100% true https://t.co/6p6kQdluLp
— Milena Rodban (@MilenaRodban) March 10, 2020
Fun for the upper middle class and above, but can’t forget for the middle class and lower it’s to make sure they are in lifetime peonage and thus controllable.
Month: March 2020
Virality
Somehow liberalism moved from mobilizing to winning World War 2 to 'we can't stop doing anything to stop a pandemic because rights.' This is because most liberals are actually libertarians and confuse liberty with license.
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) March 10, 2020
Most liberals aren’t really libertarians or anything coherent ideologically at all, but rather march along with whatever propaganda has been squirted into their heads by interested parties.
It was greatly revealing to see so many of them avouch that basic sanitary precautions were all in fact racism. Until people close to them geographically started getting sick, anyway.
No Liege
If you ever doubted that paid sick days and paid medical leave and universal health insurance were smart *economic* policies, I hope these last few weeks have clarified that for you.
— Michael Linden (@MichaelSLinden) March 9, 2020
This just shows that something I’ve been saying for years is true: many, many people care far more about power than profit, and having the ability to lord over their lowly subordinates is far more important than any money in their bank account.
The evidence for that is everywhere. Most companies could make far more with fairer policies to workers, but then they could not dominate and manipulate them like puppets.
Developling
Language skills are a stronger predictor of programming ability than math knowledge.
I could’ve told you this. I can do programming. It’s not something I enjoy, but it’s not impossible for me like math is. I’d never want to be a full-time developer because I despise debugging, but it’s a job I could do if I wanted to enough.
I could never even pass most math classes. Totally different things. Most programing is like talking to a computer. You just have to figure out what to tell it and it’ll do it. Math is like looking at a million things that look exactly identical and being expected to know somehow (magic? crystal ball?) how they relate or how the million things that are identical are secretly somehow different. No idea how people do the latter while the former is comparatively easy for me.
IYI Aye
One thing Kahneman got right is that people are "bad intuitive statisticians".
But was very wrong to think that's a flaw, and more wrong to try to correct it.
Statistics is unintuitive for a reason. And we've survived because of it. https://t.co/A97PrL7EMH
— Harry Crane (@HarryDCrane) March 9, 2020
Which is where the technocrats went wrong and always go wrong. Too many IYIs, not enough sense.
Mark To
Same. I have a lot more money to spend when everyone says, “Only crazy people would buy right now!”
That’s when I buy.
OK Boomer OK
[CORONAVIRUS: huge threat to old people, little threat to young people]:
We must transform our ENTIRE society and global workforce to prevent this.
[CLIMATE CHANGE: huge threat to young people, little threat to old people]:
You want us to do what? Take the bus? Shut up.
— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) March 9, 2020
Another 100% accurate tweet.
No Diff
Want to know why those under 35 don't trust either party? It's because there is no real difference between them.
Ie. Democrats want to make a Republican oligarch head of the world bank and one of the guys who destroyed the economy in 2008 head of the treasury. https://t.co/CQxpW0AH0Y
— Adam Christensen (@AC4Congress2020) March 9, 2020
That’s it right there. Biden? Trump? What’s the difference. And, no, it’s not kids in cages. Obama/Biden had that going on, too, but they were at least nice enough to put the parents in there with them.
Timer
US markets are on track for worst day in a decade.
These are my times, people! Wooooo!
Yes, that might be a little insenstive but it’s hard to be sensitive when you’re going to make a boatload of money. Just ask Jamie Dimon.
Civility
"Maybe if you were nicer, I would have lived up to my stated values"
— White liberal proverb
— Andray (@andraydomise) March 9, 2020
Pretty much.
Experts Are Mostly Useless Most of the Time
Speech-language pathologist here. You’ve nailed it. To my ear, reconstructing sentences in real time to manage dysfluency is exactly what’s happening, and Biden is doing it very well under incredibly demanding circumstances.
— Cathy Rasmussen (@CQCues) March 8, 2020
Ahahahaha! Look at this horseshit Biden supporters are now spewing. Yes, Biden has a stutter. But if you look at how he spoke even eight years ago, he didn’t seem to forget what day it was or where he was. These issues are not the result of a stutter.
As if it’s really revolutionary to think a 77-year-old man might be having some signs of cognitive decline. Jesus fuck these people are bullshitters extraordinaire. I don’t care what this “speech-language pathologist” wants to lie about here. Watch videos of Biden from 10 years go and watch anything of his from now — it’s a world of difference (and loss of function).
This is why I fucking distrust experts, always. They will lie to you to get what they want and expect you to bow to their expertise. Even the DNC had sent memos discussing Biden’s cognitive decline. It’s not any sort of secret.
Boom Later
Why don’t we panic about climate change like we do coronavirus?
The only people whose panic has any real impact are Boomers (and some Gen-Xers) and they mostly don’t care about climate change as it’s only going to kill their kids and grandkids and not them. So, they do not give a fuck.
Techno Crap
— Ari Schulman (@AriSchulman) March 6, 2020
Amazing how quickly the centrist types switched from one to the other. Technocrat nerd culture can’t handle something like Covid-19, which I’ve been saying all along. Their minds just don’t work that way. They are not smart people, just “well-educated.” Non-linearity and exponentiality completely shatter their half-assed heuristics for how the world works.
Know what I did today? Bought more stocks. I can’t predict the bottom, but I can tell when some things are cheap. So what if it goes down another 20% or 30% after this? I’ll just buy more at an even better price, make my cost basis even lower.
It’s fun not being a technocrat goofus.
Deep Joy Removal Service
Separate of the Covid-19 pandemic, which is a different issue, what is with the deep pleasure that many “progressives” get out of cataloging all the joys of life that they’ll be forced to take away from everyone?
Demonizing travel, finding new and innovative ways to persecute the disabled, foisting fake food on everyone, etc. This isn’t an accident. These people, and there seem to be quite a lot of them, get some sort of deep delight and even elation out of making other people have demonstrably worse lives. They frickin’ love it, in other words.
I still cannot figure out why they are how they are, but this tendency is one of the main reasons I reject the dead ideologies of progressivism and liberalism.
Warren Gone
Yes this. Some of the anger at Warren campaign comes from people who wanted her to be President and saw her making a series of disastrous decisions. https://t.co/PoGX5DPZxp
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) March 7, 2020
I’m one of those people. I thought she’d be more effective than Bernie as president. I think Bernie, if elected, has maybe a 30% chance of getting much done. I think Warren had maybe a 60% chance. I think Biden has a 0% chance as he’ll never be president.