Clowns

Quite In

Chill Annoying, Clowns

It was hellish. At least half the reason Bernie Sanders never made it past a primary is that too many Millennial women equated his very existence for some reason with an unforgivable slight from a past boyfriend of theirs.

Contrary to popular opinion, inceldom exists among women. More than anyone admits. It doesn’t quite look like it does in men (and is less violent, though even among men violent inceldom is very, very rare) but feminism basically became full incel over the last decade-and-a-half. Too many women grew up and realized they were not in fact the specialest girl after all and never recovered from that insight.

And for those reasons as well as its weird worship of radical Islam, contemporary feminism is quite shit.

Not So Rosy

Chill Annoying, Clowns

This is not at all a good comparison at all so you deserve the wrath. It is intellectually dishonest and it hides more than it reveals — though it employs all the usual nonsense of denying that anything is now worse than it was in the past. The same tired, wrong arguments get trotted out every time:

1) Houses are bigger now! Who gives a crap. I can’t buy a fraction of a house.

2) Interest rates are lower. This matters some, but the down payment is still huge and lower interest rates still might mean that you pay more over time because you have more principal to pay off. And obviously, it misrepresents affordability by changing the standard by which you measure it. It also ignores renters, which are ~30% of the population. Renters don’t really benefit from lower mortgage rates, and with house prices shooting up, more people become renters thus leading to higher rent. QED.

Another relevant factor that these “everything is so super-duper rosy” types ignore: Household size has changed dramatically since 1980. This matters a lot as there are far more single people now, households are a lot smaller, but house sizes are increasing. This means that smaller households have a more difficult time purchasing anything at all.

I knew people in the 1990s who bought large homes with one person working a blue-collar job in medium-size markets (so not rural) that now would have no hope of purchasing the smallest condo available (much less house) in those same markets working the same job.

I’m not sure what the major malfunction of the people who trot out graphs like that is. They can’t see the obvious, no matter how many people show it to them. They must not want to see.

Backdoor NIMBY

Chill Clowns, Political Economy

What Determines Rent?

This is a great example of a very clever person using their sharpness to deceive. This piece is using a lot of econ (emphasis on the “con”) terms and pseudointellectualism to sneak in NIMBYism. Essentially, this entire argument is purpose-built to say: We shouldn’t build anything because landlords will inevitably charge the monopoly price no matter what.

I’m sure someone proposed building an apartment complex in his neighborhood. So now he’s upset because his house price might fall and writes this article “proving” it’s a bad idea.

Meanwhile, when Austin built more new apartments than anywhere else in the country, rents fell a large amount. Shocking.

All of this is a result of NIMBYs and the left utterly despising the Klein & Thompson Abundance book. It really gave them quite a scare and bedevils their dreams. Just the thought of someone slightly poorer than them living anywhere nearby keeps them up at night.

So they write clownish sophistry like the article to which I linked.

Escape

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Evil

Pandemic Revisionism, Part One: COVID-19 Origins.

Moronic.

The only story that makes sense is number 2, a lab escape. No, Covid-19 was not created by China. Perhaps altered a little. But that it rode out on or in some researcher from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (and Poor Biosecurity) is blindingly obvious.

What this goofy doofus writes about the WIV’s biosafety is simply a lie. It was using live virus sample at BSL 2 and 3. That’s well-known and very well-documented (no, I will not do your research for you).

Why lie? Of course. Doesn’t want his funding cut.

Fuck this clown.

High Q

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Exactly. Entire industries are already having their entry level tier eviscerated. This means that they will never have competent workers again. In most fields, it takes 3-5 years of constant learning and OTJ training for someone to become actually productive.

I don’t care how smart you are. Even if you have 250 IQ, you won’t be able to do what I do (or a lawyer does, or an accountant) if you don’t see and do a lot of low-level tasks in the field first. It’s just not possible. And with AI eliminating those jobs, it removes the feeder from “apprentice” to “master.”

Very bad.

Desal Now

Chill Clowns

It is societally insane that we don’t do this.

I hate degrowthers so so much.

D the S

Chill Annoying, Clowns

People’s incapacity to deal with reality — like climate change and how well vaccines actually work and how safe they are — is going to lead to millions of needless deaths.

But I guess humans have been doing the stupid for a long time. We show no signs of stopping.

Heavy Fail

Chill Clowns, Political Economy

The liberal degrowth heavy breathing about all they will “have” to take away you from was always doomed to fail. To be fair, there are a lot of right-wing degrowthers now too. Evil no matter which side they are on.

Comp Time

Chill Annoying, Clowns

I’ve seen this happen dozens of times. Mainly when I was in the army. What was usually happening is the woman’s “friend” was acting as a blocker so that she could head off the guy and then talk to him later and go home with him. Sometimes it was simple jealousy by the less attractive “friend,” though.

Another example of female intrasexual competition.