environment matters enough that we have to mention it. otherwise all humans would have a common intellect level.

I hadn’t read him in weeks. I just stop by every once in a while to see if anything has changed.

But, then, I started having issues with Sailer years ago as I noticed that he never moved beyond snickering behind the bully’s back and/or trying to convince David Brooks to get on the Jew hotline and tell his fellow tribesmen to lay off the goys.

Mr Cochran, whom I’m admittedly not very familiar with, has not acquitted himself well in those comments or on this subject. He’s been wrong several times and typically lashes out when shown data that doesn’t fit his presupposed conclusion.

which is why an asterisk should always be included next to IQ averages, so these guys know there’s more to credentialing and knowing their (supposedly) high IQ. thus now Sailer, Cochran and others are believing themselves philosopher-kings, forgetting their boomer-scientistic bias exists. now to many, they have no clothes. of course this doesn’t disprove HBD, but on intelligence a lot of assumptions need qualifying it seems… for example, it could be argued that low IQ people are necessary so high IQ people don’t intellectualize themselves to death. imagine if the Right had only been fearful, or at best placid, high-IQ… Read more »

Once in a while I’m bored and read a bit of Cochran. He has his echo chamber to reinforce his panic. All non-believers are cast into the void, with a great deal of vitriol. Greg used to be gruff, but he’s off the rails here. It’s a shame for such a man of great intellect. He had a future, but now holds on to an idea regardless of data. Well, Z-man, he did me one favor before his collapse into insanity, he introduced me to your blog. 🙂

I have banished all opinion leaders who have descended into virus-madness. It’s not manly for an American man to be scared out of his senses. I doubt Sailor would have joined a waggon train West or landed at Normandy. Geez Louise.

It’s interesting that on both sides of the political spectrum, thoughtful people are starting to grasp the true nature of the real divide in modern societies. Consider Greg Cochran and Bill Gates. They both view human beings as objects, which through proper study can be defined by metrics. These metrics, in turn, can be used to generate processes to produce optimum outcomes. Their disagreement is procedural.

which is why we cannot be only objects. otherwise any and all “metrics”, specially in a more genetically varied world, can and will be used to create endless processes according to whatever outcomes desired by whoever feels powerful enough over the “objects” – and, learned enough over the “metrics”.

and unz still got banned by facebook . goes to show how pandering to the left does not work.

People have a tendency to follow their biases. So Sailor groupies/commenters will follow his lead I assume. What I don’t agree with is that a person in a high risk category (as I am) should duplicitously attempt to lead others to behave as benefits himself, rather than state the facts and pursue the truth of the matter. That would be no different than what the grifters we so decry here do. I hope Sailor Is better than that.

Sailer’s a good guy, and he’s been huge for our side. (It’s why I still send him money every month.) That’s why this has been so baffling.

This whole thing was made for Sailer. He should have been applying statistical analysis and breaking about the data showing the silliness of it all. And, yet.

I know a biochemistry PhD professor. Won’t eat medium-well steak because “I might die from it”…

I do think that Sailer, Khan and a few others are bitter about not being allowed into the pundit club – and still cling to some weird hope that they can be on respectable panels and speak at conferences. I think that’s a big reason why Sailer won’t move forward; it’s admitting that the dream is dead. Not sure if that’s why they’ve gone nuts. They could’ve backed down on a million topics over the years to get back into the club. Why now? Why this? You might be on to something with the biology angle. Have a relative who’s… Read more »

Boomers never aged well. They’ve always clung to their youth, whether by not dressing like adults, not wanting to be family men (even if they have kids), not respecting traditions, etc. They’re the Peter Pan generation.

Instead of planting trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit, the Boomers are ripping down existing trees for one last Woodstock bonfire.

I know a lot of oldsters who scoff at virus fears while all the millennials are masked and gloved while out of their cocoons.

Sailer seems to be posting less frequently than he used to. Does he have a touch of the St. Virus dance, or believe he does? Personal problems? I’m sure I’m not alone in hoping he will be well. He’s earned enough credits over the years to win him a place in the HBD Pantheon, unless he chooses to lose his way.

No, Sailer’s not such a good guy. Not only has he gone bat-sh1t over the wuflu, but anyone who thinks that there ought to be any sort of rationality on death rates or elder care he’s now equated with a cold-hearted executioner. In today’s post at VDare in tribute to the White couple murdered by a jogger in a cemetery, he snarks: “But they likely had comorbidities such as hypertension, so no big loss (according to numerous paragons of health).”

Didn’t see that until you mentioned it. Yes, that’s a dick move on Sailer’s part. He’s starting to crack as readers push back. He’s not used to be made fun of and/or shamed for his lack of analysis.

I’d just like him to acknowledge the damage – both physical and economic – that the lockdown is doing. A lot of lives are being destroyed for unknown gain, which even if true isn’t much.

Part of the pettiness and drama is that most of those guys are more or less academics, even if they don’t work for a university. Vicious politics due to small stakes kind of thing.

People working in the real world, toward real goals have reality to temper things and to decide whose right.

Personally experienced fear makes a perceived civilizational crisis personal. I can’t remember who to credit for this, but “frightened and angry people rarely show good judgement.” Clinically detached judgement has to be worked at for the non-sociopath and is much harder to achieve when you are worried about your own suffering and death.

Boomers gonna Boomer. Me me me me me ….

Residents at the local hospital rotate through my clinic for training. Last week I talked to the doc who took care of the single patient who has died ‘of coronavirus’ in our county. He said the fellow was 80 years old and had pneumonia. He had had a positive test prior to decompensating at home and gaining admission to the hospital. I asked about sputum culture. Wasn’t done. Respiratory panel? Not necessary. They’ve been told Covid is Covid and not to test further. WTF? Old guys don’t get staph pneumonia anymore? Or any other of dozens of pulmonary pathogens that… Read more »

Appreciate your knowledge, experience, and humor

Does the rule of thumb apply to edged weapons?

In my kitchen, sadly, the rule of thumb applies. Punctures, lacerations, thumb tips sliced off (they grow back) ….

Are you a regrouper or a remainer?

But it will still hurt.

This is OUR land. No secession. Decession. They get to go somewhere else or straight to hell. I’m reminded of the slogan the Algerians used for the French in their 1950’s war “The suitcase or the coffin.” If you don’t have your own land with the control nodes of governance (coinage, courts, education, etc) in the hands of your own people, you get destroyed. The age of the stupidly nice white people is over. Either we lose the nice or we stupidly vanish to the derisive laughter of our murderers.

A Savage War of Peace, Alistair Horne
https://www.amazon.com/Savage-War-Peace-1954-1962-Classics/dp/1590172183

I’ve been asking myself if maybe they can just print money forever without consequence…

They can so long as we have the biggest military and one of the most productive work forces. TRS goes on and on about MMT and money printer going “bbrrrr” indefinitely, but this can only continue so long as the above two factors hold.

I’m a transgendered lesbian. I look like a guy and like chicks.

The NYT’s staff transsexual, “Jennifer” Boylan, offers mental health tips

“Framing in terms of compassion works. For instance the facts are for every white guy that kills a black, there’s two blacks that kill whites.”

A-number-1.
I don’t see any way for them to defeat that kind of reframing- even to themselves.

Renard (if indeed your question is directed to me), I think social media amplifies all of it. What I find fascinating is the insinuation and assumption, buried in that attitude, that we who choose to emerge from the lockdown are evil, selfish fever-spreaders that hate other people and wish them dead. Those seeing daylight are almost universally careful and considerate of others, as to distancing, washing hands, etc., in my experience.

Exactly. The tyranny of the few meets the tyranny of muh feelings. The fact that we are modifying the behavior of an entire people based on how a minority of people might feel is absurd. But thats just the superficial perspective. The sinister thing is that this would not be happening unless it also served a greater purpose that was accretive to the objectives of the cloud. How often does seemingly trivial lead to lasting changes that are far from trivial and always result in restrictions on liberty and dissenting thought? They use our goodwill to push for one little… Read more »

SpaceX is awesome! The in-flight camera work, and landing those boosters on the barges, the videos are pure space porn.

I’ve said it before, but as far as I’m concerned, he can get away with just about anything as long as he keeps upping the ante with his space program. He’s done more for space travel and exploration than NASA has in the last 40 years.

Dagnab it! Coppertone Tan!!

Ruined.
Gotta stop doing this while asleep