The large corporations are indistinguishable from GSEs at this point

Yet more evidence it is 1000% hokum.

BONUS: Yet another analytics firm runs the numbers and finds out the lockdowns were worse than worthless.

At this point the preponderance of evidence is massively against mandated restrictions on the healthy and business. I have posed this question repeatedly to people: what are you doing to prepare for a catastrophic meteor impact? If they say anything but "nothing, as there's nothing anyone can do" I immediately know they put feels before reals. Nobody stopped screwing because of AIDS, they damned sure ain't gonna stop socializing for a cold.

The rona' lockdown has an epidemic of teeth grinding happening.

The emergency measures and lockdowns will however remain.

I might actually think about voting if there would be real peace in Afghanistan and a full withdrawal. It won't happen though.

As you might have guessed given the introduction to the last post here, our journey to enlightenment has not been a quick one. However it seems that it's all starting to fit together in a way that comprehensively makes sense thanks to one of the core "Red Pilled" insights about human nature. Which is somewhat ironic, as that's sort of how our journey into heterodox thinking started -- getting rather brutally exposed to the darker sides of human nature that society downplays during our parents' contentious divorce right as we came into adulthood.

In any case, it's the conception of "mental models", "covert contracts" and ego investment / aspirational self image that ends up explaining most of why the words and actions in all realms don't add up, and when they do add up why that is so. It is quite well trod ground around here as to what the situation actually is -- you live in anarchy and the rules are all made up and ignored for the most part. Rian Stone likes to compare dating to "calvinball", and I've realized that essentially everything is this way. We are all just a mob of individuals making it up as we go along. The reason we make up the rules that we do and then barely follow them is immensely interesting as it completes the praxeological science.

I can write a book's worth of content on this subject, so I suppose I'm gonna be a professional blogger for a while. This means I'll also finally get around to finishing tCMS and making all the features of a CMS that nobody else does because programmers don't generally blog. It seems that solving the "getting de-platformed" problem is still something of an open question without a centralized solution for content creators as well, so maybe there's some opportunity there. In any case, it means big things are coming for this site after 14 years of doing this. Here's to another 14.

Amounts to nothing, because the government never gives a damn about their own rules. Those are for the plebs. The only reason they ever will obey a restriction on themselves is because the individuals doing the enforcing have an ego investment in the whole "rule of law" myth.

Just don't respond to most things. Most correspondence is really just demands for validation and the fact is they could actually figure their problems out for themselves if starved of such validation.

If you want to be surrounded by effective people, this is the best way to winnow out the ineffective, as they value validation over accomplishment.

Now that the markets have figured out it was just jawboning, its reacting like Samson hit them with the donkey's jawbone.

So maybe the radical left's attack on restaurants and looting will knock some out of their anti-cop trance (which is really an anti-civilization) but I suspect that this is what the Marxists behind the curtain want. They want the people to be fearful, so that Trump is re-elected to "fix things." The Marxists know a Trump victory will continue the recruiting of socialists to the cause.

Bingo. Look, there's a reason we generally get 8 year swings. It takes a while to get people fired up enough to lose objectivity and actually get motivated enough to vote, despite the screaming evidence that it has 0 impact on public policy. The entire electoral system is nothing but an elaborate smokescreen giving the bureaucrats the cover they need to keep doing what they want to do.

This won't stop it from being rammed thru. The zeitgeist is currently "looting is ok because they're insured", so "permanent adverse reactions and killing people with a vaccine is ok because they're insured" shouldn't be a hard pill to swallow for the world-improvers. I hope the neocons take the reductio and start saying "Global Nuclear War is OK because we're insured!!!!"

10% of UK companies likely to shutter. WINNING

A journey of disillusionment. It's interesting how many are coming to a similar conclusion about nearly all large bureaucratic organizations regardless of profession.

As the “defund the police” movement gains momentum, police officers are leaving the profession in droves. My agency is no exception. Soon, very few people, if any, will apply for this job. In order to fill vacancies, agencies will have to eliminate written tests, lower hiring standards, and look the other way on questionable backgrounds. This has all been tried before in the name of “diversity,” and led to incompetent, untrustworthy, corrupt officers. This is a disaster for any society.

It's of course gonna be a self-fulfilling prophecy. The incentives surrounding all bureaucracies guarantee this is the outcome. All police agencies succumb eventually, everywhere. Government is always and everywhere eventually filled by those who simply cannot be employed in any useful profession. That is the essence of the political means.

Good chaser to Black Lives MAGA. If more people black and white just focused on doing better for themselves and not being world-improvers the would could actually be better.

I have been harmed far more by white people in this country who hold to radical liberal and neocon values than by black people.

Damn straight. The fools empowering Mordor on the Potomac and our local tyrants are a far worse menace to the world. Be they white liberals or race hustlers it's all the same.

As always, the bureaucrats are in the drivers' seat

Continues to be one of the realest libertarians out there

As expected. In the interest of justice, the mother country needs to grow a sack and tell the colonies to pound sand. Escobar's Prometheus Bound is worth a read on this.

UPDATE: One of the defense witnesses cuts to the core issue:

Lewis then said that in Stafford Smith’s written evidence paras 92-6 he had listed specific Wikileaks cables which related to disclosure of drone policy. But publication of these particular cables did not form part of the indictment. Lewis read out part of an affidavit from US Assistant Attorney Kromberg which stated that Assange was being indicted only for cables containing the publication of names of informants.

Stafford Smith replied that Kromberg may state that, but in practice that would not be the case in the United States. The charge was of conspiracy, and the way such charges were defined in the US system would allow the widest inclusion of evidence. The first witness at trial would be a “terrorism expert” who would draw a wide and far reaching picture of the history of threat against the USA.

This alone ought to be lethal to the extradition. Nobody has a reasonable expectation that upon extradition the USA will restrict itself to prosecution of the crimes for which Assange is purportedly to be extradited for. The record of the USA giving 0 shits about their lawful treaty obligations is miles long.

They're no better than the NSA or FIB using dubiously legal or correct data pervasively.

I suspect this has applications in supercavitations.

Why would anyone want one? Coddling bottom feeders like this is stupid; they had to deal with much more expensive drives not but 5 years ago which were slower.

Still up to no good

Quantum is an edifice of sand. Penrose will not be able to solve his theoretical problem; If they resort to an explanation which cannot be proven without a proof it cannot be proven they have failed. Which appears to be the situation.

Hopefully they forget by next summer.

.gov not locking itself down. That's for plebs.

Hooray for massive reductions in standard of living coupled with huge inflation. No wonder Roger Stone is associated with Trump, it's Nixon 2.0! Complete with the failure to get us out of wars until it's too late.