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The Rise and fall of the american energy grid πŸ”— 1687222127  


I remember around the turn of the century TXU's public plan being "lol just let shit fall apart, add no new capacity while we get to be parasites".

Vtubing for Dummies πŸ”— 1687188853  


Show up as duke next stupid meeting you have to go to

The American Competence Crisis πŸ”— 1687188672  


By the 1960s, the systematic selection for competence came into direct conflict with the political imperatives of the civil rights movement. During the period from 1961 to 1972, a series of Supreme Court rulings, executive orders, and lawsβ€”most critically, the Civil Rights Act of 1964β€”put meritocracy and the new political imperative of protected-group diversity on a collision course. Administrative law judges have accepted statistically observable disparities in outcomes between groups as prima facie evidence of illegal discrimination. The result has been clear: any time meritocracy and diversity come into direct conflict, diversity must take priority.

The resulting norms have steadily eroded institutional competency, causing America’s complex systems to fail with increasing regularity. In the language of a systems theorist, by decreasing the competency of the actors within the system, formerly stable systems have begun to experience normal accidents at a rate that is faster than the system can adapt. The prognosis is harsh but clear: either selection for competence will return or America will experience devolution to more primitive forms of civilization and loss of geopolitical power.
A good companion to this is a recent article on South Africa, which is a vision of our future. Whites permanently disenfranchised scapegoats; Jews in their own homeland.

Why UBI is being trotted out again πŸ”— 1686250310  


As the lube to shove the CBDC dildo up the body politic's ass. Hey, Airdrops worked for tons of other crypto scams. And few happened to notice they disproportionately hooked up certain wallets...

What does it mean to be right wing? πŸ”— 1686243442  


Much in the same way that Ludwig Von Mises showed the distribution of scarce resources via a price system that ignores the nature of human action, and instead favors central planning cannot overcome the economic calculation problem so too will artificial hierarchies be unable to overcome the distribution of human capital, or what I shall dub as the hierarchical calculation problem. From this we can surmise that artificial hierarchies will inevitably result in the same problems as artificial price systems, with the misallocation of human capital. This seems to be indisputable then that if you accept the idea that scarce resources can and will be misallocated through central planning that human beings will also be misallocated to positions of power that they should not inhabit, often to disastrous results.
I've written elsewhere about precisely this phenomenon in the corporation, and its corrosive results. Synthetic hierarchies are fundamentally what produce all the bizarre pathology described in "Moral Mazes" (the single-elimination ass-kissing tournament).

The UAF situation: not looking good πŸ”— 1685919859  


Sounds like their C3I and logistics are FUBAR and systemic control fraud abides. This is not an army that can win; Very reminiscent of the French army in the run up to WWII. Betting the farm on fortifications and ignoring the corruption in the organization to their own peril.

Military Integrity: A contradiction in terms πŸ”— 1685832103  


On the systematic control fraud present in all branches of the service. Basically nothing about operational readiness can ever be believed.

Kayfabe πŸ”— 1685827272  


Software engineers will remain low status and of ill repute so long as lying and glad-handing is incapable of effectively motivating computers. It used to be this way in the Prussian military too; no amount of bullshit will stop a bullet.

Bahkmut postmortem πŸ”—
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Its hard not to conclude this has shattered the Ukranian ability to project force. The lessons of Brusilov, Mordacq and Bruchmuller remain relevant in a world of hard counters. The Russians are one of the few who are not squeamish about using penal brigades when a thing can be done by blood alone.

BONUS: USG isn't exactly squeamish about it either, they just don't talk about it.
To be fair, an all-dreg military is about the only non-dysgenic choice so I can understand the appeal.

Review: Lying for Money πŸ”— 1685712774  


When I say "Fraud is the Fundamentals" this is what I mean

Autoimmune causes of Mental Illness? πŸ”— 1685628908  


Groundbreaking work. Glad to see actual progress here after so much failure.

Greyzone reporter gets "the treatement" in Bongistan πŸ”— 1685551159  


Spy hysteria in full bloom on the other side of the pond.

Why do the middle class not get in fights anymore? πŸ”—
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Yet more effects of the Internet being your "Permanent Record". Goobers obsessed with playing Junior G-Man E-Detective have prevented many companies from hiring perfectly good workers. The workers have got the message loud and clear that the job is to be a crab in a bucket.

What shocks me is that school fights have decreased too. This is despite things becoming far, far worse of a prisonlike environment than it used to be! This "Zero Tolerance" crap is just breaking childrens' spirits.

The latest in "green" energy πŸ”— 1684259895  


Burning Tires

Why pakistan's Crises are guaranteed πŸ”—
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Like most countries, it's being run by gangsters doing a bust-out.

China in 2022 πŸ”— 1683659856  


As usual Dan Wang's roundup is quite insightful.

Shenanigans in Pakistan πŸ”— 1683653079  


Bankrupt government, looming famine and illegitimate arrest of the most popular pol. Dis cant go wrong. Color revolution soon? If so most suspect the military will cry to China or even make a "deal with the devil" (India) for protection.

ASML correctly notes the DUV blockade is retarded πŸ”— 1682712216  


β€œIf they cannot get those machines, they will develop them themselves,” he said in an interview. β€œThat will take time, but ultimately they will get there… The more you put them under pressure, the more likely it is that they will double up their efforts.”
USG acts like the people in Taiwan don't have families over in Fujian, and a strong incentive to get recruited to assist the Chinese build this expertise. Invincible ignorance.

File Not Found: On a generation unfamiliar with basic indexing techniques πŸ”— 1682705267  


N'wahs who aren't even aware there are generic indexes at work and then wondering why shit is so inefficient.

Russian Army corruption roundup πŸ”— 1682614983  


As I've mentioned previously, they're slavic USA, which means they also have the "$35 million dollar blue halliburton tarp" disease.

Tucker Carlson, the spurned elite πŸ”— 1682614475  


Tucker is more of a symptom of the ongoing intra-elite war. A large faction is already coalescing around the Silicon Valley VCs who realize the system ain't working. Tucker is just a shark swimming toward blood.

Why mastodon is a failure πŸ”— 1682613857  


If mastodon is to be the poster child of the fediverse it needs to drastically simplify the requirements to run and maintain an instance. There should be a single binary, self-updating, single-user instance.
It's the tragedy of the commons. The core problem to crack is how to make the costs bearable by the users themselves.

The origin of Lager Yeast πŸ”— 1682607491  


Hybridization thanks to Max the Great of Bavaria, who is more famous for being one of the causes of the league wars.

Tablet interviews RFK πŸ”— 1682450984  


On his 2024 run and life in general.

Anti-Russia blockade being considered πŸ”— 1682019122  


Such an evil measure, once adopted, will guarantee world war 3.

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