Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • I thought I mentioned them all the time. It’s because I work in formal instituti

    I thought I mentioned them all the time. It’s because I work in formal institutions and German ideas are cultural not institutional


    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-29 08:08:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/781405270274613248

    Reply addressees: @Ava1683

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/781206888826310656


    IN REPLY TO:

    @Glanceaustere

    @curtdoolittle High Trust Contiential Germanics? you don’t seem to mention them very often, though they number in tens of millions

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/781206888826310656

  • in the context of outgroups, yes. They use poly logical ethics

    in the context of outgroups, yes. They use poly logical ethics.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-29 08:06:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/781404757940432896

    Reply addressees: @Ava1683

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/781208051692941312


    IN REPLY TO:

    @Glanceaustere

    @curtdoolittle And I think you put Jews under low trust? ANyway thanks for all your work

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/781208051692941312

  • evidence of their incompetence

    evidence of their incompetence


    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-28 18:31:25 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/781199650921611264

    Reply addressees: @olisynytheticxx

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/781196143631831040


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    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/781196143631831040

  • you mean I get to have an adult conversation for a change? Lolz

    you mean I get to have an adult conversation for a change? Lolz


    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-28 09:21:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/781061155091513344

    Reply addressees: @SanguineEmpiric @rec0nciler @Outsideness @urbit_

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/781017191135211520


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    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/781017191135211520

  • no. But, hey. It’s gonna take me a whole strung of posts to explain

    no. But, hey. It’s gonna take me a whole strung of posts to explain.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-27 21:13:01 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/780877931535040512

    Reply addressees: @Aristokles11235 @NotEvenWrongRTs

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/780826474680946689


    IN REPLY TO:

    @Aristokles11235

    @curtdoolittle @NotEvenWrongRTs
    Apriori trurths =Truth.
    A posteriori truths = facts.
    Both = Reality.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/780826474680946689

  • ok. So I’ll stick with my arguments. ;). As far as I know they survive

    ok. So I’ll stick with my arguments. ;). As far as I know they survive.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-27 17:04:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/780815494576238592

    Reply addressees: @Aristokles11235 @NotEvenWrongRTs @JimmyTrussels @Outsideness

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/780813211385880577


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    @Aristokles11235 @NotEvenWrongRTs @JimmyTrussels @Outsideness
    I am always happy to debate analogies masquerading as truth propositions. πŸ™‚

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/780813211385880577


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    @curtdoolittle

    @Aristokles11235 @NotEvenWrongRTs @JimmyTrussels @Outsideness
    I am always happy to debate analogies masquerading as truth propositions. πŸ™‚

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/780813211385880577

  • I wish I was hip enough to understand how to interpret this. πŸ™‚

    I wish I was hip enough to understand how to interpret this. πŸ™‚


    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-27 16:57:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/780813519432388609

    Reply addressees: @NotEvenWrongRTs @Aristokles11235 @JimmyTrussels @Outsideness

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/780679423183892480


    IN REPLY TO:

    @NotEvenWrongRTs

    @Aristokles11235 @curtdoolittle @JimmyTrussels @Outsideness This thred is a goldmine of #NotEvenWrong -ness.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/780679423183892480

  • ( You Evonomics folks are really sort of asking for a criticism of your borderli

    ( You Evonomics folks are really sort of asking for a criticism of your borderline pseudoscience. You vastly overstate your criticism and overestimate your theories. You have a created a tradition of criticizing straw men then proposing vacuous solutions that appeal to moral intuitions rather than institutional processes. I suppose I could spend my time on correcting you but I’d really prefer not to. The test of any science is in the explanatory power, and utility of its propositions, not in its criticisms of competing ideas. )


    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-26 05:11:00 UTC

  • About a year ago I wrote a review of Podol Plaza hotel, criticizing the “Russian

    About a year ago I wrote a review of Podol Plaza hotel, criticizing the “Russian” Customer Service (sterile), and the attempt of the front desk guys to lie about how full the hotel is, and try to upsell you.

    Now I love this hotel ok? And In my stupid American head, I think that the owners need to know this, so I put it in my review. “Hey, you know, hire some local Ukrainian women who have been trained in hospitality”.

    The clearly Russian female manager is very not happy with me.

    And demonstrates my point by not caring about my opinion in typical Russian style.

    The correct answer of course is “we are from different cultures and we always try to learn about each other. Maybe you should learn about us too.”

    I found the service in most post-soviet states to be terrible. But then they even know it. They just are adapting slowly.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-26 04:47:00 UTC

  • Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton walk in to a bar. Donald leans over, and with a

    Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton walk in to a bar.

    Donald leans over, and with a smile on his face, says,

    “The media is really tearing you apart for that Scandal.”

    Hillary: “You mean my lying about Benghazi?”

    Trump: “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “You mean the massive voter fraud?”

    Trump: “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “You mean the military not getting their votes counted?”

    Trump: “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “Using my secret private server with classified material to Hide my Activities?”

    Trump: “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “The NSA monitoring our phone calls, emails and everything Else?”

    Trump: “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “Using the Clinton Foundation as a cover for tax evasion, Hiring Cronies, And taking bribes from foreign countries?”

    Trump: “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “You mean the drones being operated in our own country without The Benefit of the law?”

    Trump: “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “Giving 123 Technologies $300 Million, and right afterward it Declared Bankruptcy and was sold to the Chinese?”

    Trump: “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “You mean arming the Muslim Brotherhood and hiring them in the White House?”

    Trump: “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “Whitewater, Watergate committee, Vince Foster, commodity Deals?”

    Trump: “No the other one:”

    Hillary: “Turning Libya into chaos?”

    Trump: “No the other one:”

    Hillary: “Being the mastermind of the so-called β€œArab Spring” that only brought chaos, death and destruction to the Middle East and North Africa?”

    Trump: “No the other one:”

    Hillary: “Leaving four Americans to die in Benghazi?”

    Trump: “No the other one:”

    Hillary: “Trashing Mubarak, one of our few Muslim friends?”

    Trump: “No the other one:”

    Hillary: “The funding and arming of terrorists in Syria, the destruction and destabilization of that nation, giving the order to our lapdogs in Turkey and Saudi Arabia to give sarin gas to the “moderate” terrorists in Syria that they eventually used on civilians, and framed Assad, and had it not been for the Russians and Putin, we would have used that as a pretext to invade Syria, put a puppet in power, steal their natural resources, and leave that country in total chaos, just like we did with Libya?

    Trump: “No the other one:”

    Hillary: “The creation of the biggest refugees crisis since WWII?”

    Trump: “No the other one:”

    Hillary: “Leaving Iraq in chaos? “

    Trump: “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “The DOJ spying on the press?”

    Trump: “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “You mean HHS Secretary Sibelius shaking down health insurance Executives?”

    Trump: “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “Giving our cronies in SOLYNDRA $500 MILLION DOLLARS and 3 Months Later they declared bankruptcy and then the Chinese bought it?”

    Trump: “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “The NSA monitoring citizens’ ?”

    Trump: “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “The State Department interfering with an Inspector General Investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?”

    Trump: “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “Me, The IRS, Clapper and Holder all lying to Congress?”

    Trump: “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “Threats to all of Bill’s former mistresses to keep them quiet?”

    Trump: “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “You mean the INSIDER TRADING of the Tyson chicken deal I did where I invested $1,000 and the next year I got $100,000?”

    Trump: “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “You mean when Bill met with Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, just before my hearing with the FBI to cut a deal?”

    Trump” “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: ” You mean the one where my IT guy at Platte River Networks asked Reddit for help to alter emails?”

    Trump” “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “You mean where the former Haitian Senate President accused me and my foundation of asking him for bribes?”

    Trump” “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “You mean that old video of me laughing as I explain how I got the charges against that child rapist dropped by blaming the young girl for liking older men and fantasizing about them. Even though I knew the guy was guilty?

    Trump” “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “You mean that video of me coughing up a giant green lunger into my drinking glass then drinking it back down?”

    Trump” “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “You mean that video of me passing out on the curb and losing my shoe?”

    Trump” “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “You mean when I robbed Bernie Sanders of the Democratic Party Nomination by having the DNC rig the nomination process so that I would win?”

    Trump” “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “You mean how so many people that oppose me have died in mysterious was?”

    Trump” “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “Travel Gate? When seven employees of the White House Travel Office were fired so that friends of Bill and mine could take over the travel business? And when I lied under oath during the investigation by the FBI, the Department of Justice, the White House itself, the General Accounting Office, the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, and the Whitewater Independent Counsel?”

    Trump” “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “The scandal where, (while I was Secretary if State), the State Department signed off on a deal to sell 20% of the USA’s uranium to a Canadian corporation that the Russians bought, netting a $145 million donation from Russia to the Clinton Foundation and a $500,000 speaking gig for Bill from the Russian Investment Bank that set up the corporate buyout?. That scandal?”

    Trump” “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “That time I lied when I said I was under sniper fire when I got off the plane in Bosnia?”

    Trump” “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “That time when after I became the First Lady, I improperly requested a bunch of FBI files so I could look for blackmail material on government insiders?”

    Trump” “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “That time when Bill nominated Zoe Baird as Attorney General, even though we knew she hired illegal immigrants and didn’t pay payroll taxes on them?”

    Trump” “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “When I got Nigeria exempted from foreign aid transparency guidelines despite evidence of corruption because they gave Bill a $700,000 in speaking fees?”

    Trump” “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “That time in 2009 when Honduran military forces allied with rightist lawmakers ousted democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya, and I as then-Secretary of State sided with the armed forces and fought global pressure to reinstate him?”

    Trump: “No, the other one.”

    Hillary: “I give up! … Oh wait, I think I’ve got it! When I stole the White House furniture, silverware, when Bill left Office?”

    Trump: “THAT’S IT! I almost forgot about that one”.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-09-25 12:56:00 UTC