WHO PM’D THIS TO ME?
I’m using this argument in nearly quote form so I want to give attribution to whomever sent it to me. When I post sections of PM’s I don’t betray the privacy of the PM, and use “A Friend” instead. Unfortunately, I can’t find it. If it was you please let me know so that I can give attribution. -thanks.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-08 10:07:00 UTC
NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE A BIT LIKE MONUMENTS.
They are terribly expensive, but produce extraordinary returns.
Now, think about this for a second. Russia invested overly in military and in particular nuclear weapons. Of all the investments in sovereignty Russia made, the only durable one has been those nuclear weapons.
Any polity with a few nuclear weapons and an armed populace, with stores of RPG’s, Man portable Missile Launchers, and enough artillery to protect lines of invasion, is relatively safe from conquest. So a relatively small number of professional warriors, a sufficiently trained militia, and the cost of military can be below the 3-4% Switzerland, which arguably benefits from the ‘mountainous terrain discount’, only spends 0.8% per year. The additional benefit of being a small nuclear state operating on international markets is that it is very hard for you to create sufficiently international dependencies that you need war to protect them.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-08 08:49:00 UTC
I DON’T HATE. JUST ACCEPT SOME OF US MUST SEPARATE
I don’t hate on any group. The fact that it is in some our our interests to separate and some of our interests to mix, is simply an expression of the affordability of that option. Wealth allows expression of preferences.
Some of us prefer separatism (because we have superior group traits that provide us premiums) and some of us prefer integration (because we can gain from superior groups or inferior group discounts).
So it is in the interest of people from inferior groups and often with inferior traits to seek the benefits of superior groups.
The question is only whether it is of benefit (profit) to the host, or harm (loss) to the host. And in general transfer of professionals that reduces the price of professional services is of benefit, while transfer of labor which reduces the price of labor is of harm.
The simple reason being that lowering professional costs and raising labor costs is in the group’s interest.
My argument is that groups must pay the cost of domesticating their own, and if they cannot domesticate their own, and worse, if they export their own – causing externalities by doing so – they lose the reciprocal obligation to permit sovereignty (self rule).
This is a terribly simple problem: Pay for your own costs – one way or another.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-08 08:26:00 UTC
PROBABILITIES AND PSUEDOSCIENCE
Keynes’ first work was in probability.
He was a successful investor.
He used probabilities where the law used operations (Legal transactions).
He institutionalized the ludic fallacy: that games with limits mirrors human actions that consistently expand limits.
All economies head toward disequilibrium.
Growth is in fact an instance of disequilibrium.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-08 07:59:00 UTC
—“What I always tell people who cite more “educational achievement” among liberals, besides what this article said about how universities are really indoctrination centers, is that there is a repolarization at the top that mirrors the 50/50 split amongst the general population.
Intelligence is a predictor of leftist leanings until you hit the the top one or two percent. “They don’t know what they don’t know” is basically another way of saying “A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.”
They get to the point of questioning preconceived notions, realizing they’re not wholly rational, but not even scratching the surface of why we developed those instincts to begin with.”– Brian McQuiston
“…Not questioning why we developed those instincts to begin with…” or why a central tenet of western and eastern civilization is the warning by Icarus against hubris. Why? It counters (a) that idealism and reason can somehow compete with a market for demonstrated results, and (b) that we are unequal in every possible way and that markets are the only means of calculating coincidences of wants and needs, and (c) that because of “b”, many people are dead weight or deleterious to the group as a whole.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-08 07:48:00 UTC
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Source date (UTC): 2018-06-07 19:57:00 UTC
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Source date (UTC): 2018-06-07 19:57:00 UTC
CONFLICT VS FIGHTING
For sake of argument, let’s say Conflict is something that occurs with people who you share interests, or care about. But Fighting and Warfare on the other hand are what you do when you do not share interests or care about them.
I hate conflict. I love a fight.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-07 19:20:00 UTC
CHICAGO DYING
A recent report from the real estate website Zillow shows Chicago leading the country with 254,000 homes in negative equity.
Twenty percent of the quarter million people with underwater mortgages owe double the current value of the home.
Los Angeles, the only other U.S. metro area bigger than Chicago, had 74,000 underwater homes, while San Francisco had 20,000.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-07 18:23:00 UTC
Why? Because on a large enough scale over large enough time, anything that can happen will happen.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-07 15:49:00 UTC