I wouldn't take it if the rate were 0%, because it's a waste of money. Even those "at risk" shouldn't take it, as it's unlikely to extend your life anyways.

Any outfit which would have Wolfowitz is guaranteed to be crooks

Very big news for industrial automation.

Sometimes two wrongs do make a right.

Won't change the general trend, I fear. It's already explicitly illegal to not like people in many contexts.

Heckuva Job

The big brain knows America is a Third World country. The galaxy brain knows America has always been a Third World country.

If this thesis is true, it's actually kind of cool that 20 years into the 21st century, the ghosts of LBJ and Ballot Box 13 are with us still. By fighting and winning the fuckery war, by cranking up the old heirs of Tammany one more time, the Democratic Party shows that it is a still a thing, it can still bring it, it can still play, it deserves to rule.

Soccer players call this being "physical". If you remain an electioncuck, I offer you this argument for free: it is the best case I can make for your sorry quisling soul. The case that might makes right is in fact extremely sound; why not just come out and make it?

As usual has very satisfying gigadunks on conservacucks:

The conservacon always gets nowhere, not because he is a bad person, but because he has the wrong goals. He is trying to repair what he should be trying to obliterate. He is oblivious to what he should be trying to preserve, which is not our garbage ideas and our corrupt, bloated institutions, but our beautiful land and wonderful people. What if America prevailed not because of its philosophy, but despite it? A heavy thought, man.

Meanwhile the leftards are still busy pimping russiagate. Nothing of consequence will happen, expect more insane gridlock for 4 years; the clerisy's smug self-important circlejerk status quo will persist until things violently snap against them.

I felt for the first time that the system I had long considered sacred was in fact unbearably absurd.

My experience with the study outline taught me that the ideas the party sanctimoniously promoted were in fact self-serving tools used to deceive the Chinese people. I soon learned that they were also a way of making money.

Like here, the founding myths can't be questioned even when they are only paid lip service to. This is the case everywhere. Interesting perspective that Xi is essentially a moron princeling.

Obvious to Misesians, as we already know the mainstream conception of utility is hokum. Value is subjective, and utility incoherent.

The son of heaven and his bureaucracy have always had chauvinism as a weakness.

Voltaire comes to mind

He has a point -- why not just get a video game if you aren't gonna see it with other people.

God shaped hole. Nevertheless this is yet another escalation in the war between the sexes; feminist women who do not understand the automation substitutes they are competing against are gonna get run over. Their only choices are getting on a high value man's harem or going cat lady, because they will never be willing to be feminine even to the rudimentary extent that a shitpile of automated scripts can.

Life does indeed appear to be a conjunction of a few killer features. The effort to make the minimum viable organism continues; we can then finally understand how DNA works.

Very spicy essay, and an interesting exploration of US Imperial tropes. I regard his crystal ball as needing work towards the end. Nevertheless, mythmaking is necessary in this walk into the future, and this is one such attempt. The broad strokes about the current clerisy situation are correct, but the way things will turn out will be so messy no one could possibly have predicted it.

Battle lines now formally drawn between the DNC/State/CIA/Media/Uni complex and the MIC/RNC

lol, as usual these cretins are all about covering shit up, not investigating anything.

Doing little more than grifting for signups and enriching it's principals

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Charts that need explaining, but will only receive hand waving in response

It'll be fun to commemorate a quarter century of playing in the sandbox

With a veto-proof majority. Nothing can get in the way of the gravy train -- they'll keep raising pentagon budgets and invasions going by hook or by crook. No matter the cost.

Reminds me of some of the great stuff cog used to post on ZH back in 07-08.

I read a lot about marketing today, and the most incredible thing is just how pictures hack the mind. Seeing every news story published against lockdown nevertheless showing masked faces tells me why the lockdown crowd won. They showed everyone the world that was coming and lapped it up. Shoop hannibal lecter masks on all incidences of pro-lockdowners' masked faces if you want this to stop.

Note that all the pictures of the lockdown pols are still smiling non-masked faces. It's all PR dammit!