump, though he certainly did his part. Every President since Reagan (including Clinton and everyone’s favorite, Obama) played their role in allowing our systems to be gutted.

And now we see the results.

Remote

Chill Regular-ass Post

I predict that when things go back to relatively normal (assuming they do), there is going to be a HUGE pushback against remote work by MBAs and managers. They do not like it — at all. It doesn’t matter that it’s vastly more productive. MBAs are mostly extroverts and like the power. As long as they control the workplace, it’ll never be widely allowed.

No Learning

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The hidden (well, hidden to most) complexity is being brutally revealed. I wish I could say that people would learn some hard lessons out of all this, but they won’t. Mostly, they don’t learn. Just new people take their place over time.

Rebootage

Chill Uncategorized

Another of the few people who understands what is happening. How and why do most people think so linearly? It’s hard for me to do so at this point. I guess I have just trained myself that linear thinking is almost never useful outside of a classroom toy problem, though it is far easier. And of course it’s what is taught in school so it’s all the “educated” can handle.

If there were ever one case where that sort of reasoning is utterly useless, it’s right now.

You think you’re ready for what’s coming. But you’re not ready.

Not Progression

Chill Uncategorized

Yeah. What the fuck is up with that? Have seen many “progressives” claiming this. If the medical system lacks resources, triage choices will be made. Has nada to do with eugenics. That is fucking utterly moronic.

Ideologies dying all around us, too.

C Y

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Naomi Wu bringing the heat. I see why people hate her; she’s a lot like me.

Not the Great Depression

Chill Uncategorized

In about three months or so if we don’t restart the economy, very bad things will happen. People are making analogies to the Great Depression but that’s not likely or valid; far more probable is that it’ll look like what happened to Russia in the 1990s and early 2000s. Russia had somewhere in the neighborhood of two million excess deaths as a result.

The resulting economic fall here will be far worse, and the sociological resiliency to handle it is also just not present. I’d say the excess deaths therefore will be minimum 20 million, and possibly as high as 40 million.

If you think this is sensationalism and idle speculation on my part, just wait. I’ll be right and you’ll be wrong. Though it won’t matter much. I’d rather be wrong.

Non-Constructive

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How Much Should the Public Know About Who Has the Coronavirus?

“Experts” want to keep data to themselves so they can (what they see as) constructively lie. This always backfires, though, once people discover they are lying. Then they are not trusted anymore. How does this help, exactly? It has not so far.

I wonder how much of this lying is just to conceal lack of expertise rather than their stated goals, anyway.