Day: May 2, 2020, 10:37 PM

NoToo

Chill Regular-ass Post

#metoo! #believallwomen!

That all went right out the window, didn’t it, the minute someone lower-class accused the Democrat’s prochain roi of assault? Predictable but still absurd.

The Experts We Deserve

Chill Regular-ass Post

Unfortunately I did not save the tweet and now it’s lost to the mists of time, but I saw someone two or three days ago saying that we should not prepare for tail risks because the nature of the risk is unknown.

This wasn’t some random mook. It was an “expert” of some stripe.

And all I have to say about that is: FUCKING IDIOTIC. It made me so angry at the time I could not even write about it.

Of course, they were talking about the pandemic, which was in fact a known and nearly-inevitable risk, so they started off wrong and it did not get any better from there. The point is not to prepare explicitly for every tail risk, but to build resilience and (as Nicholas Nassim Taleb calls it) anti-fragility into systems to allow them to much more easily endure those tail risks.

To paraphrase Charles Babbage, I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that allows someone to think that because tail risks are unpredictable that we should do no preparation for them.

These are our “experts,” Fortuna help us.

Pet Moron

Chill Uncategorized

Everyone during the pandemic is coming out of the woodwork with their pet moronic project that has nothing at all to do with Covid-19, its causes, or effects.

The “progressives” are really pushing hard now against eating meat. Disgusting asceticism is appealing to all too many. The “progressives” aren’t as bad as the conservatives, but it seems they do want to vie for the crown of biggest shitheels.

Just Wrong

Chill Uncategorized

That’s not even close to true. Meat would only be mildly more expensive if you did these things, especially if you did not allow monopolies and all profits to go to the top 1%.

For instance, when I was a kid my family — when they had money — would buy a 1/4 of a cow and keep it in a freezer. I literally lived next to the field the cow was raised in. It had only a few cows in it and they were treated humanely.

Yet, it was still much cheaper than buying the same meat from a grocery store and the farmer made a good profit on it — and I know this for a fact because the farmer was my uncle (no, we did not get any sort of family discount at all).

Meat would be more expensive if you required the plutocrats to do the right things, but in an even better system for everyone it wouldn’t be.

Cold But Effective

Chill Regular-ass Post

No arrest. Just shoot and kill. This is the only correct response when terrorists armed with semi-automatic weapons locked and loaded show up threatening people. Clear the building, then kill every single one of them.

Arresting them means they get out of jail in a day. Killed means no one ever pulls any shit like that again.