Penisocratic Method #2 – WISDOM

It’s an exciting year ahead for human space exploration

For reasons I don’t understand, there are people who aren’t paying close attention to how we’re moving toward the stars. Of course, this is only the most important thing in the world. So, here’s what’s coming this year:

Starship will be ready for a test flight in February or March – true, in “Ilon’s time”, but in any case this year.

Dragon 2 in-flight tests are planned to be carried out in January. If all goes well, it should receive a crew to the ISS later this year.

This is a huge deal in terms of value, as the current system for delivering astronauts to the ISS is to give Mr. Putin a completely unreasonable price for a seat on 1960s technology, which he subsequently uses to destabilize Donbass, organize troll farms and spray chemical weapons in Salisbury.

Meanwhile, well-known welfare queen Boeing continues work on the Starliner capsule after failing to put it into the correct orbit last month, and Lex Luthor Jeff Bezos, who you may know for single-handedly destroying three-quarters of the retail industry (and getting rid of it well), continues to thrive in his still-disgruntled maker of suspicious phallic rockets Blue Origin.

While different projects in progress deserve different levels of sympathy and support, it’s great that such great developments are happening on so many fronts. The new commercial space race is great for the human race.

Everyone should be able to cook

Cooking is an underrated skill. Most self-improvement material online is too focused on narcissistic nonsense while missing powerful fundamentals. Benefits of training:

• You save money (a lot)
• It’s much healthier (obviously up to you)
• Skill to level up, fun hobby
• Instantly makes you more attractive to romantic interests

If enough smart people get into cooking, maybe we’ll even change the culture of internet recipes consisting of 200-page meandering autobiographies of Anglo-Saxon wine aunts with three lines of the actual recipe at the end or hidden somewhere in the middle.

Trump ad

You may have heard that Canada’s CBS has removed Trump’s cameo from Home Alone 2. His supporters call it deplorable censorship, his opponents call it justified. So far, everything is predictable.

What you may not have known was that CBS removed the scene back in 2014, along with another 8 minutes of material irrelevant to the story, to free up more space for commercials.

So everyone is wrong.

Holographic sympathy and the cheerleader effect

One can like a thing without liking any part of it.

I like Star Wars and Star Trek, but I don’t really like any one movie, episode, or character in the entire franchise. (Okay, the Mandalorian is good, and come to think of it, Khan Noonien Singh is a rare positive role model).

Star Trek: The Original Series is a timeless classic that can be rewatched endlessly. Except every second of every episode is ridiculous to the point of being borderline unwatchable.

It’s kind of like that the cheerleader effect.

So obviously there are good things that consist mainly or exclusively of bad parts (French cuisine, capitalism, philosophy) and bad things that consist of good parts (crowds).

Emerging phenomena to be real, yes.

Can you think of more examples from both categories? Comments are open.

TIE fighter on the streets

For safety purposes, Teslas (as well as lower electric cars) will start making noises to warn pedestrians.

The sound can be adjusted – from a simple hum to a herd of goats, Monty Python’s Coconuts etc.

If you’re reading this, Elon, listen very carefully, I’ll say this just once:

I want the car to make the noise of a TIE fighter from Star Wars.

…mmmrRRROOOOOOOARRRRRRRhhhhhh! (pew pew pew optional but welcome)

Tie the fighter in sheets

Speaking of ties, I wholeheartedly fight to abolish the tie as part of a civilized man’s suit. (The words were chosen carefully, because we men really only dress in civility, like a suit, and our nature craves the bareness of the forest, albeit with beer)

Listen, this is not a fighting strategy. I wore a civilized man’s suit, and very expensive silks and tailored pieces of it, during my work, because you still haven’t turned my patreon and PayPal accounts into a bottomless well of arctic holes, vintage French reds, and eager courtesans.

So, speaking from a place of jaded experience: Is there a more useless item in the entire modern world than a necktie? Billions are spent worldwide on small pieces of fabric “designed” by coxed, tanned, botoxed, parasitic pedophile shit-artists, materials and product produced by slave labor – and sold, in the case of fanciful connections, almost exclusively to people in Russia, China, Davos and Saint-Tropez, whose ethical footprints are also exploitative and villainous and “””ephebophilic””” and, despite my libertarian leanings, worthy of the Gulag.

The expensive tie is the concentrated physical avatar of the negative externalities that permeate the world, layers upon layers of crime, tears and sad deals, culminating in a short diamond of printed silkscreen glue.

People say that a suit with a tie is sexy. Fair enough, but it’s two layers:

First, sexuality is acquired through long association with power and wealth. If the great chads had been wearing feather headdresses for the past 100 years, it would have made women weak in the knees. It is not inherent in things and is easy to reprogram.

Second, and this is more difficult to resolve, men’s suits are filled with visual sexual symbolism. The tie is phallic. The lapels of the jacket are the labia minora. The head sticks out like a giant clit, or maybe a baby. It’s also the subconscious reason why “costume” became an offensive term among the more sex-negative hippies.

So a gray jumpsuit with a cutout on the crotch will cope with this task no less well.

If you look at it objectively, a suit – with or without a tie – is a ridiculous, unnecessarily complicated and expensive thing that supports entire parasitic industries.

When I come to power, Gabana, Gucci, Armani and Hermès will only be remembered as famous lawsuits in the Great Alignment (no pun intended) of the economy.

Okay, let’s assume that ties are out of style. What do you do with shirt collars? An open-necked shirt looks ridiculously chic, like Queen Elizabeth peed behind a bush.

You will get rid of the collar. Its original function – to make the most exposed and heavily worn part of the garment removable for separate washing – is now obsolete. Atavistic. We have washing machines.

Yes, it’s “embellishment”, but that’s just another word for unnecessary complications. It is literally a baroque ornament, and baroque is the ugliest style that ever marred civilization.

In science fiction, the suits and shirts of the future are usually simple, functional Bond villains / mandarin collars without any idiotic, atavistic inventions. This is a reasonable prediction.

My feelings on this aesthetic point are so strong that I’m willing to use false social justice arguments – not that there are any non-false social justice arguments – and call the classic business suit Eurocentric and a form of imperialism, while the slimmer, band-collar styles – historically popular in China and India – are more inclusive and far more universal. If anyone else made that argument, I’d bite their throat out, but the future is at stake – and anything goes in love, war, and sewing soteriology.

Circus freakanomics

Has there been any serious research into why every leftist street protest looks like the cantina scene in Star Wars?

National Socialist Liberals of the German Reich

This paragraph from 1915 blows every fuse on the American political compass. Read each word carefully:

“Recently, even in that liberal group which is closest to the socialists in Germany, the National Socialist group, there has been evidence of a tendency to believe that it is not a bad thing at all, “to obstruct the influence on political affairs of the changeable and incalculable will of the people, which finds expression in the Reichstag, because the National Socialists consider it desirable that there should also be aristocratic elements, independent of the will of the people, always vigilant, armed with the right of veto, constitute a permanent moderating element.”

New language

People report walking around with inexplicable feelings of anxiety, apprehension, and even anxiety.

It’s not that super inexplicable. Because of the negative bias of the news, one of the first things you do in the morning is probably to read about the worst things that happened in the world in the last 24 hours.

This might lead you to conclude that the world is boring and dangerous, but that’s a sampling problem.

While it’s not a new thing – “if it bleeds, it leads” is as old as newspapers – there is a new thing in semi-permanent exposure. Instead of reading the news in the morning paper and/or watching it in the evening, many people obsessively check every five minutes to see what the latest atrocity has happened, or are forwarded articles from helpful friends, which in turn encourages the horrible media-mongers to spew endless streams of emotional and mental toxicity.

The minor flaws and functional inefficiencies of, all things considered, the wonderful modern civilization are framed as existential catastrophes and structural tyrannies, while the relatively (relatively!) mild inconveniences of 21st-century life are presented as afflictions on a par with slavery, the Holocaust, and the Famine combined.

As a result, some of the most privileged and secure people who have ever lived are forced to think of themselves as victims who are constantly under threat, fighting a desperate trench war against an oppressive regime and literally fearing for their lives as they walk the mean streets of what is, by any reasonable historical standards, almost a utopia.

It’s also an entertaining LARP for boring idiots.

Wisdom embraced the media’s negative bias and the free fall of integrity and standards time and again.

As Scott Adams said:

“If you think that the feeling of fear that news gives you is legitimate and appropriate, you probably don’t understand how the business model of news has changed.”

Newspapers can hardly say that “there is still a little room for optimization, but overall everything is wonderful.” They need you to click.

But as clickbait ages and hopefully stops working, newspapers that have resisted the temptation may inherit the market. This means that pretty soon we can have only right-wing newspapers.

Indignation rags all in trouble. The Guardian, HuffPost, Buzzfeed, Vice, increasingly even the New York Times and even the BBC, and any other publication that has allowed itself to become a hobby for the politically radicalized heirs of the upper class, are insolvent, partly because they write specifically for an audience that thinks they’ll pay for something to violate human rights, and partly because they’ve made themselves unreadable by anyone who doesn’t hate themselves and everything and everyone else. in addition.

Clickbait is low-hanging fruit that alienates the audience you really want in the long run. It’s like wearing leopard stockings to a club. Will make you get laid, but definitely not married to the Prince of Liechtenstein.

Instead, you’ll get chlamydia. Or Guardian readers.

This means you never get paid and your comment section is a North Korean mental hospital.

In contrast, relatively more respectable newspapers such as The Times (London) and the Wall Street Journal never followed suit. outrageousnessand write for relatively emotionally mature adults who are interested and ready to pay for high quality reporting. That means they will survive.

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