Techno-capitalists think innovation can save the planet. But that same thinking is what got us here.
Clownish. Idiotic. Poltroonish.
Could as easily be entitled: “Norman Borlaug thought better agricultural technology could feed the world. But that same thinking is what got us here.”
For those who don’t know, Norman Borlaug.
Fuck, I hate degrowthers so very much. Just the worst people — and some of the most dangerous.
It’s not that there are no competent people overseas in the countries that typically receive offshored jobs. Of course there are. In fact, many of the best end up here as immigrants in the US.
But the competence level is certainly vastly different. In my experience the average Indian in India is about 1/4 to 1/8 as competent as the average American. At least in tech, though I’ve heard it’s similar in other fields. The average Filipino is maybe half as competent. And the average LATAM hire is maybe 60% as competent as an American.
That’s not great! Part of it is worse education, tons of credential inflation and concomitant lack of experience. Screening is also not nearly as competent or thorough when done overseas. That all leads to offshore teams fucking things up left and right while the few remaining onshore people spend long, long hours fixing it all. All to usually not even save money in the end.
But sure, tell me again how efficient business is.
Painting your opponents as stupid, believing they are stupid and yet you still lose to them…what does that make you?
Seems like a bad way to do things. “My adversary is a dumbass but beats me every time.” Dude, this isn’t middle school. No one cares that you tried really hard. Winning is what matters. Doing the thing is the crux; all else is fluff and failure.
When someone outperforms me in an area where I typically excel, you know what I say? I say, “They must be really good to have done that.”
Because being beaten by idiots makes me worse than an idiot. Which the Dems and libs seem content to loudly announce over and over again.
Despite what’s happening in the USA, renewables are winning globally.
Of course. They are cheaper now, and getting cheaper all the time. Only complete doofs like us want to pay more for something shittier in every way to “own the libs.”
I’ve been made fun of by women way, way more often for liking supposedly non-manly things (like women pop stars, clothes, sweet alcoholic drinks, cooking) than by men. Like, it’s not even close.
That includes when I was in the 82nd Airborne Division, which is supposedly a bastion of manliness.
Women police masculinity a lot more assiduously than men do. In my experience at least. Many women treat that like a full-time job. Which they aren’t very good at.
Yes. The right has responded to this type of thing with fascism, terrorism, and outright mysticism. That is a bad response that will only hurt us all.
But they weren't responding to *nothing*. https://t.co/5MN2c4jEoK
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) October 6, 2025
Agreed. Both sides have basically gone insane. As I’ve said many times before, we needed New Minds and did not get them.
That’ll mean war, calamity and mass death before we do.
The housing market bubble is about to burst as badly as the Internet bubble.
It’s fascinating to read these comments from 2004, about a year-and-a-half before the housing bubble did in fact burst. Mostly to avoid legal prosecution, a successful propaganda operation was launched post hoc claiming that no one could have know there was a bubble, etc., so now the fact that tons of people (including me) knew in advance has been memory-holed.
About half the people in the comments are claiming that a housing bubble does not exist or that it was impossible to even have a bubble while the other half are claiming — correctly — that the market was a bubble ready to pop.
The level of denial in some is interesting:
And a refusal to believe that bubbles can even exist (common in clownish econ types too):
I’m the father of three kids and while I won’t say I’m a great dad I think I’m half-way decent. In my experience, kids in kindergarten and later are pretty much all at the same level — I don’t see the point of selecting a super-race among humans who are only recently potty…
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) October 2, 2025
Wrong. So wrong.
I was vastly ahead of my peers in kindergarten. I could already read at an eithth-grade level. I could tell time on an analog clock1. For this and other reasons, I was vastly bored in school from the start.
I’d also do all the worksheets for all the kids around me because I could complete them 100x as fast as they could. This was so we could go play more quickly.
Kindergartners are definitely not all at the same level. Important differences show up early.
Yes, of course.
A couple of things going on here, though. Many women don’t believe men actually feel emotions. This headline was probably written by one of those types. And Gen Z believes that all relationships are about power and any emotions are secondary (if considered at all) to that. So this was probably written by a 28ish-year-old Gen Z woman in a large blue city. They are the main purveyors of this kinda shit.
These newly unearthed emails from @USRightToKnow (huge credit to them) about NIH deliberations on funding the Wuhan lab through Peter Daszak are jaw-dropping. They show that the NIH’s gain-of-function “review committee” was an absolute joke, a club of self-important… https://t.co/ZCpZaZzkDQ pic.twitter.com/Y0x71zyXJp
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) October 2, 2025
That’s about what I expected to see. Those idiots were playing with fire and then lying about it before, during, and after.
Have actually done.
In my experience, radical feminists often have the same sexual tastes, preference for male "dominance," etc as other women. They simply rationalize this differently ("Of COURSE I'll let you pay…in this patriarchial society!!!"). https://t.co/zhAZBaR1YB
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) September 30, 2025
That’s often true. I got with way, way more women when I was appreciably a jerk and let my more right-wing tendencies be vocalized. It wasn’t even close.
Women might claim they don’t like jerks. Whatever. The reality is that most of them do, or at least it’s true that they mistake jerkitude for confidence so often that the difference is immaterial. And most feminists are the, “Feminism for thee but not for me” types. These days, nearly all.
Not all women (heh), to be clear, on any of this. But a very large majority.
US government shuts down after Senate fails to pass last-ditch funding plan.
I see we’ve chosen to do more stupid than we were already doing. Which is about what I expected to see.
January 6 is a specific weak point for the Right. They think of themselves as law abiding, yet a bunch of right wingers stormed a government building and tried to interrupt proceedings the same way Lefties used to do and they hated.
Hence the cottage industry of BS'ing about it. https://t.co/wnualmNswn
— Dilan Esper (@dilanesper) September 27, 2025
Exactly.
The “It was just a rowdy tour group!” nonsense is so fucking funny to me. It’s like a Monty Python sketch except in real life. Listen, if you believe the January 6 insurrection, attempted coup and actual riot was just a tour group gone wild, I need your name and number because I could sell you anything.
The liberal reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre was one of the major things that turned me away from that suite of interlinked ideologies. Their gleeful reaction and equivocation of satirical cartoons with outright slaughter — some even saying that the cartoons were worse than murder — forced me to examine what and who they really were. And if I wanted to be part of that.
Turns out, I did not. Though I still consider myself a liberal in some sense, I think a lot of their goals are nefarious, their degrowth tendencies are pure evil, and their ignorance of history and human nature is shocking when you notice it.
I wish though that the right was better. It’s not. Both sides are purely clownish often in different but in many cases surprisingly similar ways.
Too many college grads, not enough talent 🤷🏻♂️ pic.twitter.com/sydhEbKtkZ
— wanye (@xwanyex) September 23, 2025
Thus, the narrative that we must allow all the slave-like H-1Bs in because there is a “talent shortage” doesn’t hold up at all.