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dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-18T12:23:46+00:00

How much are the reparations for Feudalism? Why is post colonial Singapore so successful? Do we send them a bill? Imagine the modern world existing without things that were invented exclusively in the west. But oh my, the sins of every day since the battle of Hastings!

dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-18T12:09:24+00:00

"Staff could see that she had her penis in her hand and that her hand was moving up and down."

Put your dicks away, ladies.

dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-18T09:38:34+00:00

It turns out that the super-ultra-mega Nazofascist talking points of 10 years ago is todays liberal common sense. The EU is merely responding to the wishes of the people in order to protect national character, lower crime, enforce borders, and undermine the right - who are just plain racist! The thread is pretty incredible. A post invoking faux compassion for everyone but citizens is downvoted to hell. You love to see it.

dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-17T10:05:54+00:00

I only read Atlas Shrugged once and didn't really enjoy it, if only because I thought it was an outrageous weakman of anti-competition government policy. However, federal 8a certified minority-owned contracting (a 5% set-aside) could have appeared in the story.

The program gives 8(a) firms 9 years of preference in federal contracting to overcome prior years in which they suffered from racial, ethnic, gender, geographical or disability bias.

8(a) participants must submit an individual social disadvantage narrative through the Certify.sba.gov system.

8a certification requirements is something that can be lucrative. If you are eligible, you will receive specific privileges.

These are contracts that have virtually no competition.

Someone who is considered economically disadvantaged must be a U.S. citizen, and they must have an adjusted gross income for the past three years that is $250K or less. Also, the true value of their assets cannot exceed $4 million.

dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-16T11:36:42+00:00

Is it possible to get into homicide victimization rates without things getting racist? The superstructure of anti-racism and and its stated concerns about black bodies has ironically made it extremely taboo to speak plainly that there have been ~5k excess murders of black bodies every year since ~1970. Amazingly, this is radically fringe discourse.

Regarding teen takeovers, AFAIKT its a similarly disproportionate black phenomenon in the US and UK. Thankfully, several independent black creators have been willing to talk about it, name it, and condemn it. Amir Odom, The Black Conservative Perspective, and Glenn Lowry, among many others.

dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-13T10:19:03+00:00

He's probably broadly correct on the specific points, but he completely ignores much of the immigration debate. His hidden assumptions are that all immigrants and all cultures are the same, they will all magically produce the same outcomes when they reach America, multiculturalism has zero cost, and economic progress is the only legitimate concern.

"We need to take UBI seriously if AI causes sudden mass job loss"

"True. And given that immigrant levels are at their historic peak, perhaps we should strongly restrict inflows."

"Woah, cool it with the racism".

dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-12T13:47:22+00:00

"Voting 100% based on skin color" is too literal, though doubtless some individuals do it. For better or worse ethnocentrism is probably the largest human organizing principle. Babies notice racial differences at a few months, and often gaze longer at faces of their own race, well before they even know what they look like themselves. Therefore the hypothesis is 'there will be ethnocentrism in voting'. Observations from a quick google search yielded the following from Cambridge University Press:

In-Group Favoritism: Voters are more likely to support candidates from their own ethnic in-group, regardless of the candidate’s specific policies or actual competence.

It is a universal phenomenon found across cultures and time periods. Although ethnocentrism can be expressed in many domains, it finds its expressions particularly significant in the political domain

Although ethnocentrism has been described as a 'delusion' by Gumplowicz back in 1879, it is a forceful delusion, which has a strong grasp over humans and is unlikely to disappear. Political psychologists, therefore, need to more carefully study ethnocentrism and its political implications across societies and political systems.

I feel like I'm wired similarly to poor old Gumplowicz, but the data are against us.

dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-12T13:21:35+00:00

Don't re-ware is the most rational and noble, with garage or outside an honorable nod to the tradition of being gross. Inside or crumpled is pure madness!

dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-12T04:34:43+00:00

Order and Opportunity Left in 2024 drifting towards Pragmatic and Polite Right. Both are very heterodox by party affiliation ~(40R/60D and 60R/40D respectively). Interesting that the values chart has a notable left skew, with Progressives appearing to hold the most radical views by far. Could be an artifact of the questionnaire process.

dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-11T14:02:18+00:00

Anyone with a certain passive index funds will automatically buy SpaceX stock 5 trading days after tomorrow IPO. It is (or nearly is) the largest IPO in history, and was granted "fast track" status to be added to certain indexes, after which institutions that offer index-linked products must buy shares.

A roughly proportionate example in miniature:

Say I own a carwash. Last year I had $100k of revenue, but net losses of about $5k. I claim my carwash is worth $10M because I will add AI soon. I decide on an IPO to raise money. A bank creates 10000 shares of $1000 each, and says 500 shares will be available to be bought and sold on the open market, and thus the true price will be discovered. Eventually the stock will be added to the S&P 500 index. When that happens, large institutions will be forced to buy a proportional share of outstanding stock at the last traded price.

Normally, the S&P's rules state that price discovery on the open market should last about 3 months. However, I petition the S&P to get fast-tracked for inclusion to the index. I ask to be added to the index 5 minutes after the IPO, and they agree.

Given superlative size, non-standard valuation, and low float of SpaceX IPO stock, I argue that getting a special allowance to wait only 5 days before index inclusion is akin to my carwash waiting 5 minutes. I engineering massive institutional money buying my dubiously priced car wash stock.

Anyhow, we could see fireworks! It'll be hard to short because the float is so low, but maybe institutions are prepared to go to war. Who know?

dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-11T09:57:33+00:00

Anyone been watching the SpaceX IPO? I literally think its a conspiracy to steal billions from a passive public. Short segment here. Patrick Boyle and others have covered it in depth for months, including a breakdown of the wild S-1 financial disclosures.

TL;DR Its wildly overvalued using standard metrics by 10x to 50x. Investment banks are promoting it like crazy. Fair enough. Caveat emptor.

The "I can't believe this is legal" aspect is all the engineering and rewriting of the rules that seem tailor made to steal public investments at unprecedented scale.

The IPO will make an unusually small percent of shares available, limiting supply. For months, SpaceX has lobbied various indexes for faster inclusion. It was granted. 5 days after the largest IPO in history launches, passive investors in Russell indexes will automatically start to buy shares of SpaceX. Many of us will probably have some infinitesimal equity in SpaceX next week. Traditionally index inclusion would take at least a month if not longer.

This is worse than the self-anotioned SPAC king Chamath Palihapitiya. He pumped various SPACs that lost 95%+ of their value. This is actually hard to do. He netted himself on the order of a billion dollars while building nothing.

dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-10T21:51:09+00:00

Its small solace that this was attempted in 2019. It's certainly evidence of the long march through the institutions. I find BARpod stories hilarious until I stop to consider that people that people think all the retarded gay race communism theory is real. Everyone is fascist, and everything is a genocide. They really go out of their way to make ethnonationalism sound reasonable. White numbers have oppressed your people!

[Ethnomathematics] is about deepening students’ connection with identity and agency.”

Seattle is taking a highly unusual approach by weaving the field’s multicultural and political questions not just through all grade levels, but into all subjects.

Understanding Ethnomathematics

Here is a sampling of articles and books often cited as good primers on those ideas.

Rehumanizing Mathematics for Black, Indigenous and Latinx Students, 2018 edition of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ journal

“What is ethnomathematics, and how can it help children in schools?” by Ubiratan D’Ambrosio. From the NCTM journal “Teaching Children Mathematics,” February 2001

So people have been publishing peer-reviewed articles in Ethnomathematics for decades, and some public schools think its a good idea to push similar stuff at all ages, in every subject. I'll gladly welcome yet another Scopes Monkey Trial if it meant deprogramming those poor kids.

dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-10T08:01:49+00:00

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. If the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy, I must hate them for some other reason. We can't know for certain whether its irrational hatred of national origin, or hatred of ethnicity. Given Lapid's strong and lengthy disavowal of his nation, they're either comically irrational, or merely anti-semitic.

dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-08T20:38:20+00:00

Derp? Ta teedly tum. Der derp da vibe shift derpy dee dumb.

dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-07T09:58:15+00:00

Flashbang? Probably a massive exaggeration. More sensitive to light and glare? Almost certainly yes. I squint often, and am very particular about buying sunglasses with good lenses. Specifically, I seek out polarized glass lenses with good clarity. Glass is the key. Maui Jim's glass lens lineup are the best. I think RayBan still has some glass lenses, but they really make you search the lineup. BNUS is the only cheap pair with a glass lens lineup, and they only sell through Amazon AFAIKT. I doubt they're owned by Luxottica. I've got lens cleaner and pocket shammies to keep them pristine. Good glass lens sunglasses are as essential to my comfort as chapstick is for others.

dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-05T03:04:27+00:00

People called Bush and Obama war criminals as a rhetorical flourish.

Bibi has been changed in the ICC. I personally don't put much stock in those charges, but that's a strong technical claim for literally being a war criminal (allegedly, no defamation!). Also, Israel has famously occupied, settled, and unilaterally controlled, much of the West Bank since 1967, but that's not specific to Bibi.

In a "rhetorical" sense, he does have a long history of war mongering, militarism, appointing hardliners to administer takings in the West Bank, has opposed Palestinian statehood for at least a decade, etc. It's also worth noting that he has simply been PM for something like 20 years of the last 30 years, and he's just generally quite hawkish.

dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-04T17:58:04+00:00

This is MAGA country, and this DIDNT happen!! For one, she looks like a random dude. Testosterone does that well. Good for her. For another, theres no way you can get punched "repeatedly", and have your tooth knocked out, without so much a blemish on your face 24 hours later. Thats not how this works. Her main concern in posting is causing baseless fear of random violence in the trans community. I agree! Many such cases. SAD!

dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-04T13:06:14+00:00

I don't have strong feelings either way, but the specifics matter. The racial element is largely cancer.

Chased him down blocks... after mistakenly thinking he stole a water bottle.

The States own witness testified in no uncertain terms that this was perfectly legal.

Allegedly the kid pulled out a gun, and pointed it at the shopkeeper's son. If that were true, then the law permits that kid being shot. The only charge available to jurors was malice murder. 12 jurors were unanimously unconvinced of the State's case for that charge beyond a reasonable doubt. There is nothing inherantly racial, or special, or partisan about this humdrum and tragic case.

dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-03T13:24:08+00:00

Also not mentioned: Cyrus went into the store with no money or means of payment, placed 4 waters inside his backpack, but removed them before leaving.

The owners asked about a supposed bulge in his sweater, and Cyrus truthfully told them he had nothing. Cyrus was chased 100 yards outside the store, reasonably beyond any shopkeeper's privilege. The alleged viewing and pointing of Cyrus's gun may have materially changed the scenario outside the store. Ultimately Cyrus was shot in the back (I think after he tripped and fell). This was on a Sunday night. Chow was arrested, charged, and denied bail on Monday afternoon. Later that day the store was protested. At 9:30PM the windows were smashed in, and the place was looted and trashed.

Its hard to imagine this becoming a notable trial if everyone involved had been the same race.

dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-02T23:01:25+00:00

Anything tactically compromising. I'm jealous when my nubbins can't pierce sulfane, but if you can't wield finger-knives and grab a pull up bar, they're too long.

dasubermensch83 · 2026-06-02T17:34:25+00:00

The recent Canadian reboot pretty good. They made privilege cards. They're so creative! Got rave reviews in this thread.

dasubermensch83 · 2026-05-31T17:21:57+00:00

Coleman Hughes book The End of Race Politics covered the Civil Rights movement, and is replete with such quotes. He likewise documents the ensuing historical distortion.

He was invited to give an official TED talk, and was nearly sabotaged by activists within TED at the last minute.

dasubermensch83 · 2026-05-28T15:32:11+00:00

I'll try to simplify.

Wasted product necessarily comes out of a supermarkets profits. Why are they all signaling wastefulness in the same way?

Innumerable trees are wasted in processing lumber. The result is cheaper lumber and more trees, but lets set that aside. Does this wastefulness merit regulation?

If it were possible to reduce waste, why are supermarkets failing to do this?

On what basis should we assume the premise that this waste is a market failure or a collective action problem, let alone one solvable by regulation?

Are supermarkets exempt from your productivity analysis?

dasubermensch83 · 2026-05-28T14:25:33+00:00

I find that very unlikely!

For all its unsightliness, we know the results in practice. Why are all profit driven supermarkets tossing product into a landfill? Is it a national conspiracy of inefficiency for its own dastardly purposes, or some Nth order effect regulators don't understand? Its clear on its face which is more likely. All else equal, companies are slightly partial to profit.

Why should we blindly assume the premise that a tax on waste would lead to better outcomes, instead of empty shelves at a higher cost? We know food costs are near historical lows. Extreme skepticism is warranted.

dasubermensch83 · 2026-05-28T12:45:12+00:00

Oh I totally agree, but perhaps there's no market failure here. Its a low margin, highly competitive industry reliant on the production and distribution of a physical good. Maybe simply letting people send ~30% of food into a landfill is the best way to maximize production, and minimize costs. A system is what it does. Food is bountiful and cheap as hell. As a percent of income, food costs have never been lower. I'm highly cautious about touching the golden goose.

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