Curt Doolittle

Source: Original Site Post

  • Why Do So Many Businesses In Seattle Decorate With Severed Heads And Other Hunting Trophies? In Conservative Rural Areas It’s To Be Expected, But In Such A Large And Liberal City, It Seems Like It Would Alienate More Customers Than It Would Attract.

    Seattle was a small sleepy town until fairly recently. In the 1970’s there were streets full of boarded up homes, and the east side was where you went camping.

    I had a small house on Lake Sammamish and it was worth $110k – and that wasn’t that long ago.

    Seattle is now an island of happy-nice-(foolish)-urbanites surrounded by a vast agrarian territory constituting the majority of the territorial united states. It is a very unnatural economy (spoken as someone who built multiple tech companies there).

    It has also peaked. If it didn’t peak in the 90’s. Living in seattle in the 90’s was probably only matched by London in the 1890’s and Paris in the 20’s. It was one of the greatest quality of life experiences a person could live through.

    WHy does it have hunting trophies? The same reason other regions have ‘tokens of our more simple past’ – pasts we escape to when we understand we are on a treadmill for the excitement of it – and the benefit of others we know not of.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-businesses-in-Seattle-decorate-with-severed-heads-and-other-hunting-trophies-In-conservative-rural-areas-its-to-be-expected-but-in-such-a-large-and-liberal-city-it-seems-like-it-would-alienate-more

  • Is It Better For A Woman To Have An Iq Of 140 Or Above And Be Average Looking Or Less, Or To Have An Exceptional Physical Beauty That Defies Age With An Iq Of 100?

    It’s actually the wrong question. It is better to have fewer defects than to have extraordinary advantages.

    LOOSE STATISTICS

    • After a family makes 100K a year (50k each), they do not get happier with more income.
    • After an individual has an IQ above 105 they do not get happier with more.
    • After an individual has average looks (Sexual Market Value), they do not get happier with more –
    • The women who have the most children are 5′4″ tall, brunette, fit, have average intelligence, and ‘femininity’. (Because men will sacrifice more for them).
    • There is a 20% premium in income and happiness on ‘primping, preening, and fitness’. Dress well, primp and preen, stay fit.
    • Women have higher sexual market value when young that continually declines unless they develop what used to be called ‘grace’. Men have higher sexual market value if they age as long as they produce even a little income, remain fit, and practice good grooming. Unfortunately women have a much easier time fitting in to changes in social arrangements and men a much harder time adapting to changes in social arrangements. Unfortunately men absorb nearly all the cellular damage on behalf of women and children – and have shorter life spans because of it.
    • There is a significant correlation between avoiding debt and happiness. Do not chase virtue signals or conspicuous consumption signals. The only ‘unnecessary’ expense should be living where you’re around ‘better’ neighbors.
    • There is a significant correlation between high intelligence and unhappiness. Grouchy old smart people are not an illusion. They’re frustrated that the children are running with social, political, and economic scissors.
    • Happiness is generally the result of family, friendship, and organizational relationships.

    ie: if you are asking whether it’s going to make you happier or not, it is evidently far better to be at least average looking, stay fit, groomed, and dressed, have a balanced personality, and average intelligence, than it is to be exceptionally intelligent.

    But more importantly, the underlying answer is that it is better to have few disadvantages, than to have ay particularly advantage.

    (Women (unfortunately) compete with other women – and not with men. Everything they do is to increase or maintain their status with other women. This is why women generally destroy each other in organizations – through hen pecking (gossip). Why? Men only want to know their place in line. Women are always frustrated and petulant if they are not at the head of the line. This psychological quirk explains most of women’s behavior in private, public, and politics. Women poison wells with gossip. Everywhere in society. )

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-better-for-a-woman-to-have-an-IQ-of-140-or-above-and-be-average-looking-or-less-or-to-have-an-exceptional-physical-beauty-that-defies-age-with-an-IQ-of-100

  • What Was The Main Cause Of America’s Rise Of Capitalism Steel, Oil Or Railways?

    Neither. It was selling off a conquered continent to new settlers. Then selling those settlers goods and services. Then financing that territory, homes, goods, services, and educations.

    Even today the primary driver of the american economy and the reason for american consumption is housing.

    https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-main-cause-of-America-s-rise-of-capitalism-steel-oil-or-railways

  • Roughly, What Percentage Of Historical Humans Have Procreated?

    Historically, as a general rule of thumb, something on the order of a third of men and two thirds of women.

    With periods of punctuated equilibriums where a small number of men generate a vast number of offspring.

    https://www.quora.com/Roughly-what-percentage-of-historical-humans-have-procreated

  • If You Were Given 10 Trillion Dollars, A Team Of The World’s Best Scientists And The Use Of Any Scientific Facility Or Facilities In The World And You Were Told To Solve One Scientific Problem What Would It Be?

    There are a few well known ‘hard problems’.

    1) The unnecessary senescence of cells
    2) A battery with the energy density of gasoline.
    3) The constitution of dark matter (the missing ‘charges’)
    4) General Artificial Intelligence.

    I suspect that we will solve them in reverse order.
    All of the problems are seemingly solvable – just very expensive.

    https://www.quora.com/If-you-were-given-10-trillion-dollars-a-team-of-the-worlds-best-scientists-and-the-use-of-any-scientific-facility-or-facilities-in-the-world-and-you-were-told-to-solve-one-scientific-problem-what-would-it-be

  • When Was A The White Man Made, And By Whom?

    Whiter skin developed gradually beginning about 20k years ago.
    White People (West Eurasians) developed in ‘generations’ or ‘waves’.

    In our current form (genetic composition), ‘Whites’ (ethnic europeans) developed between west ukraine, and southern russia north of the black and caspian seas, when they combined Horse, Bronze, and Wheel.

    As whites moved westward they almost entirely replaced peoples.
    As they moved eastward they were able to settle or conquer, but were eventually outbred and have disappeared.

    3500–2300 Yamnaya (Pit Grave Culture)
    2900– 2350 Corded Ware Culture

    Corded Ware Culture encompassed most of continental northern Europe from the Rhine on the west to the Volga in the east, including most of modern-day Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Switzerland, northwestern Romania, northern Ukraine, and the European part of Russia, as well as coastal Norway and the southern portions of Sweden and Finland.

    In this sense, whites are a fairly ‘new’ people.

    (While it’s impolitic, some of us consider humans were in the process of speciation outside of africa and that this process was incomplete due to the development of metalworking -which rapidly accelerated informational, technological, and social evolution.)

    https://www.quora.com/When-was-a-the-white-man-made-and-by-whom

  • Do You Like The ‘hand You Were Dealt’ In Life?

    I am proud of what I have done with my life – which is far more than most people can imagine even trying. And that is the only question we must ask:

    What have I done with the resources at my disposal?
    Not to fantasize about impossibilities.

    https://www.quora.com/Do-you-like-the-hand-you-were-dealt-in-life

  • Why Do So Many Businesses In Seattle Decorate With Severed Heads And Other Hunting Trophies? In Conservative Rural Areas It’s To Be Expected, But In Such A Large And Liberal City, It Seems Like It Would Alienate More Customers Than It Would Attract.

    Seattle was a small sleepy town until fairly recently. In the 1970’s there were streets full of boarded up homes, and the east side was where you went camping.

    I had a small house on Lake Sammamish and it was worth $110k – and that wasn’t that long ago.

    Seattle is now an island of happy-nice-(foolish)-urbanites surrounded by a vast agrarian territory constituting the majority of the territorial united states. It is a very unnatural economy (spoken as someone who built multiple tech companies there).

    It has also peaked. If it didn’t peak in the 90’s. Living in seattle in the 90’s was probably only matched by London in the 1890’s and Paris in the 20’s. It was one of the greatest quality of life experiences a person could live through.

    WHy does it have hunting trophies? The same reason other regions have ‘tokens of our more simple past’ – pasts we escape to when we understand we are on a treadmill for the excitement of it – and the benefit of others we know not of.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-businesses-in-Seattle-decorate-with-severed-heads-and-other-hunting-trophies-In-conservative-rural-areas-its-to-be-expected-but-in-such-a-large-and-liberal-city-it-seems-like-it-would-alienate-more

  • Is It Better For A Woman To Have An Iq Of 140 Or Above And Be Average Looking Or Less, Or To Have An Exceptional Physical Beauty That Defies Age With An Iq Of 100?

    It’s actually the wrong question. It is better to have fewer defects than to have extraordinary advantages.

    LOOSE STATISTICS

    • After a family makes 100K a year (50k each), they do not get happier with more income.
    • After an individual has an IQ above 105 they do not get happier with more.
    • After an individual has average looks (Sexual Market Value), they do not get happier with more –
    • The women who have the most children are 5′4″ tall, brunette, fit, have average intelligence, and ‘femininity’. (Because men will sacrifice more for them).
    • There is a 20% premium in income and happiness on ‘primping, preening, and fitness’. Dress well, primp and preen, stay fit.
    • Women have higher sexual market value when young that continually declines unless they develop what used to be called ‘grace’. Men have higher sexual market value if they age as long as they produce even a little income, remain fit, and practice good grooming. Unfortunately women have a much easier time fitting in to changes in social arrangements and men a much harder time adapting to changes in social arrangements. Unfortunately men absorb nearly all the cellular damage on behalf of women and children – and have shorter life spans because of it.
    • There is a significant correlation between avoiding debt and happiness. Do not chase virtue signals or conspicuous consumption signals. The only ‘unnecessary’ expense should be living where you’re around ‘better’ neighbors.
    • There is a significant correlation between high intelligence and unhappiness. Grouchy old smart people are not an illusion. They’re frustrated that the children are running with social, political, and economic scissors.
    • Happiness is generally the result of family, friendship, and organizational relationships.

    ie: if you are asking whether it’s going to make you happier or not, it is evidently far better to be at least average looking, stay fit, groomed, and dressed, have a balanced personality, and average intelligence, than it is to be exceptionally intelligent.

    But more importantly, the underlying answer is that it is better to have few disadvantages, than to have ay particularly advantage.

    (Women (unfortunately) compete with other women – and not with men. Everything they do is to increase or maintain their status with other women. This is why women generally destroy each other in organizations – through hen pecking (gossip). Why? Men only want to know their place in line. Women are always frustrated and petulant if they are not at the head of the line. This psychological quirk explains most of women’s behavior in private, public, and politics. Women poison wells with gossip. Everywhere in society. )

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-better-for-a-woman-to-have-an-IQ-of-140-or-above-and-be-average-looking-or-less-or-to-have-an-exceptional-physical-beauty-that-defies-age-with-an-IQ-of-100

  • What Was The Main Cause Of America’s Rise Of Capitalism Steel, Oil Or Railways?

    Neither. It was selling off a conquered continent to new settlers. Then selling those settlers goods and services. Then financing that territory, homes, goods, services, and educations.

    Even today the primary driver of the american economy and the reason for american consumption is housing.

    https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-main-cause-of-America-s-rise-of-capitalism-steel-oil-or-railways