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Posting may be light(er than usual) until this gets sorted out.| Neurotoxin
Posting may be light(er than usual) until this gets sorted out.| Neurotoxin
Stop screeching at the Fed to hit the gas pedal by lowering interest rates. Unemployment is 4.2% as of July 2025, which is about a point and a half below our long-run mean of 5.8%. I.e. it’s …| Neurotoxin
That is, all sports push people to the limits of what human biology, and the human psychology of obsession, can accomplish. Terminology: I mention figure skating below, but I don’t really think of figure skating as a “sport” – part of the definition of a “sport,” in my mind, is that you’re directly competing against … Continue reading "All sports are equally hard in equilibrium"| Neurotoxin
This sounds like the most utterly insufferable pile of crap. Naturally they made the novel into a movie. I forget how I stumbled upon this, but whatever. Per Wikipedia: The barf-inducing cutesy cen…| Neurotoxin
Via the indispendable Chris Bray, a Politico piece from 3/17/24 titled In on the Joke: The Comedic Trick Trump Uses to Normalize His Behavior. Subheading: His supporters love it. Critics call it a …| Neurotoxin
One. The main theme of the works of Joyce is the role of the reader as artist. That’s a sentence I like from this random po-mo generator. Though it randomly re-generates every time you load t…| Neurotoxin
Apparently there’s an old wives’ tale that if you turn a mattress on a Friday you’ll have bad dreams. Stupid, right? And how about this one: I have a friend who went to a college where the students had a superstition about a certain brick in a sidewalk on the campus: if you ever step … Continue reading "Superstition Has Rational Evolutionary Roots"| Neurotoxin
At Jim’s Blog there has been a debate about just how explicitly classical liberalism asserts, or covertly implies, “Death to Whitey!” By Classical Liberalism (CL) I mean e.g. the …| Neurotoxin
1. Is living at a historical inflection point a burden… or a gift? It is stressful sometimes (although at the moment it’s great!) but it also puts you in a position to shove the system when i…| Neurotoxin
By Alaric BloodDrinker, OverDuke of the Thralldom of Tane Q: Dear OverDuke, Last summer I was smitten by a fetching lass from far, far away. She lives with her mother in the Duchy of Luneburg, but was spending the summer with her father here in the Margraviate of Carniola. I’m a little unclear on how … Continue reading "Dark Lord Advice Column"| Neurotoxin
A comment I made at https://blog.reaction.la/politics/thank-the-lord-for-making-our-enemies-ridiculous/. Edited a little for clarity. I think I’ve figured out why the Dems are supporting crazy bullshit that puts them on the wrong side of 90%/10% voter splits. The vast majority of the reason is that they’re fucking insane, obviously. But the small remaining part is that they’re aware … Continue reading "Why Are Dems Doubling Down on Hate-Filled Insanity?"| Neurotoxin
(1) This may be rhetorically helpful in resisting lawless judicial “rulings”: In the military, soldiers are required to obey “all lawful orders.” No one is obligated to obey…| Neurotoxin
“According to my results, these woo-woo shots need eight percent more tequila.” (1) You can’t write a headline like the one for this post without a quantum of concern that there m…| Neurotoxin
