It's Friday. Have a good weekend.…
At first I'd hear stories of how things constantly get worse, and figured it was old techies doing a geek style version of "get off my lawn". Or figured, like Scott Adams, that life is getting complex enough that even smart people are getting relatively stupid. I'm not sure if the recent news to hit the MSM that IQ is indeed dropping (I wonder why? What's changed, demographically?) is relevant, or how, but I've come around to the view that things are indeed going to shit. Apple no longer has…
Trump has, from the standpoint of selling to the US Government and related concerns, severely impacted future sales of stuff produced, designed, etc. in China, as noted here [https://www.menofthewest.net/trump-drops-a-nuke/]: > In short, the God-Emperor has declared war against all foreign intelligence interests using China as an attack vector. He’s pissed in the Deep State’s cereal. He’s told China we’re ready to start building our own electronics back on American soil. He’s told the tech indu…
Cataline makes an excellent observation I think, with the caveat that, quite obviously, GoT/ASoIaF is set in a fantasy universe. Game of Thrones is horror [https://darkherald.net/2019/05/22/game-of-thrones-is-not-fantasy/], and that's pretty much what George knows how to write. > I remember skimming back and forth in the first two books of the series (the only ones I read, I grant you), trying to find a battle scene and there just isn’t one. What you get are people describing the the aftermath…
I can't claim that I was foresighted on this - I'm neither the first nor the last to realize that voting and any form of democracy assumes that the end goals of the people arguing are the same: As has been discussed many times, the left's goals are largely becoming incompatible with normalcy as they drift further and further left of the relatively stable center and the right. Like jacking up the contrast settings in photoshop, this makes everything seem black and white. Thus outright leftists…