I used to be a huge fan of Game of Thrones. Attempted to watch the latest episode, Season four episode one, gave up when we got introduced to some bad guys in the occupation army harassing the North. I don’t care about those people. They can rape the northerners all they want. Fine by me. Most of the northerners I cared about got killed off. Lately the show assumes that …
Watt’s big list of failed global warming predictions
Watt has a big list of failed global warming predictions.  None have been fulfilled, many of them have been falsified. Here is the subset of Watt’s list that has been clearly and obviously falsified. May 15, 1989, Associated Press: “Using computer models, researchers concluded that global warming would raise average annual temperatures nationwide [USA] two degrees by 2010.†1988 Rob Reiss asked official Climate Scientist Dr. James Hansen how the …
The trouble with white nationalism
is that it is demotic. The trouble with our brahmins is that they are demotic. If, seeking power, you propose to give all white people a microslice of power, you will be outbid by those seeking power who propose to give everyone a microslice of power. White nationalism is moderate leftism, and moderate leftism will always be outbid by immoderate leftism Today’s white nationalism is yet another variant on the …
Still patting themselves on the back
The Cathedral believed it was unthinkable that Putin would annex Crimea. When Putin annexed Crimea, they believed he had made a terrible mistake, and they just needed to allow him some face saving way to back down. Mother Jones tells us: Russia Is Not Exactly a Big Winner in the Crimean Dispute Here is how Russia has won: The Cathedral has murdered its allies, and been unable to murder its …
Creeping coup in the Ukraine
The fascists took over Japan in the 1930s by a creeping coup. There was a fair bit of violence and assassination by people with friends in government, and people in government had friends in the violence and assassination business. Similarly, that is how Mossadegh “democratically†came to power in Iran, without ever facing the inconvenience of an election. And that is how the Cathedral installed a puppet regime in Ukraine. …
Prediction, Retrodiction, Warmism and the Demon Haunted Dark
We are far more impressed by a scientific theory that predicts, than a supposedly scientific theory that retrodicts, even though from the Bayesian point of view they are the same. Successful prediction tells us that this is an actual theory, rather than a slippery and ambiguous pile of vague fudge factors subject to post hoc reinterpretation. As you probably know, Global Warming models are 100% successful at precisely “predicting†(retrodicting) …
The trouble with gay marriage
Scott Alexander has just posted that anyone who objects to homosexuality must be a repressed homosexual, which is typical of what passes for rationality among the “Less Wrongâ€Â crowd. By the same reasoning, anyone who objects to coprophagy must be a repressed coprophage, because, of course, everyone at  “Less Wrongâ€Â knows perfectly well that there can be no rational, innate, or instinctive reasons to dislike eating $#!%. When we were all forced …
Recap on Warmism
I have been ignoring the issue of Global Warming for a while, because it is pretty much settled. Â Anyone who still believes in Warmism is stupid, crazy, or lying. Â Usually stupid. But, a short summary:
Players, PUAs, and Petruchio
Some people in the Reaction complain that players are evil, and therefore should be cast out of the Reaction. Perhaps, but you cannot cast them out of the Dark Enlightenment, for the Dark Enlightenment is simply truth, unwanted and unpleasant truth, and no one has better cause to know the unwanted truth than players. As for evil, it is not the duty of men in general to protect women in …
Exhaustion of the low hanging fruit, or moral decay?
Photolithography is limited by the wavelength of light. Â Below 160 nanometers, UV is not light, but ionizing radiation. Â So at some point, have to switch from photolithography to contact lithography, such as imprint lithography, or direct contact printing. Â But did they stop shrinking stuff before we reached that limit? That they are lying about it suggests moral decay, rather than exhaustion of the low hanging fruit. Current photolithography is stuck …