Day: October 21, 2021, 3:46 PM

High Traffic

Chill Regular-ass Post

This is a really strange and interesting phenomenon, how many white mostly upper-middle-class women that most traffickers would not want to be anywhere near believe they are “almost trafficked” 3-4 times a week.

This is a progressive version of conspiracy theorizing, I believe. It makes one feel important and desirable. (“I’m so lovely and wonderful traffickers try to take me all the time.”) It’s also quite pitiful and sad and is another bit of data that makes me wonder how we’ve managed to go so wrong as a society.

DS10

Chill Regular-ass Post

True. The term “Deep State” became verboten when Bannon and Trump started using it. Prior to that it was a very common and accepted term and thought structure oft-discussed by the very people who later labeled it a conspirary theory.

Of course there is a deep state. In any long-lived nation there always is, without exception.

Not the Best Airline

Chill Uncategorized

Quants are weird, man. They are the only people in the world who will deny their own lived experiences (if they crawl out of their cave at all) in favor of the “data.”

“I’m not starving, some government report says there is plenty of food!” I think these types are the source of a lot of the anti-human sentiment.

Shelve the BS

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What the hell happened to Dean Baker? I guess everyone is wrong sometimes, but all he has to do is go to a fucking store to see that he is full of bullshit.

I’ve been to grocery stores lately where entire shelves are empty. Just not a thing on them. Other stores have similar shortages. Why do these “data” types never believe any real-world evidence and only what their usually-bogus quantifications tell them?

This is a persistent problem with academics, even ones that I like. But just because I like you doesn’t mean I won’t call BS when you’re spouting it. That’s why I am such a popular guy.