Monthly Archives: May 2024

All according to keikaku

Re: the recent Trump convictions, 2024 election prediction Texas would go blue due to immigration without election shenanigans to prevent it, and the low-level voter fraud functionaries won’t go for it (being predominantly Democrats). Therefore an open election must not … Continue reading

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Notes re: Catastrophizing as mechanism for genius insight

Was angry and thinking unkind thoughts about rural Pollocks at work. Started creating a theory to rationalize my new belief that they don’t belong in the West because, being congenital slaves (“Slavs”), they have no tradition of self-governance, noblesse oblige, … Continue reading

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Phases of weightlifting and cardio training progression (updated)

(Note: This is a previous post with a couple of substantial improvements drawn from recent experience.) As a rule, you should not take training advice from experts. The reason is, unless they are specifically experts in training people at your … Continue reading

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My lesson from the pandemic

Aeoli off topic but what were your key takeaways from what you learned during the pandemic. -LOADED That’s a great question. My primary takeaway is that people will still maintain a big, maladaptive pretense even when everybody knows it’s a … Continue reading

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Re: Vaknin on capitalism

H/T Patrick: The most interesting part was toward the beginning where he makes the social mobility argument. The obvious retort would be that merit is primarily heritable, so maybe meritocracy already happened and the people inheriting wealth are the most … Continue reading

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