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  • “Most intellectuals provide some sort of epiphany but nothing more. We outgrow t

    —“Most intellectuals provide some sort of epiphany but nothing more. We outgrow them and see them as mile markers on our journey.”—Thomas L. Watt


    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-20 10:06:00 UTC

  • THEY EXPRESS THEIR WORLD VIEW by Andy Curzon I see Taleb as having had two usefu

    THEY EXPRESS THEIR WORLD VIEW

    by Andy Curzon

    I see Taleb as having had two useful insights – the Black Swan and antifragility (a cat vs a washing machine ‘n’all).

    Skin in the game was an offshoot (and rather obvious, although he backs it up with data sets), and fooled by randomness was hackneyed old material.

    It’s a funny journey that of the public intellectual (I’ve found similar with Peterson and Pinker recently) – they express ‘their worldview’, and people lap it up.

    And then they do it again. And again. And in different ways.

    And most people figure out they’re repeating themselves in different forms and move on.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-20 09:43:00 UTC

  • Tolkien Was Showing Us the Middle Way

    Tolkien Was Showing Us the Middle Way https://ift.tt/2KKtDUO


    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-19 19:52:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1163539247959351297

  • The New Standard on Social Media – Use Extra Caution

    The New Standard on Social Media – Use Extra Caution https://ift.tt/2MtnZIr


    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-19 18:08:25 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1163513062424555520

  • Policing One’s Own.

    Bryan Nova Brey August 15 at 8:14 PM · Let’s see if I get banned. I copied this from one of my Good Jew friends, Rosenbörg Predmetsky. I really appreciate them, because they police their own, like we all need to do.

    The “HoIocaust”: -The actual number of Js who died at the hands of N@zis is anywhere between 250,000 (close to Red Cross and East German government estimation) to 600,000. -Many of them died of typhus and starvation due to overcrowding and collapsing of German supply lines late in the war caused most of the deaths. -Hitler probably knew that some would die in the process of deportation, and in this sense, I suppose he can be said to have killed them, but it was not the end game. -A lot of them were just Soviet soldiers who predictably died in combat with N@zis. -Concerning eyewitness reports: some may be reliable to some degree, some are mistaken, some are outright lying, some are sincere, some may be highly reliable — but reliance on anecdotal accounts to establish 6 miIIion is ridiculous, especially when it so flatly contradicts rigorous demographic data. -The Fin@l Solution of the Nazis was to deport Js outside of Germany. -What makes the impossibility of the 6 miIIion obvious is that there weren’t even close to 6 miIIion under sphere of German influence in Europe. -Walter Sanning published his Dissolution of Eastern European Jewry in 1983; a detailed investigation of census records and immigration statistics. In 1930s, there were about 6 million Js **altogether** who lived in the areas of Europe that would eventually come under Nazi influence -By 1939 this number had dropped to 5 million and over the next two years, massive emigration (mostly out of Poland) dropped this number to below 3 million. -At around the alleged beginning of the HoIocaust, there were only 2.7 million in the German sphere of influence, of which 1 million would be designated survivors by Jewish census groups. -This leaves about 1 .3 million missing — possibly dead (possibly not), and some of these may have died of non-homicidal causes. -some fifty years after the war, the so-called Spanic Report stated that there were between 834,000 and 960,000 living survivors; a range largely confirmed in 2000 in the Ukeles Report.

  • Policing One’s Own.

    Bryan Nova Brey August 15 at 8:14 PM · Let’s see if I get banned. I copied this from one of my Good Jew friends, Rosenbörg Predmetsky. I really appreciate them, because they police their own, like we all need to do.

    The “HoIocaust”: -The actual number of Js who died at the hands of N@zis is anywhere between 250,000 (close to Red Cross and East German government estimation) to 600,000. -Many of them died of typhus and starvation due to overcrowding and collapsing of German supply lines late in the war caused most of the deaths. -Hitler probably knew that some would die in the process of deportation, and in this sense, I suppose he can be said to have killed them, but it was not the end game. -A lot of them were just Soviet soldiers who predictably died in combat with N@zis. -Concerning eyewitness reports: some may be reliable to some degree, some are mistaken, some are outright lying, some are sincere, some may be highly reliable — but reliance on anecdotal accounts to establish 6 miIIion is ridiculous, especially when it so flatly contradicts rigorous demographic data. -The Fin@l Solution of the Nazis was to deport Js outside of Germany. -What makes the impossibility of the 6 miIIion obvious is that there weren’t even close to 6 miIIion under sphere of German influence in Europe. -Walter Sanning published his Dissolution of Eastern European Jewry in 1983; a detailed investigation of census records and immigration statistics. In 1930s, there were about 6 million Js **altogether** who lived in the areas of Europe that would eventually come under Nazi influence -By 1939 this number had dropped to 5 million and over the next two years, massive emigration (mostly out of Poland) dropped this number to below 3 million. -At around the alleged beginning of the HoIocaust, there were only 2.7 million in the German sphere of influence, of which 1 million would be designated survivors by Jewish census groups. -This leaves about 1 .3 million missing — possibly dead (possibly not), and some of these may have died of non-homicidal causes. -some fifty years after the war, the so-called Spanic Report stated that there were between 834,000 and 960,000 living survivors; a range largely confirmed in 2000 in the Ukeles Report.

  • “Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

    —-“Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.” ― Robert A. Heinlein


    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-18 10:16:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1163031873892880386

  • “Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

    —-“Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.” ― Robert A. Heinlein


    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-18 06:16:00 UTC

  • “Delusions are often functional. A mother’s opinions about her children’s beauty

    “Delusions are often functional. A mother’s opinions about her children’s beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.”
    ― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love


    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-18 00:07:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1162878683767549952

  • “Delusions are often functional. A mother’s opinions about her children’s beauty

    “Delusions are often functional. A mother’s opinions about her children’s beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.”

    ― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love


    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-17 20:07:00 UTC