Not everyone in the US benefits equally by going down the paths the academics, politicians, business leaders, and pundits set out for us. The larger this group of the disaffected becomes (and it is becoming quite…
Open borders / illegal immigration from poor / brown countries is a Republican position. They've pushed it since before Reagan's amnesty to benefit corporate special interests. [1] Democrats are late to that game, but…
Really what you're saying is "start your own credit card." Hatreon launched as an alternative to Patreon. Know why Hatreon closed down? Visa shut it down. [1] If Visa bans you, no payment processor will work with you.…
> Christians by and large make up every pillar of Western society ... except Hollywood, academia, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, K Street, much of the publishing industry, and the mainstream media. Fixed that for you. And…
> I thought I followed climate change issues but somehow did not know that in most people's lifetimes sea levels will rise multiple feet. I would've thought folks would be more... concerned? According to Sir David King…
Our business was on MailChimp years ago. We were on a paid tier. In 2012 we decided to try sending our own email via arpReach + SES. Once we set this up we asked MailChimp how to pause our paid account. We wanted to…
Won't the term "person" unnecessarily alienate otherkin[1]? Walter would appear to be safest with "thinking entity's game." Then he has full coverage for men, women, intersex, asexual, androgynous, and non-human…
Major General Smedley Butler on war profiteers back in 1935: https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
My experience hiring women for our company has been 1.) they often don't want the job, 2.) when they get the job, they often balk at how demanding it is, then 3.) if they do stick around, regardless how much training we…
Censured in the U.S., but relevant: http://www.magnitskyact.com/
"I have no sympathy for people who want to make a living by making things who then rent space in existing channels to tell users said things are for sale. At this point I'm rooting for anyone making bootstrapping and…
This memo? http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/ Hadn't heard of it. Just read it. Interesting stuff. It's very clearly a call-to-arms for business leaders against Marxists/communists. Not the working class.…
It's that, + "middle class going broke after being conned by Trump University & the gig economy."
Ever notice how Republican presidents are always portrayed by partisan liberals as blithering idiots (Bush II as a religious fundamentalist warmonger dunce; Trump as an narcissistic ADD loose cannon dunce)? And how…
It sounds more like anti-natalism is your personal philosophy, and you make the same assumption the holders of most philosophical, ideological, and religious positions make: sooner or later, everyone else will realize…
Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon likely wonder the same thing. It's such a big Earth, yet only a few hundred humans are known to exist. Why are there no other detectable signs of human life, like smoke signals,…
>> China is based on communism China is no longer about communism any more than the U.S. is about the Enlightenment. China today is about Gilded Age-type capitalism with a strain of collectivism running through it.…
It's extraordinarily worrying to me that the American Left uses 'science' as a shield for its ideological positions and the adherents of its ideology lap it up and repeat it. I don't care so much about the ideological…
As an expatriate who has traveled through dozens of countries and lived long-term in a handful, let me assure you: different national personal characteristics are very real. Put an Englishman, a Norwegian, and an…
It would seem like the likeliest scenario for a future dark age is neighboring towns (or tribes, I suppose) tell tales about how everyone who goes into area X eventually dies not long after. Every few generations some…
The simplest way of looking at this is that the more power you divide up among increasingly small segments of your population, the more you divide the house. In China, there is the objective of China, where there is a…
When I was in business school, we had a case study of a large supermarket chain that carried 18,000 or so different items per store. The management team wanted to save on cost and narrow down to just the essentials the…
There is also the "person lives normal life, found to have almost no brain" phenomenon: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-b...
US citizen here. Haven't visited the US in years. Myriad reasons why, but the CBP policy is part of it. Just don't like the idea of people demanding I let them go through my stuff, but also don't like the idea of…
Cooper actually says "a people built this", not necessarily insisting it was humans or descendants of humans (though that was my impression too the first couple watch throughs). The other thing to keep in mind is he…
Not everyone in the US benefits equally by going down the paths the academics, politicians, business leaders, and pundits set out for us. The larger this group of the disaffected becomes (and it is becoming quite…
Open borders / illegal immigration from poor / brown countries is a Republican position. They've pushed it since before Reagan's amnesty to benefit corporate special interests. [1] Democrats are late to that game, but…
Really what you're saying is "start your own credit card." Hatreon launched as an alternative to Patreon. Know why Hatreon closed down? Visa shut it down. [1] If Visa bans you, no payment processor will work with you.…
> Christians by and large make up every pillar of Western society ... except Hollywood, academia, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, K Street, much of the publishing industry, and the mainstream media. Fixed that for you. And…
> I thought I followed climate change issues but somehow did not know that in most people's lifetimes sea levels will rise multiple feet. I would've thought folks would be more... concerned? According to Sir David King…
Our business was on MailChimp years ago. We were on a paid tier. In 2012 we decided to try sending our own email via arpReach + SES. Once we set this up we asked MailChimp how to pause our paid account. We wanted to…
Won't the term "person" unnecessarily alienate otherkin[1]? Walter would appear to be safest with "thinking entity's game." Then he has full coverage for men, women, intersex, asexual, androgynous, and non-human…
Major General Smedley Butler on war profiteers back in 1935: https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
My experience hiring women for our company has been 1.) they often don't want the job, 2.) when they get the job, they often balk at how demanding it is, then 3.) if they do stick around, regardless how much training we…
Censured in the U.S., but relevant: http://www.magnitskyact.com/
"I have no sympathy for people who want to make a living by making things who then rent space in existing channels to tell users said things are for sale. At this point I'm rooting for anyone making bootstrapping and…
This memo? http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/ Hadn't heard of it. Just read it. Interesting stuff. It's very clearly a call-to-arms for business leaders against Marxists/communists. Not the working class.…
It's that, + "middle class going broke after being conned by Trump University & the gig economy."
Ever notice how Republican presidents are always portrayed by partisan liberals as blithering idiots (Bush II as a religious fundamentalist warmonger dunce; Trump as an narcissistic ADD loose cannon dunce)? And how…
It sounds more like anti-natalism is your personal philosophy, and you make the same assumption the holders of most philosophical, ideological, and religious positions make: sooner or later, everyone else will realize…
Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon likely wonder the same thing. It's such a big Earth, yet only a few hundred humans are known to exist. Why are there no other detectable signs of human life, like smoke signals,…
>> China is based on communism China is no longer about communism any more than the U.S. is about the Enlightenment. China today is about Gilded Age-type capitalism with a strain of collectivism running through it.…
It's extraordinarily worrying to me that the American Left uses 'science' as a shield for its ideological positions and the adherents of its ideology lap it up and repeat it. I don't care so much about the ideological…
As an expatriate who has traveled through dozens of countries and lived long-term in a handful, let me assure you: different national personal characteristics are very real. Put an Englishman, a Norwegian, and an…
It would seem like the likeliest scenario for a future dark age is neighboring towns (or tribes, I suppose) tell tales about how everyone who goes into area X eventually dies not long after. Every few generations some…
The simplest way of looking at this is that the more power you divide up among increasingly small segments of your population, the more you divide the house. In China, there is the objective of China, where there is a…
When I was in business school, we had a case study of a large supermarket chain that carried 18,000 or so different items per store. The management team wanted to save on cost and narrow down to just the essentials the…
There is also the "person lives normal life, found to have almost no brain" phenomenon: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-b...
US citizen here. Haven't visited the US in years. Myriad reasons why, but the CBP policy is part of it. Just don't like the idea of people demanding I let them go through my stuff, but also don't like the idea of…
Cooper actually says "a people built this", not necessarily insisting it was humans or descendants of humans (though that was my impression too the first couple watch throughs). The other thing to keep in mind is he…