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Think of it as evolution in action.

I shot the deer and the deer won;
I shot the deer and the … deer won.

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But you have to bear in mind that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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Last year something weird happened. I started to notice every other cold recruiter email opener has the word “impressed” in it. Obviously at first I was flattered that strangers were impressed by my experience. But then everyone started using this exact word in the same way and it started to feel really bizarre and fake.

Believing what a recruiter says is the first mistake.

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Most Americans now take it for granted that universal education is a good thing, including in particular “higher education.” To be sure, only about a quarter of American adults have a bachelor’s degree, but even so, it’s commonly thought that the more of us who go to college, the better. A citizenry, after all, needs to be educated and informed, able to debate the important issues of the day, as opposed to just asserting their biases—the natural, and frequently vulgar, instinct of mankind.

Yet it is trite but true that all life is trade-offs, so it’s worth contemplating whether fulfilling the university mission, and maintaining academic standards, are compatible with the presence of a massive number of persons of average and of below-average intelligence in academia. There is also an important gender issue here: Men and women are different; those differences are not just social constructs; and as university bureaucracies increasingly are dominated by women, it seems clear that, as in the cases of the family and the workplace, the gender equality experiment is hardly an unmixed good in academia.

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Today we’re seeing clear evidence of genetic differences between classes: causal differences. People with higher socioeconomic status have ( on average) higher EA polygenic scores. Higher scores for cognitive ability, as well. This is of course what every IQ test has shown for many decades.

It’s driving regional migration in the UK: people with higher scores in depressed areas (like mining towns) are leaving for London, leaving those towns even more depressed.

There is ongoing decline in those polygenic scores, as observed in other studies and as predicted by demographers and science-fiction writers many years ago.

Actually, ‘conundrum’ would be a better term than ‘dilemma’.

Steve Sailer.

A big chunk of American society has gone nuts over “gender” ideology, which wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t trying to do terrible things to children.

How will Funding Climate Science Help Prevent Coral Bleaching?

Climate Change May Cause Poorly Maintained Bridges to Collapse  Or they may collapse anyway.

She Would Have Stood a Better Chance Against Polar Bears

NASA May Have Faked Climate Data Says Retired Top UK Govt. Scientist

How more organic farming could worsen global warming

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care? Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

Feel the Bern….

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Not a parody, so far as I can tell.

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You pretty much know that the leftist hive of Teen Vogue would exclude conservatives in its survey of youth politics when the synopsis of each young person from 16 to 24 featured is prefaced by the sentient being’s preferred pronouns. Preferred pronouns, of course, are one of the easy symbols to recognize that any such article would act as if conservative or Republican youth would be considered to be creatures from another world thus not even within the Teen Vogue realm of being considered for attention.

Steve Sailer.

And just wait until the public realizes that this brouhaha is about the President delaying foreign aid payments to Ukraine. There’s nothing more sacred in the eyes of American voters than our national duty to pay foreign aid promptly.

Who Are the “Experts” on Climate Change?

Gregory et al 2019: Unsound claims about bias in climate feedback and climate sensitivity estimation

The Price Tag of London’s ‘Extinction’ Climate Protest

Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted

For Halloween: 10 days of Climate Scares -Debunked

Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think

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With thanks to Debby Witt, a kindred soul.

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California may end a decades-old ban on members of the Communist Party working in its government, after the state Assembly approved a bill that would delete references to the party from its employment requirements.

Yeah, they already allow Democrats, so it’s kind of a dead letter.

Why Don’t You Want To Get Arrested To Save The Environment?

More Junk Science From the AAAS of A: Bird Apocalypse Edition

Ozone hole shrinks to smallest size on record, and it’s not related to global warming

Climate Alarmism in the News is not News

House Democrats Keep Anti-Exxon Climate Crusade Alive As NY’s AG Ratchets Up Pressure On Oil Producers

University dumps professor who found polar bears thriving despite climate change

“Stop The Lies”: Mural Of Greta Thunberg Defaced In Canada

Offshore Wind Getting Crushed by Carbon Capture

Newly Painted Greta Thunberg Mural Defaced: ‘Stop The Lies! This Is Oil Country!’

Word of the week: Ecotistical

Explaining Natural Gas Flaring to the New York Times’ Explanatory Reporters

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Apparently there are still a few sensible Canadians left.

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Hint: No.

North of the border, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party will form a new government despite being a minority that captured not even one-third of the nation’s votes (33.1 percent). Conservative leader Andrew Scheer must concede defeat despite his party having won 34.4 per cent of the vote, or 240,000 votes more than Trudeau.

With thanks to Bluebird of Bitterness. (No, I don’t know where she finds this stuff.)

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The reason big new things sneak by incumbents is that the next big thing always starts out being dismissed as a “toy.” This is one of the main insights of Clay Christensen’s “disruptive technology” theory. This theory starts with the observation that technologies tend to get better at a faster rate than users’ needs increase. From this simple insight follows all kinds of interesting conclusions about how markets and products change over time.

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There’s a certain kind of liberal who likes to tell conservatives what they should think about this or that matter in order to be true to conservatism. He has no counterpart on the other side of the political divide. I know of no conservative who gets off on telling liberals what they should think about anything. We tend to confine ourselves to pointing out liberal hypocrisy.

What explains this difference between liberals and conservatives? Perhaps it’s just that conservatives are less inclined to waste time telling people who don’t share our perspective what they should think. Maybe liberals are more sanctimonious than conservatives. It might have something to do with conservatives getting into heads of liberals more than the other way around.

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Because politics gets boring all the time.

Ace of Spades has the skinny.

I always had my suspicions about Canadians.

EU Official: “we can’t make any progress on climate change until Brexit is resolved”

The Guardian on Extinction Rebellion: “all I see is white faces”

Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted  Imagine that.

Andrew Yang Wants a Thorium Reactor by 2027. Good Luck, Buddy

Climate change could kill the ski industry – so take the train to the Alps this winter  Hit the slopes before it’s too late.

The incredible collapsing ‘#ExxonKnew’ climate change lie

People Are Getting Very Sick of the “Extinction Rebellion” and Other Enviro-Antifa Groups

Steve Sailer.

There’s a fun example brewing in the State of Washington (won by Hillary 54-38) that demonstrates once again how the Democrats’ Coalition of the Margins requires constant drumming up of fear and loathing of the White Male Menace to keep their diverse coalition from being at each other’s throats. This time, blacks and Chinese are fighting over affirmative action in state college admissions.

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Tru dat.

Babylon Bee.

What’s the first thing you do when meeting someone new? Exchange pronouns, of course, to make sure you refer to each other accurately. But what if you didn’t have to do that?

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

With thanks to Debby Witt, a kindred soul.

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Looking sleazier and sleazier.

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Sometimes it is good to be the son of the Vice-President.

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Russia covered up the deadly nuclear reactor explosion in August during the salvage at sea of one of Vladimir Putin’s new superweapons, a nuclear-powered cruise missile called Skyfall, a senior State Department official disclosed.

The reactor exploded Aug. 8 off the coast of the northern Russian town of Nenoska, killing seven Russians on a barge in the White Sea as they were overseeing the recovery of a sunken Skyfall. The missile had been sitting on the seafloor for about year after a failed flight test, said State Department official Thomas G. DiNanno.

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But you have to bear in mind that Trump has done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

Read it.

Gee, they wouldn’t do that, would they?

Perhaps we can look forward to a year or two of ‘mysterious’ explosions and such.

Plastics:  Science is Winning

Why Is The Elitist Establishment So Obsessed With Meat?

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Think of it as evolution in action.

Unfortunately, they never give it to people like me, who could really use it.

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I’ll bet you didn’t even know that “ethical use of human genetic material from the past” was even a thing.

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Last week, several prominent journalism outlets publicized a bombastic claim about tax policy in the United States. According to analysis by Berkeley economists Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, the bottom 50 percent of earners in the United States now pay a higher overall tax rate than multimillionaires. The New York Times and Washington Post trumpeted this claim as if it was settled fact, even though the study it was based upon has yet to go through scholarly peer review.

Yet as we also saw, Saez and Zucman’s numbers immediately came under intense scrutiny — including from high quarters in the economics profession. Their overall depicted trend in tax rates conflicted with better-established estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (for federal rates) and the Institute on Taxation and Policy (for state and local rates) — which, when combined, reveal an unambiguously progressive distribution of the tax burden.

Saez and Zucman’s supporters nonetheless insisted that their alternative estimates would be vindicated with the release of their new book, The Triumph of Injustice. After an unconventional rollout that included providing selected journalists with privileged access to unvetted stats, the Saez-Zucman data files are finally available. Far from demonstrating the superiority of their new estimates, the statistical release has only cast further doubt upon their methods.

Extinction Rebellion: Metro Climate Protest Attackers were Stressed by Ecological Collapse  No, they were stressed by virtue-signaling assholes who were blocking them getting to work.

Climate ‘limits’ and timelines

Greta Thunberg Leads Climate ‘Strike’ In Alberta — Oil And Gas Workers Counter-Protest

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And who’s to say that they don’t deserve it?

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Sometimes it is good to be the Vice-President’s son.

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If competitive soccer games are too toxically masculine for your taste, and if your idea of “diversity” is an all-black cast, The New York Times has some games for you!

The Times in mid-October posted “Fear, Anxiety and Hope: What It Means to Be a Minority in Gaming,” a roundup of diverse and (uniformly) progressive video game creators who The Times hopes will replace gaming’s “toxic” culture.

Many of the games specifically deal with the creators’ own trauma and issues of identity. From an artistic perspective, the classic advice of “write what you know” is an understandable starting point, but many of these creators seem happy to jump off the deep end.

In Davionne Gooden’s “She Dreams Elsewhere” — which is apparently a “diverse” game because it features “an all-black cast” (“diverse” evidently means not white) — themes of “anxiety and depression” take center stage.

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They’re fools if they do.

Rush Limbaugh said it best when he spoke to the big Republican Congressional cohort elected under the Contract With America: These people are not your friends. They are not going to report what you say in an objective manner. They are going to twist every word into a stick with which to beat you. Just Don’t Say Anything.

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This feels like it might be using government process and media to push a political narrative.

In other words, I guess Trump has learned from Obama, Hillary, Comey, Lynch, Clapper, Brennan, and Schiff.

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The hammer doesn’t care whose hand wields it.

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I never thought I’d see The Telegraph make the wrong choice between ‘that’ and ‘which’. I’m disappointed.