24th November 2022
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24th November 2022
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24th November 2022
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24th November 2022
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24th November 2022
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Remember the good old days, when the most obvious difference between conservatives and liberals was that conservatives objected to wasteful government spending? Now we live in a world where wastefulness is one of liberals’ better qualities.
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24th November 2022
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Our elections are an embarrassing third-world mess.
On top of that, there’s no mechanism to test or improve the accuracy of elections. Nobody’s even talking about improving them. And every change that gets implemented makes the system more susceptible to fraud. (Like that wasn’t the whole point.)
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24th November 2022
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The Empire State Building and the World Trade Center make for an interesting comparison. In many ways, they’re similar. They’re both iconic Manhattan skyscrapers (they were built just 3 miles apart) that sit right next to each other in the sequence of “world’s tallest building”. Both started out as projects aimed at creating (among other things) a large amount of commercial office space, and were later nudged by their owners into becoming the world’s tallest building. Both were completed in the midst of a severe economic downturn (the Great Depression and the 1973 Oil Shock, respectively), and took many years to be fully occupied. The Empire State Building would be only partially occupied through the 1930s (making money largely from visitors to the observation deck), and the owners were only saved from bankruptcy because the lender (MetLife) didn’t want the building. It wouldn’t start to turn a profit until after WWII. Similarly, the World Trade Center didn’t reach full occupancy in 1980. In both cases the building owners had to coerce government agencies to use much of the available space.
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24th November 2022
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The recent mass shooting in Colorado Springs is the 601st mass shooting in 2022. There have been four mass shootings since then, but you likely haven’t about them. You probably didn’t hear about most of the previous 600 shootings, either. Why is that? Because the left is keeping secrets. Let’s talk about what they don’t want you to know about mass shootings and why, so you can dominate your commie relatives at the Thanksgiving dinner table.
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24th November 2022
Ann Coulter.
For more than 50 years, our country has been engaged in systemic discrimination against the nation’s most despised racial group, whites. Recently, the Supreme Court heard cases challenging legal race discrimination in a pair of lawsuits brought against Harvard and the University of North Carolina for their “affirmative action” policies.
Despite the oft-repeated claim that affirmative action “hurts black people the most,” for the past half-century, it’s whites who’ve been bringing lawsuit after lawsuit for being rejected — solely because of their race — from universities (not to mention jobs, promotions, government contracts, scholarships, executive suites, homecoming queens, etc.).
In response, the Supreme Court announced this fundamental principal of constitutional law: Could you guys try hiding what you’re doing a little better?
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24th November 2022
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24th November 2022
The Guardian.
What’s this ‘we’?
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24th November 2022
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The common person, equipped with a superb neural system as the result of millions of years of animal evolution, cringes at large structures (i.e. buildings) that communicate a psychological threat. There are sound medical reasons for not ignoring such a negative reaction, since experiencing long-term stress is known to generate pathologies in the body.
The hegemony of the architecture-industrial complex — consisting of building financing, global construction, media-certified “star” architects, real-estate speculators and a machinery of architectural education resolutely stuck in dogma and ideology — crushes public opinion. It has managed to silence the occasional protesting voices for decades.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now capable of judging what sort of buildings and environments are good for our health and psychological wellbeing. The tests are ridiculously easy to perform. We finally possess a set of powerful tools that are ready to finish off a century of absurdly inhuman architecture.
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24th November 2022
Librarians have their own ideas of what you and your neighbors ought to read.
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24th November 2022
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24th November 2022
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Last week, Amazon extended buyout offers to hundreds of its recruiters as part of what is expected to be a months-long cycle of layoffs that has left corporate employees across the company angered and on edge. Now, Recode has viewed a confidential internal document that raises the question of whether a new artificial intelligence technology that the company began experimenting with last year will one day replace some of these employees.
According to an October 2021 internal paper labeled as “Amazon confidential,” the tech giant has been working for at least the last year to hand over some of its recruiters’ tasks to an AI technology that aims to predict which job applicants across certain corporate and warehouse jobs will be successful in a given role and fast-track them to an interview — without a human recruiter’s involvement. The technology works in part by finding similarities between the resumes of current, well-performing Amazon employees and those of job applicants applying for similar jobs.
Increasingly, labor costs are coming to be the greatest portion of a business’s expenses, not only monetarily but in terms of exposure to government regulation and labor union agitation. As a result, companies are more and more looking for ways to automate as many jobs as possible.
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23rd November 2022
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23rd November 2022
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23rd November 2022
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23rd November 2022
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23rd November 2022
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23rd November 2022
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23rd November 2022
Steve Sailer is not afraid to ask the inconvenient questions.
If there’s a strong statistical pattern in the numbers, you should be able to come up with vivid real-life examples of it. And if you can think of several examples suggesting a pattern, you might well be able to find large-scale data for it.
My main one weird trick for coming up with enough insights to make a living as an unfashionable pundit for 22 years has been to assume that private life facts and public life facts are one and the same. Most pundits assume public controversies, such as BLM, are of a higher realm than daily life, so that what they notice about “safe neighborhoods” and “good schools” when they are making real estate decisions for themselves couldn’t possibly have any relevance to the great issues of the day they discuss in the media.
In truth, you don’t need gnostic dogmas like “systemic racism” to explain why, say, blacks on average are relatively better at playing cornerback in the NFL than center. Biological and cultural differences explain these and countless other patterns.
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23rd November 2022
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23rd November 2022
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Today we are in a new era of conservative discontent. The national conservatives are at the ramparts against the new status quo of woke progressivism in government, the military, business, education, culture and media. Many of them are also dismissive of the conservatism of Buckley & Co. and Ronald Reagan and their legacy of journals, think tanks and policy doctrines that became a settled Washington establishment by the 2000s and 2010s.
In their view, that establishment was complicit in progressivism’s political ascent. American conservatism became unduly attached to libertarian individualism, unfettered markets and free trade as ends in themselves—which helped set the stage for anything-goes cultural corruption, the decline of community, family and religion, and the rise of global corporations and institutions that decimated the American heartland.
Whose turn is it to be the New ‘New Right’?
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22nd November 2022
Trump threatens to burn down the GOP, it’s time to move on (N.Y. Post)
Donald Trump, Sadly, Can’t Be Counted Out (Vanity Fair)
Paul Ryan invents a new category of anti-Trumpism (CNN)
Special counsel in Mar-a-Lago and January 6 investigations begins work with no sign probes will slow down (CNN)
Florida vandal caught on camera spray-painting lawns, homes of Trump supporters (Fox) But of course only Republicans engage in ‘political violence’. Nancy assures us it’s true.
Trump’s Company Kicks Off Defense Case in Criminal Tax Fraud Trial
Univision Ridicules Trump’s Message to CPAC Mexico On God, Family, Country
The Lords Of War: The Perils Facing Trump, Garland, & Smith In Washington’s Legal Arms Race
Former AG Whitaker to Newsmax: Trump Special Counsel ‘Cover’ for Biden’s DOJ
Christian Petition Against Donald Trump’s 2024 Run Signed by Thousands These are undoubtedly participants in the Pride Parade of which Jesus is the alleged Grand Marshal.
Voters name Trump as biggest loser of midterms (The Hill)
National Poll: Biden’s Approval Remains Underwater As Majority of GOP Voters Support Trump As Republican Nominee for 2024
Huffington Tries, Fails, to Paint Trump as Anti-Semitic
AP Whitewashes IRS Scandal Out of Glowing Special Counsel Jack Smith Profile
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22nd November 2022
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22nd November 2022
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22nd November 2022
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22nd November 2022
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22nd November 2022
Dr. Pesta Appeals for Your Help
Churchill in Disrepute as Woke Indoctrination in Schools Spreads Throughout West
The View Defends Ilhan Omar’s U.S. Hate: A ‘Different Understanding’ of Things
Late Night Blames Guns, Masculinity, SCOTUS, And More For Shooting
App Store ‘Gatekeepers’ Urged To Deplatform “Dangerous” Twitter Itself
The Grotesque Politicization of the Colorado Springs Gay Bar Shooting (Newsweek)
Tucker Carlson Warned of a ‘Diesel Disaster’ That Never Happened (Daily Beast) It’s happening right now. Check the price of diesel fuel at your local gas station.
Pulling from extremist playbook, Oregon sheriffs refuse to enforce gun laws (Oregon Public Broadcasting) Well, I guess we know which side OPB is on.
This Grand Canyon destination will ditch its ‘offensive name’ after decades, rangers say (Sacramento Bee)
Kanye West Causes Chaos After Crashing ComplexCon (Huffington Post)
MSNBC host blames gerrymandering for DeSantis win: ‘No way he could gerrymander himself across 50 states’ (Fox)
NBC Senior Reporter Likens Opposers of Drag Queen Story Hours to QAnon
MSNBC Circus Freaks Out Over Gay Club Shooting, Blames Conservatives
Right-wing media continued attacking the LGBTQ community after the mass shooting in Colorado Springs (MediaMatters)
NASA Won’t Rename Webb Telescope Amid Anti-LGBT Allegations
MSNBC: It’s ‘Sad’ GOP Wants to Ban Drag Shows, GOP Should Be Ashamed
Jack White Quits Twitter, Calls Elon Musk’s Trump Reinstatement ‘A–hole Move’ (Rolling Stone) Who is Jack White?
Court Docs Rip Into DOJ for ‘Fiddling Away’ on Matt Gaetz Case (Daily Beast)
The Colorado massacre cannot be blamed on mental illness. It’s rooted in hate. (Washington Post) Getcher fresh hot Narrative, right here.
Mayor Of London Calls For “New Regulation Of Online Speech” After Trump Twitter Reinstatement
Complaint Alleges ‘Profound and Deep-Seated Anti-Semitic Discrimination’ at Berkeley Law School
CNN Disgustingly Ties Herschel Walker to the Colorado Gay Nightclub Shooting
NY Schools Face Funding Loss Over Mascots
Special Counsel Jack Smith Is Meant to Intimidate Not Just Trump, But All Republicans
Elon Musk is unilaterally reinstating banned Twitter accounts, despite assuring civil rights groups and advertisers that he wouldn’t (MediaMatters)
Grand Canyon Campground Changes ‘Offensive’ Name
Will the Media Ever Admit That Christine Blasey Ford Slandered Brett Kavanaugh?
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22nd November 2022
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22nd November 2022
ZMan passes the popcorn.
Way back in the early days of the internet, those already on-line could not help but notice that the media was hilariously ignorant, but supremely confident, of this revolutionary new thing called the internet. On television, the people who claimed it was their job to keep the rest of us informed clearly knew nothing about this new “internet thing” or the people signing up for accounts. The print side of the media barely knew the internet existed and had no interest in it at all.
In those early days it was a glimpse into the weird combination of ignorance, insulation and confidence that defined the mass media. Television and radio are pure carnival acts, selecting for people who fit a role. The print side, the people engaged in “serious journalism”, are stenographers and cheerleaders, hoping to one day be noticed by the carnival operators so they can get on television. The whole thing is part of a large scale agitation campaign on behalf of the ruling class.
This is what makes the collapse of Twitter so amusing. The agitation machine that is the modern mass media was invited onto Twitter in the early days as a way to promote the product over the alternatives. Twitter was custom built for the slow-witted, but supremely confident people who make up mass media. All they needed to do is download an app, open it up and begin typing. Limiting it to short messages reduced the odds of them exposing their stupidity.
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22nd November 2022
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City Journal last month released a survey that asked eighteen-to-twenty-year-olds whether they had been taught six concepts related to critical race theory. These included: “America is a systemically racist country,” “White people have white privilege,” “White people have unconscious biases that negatively affect non-white people,” “America is built on stolen land,” “America is a patriarchal society,” and “Gender is an identity choice.”
Each of these was answered in the affirmative by a majority of participants, of whom more than 80 percent attended public schools.
That’s curious given that public educators and their defenders in corporate media have been claiming for years that CRT is not taught in schools. “Teaching critical race theory isn’t happening in classrooms, teachers say in survey,” reported NBC in July 2021. The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson in June 2021 called the controversy over CRT “manufactured,” while his colleague Karen Attiah the same month called it “hot air.”
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22nd November 2022
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If you’ve been to a mainstream bookstore or library in the past few months, you’ve probably encountered a “Banned Books” display. These high-visibility collections serve as totems of progressives’ defiance in their latest imagined controversy: the belief that conservatives are banning books related to LGBT issues from public school libraries. “Banned Books” displays usually feature some traditional texts that may have been pulled from schools at some point in their publication history (e.g. To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, Huckleberry Finn, etc.). But the recent wave of sexually-explicit LGBT titles are always positioned so prominently that a person can only assume that the displays are in reaction to right-wing prudes trying to force their retrograde views on an increasingly progressive populace.
But are LGBT books being “banned”? Not really. Every library curates its collection, making careful choices about their holdings in the limited space they have. While it’s true that many schools decided to pull titles like Gender Queer, This Book is Gay, Flamer, Let’s Talk About It, and All Boys Aren’t Blue from the shelves, this is not a “ban.” These books remain widely available in bookstores and public libraries that are unaffiliated with schools.
So why are leftists pretending otherwise? The claims of “bans” allow LGBT activists to frame routine decisions about which books are appropriate for a school library as evidence of “hate,” discrimination, and “exclusion.” Certainly, some books are being excluded—but this doesn’t mean that LGBT students are. The trendiness of LGBT identity among impressionable young adolescents suggests that there are social rewards from belonging to this category. In fact, schools take pains to include those students, a reality underscored by the open promotion and celebration of LGBT groups in classrooms.
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22nd November 2022
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Democrats are corrupt, and black Democrats are corrupt absolutely.
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22nd November 2022
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In four years, the number of students graduating from high schools across the country will begin a sudden and precipitous decline, due to a rolling demographic aftershock of the Great Recession. Traumatized by uncertainty and unemployment, people decided to stop having kids during that period. But even as we climbed out of the recession, the birth rate kept dropping, and we are now starting to see the consequences on campuses everywhere. Classes will shrink, year after year, for most of the next two decades. People in the higher education industry call it “the enrollment cliff.”
Couldn’t happen soon enough, in my opinion.
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22nd November 2022
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22nd November 2022
Victor Davis Hanson.
For various loose definitions of the term ‘morality’.
Sam Bankman-Fried is the ultimate dangerous and ridiculous expression of the most toxic and creepy culture in America. If he did not exist, he would have to be invented.
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22nd November 2022
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Over the last decade Scott Alexander, America’s best psychiatrist blogger, a hero of the rationalist movement, has examined the claims made for psychedelic therapy and repeatedly pointed out that it’s very unlikely to be any sort of panacea. Between 10 percent and 50 percent of Americans have tried psychedelics, he said — if they did anything miraculous we would know about it. More to the point, says Alexander, what use is the feeling of revelation anyway? “In my model of psychedelics, they artificially stimulate your insight system the same way heroin artificially stimulates your happiness system. This leads to all those stories where people feel like they discovered the secret of the universe, but when they recover their faculties, they find it was only some inane triviality.”
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21st November 2022
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21st November 2022
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21st November 2022
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21st November 2022
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21st November 2022
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21st November 2022
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21st November 2022
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21st November 2022
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Despite massive and systemic problems with for-profit Medicare plans denying care to seniors while costing the government more than $7 billion annually in excess fees, the leading advocacy group tasked with protecting older Americans is welcoming the privatization of the national health insurance program — while earning as much as $814 million annually from insurers advertising the plans.
The state of affairs lays bare a conflict inside AARP, the major advocacy organization for Americans 50 and older, over how to approach the regulation of Medicare Advantage, the for-profit version of Medicare.
Everybody I’ve talked to who uses Medicare Advantage likes it a lot better than straight Medicare.
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21st November 2022
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New evidence indicates that an effort to stamp out disease-carrying insects is working. The key? Mosquitoes genetically engineered to kill off their own kind.
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